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CARACAS — Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez returns to Cuba on Sunday for more surgery after a recurrence of cancer led him to name a successor for the first time in a sign the disease may force an end to his 14-year rule.
Supporters prepared to gather in city squares across the South American country, shocked and saddened by the news from the 58-year-old socialist leader, who made the announcement in a late-night broadcast on Saturday from the presidential palace.
In the clearest indicator yet that Mr Chavez's health problems could spell an end to his tumultuous years at the helm of the Opec nation, he said supporters should vote for Vice-President Nicolas Maduro if a new election had to be held.
"It is absolutely necessary, absolutely essential, that I undergo a new surgical intervention," the president said in his speech, flanked by ashen-faced ministers.
"With God's will, like on the previous occasions, we will come out of this victorious. I have complete faith in that."
His departure would trigger an election and mark the end of an era for the Latin American left, depriving them of one of their most acerbic voices.
A clutch of nations in the region, from Cuba and Nicaragua to Bolivia and Ecuador, depend on Mr Chavez's oil-fuelled generosity to bolster their fragile economies.
An unruly transition from Mr Chavez's highly centralised rule could also raise the spectre of political instability in Venezuela, which holds the world's largest crude oil reserves.
The president's allies lack the charisma that has made him one of the world's most recognisable leaders — and most fierce critics of Washington — and may struggle to control his unwieldy coalition of military leaders and leftist activists.
Among them, though, Mr Maduro — a 50-year-old, mustachioed former bus driver and union leader — is widely viewed as the most popular among Venezuelans thanks to his affable manner, humble background and close relationship with Mr Chavez.
Speculation about Mr Chavez's health had grown during a three-week absence from public view that culminated in his latest trip for medical tests in Cuba — where he has undergone three cancer operations since June 2011.
He returned to Venezuela on Friday after those tests, and is due to have the operation in Cuba in the next few days.
Speculation restarts
Mr Chavez said he had rejected the advice of his medical team to have the surgery sooner, on Friday or this weekend, telling them he needed to fly back to Venezuela to seek the permission of lawmakers to return for the operation.
"I decided to come, making an additional effort, in truth, because the pain is not insignificant," Mr Chavez said.
The president's return to Cuba may mark the start of another lengthy period of silence from government officials, combined with furious rumours over what political changes might be in store and what Mr Chavez's actual condition is.
He has never said what type of cancer he is suffering from, though when initially diagnosed in mid-2011, the government said Mr Chavez's problem was in the pelvic area.
The shock on the faces of the cabinet ministers during Saturday's late-night broadcast signaled that uncertainty over the country's future reigns, even in the top echelons of power.
Mr Chavez has been receiving treatment at Havana's Cimeq hospital as a guest of his close friend and political mentor, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro. He is guaranteed tight security and privacy on the communist-led Caribbean island.
The usually loquacious Venezuelan leader had sharply cut back his appearances since winning the Oct 7 election, saying the campaign and radiation therapy had left him exhausted.
Under the constitution, an election would have to be held within 30 days if Mr Chavez were to leave office in the first four years of his next six-year term, due to begin on Jan 10. That would also be the case should he not be able to start the term.
For the first time, in a surprise admission he might not be able to govern for as long as he hopes, he singled out long-time ally Mr Maduro as his candidate.
"He is a complete revolutionary, a man of great experience despite his youth, with great dedication and capacity for work," Mr Chavez said. "In a scenario where they were obliged to hold a new presidential election, you should choose Nicolas Maduro."
Mr Maduro's trade union background appeals to Mr Chavez's working-class supporters, while his years as foreign minister provided opportunities for networking abroad.
He may win less support from the military wing of the Socialist Party, which controls many top government posts.
The naming of Mr Maduro appeared to sideline Diosdado Cabello, a congress head and former military comrade of Mr Chavez with close ties to the armed forces. Mr Chavez urged "unity" over-and-over again in his comments.
"I never argue with Mr Chavez's instructions, I obey them," Mr Cabello said shortly afterwards.
"I am at the service of the vice-president, at the service of the fatherland."
The opposition could find itself in its best position to oust his administration since Mr Chavez took power in 1999. Many voters have ignored the failings of Mr Chavez's government because of their intense emotional connection to him.
Any new election would potentially give just-defeated presidential candidate Henrique Capriles another chance.
Mr Capriles lost to Chavez in October, but garnered 44% and a record 6.5-million votes for the opposition.
Though past polls have shown Mr Capriles is more popular than any of Mr Chavez's allies, including Mr Maduro, the vice-president will benefit from his boss's personal blessing.
Venezuela's widely traded bonds are likely to soar when markets open on Monday on expectations that Mr Chavez's renewed illness will pave the way for a more market-friendly government.
Its bonds have been among the most profitable of any emerging market paper this year, largely due to Mr Chavez's weak health.
Mr Chavez's cancer saga has once again distracted attention from major national issues like state elections in a week, a possible devaluation of the local bolivar currency, and a proposed amnesty for jailed and exiled political foes.


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Some Kind of Fairy Taleby Graham Joyce
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Acclaimed author Graham Joyce's mesmerizing new novel centers around the disappearance of a young girl from a small town in the heart of England. Her sudden return twenty years later, and the mind-bending tale of where she's been, will challenge our very perception of truth.
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Acclaimed author Graham Joyce's mesmerizing new novel centers around the disappearance of a young girl from a small town in the heart of England. Her sudden return twenty years later, and the mind-bending tale of where she's been, will challenge our very perception of truth.
For twenty years after Tara Martin disappeared from her small English town, her parents and her brother, Peter, have lived in denial of the grim fact that she was gone for good. And then suddenly, on Christmas Day, the doorbell rings at her parents' home and there, disheveled and slightly peculiar looking, Tara stands. It's a miracle, but alarm bells are ringing for Peter. Tara's story just does not add up. And, incredibly, she barely looks a day older than when she vanished.
Award-winning author Graham Joyce is a master of exploring new realms of understanding that exist between dreams and reality, between the known and unknown. Some Kind of Fairy Tale is a unique journey every bit as magical as its title implies, and as real and unsentimental as the world around us.
