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A handful of friends have asked me to post a glimpse of the novel I've been working on for the past year and a half. I aim to oblige. This is the introduction to the unedited and unrevised portion of the beginning of it. Just go with me, will you? It's a work in editing progress. As we all are, really.
My search for elusive Heaven and convincing answers has lead me to a winding holler in the dusty recesses of McDowell County, West Virginia, a place that God obviously forgot about long ago. The address I was looking for brought me right outside of Jolo, a place I'd heard of since my youth but had never set foot or fancy on.
Vast arrays of tales came out of Jolo, those regarding unearthly church services where God fearing people hoot and bellow in religious tongues and roll in the church floors with rattlesnakes and mountain vipers to prove their faith in the Almighty. Other stories have leaked out of that arcane place, those of the more specter variety. There were devil worshipers running amok in the shadowy eclipse of the unwelcoming hills, ready and waiting to sacrifice you or your dog or your firstborn. That's what we had heard, anyhow. I didn't buy any of that cryptic nonsense. I would wager that any poor soul still living back in these woods wouldn't know how to read or write, much less have the gumption to slaughter anything (or anybody) in the name of the devil.
People are afraid of Hell here.
Appalachia is full of pulpits and preachers warning of fire and brimstone and eternal damnation. Here in the sticks, church is scarier than Satan ever endeavored to be. I know; I am an Appalachian girl myself. I'm not afraid of Hell these days, and haven't been for quite some time. To be honest, I figure I'm not afraid of very much these days at all. I've seen too much, I suppose. All the lies and the secrets. There was a time in my young mind when I thought my own daddy was the devil. He'd have given the bastard a run for his money, and that's for sure. Regardless, I have to admit that Jolo would have put a spook in the veins of anybody from civilized society. Even me.
I'd stopped at the Jolo post office to ask about the address I had: Route 635, Box 36, Jolo, West Virginia, 24850.
"Who you looking for, ma'am?" the gauntly thin older woman behind the counter had asked me in a blatantly suspicious tone. She knew everybody in town, no doubt.
There I stood in my unassuming crisp white Petite Sophisticate summer blouse and denim capris, a Coach bag over my shoulder, my mop of too long hair smoothed into a loose bun so my neck could breathe. I suppose it was obvious to this scraggly little woman that I was more than likely just passing through. Or lost.
"I'm not sure who I'm looking for," I told her. I made sure to smile all sweet and friendly, hoping she would lower her natural backwoods defenses and tell me how to find the address.
"You don't know who you're looking for?" she repeated slowly. I don't think she believed me, sweet smile or not. "That's the weirdest thing I ever heard," she said, the obvious hints of curiosity lingering on her slow words and beaming from her penetrating glare. I recognized her distrust. I was prepared to deal with it.
"I grew up over there and we moved away when I was little," I lied. I was prepared for rogue questions. I'd prepared half cocked explanations most of my life to save face and feelings. I'd gotten quite good at it. I looked her square in the slits where her eyes were hiding, hoping that would give her a gesture of sincerity. I forced a little more twang in my words and pulled my vowels long and deep like she did. It was easy. I just had to play up the Appalachian dialect I already had. I was pure Southwest Virginia tongued, Petite Sophisticate ensemble and Coach purse or not.
"I've got good memories of that old place and I'd just like to see it again. I figured if the folks living there now were nice and all, they might let me look around and relive my childhood for a little while."
Her glare softened a bit. "Well, ain't that nice. Too many folks forget where they come from, sweetheart." Satisfied, she obligingly wrote down the information I needed to find the place.
"Those folks up there ain't real friendly to strangers, just so you know," she warned me with a wink.
"That's okay," I said. "I'm not making friends today." My response left her silent, and her eyes turned into slits again.
I had that effect on people occasionally. My Daddy had the same semblance about him, a way with words that often just shut people up. It was the Nicewander in me, an affectation that the lot of us had come to terms with. Seems like my whole family had always been fed from a mixed plate of curses and blessings. I was on my way to break one of those old curses myself. I'd do it if it I had to go to the farthest reaches of mapless nowhere and redneck limbo to do it. Jolo didn't seem too far away from neither.
I followed the directions that the spindly woman at the post office wrote down, and they took me deeper into the vacuum of an ancient holler just this side of oblivion. I looked for road signs. There weren't any. It was The Middle of Nowhere, I figured. It was a real place, right outside of godforsaken Jolo, West Virginia.
The pavement ended a mile or so back, leaving my Jeep to drudge over fractures and pits on the narrowing road. Surely to God nobody was crazy enough to live up in this void, I thought. A few mobile homes dotted the landscape to my left. Trailers, run down and seedy Urban Cowboy models and their cinder block porches, with little blue plastic swimming pools and barking dogs adorning the yards. I watched the mailboxes, when there were mailboxes to be seen. I'd passed a Box 34 just moments ago; it had a small caliber bullet hole through it and a We Love Jesus sticker plastered on its side. Box 36 had to be close. But out there, close could mean a day's hike. My cell phone gave off a sudden alarming tone, letting me know I no longer had service. I couldn't even call 911. I wasn't too concerned. My trusty Jeep would get me out and away when I was ready to go. And if it for some reason did not, I had my faithful .357 magnum in my pretty Coach purse. Locked and loaded.
I didn't have to drive much further. I passed box 35 just around the next curve in the road. Another trailer. A camper, more like it, with a rebel flag for curtains on the front door. It momentarily crossed my mind that if I indeed find the place I'm looking for, I might never see Pittsburgh again. I'd been an unwilling Yankee for the past fifteen years. It had grown on me, the access to restaurants and any kind of food I took a hankering for, the sights and sounds and scents of things going on and the nameless people that made the city hum and echo with the peacock proud goulash of cultures. Legions of Polish and Italian folks are packed like sardines throughout Western Pennsylvania, with surnames like Matyus and Pajak and Sperandio and Russo.
I'd never heard names like that back in Virginia. I was only a scattering of blood relatives away from being a Smyth or an Adkins or a Shelton. The name on mailbox 35 had read, in peeling gold letters, Keen. There were more than a few Keens in Richlands. But that wasn't the familiar last name I was looking for. I was hoping box 36 would have her name on it. I'd envisioned it in my mind on more occasions than I could reminisce in the last few weeks. Things never seem to turn out how they are conjured in the mind; I'm aware of that. Most of the time, the coveted and painted pictures in our heads are dull comparisons to the reality awaiting us. Despite the tales of vipers and devil worshipers, that reality is what spooks me today, and is the very thing that tainted the picture of finding that damned box 36 in my vengeful mind.
My heart caught in my throat. In the clear distance, by the stump of a rotted tree, stood another lone mailbox. That had to be it. The scenery beyond me was lushly wooded and the noonday shine glared mercilessly off my windshield. My cell phone beeped again. No service, I knew. The mailbox came into view thanks to the momentary shade of an overhanging cedar, and there it was, just as I had imagined. I was pleasantly shocked. Karma, just goods, comeuppance, whatever forces that be out there in the mystic were with me, I was sure of it. It was perfect.
Dixon, Box 36 it read, just as pretty as you please.
I took the narrow gravel driveway by that mailbox and it brought me to a shoddy farm house behind an overgrowth of wild rhododendron and a well tended garden of tomatoes and green bell peppers. Somebody lived there, obviously. I hoped it was the somebody I was looking for. The somebody I'd pictured in my wildest visions for as long as I could recollect. I hoped she was in there, in that old and neglected house that loomed in my wake and cast cool shadows over my windshield.
Two boys played on the front porch with makeshift swords of whittled wood, both of them ten or twelve years-old, shirtless and skinny and glistening like little greased pigs. They were identical twins, right down to their sweaty auburn cowlicks and crooked noses. I could see them behind the unpainted lattice that had been nailed up around the porch. For privacy from strangers like me, no doubt.
They noticed me immediately and stood in silent tandem, eyeballing me up and down, silent as the grave and mouths agape.
I stepped out of my truck, Coach bag and thirty-seven years' worth of resentment over my shoulder, and I approached the steps of the porch and those two matching young fellows. I produced the same motherly tone and subtlety of warmth that I used with my own children.
