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Ghost Stories - 10-07-2007, 09:56 PM
With Halloween creeping upon us, I though some ghost stories might put us in the mood! So ask your family about ghost stories they've heard& share them here!
This one is based out off Charleston S.C.
Army of the Dead
A laundress, newly moved to Charleston following the Civil War, found herself awakened at the stroke of twelve each night by the rumble of heavy wheels passing in the street. But she lived on a dead end street, and had no explanation for the noise. Her husband would not allow her to look out the window when she heard the sounds, telling her to leave well enough alone. Finally, she asked the woman who washed at the tub next to hers. The woman said: "What you are hearing is the Army of the Dead. They are Confederate soldiers who died in hospital without knowing that the war was over. Each night, they rise from their graves and go to reinforce Lee in Virginia to strengthen the weakened Southern forces."
The next night, the laundress slipped out of bed to watch the Army of the Dead pass. She stood spell-bound by the window as a gray fog rolled passed. Within the fog, she could see the shapes of horses, and could hear gruff human voices and the rumble of canons being dragged through the street, followed by the sound of marching feet. Foot soldiers, horsemen, ambulances, wagons and canons passed before her eyes, all shrouded in gray. After what seemed like hours, she heard a far off bugle blast, and then silence.
When the laundress came out of her daze, she found one of her arms was paralyzed. She has never done a full days washing since.
Room For One More.
A young woman on her way to town broke her journey by staying with friends at an old manor house. Her bedroom looked out to the carriage sweep at the front door. It was a moonlit night, and she found it difficult to sleep. As the clock outside her bedroom door struck 12, she heard the noise of horses' hooves on the gravel outside, and the sound of wheels.
She got up and went over to the window to see who could be arriving at that time of night. The moonlight was very bright, and she saw a hearse drive up to the door. It hadn't a coffin in it; instead it was crowded with people. The coachman sat high up on the box: as he came opposite the window he drew up and turned his head. His face terrified her, and he said in a distinct voice, "There's room for one more."
She drew the curtain, ran back to bed, and covered her head with the bedclothes. In the morning she was not quite sure whether it had been a dream, or whether she had really got out of bed and seen the hearse, but she was glad to go up to town and leave the old house behind her.
She was shopping in a big store which had an elevator in it (an up-to-date thing at that time). She was on the top floor, and went to the elevator to go down. It was rather crowded, but as she came up to it, the elevator operator turned his head and said, "There's room for one more."
It was the face of the coachman of the hearse. "No, thank you," said the woman. "I'll walk down." She turned away a little bit disturbed, and then the elevator doors clanged, there was a terrible rush and screaming and shouting, and then a great clatter and thud. The elevator had fallen and everybody in it was killed.
Here's another out of Columbia Sc:
The Phantom Horseman of Columbia
Sometime in the Spring of 1914, a strange occurrence happened. On the corner of Bull and Blanding Streets, a shadowy figure of a horseman appeared in the sky above the large oak trees. Observers described the image as a horse and rider of heroic size. The details of the figure were clearly visible down to the saddle and the reins. As the people looked on, the horse reared up and appeared to want to take off on some journey.
The next day the news of the sighting spread. A crowd gathered on the corner to stare at the treetops. They waited patiently for the horseman to show himself again. The crowd was not disappointed. Above the trees the figure appeared again. Many in the crowd were scared that the white horseman was one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse (a biblical figure foretelling the end of the world). Others believed the image to be the ghost of stately General Wade Hampton, who was there to warn of the upcoming world war.
The Chase Vault (AKA The Moving coffins of Barbados)
In Christ Church cemetery on the island of Barbados there is a burial vault of unknown origin. The earliest records call it the "Chase vault". It was first used for the burial of a Mrs. Goddard in1807, followed by two-year-old Mary Ann Chase in 1808 and her sister Dorcas in 1812, a probable suicide. A few weeks later, Dorcas' father Thomas Chase died. When the vault was opened, all the coffins had been moved from their original places. It was thought that thieves had been in the vault, but the concrete seal of the tomb was still in place.
