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A road trip through lost cities and desert highways, cliff-faces and the lowest point on earth – you can zip through Jordan in a few hours, but you'll want to linger.
This March, flamenco artists will collaborate with Rajasthan's gypsies, the result of which we hope will be a delicious fusion of culture, music and dance.
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On the menu will be paan & chocolate chip cookies; black sesame & jasmine shortbread with cinnamon tea sugar; caramel & cashew nut cake; cardamom eclairs.
64 beds are spread over two floors, eight bunk beds to eight dorms, two dorms out of which are reserved for women. Each bed is equipped with a bulb, charging point, and lockers.
There's a lot to do - biking with gators, kayaking under the moon – that doesn't involve drunk freshmen. But thanks to the untimely rain, you'll still end up with a wet t-shirt.
Havelis turn into hotels, tents make a pitch to brats and Delhi's escargot inches its way to Goa.
The shop's pride & joy is the Australian didgeridoo, unavailable anywhere else in the city. Played like a drone pipe, it can knock the wind out of you.
Sonam Kapoor & Elle's production team discover traditional waffles, chocolate coated coffee beans and every fashion label you can imagine.
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The Interrogation of Ashayla Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina is a fascinating novel. Seeing it marketed as YA fantasy, I was expecting something a little more standard fare but I'm glad that's not what I got.
The Interrogation of Ashayla Wolf is both post-apocalyptic and dystopian, in a similar way to Isobelle Carmody's Obernewtyn series, although the world is completely different in the specifics. About 300 years before the story takes place, there was some sort of environmental apocalypse which resulted in the world flooding and being almost entirely destroyed. Now there is just one landmass with a smattering of cities which was reminiscent of Australia, although definitely not the Australia we know and love today. The disruption that caused the apocalypse was a result of humans disturbing the Balance and now humanity is obsessed with maintaining the Balance lest they cause another apocalypse. While the world obviously has strong environmental themes, it didn't feel preachy at any point. The Balance is something people know to be real rather than a moral/philosophical point.
The other thing that emerged after the apocalypse is that some people manifested powers — basically superpowers — of various strengths. The government has decided that these people could upset the Balance and so the movements are highly regulated. People with powers are assessed and either detained in detention centres or given an exemption if their powers are weak or harmless enough. Those that flee the system are called Illegals and perforce live off the grid.
Of course our main character, Ashayla, is an illegal. She's the head of a tribe of children with powers who mostly ran away from home rather than be taken away by enforcers. As the title suggests, this is the story of her interrogation. The story unfolds as a series of layers, like an onion — Shrek reference notwithstanding — with more going on than we see on the surface.
What I really enjoyed was Kwaymullina's use of language. The words she used at the start, before we were fully abreast of the world, evoked certain powerful images (in my culturally Australian mind) relating to our world today. Although as we learnt more we saw that the situations in this future world were different — detention centres being for people with illegal powers rather than asylum seekers is an early example — they remained similar in tone. I thought it added an extra layer of cultural reference points which I don't think I've seen done this way before. While I'm not sure it would send exactly the same message to a non-Australian, it wasn't the sort of thing which quickly becomes dated or alienating like many US "now" references I've come across.
Overall, I found The Interrogation of Ashayla Wolf to be an excellent novel. I highly recommend it, especially if you like stories which are not all that they first seem. If you're not a fan of the usual vampire/werewolf/whatever types of fantasy YA, rest assured this is quit different. It's also not your stock standard dystopian novel (although it does have elements of usurping the system that I've come to expect in YA dystopias. One of my favourite books of the year.
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Bombay archdiocese hosts seminar on beauty of stained glass
Sept. 27, 2013
To promote a revival of beautiful Christian art in India, the Archdiocese of Bombay has held a seminar on stained glass windows in local parishes, called "Windows of Faith."
"Stained glass brings in an ambiance of prayerful atmosphere, fostering sacred meditative reflections, and recalling a memory of the spiritual history of the Church," said Father Warner D'Souza, director of the Bombay Archdiocesan Heritage Museum.
Fr. D'Souza spoke with CNA ahead of the seminar, which was held Sept. 22 at St. Peter's parish in the Bandra neighborhood of Mumbai.
"We thought of training priests and our community of lay people," he explained, "leading them to an awareness and a cognitive revival of Christian art in India."
The seminar, which featured a talk by Swati Chandgadkar, an Indian expert on the restoration of stained glass, highlighted the Catholic Church's role in being a patron of art and the historical and cultural patrimony of mankind.
Stained glass was brought to India by Portuguese missionaries, and Chandgadkar is involved in restoring the windows of one missionary parish, Our Lady of Glory, in Mumbai's Byculla neighborhood.
Fr. D'Souza said that it is currently of paramount pastoral importance to protect the historical Catholic parishes, monumental churches which today are "bafflingly exchanged" for churches with cheap, shiny fiber or glass-colored art, which are chosen for their brightness and economical value.
This exchange, he said, is a "threat to sacred art" and is "destroying our cultural patrimony and heritage."
The seminar, he said, was to make "our priests and laity aware of the importance of stained glass art," because although "there are many Indo-Portuguese churches, we lack experts in this field in India."
It is hoped that the seminar will help to reverse a trend of renovating parishes without regard for the heritage, historical value, and beauty of the original structure and art.
In 2011, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, opened a Museum of Christian Art, containing artifacts from the Christian history of the area, dating back to the first century. Fr. D'Souza related that Cardinal Paul Poupard, president emeritus of the Pontifical Councils for Interreligious Dialogue and for Culture, had visited the museum and was impressed by the history of the Church in India.
Cardinal Gracias' decision to open the museum was inspired in part by a 1997 message of Blessed John Paul II, who said that "from archeological sites to the most modern expressions of Christian art, contemporary man must be able to re-read the Church's history, and thus be helped to recognize the mysterious fascination of God's saving plan."
The late Roman Pontiff had himself established a group in 1989 to help make both clergy and laity more aware of the importance and the necessity of preserving the Church's vast historic resources, entitled the Commission for the Preservation of the Artistic and Historical Patrimony of the Church.
Source: Catholic News Agency
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Welcome to the Country Cousins Square Dance Club
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The Country Cousins Square Dance Club welcomes you to its Web Site.
Broadly stated, we dance most months on the second and fourth Saturdays, from September
to May, inclusive.
We invite you to have a look at our Dance Schedule 2018-19.
You can also find information on the Cousin's dances by going to Where's the Dance and searching for "Saanich".
The 2018 Cousin's Summer Shenanigan's weekend dance was cancelled.
No decision has been made yet about a future event.
If you would like more information about the Cousins, including membership, you can send email to countrycousins.bc.ca.
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A treasure trove for your lunchbox, full to bursting with ruby red pomegranate seeds and fresh herbs. I wanted to make something healthy for supper that would keep well as lunch for the next day - and this fit the bill exactly. The preserved lemon and pomegranate molasses give a blast of reviving sweet and sour to perk up that post-lunch lull...
Serves about 3 for supper or 2 with a bit left over for lunch:
100g white quinoa
1 can chick peas, drained and rinsed
200g shallots, peeled and halved
3 tbsp pomegranate molasses
3 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp lemon juice
3 preserved lemons, skin-only, chopped finely
salt and pepper
a large bunch each of mint and parsley, roughly chopped
Seeds of 1 pomegranate
30g toasted flaked almonds
1) Take 1 tablespoon each of the oil and pomegranate molasses and toss the shallots in the sticky marinade then roast for 25 mins, turning occassionally, at 190c/375f/gas mark 5. 10 minutes before the end of cooking add the chick peas and turn them in the marinade to coat, and also add the almonds on a separate tray to toast in the oven.
2) Bring a pan of water to a brisk boil and add the quinoa. Boil furiously for 10-15 minutes until tender, then drain through a sieve.
3) Place the herbs, lemon, pomegranate seeds, almonds, shallots, chick peas, and quinoa into a large bowl. Whisk together the remaining olive oil, pomegranate molasses and lemon juice, and stir into the salad. Season with salt and pepper to taste.


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Ads by SpaceOffers. How to remove? (Uninstall guide)
What is SpaceOffers?