"My goodness, boys, ain't ya'll burning up out here?" I said with a grin. The boys looked at each other and snickered. They didn't answer me. I kept talking anyway. I know how to deal with rotten little boys.
"Is Pearl here?" I finally asked. It was, after all, the question I really had, my very reason for being there in the godforsaken sticks of Jolo.
"You one of the church ladies?" one of them asked.
I hadn't set foot in church since I'd left Richlands.
"Yes, I am," I said.
Another lie.
"She's in the house," one of the boys said. "Granny, another church lady here to see you," he hollered through the screen door. With that, they bolted past me in a blur of wooden swords and sweat, and sent me an immodest wolf whistle from where they hid and peeked out at me from the corner of the house.
I ignored the fledgling amorous banter from those rotten boys and stepped up onto the porch. I knocked on the screen door. There I stood, on the precipice of my own history, not knowing, not truly giving a damn, what I would find inside that musty smelling house.
"Come in," a faint voice called from inside.
Is that her? I wondered. She sounded old. Feeble. Give out. The door groaned an echoing creak, as if it sensed an unwelcome presence.
Old houses sometimes do that. They seem to know when dread is at the door. And that house knew. I could feel it, too, that dread. That an age old destiny was coming home. It knew me, that house. It knew that I was there to bring down a fate that was many decades a coming.


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5:48am // Jack has been pretty well sleeping right through the night this last week. But he is waking up a fair bit earlier than I would like. Once or twice I tried leaving him in his room until 7:30am but that just ended with a tired and cranky baby for the rest of the day. So I'm now just going in and giving him his first feed of the day at this time, but in a completely dark room. Hopefully he'll start sleeping a bit longer on his own.
6:08am // I've been cleaning up Angel's accidents every morning. The poor old thing is deaf and blind and right now I'm sure she has no idea where she is or what's going on. I can still remember the day that I bought her home and she stood at the window looking out and crying. It's crazy to think she's still around after all these years.
9:24am // We usually have packages delivered a couple of times a week. Lee and I are both fans of online shopping… partly for convenience, partly for necessity and partly because going to the shops and having to deal with people can be exhausting.
9:25am // I'm trying to set the mood or the tone for today (that is, to keep Violet calm and happy) by getting some music playing. I miss the days where I would have music playing almost non-stop throughout the day.
9:34am // Violet is pretty happy with the music so far, doing some interpretive chair dancing.
9:36am // Pulling out all the big guns. I've been using essential oils a lot more over the past couple of months. I have a few books that I've bought to educate myself a little more when I have the time. This oil burner isn't anywhere near as effective as an electric diffuser. But I'm yet to find a diffuser that runs on battery and I don't have anywhere close enough to a power outlet to put one in the living area.
9:41am // Violet started playing with the threading beads from yesterday and I was super impressed (and very proud) to see her sorting all the pink beads into one group together. Having just covered early maths concepts in one of my units at uni this year I know that this is quite a big accomplishment for a girl of her age. She really is such a clever and bright little thing…which I'm sure is a big part of the reason for our struggles with her and her behaviour right now.
10:10am // New PJ's for Lee and I! We both love Peter Alexander PJ's and when I saw a sale, we decided to treat ourselves to some new winter jarmies.
10:18am // At some point Lee decided he didn't like the music I was playing and switched it to something that was pretty heavy sounding. I told him why I was playing the music and asked him to please switch it back to something a little more calming. I had a bit of a laugh when I saw my phone and his interpretation of calming music… just search for Mozart.
10:37am // A quick feed for Jack. Pretty sure that Lee is loving the new hands-free feeds.
10:46am // Making some cloud dough with Violet. I know that if I can keep her occupied and entertained and stimulated, we all have a better day. I've had the supplies for making the cloud dough in the cupboard for a little while and decided today was the day. She loved helping me pour, then mix. And of course we needed our aprons and she needed her hat. It's messy, but its fun. And Violet loves it.
11:02am // BEFORE – Lee is off to get his mop cut.
11:06am // I learned my lesson the last time we had cloud dough. This time it's an outside activity.
11:08am // When we got our new TV at the start of the year and my surround sound system stopped working, I practically begged to get a soundbar and was given a pretty hard no in response. So I was shocked last night when Lee told me he'd ordered a soundbar for the theatre online. Even more shocked when it turned up on our door this morning… about 12 hours after placing the order!
11:27am // Getting Violet's lunch ready. Peanut paste + honey. This is definitely her current favourite sandwich spread.
11:28am // She's pretty proud of her baking efforts. These are biscuits, baked in the cubby-house oven!
12:47am // AFTER – this is a very short haircut. Almost army-short.
1:16pm // Oh, if only. Behind this door a little angel is most definitely NOT sleeping. Nap times are so hit and miss now. She will go days at a time without a nap, then days at a time sleeping anywhere up to three hours. I think it's still too soon to drop the nap altogether though so she's going to keep going in there for some rest time, not matter how difficult it can be to make it happen.
2:51pm – 2:55pm // We make a fairly impromptu decision to head out for an afternoon outing. Hitting up The Cheese Barrel for some wine and delicious cheeses. Even Violet gets in on the action with her own kids cheese + fruit platter.
3:10pm // Stinky blue cheese. It took me a long time to acquire the taste for it but now I love it. It feels like one of those crucial steps into true adulthood. Much like the ability to enjoy a fine single malt whisky.
3:55pm // After our food + wine I take Violet up among the vines for some running and dancing. How utterly beautiful and joyous.
3:57pm // I am so happy that we chose to move out here by the Swan Valley so that stunning views like this are almost literally right on our doorstop. Although it's winter, we're still very much enjoying the Autumn hues of rusty red and burnt orange.
3:58pm // And the bright green of the field of clover. It may have been the glasses of wine but I was definitely appreciating the beauty of our surroundings this afternoon.
4:50pm // Back home and Violet is straight outside to make more mess with the cloud dough. And happily finding and wearing the new sunglasses we thought we had lost.
4:51pm // I was feeling so relaxed and content when we got home and would have loved to just curl up on the couch. But, duty calls and so I must prepare dinner.
6:48pm // We managed to get both kids in bed early and decided to eat dinner in the theatre tonight. Some simple but very tasty (and healthy) beef fajitas.


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Inventory of county records, Hidalgo County courthouse, Edinburgh, Texas, Volume 1
Description: Inventory of the records of Hidalgo County. Begins with an introduction and explanation of the roles of various county government offices. Volume 1 describes the records of the Commissioners Court, County Judge, Right-of-Way Department, County Clerk, Tax Assessor-Collector, Treasurer, Auditor, and School Superintendent. Also provides a listing of Hidalgo County records and an index.
Date: 1979
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"Think globally, act locally."
The phrase of our time, a time where we have become aware of the fragility of life on this planet and the impact we humans have on it. The locals of Urbana know that the Saturday farmer's market has become so crowded that walking through the first two rows can be like floating through a sea of people, it's so crowded it can sometimes be described as stressful! But assuredly it's better than the alternative, people of this area love to shop for local produce and goods, and believe it's worth the premium price and effort. It seems people are starting to change the decisions they are making regarding the type of food they are purchasing, and in turn, putting into their bodies. The correlation between these choices and the health of the planet and one's self has become commonly pronounced undeniable. People are starting to see that chemicals on food means it gets absorbed by the food, in the ground, in the water, effects the bug biosphere, our health, etc. People are starting to say, I don't want that.
But it seems the flower industry is still not quite up with the times. Organic, and even local, flowers are few and far between, even nowadays when the organic and local movement is so trendy and publicly justified. The flower industry is HUGE, and the use of pesticides and chemicals is just as dangerous as that in the produce industry, it still effects our planet, the local environment, and our own health. You don't want to stick your nose in a bouquet sprayed with chemicals, do you?
On a recent trip to New Orleans I did some research at a Whole Foods to see what the going rate for "sustainably grown" flowers was–and wanted to see what "sustainably grown" meant. What I found was surprising! All the flowers they carried were shipped from South America, even in the dead of summer. Why weren't they buying locally?! I also noticed they were all labeled "responsibly grown", but not "chemical free", which I wondered about. And their prices? Very comparable to our flowers on a weekly basis, if not pricier. I'm sure at the local farmer's market I could have found some locally grown flowers, but much like Urbana and towns everywhere, your local grocery stores and one-stop-shops aren't selling the local flowers, they are selling flowers shipped from all over the world, which like produce, isn't the most ideal when it comes to fossil fuels, and are grown with chemicals.