Editorial Reviews
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Anna Mundow
"Ravishing. . . . [Joyce's] writing is enthralling, agile and effortless." —The New York Times Book Review
"Joyce's fiction is an unusual—and unusually satisfying—hybrid. He's interested in all the things that preoccupy literary novelists: finely drawn characters, the beauty and sadness of life's inevitable transitions, families in all their ambiguous and endlessly fascinating complexity. His prose is precise and unsentimental. Yet into the fabric of these relationships he weaves elements of folklore and myth." —Laura Miller, Salon
"One of the most impressive fantasy books we've read in ages." —io9.com
"Reading Some Kind of Fairy Tale is a little like stepping into an enormous, brilliantly camouflaged mantrap…. Joyce's books are as seductive as anything you'll find in contemporary fiction." —Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Clever, funny and poignant." —Sarah Waters, author of The Little Stranger
"Fans of novels featuring dark, haunted woods, overgrown English moors and changelings hidden in the dense brush will be absolutely delighted." —BookPage
"Joyce's fairy tale is one of dark and dangerous collision." —The Washington Post
"I became a rabidly devoted fan of Graham Joyce's the first time I read his work." —Peter Straub
"Some Kind of Fairy Tale is fantastically formed, complete with a gently portentous premise, a marvelous cast of characters, and a narrative as smart and self-reflexive as it is at first old-fashioned. Enigmatic and intellectual, yes, yet readily accessible and massively satisfying, Joyce's latest is a joy." —Tor.com
"One of my best reads in decades." —L. Dean Murphy, Bookreporter
"I won't bother saying Graham Joyce deserves to find a wider audience in America; rather I think the American audience deserves to find him." —Jonathan Lethem
"Dark and haunting." —The Free Lance–Star
"Some Kind of Fairy Tale is all about passing through walls: between people, between truths, between worlds. But where a lesser writer might strain to keep all those layers in focus, Joyce projects a vision of the heart as rich and ethereal as the age-old tradition Fairy Tale invokes. . . . As its title trumpets, Some Kind of Fairy Tale meditates on the nature of what it means to tell stories. But wisely and hauntingly, it does so through a spellbinding story of its own." —The Onion's A.V. Club
"Joyce's fiction has always displayed a certain generosity of spirit that lifts it above the ordinary. . . . Joyce as a writer is a master charmer. . . . Mesmerizing." —The Guardian (London)
"Haunting, brilliant. . . . Some Kind of Fairytale works the same sort of magic [as The Limits of Enchantment] and in many ways is even more accomplished. This time, people, pay attention." —Locus
"Reality and fairy tale are beautifully interwoven in this contemplative story about relationships, love, and dreams. In a unique blend of thriller and fantasy, Joyce creates a delightful page-turner that his fans and newcomers alike will find hard to put down." —Booklist
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- 07/10/2012
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- 320
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- 6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)
Read an Excerpt
chapter one
But we are spirits of another sort.
Oberon, King of Shadows. William Shakespeare
In the deepest heart of England there is a place where everything is at fault. That is to say that the land rests upon a fault; and there, ancient rocks are sent hurtling from the deep to the surface of the earth with such force that they break free like oceanic waves, or like monstrous sea creatures coming up for air. Some say that the land has still to settle and that it continues to roil and breathe fumes, and that out of these fumes pour stories. Others are confident that the old volcanoes are long dead, and that all its tales are told.
Of course, everything depends on who is telling the story. It always does. I have a story and though there are considerable parts I've had to imagine, the way I saw it was as follows.
It was Christmas Day of that year and Dell Martin hovered at the double-glazed PVC window of his tidy home, conducting a survey of the bruised clouds and concluding that it might just snow; and if it did snow then someone would have to pay. At the very beginning of the year Dell had laid down two crisp twenty-pound notes on the bookie's Formica counter, just as he had done every year for the past ten. The odds changed slightly each year and this time he'd settled good odds at seven-to-one.
For a White Christmas to be official—that is, to force the bookmakers to pay—a flake of snow must be observed to fall between midnight on December 24 and midnight on December 25 at four designated sites. The sites are the cities of London, Glasgow, Cardiff, and Manchester. The snow is not required to lie deep nor crisp nor evenly upon the ground and it doesn't matter if it's mixed with rain. One solitary flake would do it, fallen and melted, observed and recorded.
Living in a place somewhere between all of those great cities, Dell had never collected in all those ten years, nor had he seen a single flake of Christmas Day snow hanging in the air of his hometown.
"Are you going to come and carve?" Mary called from the kitchen.
This year they were having goose. After decades of turkey dinners on Christmas Day they were having a change, because a change is as good as a rest, and sometimes you needed a rest even from Christmas. Nevertheless the table had been laid out, just as in previous years. Crisp linen and the best cutlery. Two heavy crystal wineglasses that, year round, were kept in a box and stowed at the back of a kitchen cupboard.
Dell always carved, and he carved well. It was an art. He'd carved well when the kids were small, and he carved well now that there was only Mary and himself to carve for. He rubbed his hands together in a friction of delight, passing through to a kitchen warm and steamy from simmering pans. The cooked goose rested under silver foil on a large serving plate. Dell pulled a blade from the knife block and angled it to the light at the window. "Gone a bit dark over yonder," he said. "Might snow."
Mary was draining vegetables through a sieve. "Might snow? You haven't put money on it, have you?"
"Hell, no." He whisked the foil cover off the goose and rotated the plate to get a better purchase with his knife. "Just a thought."
Mary tapped her sieve on the lip of the sink as Dell began to carve. "Hasn't snowed on Christmas Day in ten years. Plates warming in the oven. Bring them through?"
When Dell had finished carving, each plate boasted a plump goose leg and two neatly carved slices of breast. There were roasted potatoes and four types of vegetables, all steaming in serving dishes. The gravy boat was piping and there was stuffing and sausages wrapped in bacon, and cranberry sauce.
"I went in for an I-talian this year," Dell said, pouring Mary a glass of ruby-red wine and then one for himself. He pronounced the I in Italian the way you might pronounce eye-witness. "I-talian wine. Hope that goes well with the goose."
"I'm sure it will be lovely."
"Thought we'd have a change from the French. Though I could easily have had a South African. There was a South African on offer. At the supermarket."
"Let's see, shall we?" Mary said, offering her glass for the clinking. "Cheers!"
And it was the cheers moment, that gentle touching of the crystalware, that Dell hated the most.
Feared it and detested it. Because even though nothing was ever stated and even though the faultless food was served up with wide smiles and the clinking of glasses was conducted with genuine affection from both parties, there was always at this moment of ritual a fleck in his wife's eye. A tiny instant of catch-light, razor-sharp, and he knew he'd better talk over it pretty damn quick.
"What do you think of the I-talian?"
"Lovely. Beautiful. A good choice."
"Because there was also a bottle from Argentina. Special offer. And I nearly went for that."
"Argentina? Well, there's one we could try another time."
"But you like this?"
"Love it. Lovely. Come on, let's see what you make o' this goose."
Wine was one of the fixtures of Christmas dinner that had changed over the years. When the kids were small both he and Mary had been content with a glass of beer, maybe a schooner of lager. But beer had been displaced by wine on the table for Christmas Day. Serving dishes were a recent addition, too. Back in those days everything was heaped on the plates and brought to the table, a ready-assembled island of food floating in a sea of gravy. Cranberry sauce was exotic once. When the children were small.
"Well, what do you think of that goose?"
"Bloody beautiful. And cooked to perfection."
A tiny flush of pleasure appeared on Mary's cheek. After all these years of marriage, Dell could do this. Just the right words.