SpaceOffers is a clone of White Deals, Jollywallet, Roaming Rate, and similar ad-supported programs that we have already included in our blog under the category of 'adware'. Therefore, if you would be offered to install this app, we highly recommend you to opt out of it and this way maintain secure browsing environment. In case you have already noticed SpaceOffers ads during your browsing, you should be careful when surfing the net because this adware may try to promote third-party websites, which may be both reliable and really suspicious. In the worst case scenario, after clicking on the 'Ads by SpaceOffers', you may be rerouted to an unknown online shopping website or to a website, which is apparently involved in PUP or virus distribution. In addition to potentially dangerous advertising, this dubious adware is also blamed for spying on its users. It has been found that this app can install tracking software ('cookies') on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari web browsers and accumulate information that may reveal your browsing habits and weaknesses. Consequently, third parties may prepare customized advertisements and increase chances that you will click on SpaceOffers ads. Finally, once installed on the machine, this adware can increase security vulnerabilities, can connect to the Internet for suspicious purposes, can diminish web browser's performance and other unwanted issues. If all these issues are happening on your computer right now, then what are you waiting for? Install Reimage or another reputable anti-spyware and remove SpaceOffers virus right now. In case you computer is based on Mac OS, we strongly advise you to rely on Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus.
How can SpaceOffers hijack my computer?
People who claim that SpaceOffers is a serious threat are not, in fact, correct. It's not malicious in any sense; however, there are several potentially dangerous issues that this adware may initiate on your PC, for example, tt may deliver third-party content to you, which may not only annoy you, but may also reroute you to suspicious websites where you may end up with another PUP on the machine.
If you know why security experts categorize apps as potentially unwanted programs (PUPs), then probably you know how to prevent their infiltration. If you are not familiar with the PUPs, then you have to be aware that they are usually distributed by means of other freewares and most commonly they get installed on computers without being noticed. Fortunately, it's not difficult to opt out of such apps. For that, you just have to be cautious when installing freewares on your computer and unmark 'optional components', such as SpaceOffers adware or any of its clones. If you select Quick/Recommended installation, you may not be allowed to do that; therefore, always opt for Advanced or Custom installation option.
How to remove SpaceOffers virus?
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You can remove virus damage automatically with a help of one of these programs: Reimage, Malwarebytes MalwarebytesCombo Cleaner, Plumbytes Anti-MalwareMalwarebytes Malwarebytes. We recommend these applications because they detect potentially unwanted programs and viruses with all their files and registry entries that are related to them.
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- Click Start → Control Panel → Programs and Features (if you are Windows XP user, click on Add/Remove Programs).
- If you are Windows 10 / Windows 8 user, then right-click in the lower left corner of the screen. Once Quick Access Menu shows up, select Control Panel and Uninstall a Program.
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Here, look for SpaceOffers or any other recently installed suspicious programs.
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Eliminate SpaceOffers from Mac OS X system
- If you are using OS X, click Go button at the top left of the screen and select Applications.
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Erase SpaceOffers from Internet Explorer (IE)
Remove dangerous add-ons
Open Internet Explorer, click on the Gear icon (IE menu) on the top right corner of the browser and choose Manage Add-ons.
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Change your homepage if it was altered by virus:
Click on the gear icon (menu) on the top right corner of the browser and select Internet Options. Stay in General tab.
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Click on the gear icon (menu) again and select Internet options. Go to Advanced tab.
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- When in the new window, check Delete personal settings and select Reset again to complete SpaceOffers removal.
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Reset Microsoft Edge settings (Method 1):
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- Here, select all what you want to remove and click Clear.
- Now you should right-click on the Start button (Windows logo). Here, select Task Manager.
- When in Processes tab, search for Microsoft Edge.
- Right-click on it and choose Go to details option. If can't see Go to details option, click More details and repeat previous steps.
- When Details tab shows up, find every entry with Microsoft Edge name in it. Right click on each of them and select End Task to end these entries.
Resetting Microsoft Edge browser (Method 2):
If Method 1 failed to help you, you need to use an advanced Edge reset method.
- Note: you need to backup your data before using this method.
- Find this folder on your computer:
- Select every entry which is saved on it and right click with your mouse. Then Delete option.
- Click the Start button (Windows logo) and type in window power in Search my stuff line.
- Right-click the Windows PowerShell entry and choose Run as administrator.
- Once Administrator: Windows PowerShell window shows up, paste this command line after PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> and press Enter:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml -Verbose}
Once these steps are finished, SpaceOffers should be removed from your Microsoft Edge browser.WindowsMac OS XInternet ExplorerMicrosoft EdgeFirefoxGoogle ChromeSafari
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Reset Mozilla Firefox
Click on the Firefox menu on the top left and click on the question mark. Here, choose Troubleshooting Information.
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Delete malicious plugins
Open Google Chrome, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Tools → Extensions.
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Open Safari web browser and click on Safari in menu at the top left of the screen. Once you do this, select Preferences.
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Open Safari browser and click on Safari in menu section at the top left of the screen. Here, select Reset Safari....
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IMCA Modifieds
1st: Zane Devilbliss
Sport Mods
1st: Zach Rouse
IMCA Stocks
1st: Kenny Hendershot
Hobby Stocks
1st: Jerrett Guilory
Mini Sprints
1st: Kenny Wheeler
The 2010 National Champ wins at Aztec Speedway
Zane Devilbiss notched his 2nd win this year at Aztec Speedway in the IMCA modified feature. Devilbiss put his Pink Panther #18 in front on lap seven and cruised to a 2.1 second win over his nearest competitor. Devilbiss dodged an early bullet when his car jumped the wheel of another car. "Zippy" barely slowed down. Finishing 2nd was Matthew Higgins in his Bloomfield Pawn #74. Finishing in 3rd for the second week in a row was Danny Bradford, fourth went to Kevin Faddis and rounding out the top five was JJ Harpole. Last weeks' Wild West Modified Tour winner, Porter Smith, finished out of the top five in seventh.In other racing: The IMCA sport modifieds had 18 cars take the green in their 25 lapper. Three time winner, Zach Rouse, looked as though he would have to settle for 2nd as Zach Hamilton had his Hot Chassis #14 in the lead with one lap to go. But as Hamilton slipped high on the exit of turn 2, Rouse charged underneath and went on to win, leading only 3/4 of a lap. Julie Boettler was 3rd with Shane Simonton running a strong 4th. In fifth was Tre Harpole for his second top five this season.
The IMCA stock cars had 17 cars taking the green. A family gathering took place up front as Kenny Hendershot jumped in front about lap six. His brother Frankie Hendershot moved his car into 2nd a few laps later and the pair led everybody to the checkers. In third was Rex Higgins, Allen Bradley next and fifth went to Travis Southerlin. Southerlin was later DQd and this placed Danny Stevenson in 5th.
In the hobby feature, Jerrett Guilory showed to be the strong suit as he led the pack to the winner's circle. In second was Roger Nixon followed by Dennis Spencer, Kevin Southerlin and Randy Dorsett.
The mini sprints traveled to Aztec this week from the Albuquerque area. The easy winner was Kenny Wheeler with Mike Wheeler 2nd and Cody Dons third. Finishing fourth was Chris Perea and fifth..James Hatch.
Everyone was treated to great racing as usual at Aztec Speedway. Our ongoing construction should be finished by next Saturday's races.


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About Us
About Xy'Maya:
Xy'Maya was established by Dee Lake in loving memory of her mom Suzanne, who's artistic name was Xy'Maya (pronounced Sum-Eye-Ya). Xy'Maya passed away from cancer at a young 41 years of age in 1985. At the time her daughter Dee was just 17 and was disjointed from her family unit through disease.
Xy'Maya's cancer was a type of Leukemia directly linked to radiation fallout, due to exposure (without her knowledge) from the above ground bomb testing performed by the government at the Nevada test site during the 1950's.
After this devastating and tragic loss and life changing experience Dee began an ardent 20+ research journey on non-toxic healthier living. This sparked a passion in her for living a non toxic, organic, holistic and natural lifestyle to support wellness and ignited a passion in her for helping others seeking the same.
Dee continues with her passion for wellness and strives towards educating and helping others in becoming and staying well. She teaches people how to embrace a healthier lifestyle for optimal well being, quality of life and longevity, thus keeping families together through wellness.
Dee's mother Xy'Maya was a single mother, Xy'Maya and her 3 children lived in poverty. Xy'Maya did not have the resources that she needed to detox and support her health. Dee feels her mother could have survived her radiation exposure and maintained her well being with optimal health if she had the superiour holistic support and resources available to her that she needed. It is Dee's mission and passion to make sure people have the wellness support and resources they need so these unnecessary tragedies do not happen.