Here is a quiz another local flower farmer gave at a class we just participated in, it gives the breakdown of the current flower situation:
We grow flowers at Delight Flower Farm to provide a local and chemical free option for the people in and around our area. We hope to enhance the planet with our farm, and provide joy to all living beings through flowers.


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James Gimbi
James Gimbi was a consultant at Mandiant, a FireEye company. He performed breach investigations and guided cyber strategy for clients in government and the Global 500, spanning defense, finance, healthcare, professional services, and other industries across four continents. He produced the Security Operations Center for a top Asia-Pacific bank and reviewed the DHS National Cyber Incident Response Plan. Gimbi developed and taught security courses for federal law enforcement, conferences, and private clients. Gimbi holds a B.S. with honors from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Information Security & Forensics. At RIT, he published research on covert channels, studied politics, and worked co-ops with Mandiant, BOCES, and Cisco Systems.
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Condos for kids? Vancouver parents getting toddlers on property ladder
Faced with skyrocketing real estate prices, some Vancouver parents are taking an unusual step to ensure their children won't be driven out of the city when they grow up. Those parents, and in some cases grandparents, have taken to buying property for young children then renting it out until the kids are old enough to move in.


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I have a daughter who would much rather play with Legos or Lincoln logs (or video games, of course!) than read a book, so I try to intentionally fit in some reading time each day. As she's gotten older I've employed many different strategies (some more successful than others!) to get her 'hooked on books' and I can slowly see a reader emerging from my wiggly kid.
Books for Kids who'd rather play
Now there is absolutely nothing wrong with play time (I'd even say that it is an essential for childhood development). But, as kids get older their interests start to change. And hey, I don't want a kid that's stuck in front of a screen all day (as much as she'd love days filled with Minecraft). So I'm sneaking in ways for her to choose reading as her leisure time activity of choice. Here are my top 5 tips:
5 Tips for Reading
Let your child choose the books. Sometimes they will be more invested in their own choices then a book that mom wants them to read. I'll keep a basket and a bookshelf filled with lots of choices that I know will be worth her time.
Read aloud every day.You can expose them to great stories and rich vocabulary that they might not be able to read themselves (here are our favorite elementary read alouds). I like {these are affiliate links -->} The Read-Aloud Handbook and Honey for a Child's Heart for fabulous book recommendations.
Stew some books around. I like to be a bit sneaky and leave some interesting books with great pictures lying around. TJ will pick them up to look at the pictures and get pulled into the captions and content. The DK Eyewitness books are great for strewing!
Download some audio books for quiet time and play time. There are many places online (check your library too!) where you can quickly download a variety of wonderful audio books. I will turn one on when it's quiet, during play time, even when TJ is playing Minecraft. Sneak in those good books when you can.
Later bedtimes (only for reading). This is another great way to sneak in some reading time. TJ has a specified bedtime but she is allowed to stay up 30 minutes to 1 hour (depending on when I go to bed!) past her bedtime if she is reading. My only rule is she must stay in her bed. During this bedtime reading she's allowed to read whatever she likes (which usually means Garfield or Calvin & Hobbes).
Fun with books!
This printable collection includes plenty of ideas and resources for reading fun. With plenty of book recommendations, narration tips, and printable activities, you'll have lots of ideas to engage your kids with the books you love.
By allowing TJ to choose her own books, leaving interesting, picture-filled books around the house, reading aloud (or listening to audio books), and letting her stay up a little bit later, she's beginning to choose books in her free time. While she isn't a natural born reader, she is learning to appreciate good books.


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text: I've been wanting to photograph chickens on an Oliphant-style backdrop for a long time. A weirdly long time, considering the number of subjects there are to choose from. Two things happened to make this dream a reality. 1. A super talented set designer and I bartered. He made to samples of small backdrops so that I could get an idea of color. These samples were too small for humans, but... you guess it. Perfect chicken backdrops. 2. My daughters' school hatched chicks. I did a little happy dance and then set up the tiny little studio in the school's gym, by a window, and talked the 5/6 grade teacher into acting as chicken wrangler. Here's what I learned: Little fuzzy chicks are super cute, but boring to photograph. The awkward adolescent stage is a much more varied and complex moment to photograph both humans and chickens. Chicken necks can be extremely graceful. Chicken shoots include loads of poop breaks and clean up.


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I wasn't sure if I was going to get around to reviewing my 2012 goals but I decided it was time. I need to do it for me more than anything else. Some of them I met, some I didn't. And that's ok because 2013 is a fresh new start! Goal # 1- Read the Bible. I really wish I
Has it really been almost 2 weeks since my last post?!! I don't even know where to begin. So much going on right now (as it is for everyone) and honestly I just wanted to take a little break from blogs in general. The big kids have been home from school since Wednesday and having four home keeps me much
It's been a little while (almost a year to be exact) since I wrote my New Year's Resolution Post but I decided to go back and check out some of my running related goals when 2012 started. One of my goals was to run a race every month! This included 5K's all the way to marathons. I knew this would
Well, I wasn't going to do any more racing in 2012 but I decided to make a little exception for someone very special… Me and my big girl When we heard about a very low-key 5K happening on campus this past weekend, my husband and I asked Abi if she wanted to run in it. She liked the fact that
2012. What a year. I do not plan on racing anymore this month so in the next few weeks many of my posts will be reflecting on random running/ race stuff that happened this year as well as some of my goals for next year. When the year began my marathon PR was a 3:35. My main marathon goal for
Today's marathon taught me many things but I'd say the biggest lesson I learned was to respect the distance. I've heard other runners say this but it's never quite hit me the way it did today. And it hit hard. Forcing my legs to continue to move during the last 2 miles was a bigger accomplishment than running the entire


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Rock Hill school board casts its eyes on athletic equity
The Rock Hill school board spent five hours Friday peering into all the forgotten corners – as well as the big public spaces – used by the system's three high schools for athletics.
The board wanted to see how equitable facilities are among among the district's three high schools. A recent district office study recommends spending $1.72 million on the three schools to achieve equity.
Included in the district's plan is converting existing space at South Pointe High into a wrestling room, air conditioning for auxiliary gyms at Northwestern and Rock Hill high schools, and making storage improvements and adding bleachers at all three schools.
Board members said what became evident is that some of the equity questions are an issue of age – Rock Hill (which opened in 1979 on Springdale Road) and Northwestern (1971 on West Main Street) were built with almost the same plan and nearly at the same time, South Pointe (2005 on Neely Road) is the youngest – as well as changing needs in athletics, especially girls' athletics.
No timetable for a decision has been set. The board wants input from the three schools as well as from a parent committee appointed to study the issue.
At Northwestern High
The biggest change that would improve facilities for all students at Northwestern is air conditioning for the smaller "auxiliary" gyms, said Northwestern's athletic director, Lauren West. The lack of air conditioning often makes the gyms unusable for regular gym classes, she said.
West also said converting a mobile classroom into a locker room-storage facility for the girls' softball team was a great idea that could be done to address space and locker-room needs elsewhere.
At South Pointe High
South Pointe's biggest need is finding a dedicated space for its wrestling team, said the school's athletic director, Michael Drummond. Plans call for a classroom near the main gym to be converted into a practice space. The additional space would avoid "stacking of winter sports practices," where several teams use the same space at different times. "That would mean our athletes would get home earlier. We have some practices that now end at 8 or 9 in the evening," Drummond said.
Adding more windows to the baseball press box would allow the facility to also be used as a press box for softball.
At Rock Hill High
Rock Hill has repurposed its athletic spaces several times to meet its needs. A recessed seating area in the first gym was turned into a wrestling practice room many years ago. The school weight room is the old auxiliary gym.
Rock Hill athletic officials now want to convert a classroom into a training room, giving all athletes easier access to the facility.
Rock Hill officials said their biggest need is outside practice fields which are used by students during the day as well as by teams after school. Installing synthetic turf at the soccer practice field has been suggested, but is likely too costly. New fields could be built on 24 acres the district owns adjacent to the high school. New fields are not part of the proposed $1.7 million equity proposal.