"You know what, Mary? All these Christmases we could have been having goose. Hey, look out of the window!"
Mary turned. Outside, a few tiny flakes of snow were billowing. It was Christmas Day and it was snowing; here, at least.
"You have had a bet, haven't you?" Mary said.
Dell was about to answer when they both heard a light tapping at the front door. Most people rang the electrical bell, but today someone was knocking.
Dell had his knife in the mustard pot. "Who the hell is that on Christmas Day?"
"No idea. What a time to call!"
"I'll get it."
Dell stood and put his napkin on his seat. Then he went down the hall. There was a figure outlined in the frosted glass of the inner door. Dell had to release a small chain and unlock the inner door before opening the porch door.
A young woman, perhaps in her early twenties, gazed back at him from behind dark glasses. Through the dark glass he could make out wide, unblinking eyes. She wore a Peruvian-style woolen hat with earflaps and tassels. The tassels made him think of bells.
"Hello, duckie," Dell said briskly, not unfriendly. It was Christmas Day after all.
The woman said nothing. She gazed back at him with a timid, almost fearful smile on her lips.
"Happy Christmas, love. What can I do for you?"
The woman shuffled from one foot to another, not removing her gaze. Her clothes were odd; she seemed to be some kind of hippie. She blinked behind her dark glasses and he thought she looked familiar. Then it occurred to him that she was maybe collecting for some charitable cause. He put his hand in his pocket.
At last she spoke. "Hello, Dad," she said.
Mary came bustling from behind, trying to peer around him. "Who is it?" she said.
The woman switched her gaze from Dell to Mary. Mary stared hard at her, seeing something familiar in the young woman behind the dark lenses. There came a slight gagging sound from Mary's throat; then Mary fainted clean away. Dell stumbled and only half caught her as she fell. Mary's unconscious body hit the stone tiles at the threshold with a thud and a sigh of wind.
On the other side of Charnwood Forest at a ramshackle cottage on the road to Quorn, Peter Martin was stacking the dishwasher. Christmas dinner had been trashed a couple of hours ago and he was still wearing an acid-red paper crown from a Christmas cracker but he'd forgotten it was there. His wife, Genevieve, had her bare feet up on the sofa, exhausted by the responsibility of coordinating the domestic crisis of Christmas in a house with a dreamy husband, four kids, two dogs, a mare in the paddock, a rabbit, and a guinea pig, plus sundry invading mice and rats that kept finding inventive routes into their kitchen. In many ways it was a house weathering a permanent state of siege.
Peter was a gentle, red-haired bear of a man. Standing at six-four in his socks, he moved everywhere with a slight and nautical sway, but even though he was broad across the chest there was something centered and reassuring about him, like an old ship's mast cut from a single timber. He felt bad that they'd had Christmas dinner without having his mother and father over. Dell and Mary had been invited, of course, but there had been a ridiculous dispute about what time dinner should be served. Genevieve wanted to sit down on the stroke of one so that they could all get their coats on in the afternoon and drive up to Bradgate Park or Beacon Hill for a healthy blast of wind. Mary and Dell liked to eat later, and at leisure, and certainly not before three; they'd done all the walking and blasting they cared for. There wasn't actually a row. What followed was more of an impasse and a sulk, followed by a default decision no party was happy with, that this year they would sit down to separate dinners.
Peter and Genevieve anyway had a daughter who was fifteen, a boy thirteen, and two more girls of seven and five. Whenever they went over to Mary and Dell's they garrisoned the place, moving in like a brutal occupying army. It was always easier and more relaxed to stay put in the cottage, and this year that's what they did.
Meanwhile Peter had bought thirteen-year-old Jack an air rifle for Christmas, and Jack was sitting in the yard hoping for mice or rats to turn up. He lounged on an old exploded sofa his dad hadn't gotten around to taking to the dump. Like a grizzled old-timer from a shotgun cabin he held the butt of the gun on his thigh and pointing skyward.
Peter put his head outside the back kitchen door. "Don't wave that fucking thing around. If you catch anyone I'll rip your head off for sure," Peter said.
"Don't worry, Dad, I'm not gonna shoot my fuckin' sisters."
"And don't swear. Right?"
"And don't wave it around."
Peter went back inside to stack the dishwasher. He went through to the trashed dining room and was dithering what to do with the carcass of the turkey when the phone rang. It was Dell.
"All right, Dad? I was just going to call you. When I get the kids lined up to say happy Christmas and all that."
"Never mind that, Pete. You'd better get over here."
"What? I've had a few drinks. We're about to go for a walk."
"Come over anyway. Your sister's here."
"You heard me. I said your sister's here."
Peter felt dizzy. The room swam. "Dad, what are you saying?"
"She just showed up."
"She can't have."
"Come over, Pete. Your mother's had a bad turn."
"Dad, what the hell is going on?"
"Please come over, son. Please come over."
There was a note in his father's voice he'd never heard before. Dell was clearly very close to tears. "Can you just tell me what's happened?"
"I can't tell you anything because I don't know anything. Your mother fainted. She fell badly."
"Okay. I'm coming."
What People are saying about this
"Here is a keenly observed tale of a family in crisis, one that mixes fantasy and psychiatry in a potent cocktail."
Stephen King: The Best Books I Read in 2012, Entertainment Weekly
"Joyce's ravishing novel is about disruption and grief, about the risks of being charmed or stolen away from what we love. Though he draws faithfully on English folklore, Joyce has clearly gone beyond book-learning and made the "crossing at twilight" to the fairy kingdom himself. His writing is enthralling, agile and effortless."
New York Times
"Graham Joyce's new novel Some Kind of Fairy Tale is one of the most impressive fantasy books we've read in ages…. Graham Joyce has obviously steeped himself in fairy-tale lore, and his attention to detail (and to the significance of those details) is pretty astonishing. But what really makes Some Kind of Fairy Tale stand head and shoulders above most other fantasy novels I've read lately is the strong focus on the characters. Joyce's slow, careful narrative style draws you in to a story that's as much a family drama as it is a magical adventure…. Joyce takes a steady, masterful approach that explores one simple story from every angle, holding it up to the light until we see the hidden images revealed by each separate facet. Joyce has written a brilliant book that will make you think about the meaning of fairytales in a new way."
"Ultimately, it isn't Joyce's clever self-awareness that pushes Fairy Tale into the stratosphere. It's the way he weaves these twisty ideas into a straightforward, achingly resonant story of a broken man who's found his long-lost sister. His prose and dialogue, even more than usual, are carved with balance, clarity, and subtlety. As a writer, Joyce is often praised as "unsentimental." That couldn't be further from the truth. Sentiment underscores everything in Fairy Tale, from Tara's struggle to establish her sanity to the heartsick people who loved who she was—and are trying to love what she's become. That sentiment, though, is rarely precious, and it never comes cheap. As its title trumpets, Some Kind Of Fairy Tale meditates on the nature of what it means to tell stories. But wisely and hauntingly, it does so through a spellbinding story of its own." (grade A)
A.V. Club
"Joyce's fiction is an unusual—and unusually satisfying—hybrid. He's interested in all the things that preoccupy literary novelists: finely drawn characters, the beauty and sadness of life's inevitable transitions, families in all their ambiguous and endlessly fascinating complexity. His prose is precise and unsentimental. Yet into the fabric of these relationships he weaves elements of folklore and myth, which he presents both as real and as manifestations of primal aspects of the human experience."