Dee has also dedicated Xy'Maya and "The Maya Girl Project" to her lost child who she never had an opportunity to nurture, love, teach, raise and enjoy. With a loving heart and pure dedication Dee's passion, mission and hope is to find further healing and fulfillment through nurturing as many people as she can reach with her wellness education, programs and products, in helping people get well, stay well and by helping keep families together through wellness and vibrant health.
Xy'Maya's daughter Dee
About Dee and a personal message
Hello...My name is Dee, my passion in life is fueled by my mother and best friend Suzanne, also known as Xy'Maya (pronounced Sum-Eye-Ya). I lost her to cancer at a young age and my family unit was broken.
Today I am a holistic health coach and founder of Xy'Maya Nonprofit Org. In honor of my mother I am donating and dedicating my time, love and energy to helping people get well, stay well and strive towards keeping families united in optimal health and well being.
By getting involved and supporting my cause your donation will allow me to reach more people to help them with their well being and can even save lives, thus keep families together.
Thank you for your loving support with me on my journey and mission for world wide wellness!
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Carousel figure of a greyhound
about 1905–10
Charles I. D. Looff (1852–1918)
Object Place: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
137.16 x 38.1 x 185.42 cm (54 x 15 x 73 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Painted wood; glass
On View
Joyce and Edward Linde Gallery (Gallery 237)
During the heyday of the carousel (or merry-go-round) as a popular form of American entertainment, from the 1890s into at least the 1920s, as many as three thousand carousels were installed at amusement parks across the country. Many of the finest carvers of carousel animals were German immigrants, including Charles Looff, whose name is stamped on the belly of this colorful, imposing greyhound.
Looff was born in Schleswig-Holstein on the border between Denmark and Germany and moved to New York in 1870 as a young man of eighteen. He found employment first as a furniture carver, and, according to tradition, carved carousel figures in the evenings as a hobby. Within five years, he opened his first carousel at Coney Island, and in 1880 he established a carousel factory in Brooklyn. The plant remained in operation there until Looff shifted his headquarters to the Crescent Park Hippodrome in Riverside, Rhode Island, about 1904-5. This greyhound is marked "Riverside" and was thus made there between 1905 and 1910, when Looff moved his factory to California.
Looff's factories produced an extensive menagerie of animals, including a small number of greyhounds-perhaps only a dozen-all said to be modeled on a family pet. This example is a large "stander," used on the outer ring of the carousel. Its "romance" side (the side exposed to the outside as the carousel rotates counterclockwise) is richly embellished with carved details, applied tassels, and cut-glass decoration. When acquired by the Museum, the greyhound was painted dark brown and covered with a thick layer of varnish. A painstaking process of conservation removed about fourteen layers of paint (carousel figures were exposed to the weather and thus repainted frequently), revealing the original polychrome painted surface and other details.
This text was adapted from Ward, et al., MFA Highlights: American Decorative Arts & Sculpture (Boston, 2006) available at www.mfashop.com/mfa-publications.html.
Dr Robert Ganz; Mr. Hallett Tobin, 1965; Thunderbird Amusements (Mr. Ricky), 1965; Pete Sutton, Great Sutton Shows
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text: On September 17th, 2016, Danny Weiland broke the world record for most number of BASE jumps completed in 24 hours (under human power). He jumped from the Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls, Idaho 61 times, climbing the 486 feet out of the canyon each time for a total of more than 29,000 vertical feet. Dozens of people came together to make this record happen and this is Danny's story.


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Yamaha's THR series of personal modeling amplifiers bridged the gap between feature laden processors and entry level digital combos when they were introduced a few years ago. Now, the popular line of amplifiers have been extended into heads and cabinets. For review, we took at the THR100HD, where the "D" stands for "Dual". At first glance, it's a two channel head. But look further into the amp and you'll find it's really two amps in one rather than simply a two channel head.
The THR100HD features two individual THR platforms: Five amp modes, three-band EQ, presence, reverb, and an onboard boost – more on that later. Each "amp" also features modeled power tube sections with the option of selecting a modeled Class A and A/B mode for either side. Basically, it is possible to model KT88s in Class A. There is also a three-way power scale to select between 25/50/100 watt power sections. Also, there are two XLR line outs and two speaker outs. These can both be set up to run two entirely individual amplifiers direct or to speakers.
Included is a five-button footswitch to select between – or stack – amps, and bring in or out the booster, reverb, and effects loop. Speaking of effects, for the head series, Yamaha ditched the onboard DSP effects as seen on the THR10. Personally I think an onboard delay would've been cool to see – especially if it were selectable on the footswitch. However, it's a small concern if any.
Some things that surprised me the most: Although the THR100HD is a 100w platform, the amp has no transformer, so it doesn't need to see speakers and can be run solely off the line out section. Also, it's matched 2×12 THR cabinet features two Eminence speakers – the Legend 1218 and Tonker, as opposed to "special designed" or full range/flat frequency setups that many modeling setups are partnered with.
Plugged in, it sounds like an amplifier! No overly saturated channels named after adjectives here – this is a truly organic sounding and responding rig. At a gig, I used my full pedalboard with a light distortion into the clean channel on 6L6GC mode for my low-gain tones, and the "Modern" channel with the EL34 model section for high gain. Adjusting on the fly is easy because, well, it's an amplifier before it's a processor. No menu screens or touch screens to worry about. Want to turn the mids up? Grab the mid knob. No need to scroll through a menu to get to a section of the amp. This, I believe, is one of the most crucial aspects to using a non-conventional amplifier for live performance.
However, there are more tricks offered in the THR100HD – ones accessible with a USB cable and a computer. By downloading the THR100 app and drivers, you'll be able to access cabinet impulses for running the XLR outs to a PA. Yamaha has their own, and they'll work for any other aftermarket plug-in cab simulator. You can also set the effects loop to series or parallel mode (Mine was set to parallel 100% dry mix out of the box – take note if you plan to use the effects loop, especially on a gig.). Lastly, you are able to choose from four different reverb types per channel, and three different boost/overdrive modes per channel.
Once again, Yamaha shines again with a product that can be used basically anywhere there is an electric guitar player. Studio, stage, home, or practice, there is a way to bring the THR100HD into your rig, whether as a backup for your main amp, or at the forefront of your tone.


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A Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies degree from Carroll University prepares you for a career in one of the most rewarding and fastest growing health care fields. Physician assistants are health care professionals licensed or credentialed to practice medicine with physician supervision. As part of their comprehensive responsibilities, PAs take medical histories, conduct physical exams, diagnose and treat illnesses, order and interpret tests, counsel on preventive health care, develop and implement treatment plans, assist in surgery and prescribe medications. Your education will be divided into a year of course work, followed by a year of clinical rotations, providing you with real-world experiences in a variety of areas.
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Girls Aloud's Nicola Roberts: Will 'Beat Of My Drum' Spawn Stateside Breakout?
Going solo is never easy. Unless you have the larger than life personality of a Justin Timberlake or a Beyonce, an artist takes a huge risk when they depart from the group that made them famous in the first place.
While Girls Aloud, the reality TV-spawned girl group turned U.K. chart-topper, is currently on hiatus, its members are venturing off into various projects. Cheryl Cole has released two solo albums in Europe, as well as snagged a possible judging spot on Simon Cowell's U.S. take on "The X Factor." Meanwhile, fellow member Nadine Coyle released her debut album in late 2010 with announced plans to release in America this summer.
The third member of the pack to take a stab at solo stardom, Nicola Roberts, is perhaps the most intriguing. Already finding a big fan in Perez Hilton, the orange-haired hipster premiered her first single, "Beat Of My Drum," on British radio Friday (June 3). The song's music video also premiered, highlighting Roberts, her dancers, a drumline, and a teenage cheerleading troupe showing off some impressive footwork and hip-bumping in the stomping, electro-pop track. Watch below.
Imagine a young M.I.A. -- mixed with Robyn and Yelle -- went on a shopping spree to Urban Outfitters, started chanting "L! O! V! E!" and turned it all into a true summer anthem. Thank Diplo, who's responsible for helping to craft the sounds of M.I.A. and Santigold as well as Beyonce's "Run The World (Girls)," for this one, as well as fellow producer Dimitri Tikovoi (who's worked with electronic groups like Goldfrapp and Placebo).
