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Pakistan cricket legend Hanif Mohammad passes away at 81
The 81-year-old was suffering from lung cancer for which he underwent surgery in London in 2013.
Pak cricketer Hanif Muhammad brought back to life after being declared clinically dead for 6 minutes
He is now on a ventilator and in intensi...
Indian hockey wizard Mohammed Shahid passes away at 56
One of the greatest names in Indian hockey and part of the team that won gold at the 1...
Indian hockey wizard Mohammed Shahid dies aged 56
Mohammed Shahid, one of the greatest names in Indian hockey and part of the team that won gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, has died at a Gurgaon hospital owing to a severe liver condition and kidney failure. He was 56.
Senior diplomat Mohamed Asim becomes new Maldives foreign minister
The president's office says in a statement that Asim took the oath of office before a senior judge on Wednesday.
Only elite, not Muslim masses feel alienation in India: Former Union Minister Arif Mohammed Khan
Khan sought to discount Muslims' alleged perception of their growing alienation and seclusion in India, saying they are themselves to be blamed for it.
Mohamed El-Erian on why advanced economies need to learn policy lessons from the developing world's experiences
The conventional framework has proved both misleading and dangerous, as it plays down or ignored several important underlying developments.
In rare compromise, Nigeria's Mohammed Barkindo emerges as frontrunner for OPEC boss
Barkindo has been a key face of the Nigerian oil industry for the past decade, during which various governments tried and effectively failed to reform national oil company NNPC.
India better placed to navigate volatility: Mohamed A El-Erian, Allianz
"In the next few days, I expect major overshoots by countries and companies with good fundamentals."
AQIS operative Mohammed Abdur Rehman admits link with Kandahar plane hijack terrorists
Al-Qaeda Indian sub-continent operative Rehman had provided safe shelter in Cuttack to a Pakistani terrorist involved in Kandahar plane hijack.
Messy politics got in the way of sound economic policymaking: Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz SE on Rexit
A sell-off in the Indian stock market and a weaker rupee will be the immediate takeaways from Rajan's decision, said Mohamed El-Erian.
Amal Clooney winning it for Mohamed Nasheed
Amal Clooney is representing former President Mohamed Nasheed, who was convicted last year on terrorism charges she calls "bogus."
Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini arrested: Police
Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini was arrested today, a police source said after a Belgian television station said he was detained in a Brussels district.
Markets will be hit if Raghuram Rajan is not given second term: Mohamed El-Erian
Markets would not respond well if Rajan is not given second term, he is rightly deemed as one of the best governors in the world, says El-Erian.
Raghuram Rajan is one of the best central bank governors: Mohamed El-Erian
Markets would not respond well if Rajan is not given second term, he is rightly deemed as one of the best governors in the world, says El-Erian.
People here know our fight is against fascists: Mohammed Mohsin, AISF
Mohsin said, if elected, his priority would be to address the basic issues in the constituency like shortage of drinking water, unemployment and waste management.
Aided by ISI & IM, Jaish-e-Mohammed planning a Pathankot-II: Military intelligence report
For the new exercise, JeM has opened at least three new 'offices' in Pakistan's Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the report says.
Mohamed A. El-Erian Says Fed is Talking up Rate Increase
A rally that sent global yields to a record low has slowed in the past few weeks as investors prepare for the Fed to act as soon as its next meeting.
Britain grants refugee status to ex-president of Maldives Mohamed Nasheed : Lawyer
Nasheed was allowed to go to Britain in January for medical treatment after President Abdulla Yameen came under international pressure to let him leave.
There are expectations from Mohammed Shami: Rohit Sharma
Mohammed Shami is working very hard to get his rhythm back and Indian team has lot of expectations from him in the World Twenty20.
Belgium arrests Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini, four others
"Mohamed Abrini was arrested in Anderlecht," a gritty Brussels neighbourhood, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor's office told a news conference in the Belgian capital.
Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist from PoK caught, Aadhaar card recovered from him
The official said the operation spanned two months, with security forces keeping a track of Rehman's movement in Valley before finally arresting him.
Court extends police custody of Jaish-e-Mohammed members by 10 days
A Delhi court today extended by 10 days the police custody of three suspected members of terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, arrested for allegedly planning an attack in Delhi.
All eyes on Mohammed Amir as India clash with Pakistan
The Indo-Pak matches over the years have carried a legacy, not to forget the political undercurrents involved whenever the two bitter neighbours square off.
Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman makes bold challenges to kingdom's old ways
Whether the 31-year-old son of King Salman will achieve his goal of modernising the kingdom's economy is the subject of animated debate on social media, in office buildings and at coffee shops here.
Arrest of Jaish-e-Mohammed suspects confirm Project Karachi poses grave danger to India
They also confirm that Project Karachi - an ISI-backed scheme to train Indians for terrorist acts - continues to pose a grave danger to India.
Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman lays out plan to cut oil dependency and energize the economy
"We have developed an oil addiction in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, among everyone," Mohammed said. "That is dangerous, and has hampered development.
Who is Arsenal's target Mohamed Elneny?
It has been reported that manager Arsene Wenger sees Egyptian midfielder Mohamed Elneny, 23, as a long-term part of the squad.
Maldives ready to extend Mohamed Nasheed's prison leave
Nasheed, who is serving a 13-year jail term after being convicted on controversial terrorism-related charges, arrived in London last week.
Don't count out Fed rate hike just yet, say Mohamed El-Arian, Bill Gross
US Treasuries were little changed, with the benchmark 10-year yield at 1.78% as of 6:55 am in New York, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader data.
Afghanistan security adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar warns of risk from IS, al-Qaida
Atmar said al-Qaida, Taliban, IS and other insurgents, including the brutal Haqqani network, which has ties to the Taliban, "are morphing."
Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's condition still critical: Doctors
79-year-old Sayeed, who was airlifted from Srinagar on December 24 and admitted to AIIMS, continued to be in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital.
Married again? Mohammed Azharuddin denies reports
The 52-year-old former India cricketer denied being married to his close friend Shannon Marie. The two had met during an IPTL match.
India's growth story intact: Mohamed El-Erian
One of the most influential global market speakers Mohamed A El-Erian, chief economic adviser, Allianz, spoke with ET NOW's Tanvir Gill about current global turmoil and its impact on India. He says that India's growth stories are very promising.
India welcomes Maldives decision to allow Mohamed Nasheed to travel to UK
India has welcomed Maldives decision to allow jailed former president Mohamed Nasheed to travel to the UK for treatment.
Difficult to bring in Mohammed Shami in place of Ashish Nehra or Jasprit Bumrah: MS Dhoni
Dhoni agreed that winning 10 out of 11 games will give them confidence ahead of the ICC World T20.
National flag to fly at half mast as mark of respect to Mufti Mohammed Sayeed
A Home Ministry spokesman said that the government has also decided to accord state funeral to 79-year-old Sayeed in Jammu and Kashmir.
Jaish-e-Mohammed militants suspected to be planning attacks in Delhi: Police
Bassi held a meeting with its top brass and department sought help of central paramilitary forces in providing security, especially around vital installations in the city.
NRI businessmen upbeat over Abu Dhabi leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan's India visit
According to a study, India is the number one trade partner of UAE with a relative share of 9.8 per cent of the total UAE non-oil trade.
Pakistan is using brutal methods to muzzle the media: Mohammed Hanif
In Pakistan you can criticise military and intelligence agencies, but as you start naming, investigating specific events, you are in trouble.
Ahmed Mohamed to move to Qatar with his family
The 14-year-old Muslim boy who was arrested after a homemade clock he brought to school was mistaken for a bomb will be moving to Qatar.
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to begin India visit on Wednesday
Prime Minister Modi has visited UAE in August last year after a gap of 34 years, marking the beginning of a new and comprehensive strategic partnership.
My government will continue to break new grounds in development: Mufti Mohammed Sayeed
The Chief Minister inaugurated various new projects including the state-of-the-art auditorium at Government Boys Degree College.
Major General Sanjeev Narain meets Mufti Mohammed Sayeed
"This was a courtesy call post the Darbar Move wherein issues related to the prevailing security situation were discussed," a Defence spokesperson said.
Youth should not lose connect with culture, values: Mufti Mohammed Sayeed
Mufti Mohammed Sayeed asked the youth of the state not to lose connect with their culture, heritage and traditional values in their pursuit of science and technology.