"Haunting, brilliant…Few writers today can match Joyce in evoking the beauty of that delicate balance, in conveying the fantasy of ordinary life or the ordinariness of the fantastic. People, pay attention."
Gary K. Wolfe, Locus
"Dark and haunting."
The Free Lance–Star
"Absorbing…Keep an open mind."
"Fans of novels featuring dark, haunted woods, overgrown English moors and changelings hidden in the dense brush will be absolutely delighted by the hypnotizing mystery of Graham Joyce's Some Kind of Fairy Tale. Joyce opens with the promising setup of a returned, thought-for-dead protagonist, blending reality with imagination as he explores what really happened to Tara Martin."
"Reading [Some Kind of Fairy Tale] by Graham Joyce is a little like stepping into an enormous, brilliantly camouflaged mantrap. At first, you don't even realize what's happened. Then, slowly, you discover that he has drawn you into a strange, dreamlike place, and you can't leave, even if doing so simply means closing the book. Not that you'd want to. Joyce's books are as seductive as anything you'll find in contemporary fiction."
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"In sum, Some Kind of Fairy Tale is fantastically formed, complete with a gently portentous premise, a marvellous cast of characters, and a narrative as smart and self-reflexive as it is at first old-fashioned. Enigmatic and intellectual, yes, yet readily accessible and massively satisfying, Joyce's latest is a joy."
"Reality and fairy tale are beautifully interwoven in this contemplative story about relationships, love, and dreams. In a unique blend of thriller and fantasy, Joyce creates a delightful page-turner that his fans and newcomers alike will find hard to put down."
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At one time or another, we have all heard or read many different children's fairy tales. Many versions of Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, amongst others, probably could be found around most parent's houses. Now, for some creative reason, Graham Joyce has decided to write a fairy tale for adults. My bet is, it too will become a treasured story for adults who enjoy great writing and a story yet untold! A beautiful, popular teenage girl, Tara, goes missing one day , just to turn up twenty years later without aging at all. Her rambling brother has settled down to the adult life of wife, children and work. Her parents have become gray headed oldsters. Her boyfriend has barely survived harassment for 'murdering her and refusing to tell anyone where her body was burried'. ----but no body , no conviction. Yet his life and friends have changed drastically. Where was Tara? How did she stay young? Will she tell the truth, is she perhaps an imposter, or is she just plain mentally disturbed? And as in most many fairy tales, will love win in the end? So starts the beginning of this very adult, and very fascinating and fanciful 'fairy tale' that all adult readers will be talking about if they have any curiosity or imagination at all. First book I've read by this author, but it won't be the last !
Beautifully written and keeps your interest until the very end.
I agree with the first reviewer..I look forward to reading all his books. I read this one in a day..
SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE blends an adult fairy tale, a fantasy of another world, and the reality of some type of neurosis. It is an unexpected fantastic story, diverse from the unusual fantasy literature. Based on old English folk tales, we cross at twilight into this unusual fairy kingdom. But at the heart of this fairy tale is the heartbreaking family crisis, where these family members' lives are permanently altered by the disappearance of their loved one. How do we explain someone going missing for 20 years and returning without aging? Was it real, some form of psychosis, or was it just some kind of fairy tale?
This book was very different for me. I wasn't expecting the story to go how it did at all but I greatly enjoyed it!
I wanted to like this story, and for a little while I did, but it didn't last. The story was slow, I kept wanting something to happen. I kept trying to grasp what was going on for most of the story. There were almost no happy parts; I don't really enjoy books with no happy parts. Some Kind Of Fairy Tale has lots of graphically described sex scenes, especially when Tara talks about Fairy. They added pretty much nothing to the story. I would not recommend this story. Even if you like Fairy Tales or books about Fairies, this just wasn't all that good. I would not have wasted my time reading this book had I known what would happen in it and how it would end. I received this book as an ARC. I do not get paid to review books; I do so in order to assist you in recognizing books that you might enjoy. Please read more of my reviews on my blog: sarahereads(dot)wordpress(dot)com
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A this-n-that kind of day with news about Bobby Valentine, Dex Kjerstad, Johnny Manziel, Bulls scholarships and Jackie Raper of Moore, Okla.
Remember Bobby Valentine?
Of course you do.
Valentine is the former Texas Rangers manager who had a rough go last year managing the Boston Red Sox and was fired. Well, you have a chance to hear him talk and maybe even ask him a question.
Valentine has signed a contract to be in Pampa on July 18 as the keynote speaker for the banquet of the 2013 Cal Ripken Regional Baseball Tournament for players ages 9-10.
Valentine will speak at M.K. Brown Auditorium in Pampa to players from 10 teams from Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
This Ripken Regional will play out July 18-24. The winning team advances to the World Series in Ocala, Fla.
The banquet is open to the public, and cost is $20.
Although Valentine obviously needs to learn how to manage players these days if he wants back in the major leagues, he is a man blessed with the gift of gab and loaded with baseball stories from his big-league playing days to managing in Japan and the MLB.
If you are a baseball fan, this evening would be worth your time, and the money goes to a good cause of helping youth baseball.
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Before we let the 2012-13 Amarillo Bulls NAHL championship season vanish — after all, practice for the new season starts in 10 weeks — it must be said what this program accomplishes for the future of these young men is simply amazing.
Sixteen Bulls players received NCAA scholarships to further their education and play the game they love at the college level.
That's a hefty number.
This means the Bulls coaching staff of head coach Dennis Williams and assistant coaches Rocky Russo and Harry Mahood keeps doing things right on and off the ice for their players.
Dave Campbell's 2013 Texas Football is now on sale in stores around Amarillo.
The annual bible of preseason Texas high school and college football is always a must-read for football fans.
The story on new Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury is pretty much a rehash of old news. But it is a good reminder of how much his mom, Sally, who died in 2005, influenced his life. You will get your $10.95 worth.
Texas A&M fans will be pleased to see their quarterback Johnny Manziel on the cover and a "pull-out" poster of him.
An interesting local note is two of the top 30 high school quarterbacks ranked are Canadian's Ben Arbuckle and Bushland's Taylor Cornelius.
Set your phone, or make your calendar, or get ready to make a road trip Sept. 27.
That's when Bushland travels to Canadian in what could be quite an entertaining Arbuckle-Cornelius air show.