Roberts' solo album, "Cinderella's Eyes," will see a U.K. release on Oct. 3.
Are you on (what Nicola calls her supporters) "Team Ginge"? Could the singer have a shot stateside? Tell us in the comments below!


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2018 Impact Challenge Begins
The 2018 Community Impact challenge has launched! The Community Impact Challenge is a two week fundraising event designed to raise unrestricted dollars and awareness for the nonprofits in the central Louisiana community. Below you will find a list of organizations that have accepted the challenge and the link to help support your favorite!
Alexandria Historical & Genealogical Library & Museum
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text: > 1. Is there a "right" way to install software on Linux in general, an > CentOS in particular? For example, the Package Manager on CentOS 5.2 > allows you to install certain software, but often not the latest > version. So if I go download MySQL 5.0.67 from the web, how do I install > it and make it play nice with the rest of the system? Ditto for PHP > 5.2.6. And once installed (either by the Package Manager -- and by the > way, why are the apps it lists so out of date?), what's the best way to > update PHP and MySQL? Is it simply a matter of downloading the binaries > again and overwriting the existing install? On Mac OS X, such downloads > come as .pkg files that seem to take care of so many details without > requiring a trip to the command line. > > 2. Where should software, such as PHP, MySQL, Apache2, be installed? > /usr/bin ? > > 3. Is it a bad idea to install some software from the command-line via > wget, some software from the graphical Package Manager, and some > software from the the web? What I mean is, so far it seems like Linux > manages the list of installed packages, and I just wonder if I'm > screwing things up this way. The recommended way to install software is using a yum or at least rpm. The further you stray from core CentOS packages installed the CentOS way, the more likely you will get stuck with a broken system that this list or the forums will find difficult to support. That said, there are some good repos out there including dag.wieers.com and EPEL. The versions used in CentOS are derived directly from the upstream product. This is an enterprise distro after all, stability is valued more highly that being on the bleeding edge. But yes, old versions of PHP and PostgreSQL can be problematic when something like the latest Drupal (7) requires PHP5.2, and PostgreSQL 8.3 is way better than 8.1. It is possible to upgrade these but not possible to describe how to do it here. Google can help. Software should be installed wherever the RPM wants to put it. It is all about maintaining a stable, reliable system in a known state.


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25 young Indian designers on Vogue's radar
Who do you call when you want Deepika Padukone's sari gown?
Manish Malhotra may be India's most googled fashion designer, but there's a budding crop of talent eager to give him a run for his money.
Some labels, like Anavila and Karleo, have only made their fashion week debuts this season, while others like NorBlack NorWhite have quietly become indie favourites without ever having showcased at a fashion week. Then there's Huemn and 11.11 CellDSGN, whose command over their design language only grows stronger with every season.
Vogue spotlights the Indian fashion designer brands you need to be tracking right now:
1. Nouveau tribal: Ikai by Ragini Ahuja
The way the former graphic designer mixes leather cutwork and bandhini prints makes us wonder why nobody thought of this before.
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2. Sexy sporty: Huemn by Pranav Mishra and Shyma Shetty
Just when we were lusting after their minimal pastel power suits, the fashion designer duo unleashed their inner maximalist with a sequined varsity sari.
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3. Hitchockian musings: Sneha Arora
Sneha Arora's print inspirations range from Alfred Hitchcock's favourite birds to grim military photos, all rendered in a sombre colour palette. Think of it as the death of the pop princess.
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4. Vintage belle: Frou Frou by Archana Rao
If Blair Waldorf were to star in The Sound Of Music, this is the label she might wear. Archana Rao's nostalgic pearls-and-embroidery approach also won her the 2012-13 Vogue India Fashion Fund award.
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5. Detail driven: Ilk by Shikha and Vinita
Intricate surface texturing defines the Ilk approach to fashion, usually found on the label's tomboyish separates.
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Completely stripped of fussy embellishment or vivid colours, Mrinalini's sweeping coat dresses and wide-legged pants are best suited to the concrete jungle.
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8. Sari gown specialist: Sonaakshi Raaj
The go-to designer for Bollywood's obsession with sari gowns, Sonaakshi Raaj counts Prachi Desai, Deepika Padukone and Chitrangada Singh among her client list.
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There's a DIY cheerfulness to Karishma Shahani Khan's colourful ensembles, bursting with childlike prints from starfish to ducks and flower buds.
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First came the Pacman print, then the argyle sari. Yogesh Chaudhary's label has a certain weakness for nostalgic patterns.
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A lace slip dress masquerading as a kurta, a blush printed anarkali with a plunging neckline; Nupur Kanoi uses a deliciously suggestive approach to sensuality.
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12. Tasteful tailoring: Sailex
A fan of dramatic volumes and unexpected flashes of skin, Sailex outdid himself this season with an immaculate swallow-tailed white tuxedo.
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13. Fairytale fashion: Karleo by Karan Berry and Leon Vaz
New kids on the block Karleo brings to mind a desi Marchesa, with a penchant for embellished bodices and floor-length draped gowns.
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15. Trendy classics: 431-88 by Shweta Kapur
Shweta Kapur never ignores trends, she's just not held prisoner to them. So the season's sports-dominated theme is interpreted in fur-sleeved bomber jackets and zippered sheath dresses.
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16. Exploring androgyny: DRVV by Dhruv Kapur
You haven't really tested the boundaries of swapping clothes with your man until you've tried Dhruv Kapur's unisex tunics and fitted pants, all rendered in gender-neutral colours of black and white.
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17. Romantic ethnic: 5X by Ajit Kumar
One of the quieter voices in the fashion industry, the VIFF finalist's flowing silhouettes are conservative without being conformist. A floor-length, full-sleeved gown is livened up with surprise power shoulders festooned with gunmetal pearls.
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18. Mirror images: Josh Goraya
Josh Goraya gets a kick out of crafting matching wardrobes for his male and female clients: think power couple dressing a là David and Victoria Beckham, but without the self-consciousness.
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19. Softcore normcore: Bodice by Ruchika Sachdeva
Although Ruchika Sachdeva isn't a fan of monograms or loud symbolism, fans of her preppy, understated separates can pick them out of a line-up.
Delhi +91 9650071122
20. Hyper trendy: Hemant & Nandita
If there's a trend gathering momentum, you can be sure Hemant & Nandita will have it pinned down. Reference the label's sheer panelled sweatshirts and embellished leather skirts.
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Mumbai + 91 9820407538
22. Loving linen: Anavila
There's plenty of research and development that's gone into Anavila's pliable linen saris, her answer to the question "what is a casual sari?"
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23. Past to present: NorBlack NorWhite
Mriga Kapadiya and Amrit Kumar moved from Canada to Mumbai with a mission to make traditional techniques and textiles relevant to young Indians. A bandhini bomber jacket, for instance.
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24. Bharati bling: Arpita Mehta
Arpita Mehta's signature mirrored cholis and jackets have already built a steady fan following among Bollywood stars like Madhuri Dixit and Deepika Padukone, as well as Indian fashion editors.
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25. Lightly layered: Prama by Pratima Pandey
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One Pumpkin = Multiple Green Hours
How many Green Hours can come from one bright and happy orange pumpkin? At our house, more than you can count! The first one was of course the Sunday afternoon excursion to the local pumpkin patch a few weeks ago (in costume of course). C took his pumpkin-picking-out job very seriously, and made sure to inspect EVERY pumpkin in the patch before finally deciding on the lucky orange friend that got to come home with us.
Next came Carving Day. We decided that this would be safest as an entire family activity. We started out by drawing a face…well, I drew the face with a marker, and C colored on the pumpkin, giving him green highlights. Then C sat on Daddy's lap to watch my brilliant knife-wielding skills (sarcasm, anyone?) without any worry of curious fingers getting too close to the action. Once the face was carved out, C was released and went to town scooping out all the seeds…and then dumping them back in, and then scooping them out, etc etc etc. Eventually I was able to gather them all together in a colander, and we rinsed them and laid them out on a cookie sheet, where they dried until morning. But that wasn't the end of Carving Day fun by any means – we went back outside and practiced "dunking" the extra seeds in the pumpkin, took the top on and off, rolled the pumpkin around the driveway, and gave our new jack-o-lantern a hug.