Mohamed El-Erian says countries weakening currencies in fight for global growth
El-Erian the BOJ's shocking move to take one of its main interest rates into negative territory underscored the country's hope to weaken the yen to re-inflate its economy.
Solar scam: Court orders FIR against Kerala CM Oommen Chandy, Power Minister Aryadan Mohammed
Thrissur Vigilance Court ordered registration of an FIR against CM Oommen Chandy and power minister Aryadan Mohammed in the solar scam case.
RBI should not cut interest rates further: Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz
There is a danger that RBI may fall into the same trap as other central banks by taking too much policy making burden on themselves, said El-Arian.


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Early in the morning of Wednesday Goma residents were forced to attend
an M23 rally.
Goma residents I spoke to afterward were mad at the international
press coverage of the rally, especially reports claiming that they'd
attended the gathering out of their own free will or that they were
supportive of the insurgents.
"Maybe those reporters are too young to remember that we also did
'freely' attend Mobutu's coercive rallies," one of my correspondents
The French news channel France24 also produced one M23's so-called
"spokesman" who claimed to be from the Batetela ethnic group, no doubt
in a desperate attempt to show that their movement had a broad appeal
among the Congolese people.
Well, M23 can produce scores of those token "spokespeople" from the
mosaic of all the clans, tribes, and ethnic groups making up the
Congo, the fact remains that the majority of DRC citizens are loath to
their Rwandan-led insurgency.
As one professor of political sciences of Kinshasa University reminded
me today,Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis
Napoleon (1852), in France of the 1850s there were scores of French
citizens that had also supported the very unpopular coup d'etat of
Napoléon III.
And those who did support that coup were what Karl Marx called in his
seminal "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" (1853) the
"lumpenproletariat," comprising at the time:
"Alongside decayed rogues with dubious means of subsistence and of
dubious origin, alongside ruined and adventurous offshoots of the
bourgeoisie, were vagabonds, discharged soldiers, discharged
jailbirds, escaped galley slaves, swindlers, [...], pickpockets,
tricksters, gamblers, pimps, [and] beggars — in short, the whole
indefinite, disintegrated mass, thrown hither and thither [...]."
Had Marx lived in contemporary Congo, he'd no doubt have added the
lineup of shameless political opportunists of the ilk M23 produced for
In the meantime in Kinshasa, anger directed at Kabila and his regime
mounted up a notch when Radio Okapi reported that up to 80 wounded
FARDC soldiers were abandoned at Goma hospital.
Anger morphed into fury when people saw footage on EuroNews and other
media channels of rotting corpses of Congolese troops in the streets
of the provincial capital of North Kivu.
Additionally, the news of the death toll of 4 in the anti-Kabila
student riots yesteday in Kisangani didn't help any bit in improving
the quickly deteriorating situation in the early morning hours on the
campus ground of Kinshasa University where a confrontation with riot
cops was averted at the last minute due to the desperate efforts of
the professors' union, who convinced students to disperse.
At any rate, calls for a declaration of a "state of war" with Rwanda
are growing.
"Let's enter Cyagungu and see how Rwanda would feel" a student of
Kinshasa University told me this morning.
The news of Kabila palling with Museveni and Kagame in Kampala and
Entebbe further exercised lots of people in the streets of Kinshasa.
There's everywhere talk of a "balkanization conspiracy" against the
Congo masterminded by the United States and the International
Community qua MONUSCO, whose proxies are Rwanda and M23.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
M23's coercive rallies & Lumpenproletariat; & calls for "state of war" with Rwanda
Posted by Alex Engwete at 5:12 PM
2 comments:
- Alex Engwete said...
"As one professor of political sciences
of Kinshasa University reminded
me today, in France of the
1850s there were scores of French
citizens that had also supported the
very unpopular coup d'etat of
Napoléon III."
- November 21, 2012 at 5:23 PM
- IHStewart said...
It was interesting to watch the crowd reaction on BBC. I can't vouch for the translation but when the crowd were asked should we remain in Goma or move on to liberate the rest of the DR Congo. The crowd were very supportive of M23 moving on.
- November 21, 2012 at 7:17 PM
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Sugar house explodes
No one hurt, officials say
UPDATED 11:41 PM EDT Mar 30, 2013
A sugar house exploded Saturday evening, catching fire, officials said.
Officials with St. Lawrence County said no one was inside at the time.
The sugar house is locate on County Route 47 in Parishville, N.Y.
Officials said the building is a total loss.
No one was hurt. The explosion's cause remains under investigation.
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Why the GDP Report Stinks, And Why Nobody Cares
Make no mistake, the GDP report was pretty awful.
The U.S. economy suffered its sharpest pullback since the recession ended five years ago, according to the third and final revision to first-quarter gross domestic product. And yet, the markets barely blinked. Stocks and Treasurys rallied Wednesday.
GDP fell at a 2.9% seasonally adjusted annual rate, worse than economists predicted and the lowest reading since the first quarter of 2009, when output tumbled 5.4%.
Economists cited several reasons for the laissez-faire market reaction. For one, it was widely known that the economy struggled significantly, thanks to the brutal winter weather that plagued large swaths of the U.S. in the first quarter. A poor headline figure, which was dragged down in part by lower-than-expected health care spending, doesn't change much for the current quarter and beyond.
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The first three months of the year were "a quarter to forget," said Richard Moody, chief economist at Regions Financial. But, he added, "the contraction in the first quarter is not reflective of the underlying state of the economy and the subsequent flow of data points to a significant snapback in the second quarter."
Many prognosticators expect growth to rebound in the current quarter. Macroeconomic Advisers on Wednesday forecasted the economy will grow at a 3.5% annual rate in the April to June period.
The Commerce Department said the downwardly revised GDP figures were primarily the result of weaker health-care spending, though it also revised lower its estimate of spending on goods.
Still, there are reasons market watchers shouldn't completely chuck the data.
"At any rate, the near-3% rate of decline is a shocking number," said Michael Feroli. chief U.S. economist at J.P. Morgan Chase. "It might be tempting to dismiss the figure, but the fact that real Gross Domestic Income (GDI) – which, in principle, should equate to GDP but is constructed from different source data – contracted at a similar-sized 2.6% rate makes it harder to write off today's number.
"The fact that there is a temptation to write off this number is interesting in its own right and likely reflects the healthy performance of the labor market in the first quarter," he added.
Investors took the disappointing data in stride. The Dow Jones Industrial Average recently rose about 50 points, or 0.3%, to 16868, recovering a little less than half of Tuesday's drop. The benchmark 10-year yield recently fell to 2.548%.
"I think we can all recognize the first quarter was ugly, and, not to be too trite about it, the degree of ugliness seems to have grown with time," says Guy LeBas, chief fixed-income strategist at Janney Capital Markets. "But the first quarter has been over for nearly three months now, so the more material question is: what does this number say about the second quarter?…
"At first glance, it does not appear that this big downward revision will cause us to bump second-quarter forecasts higher," Mr. LeBas added.
–Jonathan House and Sarah Portlock contributed to this report.


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A Western Kansas man whose girlfriend reportedly stayed in the bathroom for nearly two years pleaded not guilty to neglect charges this afternoon.
Kory McFarren appeared before a judge in Ness County Court.
McFarren pleaded not guilty to mistreatment of a dependent adult. The case gained worldwide headlines back
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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary Love Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph). We used Lowell Bair's translation.
Quote #4
She was in love with Léon, and she sought solitude because it allowed her to revel in thoughts of him at leisure. His actual presence disturbed the voluptuous pleasure of her reveries. Her heart palpitated at the sound of his footsteps, but her agitation always began to subside as soon as he appeared, and she was left with nothing but deep astonishment which eventually turned to sadness. (II.5.42)
Emma seems to be more in love with the idea of love than with Léon himself – she enjoys thinking about him, but not seeing him.
Quote #5
"Poor woman! She's gasping for love like a carp gasping for water on a kitchen table. A few sweet words and she'd adore me, I'm sure of it! She'd be affectionate, charming […] Yes, but how could I get rid of her later?" (II.7.36)
Rodolphe, a masterful manipulator of feelings, recognizes the symptoms of a romantic disposition in Emma, and understands her immediately. His view of love is not as idealistic has hers; instead, he cynically realizes from the beginning that their affair has a very limited lifespan.