One more thing on returning Heisman winner Manziel: I read where he takes most classes online because of all the attention he causes while going to and attending classes in College Station.
Puh-leese. He's not the first famous college football player and won't be the last. I say just attend class and enjoy the college experience.
Former Randall High School baseball star and AGN Media Super Team baseball player of the year Dex Kjerstad had a terrific junior season at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.
Kjerstad, who originally signed with Texas, helped the Ragin' Cajuns qualify for the NCAA playoffs by hitting .388 with 12 homers, 44 RBIs and 63 runs scored. He had 99 hits.
Kjerstad earned Sun Belt Conference first team all-conference, all-tournament team Sun Belt and was named to the first team 2013 ABCA South Central Region.
Kjerstad was one of the best high school hitters I've seen swing a bat, and he has one more season remaining with the Ragin' Cajuns.
I received an update from former Amarillo ISD basketball Roger Raper on his mother, Jackie.
Jackie's house was lost in the Moore, Okla., tornado, and she suffered injuries that sent her to the hospital.
I threw out the first pitch at a recent Amarillo Sox game, and Amarillo came up with $1,770 to help out Jackie.
Jackie was supposed to be leaving an Oklahoma hospital by today after surgery on her left shoulder and elbow.
"I can't tell how thankful we are for Amarillo's efforts," Roger said. "My mom has a long road of recovery, but everyone's help and prayers have been up lifting."
Lance Lahnert is AGN Media sports editor. He can be reached at 806-345-3312 or email@example.com.


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Michael Sigman: Karl Rove led a parade of "experts" masquerading as fair-minded analysts whose real agenda was to line their own pockets by feeding the public's craving for information that confirms their biases.
Job Creator Mythology
Charles Hayes: Employers are more like crop harvesters than job creators. Harvesters don't work unless something needs reaping, likewise most companies don't hire unless there is money to be made
Hey Gov. Brown, Can You Hear Us Now?
James Clark: Jerry Brown said "it's all on the table." If that's true, why is he prioritizing death row over real help—like counseling—for victims' families?
Main Effect of the WikiLeaks Documents Is Political
Ivan Eland: So the only thing the WikiLeaks documents reveal is how persistent the post-9/11 war and nation-building fever continues to be among the foreign policy elite—even in the face of the dismal results on the ground for almost a decade and a majority opinion in America that the war is not worth fighting.
It's Plain Whose Country the Government-Haters "Want Back"
Berry Craig: It makes most Republicans and Tea Baggers hopping mad when somebody suggests that outright racism, or pandering to racism, underlies most of their anti-government rhetoric. But there is no denying the GOP is what the Democrats used to be — mostly the white folks' party.
Boehner, Cantor, and Mitch!
Berry Craig: I'm glad to see Obama starting to show some spunk. His recent performance at the televised Q&A with the House GOP brass was a great start. It got rave reviews at our central labor council. "He looked those Republicans right in the eye and kicked their butts," said one delegate, a retired Machinist. "But he needs to do more than that."
Obama Versus Osama
Fearing a new, more formidable opponent than the often buffoonish and macho cowboy George W. Bush, the two leaders of al Qaeda have tag teamed Barack Obama with twin audiotapes condemning him. Unlike Bush—who made little effort to understand the Islamic world and whom al Qaeda could easily bait into reckless acts that raised its […]
America's Christian Soldiers Fight for Jesus in Afghanistan
Why does the military attract so many religious nuts, total loonies who think their real mission is to convert Moslems – and everyone else – to Jesus? Born-again officers at the Air Force Academy were so busy proselytizing to Jews, Catholics, agnostics and atheists, they didn't have time to worry about minor irritants like numerous […]
Sarah "Six-Pack" — This Presidential Campaign's Culture War
When Sarah Palin signaled to the "Bubba" vote that she was part of the "Joe six-pack" crowd – meaning she was just an average American seeking to represent the nation on the highest ticket in the land – during her debate with Joe Biden last week, it became obvious that this presidential campaign would no […]
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Erich Segal, the author of "Love Story," once put the phrase "Love means never having to say you're sorry" into the official collection of favorite American catch-phrases. Up until very recently, we've had to suffer under a latter-day perversion of that: "The 'War on Terror' means never having to say you're sorry." Now, however, comes […]


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Latest solar project will also be a classroom
Construction has started on the largest solar project in the state, in a project led by Milwaukee Area Technical College and Johnson Controls Inc.
The Photovoltaic Educational Farm will be developed on a former landfill along the Milwaukee River, under the television tower for MPTV, Milwaukee Public Television.
The $6.9 million project will feature nearly 2,600 solar panels from four manufacturers, in eight different configurations. It's scheduled to be completed in August.
The project seeks to showcase a variety of renewable energy technologies, as well as provide training in solar field to students at MATC as well as Milwaukee's three engineering schools, said Brad Bateman, Johnson Controls vice president.
Johnson Controls has branched beyond heating and ventilation systems and building control systems in its Milwaukee-based building efficiency business and now provides renewable energy systems to business and government customers.
The 32-acre urban solar farm, Bateman said, "will be the largest solar farm in Wisconsin and the first portable photovoltaic system in the country that capitalizes on the benefits of clean, renewable energy."
"We're very excited to launch this program in our own back yard," he said.
Big savings for MPTV
The project is expected to generate enough power to make the transmitter for MPTV the first of any public television station in the country to be powered with renewable energy. MPTV expects energy savings of at least $70,000 in its first year of operation.
The project will employ 150 people, Sargent said.
Johnson Controls Inc. is the technical college's partner and general contractor on the project, which includes 14 other firms - 13 of them from Wisconsin.
The project represents another step by the college toward fulfilling its carbon-reduction commitment as well as expand its training efforts to prepare students for careers in green jobs, said MATC president Michael Burke.
"Businesses are going to follow what we are doing here today. We are advancing our commitment to sustainability and to technology and to training people for a new economy," Burke said.
At the 2010 Green Energy Summit last month in Milwaukee, Burke signed the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment. The commitment, also signed by presidents of 16 other Wisconsin colleges and technical colleges, pledges each college to reduce the carbon footprint of its campus. More than 680 colleges across the country have signed the pledge.
The project would generate more than 510 kilowatts of electricity, which is roughly equivalent to the power output from a small wind turbine.
The largest solar project built so far in Wisconsin is at Johnson Controls' corporate headquarters campus in Glendale.
College connection
For Johnson Controls, it's important to collaborate with colleges because it sees increasing demand for people with skills in renewable energy technology, Bateman said.
Once built, the farm will provide training opportunities for not only solar installers but also system designers and those looking to research the relative strengths of a variety of different solar panel technologies and configurations.
Helios USA, which is planning to open a solar panel manufacturing facility in Milwaukee's Menomonee River Valley, will be among the vendors supplying panels to the project, Sargent said.