The next morning we got to work in the kitchen right away. A quick toss in olive oil, a sprinkle of pumpkin pie spices and a dash of salt, and they were ready to slide into the oven. An hour later and voila – we enjoyed pepitas out on the porch!. I figured C would enjoy the pepita prep a lot more than the finished product, so when we took them outside to try them out, I put all of our seeds in an empty cashew tin to use as an impromptu drum/shaker. However, little did I know, that C is nuts about pepitas! He literally ate half of what was in the pumpkin. I'm generally not a huge pumpkin seed fan, but I will say that these were pretty good, and tasted nothing like the dark kind you can buy in the store. I was worried about choking initially, but C was really good about only taking one at a time, and the seeds actually ended up pretty brittle and were easy to chew. The pepitas won't be lasting us much longer, but it seems as though we've found a yummy homemade tradition for many years to come! How do you incorporate pumpkins into Green Hours at your house?


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Liquids could soak through the booties, so I don't think they are a reasonable choice. Students often suggest duct tape around a sock of some sort, but I do not allow that either. Depending on the cast/boot involved, we have allowed leather ballet slippers if they provide adequate coverage of the toes and other parts of the foot are adequately covered by the other parts of the slipper or by the boot itself.Barbara Mowery
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I would like to know what policies/procedures others have regarding students who are in leg casts where the toes are exposed during undergraduate chemistry lab. One option was shoe cover booties. Any other ideas? We do not currently have a procedure for this.
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Jerry brings Steve up to speed about the country splitting up the Mississippi River, along with all the other disasters, both natural and man-made. Meanwhile, the Omega dust slowly ebbs. A monster rain storm took care of the dust. When the weather clears, it appears their challenges have not ended.
Steve nodded. He got the reporter part. Still, this was no interview, and they were both witnesses. "We went outside to look at the bridge. You let me use your binoculars. As I looked the far bank suddenly moved. The New Madrid earthquakes came soon after."
Jerry simply took up the narrative. "After the last quake, the bridge was in the water and didn't look like it could have ever spanned the river. Since then, the center support collapsed, and the far bank is barely visible on a clear day. North America has split in two, following the Mississippi River through the Great Lakes, up to Hudson Bay."
"You got all this off your radio. I knew you were listening to it a lot. My little rental house across the river isn't coming back."
"Your home is running away. It may be underwater if the other side looks like here. We're near flood stage."
They eventually decided the dust wasn't getting any closer to them. Jerry went back to monitoring his radio, wearing earphones. He could use it quite a while before having to crank up the battery. On his part, Steve decided he might as well jot down what he knew of the situation. There was plenty of paper for the task. Jerry informed him that in the old days, people would even use the same paper a second time, writing crosswise. Steve figured his fingers would fall off before that happened, but he kept that opinion to himself.
Most of the current problems began the same time he went to work for the paper. Disasters were suddenly coming one right after the other, sometimes going two or three at a time. There were earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, floods, and droughts. Even so, the man-made ones were the worst, even without the Omega bug. There were limited nuclear wars, civil wars, economic depression, and terrorist attacks among everything else. It included a nuclear device under Times Square last New Year's Eve. So humanity was up against a tag team composed of his planet and those self-styled human creatures who had a community death wish.
It got to where everyone was sitting on the curb with a tin cup, waiting for the cosmos to come through with a positive outcome. An answer to that cry for help came when the sun cut loose with a massive and long-lived series of solar flares, disabling a large number of satellites. Communications and navigation networks fried. The flares impacted Earth too, knocking out many electric distribution grids. Nobody would repair or replace them anytime soon, either orbital or terrestrial.
Maybe there was a bit of a rainbow after the flares. It only gave a morale boost to those still able to appreciate such things. Magnificent auroras were visible further south than anybody could recall. Also, Burlington continued to get electric power some of the time. Well, it had until earlier that day.
Steve made notes about each disaster, mentioning inadequate and wrong-headed government responses. Jerry reviewed what Steve had, and told him to create a page for each catastrophe. That way, he could add pages to a section as needed. Steve saw the point even if he couldn't see the possibility. The writing went slowly, but there was no visible deadline. Steve had the unique luxury of being able to consider his word choice. It wasn't as though there was a positive spin to any part of the story.
Each day, they estimated the dust dropped about a foot. After ten days, the next floor down appeared to be clear. At the same time, neither man was in any hurry to check it out. Jerry agreed with Steve's estimate that it might be a couple of months before they dared to leave the grain elevator. Their water supply now became a larger concern than the rations.
An answer to their concern about water came the following day with a monster rain storm. There was something eerie about it. There was no lightning and almost no wind. At the same time, the rain fell in buckets. It was not like any storm either of them had ever seen. On top of it, the rain just kept on coming. They thought about drinking it, but couldn't decide if the rain had the dust in it. They didn't test it. The darkened sky made it nearly impossible for Steve to work, and he was no longer inclined to write in any case. At the same time, as Steve looked out the windows, it appeared the rain was doing one thing well. It was removing the dust.
There was little difference between day and night, but Steve counted fifteen periods of darkness before the steady drumming rain finally began to abate. Eventually, skies began to lighten, and the deafening rainfall fell silent. The downpour became a mist and then stopped altogether. The clouds dissipated rapidly, and the sun shone down on a bright morning.
Jerry suddenly called him over to the side of the grain elevator facing the river. Jerry just pointed downward. Steve saw the river now lapped against the building's base. The car they came in was completely submerged. The split in the country continued to grow as the Illinois side was barely visible on the horizon, even viewed at this height.


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So, without further ado, a few things any Web service provider needs to know about Do Not Track:
- Do Not Track is not mandatory for providers. DNT is not a requirement for servers. Though a standard is being drawn up for it, respecting that header is purely voluntary. Even indicating that you're respecting the header is voluntary; the W3C draft only defines the response header as something that a server MAY send. Besides, with the standard only in Working Draft status, implementing it at this time may mean that you may have to go back and re-implement Do Not Track... never mind the fact that Yahoo! is being pretty public about intending to ignore it. I really doubt that Web browsers will do much more than say "part of this page didn't return the DNT header", at worst, if a provider decides not to adhere to it, and even that seems unlikely.
- Most providers don't have to care. DNT only pertains to tracking done by third-party providers to a Web visit. The canonical example of this is an advertiser, such as DoubleClick. DART ads are damn near everywhere on the Web, and I have to admit it's downright spooky when I look at the Roots Canada online catalogue one day, and for the next three days, every ad I see is suddenly Roots, where they'd never appeared before. Clearly, DoubleClick is watching you. But like I say, unless you're providing content that will be included in another organisation's Web pages, then Do Not Track does not apply to your service, and you can go on ignoring it. An exception is that if your service is forwarding tracking data to a third party on the server side, then you'd actually need to worry about what the DNT header contains, if you're bothering to adhere to it at all. However, most providers prefer to offload as much of that work to the user agent, for the sake of apparent site speed, so, like I say, most providers don't have to care.
- Enabled-by-default isn't actually prohibited by the W3C Working Draft. When Microsoft announced that IE10 would switch on DNT by default, this was a valid option, according to the (in-progress) standard. Only in the most recent revision, dated 2 October, was the default specifically stated to be "assume no preference has been expressed." Until then, the standard only stated that intermediary services (such as proxies) may not change what preference is or is not indicated. Currently, the standard states, "A user agent MUST have a default tracking preference of unset (not enabled) unless a specific tracking preference is implied by the decision to use that agent." Microsoft has publicly stated that their new browser will enabled DNT by default. Certainly there will be clear statements in all the marketing materials to this effect. It's clearly a safe assumption that use of IE10 implies a specific tracking preference on the part of the user.
- The "Acceptable Uses" definition makes a lot of DNT irrelevant for even third-party content providers. My biggest concern about Do Not Track was around maintaining security audit information. Good news! That's one of many acceptable uses of tracking data, that allow a provider to largely ignore the Do Not Track header. The only stipulation made, when claiming "acceptable use" is that you don't pass on that stored data (which you shouldn't anyway), and that you don't use it to personalise ads. That, right there, is the entire crux of Do Not Track: not personalising ads. Track all the information you want, just don't share it and don't expose that you're doing it.