Quote #6
She repeated to herself, "I have a lover! I have a lover!" and the thought gave her a delicious thrill, as though she were beginning a second puberty. At last she was going to possess the joys of love, that fever of happiness she had despaired of ever knowing. She was entering a marvelous realm in which everything would be passion, ecstasy and rapture… (II.9.58)
As Rodolphe's new mistress, Emma finally feels like all of the right circumstances have fallen into place (drama, passion, wealth) – she's ready to experience love for the first time.


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Definition of habit in English:
1A settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up: this can develop into a bad habit we stayed together out of habit
More example sentences
- Jen's got a bad habit of working too hard on something though.
- I know it's a bad habit, eating sweets in he morning, but strawberry shortcake is my favorite food.
- I have a bad habit of voicing my own true opinions.
custom, practice, routine, wont, pattern, convention, way, norm, tradition, matter of course, rule, usage
mannerism, way, quirk, foible, trick, trait, idiosyncrasy, peculiarity, singularity, oddity, eccentricity, feature;
tendency, propensity, inclination, bent, proclivity, disposition, predisposition
accustomed to, used to, given to, wont to, inclined to
1.1 informal An addictive practice, especially one of taking drugs: a cocaine habit
More example sentences
- In undertaking crime to support their drug habits, cocaine and heroin abusers become likelier than usual to be arrested.
- Most were young men, aged between 18 and 25, who were heroin and crack cocaine addicts funding habits through begging and crime.
- A cocaine vaccine developed by a UK pharmaceutical company could help cocaine addicts kick their habit.
addiction, dependence, dependency, craving, fixation, compulsion, obsession, weakness
informal monkey on one's back
1.2 Psychology An automatic reaction to a specific situation.
Example sentences
- Situational themes are specific habits and kinds of behavior that manifest character strengths in given situations.
- 'This keeps us from being pulled into destructive or automatic habits and responses,' says Segal.
- Certain situations, moods, habits, and memories can all be craving triggers, says psychotherapist Last.
1.3General shape or mode of growth, especially of a plant or a mineral: a shrub of spreading habit
More example sentences
- As a general rule, the more upright the growth habit of the plant, the more likely it is you will need to build something.
- The ideal form for a particular tree depends not only on your preferences, but also on the plant's natural growth habit.
- Distance between camellia plants really depends on and will vary with growth habit of the species and cultivars you are planting.
2A long, loose garment worn by a member of a religious order or congregation.
Example sentences
- Because I wore the habit of a religious order he saw me as a sort of expert, one who could get results.
- Standing on a parapet of fictive marble, dressed in the brown habit of his order, St Francis gazes intently at a wooden crucifix held between his crossed hands.
- In his last decade in Rome he lived in a home run by the Blue Nuns, an Irish order so called because of the color of their habit.
2.1 short for riding habit.
Example sentences
- They had already done their tests but were still in their dressage habit.
- Because of the necessary fabrics to make habits hang correctly, I usually charge between $400-975 to create one.
- The old lady's habit, formed of stiff brocade, gives her the appearance of a squat pyramid, with a grotesque head at the top of it.
2.2 archaic Dress; attire.
Example sentences
- The Sovereign was dressed in his traditional habit of silvery blue shirt and veil with a white long sleeveless tunic over top of white trousers.
- He was dressed in his lordly habit, a black tunic over black trousers and a shimmering silver veil with matching wide sleeves.
garment(s), dress, garb, clothes, clothing, attire, outfit, costume
informal gear
formal apparel
verb[with object] (usually be habited) archaic
Dress; clothe: a boy habited as a serving lad
More example sentences
- She and her daughter, habited in their night clothes, had apparently been occupied in arranging some papers in the iron chest already mentioned, which had been wheeled into the middle of the room.
break (or informal kick) the habit
- Stop engaging in a habitual practice.Example sentences
- Drug orders are imposed on heroin users who steal to fund their habit and give them intensive support in efforts to kick the habit.
- When a deacon ventured to speak to him about it, he just said he had gotten into the habit of starting late and it was hard to kick the habit.
- Although he had been told to stop smoking, breaking the habit was too much for him.
Middle English: from Old French abit, habit, from Latin habitus 'condition, appearance', from habere 'have, consist of'. The term originally meant 'dress, attire', later coming to denote physical or mental constitution.
Words that rhyme with habitBabbitt, cohabit, rabbet, rabbit
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Tottenham Hotspur Message Board
What do we do if we lose Modric??
I know, I know,
Its early days and we can put the gossip down to newspaper sales tactics. But if as us Spurs fans are used to the inevitable happens and Modric leaves (for a respectible sum) how do we line up??
Is VDV good enough to play in his place leaving two forwards to play up front? Dont forget VDV is a midfielder?
Or do we try and buy a replacement?
I think Modric will be a big lose! But no one is irreplacable. Despite what some people say.
I think we have goo d talent in the team and it will allow us to buy big upfront (hopefully) If we can keep the likes of VDV and Kranjkar? I think they can do a job for us in the middle. Or we could play Hudds and sandro allowing the wingers to supply the attackers and maybe with two more defensive central midfielders we can become harder to break down (like a few seasons ago.)Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
From Daniel Levy today.
"For the avoidance of any doubt, let me reiterate that we shall not enter into any negotiations whatsoever, with any club, regarding Luka.
"We now consider this matter closed."
Think thats that and we wont be selling him
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Levy should stand tall and not give in. And if Modric is really desperate to go, we play mega-hardball/smart and say 40 Mil + Daniel Sturridge. That would please me...
Nick...you've got to think like a chess player...Chelsea's first offer was low-ball (you never come in with what you would really pay). Levy's statement takes the onus OFF of him if Modric goes, why, you ask? Because for Modric to go at this point he point blank has to request a transfer. Once that happens then the real bidding war begins.
They need to start putting in some iron-clad clauses into some of these contracts, ones that make the player liable for crap like joining a team when they really want to play for another team; a team that didn't want to take a chance on them when they first became available (I heard United had first dibs on Berbatov way back when, but weren't sure if he'd cut the mustard...and I'm sure we weren't the only team that saw Modric's quality when playing at the international level). Pipe dream I know.
I don't think we can answer the question posed by this thread, until it actually happens and we see whatwe're left with (40 mil and Sturridge would be a start and i think a step in th right direction, but not the answer...who could we get for that 40 mil (or 35) that would do the job (and I hope we would have a plan for when we face him as he's talented to the point of scary and would eat us alive - particulalry if the split is acrimonius).
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text: Had a problem with a volunteer, asked to borrow some props and walls that I was not using. For a thing they were putting together. Well after the season I went to get my stuff back and they had put it in storage and said I couldn't have it. Said they were entitled to it because they had volunteered at my haunt. After getting upset about it the guy ended up giving me theree hundred bucks for about 1500.00 or more worth of my props and stuff. Anyone else encounter anything like this? What would you do about it. Just wondering


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CONCORD -- Clayton Valley Charter High's football team will now play a full 10-game regular season but head coach Tim Murphy will sit out two games after a Diablo Valley Athletic League hearing board adjusted the team's penalty for committing illegal summer practices.
Originally, the Eagles were penalized six practices dates in August, which would have made the team ineligible to play in the Aug. 30 Honor Bowl against Carson City.
Clayton Valley will still lose six practice dates for beginning summer workouts before June 9, but those will be spread out through August and September. That will allow the team to have the mandatory 14 practices dates required to play its first scheduled game.
Murphy, however, will miss the Honor Bowl and the Eagles' Sept. 5 home game against Tracy as an agreed sit-out.
Murphy and Clayton Valley proposed the adjusted punishment and the DVAL hearing board, made up of principals from the league's schools, agreed.
"It wasn't (the players) that messed up," Murphy said. "I'll pay the price. It was 100 percent my fault."
The adjusted penalty will require that Clayton Valley not practice on Aug. 11-13, Sept. 8, Sept. 15 and Sept. 22.
Coaches will not be allowed to have any contact with players outside of school hours on those dates, eliminating the possibility for conditioning or weight lifting.


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Source: The Los Angeles Times
quote: However, there are many concerns floating around the new agreement with Apple. Chief Strategy Officer Matt Hill complained that the funding came from facility bonds, which could have been used for construction instead. The teachers union wanted the money to be used for the hiring of new teachers.