Two more burials were made in 1816. In both cases, when the vault was opened, the coffins already present had been moved about. The casket of Thomas Chase was of lead, weighing 240 pounds, far too large to be moved by a single vandal. In each of these burials, the workers returned the coffins to their proper places and sealed the mausoleum with cement. It happened again in 1819. This time, the Governor sprinkled sand on the floor (to sho footprints), and pressed his personal seal into the fresh cement. In 1820 the tomb was opened again, and the coffins were again out of place, even though no footprints showed and the concrete seal was undisturbed. The governor ordered the coffins removed and the vault left open; the mystery has never been solved.
Mary Worth/Bloody Mary
The Mary Worth (also known as Bloody Mary, Mary Margaret, etc) story is popular at sleepovers. As the story goes, a beautiful young girl named Mary Worth was in some sort of terrible accident (or occasionally the wounds are inflicted purposely by a jealous party), and her face was hideously deformed. From then on, she is shunned by other people, and she sometimes becomes a witch. Now for the scary part. Supposedly if you say Mary Worth's name three (or five, or ten... it varies) times while looking into the mirror, Mary Worth will appear and scratch your face off or kill you.
The lady in white at Bachelor's Grove, Chicago
This small, abandoned cemetery should have faded into obscurity and probably would have if not for the 100 or so reports of eerie phenomena that have been reported there. Some have called it the most haunted place in America. The apparitions include a mysterious, phantom farmhouse with white porch pillars and a porch swing that squeaks until you approach it. There's also a pond on the grounds that legend says was a dumping ground for murdered gangsters (despite no records of bodies ever being found there). The pond is not only haunted by the restless souls of the unavenged murdered, but also by the ghost of an old farmer, who was pulled into the water by his plough horse. Of course, no haunted cemetery would be complete without its lady in white, and Bachelor's Grove has one, too. She can be seen wandering the grounds, babe in arms, on nights when the moon is full.
Resurrection Mary:
Back in the 80's a driver was going down a road & saw a young lady walking down the street & asked if she needed a ride, the younge lady Name Mary was happy to take him up on his offer & climbed in to the back seat.
He asked for the address which wasn't too far off. Two coversated till they began to pass a graveyard in which she asked him to stop, She climbed out the gental man turned to ask her if she was sure this was the right place. But when he turned Mary was gone, The back passenger door closed, but he never heard it shut.
This is actually a true tale! I'm not sure of Mary's last name, but she had died after being out dancing in the 40's. She was burried in her favorite white dress, In that dress she has been seen roaming the Chicago streets.
Glamis Castle
The family chapel is haunted by a Grey Lady, who is said to be the spirit of Lady Janet Douglas, burned at the stake as a witch on Castle Hill, Edinburgh in 1537, on charges of plotting to poison the King. It is likely that the charges were fabricated for political motives. The apparition has been seen relatively recently in the chapel by a number of witnesses. She is also said to appear above the Clock Tower.
The ghost of a woman with no tongue is said to haunt the grounds, and to look out from a barred window somewhere within the castle. She runs about the park pointing at her mutilated face. There is no suggestion as to who she might be.
A young black boy, the ghost of a Negro servant who was badly treated around 200 years ago, haunts a stone seat by the door of the Queen's bedroom.
One of the more infamous ghosts is known as Earl Beardie, who is otherwise known as Alexander, Earl Crawford. Allegedly he was a cruel and wicked man, probably stemming from his rebellion against James II. His spirit is said to wander the castle, and there have been reports of children waking to find the figure leaning over their beds. He is also said to be gambling for all eternity in a secret room with the Devil, people have reported loud swearing and the rattling of dice. He is often mixed up in literature with the second Earl of Glamis.
Revenge From an Unquiet Grave
Late one night in 1681 a miller, James Graeme, of Country Durham, England, was accosted by the hideous ghost of a young woman. She was drenched with blood and had five open wounds on her head. She told Graeme that her name was Anne Walker and that she had been murdered, with a pick'axe, by one Mark Sharp acting on instruction from a relative of hers, also named Walker, by whom she was pregnant. She made clear to Graeme that unless he gave this information to the local magistrate she would continue to haunt him.
Refusing to believe what he had experienced, Graeme did nothing. But after the apparition appeared, Pleaded, and threatened twice more, he went to the authorities with the grisly story. A pit identified by the ghost was searched, and Anne Walker's body was found. Sharp and Walker were arrested. During the trial, a hideous shadow hung over Walker; the ghost of the murdered baby. Both men were found guilty and hanged.
Anne Walker's ghost was unable to find peace until the two men who murdered her were arrested and hanged.