District Three Stadium
The district's equity funding plan proposes adding digital signs at District Three Stadium and District Three Stadium South (at South Pointe) to indicate who is playing there. School board members said there has been confusion in the past, particularly from visiting fans, over which of the two stadiums they need to be at. Current signs list the stadium name, but not the teams playing there.
The board also also toured the Rock House, a 1939 facility that was the site of dances during World War II. The rock building has been used for school district offices. The interior has been gutted and improvements to the building are a possibility in the board's long-term capital improvement plan.
Don Worthington: 803-329-4066, @rhherald_donw


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As Ocwen Financial sweeps out its old regime, the company announced Friday that a longtime director will leave the chairman's post — and be replaced by a former federal regulator who was appointed to the embattled mortgage company's board last year on the orders of New York state regulators.
Barry Wish, the chairman of West Palm Beach-based Ocwen, will step down next month. His replacement is Phyllis Caldwell, who served for two years as chief of the Homeownership Preservation Office at the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the first Obama administration.
Ocwen chairman's mansion still on market — two years after shareholders bought it for a hefty price
Former Ocwen Chairman Bill Erbey's paper loss grows to $2.5 billion
Ocwen chair must resign in settlement with New York
Billionaire Wilbur Ross quits Ocwen board
Wish, a 74-year-old Manalapan resident, has been a director of Ocwen (NYSE: OCN) since 1988. He took over as chairman last year, when regulators pushed out former Chairman and Chief Executive William Erbey.
Wish "did not wish to stand for re-election at the Company's annual shareholder meeting in May 2016," the company said in a statement. Wish owned 4.15 million shares of Ocwen as of the company's May proxy.
Caldwell is not just a former regulator but the only woman on Ocwen's board. In the 1990s, the company was the target of a class action by employees who claimed sexual harassment. And two women who worked at Ocwen's West Palm Beach headquarters won a $2 million sexual harassment verdict in 2005.
Ocwen shares briefly touched an all-time high of $59.98 in 2013. Shares closed Thursday at $5.69.
A regulatory crackdown punished shares of Ocwen, which has a reputation for playing hardball with subprime borrowers.


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There are lenders in MO starting to offer the program, but as stated in previous replies the interest rate in much higher. Have you considered FHA or a USDA loan program. If you have more questions, please contact me.
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Is nature to blame for Tiger's follies?
So Tiger Woods likes to play with Barbie dolls, or, more specifically, Playboy centerfold-like women with appropriate hair, corresponding facial features and proportionately outsized bods;
the type of woman who would try to take a 15-minute fast track to fame and fortune via a reality show as it turns out.
Woods is continuing to take a well-deserved drubbing by his once-adoring public (not to mention his wife's apparent expertise with fists and 9-iron). But the real victims here may be his paramours.
A study released Dec. 7 by UCSB biologists says females can be too attractive to the opposite sex — too attractive for their own good.
In a page taken out of "Revenge of the Nerds," William Rice, a biology professor at UCSB, asks: "Can females be too good looking? Can there be disadvantages to being attractive? The answer is yes: If you are too attractive, you get too much male attention, and that interferes with your ability to function biologically."
We've all witnessed the dating and mating game at one time or another at a bar or party. The female accents her best come-on features — some pout-inducing collagen here, a pushup device there — coupled with a come-hither/stay away look and the guys line up.
"Females are frequently subject to intense courtship 'harassment' from males attempting to obtain additional matings," say researchers.
"These coercive activities can result in attractive females becoming less fit to reproduce — a factor that has a major effect on the entire population.
"When they court the females, the males sing to them … they dance and sing at the same time," says the report.
And then as though putting the finger on Tiger himself, the report goes on to say: "This might sound romantic, and it would be if it only happened once. But males are doing it all the time. This courtship is unrelenting — like mosquitoes on a warm summer night."
OK, so the UCSB study was actually about the mating habits of fruit flies, but I think we can extrapolate the same motivations in Woods: He simply can't help himself.
Marc Pascal of the Moderate Voice believes Woods is everyman unshackled.
"Tiger is a worldwide celebrity … who has shown a strong sexual preference for natural and dyed blond women … Perhaps at his tender age, he didn't get all his philandering out of his system and he should have waited until he was over 40 to get married. Alternatively, he just exemplifies the 'natural proclivities' in human nature when completely unrestrained by financial, social, technological, or ethical considerations."
Another slightly different view was voiced by Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, who said that Woods "seems to have been bent on proving to himself that he could have any woman he wanted. But from the evidence, his aim wasn't variety … "
Of course it's a stretch to compare a Tiger with a fruit fly. But, then again, when you've got the singular taste and libido of a horny gnat when it comes to infidelity, perhaps the comparison fits.
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Let me say this right up front: I prefer using multichannel digital-only audio cards in my work, and that typically means (almost by default) a card with 8-channel Lightpipe optical I/O. I realize that this option can be more expensive than using prepackaged multichannel cards with dedicated breakout boxes, but digital-only audio cards offer some distinct advantages. First, they can interface with a wide variety of compatible outboard components, such as MDMs, digital mixers, multichannel A/D/A converters, synthesizers, and samplers. Second, you can use long, easily replaceable optical cables to run between the card and the external devices. This lets you use cables that are optically isolated, thereby avoiding ground loops, and the comparatively greater cable lengths simplify the placement of outboard gear in relation to the computer and other studio equip- ment.
Currently, most manufacturers of multichannel digital-only cards offer products that are limited to providing Lightpipe connections for transferring digital audio between the computer and outboard devices. However, Frontier Design Group has taken that design concept to the next level with its powerful new Dakota card. It provides 18-channel digital audio capability (16 ADAT and 2 S/PDIF), in addition to a variety of other MIDI and synchronization features. Moreover, Frontier also makes a line of optional equipment-including the versatile Tango24 multichannel A/D/A converter-that can make the Dakota the hub of a powerful desktop music production system.
THE SCENIC ROUTEThe Dakota comes in the form of a short PCI card configured with two optical inputs and two optical outputs for its 16 ADAT-compatible digital audio channels. Either pair of optical jacks can be switched to optical S/PDIF from within the Dakota's software control panel (see Fig. 1). This allows you to connect DAT decks and CD and MiniDisc players, as well as some synthesizers and samplers, directly to the Dakota card. If you need both pairs of optical jacks for 16-channel operation (or if you just need more channels to work with), you can add Frontier's Montana daughtercard to your system (see the sidebar "Montana Wildhack").
A 15-pin connector on the Dakota's faceplate connects to a breakout cable for electrical S/PDIF (coaxial) I/O, which is switchable to AES/EBU from within the control panel. (You'll also need to use properly wired cables between any AES/EBU device and the RCA jacks of the Dakota card.) The breakout cable also includes a 9-pin ADAT-sync input jack. This turns your computer into the last slave device in an ADAT chain so that you can run your digital audio software in sync with your ADAT-compatible MDMs from the master device in the chain.
An 8-pin connector for MIDI I/O is also provided on the faceplate. You can connect the included breakout cable with the two pairs of MIDI Ins and Outs for a total of 32 MIDI channels. Alternatively, you can connect Frontier's Sierra 8 5 8 MIDI interface/patch bay to this jack for 128 MIDI channels (see the sidebar "High Sierra").
The Dakota also contains two internal connectors. The first is a digital-audio input that connects to the digital outputs of compatible CD-ROM drives for digitally transferring sound in real time to appropriate audio programs. The second connector is an internal 40-pin header that links the Dakota to the optional Montana daughtercard for expanding its audio and sync capabilities.
TWO TO TANGOBecause the Dakota is a digital-only card, you must employ outboard devices to record and play analog audio through the card. If you plan only to transfer tracks between your ADATs and the Dakota, then your setup is complete with just the card. However, you can't use an ADAT as a front-end device if you need to overdub individual tracks, because a single ADAT can't be used for both A/D and D/A at the same time; the analog/digital input selection affects all eight channels at once. Fortunately, Frontier provides an affordable 8-channel, 24-bit A/D/A converter in the Tango24. (Frontier offers a special package price of $1,149 for the Dakota/Tango24 bundle.)