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12 Important Dating Rules for Classy Men and Women
You may be a nice person. But to ensure that your date has a good time, here are a few dating rules for men and women that should never be overlooked.
Dating rules aren't set in stone.
But after many dating experiences, there are a few incidents all of us come across in a date.
Some are good experiences, while some are not.
You may have your own dating rules too. And in all probability, they may be great ones.
But if you want to skip any bad experiences on a date and ensure that it'll be a classy one, this is all you'd need.
Dating rules for classy men and women
There are a lot of dating rules that can make all the difference between a good one and an abysmal one.
[Read: How to be a good date all the time for more tips]
Remember these twelve tips, and almost all the time, you'll end up making a great impression on your date and having a great time too.
#1 Don't be late
This is basic etiquette. Walking in late to a business meeting is terrible, but walking in late to a date is even more so.
There's a potential chance of meeting the one you could spend the rest of your life with. By being late or careless on a date, you're making it rather obvious that the date isn't of much importance to you.
Always be on time, and on the grave circumstance that you're forced to be late, let your date know ahead in time that you'll be late.
#2 Never walk out or stand a date up
Halfway through the date, you may be convinced that the evening would be a total failure. Or you may notice your date just as you walk into a restaurant and realize that you don't want to be with that person.
But no matter what, you've fixed the date. Be polite and considerate enough to have a pleasant evening with your date. Sometimes, you may end up meeting a great friend or even a potential business contact through a failed date.
On the other hand, how would you feel if you were ever stood up or walked out on halfway through the date? [Read: 3 perfect ways to end every kind of date]
#3 Show your best side
Dress up and try to look your best when you meet someone on a date. It's very disrespectful and demeaning to walk in shabby when your date's spent a while trying to look good for you. If you're not sure about the date attire, casually bring it up when you're fixing the date or let your partner know if you intend to dine in an elegant restaurant or have a casual dinner.
#4 Knights and damsels
Manners and etiquette aren't just a way of letting the world know you know how to behave. It's also your way of letting your date know that you respect them. On a successful date, a man has to be the chivalrous knight, and a woman has to be the elegant damsel in distress, because that's just the way both sexes expect their dates to be. [Read: How to be the perfect damsel in distress and a chivalrous knight]
#5 Cleanliness and your breath
Clean nails and good grooming habits are something that should never be overlooked. But there are a few other details most people forget. Did you light a cigarette to calm your nerves before the date? Make sure you don't smell like an ashtray.
And after the meal, always excuse yourself to the restroom to pop in a breathmint or do it discreetly while you're at the table. If you're lucky enough to kiss on a first date, you don't want to smell like a restaurant's kitchen when you get closer to your date.
#6 Touchy manners
You may touch your date once or twice during the date, but if your date mate doesn't reciprocate your touch with a warm smile or another touch, don't push your luck. Don't ever get touchy feely unless your date's getting touchy feely with you. Flirty touches can seem repulsive if it's not mutual. [Read: How to touch your date]
#7 Don't get drunk
You may know your limits when it comes to drinking. But sometimes, you may end up feeling tipsy or drunk with just a few glasses. And once you get there, there's no way your date can end well. Avoid having more than a glass or two along with your dinner. It's a precaution worth taking to avoid any embarrassment.
#8 Prepare yourself for a few conversations
Your date may be excited to meet you and get to know more about you. But at the same time, it's not easy to create exciting conversations with someone you just met. So prepare yourself with a few interesting conversations so you'd always have a few pointers in mind if the date night gets silent and awkward. [Read: 5 date questions that actually work]
#9 Don't pester your date
It's easy to get carried away when you're having a great time and indulging in interesting conversations. But one of the biggest dating rules you should remember is to never get personal or persistent unless your date is comfortable with that conversation.
If your date doesn't want to talk about exes, stay away from that conversation. Don't pretend to become their personal shrink and ask your date to open up to you and reveal all in no time. [Read: 10 biggest dating turn offs for women]
#10 Be sincere and truthful
Be sincere about yourself and in your compliments. Don't weave astonishing stories about yourself and your achievements just to impress your date. You'd end up looking more like someone who's too desperate.
On the other hand, compliment your date about something only if you genuinely feel it. A fake half compliment can seem more insulting and embarrassing to your date.
#11 Talking about exes
Exes are a hot topic on first dates. It's easy and something that can stretch through dinner if someone's got a dramatic story to share. But don't talk about exes. Perhaps, you could ask your date about when they broke up, but don't go into details.
Reminding someone about an ex wouldn't do you any good. It's distracting, and most importantly, it changes the focus of the date from the both of you to both of your pasts.
#12 Don't have any sexual expectations
Sexual intimacy is a nervous thought that'll linger on the back of both your heads. Both of you don't really know what to do once the date is over, you don't know if you can chance a quick kiss or hope for something better. As exciting as a date can be, ending a date can be quite complicated.
But when you're stepping into the date, drop all your sexual expectations. Think of having a great time and nothing else. And once both of you are done with dinner and if you feel the vibes are right, take a chance. Going to a date with high sexual expectations will only frustrate you even if you had a great date.
[Read: How to make a guy want to kiss you on a first date]
These twelve dating rules are great starters that can help you create a charming impression on your date, and have a great time yourself without overstepping any first date boundaries.
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If you're like me, and people call you a hipster because you collect records and still play music on your iPod instead of on your record player which you might or might not actually own, this will interest you severely. Behold a project that was born like all sweet industrial design projects are: as a concept. Inside the book "I Miss My Pencil" there was a project that became this reality: a surface, shaped to recall the size and shape of a record (or a stack of records, rather) or a record player, called C60 (Redux). In this project by IDEO, all you've got to do is place your music cards (the size of cassette tapes) down on the surface and your speakers (via your computer) will play the song you desire.
Each time you put down a card, the corresponding song is added to your playlist. Your playlist is decided by how you've got the cards in order, starting with the first card you've laid down and going clockwise. If you want to stop a song, simply lift it away from the surface. All of this is done with, yes, you guessed it, RFID tags and sensors. I love love love this idea and I would love love love for someone to make it a large enough reality so that I could own one. That's all I ask in the wooorld!
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the mother
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Stanza 2 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 11-13
I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children.
I have contracted. I have eased
My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck.
- Brooks starts changing things up in this new stanza. No more couplets, no more addressing the audience with the word "you."
- The mother speaks forcefully, in the first person, by using "I." And hold on to your hats, this poem's getting real.
- The mother tells us that she has heard the voices of her "dim killed children." The implication here, of course, is that she is the one who killed her children. And note that she does not say that she "aborted a fetus," or "terminated a pregnancy." By using the word "children," she is already anticipating what these fetuses will turn out to be.
- And she also says that they are "killed." Not that she has killed them herself, but that they are "killed." This is some hyper-passive syntax. And through this passive grammar, the mother doesn't (in these lines, at least) actually come right out to blame herself for their deaths.
- We should also note that she says that these children are also "dim"—that they're hazy, dark, maybe unreachable. There's an acknowledgement here that these children exist dimly. They are shadowy figures.
- Next, the mother refers to her body. After the abortion, her body has "contracted." Even still, she imagines that she has "eased" her non-existing children by breastfeeding them. We are way into fantasy here, but the speaker knows this. She acknowledges that the non-existent children "could never suck" from her breast. Still, that undeniable fact doesn't seem to stop her from diving headlong into imagining that they could.
- We should also note that the rhyming couplets are gone. Instead of the neatness of couplets, we now have very uneven lines and uneven rhymes (if any). It feels like the speaker may be getting emotional here, maybe even falling apart.
- Of course, it sounds like she's in a dark place. She's thinking through the lives that her non-existent children never got to have.
- They are "killed." "They could never" breastfeed. She's not telling us directly that she regrets having had an abortion—and from her use of the word "children," probably multiple abortions—but she's sounding mighty sad right about now.
Lines 14-20
I have said, Sweets, if I sinned, if I seized
Your luck
And your lives from your unfinished reach,
If I stole your births and your names,
Your straight baby tears and your games,
Your stilted or lovely loves, your tumults, your marriages, aches, and your deaths,
If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths,
- We've got another change in address. The mother is not talking to us now, or to herself; she's directly addressing her non-existent children.