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Pumpkin Raisin Muffins
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A couple of years ago, I decided to search out the perfect pumpkin muffin. I Googled & got hundreds of hits. I printed out the ones that looked like winners & tried a few. When I got to this one, my search ended. These muffins are very rich & obviously not diet food! But they are one of my favorites & I hope you will enjoy them too. The original recipe called for walnuts & fewer raisins, but I adapted them to my tastes. I recently made this recipe using about 2/3s of the sugar & substituting fresh chopped cranberries for the raisins. It was really good that way too.
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- 3 cups sugar
- 1 cup oil
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups canned pumpkin
- 3 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 3 1⁄2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 2⁄3 cup water
- 1 cup raisins
- Mix oil& sugar.
- Add eggs& pumpkin.
- Sift all dry ingredients& add alternately with water to pumpkin, mixing well.
- Stir in raisins.
- Pour into greased muffin tins& bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
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Great muffin recipe. Added raisins to half and pecans to the other half. Didn't use pumpkin pie spice due to allergy but cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg instead. Delicious! Love the texture.
WOW! I halved the recipe, and halved the sugar (so instead of 1.5 cups I used 3/4 cup, and half white half brown) I used mostly WW pastry flour, with .25 cup AP flour, added vanilla, and used soymilk instead of water. I also added chocolate chips to half of them, ommitting the raisins completely. They were PLENTY sweet! I was surprised the recipe called for 3 cups sugar. My usual recipe uses .5cup sugar for 2cups flour, so if you want to, or are worried about calories, halve the sugar and you won't miss a thing!!! The whole wheat flour makes the muffins sit lighter in the stomach, and I feel better about eating them. Try them!! Amazing!
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Recommendations for Enterprise Service SLA Guidance in the DoD
A fundamental concept of the Department of Defense's (DoD's) vision for a net-centric environment includes the establishment of shared services to support the development and operation of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - based capabilities. In this environment, data producers and capability providers supply data and capabilities to the enterprise through a service paradigm. This vision embraces a common infrastructure, interoperability of capabilities, services that represent reusable building blocks, and coordinated management providing Situational Awareness (SA) of the environment.
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Governor Cuomo Announces First Solar Schools Project At The New York Institute For Special Education In The Bronx
Governor Cuomo's K-Solar Program Increases Use of Renewable Energy in Schools (New York, NY) Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the New York Institute for Special Education in the Bronx will be the site of the state's first solar schools project and will have solar panel arrays installed thanks to a power purchase agreement with SolarCity. This public-private partnership..


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Featured Golf News
Course & Clubhouse at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge Receive Major Upgrade
TPC Snoqualmie Ridge has completed a $3 million renovation, enhancing the property's dining and event spaces to match its golfing facilities. Just in time to host the Champions Tour's 10th annual Boeing Classic August 18-24, the new space offers members and guests the opportunity to sit, sip and celebrate while enjoying views of the Snoqualmie Valley.
The renovation involved new dining spaces at the grill, bar, wine room and outdoor deck overlooking the course, as well as new interiors with reclaimed wood floors, hand-blown glass accents, and more.
Thiel & Thiel, a Dallas-based firm, handled the project. The designers took inspiration from the surrounding landscape, incorporating natural materials such as stone, hardwoods, and leather into the interior to create a space that feels elegant and comfortable.
The Jack Nicklaus Signature course also received updates as part of the renovation, including the installation of 6,000 linear feet of drainage in landing zones, view-line restoration, and the acquisition of a deep-tine machine to enhance fairway surface drainage.
Additionally, TPC Snoqualmie Ridge recently hired Ben Wood, a former professional golfer and experienced club leader, as its new general manager.
"I'm really excited to launch into my role with this new canvas provided by our ownership group - Dallas-based Arcis Equity Partners - to create a member experience consistent with the quality of these renovations and our top-rated golf course," said Wood. "In my years in the industry I've never seen a commitment to quality with this type of investment in a club in the first year of ownership."
The completion of the renovation is just one of a number of developments for TPC Snoqualmie Ridge, which recently joined the neighboring Salish Lodge & Spa in the portfolio.
The Boeing Classic will debut the renovations. "We are proud that the Boeing Classic has called TPC Snoqualmie Ridge our home for the last 10 years and look forward to returning to a new and improved facility for our 10th anniversary," said Michelle DeLancy, Boeing Classic tournament director.
"Our pros, sponsors, vendors, and volunteers repeatedly comment on the beauty of the course, its natural amphitheater filled with a gallery of cheering spectators, and scenic Pacific Northwest backdrop as a highlight on the Champions Tour. It's clear why the Tour awarded our event 'Best View from the Clubhouse.' "
TPC Snoqualmie Ridge has a variety of club memberships available, including sport, social, premier golf, and junior executive options.
For additional information about TPC Snoqualmie Ridge, visit www.tpcsr.com. For more about the Boeing Classic and ticket options, visit www.boeingclassic.com.
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July 25, 2012 - News
BY Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, LBJ School Adjunct Professor
The political implications of the Supreme Court's SB 1070 ruling are a wash as far as the November election is concerned. On the one hand, the President can point to three out of the four provisions being blocked. On the other hand, Romney and the GOP can point to the heart of SB 1070, the "show me your papers" clause, standing intact.
July 25, 2012 - News
BY David Warner, Wilbur J. Cohen Professor in Health and Social Policy
The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act means that changes already implemented will remain and projected changes in availability of insurance, penalties for those who do not obtain coverage, changes in taxes and fees and optional expansion of state Medicaid programs will all proceed as legislated in 2010.
July 25, 2012 - News
BY Michele Deitch, LBJ School Senior Lecturer
The Supreme Court's welcome decision in Miller v. Alabama, the case dealing with juvenile life without parole, was no surprise to anyone who has been following the Court's jurisprudence in recent years. Miller is the latest in a line of cases that have ruled, essentially, that children are different from adults and that the criminal justice system must take account of these differences.
July 23, 2012 - News
Sherri Greenberg, Director of the Center for Politics and Governance and a former Texas state representative, shares her thoughts on what voters can expect from the Texas primary election run-offs.
July 23, 2012 - News
The Climate Change and African Political Stability program has offered 82 students over three years the opportunity for field research in Africa, focusing on the role climate change may play in political stability in African countries. Three students share their experiences with the program.
July 16, 2012 - Event
Event Date: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 5:30pm - 7:30pm
A networking event for LBJ School alumni and students in Washington, D.C.
July 9, 2012 - News
In June 2012, Bobby R. Inman, Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.) and Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy, delivered a speech at a colloquium on Chinese-U.S. Relations at an event sponsored by the China Energy Fund Committee in Hong Kong.
July 2, 2012 - News
For more than a year, LBJ School Lecturer Sherri Greenberg and 17 of her students researched exactly how and why members of Congress use social media and examined its policy implications and best practices.