The Tango24 is a single-unit rack-mount device with two sets of balanced 11/44-inch TRS jacks (8 in/8 out). These are set at the factory to +4 dBu, but you can switch each connector individually to -10 dBV (consumer line-level) by removing the unit's cover and setting a jumper for each jack. Although physically altering the settings can be tedious, it does offer excellent control over the Tango24's inputs and outputs.
For example, you can set the inputs to -10 dBV and the outputs to +4 dBu. This configuration is ideal for use with mixers on which the channel inserts can also be used as direct unbalanced outputs. You can then monitor incoming audio on separate balanced channels. Likewise, any combination of inputs and outputs can be set to +4 dBu or -10 dBV. For instance, you can set input channels 1 through 4 to -10 dBV and input channels 5 through 8 to +4 dBu; output channels 1 through 6 can be set to +4 dBu, with output channels 7 and 8 set to -10 dBV. In short, the Tango24's analog I/O can be configured to suit your needs.
The unit also contains three optical ports: in, out, and thru. The in and out jacks, naturally enough, receive and send 8-channel digital audio data. The thru port transmits a copy of the incoming audio data to another device in much the same way as a MIDI Thru port. For instance, you can route the Tango24's thru port to an ADAT digital input to make a simultaneous tape backup while a session is in progress. And because the optical thru port transmits a copy of the digital audio data, you can use the Tango24 as an extension device to send digital audio twice as far as the normal limit of 10 meters (approximately 33 feet). I'm not sure that too many people would need to send eight channels of digital audio some 66 feet, but it never hurts to have that ability.
The Tango24 also supports word-clock in and out on 75-ohm coaxial cables with BNC connectors. The word-clock input can be used as the Tango24's clock source when selected by the clock-source switches on its front panel (more details in a moment). The word-clock output is always driven by the Tango24's clock system with a frequency equal to the sample rate. You can use the word-clock input to sync to an external device or to slave to another Tango24 that is acting as the master clock device. In fact, the user guide illustrates several methods for using either the Dakota or the Tango24 as the master clock in the system.
FACE THE FACEThe Tango24's front panel provides a variety of toggle switches and informative status lights. Two switches on the left let you select the sampling rate (44.1 or 48 kHz) and the clock source (word-clock input, ADAT Optical input, or internal). Next to the Clock Source switch, the Clock Status indicator light glows steadily when the clock source is stable and blinks when the external clock source is outside the Tango24's frequency-locking range. The light also blinks when there are other clocking errors, such as an incorrect format.
The Optical Input indicator shows the status of the ADAT Optical input signal. It glows steadily when the input is valid and locked to the clock system. When the light blinks slowly, it means that the optical input is valid but is not locked to the Tango24 clock system. Most often, this occurs because the Tango24's optical input is based on a different clock source and is "slipping." (For example, the Tango24 may be receiving digital audio data at 48 kHz when its own sample frequency is set to 44.1 kHz.) You can confirm this by viewing the Clock/Device Status tab in the Dakota's control panel. Figure 1 shows how the tab appears when the digital audio data comes in at a rate that is different from the indicated settings.
When the Optical Input light blinks quickly, the data stream itself has errors. This usually happens when the Tango24 is not receiving ADAT Optical format data-because, for example, you accidentally routed two-channel S/PDIF digital audio through the optical ports of the Dakota or Montana card to the Tango24.
Three rows of eight LEDs serve as either input or output level meters, depending on how you set the neighboring Meters switch. The lights in the bottom row, labeled Signal, glow green whenever a signal is present. The intensity of the lights varies in proportion to the signal strength. The middle row of yellow lights indicates when the signal is within 3 dB of full-scale digital signal (0 dB). These lights remain lit for about half a second unless the signal stays constantly within 3 dB. The red LEDs in the top row, labeled Clip, light up when the signal is within 0.002 dB of full scale. When metering outputs, these LEDs remain lit for about half a second. When metering inputs, however, the clip indicators stay lit until you reset them by toggling the Meters switch to Output and then back to Input.
The Tango24's power is supplied by a hefty lump-in-the-line AC adapter. There's no on/off switch, but you can tell that the Tango24 is powered up when the green power indicator on the left is lit.
The Tango24 looks pretty cool when all its LEDs are glowing in the dark, but how does it sound? In a word, great! Though I performed no bench tests to confirm or disprove the unit's specs, I did record and play back a variety of audio material that I am familiar with. The Tango24's balanced analog and optical digital I/O made for very clean recordings. In fact, I felt comfortable enough with its quality that I used it in recording sessions for a client who uses both acoustic and electronic instruments in his work.
CONTROL FREAKVersion 2.0 of the Dakota control panel installs drivers for Windows 95 and 98, along with ASIO 2.0 drivers for use with Steinberg's Cubase VST and other ASIO-enabled applications. The Dakota 2.0 driver supports sample-accurate I/O using Syntrillium Cool Edit Pro 1.2 (the SE version of which is included in the Dakota package). Unfortunately, there are no DirectX drivers for the Dakota at this time, although a Frontier spokesman stated that the company is actively developing them. I hope it does, because many software synthesizers and other products-most notably NemeSys GigaSampler-use DirectX.
The Dakota control panel itself is now accessible from the Windows 95/98 Taskbar. When you right-click on its icon, you see a list of the tabs in the control panel (Clock/Device Status, Timecode, Patchbay, and System). When you click on a selected tab name, the control panel opens with that tab showing. It may not seem like much, but it's a handy time-saver.
The System tab displays the current Dakota software version as well as information on contacting Frontier Design Group. It also has a MIDI mode section for matching the MIDI I/O to the device being used: 2 5 2 when using the supplied MIDI breakout cable, or 8 5 8 when connected to the Sierra MIDI interface.
The Patchbay tab lets you route any input to any output of the Dakota or the Montana daughtercard (see Fig. 2). Furthermore, you can route an input to more than one output. For example, I have routed the inputs of Optical Port A directly to its outputs. I have also routed each channel in Optical Port A to selected individual channels of the other three optical ports. This lets me monitor the eight incoming channels and send a copy of each channel to other devices in the system. You could consider this feature a kind of simplified software version of an Alesis BRC. Best of all, you can save each patch-bay setup for easy recall.
The Clock/Device Status tab is where you select the clock source for the Dakota. If you're using the Dakota as the master clock, you set the clock source to Internal. The Dakota also receives clock information from a variety of sources, depending on the types of devices you have in your system. It can accept ADAT sync input from an external ADAT, for example, and it also accepts SMPTE/MTC if you have the Sierra MIDI interface connected to the Dakota.
With the Montana daughtercard installed, the Dakota can receive video sync or word clock. When the Digital In source is selected, the Dakota derives its clock source through whichever optical or coaxial inputs you select. For instance, you can use the Tango24's clock through its optical jack, or use the digital output of a DAT deck connected to the coaxial input on the Dakota. When Varispeed is selected, you can adjust the sample rate with the Varispeed slider. This option is useful if you need to pull down the sample rate to match the frame rate of some types of video decks. (For more on pulldown, check out "Square One: Picture Perfect Sound" on p. 96.)
The Dakota control panel's Digital Input Status section also displays the audio input status, mappings from physical inputs to logical inputs, and channel indicators. Each optical input of the Dakota and Montana (along with the coaxial input) has three indicator "lights." (The indicators for the Montana are always present, even when the card is not installed.) The left light indicates if there is an active input signal, and the middle light shows whether a valid digital audio format is present.
The right light is the Slip indicator. It appears green when the Dakota is locked to an incoming audio clock. If it turns red, it means that the Dakota's sample rate is different from the incoming audio clock. If the Dakota's rate is almost the same but not perfectly locked, the Slip indicator may flash red periodically. A slash will also appear across the green indicator until you click the Clear Errors button.
The Actual reading in the Sample Rate section can show you whether the current clock source is inactive or unstable. For example, if you've selected Digital In-S/PDIF as the Dakota clock source but your DAT machine is also set to digital input, then neither device is acting as a master (each is trying to lock to digital input from the other); in this case, the Dakota clock system will spin down to its lowest frequency. Switching the DAT back to analog input solves the problem, and you'll see the actual sample rate settle in to the proper 44.1 or 48 kHz.