- She calls them "Sweets," echoing the word from the first stanza. These children are like candy to her. (Yum. Child-candy.)
- And as she's addressing them, her words are all in the conditional tense. She doesn't say, for example, "I sinned"; she says "if I sinned." She doesn't say "I seized," but "if I seized."
- Why is this important? Well, all of those "ifs" cast doubt on what she's saying. Her emotions are complex. She imagines her fetuses carried to term, she imagines them growing into babies and children and adults. But she also doesn't say flat-out that she's sinned in having an abortion. She's raising the possibility that she's sinned. It's a subtle, but important difference.
- She then lists all of the experiences that these non-existent children haven't had. They haven't had births, names, tears, games, loves, tumults, marriages, aches, or deaths. In short, these non-existence children haven't had lives at all.
- And why is that? In a turn of figurative language, the mother blames herself for seizing and stealing the abstract qualities of their childhood (births, names, games, etc.).
- The mother keeps imagining these lives that never were. It doesn't seem like she's totally regretting having an abortion, but she's definitely mourning the lives of the children that never came to be.
- But then her language gets harsher; she proposes the idea that she has "poisoned [their] breaths." It seems that her guilt is getting the better of her with this shift in tone.
Lines 21-28
Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate.
Though why should I whine,
Whine that the crime was other than mine?—
Since anyhow you are dead.
Or rather, or instead,
You were never made.
But that too, I am afraid,
Is faulty:
- These lines are some of the most painful in the poem. In them, we see the mother tossing and turning in her mind. What responsibilities does she bear toward her unborn children? Has she committed a crime in aborting a pregnancy? What is her relationship to these non-existent beings? Is a fetus a life, or just a potential life?
- These are just some of the questions that the mother is grappling with in these lines. Plus, there's one more: is she really a mother? Can one be a mother without children? By naming the poem "the mother," Brooks seems to be leaning toward "yes."
- But let's read on—"the mother" has more to say.
- She says that "even in [her] deliberateness [she] was not deliberate." In other words: even though she decided to have an abortion, she was not deliberately killing her children.
- But then, she begins to berate herself. She asks herself—what is the point of whining? The "crime"—the abortion—was her decision.
- The mother, for the first time, really, is directly referring to the abortion as a crime—as a killing that she was responsible for.
- Hmm—is this poem suddenly hard-core anti-choice?
- No. The mother begins turning the abortion around in her head. Are her children "dead"? Were they just "never made"?
- In this moment, the poem is questioning language—what language do we have to refer to aborted fetuses? How does the language that we use to speak about abortion affect our feelings—personal or political—about it?
- The mother finds her descriptions "faulty." She can't find the right words to describe the children that she never had.
- Also, you might want to note that the rhyming couplets are back. As the mother gets deeper into her sadness, she begins speaking in harsh rhymes. We can almost hear the hardening in her voice as she rhymes "dead" with "instead."
Lines 28-30
oh, what shall I say, how is the truth to be said?
You were born, you had body, you died.
It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.
- All of the mother's emotions and turbulent thoughts come to a head in these lines, as she mother cries out with an "oh." She doesn't know what to say. She doesn't have the language to describe her experience and the experience of her never-born children.
- So she tries to break it down in the simplest language that she has. She explains that the children were born, that they had bodies, that they died. But that they did this without life experiences—without laughter or planning or tears.
- The mother imagines a sort of life cycle (including death) for her non-existent children. But it's a weird life cycle, because it doesn't actually involve a life. (If this is making your head hurt a bit, don't worry—us, too.)
- There is a slowness in these lines, a moment of deliberate reckoning when the mother is trying to sort things out for herself.


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> Any word from National Haunters Convention?
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Any word from National Haunters Convention?
How did it go? Attendance up or down? Any new and cool vendors? Any vendors have success stories I've heard less about NHC than I have Hauntcon.
The tradeshow floor was pretty big
Saw some really cool/unique "Dolls" from Dark Creation (http://darkcreation.com/) - Really eye-catching, first time I've seen them.
For someone who lives that close DA why don't you go to the show?
Thanks for the info Frog Zombie.
Karen, I've been before too busy to go lately. But I hear its a better time than Hauntcon with more qualified speakers that's for sure.
Greg Chrise
I'll bet there are about 30 people from Texas that are SO thrilled you have an opinion about their qualifications. Or that you think there is some competition between conventions neither of which you attended. Every one stands corrected I'm sure.
Tell us more about yourself!
Greg I'm glad you know where you stand!
As a first time attendee who also had a booth, I went into it not really knowing what to expect. I was told to expect lots of home haunting and crafty-type things and that was absolutely true.
I have read some mixed reviews on a couple sites about NHC as most of the 'big name' vendors cancelled on them, some at the last minute. The reviews I see on Facebook are definitely trending negative. Most of them were disappointed that the larger vendors cancelled and there were NO prop controllers, pneumatics, or similar vendors attending. There appeared to only be one animatronic vendor. There were a few static prop, mask, and weapon makers, and the rest were either steampunk, pirate, or home haunting themed items. Lots of accessories like contacts, jewelry, and knives. Several authors, and one well-known late-night horror host were also in attendance. The hearses were plentiful and I heard ok things from the haunt that was inside the event center (I did not go through). The classes have received generally positive reviews. (I did not attend any).
I met and talked to a LOT of people about the podcast and I was amazed at how many home haunt and yard haunt people there were. Out of all those I talked to, only 5 were 'professional' haunts and 4 of them had been in business for less than 3 seasons. (I asked specific questions so I could get information about our listenership). Victor Bariteau from The American Scream documentary was selling DVDs at our booth and did better than at TW, mainly because of the home haunters aspect of it. It was cool to have folks come up and say they listened to the show and I took several suggestions and got some good contacts for future guests. We will even be making an announcement on the next show about a 'new' member of the crew.
I did not go on the haunt tour and only stayed at the costume ball for about 2 hours. The food was excellent and the conversations were good. Met a lot of new people and had fun at that.
Overall I was a bit disappointed, as many people talking on FB have said that this show has been in decline since 2008. I have heard from the organizers that there WILL be some major changes to the show structure next year and one well-known vendor has already offered to help in any way he can. Since I was not selling a specific product, I wasn't worried about sales. Several vendors I talked to were pleased, others weren't. I guess that's true at all shows though.
Would I go back and have a booth? Sure. Would I go back if I had to pay what people paid to get into the show? Probably not. There are better and worse conventions out there but I think this one has potential, there's just something not clicking with the haunt community that makes them want to attend this show. That is not a discussion for this thread though.
Greg you know that Allen guy that was a hauntcon really doesn't know any thing about the haunt industry he has been faking it for over 20+ years. I wish I could have gone to national but I could only do 4 shows this year. May be Lenard should have Dark speak next year, he seems to think he know every thing about the haunt industry. The show are all different to me and you go to them for different reasons I had a great time with my friends in Texas and I hate Texas. The haunts there know how to roll out the red carpet for the people coming. Next year I will make national.
Drew am I the new host? Did you forget to tell me? I got the feeling that I missed that memo some where. Keep up the good work and thanks for the shout out on the show.
Drew I want to thank you for a good honest assessment of NHC, I know you and can say that you tell it like it is.
Greg you know that Allen guy that was a hauntcon really doesn't know any thing about the haunt industry he has been faking it for over 20+ years. I wish I could have gone to national but I could only do 4 shows this year. May be Lenard should have Dark speak next year, he seems to think he know every thing about the haunt industry. The show are all different to me and you go to them for different reasons I had a great time with my friends in Texas and I hate Texas. The haunts there know how to roll out the red carpet for the people coming. Next year I will make national.
Phatman, I'm sorry I don't recall ever saying I know everything about the haunt industry. Allen is great but as good as he is I think Ricky Dick and John Denley have a little more experience than Allen and the others there. I apologize for grouping all Hauntcon speakers in one.
Dark I think it's just easy to be critical when you were not there. And I have had a class with every person at national and they are good but that does not mean that the guys at hauntcon were bad I think the were outstanding too.
Greg Chrise
There are lots of people that have been around just as long or slightly longer and been hard core. I respect the John Denley and Ricky Dick experience. There are just hundreds across the country that suck at self promotion and don't wander around making sure you know their actual experience or fathom the long history of how the whole country kind of has worked together. There are about 80 of us in Texas that have just decided to let Allen Hopps do what ever he wants. I think he is doing a wonderful job in an industry or region that is so difficult to make a buck in.