To their surprise, they found that the elected officials use social media most often to stake out their positions on issues and not necessarily to campaign or tout their media appearances. Their research, funded by the Library of Congress, will be shared with members of Congress as they try to use new media as effectively as possible.
June 28, 2012 - News
BY: Sherri Greenberg, Director of the LBJ School's Center for Politics and Governance
In the Olympic trial that was the June 28 Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act, health care reform won this heat. Just as sports enthusiasts have been waiting with eager anticipation for the 2012 Summer Olympics, many Americans have been waiting for this Supreme Court ruling. Crowds assembled in Washington and across the nation, as the Supreme Court ruled in a momentous 5-4 decision that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional.
June 27, 2012 - News
In a project designed to expose students to real-world policymaking, LBJ School students produced sample briefings for the next presidential transition. The project was part of a course on strategy and decision-making in global policy, which showcased the blending of scholarly study and policy relevant exercises that are the hallmark of education at the LBJ School.
June 22, 2012 - Event
Event Date: Monday, June 11, 2012 - 7:00pm
Hot Talk, the Summer in the City Speaker Series, begins with the first program on Wednesday, June 27 at 7 PM. Each event in the three-part series features a moderator and multiple speakers representing the diverse points of view on the issue at hand. The series is sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), the Austin American-Statesman, and the Center for Politics and Governance at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
June 20, 2012 - News
We know an industry is in crisis when its top institutions cannot establish stable leadership. That is the case with some of our nation's best public universities today.
When the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia pressured President Teresa Sullivan to resign on June 10, she became the fourth leader of a flagship public university to leave office under a cloud of controversy recently.
The other casualties included the highly respected leaders of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Illinois and the University of Oregon. The president of the University of California at Berkeley has also announced that he will step down in December. Leaders of public universities in other states face equally strong pressures to go. The men and women in these jobs seem to have a target on their backs.
This can't go on.
June 13, 2012 - News
Young social innovators convened in Austin during the past several days as part of the Dell Social Innovation Challenge (DSIC), the flagship social entrepreneurship initiative of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. At last night's awards ceremony held at ACL Live at the Moody Theater in downtown Austin, Essmart Global was announced as the winner of the $50,000 grand prize. Essmart Global was selected from five teams for the prize, which recognizes undergraduate and graduate students who envision, create and implement social innovation projects that help communities around the world.
June 12, 2012 - News
The 2012 edition of the Thinkers and Doers Summer Internship Blog has launched with 12 student bloggers focusing on policy issues for a variety of governmental, non-governmental and non-profit organizations around the world. From domestic criminal justice policy issues in Texas, to issues of poverty and outreach in Guatemala, these student interns will share their on-going stories as they develop the skills to become change agents in the world of public affairs. We invite you to meet our bloggers and learn about their various policy interests and then follow along as they describe their fieldwork.
June 11, 2012 - News
The recent international Public Management Research Conference held at Fudan University in Shanghai brought together over 150 scholars from 22 countries to discuss global issues of governance, fiscal policy and social policy.
According to LBJ School Professor Carolyn Heinrich, one of the conference organizers, hosting the event in China was an important step to including a growing population of Chinese academics in international public affairs discourse.
June 7, 2012 - News
Professor Jacqui Angel's article on women and health coverage was awarded the Charles E. Gibbs Leadership Prize for the best paper published in Women's Health Issues in 2011.
In her article titled "A Window of Vulnerability: Health Insurance Coverage Among Women 55 to 64 Years of Age", Angel focuses on one particularly vulnerable group of women, those who find themselves without adequate health insurance coverage when their older husbands retire.
June 1, 2012 - News
LBJ School Assistant Professor of Public Affairs Varun Rai led a team of students from The University of Texas at Austin to the finale of the national Startup America Policy Challenge on May 21.
May 31, 2012 - News
On May 7, LBJ School Professor Peter M. Ward delivered a keynote address at an international United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UNHABITAT) conference in Kuwait.
May 24, 2012 - News
In a day of celebration, family and friends were invited to watch a new generation of game changers and policymakers receive their graduate degrees at the 2012 LBJ School Commencement ceremony.
May 18, 2012 - News
LBJ Student Receives $24,000 Boren Fellowship to Study Japanese and Energy Development at Hiroshima University
LBJ School student Savin Ven Johnson is the recipient of a prestigious $24,000 Boren Fellowship, which will support Savin in her study of Japanese and a master's degree in Environment and Resource Economics.


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In one of my previous articles I talk about the Running Game in Madden NFL 25 and how it's not just the RBs you'll have to worry about. In this Madden NFL 25 'Quick Hits' article we take a look at the Top 5 QBs in the game that not only get it done through the air but will cause some problems if you let them 'Run Free' in the open field. On this list you won't see V. Young and his 85 SPM, Dennis Dixon and his 90 JKM, or Tim Tebow and his 86 TRK. For the purpose of this article we are using the last roster update for Madden NFL 13...
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We had a boys baseball team stay with us this past month. There was a lot of activity in the hotel with all the boys around and about! Upon their departure they left this us a note. Here is snippet of what it said:
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Thank you for staying at the Holiday Inn Express and Suites Marshall, TX! We had so much fun while they were here!


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General News of 2014-01-11
32 Children 'suffer' in Gambaga Witches Camp
About 32 children and young adults between the ages of one and 25 are suffering deprivation at the Gambaga Witches Camp, where their mothers and/or grandmothers are seeking refuge for allegedly being witches.
While some of the children followed their female guardians there after they were accused of being witches and banished from their respective communities, others were accused alongside their mothers and/or grandmothers and were, therefore, forced to also seek refuge in the camp.
All the children attend school.
The Gambaga Witches Camp is one of six such facilities in the Northern Region that currently serve as a refuge for people who have been accused of witchcraft and subsequently banished from their communities.
About 76 of the women, who are mostly aged, are currently at the facility. It is made up of clustered circular huts of various sizes, thatched with woven straw.
Although there are street lights within the area, the huts do not have lights. Drinking water is within a walking distance.
The Co-ordinator of the Presbyterian Church's Go-Home Project, Mr Samson Laar, told the Daily Graphic that two out of the 32 children at the camp had completed senior high school (SHS) while six were still in SHS. The remaining, he said, were in basic school.
Mr Laar added that the Go-Home Project, which was initiated by the Presbyterian Church in 1994 to help reintegrate the alleged witches into their communities, as well as cater for their welfare, had been helping with the educational expenses of the children.
That help, he says, augments the meagre earnings of their guardians, mostly from menial jobs such as firewood fetching, working for residents of the Gambaga town and the chief for cash and/or kind, among others.
Dampened spirits
When the Daily Graphic visited the facility to observe how Christmas was celebrated there, scores of the children were seen playing around the camp, which is a few steps from the Gambaga Market.
Except for a donation from the First Lady, Lordina Mahama, through the East Mamprusi District Assembly in which the camp is located, the happiness that Christmas normally bring to children, was absent at the camp.