By default, the Dakota's physical inputs are mapped directly to logical devices. For instance, Optical Port A maps to Logical Device channels A1 through A8, Optical Port B maps to Logical Device channels B1 through B8, and Coax maps to S1:2 (S/PDIF). Device S1:2, however, can come from any physical input. Using the drop-down box next to the device, you can choose any of the four optical inputs, the coaxial (RCA) input, or the CD-ROM; the physical-to-logical mapping lines automatically change to reflect the input status.
The Digital Output Status indicator simply shows which output channels are active along with the mapping from logical output devices to physical outputs. Although the stereo S/PDIF stream is always present on the Dakota's coaxial output, it is also possible to route S/PDIF to any of the four optical outputs: just click on the button next to the corresponding optical output, and it changes from 8-channel to 2-channel mode. Similarly, the logical-to-physical mapped lines automatically change to reflect the output status.
TIME IS ON MY SIDEThe Timecode tab is one of the most important features of the Dakota card. It offers a choice of several time-code sources, so there is bound to be a method of synchronization that you can use. Typically, the time-code source is set to Internal so that the PC's applications can control time-code generation. If ADAT Sync In is chosen, the Dakota automatically converts to MIDI Time Code. That's because most recording/playback software can receive and follow only MIDI Time Code. (It's the only form of time code in the Windows standard interface.) To receive MTC from a MIDI input, select the MTC Port option and the appropriate port number (1 or 2 if you are using the Dakota's two-In/two-Out MIDI cable).
By far the most interesting Timecode Source selection is the SoDA Channel option. SoDA stands for "SMPTE on Digital Audio," and with this option you can receive SMPTE time code through any Dakota (or Montana) digital audio input. Just connect a SMPTE time-code source to an A/D converter (such as the Tango24) and then to the desired Dakota or Montana digital audio input. Next, set Timecode Source to SoDA Channel, and then choose the appropriate input channel from the adjacent selection box.
To use SoDA for sending time code from a digital audio output, you simply select the SoDA Channel box from the Timecode Destinations section; then choose the desired output channel and set the output level of the SoDA channel signal.
If you use the SoDA Channel input and output options to synchronize the Dakota to a multitrack analog tape deck, you'll probably need to stripe the tape first. That's easy enough with the Dakota's Manual Stripe to SMPTE/MTC feature.
SUM OF THE PARTSA digital-only card's value is largely determined by the amount and variety of outboard equipment that can be connected to it. By itself, the Dakota matches the competition based on its digital audio features alone. What puts the Dakota ahead of most of its rivals is its stand-alone MIDI capability. Moreover, very few competitors offer ADAT synchronization features beyond the ability to sync the sample rate of the card to a Lightpipe input.
The Dakota really comes into its own, however, when used with Frontier's other products. As I mentioned earlier, the Montana daughtercard adds 16 more ADAT channels, as well as video/word-clock input synchronization and ADAT sync output, so the computer can be placed in any slave position in an ADAT chain. The Sierra MIDI interface expands the Dakota's MIDI capabilities even further and provides SMPTE in and out. And the Tango24 converter gives you eight channels of A/D/A, along with word-clock in and out, at a very reasonable price. What's more, it sounds great.
The only real drawback to using a customizable system like this is that it initially costs more than a prepackaged audio card/multichannel box. Even so, the price of the Dakota/Tango24 bundle competes well with those of prepackaged setups. And when you consider that the Dakota/Tango24 combo offers more flexibility and expandability, the price difference pales in comparison to the difference in value. Besides, the Montana and Sierra hardware options are relatively inexpensive, and you can buy them as your needs and budget dictate.
The only specific black marks that I can give to the Dakota are its current lack of DirectX drivers (although Frontier hopes to have one by the time you read this) and its inability to sample at 96 kHz. However, most other multichannel cards don't sample at that rate, either. Besides, given the current level of technology, I don't want to sacrifice audio tracks or overburden my computer just to move up to a standard that is often used mainly for marketing hype.
Beyond these gripes, I have nothing bad to say about the Dakota, Montana, and Tango24 devices. In fact, I am so impressed with this system that it is the next planned purchase for my studio.
Zack Price is a digital audio editor and Windows digital audio consultant in the Chicago area.
HIGH SIERRAAlthough the Dakota card has a 2 x 2 MIDI interface that many would probably find adequate for their needs, some users require more than the 32 stock MIDI channels. For them, Frontier Design Group offers the Sierra ($299), an 8 x 8 (128-channel) 1U rack-mount MIDI interface/patch bay. The Sierra connects to the Dakota by means of a 15-foot, 8-pin cable. The cable length proved to be more than satisfactory when it came time for me to connect my MIDI rack to the Sierra and my computer.
The first seven MIDI In and Out ports are located on the rear of the unit, and the eighth ports are located on the front panel. This design makes it easy to plug in a MIDI master keyboard or to switch among different types of MIDI controllers as the situation dictates. For example, I use a MIDI keyboard controller to play in lead parts, a percussion controller for rhythm parts, and a MIDI fader unit to input various types of MIDI controller data. I never use all three devices at the same time, so I find it helpful to plug and unplug these pieces of the Sierra's front panel as needed.
A pair of 11/44-inch jacks is provided on the rear panel for sending and receiving SMPTE time code. The SMPTE output level can be adjusted in the Dakota's software control panel to +4 dBu or -10 dBV. You can monitor SMPTE time-code status with the SMPTE indicator lights on the Sierra's front panel. The bottom indicator shines green when SMPTE output is active. The red light glows when the Sierra is locked to incoming SMPTE time code, and it doesn't light when SMPTE input is inactive. The indicator blinks slowly when the SMPTE input is receiving a valid stream of SMPTE frames but the Sierra is not locking to it; the light blinks quickly when SMPTE input is active but not receiving a valid stream of SMPTE frames. The Sierra also has two sets of eight status indicators that show the presence of MIDI input and output activity.
A word of warning to Windows 95 users who wish to use the Sierra: Windows 95 limits the number of MIDI devices that you can install. This includes physical devices, such as stand-alone MIDI interfaces and those that are part of sound cards, as well as virtual MIDI interfaces including those used with sound-card and software synthesizers. If you exceed this device limit, your system will treat you to a nasty crash. Because adding in the Sierra's eight ports leaves you with no more than two or three other usable MIDI devices in your system, you may want to disable or remove any that you don't plan to use. (Windows 98 users don't have to worry about this problem because the limitation has been corrected in the newer operating system.)
MONTANA WILDHACKTo those who never seem to have enough, Frontier Design Group offers the Montana daughtercard ($249), which adds 16 more channels of digital audio to the Dakota card. The Montana has two pairs of optical I/O, and as with the Dakota, each can be used for 8-channel Lightpipe or 2-channel S/PDIF digital audio. In addition, the Montana has a 9-pin connector for ADAT sync output. When both the Montana and the Dakota are installed, the computer can function as a slave device anywhere within an ADAT chain. This allows the computer to follow incoming ADAT time code without affecting the operation of other ADAT devices down the chain.
The Montana also includes an RCA connector that can be used for video sync or word-clock input. Although any audio RCA cable can connect to the video/word-clock input, you should use a 75-ohm coaxial video cable. Alternatively, you can use a BNC cable with the Montana's supplied BNC/RCA adapter. The Montana also comes with an internal video connector that can attach to digital video cards like Pinnacle Systems' miroVideo DC-30. Keep in mind, though, that you can't use the internal and external video connectors at the same time.
Because of its unique design, the Montana can be installed in either a PCI or ISA slot adjacent to the Dakota card. The Montana comes from the factory ready to be put into a PCI slot; however, if you turn the card upside-down and exchange its faceplate with the supplied alternate, you can install it into an ISA slot. In both instances, the Montana fits into the 40-pin connector on the Dakota card. (The connecting cable is extremely short, which is why you have to install the Montana in a card slot adjacent to the Dakota.) Once the Montana is installed, the Dakota's drivers and its software control panel are able to automatically recognize it. Furthermore, no additional IRQs are required.