- Most, if not all, browsers provide a mechanism to pop up a dialog when a site wants to store a cookie. For the most part, browsers already have the technology to largely prevent effective multi-site tracking by advertising providers. While Do Not Track is a little more comprehensive, simply refusing to allow, say, 112.2o7.net to put a cookie in your browser goes a long way to preventing the, from following you around the web. Granted, it would force users to investigate the options on their browsers (and I am feeling a little cynical right now about the motivations of users), but I don't think it's really asking too much that a person learn about the tools they're using.
All in all, I don't really think Do Not Track has much in the way of teeth. The advertisers that it's mostly aimed at are such behemoths in terms of coverage that even without being able to personalise some fraction of the users' ads, that they'll still be making money hand over fist. And the advertisers will continue to be able to track you... they just won't be able to make it obvious.


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The Family: A Proclamation to the World teaches that fathers are to preside over, provide for, and protect the family; the mother's primary responsibility is to nurture the children. Parents are obligated to help one another in these responsibilities as equal partners and rear their children in love and righteousness.
You can strengthen your family by making sure family members have a clear idea about their day-to-day responsibilities in and to the family. At the same time, be flexible. It's okay for someone who usually cooks to take over fixing the car because of a need or even boredom!
The parents are in charge, and the children need to know that. But the best parenting approach is not a dictatorship-it's what experts call "authoritative parenting," where parents seek input from the children. Authoritative parenting is characterized by love, warmth, teaching, clear and consistent expectations, and avoidance of severe or harsh discipline. Numerous studies show that this kind of parenting has the most positive benefits for children. To improve in this area, consider taking a parenting class from a church, school, or university that focuses on authoritative parenting.
Your family will function best when decision making is shared among family members. Children can participate in a variety of decisions. For example, a toddler can be involved in grocery shopping. Explain that you need a helper when you buy groceries. Decide which simple food items the helper can choose, such as cereal or fruit snacks. When you get to the right aisle, give the child a few moments to make a decision. You can teach an older child to use product-label information to make a decision. Provide plenty of encouragement for their efforts.
Making real decisions is good practice and can help children grow up to be responsible adults. Children need opportunities to make decisions, to participate in family decisions and to observe the parents' decision-making process and results.
Children are more apt to carry out their responsibilities if they have a voice in deciding those responsibilities and can see how those particular tasks help the family. Teenagers are more willing to go along on a family vacation if they help decide where to go and what to do. Youngsters are more likely to accept limitations regarding purchases if they have an awareness of the family's financial situation. Letting children take part in decision making says to them: "You are important and what you have to say counts."
Here are some ideas for fostering the family strength of "clear roles and responsibilities" at home:
"Hear Ye, Hear Ye." Long recommended by religious leaders and family experts alike, family councils provide a choice opportunity for clarifying family responsibilities and expectations. Family councils can be used to set goals, distribute household work, resolve family problems, and celebrate one another's successes. When councils are conducted properly, they allow each person to voice opinions and feelings and be involved in solving problems and making decisions.
Schedule a regular time for family councils, say each Sunday. Along with serious discussions, talk about fun things and plan family activities. Set and follow an agenda. Rotate conducting responsibilities between parents and older children. Prior to the council, encourage family members to suggest agenda items. Good ground rules might include allowing everyone to express an opinion without fear of criticism and not allowing interruptions. Limit the council to an hour, and end on a cheerful note-with a joke or refreshments.
"Panic Pick-Up." To help family members share the responsibility for keeping the home tidy, announce a "Panic Pickup." Assign family members to their work stations or tasks. Set a timer for ten minutes and shout "go!" The goal is to get as much done as quickly and as efficiently as possible before the buzzer goes off.
Job Jar. Use a job jar to distribute household chores fairly among family members. Make a list of chores and mark a "W" next to weekly chores and a "D" next to daily chores. Cut construction paper into "chore strips." Write one chore per slip--daily chores on red strips and weekly chores on blue strips. Put the chores in a jar. Decide how long each chore duty should be: one week, two weeks, etc. Decide how many strips of each color each family member should draw for each chore period. Make sure that tasks reflect the varying ages and abilities of family members.
"This Is A Test." Family members are more likely to comply with rules about household spending if they understand why the rules are necessary. First, quiz family members on how much it costs to purchase a variety of household goods, such as groceries for the week, rent or mortgage payments, and the like. Items for the quiz should come from your monthly family budget. After the quiz, review the correct answers to the questions and ask family members where they would like to focus their cost-cutting efforts.
The Most Bang for the Buck. Teach children how to get the best value for their money. Choose an amount of money to deal with and ask all members to think about how to spend the money. To decide, family members can read newspaper ads or mail-order catalogs or go window shopping. Have family members keep a list of items and prices. Then discuss what they wanted to buy with their money, how they set priorities, how to make sensible decisions about spending, and how to comparison shop and get the best value.
Family "Fun Raising." One role that can be rotated among family members is the responsibility for "fun raising." This person brings the family together to make definite plans for spending time together. Make a list of "free fun" activities (such as going for a hike or playing games) and "$ fun" activities (such as a ball game or movies). Choose the activities that appeal most to everyone and list them on the "fun raising" chart, with four columns: What we want to do, how much will it cost, special needs or preparation, and when we will do it.
Written by Stephen F. Duncan, Professor, and Kristi McLane, Research Assistant, School of Family Life, Brigham Young University.
- Duncan, S. F. (1999). Building family strengths (MT 9405). Bozeman, MT: Montana State University Extension Service.
- Duncan, S. F. (1994). The activity book: Activities for building family strengths (EB 128). Bozeman, MT: Montana State University Extension Service.
- Duncan, S. F. (2000). Practices for building marriage and family strengths. In D. C. Dollahite (Ed.), Strengthening our families: An in-depth look at the proclamation on the family (pp. 295-303). Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.


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Beck then pleaded innocent to all counts, but indicated she'd change her plea later this week after considering a plea agreement. Beck remained jailed on $20,000 bond.
Beck was arrested, along with Jerry F. Tipton II, 19, and Shawn L. Beatty, 20, in the 800 block of East Third Avenue on Nov. 5, 2007, after a Penalosa woman reported that her purse, containing a checkbook, was stolen in the parking lot at Wal-Mart, according to court records. Officers allegedly found suspected methamphetamine and packaging material in the vehicle.
Beatty pleaded no contest in May to three counts in the case, and other charges were dismissed. He's serving 3 1/2 years, with the sentence to run concurrently with an earlier case. Tipton, who is also charged with felony obstruction in the case, is scheduled for a preliminary hearing at 3 p.m. Aug. 12.


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Sunday, December 20, 2009Free Christmas Fiction!
Should my story 'It Comes But Once a Year' have not made the shortlist for Festive Fear 2, I was entertaining the idea of this silly little Christmas piece. I wanted to do some new, free fiction for Christmas, so took an hour out to write it. Don't expect any Bram Stoker winning short here, just some Christmas fun. The ending sucks major balls anyway.
Merry Christmas!
Every year the same old bleedin' shite.
Ken, lying in a recliner, popped the button of his jeans, opened the zipper and exhaled. The pressure on his gut subsided somewhat; the lashings of turkey, stuffing, pigs in blankets and roast potatoes succumbed by the slight extra room. Quite a meal, oh yes, quite a meal. The best thing about Christmas. He'd even eaten the traditional Brussel sprout or two, despite
He picked up the remote from the arm of the chair and flicked to ITV.
"Oi!" moaned Tansy. "We were watching that!"
"Were you balls," Ken grumbled at his daughter. "You can't mess with that thing and watch the TV at the same time."
She sat perched at the end of the sofa, messing with some pink Japanese bullshit gizmo. An I-something. Everything had to have an I in front of it now. He'd joked to
"Haven't you got it working yet?"
Tansy shrugged her shoulders.
No surprise there then. Even with the few apparent buttons the thing had, it was proving too much for his airhead daughter to understand. Ken studied her for the hundredth time, bemused by her denim miniskirt and tiny vest top. Snow flakes danced past the glass of the patio behind her. The house felt like a bloody sauna.
"Is it nearly time for her?"
He checked his watch and sighed.
"Oh it just makes the day," his wife warbled. "Have you tried your present yet?"
Ken's gaze dropped to the black plastic case in his shirt pocket. Darts. New ones.