Instead of being a hater, you should live vicariously through the power of the Hopps.
Amen Greg well stated
Greg Chrise
Who are the energetic young shining stars trying to make it in the real world in your region?
Greg Chrise
Don't just quote a bunch of names old enough that dust comes out when they fart. Maybe this is why things are declining in some areas. It takes younger people (with positive attitudes) to keep the industry bringing in the new generations, the new ideas, the skills the old dudes have just decided not to pick up. I'm as old as John Denley and Ricky Dick so I can say that.
I think the thing that people get confused that age means experience, but some of the young talent has the advantage of not knowing any better and trying things that us old farts may not see. I listen to the wise one and keep an eye one the innovative ones. I am not the smartest guy out here but I am smart enough that when I go to conventions I go to a lot of classes to learn from people and steal their ideas. I own one of the largest instructional haunted house DVD sets around, I can not get enough input. I go to over 40 haunts (50 this year) a year to learn from other haunts around the country. I have heard good thing about NHC but I was not there and it seem to be more of a regional show from what I have heard. One last note Greg you Texas Guys can stay the hell down there you know how to haunt, stay out of Michigan you are not welcome unless you are just visiting. LOL
Trepidation acres
Geez!!! Everyone just have a bad day or are y'all always this pissy? I guess opinions are not welcome here.
Geez!!! Everyone just have a bad day or are y'all always this pissy? I guess opinions are not welcome here.
Welcome to the modern fright forum, where having an independent thought is frowned upon. But you can get acceptance if you idolize the handful that thrive on attention.
Sorry you are right, Dark always wants to talk about things that he has never been to (in recent history) or done. And some people call him out about it. I would like to hear about NHC from some body who went. Drew gave a good vendor point of view but I would like to hear about the haunts and show too. I don't even care if its a home haunter, if pro haunters used the money they have as efficiently as some home haunters we would all be Neatherworld. Looked for some video but have not seen much. I am considering going next year so I guess my biggest question is would you go to NHC again, why or why not.
Don't worry acres, there's plenty of good left, some are just a rotten few on here.
Anyway, I feel like I can chime in here from both customer and vendor side. I had originally signed up for a 10x20' space pre-Transworld for Decimated Designs, and the show management did an incredible job and was MUCH more supportive/willing to help and caring than the Transworld show team. From a vendor prospective, the NHC show management is the best, and very easy people to work with. Unfortunately I had to cancel because my expenses became just too high to make money....getting ALL the product there, lodging, printed materials, and travel costs we just couldn't see any profit...WHICH brings me to the customer perspective:
At Transworld this year I was too busy to do any real shopping....so I wanted to do some fun shopping at NHC. THAT was where I was disappointed. Although a good and friendly staff, the show floor is too chaotic. I didn't feel as if most of the vendors there had anything that could benefit my haunt. There were chocolate vendors there, leather vendors, jewelry vendors. Someone who makes blankets and stuff....And a bunch of contact companies. There was one animatronic vendor. And a BUNCH of hobby-esque mask makers. But then there was a cheesy prop shop. A stage that does quizzes and trivia and magic and other silly things at random intervals. Theres random vehicles set up all over, and that's about it...... The show advertises as being a haunter show but it just doesn't cater to just us....it's turned into too much of too little (if that makes any sense). I didn't get to really buy much, bought a pair of contact lenses for fun and got a kit of foam tools from that older couple that sells for hot wire foam factory who are really cool. And that's about it....I need better vendors for a concentrated subject, they need to really get BIGGER or at least established names into the door and be more organized in that sense....as a customer nothing stands out and tells me to GO, I was there for an hour and saw everything.....it needs more precise things to really get me to stay and spend.....they just don't bring in the right vendors. The market density in this region of the country is SUPERB and this show has MUCH potential, but the management/coordination just isn't there at the moment..hopefully next year they do well.
I'm interested to know how Halloween Extreme will be....I know the floor plan didn't really full out at all until much recently.....but I really want it to be successful so we can go next year.
I already know MHC should be fantastic, I can't wait to go next year. I wish I could make it this year!
Thanks Bobby I will see you at Midwest
I think all of these shows can be a great thing however... for vending this is where the problem is! These vendors just can't attend all these shows if they did they would never make any product. Going to a show is an entire week out of production GONE, then you have time to prepare for the show, plus costs of the show, its just not possible. Its actually only practical for haunt vendors to attend one major show, the second show I would attend would be IAAPA but even that is hit and miss. Vendors can't spend their entire year traveling around to tradeshows because honestly then we'd have no vendors that actually delivered. Honestly there are too many of these shows now and they can't all be fully supported. Something has to give at some point... and I'm not picking on these guys I'm saying general because now even Transworld has another show. I mean when is enough enough?
You would think our industry is a 1 trillion dollar industry, with 10 million buyers... its NOT!
So I'm not surprised when I hear any of these shows had low attendance, or hardly any of the MAJOR vendors or whatever... its just not practical to think they can attend all these events. I know for the buyers especially the local ones you hope and expect it but it just isn't going to happen anytime soon.
Professional haunt owners also should be good and busy building their haunts by now, should already have firm plans on what they are going to build, what they need, and where they are going to get it... not everyone but most should.
Buying and selling takes place in three stages in our industry now...tradeshows should remember this here!
WINTER: Many haunts love to spend the minute they close and work with vendors for custom stuff, or getting heavy discounts. This probably is a huge chunk of many vendors yearly totals maybe as much as 20%.
SPRING: Transworld time... probably as many as 50% of the industry has already or will pull the trigger right here on the spot!
SUMMER: No matter how many shows you put between TW and mid-summer won't matter... you have many haunts who are waiting for locations, or want to use credit cards, or simply are those last minute haunts this might be as much as 50% of all money spent around early July all the way through early October. They wait again for locations to finalize, last minute type haunts, charity haunts, even amusement parks wait until summer is nearly over, and like I said many wait to use credit cards.
These are three buying seasons that a tradeshow should wrap their teeth into!
I agree Larry the buying for most is TW in march, they have the newly released props there and everyone can come see them there or online. The other conventions should focus on education and fun stuff like tours. The exception to the rule seem to be Midwest Haunters Convention and that is the buyers that could not go to TW and still want to go and see products. MHC seem to grow every year and be fitting a segment of the market that is not your large budget haunt making those big purchases. The other shows need to find a niche, Hauntcon has the traveling show that takes you to different parts of the country with a good haunt tour for those that don't get to see haunted houses during halloween, good classes, and a great social setting. I have not been to NHC or IAAPA but plan next year to hit one of them. I like the tours a lot, i go to see how different areas of the country do things and it gives me a standard to judge your own show by so you can see where your week spots are. You are right that the shows seem to be cramed into a very small time frame and are tough to make as far as scheduling, 7 shows in 6 months is tough when you have a haunt to build.
Gore Galore
As a vendor,
We can't afford the time or the money to do more than one Tradeshow a year, let alone any conventions.
And with Transworld doing well for us it is even more reason not to do any other shows.
But ALL these other conventions have an important part to play.
The problem is if they try to go head to head with transworld on the tradeshow floor part of it they will fail and painfully.
However, it doesn't have to be a win or loose.
If they choose something to specialize on then they can be massively successful on that level. Just like vendors. Vendors, that just copy what others are doing fail. We have seen it time and time again. But when someone comes out with something inventive. Well, hopefully they do well.
I think the shows look like this.
-Transworld has the most successful show floor and the new product sales.
-MHC has it when it relates to a big costume party, and on being actor focused.
-Hauntcon wins on being a traveling haunt tour and I think that is a big draw.
-NHC wins on home haunt and new haunter education. I think this show could be a big deal with the right approach. It does have some major haunters vending and giving seminars etc... With the likes of John Denley, Ricky Dick, Chris Handa and many others. I think this show has the potential to be the show that brings newbies into the industry and shows them the potential of what this industry has to offer.
-Halloween extreme: We don't even know what this show is yet.
But I think for these shows to be successful they have to separate themselves and develop their own identities.
Badger, Bobby and Kevin thanks for your assessment of the convention.