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There were endless days when I would travel for hours just to savor the best bites. I still jump at the idea of traveling somewhere far to eat. And, the first thing I research about while planning a trip is food! Continue reading Deliciousness that you shouldn't miss in Udaipur
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What to See in Udaipur
Somewhere in my subconscious mind, I had decided that I have to travel somewhere in India when I visit home. In November last year, I finally took the flight to home and met my family after one whole year.
Since I couldn't plan a trip before visiting, I kept searching for places after I reached home. And just like that, I chose Udaipur one night, booked the tickets, and informed my parents that they are coming with me. Thankfully, they love traveling and agreed to embark on this journey with me.
Continue reading What to See in Udaipur
Out of the Blue – Endearing Bundi
Bundi is one place that took me by surprise and an amazing one at that! Tourism has been the focus of Rajasthan since long, but I had no clue that such tiny towns are frequented by British and French travelers in huge numbers. I, personally, had never heard of Bundi, so was curious to know the place after I read many snippets about it over the web.
The Art Gallery of Rajasthan
As a traveler, I am always curious to visit unexplored regions to discover something unique. This time my research led me to Mahansar in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan. The whole region is brimming with old colorful havelis (mansions) decorated with eye-catching murals, built by rich traders during the 18th to 20th century. These murals depict mythological and historical events with images of Hindu Gods, Animals, Battlefields, Kings etc. Continue reading The Art Gallery of Rajasthan
To Savor Something Royal and Exquisite
Intrigued by the rich culture & history of India, I decided to scout for a non-commercial & secluded Fort near Delhi for a short trip. After multiple searches over the web, I was glad that I found Dadhikar Fort in Alwar (Rajasthan). This Fort was built in the 11th century by King Chand and is situated right in the middle of a village atop a small hill! Continue reading To Savor Something Royal and Exquisite


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Disney is offering a free Disneynature Bears reusable tote bag for Earth Day 2014. The bags feature a scene from the new film, Bears, which is currently in theaters. The film follows a bear family, which includes a mother bear and her two cubs.
To get the free tote bag you need to bring in 5 plastic bags to a Disney Store for recycling on Earth Day, April 22. Disney Store says on its Facebook post that the bags will be available while supplies last.
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Dr. Thomas Sylvester is a board-certified orthopaedic spine surgeon who completed a fellowship in spine surgery. He specializes in the comprehensive treatment of the spine, offering both non-surgical and surgical treatment options.
Dr. Sylvester received his undergraduate degree from Yale University where he also played college football. Dr. Sylvester completed his residency training in Orthopaedic Surgery at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. After residency, he went on to fellowship training at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
Dr. Sylvester considers himself a Midwesterner at heart, with ties to Wisconsin that include family in both Milwaukee and Door County. In his free time, Dr. Sylvester enjoys being active outdoors through cycling, skiing, fishing and canoeing.
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"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." – J.R.R. Tolkien
When I decided to embark on this journey of exploring the world on my own, it was often met with the apprehensions of family and friends.
I was asked questions like,
"Aren't you scared of being so far away alone?"
"Aren't you worried about terrorist attacks?"
"Wouldn't it be safer to go with someone?"
Admittedly, I can understand why someone would worry about these things, the unknown is often a bit scary.
So let me try to assuage your fears, by answering this classic question:
Is it safe to travel alone?
The short answer is yes and no, but let me delve a little deeper.
Yes, it is safe to travel alone if you're planning to take the necessary safety precautions like:
Listening to your instincts –
That doesn't mean you have to be uptight, and run in the opossite direction anytime someone is walking towards you, or even makes eye contact with you.
However, if someone is inviting you somewhere, or offering you anything, and you feel uncomfortable. Don't be afraid to say no thank you, or simply walk away.
Let someone know about your plans –
Telling someone you're going to Antarctica for a few weeks, is just not enough.
What hotels or hostels are you booked in? Will you be going on any tours? What transportation will you be using?
All these are great, basic things, that someone you trust should always be aware of.
Do be careful at night –
As with anywhere in the world, at night, you usually tend to see a darker side to things.
That doesn't mean you should lock yourself up in your room, as soon as the sun begins to set. Just always be aware of your surroundings, and try to stay around other people.
There's a whole different kind of beauty that can only truly be appreciated at night, so don't ever let that hold you back from venture out.
Do have a phone connected with messages and data –
For me, this is a must for solo travelers. Not only are you able to contact anyone in case of an emergency, but having data, also enables you to quickly take yourself out of prickly situations. Such as when you get yourself lost or need a quick ride. (Uber is just a click away)
I suck at reading maps, so being able to use my phones GPS while walking around cities and on some hiking trails, is invaluable to me.
If your home phone company doesn't offer international plans, and you don't want to be eaten alive with roaming charges (Yes, I'm talking to you Metro Pcs!)
Think about getting a contract free sim card when you're abroad. When I was in the U.K. I used the all-you-can-eat data plan from Three, and in France I'm going to use the holiday package from Orange.
(With a quick online search, other countries are bound to have similar, affordable packages you can use.)
So, what does make traveling alone dangerous? It's fairly simple, if you're planning to be reckless or careless, you will always be putting yourself at higher risks. Here are a few, all too common scenarios, that I think are like beacons for trouble.
Getting drunk with strangers –
Sharing a drink with an awesome fellow traveler or local you just met? Cool. But getting drunk with them (even tipsy) is ill-advised. I mean, that shouldn't even be done where you live.
Your mental guard is literally impaired when you consume alcohol. This puts you at more risk to theft, or those worst-case scenarios, no one ever imagines would happen to them.
Feel free to wander, but don't travel aimlessly –
Watch what streets you're entering. When planning your trip, you should always read up on the neighborhoods, cities, and/or hikes you will be on.
Entering sketchy places at the wrong time, (usually at night) can put you in a very bad situation, quickly.
(It's tedious for some, but doing your homework on the places you visit is highly recommended)
Hitchhiking (aka getting into a complete strangers car) –
This one may seem quite obvious to you. However, you'd be surprise at how prevalent this still is. Maybe you've done it before, and thankfully nothing has ever happened. That doesn't make it any less dangerous. Think about it, every time you hitchhike, you could literally be entering a killers car. So please, just don't. 🤦🏻♀
Don't be disrespectful of rules or the culture –
You're visiting a country that is not your own, respect that. Every country is different, and has their own way of doing things, respect that.
Yes, that even includes when you're visiting the U.S. (The same courtesy you afford other countries you visit, should be no less for America) 🇺🇸
For me personally, the ability to immerse myself in different cultures, is one of my favorite parts of getting to travel!
If you aim to always employ these safety guidlines when traveling, I can't see why traveling alone would not be safe.
Please understand, that when I say it's safe to travel alone, I say so with the same certainty with which we live everyday of our lives.
Meaning, it's pretty damn uncertain. That doesn't mean we should avoid dangerous things like sky-diving, because the parachute might not open, or avoid visiting the Middle East because of terrorist etc.
You've also probably heard the saying, that you're more likely to have an accident on the way to the airport, then on your actual flight.
There's a reason for that saying. In the U.S. alone, there have been 30k+ yearly fatal car accidents. (going as far back as 1945 when it was slightly under 30k)
You get the idea, danger will always be around us.
No moment is certain, and I guess that's the beauty of it all. Because we have this one chance, this one moment in life, to reach for the stars, and yes, I know how cliché "reaching for the stars" may sound. But in a world where people are taught to put their dreams on a "someday" list, until after they have a better job, after they finish school, or after they have someone to share it with. Makes YOU chasing your dreams right now, just as amazing as reaching for a star!
So no, I'm not really scared of traveling on my own, and I try not thinking about any of the many bad things that may very well happen around me.
Life is too beautiful to live in fear of the unknown, or what "could" happen.
There are mountains in Switzerland that have yet to be climbed, hikes in Norway that need to be discovered, and castles that must still be explored.
Those are my stars, and with every chance I get, I'll try reaching for them. Will you?
Thanks for reading! Au revoir for now.
Some day, we won't be here anymore, and that we cannot change. But every day that passes from now till then, we will be alive, and that should be an encouraging thought to always live our very best. – Suzie Vargas


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The Star Wars universe came back in force last year with the record breaking performance that Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens had during its theatrical run. After audiences fell in love with Rey, Poe, Finn, and BB-8, Lucasfilm and Disney are back to truly test the desire for more from this world by releasing Rogue One: A Star Wars Story later this year. Set just before A New Hope, this movie will feature mainly new characters, with the biggest exception marking the return of Darth Vader who has only been teased to this point.