"Haven't you seen the snow? Be freezing out in the garage." He wiped his nose with the back of his hand, checked the contents and then smeared it on the arm of the recliner. "It can wait."
"Phew!" She gasped and fanned her face, dropping onto the sofa next to Tansy, who was frantically shaking the I-gizmo. "Like a greenhouse in here."
"Then turn the heating down!" said Ken and stared back at the TV. Adverts. He watched out for any mentioning Easter.
"It's been a tough year," said
Ken frowned. "How so?"
"Well, watching the people of your country suffer and worry."
He snorted. "This ain't her country. All she does is bloody sponge of us workin' stiffs."
And that was when he could work. The building industry was on its arse. Not much demand for plasterers these days. Not like the blessed eighties. The money they'd had to scrimp and save just for Christmas. Tansy's I-thing coast close to two hundred notes. She also wanted a download of this year's X Factor winner, predictably, unable to think for herself. Ken had seen him. Some baby-faced whiney crooner. Shit show. Shit singer. Take any old thug off the street, shave him and give a bit of hair gel and put him in a suit. Viola. Frank fucking Sinatra. And a download? When he was a teenager, you had records. LPs. You could hold them in your hands because, guess what? They were real. At least Damien's PS3 was real. His son had opened the package, grunted and taken it upstairs to his bedroom. They hadn't seen him since, and that was about seven hours ago.
In hindsight, Ken wished they'd bought him one weeks earlier.
"It's starting!" said
Ken grabbed the remote and turned up the volume for her.
"And now on ITV1, the Queen's Christmas speech."
Bollocks, thought Ken. At least Goldfinger's on after this…
Onscreen, a cosy drawing from faded in from black. An open fire burned below hanging stockings. A grand piano stood to the left ready for carols, and to the right, the biggest Christmas tree Ken had ever seen, laden with decorations with brightly wrapped presents stockpiled underneath.
Glad to see the economic crisis has touched us all, Ken seethed.
The Queen stood by the fireplace, ever the short, harsh, sour-faced old bat she'd always been. The aunty that made you eat liver and onions and wrapped your knuckles with a spoon should you put your elbows on the table. She peered over spectacles.
"Christmas is a time for celebration," she said, as wooden and miserable as the chick from that Twilight movie, "but this year it is a more sombre occasion for many. Some of those things which could once have been taken for granted suddenly seem less certain and, naturally, give rise to feelings of insecurity."
"Amen to that," Ken told her. "No
"People are touched by events which have their roots far across the world. Whether it is the global economy or violence in a distant land, the effects can be keenly felt at home." Her eyes glimmered gold.
Ken leaned forward slightly, gaze fixed to the screen. "Did you-?"
"For the last time,"
The Queen winked, quite cheeky for a lady of her standing. Those eyes flashed golden, like two shiny pound coins, behind her glasses. Ken felt a little better and settled back down, transfixed by her kind, loving expression.
"But I have a solution," she said, a little knowing, like Anne Robinson before she booted someone off The Weakest Link. In an instant, the tiny pensioner ripped a poker from the stand by the fire place and plunged it forward.
Tansy and
"Is this some kind of joke?" Tansy asked.
The camera angle slid to the side and plummeted. Viewers now saw a side view of a plush, elaborate carpet. A bloody hand – the cameraman? – flopped into the picture.
"It has to be," said
Ken remained in the recliner, watching nonchalantly.
Two pairs of feet emerged from the right, circling each other like they'd waltzed in. A gurgling choke, and another body fell to the floor, a man in a light blue shirt with large earphones clamped over his head. A boom, a guinea pig on a pole, fell from his hand. A knife, or perhaps a letter-opener, jutted from the scarlet geyser of his throat.
Tansy and
The Queen, still smiling and with her eyes still shimmering, leaned in close and leered out of the TV screen. "I have the solution,' she said again, her grin amplifying the cracks in her ancient face.
The picture suddenly clicked off, immediately replaced with the ITV1 symbol.
"We apologise for the loss in picture and sound," said the mellow announcer. "We're working to rectify the situation, and in the meantime, here's some music."
The whiney X Factor winner again.
"It…it has to be a joke," whispered Tansy.
"Or terrorists," added
Ken reached for the black case, popped it open and removed his darts, poking the Union Jack flights into the tungsten stems. He forced the recliner to the upright position and stood, scratching his balding head.
"Jesus. Well…she had one thing right…"
"What dear?"
Ken smiled. "I have the solution."
The darts, clutched together in his sweaty right hand, slid through her eye ball like a cocktail stick pronging a pickled onion. The membrane popped and aqueous humour ejaculated from the socket.
Eye… he thought. Eye…I?
Ken, enjoying Christmas and full of festive cheer, spun to face his daughter. She cowered against the front door, which remained locked since the night before. Of course, her slutty miniskirt had no pockets. No pockets meant no keys, but the moron didn't realise you needed keys to open a door. Her hand slid around the door handle in vain attempt to turn it.
In one fluid motion, Ken grabbed her I-thing from the I-sofa, and rammed it into her I-mouth, knocking out several of her I-teeth. She cried, her lips pulsating around her Christmas gift.
"Shhhh!" he cooed. "It's Christmas. You know what that means?"
He stared at her. She whimpered.
"Do you know what that means?" he asked, louder, squeezing her throat.
She frantically shook her head, tears cascading down her cheeks. Her eyes bulged.
Ken leaned in close to her.
"It means…James Bond's on the telly. Goldfinger this year. You gonna be quiet so dad can watch it?"
She sniffed, yet a trickle of clear snot escaped her nose. She locked eyes with him and nodded.
"Good," he said, relieved. "Sing with me. Si-lent niiiiight…"
He smashed her head back against the door. Her body swayed in his grasp.
"Ho-ly niiiiight!"
Blood marred the white paint of the door. It looked like a face.
"Alllllll is caaaaalm…."
He put a bit more effort into this one. Her skull cracked with the sound of breaking a hardboiled egg.
"Well it is now," he said, out of breath and dropping his daughter's lifeless body to floor. "Now. The solution."
He approached the window.
A man ran past, a hand pressed to a bloody wound in his head. He left a delightful pattern in the snow. A woman ran after him, brandishing a rolling pin. Good old Mrs. Perkins, making mince pies again, Ken guessed.
Ah Christmas, he thought wistfully. My favorite time of year.
Humming Jingle Bells to himself, he strode over to his wife and plucked the darts from her face. Sighing in contentment and filled with Christmas spirit, he wondered if Damien wanted a game, and headed upstairs, unaware that his jeans had fallen around his ankles.
Monday, December 14, 2009Sucky sucky things, Festive Fear and good deeds by a bad writer
Woke up this morning to find an email from Jerrod Balzer, one of the editors over at Skull Vines Press (and the artist of that stunning rendition of Vulva, the Albino Nympho Alien Lesbian from the upcoming Tabloid Terrors 3: Alien Perverts Wrecked my Pubes. How many of you can to this page to see what THAT was all about, eh? You sicken me.), requesting a meeting. We agreed 10am Aussie time, which gave me chance to help Sherie sort out the kids and the baby, all the time worrying about what he wanted.
See, there's quite a few presses having to cut down on the number of books they're releasing, due to the economic climate, work load, etc. They've had one of my novella submissions, a nasty piece called Fear of the Dark, for quite sometime. Taking on a few moderately big small press names like Shane Moore and Wrath James White, I was told to expect a decision sometime in 2010, due to their workload. I was expecting a NO decision, without them even reading all of the manuscript, for the same reason (nothing personal there, boys) as others: too many books, too little time to get them out without letting quality slide.
This ain't no cowboy operation. Yes, you presses that seem to release crappy anthologies every other week. I'm talking to you!
Anyhoo, so I'm worrying about this upcoming meeting and then get another email, this time from Tasmaniac Publications (one of the very few horror publishers here in Australia. Trust me, I've looked). Tasmaniac have just released the horror anthology, Festive Fear, which is selling out FAST where ever it is sold (here's the review from the Australian Horror Writers' Association: www. ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com/2009/11/book-review-festive-fear.html. Festive Fear is available here www.horror-mall.com and here www.jeffnjoys.co.uk. Move fast, as it has SOLD OUT everywhere else!).