The children shared in the donation to their guardians. They enjoyed a bottle each of soft drinks.
It was realised that all the dependents slept with their guardians in the round huts, which are almost the size of two large-size Polytank containers put together.
Twenty-two-year-old Mable (not her real name), who had completed SHS, told this paper that she and her three other siblings came to the camp after their mother was accused of being a witch and chased out of their home.
The mother pointed to a scar on her neck as a mark she suffered from her attackers in the course of the allegation.
Another victim, 20-year-old Hafisha (not her real name), was alleged to have benefited from her mother's witchcraft hence her exceptional brilliance in school.
She and her mother were banished from their community two years ago after Hafisha's accuser, who is her neighbour and mate in junior high school (JHS), alleged that Hafisha's mother had removed the accuser's brain for her daughter; hence, Hafisha's exceptional intelligence in school.
Hafisha scored aggregate 31 when she wrote the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and is currently in SHS.
She did not accept she was exceptionally brilliant, during a chat with her, Hafisha believes her mother was innocent of the allegation.
"The one who said my mother removed his brain and added it to mine went to Kumasi, stayed for sometime and returned to say those things," she said.
Like Mabel, Hafisha says she dreads showing her friends and schoolmates where she lives.
"If they know, it won't be good for me, they will laugh at me," she said with tear-filled eyes.
Ambitious dreams
Although dozens of the children dislike their current places of residence, they have not allowed it to entirely hold back their happiness and ambitions.
As is the case with most children, many of them were seen loitering around cheerfully, with their parents and/or helping with house chores.
Some of those the paper spoke with said they would pursue their education with seriousness in the hope that they would one day become people of prominence to help give normal lifestyles to their mothers and grandmothers.
Ten-year-old Haruna, who is in Primary Six, said he wanted to be a doctor to help give medical care to his ailing mother.
"She falls sick always and I want to be able to give her injection," he said.
Hafisha, the high school girl, also said her ambition was to become a nurse while Mabel, who recently completed SHS, wants to continue with her education.
The ambitions of the children notwithstanding, the Daily Graphic realised that they risked growing up into timid adults because of their circumstances.
Their ability to pursue further education is also in doubt, particularly so, as their guardians—the accused witches— eke out a living from doing menial jobs.
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Some friendly noise was being dished out before the start of the North-South boys game in the Texas Golden Spread All-Star High School Tournament.
The North's Kenneth Brown and Cornelius Jones - Palo Duro teammates during the regular season - let the South's Philip Wilson hear it.
"They were talking some trash," said Wilson, a Palo Duro teammate of Brown and Jones, but playing on the opposite side of his buddies in this all-star game. "They said they'd beat us by 30."
It never happened.
The South, thanks to a 15-0 run to open the second half, held off a late rally by the North to take a 100-95 victory Friday night in an up-and-down boys semifinals advancing into tonight's championship game in the Cal Farley Coliseum.
The South will meet the West at 8 p.m. in the championship game. The West defeated the East 89-80 Thursday.
The East and North meet in the 3 p.m. boys consolation game.
The North and South meeting Friday night was not shy of shooting - the teams combined to take 172 field goal attempts and 71 free throws - and looked headed for a buzzer beater after a evenly-played first half which saw the North ahead behind a combined 28 points out PD's Brown and Jones.
But with Hale Center guard Gene Ford running the show, and Wilson and Caprock's Laroy Hardy adding scoring punch, the South produced a 15-0 run the opening minutes of the second half to build a 63-49 lead.
"We are out there just having a lot fun and getting up and down the floor," said Caprock's Hardy, who scored 10 of his 17 points in the second half. "We just let it go in the second half."
The South almost let go of that lead.
The North, behind the play of Jones and Tascosa's Marlon Brown, mounted a comeback late in the second half. After Jones scored on a steal and a drive in the lane, Dumas' Esgar Garcia hit a free throw and the North was within one at 84-83 with 3:01 to play.
But the North's John Mark Moudy of Happy made a big play by putting back a miss of a free throw, then Farwell's Ryan Roberts buried a 3-pointer to fend off the South rally and give the North a cushion at 92-86 with two minutes to play.
"This is nerve-wracking," said North coach Ricky Collingsworth, a basketball official during the winter. "I'm glad I'm a ref. I'm not a coach so I told our guys if the shot clock gets down to 10, we have held the ball too long. This game is for these guys to run and show their talents."
The South placed six players in double figures led by Hardy's 17 points and 11 rebounds, along with Moudy's 12 points and 11 boards.
Other South players in double figures were Floydada's Darryl Henderson with 15, Ford with 12 points, nine rebounds and five steals, PD's Wilson added 11, while Happy's Pat McCuaig chipped in 10.
The North was led by the city of Amarillo's contingent of Jones (27 points), Kenneth Brown (22 points) and Tascosa guard Marlon Brown (16 points).
But this was the South's night.
"Kenneth and Corn were talking, `We're going to whup you,' before the game," said Caprock's Hardy. "We're glad for Philip. I'm sure he's happy."
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Garbed in black judicial robes, Randall County Court at Law Judge James Anderson and 181st District Judge Sam Kiser made a formal pair at Anderson's swearing-in ceremony Thursday morning.
Kiser administered the oath to Anderson, who succeeds Judge John Jay Thorpe. Thorpe died in a mountain-climbing accident in August.
Anderson, a former Amarillo municipal court judge, said his second judicial swearing-in ceremony was a more pleasant experience.
"The first time was one week after I'd had my tonsils taken out," he said. "I had to croak through the oath of office."
This time Anderson didn't miss a beat as he swore in front of a packed district courtroom to preserve, protect and defend the state and national constitutions.
"This is an exciting day for me and my family," Anderson said. "I'm looking forward to taking the bench."
Anderson said he would begin hearing cases today.
Kiser told the people gathered in the courtroom that those who've known "over the years will probably agree with me that James is a good man."
"It's nice to have a good man on the bench," Kiser said. "We had one, and we will continue to do so."
County commissioners appointed Anderson to the elected position last week. Anderson is a former assistant 47th District attorney and served as an Amarillo municipal court judge.
Anderson, 41, lives in Amarillo with his wife and 10 children. The family sat in the jury box for the ceremony.
Eve Anderson, Anderson's 16-year-old daughter, said she likes her father's new position. But it won't affect their relationship, she said.
"He's still my dad," she said. "Whether he wears a robe or a suit, he's still my dad. He's someone I can look up to whenever I need anything."
Sam Anderson, 15, said he remembers sitting in the back of the municipal courtroom watching his father interpret the law.
"It was fun back then, and I hope to get to go with him now," Sam Anderson said.
Former Potter County Court at Law No. 2 Judge Richard Dambold heard cases in the Randall County court for the past few weeks. Dambold and Anderson will hear cases during Anderson's first week in office.
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