At this time in a galaxy far, far away, the Rebels are gearing up for their biggest attack yet on the Empire, and are going to get the help of Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) to do so. While the Rebellion will have the help of new droid K2-SO, the Empire will not be left out of having a new droid of their own.
On the newest episode of The Star Wars Show, they were able to reveal the new droid that will be with the Empire. For long-time fans of the universe, the new droid will take after the most iconic droid of all, R2-D2. For the purposes of the Empire however, C2-B5 is another astromech droid, but there still seems to be mystery surrounding who he will answer to. As for the look of C2-B5, the official Star Wars Facebook page released photo. Take a look at it and a screenshot from The Star Wars Show:
The show does not outright confirm that C2-B5 is still apart of the Empire or if he has been rescued and is being repurposed by the Rebels. If the droid is still with the Empire, one possible outcome could be he is the personal droid of Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen), who is a wanted man by both sides. Then again, we do not know how hands on Orsen Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) will be, so C2-B5 could be the repair droid for his ship.
There is also the chance that C2-B5 is now with the Rebellion, which could be another case of Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) bringing former droids over to his new affiliation. If he is with the Rebels throughout or just a portion, the routine memory wipes could become an interesting aspect to the droid. After all, maybe they find a way to restore his memories and learn more about the Empire's plans before their attack. The value of whatever information they find could vary depending on who C2-B5 used to work for. Again, this is all speculation at this point and the answers surrounding the new droid will not be coming from official sources before the movie is released.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens in U.S. theaters on December 16, 2016, followed by Star Wars: Episode VIII on December 15, 2017, the Han Solo Star Wars Anthology film on May 25, 2018, Star Wars: Episode IX in 2019, and the third Star Wars Anthology film in 2020.
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Rev. Donald Maranville became our pastor in August of 2008. He and his wife, Debbie, were raised in upstate New York and have been serving together in ministry for over 40 years. Pastor Don received his ministerial license with the Assemblies of God after graduating from Zion Bible Institute in Rhode Island. He furthered his education at Southwestern Assemblies of God College (now SAGU), Regent University, and the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. In addition to his pastoral role here in Newburyport, Pastor Don also teaches at Northpoint Bible College, Haverhill. He presents God's Word to us as vibrant, relevant, and essential for our growth in Christ.Deacons: Don Barnes, Mark Fish
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The cyanobacteria bloom at Canal Point on Lake Okeechobee is more than twice as toxic as last year's highest lake reading, when the "guacamole" bloom clotted the St. Lucie River. These results were published today by Florida DEP, based on samples taken last week:
This image (above) shows the location of a sample taken on August 1, where testing showed a total microcystin toxin reading of 815 micrograms per liter. That's more than double the highest toxicity reading in the lake during the Toxic Summer of 2016, and more than 80 times higher than the World Health Organization's threshold for restricting bathing in contaminated water (10 micrograms/liter).
In fact the WHO warns that concentrations of 50 micrograms/liter--16 times lower than the sample in Lake Okeechobee today--puts bathers at risk for long-term liver damage. Worse, it can go undiagnosed for years: "Experimental results indicate a hazard of cumulative liver damage by repeated microcystin intake (Fitzgeorge et al., 1994, see section 4.2.1), as can occur during a holiday with daily bathing at a recreational site with a high density of microcystin-containing cyanobacteria. Sub-acute liver injury is likely to go unnoticed, because signs of liver injury are only apparent after severe injury. "
But the DEP didn't re-test the same area yesterday because the water wasn't green anymore. So no samples were taken.
This may be standard protocol (established before the dangers of toxic algae were better understood) but it doesn't make sense. Even when blooms aren't visible, toxins persist. Human health risks persist. The DEP needs to change this policy, increase testing, and most important, start warning people to stay away from contaminated water.
The WHO guidelines mention research on the risks of even breathing toxins from fields irrigated with contaminated water at concentrations 40 times lower than today's. Lakeside communities deserve to know about these risks before residents let their children near the water.


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'The Vow'
Starring: Channing Tatum,
Rachel McAdams
Director: Michael Sucsy
Rated: PG-13
As much as I dislike horror movies, I can't object to an old-fashioned fright, and there are plenty of seat-jumping moments in this throwback to the good old days of scary movies. There is nary a drop of blood spilled in this, not to mention the merciful overall lack of gore. This is one of those movies that plays with your mind instead of grossing you out. Every time a door creaks open or a candle blows out it telegraphs what is to follow, giving you just enough time to steel yourself before something jumps out — in good old 2-D.
The inspiring story of the Tuskegee Airmen is one that should have been told long before now. The only major treatment it has received was an HBO movie in 1995 called "The Tuskegee Airmen," that was until George Lucas, the creator of the "Star Wars" series, decided to take it up as a personal cause.
'The Iron Lady'
Starring: Meryl Streep,
Jim Broadbent
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
This feature based on John Le Carre's best-selling 1974 novel puts the chill back into the Cold War, a period of world history worth revisiting if only to put current global politics into perspective. It's also worth a trip to the cinema to see Gary Oldman in one of the best roles he's ever enjoyed as George Smiley, the wily MI6 operative who must ferret out the double agent on the British payroll.
While we harbor no disrespect for the Wall Street Journal who called us "that scrappy little paper from Southeast Texas," we prefer to think of ourselves as simple seekers of the truth. We're of the opinion that headlines and sound bites never tell the whole story. Our readers demand all the facts, facets and flavors of every story or event. And, they expect to be informed, educated and stirred to action.
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I click on the "save file," it proceeds to download the file, then instead of a green arrow popping on it's blue. I click on the arrow and it says not all of the file was downloaded. I need advice as to where to go on the computer to fix the problem since I can't download a program that will fix the problem.
What browser are you using?
Try a different browser.
I'm using Mozilla Firefox for my browser.
To isolate the problem, does IE finish the download?
I do not use Internet Explorer at all.
"I do not use Internet Explorer at all"
Try it.
I would be more inclined to install and try Chrome.
I tried IE and when I attempted to go to a site I needed to use it said "Diagnosis Problem." I tried to figure out the problem because it said something about the http not accepted, but I couldn't figure how to find this issue. I can get on some other sites through IE. Also, it wouldn't download anything either.
I can't install Chrome since it's a program that you need to download and I can't download programs.
Is your connection to the internet behaving well generally (visiting websites and so forth) or is it only downloads that are giving this issue?
Try this on it just so that we can see if there is any obvious malware about. You will have to download the file on another computer then transfer it using a flash (Pen) drive:
(blue Download button near top - not anything else on the page).
Download and "Save" the file somewhere. Go to the saved file then double click it to run the Scan. You then have options to remove whatever it shows under each heading in the table that appears below, although it is usually safe to run "Cleaning".
If it finds anything then please copy/paste the logs on here because even if the symptoms are cured you are likely to still have things lurking around that require further cleaning. If nothing is found let us know.
Always pop back and let us know the outcome - thanks
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Hello everyone!!!!
Its me again, here with another Holiday Kpop playlist
This time since Thanksgiving is over, It's time to spread some Christmas cheer with some Holiday themed Kpop Songs
Be warned, there will be lots of EXO songs in this since they did a Christmas Album
GOT7 "고백송(Confession Song)" M/V
SHINee 샤이니_Colorful_Music Video
EXO_12월의 기적 (Miracles in December)_Music Video (Korean ver.)
EXO - Christmas day, 엑소 - 크리스마스데이
EXO_'첫 눈 (The First Snow)' MV
큐브아티스트 - 크리스마스 노래 (Christmas Song) (Official Music Video)
BTOB - 울면 안 돼 (The Winter's Tale) M/V
Ailee(에일리) _ My Grown Up Christmas List MV
IU (아이유) – 12월 24일 (D.ear Cover)
So...What do you guys think of this list?
Anything I missed? If so leave a comment down below and tell me why you love to listen to that particular Kpop song during the Holidays
So anyway that's all for today
Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Night!!~