Hey Kevin,
You forgot the West Coast Haunt Convention, the Canadian Haunt Convention and I think its fair to say IAAPA since its an option for haunt buyers and vendors. Its all just too much!
You make a great point that they should try to be unique and different and offers something the others don't.
Allen H
If I were local, I would go to NHC again. I went (and taught a few classes) there last year. I had the smallest turnouts for a class in years 19 people. I was told those were good numbers for class attendance, that must have been true because the rooms would not have held many more. The management seemed unorganized and off schedule. The show floor was small and mostly seemed like a home haunters yardsale. Creepy collecion and Haunt tactics were the big name vendors last year.
I actually felt really bad for a reality TV show that came to film at the Masquarade ball and there was about 30 people there total. They had to move us around the romm so it looked crowded depending on where they shot.
In my opinion it was bad, but that is just my opinion. It was great to see some of the people and the show is an excuse to do that. Hauntcon (with all of its problems) seems to be a much more professionally produced show. I think they have potential, but vendor screening, teacher screening, and management all need attention.
I did not go there this year, but hopefully I can make it back next year. I enjoy haunt shows and braced for what it is it may leave a better taste in my mouth next time.
I was brought up earlier in the thread, and I cant see why. Everyone has an opinion. Its pretty hard to find me promoting myself anywhere, for every video I have posted I have posted ten you have to look for. I just try to help- I dont call myself an expert...Meh...not worth typing.
Re: Halloween Extreme
This is a different type of show. This show is designed to bring together a strong HORROR audience (by co-locating with a major horror convention) with HAUNTERS and HAUNT VENDORS. This is a fusion, a fresh mix. It also has participation from Florida horror icons like HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS and HOWL-O-SCREAM, and we expect a large dose of haunt FANS. If you are heading down to see the parks with the family why not get some horror and haunting action at the same time? Hopefully you can come down to see what is all about. Me I am bringing up lots of our props and goodies to show off... Here are a few of the monsters about to get packed!
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Did you choose to separate them or keep them together and why? I am still torn.
I just changed preschools this year so that they could get into separate classes. I am in the middle of lotteries, finding out which schools they are and aren't getting into and so far the first school we got into will have them in the same class. I hope they are little farther along than they are now. June is a long time away so we'll see.
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I've been worried about this since they were 9 months old, lol. Mine are in preschool right now, and it's only one class for their age group. Next year they go to Pre-K (which is a full day - 6.5hrs) 5 days a week. I COULD separate them for PreK, BUT I'm not guaranteed the same class time, so . . .I really don't want 2 different drop off/pick up times (especially with other kids to deal with).
My current thinking is keep them in the same class for PreK - going 5 days per week for a full day will be enough of an adjustment (currently it's 3 days for 3 hours), and then most likely separate for K. As long as I can get two K teachers who give the same amounts of homework, lol (there's one that doesn't give any at all- can't have one with homework and one without). They'll get to sit together on the bus. They are VERY close, but I think they have been playing independently at preschool (we have a mandatory carpool for drop off and pick up so I never see the teachers), so it's a good start.
As for the unsolicited advice - mine have June bdays, and the cutoff here is 9/1, and SO many people have told me that BOYS (only - not girls) that have summer birthdays normally get held back, and that if I send my boys to K "on time" they will be the youngest boys by far in the class. Um, okay. Someone has to be the youngest. Also, that's NOT a reason to hold them back. Now, if their PreK teachers says they aren't ready, that would be a different story.
DS Jan. 07, Twin Boys Jun 09, and DD April 2012
So I had no clue that it was even possible to put my kids in the same class until this year, they're in Kindergarten, and by the time I found out the school wouldn't switch them. They've been in different classes since PreK but I'm considering putting them in the same class next year. I just like the idea of them being there for each other but we'll see. Also being a single parent it's hard for me to be in two places at once when they have things at school.
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My girls started Pre-K in September and I separated them. I felt my girls were so dependent on each other, and so connected they finished each others sentences and always negotiated on what to play, where to go in the house etc. I wanted to see some individual development.
Separating them has been amazing! For my girls, the right choice. I have discovered things about the girls I didn't know about, and both their personalities have been blossoming. They are more independent and confident, yet still bonded. They are comfortable doing their own thing now at home, and we do have less fighting as well. Simone knows things and can do things I didn't know about. Carmen was always quicker and, I thought, more dominant and did everything first. Boy, was I wrong. Turns out Simone knows more than her and is the more confident one and Carmen had to do some catching up.
As for kindergarten.... they don't start until Sept 2014 so I still have a few years. This year they go 2 days at 2 hrs a day split up. Next year they will go 4 hours two days a week. one day on their own, one day together -
I'm taking this one step at a time. When I ask them now if they want to go in the same class, they say NO separate classes please mommy. I think they like being on their own at this point in their lives.
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My twins are starting preschool in the fall and they will be in the same class because there isn't any other option. I think it will be a great chance for me to see how they do together so that when it is time for kindy, I will be able to make a better choice. At this point, they really haven't had the chance to socialize with any other kids besides their siblings. The will occasionally play with a neighbor kid or one of my friend's kids, but their older sister always kind of takes the lead. It will be interesting to see them in a social setting without that older sister around.
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Mine are starting prek next year in the same class. ITs a small preschool with a T/TH am , T/TH pm, M/W/F am, M/W/F pm class for 3's and then another set for 4's. So to split them they'd have to go on a different day or time which would be crazy. So they will be toegther the next two years. My DD is so independent and is totally fine leaving me. They just did a trial of a gymnastics class and she ran right off with the teacher and didn't care where I was. DS refused to go with the class even when I showed him that he could see where the mommies sit no matter where in the gym they are. So I'm hoping when he goes he will take comfort in having his sister there, but not burden her.
As for K i- it wil be our choice by state law, but our school highly discourages it. There are 5 classes per grade level. Even my older DD had 2 kids from her K class in her first grade class so they'd really never see each other. DD would not care at all about being seperated. I'll have to see how DS matures over the 2 years of prek
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Well, I just registered them for kindergarten. How did my twins get so old?!?!
But we decided to keep them together. I talked to their preschool teacher again, and she seems confident that it won't be an issue. They get along well with each other, but they don't seem competitive or reliant on each other. So here we go.
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OP what ended up happening?
There is only one all day kindergarten class in my kids school so they will be together after all. I guess my decision is made for me until 1st day.
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A native of the Ozarks, Morris' love for the outdoors started at an early age. His passion was so strong that he began his own business, and in 1974 he printed and mailed his first catalog. From those humble beginnings Bass Pro Shops was born and has become America's premier outdoor retailer with 85 retail stores and Tracker Marine Centers across America and Canada that are visited by more than 116 million people every year. Morris has made giving back to conservation a hallmark of the company and over the course of several decades, he has dedicated himself to inspiring people, especially youth and families, to love, enjoy and conserve the great outdoors.
"We're honored to be a part of the Wetlands America Trust board. It's exciting to be part of a group that's so dedicated to conservation." Morris said. "The work they are doing to protect our wetlands and ensure a bright future for ducks and other wetland-dependent wildlife is something we are absolutely committed to. Hunting is a great American family tradition, and I am especially proud to serve alongside my son who represents the next generation of sportsmen conservationists."
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Beginning July 1, gun owners with conceal and carry permits will be allowed to bring firearms into Hesston City buildings.
During the Monday evening City Council meeting, Police Chief Doug Schroeder and City Administrator John Carder addressed the Council regarding new legislation that mandated gun owners be allowed to carry weapons if a city building did not have a security plan.
"Almost everyone agrees, except Sedgwick County, the cost is prohibitive to try. You're going to have to have staff at every door, it would be like an airport to get in," said Carder.
Carder said the statute raises concerns about armed city staff.
"We could deal with that in personnel policies. That's debatable if it is legal or not. The court defines what a statute means. Someone could step in that door and within seconds licensed or not, if there's a sign or not.
"I can understand Harvey County is concerned. They have district courts with felonies, not traffic tickets. I understand why that's a concern. The protection we have is they can't get into the offices without going through controlled area," said Carder.
Councilman Brad Unruh asked if City Hall was only accessible through the front door.
"The door I use, and the fire door, you have to key it. That door, if someone comes in and they are mad about utility bill or whatever, this law isn't going to protect us. We just remove sign to comply with the statute. From what I understand, the sheriff's opinion is to ask for the six months and hope people come to their senses," said Carder.