Submissions opened for next year's edition, and I was mad keen to get in. Well, I'm shortlisted with my horror/humour piece, It Comes But Once a Year (or as it's known by friends on Facebook, 'The Spunk Story'). I stand a good chance of getting in and getting my hands on that $50 payment, which can help to fund next year's Christmas splurge-athon. Honestly, with three kids, I think it was a choice between Christmas presents or a down payment on a beachfront 5 bedroom...
THE MEETING...(bites fingernails)
The editor in chief at SVP, SD Hintz, had read the novella and offered me a contract. Whoo hoo! The deal shits all over anything I've had previously, and is on par with my upcoming agreement for Samhane with Stygian Publications. Gonna be a good year in 2010. Great to be on the roster with Shane and Wrath as mentioned above, as well as Michele Lee, Garry Charles and L L Soares.
We just need to think of another title, as Fear of the Dark is the same title as an Iron Maiden song, which as Jerrod pointed out, means potential readers having to possibly search through the Iron Maiden stuff to find it. We felt that SD's suggestion, Fear of the bit you know when they go down into that dark room and there's slime on the walls and those sucky sucky things come out might be a tad long, nor were we keen on the abridged version, Fear of the Sucky Sucky Things, which I believe was the original title of the Twilight saga, which is a bit silly. I mean, to like Twilight, you're obviously not afraid of things that suck. Ah, you'll agree with me when you reach your twenties...
And to top it all off, I just had an ice cream and have a cold can of coke chilling in the fridge. Bliss on a super hot day like today. Good times! It was 99 degrees here yesterday, so we took the kids swimming. I did the whole dunking Tobin under the water thing. He took it really well, but shot me a glare he could only have got from his mother (bless 'er. She normally has a joking go at the little comments I put in here about her. Yup honey, it was quite minor this week).
Off topic, I just looked out the window to see our motorbike post lady being chased by another motorbike. Hope she's ok...
What else has happened. Oh, Necrotic Tissue #9 is nearly ready to go out the door to subscribers and single issue readers. Interview with Joe R Lansdale is entertaining and insightful (when is the man not?) and R. Scott McCoy gives readers the inside scoop on what was this year's Context convention. Stuck for xmas gift ideas? Get a Necrotic Tissue subscription. A year for a mere $20! www.necrotictissue.com.
I also helped my father in law to scrub down and paint and elderly neighbour's house. While I can't agree on the colour (canary yellow?) it was hard, rewarding work. It's nearly Christmas. Can you think of a person who needs something doing and is unable to do so? Do a nice thing. Especially for the older folks.
See you next week. Can Dan survive the stress? Can he cope with watching any more dvds in the classroom for the final week? (Although Howl's Moving Castle was great!) Can the purchase of yet more gifts bankrupt/kill him?
Monday, December 07, 2009...rising from the flames...
Like most human beings, I'm aware that some people don't like me (jerks), so this next bit is just for them. Sitting comfortably? Ready to rub your hands together, throw your head back and laugh like some comic book super villain?
This week, I experienced a very, very weird feeling in my career. Some of you writers will have heard about the Leisure Horror Fresh Blood contest. I entered this in July, as with my novels not having been released in print, I was eligible. The contest closed in September, with the ten finalists being announced in November. There was a few novels of mine 'out there' and any positive decisions needed to be kept quiet to keep me in the contest.
Needless to say, having my novels on hold for the last 5 months, I didn't make the cut. To be a novelist with Leisure is my ambition, so imagine your dreams being stamped on and you'll know how I felt not seeing my name on that list (and a tad unprofessional in my book. I saw the finalists on a guy's twitter update, and it was a few days before I got the official email).
You laughing, haters? ;-)
But then, this weird feeling swept over me. Excitement. Rather then have months of stress and canvassing for votes to stay in the comp, I don't need to! Plus (and yes, you may consider this sour grapes) a few things didn't sit right with me viewing the finalists. Most of them have no presence on the web, suspicious for an aspiring writer. Pen name, anyone? (This tactic was suggested to me. Curse my honesty!). There's a few other gripes I have with one or two other finalists (maybe if I sent my bio and published credits, I may have made a better impression) but get over it, Dan.
And now, I can resume the search for other publishers (yay!) and agents (boo!).
Here we go. Begone gloaters, for here comes the good news.
DO NOT BUY SAMHANE. That's right. Funny request isn't it, a writer asking you NOT to buy his book. I haven't been happy with my current publisher for a long long time. The book took 18 months to get through the editing process (a fact not helped that three separate editors did the job - no issues with them as individuals, they did a great job. Just the process was sooo frustrating!) and to this day has not been promoted by the publisher. The selected excerpt wasn't posted, rather, the first half of the first chapter, badly formatted to the point it's unreadable. My reviews (and they've all been good thus far. Check out Samhane at www.goodreads.com for example) weren't even posted on the site with the book. I've been trying to get out of my contract for a long time, but the publisher has stuck to their guns and the download is still for sale at their site.
However, they did revert the print rights back to me....so...
In 2010, I'm pleased to announce that Samhane will be released in paperback by Stygian Publications, the same folks that brought you the critically acclaimed Malpractice anthology and the force that supports our very own Necrotic Tissue magazine. I'm sure the book will be reasonably priced, look great and be widely available. Out of all my novels, Samhane has always been my baby, being my first novel and all. Sales haven't been great, what with the poor advertising and ebook version only, but I'm sure Stygian can change all that. Readers love it, and we hope to reach a lot more in 2010. Watch this space.
All potential contributors be aware that submissions open again in January and for January only. This time, not only do all contributors get 1c a word as usual, and one story selected as the best of issue be awarded the pro rate of 5c a word...but check this out from the Stygian blog:
"As many of you know, NT already pays one writer per issue Pro Pay of 5 Cents per word. In cooperation with Quatre Con, we are having a horror writing contest for our January submission period. The winner will also receive 5 Cents per word and publication in our July issue along with 5 contributor copies and they will be announced as the winner at Quatre Con in Sacramento, Saturday, April 10th at 2 PM.
That's two chances out of twenty two stories we will select for July that will receive Pro Pay. What are you waiting for?? Oh yeah, January 1st. Submissions rules are the same as always, please check out our guidelines at www.necrotictissue.com."
In addition:
"Stygian Publications is pleased to announce a fantasy short story contest for the Abyss Walker Anthology, a new joint venture with the creator Shane Moore. All stories must take place in the Abyss Walker world. You can write a story about your favorite character or create a new one and they may be set in any time.
Half of the stories will be by established writers to include Shane Moore, the creator of the Abyss Walker series, but the other half will come from this contest sponsored by Quatrecon. The First Place winner will receive publication in the anthology, professional pay of 5 cents per word, and five contributor copies. The 5-8 runners up (depending on length of stories) will receive publication in the anthology, 1 cent per word, and two contributor copies."
Guidelines at www.stygianpublications.blogspot.com, so there's plenty for you writers to be getting on with.
2010 also sees Necrotic Tissue go under a slight change in respect of the chief editor. R. Scott McCoy has done a sterling job over the last few years, but in 2010, he's sharing the wealth (or is that burden?) with his associate editors (or is that whipping boys?) John P Wilson and yours truly. We're going to get an issue each, July for John and October for myself with us in charge of the layout, articles, formatting, etc. The submission process will be the same (so no hate mail if you don't get into the October issue, please). Going to be a lot of work, but worth it and great experience. A big thank you to Scott for this amazing opportunity.
My novella Fear of the Dark, a nasty little piece, like Alice in Wonderland on a bad LSD trip, is currently under consideration by the mighty Skull Vines Press. The boys are mad busy with the Abyss Walker series (again, see the comp above) and this might be another 2010 release if the final light is green. But I'm hearing good feedback, so fingers crossed. 2010 might be a good year!
You know what? I'm not going to bang on about goings on here at Manji Towers for once. Gonna keep this a 100% writing post! See you next week.


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Telltale Games announces multi-title deal for Game of Thrones
Find yourself dying to see the next installment of Game of Thrones? Soon, you may actually be able to die in the Game of Thrones universe… at least virtually.
Telltale Games announced today a partnership with HBO that gives them a multiple-title deal for a PC, Mac and mobile devise based game. So far there's been no word on what the plot or characters for the game will be, but according to the Los Angeles Times Hero Complex blog, "Telltale principals Dan Connors and Kevin Bruner said the game will take its lead from the television series rather than Martin's books."
Telltale Games is known for their story-first approach to gaming where character development and plot are important parts of the game.


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