Councilman Pat Moore asked if it would be feasible for the City to ask for the extension, "Would it be worth waiting?"
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PORTLAND, Ore. — It would be a first for Oregon: The state's largest minor party says it's going to conduct an online-only primary this summer.
Linda Williams, founder of the Independent Party of Oregon, said Wednesday the primary will begin sometime in July and last for two weeks.
"We are trying to make a difference in a systemic way in Oregon," she said.
Oregon secretary of state's spokesman Don Hamilton confirms the state has not previously had an online-only primary.
The Independent Party has grown from 359 registered voters in February 2007 to a reported 54,920 in May, the most recent month for which statistics are available from the secretary of state's office.
By comparison, Oregon has 863,700 registered Democrats and 658,023 Republicans.
Hoping to tap into the fledgling party's potential, 77 candidates — 39 Democrats, 32 Republicans, five Independents and one Libertarian — have said they also will seek the nomination of the Independent Party. They include Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber.
A bill passed by the state Legislature last year allows candidates to run under more than one party banner. So-called "fusion voting" allows candidates to get the nominations of as many as three parties.
That bill also changed the definition of voters who didn't claim a party from "independent" to "nonaffiliated," and the Independent Party of Oregon claimed the mantle.
The Independent Party is growing rapidly because voters can't tell the difference between deciding to be independent of any party and picking the Independent Party, Oregon State University political science Professor Bill Lunch said.
"It's clear that a very, very large fraction — I'd say about 90 percent — of the members of the Independent Party thought they were registering as an independent, small 'i,'" Lunch said.
Williams said she's "not going to get into a guessing game" about how many people know they're members of the Independent Party.
"That's the whole point of a primary election, to reach a core of interested voters," Williams said. "My guess, the professor's guess, I think we're going to know a lot more in a couple of months."
Party members will receive an identification number in the mail, which they'll use to log in and vote.
Williams declined to say how much money the party needs to conduct the online primary, but said organizers don't have it all yet. She said party money and personal loans will be used to help cover the costs.
The Independent Party professes not to have its own ideology. Williams described it as a "protest party" that seeks to take money out of politics and restore faith in the political system.
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Sal Peralta, the person who was recorded, later said he misspoke. Williams wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Kate Brown that the request for donations was to cover the cost of the primary.
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After all, Anderson had seen this before.
Charleston went 0-6 to start the 2000 season, but rebounded to win the district championship.
And with the meat of the schedule behind them, running the table was certainly a realistic goal this season.
The Bluejays accomplished just that on Friday night at Marshall Stadium as they wrapped up their third straight Class 3, District 2 championship with a 42-7 victory against Scott City.
It was the fourth time in five years that Charleston and Scott City played for the district championship.
The Bluejays (5-5) will now take on Class 2 No. 7 ranked Portageville on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. at Marshall Stadium in a Class 2 Sectional game.
"These kids came out tonight, they were energized and ready to play," said Charleston head coach Brent Anderson. "The truth is our kids are thrown to the wolves early and they have to scratch and claw and fight their way out. You could tell they've played in big games."
Friday's game against Scott City (4-6) was nearly a flawless performance by the Bluejays. Charleston overpowered the Rams on the offensive line en route to 384 yards rushing. The Bluejay line created gaping holes for standout running back Orrice Stanback and fullbacks Paul Brown and Dadrian Jones to run through.
"We dominated the line of scrimmage, and whenever you do that your chances of winning football games is multiplied by about 100," said Anderson. "We really felt like we matched up well against them up front. I didn't think we would dominate the line of scrimmage like that, but I knew I wanted to put the game in those five's hands. I wanted to run the football until they could stop us."
But the Rams never did.
Stanback totaled 206 yards on 22 carries with three touchdowns in the game. The senior now has 1,979 yards and 21 touchdowns this season.
"Orrice is going to get all the headlines, he had a great football game, he ran the ball really well, he had an extra burst tonight," said Anderson. "He was ready to go and he was excited to play. All of our backs ran the ball well and that's because we were moving the line of scrimmage."
The Bluejays kept things simple the entire night, but it was the misdirection counter play that kept the Rams off balance on defense.
"Our original gameplan was to try to force them to drive the ball," said Scott City head coach Jason Burkman. "They did that and we couldn't get any turnovers. Stanback is tough, but it's not so much him, he's just got a good line blocking for him. Their line isn't getting enough credit."
Brown also had a big day, rushing for 98 yards on 11 carries with two TDs, all on fullback dives. Jones added 32 yards on four carries with a score, all on fullback dives.
"That's a big part of our offense," said Anderson of the fullback dive. "We work real hard on our fullback game. A lot of teams try to take it away and some do, but that adds a dimension to our offense. If you can run the fullback that opens up a lot of avenues for you. Paul and Dadrian have really picked it up in the past week, but those kids up front are playing some good football. They played as well as they've played all year."
Quarterback A.H. Marshall ran for 44 yards on 14 carries, mostly on option keepers.
Charleston opened up a 36-0 halftime lead and was never threatened. The mercy rule kept the clock running the entire second half.
As good as the Bluejays were on offense, the defense dominated just as much, if not more. The Rams managed just 126 yards of offense. Ten of the Rams' 11 possessions lasted four plays or less as they ran just 36 plays on the night. Charleston ran 63 plays and held the ball for 32 of the game's 48 minutes.
"I knew they were a good ballclub, but I thought we'd move the ball better than what we did," said Burkman. "We just couldn't force them into turnovers. They did a good job of holding onto the ball. We got ourselves in a hole right off the bat with a turnover and you can't do that in a game like this."
After forcing a punt to start the game, Charleston marched 74 yards on 10 plays capped by Stanback's 4-yard run to make it 6-0.
After forcing another punt, Charleston was faced with a 3rd-and-12 at their own 36. Marshall rolled right and found Nelson French for a 26-yard completion. That set up a 38-yard TD run by Stanback on an option play with 2:48 left in the first quarter.
Marcus Dixon's extra point made it 13-0.
Two possessions later, Charleston punter Andrew DeField pinned the Rams back at their own 4-yard line. Two penalties backed them up to the 1-yard line which led to a safety when quarterback Luke McClellan was tackled in the end zone. That pushed the lead to 15-0 with 53 seconds left in the first quarter.
The second quarter saw much of the same as the Bluejays tacked on three more scores.
Jones scored on an 18-yard run, Stanback hit paydirt on a 2-yard plunge to cap a 17-play, 95-yard drive, and Brown broke several tackles on a 29-yard TD run with 1:14 left in the half.
Brown added a 12-yard TD run on the Bluejays' opening drive of the third quarter, a 12-play, 89-yard drive.
Scott City got its only score when McClellan hit Matt Schaefer for a 33-yard TD pass with 4:33 left in the game.
McClellan completed just 4-of-17 passes for 60 yards. Schaefer led the Rams on the ground with 47 yards on 10 carries.
"Our defense has not played well this year and we gave them a gut-check in about Week 5," said Anderson. "Ever since then we've had a little spark and we've flown around. A lot of it has to do with our schedule, but our defense has stepped it up here the last four weeks."
Although the Bluejays were preseason favorites to win the district championship, accomplishing the feat after losing all-staters Dontay Clark and Jordy Mixon makes the task even more rewarding for Anderson.
"It's a credit to the kids," said Anderson. "You look at losing kids like that, you know, we lost some good athletes. But we have kids that want to play football. This group of kids athletically is not the best we've ever had. But they are hard-working and they've been determined this last four to five weeks. We have not had a group that's went to practice like they do. They're a very intelligent football team. They're very sound fundamentally, and that will take you a long way. That's a credit to the seniors that stepped it up this year and just said, 'hop one, we're going to pull the train.'"


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Woman arrested in green paint D.C. cathedral vandalismGreen paint is seen on the pedestal of the statue of Joseph Henry, outside the headquarters of the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, Monday, July 29, 2013. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)D.C. police say a woman has been arrested at the Washington National Cathedral in connection with vandalism there.Assistant Chief Peter Newsham said the woman was arrested in the area of the cathedral Monday after green paint was found splattered there.UPDATE: The green paint in the National Cathedral hit an organ http://t.co/cL0HPzqfdz- City ...View "Woman arrested in green paint D.C. cathedral vandalism" on Spundge


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