According to the annals of supernatural history, the story of the Bell Witch started in 1817 when the Bell family, prosperous farmers from Tennessee, began experiencing strange phenomena in their home. First, the house was plagued with knocking and rapping noises and scratching sounds.
Blankets were pulled from beds, family members were kicked and scratched and their hair pulled. Particularly tormented was a 12-year-old Betsy Bell, who was slapped, pinched, bruised and stuck with pins. At first, John Bell was determined to keep the events secret, but soon confided in a friend , who then formed an investigative committee. John Bell's friends soon learned that the strange force in the house had an eerie intelligence. It soon found a voice and from that day on. . .was seldom silent.
The spirit identified itself as the "witch" of Kate Batts, a neighbors of the Bell's, with whom John had experienced bad business dealings over some purchased slaves. "Kate" as the local people began calling her, made daily appearances in the Bell home, wreaking havoc on everyone there. People all over the area of soon learned of the witch and she made appearances, in sounds and voices, all over Robertson County.
The ghost became so famous that even General Andrew Jackson decided to visit. He too experienced the antics of the witch and his carriage wheels refused to turn until the witch decided to let them.
John Bell fell victim to bouts of strange illness, to which "Kate" claimed responsibility. While he was sick in bed, the spirit cursed and prodded him, never allowing him to rest. One day, he went to bed and never recovered. He was found senseless in his bed one morning and a strange bottle was found nearby. Bell's breath smelled of the black liquid in the bottle, so a drop of it was placed on the tongue of a cat. . .the animal dropped dead. John Bell soon followed suit and "Kate" screamed in triumph. She even made her presence known at his funeral, laughing, cursing and singing as the poor man was buried.
"Kate" didn't vanish immediately after the death of her proclaimed enemy though. She stayed around, threatening Betsy Bell to not marry the man that she truly loved, Joshua Gardner. The witch would never say why, but she did allow the girl to later marry the local schoolteacher, Richard Powell. "Kate" soon left the family but promised to return in seven years. She did come back and plagued the family again for two weeks. Before departing, she appeared at the home of John Bell Jr. and made a number of predictions that Bell recorded. The warning proved true, reflecting the Civil War and the later World Wars of the next century. "Kate" said that she would return again 107 years later, in 1935, but the year came and went without incident.Who was the Bell Witch? Was she really a ghost, who claimed to be connected to a living person? Or did the resentment and the hatred of the real Kate Batts create an entity of it's own? Or could the haunting have been poltergeist activity linked to Betsy Bell? No one will ever know for sure. . .but whoever, or whatever, the Bell Witch was, many believe that she has never left Adams, Tennessee at all.
The Bell Witch Legend Part 2: Bell Witch Cave
Located near where the Bell Farm once stood and near the old family cemetery, where many of the Bell's still rest, is what has become known as the Bell Witch Cave. The cave has no real connection to the legend of the witch but it is located on property once owned by the Bell family. Many in Robertson County believe that when the witch departed, she fled to the sanctuary of this cave. Whether the Bell Witch is here or not.... the cave is a very haunted place.
The former owner of the cave, a man named Bill Edens reported that strange events still went on in the cave and near the home that he had built on the bluff where the cave can be found. The steep incline over the Red River hides a narrow path that leads down to the cave. Strange figures have been reported here and knocking sounds and poltergeist-like events still take place in the house.
The current owners, Chris and Walter Kirby, still open the cave for tourists and they too report that eerie events sometimes take place in the house and in the cave itself. Chris Kirby recalls several occasions when she and visitors in the cave have seen strange apparitions and have heard unexplained sounds, coming from deep in the hidden corners of the cave.
The Terror of Berkeley Square
50 Berkeley Square was the most famous of London's hauntings in Victorian times. Often families would take a detour to look at the house, during tours of the houses of heroes such as William Pitt, Earl Grey and Clive of India. At the time, Prime Minister, George Canning lived two doors away from No.50 until his death in 1927.
Mystery Magazine has detailed the Victorian's love of the macabre in the Spring Heeled Jack and Victorian Ghost sections of this website. Popular newspapers and magazines of the day would excite the imaginations of the populace with stories such as the following about Berkeley Square:
The house in Berkeley Square contains at least one room in which the atmosphere is supernaturally charged, fatal to mind and body. A girl saw, heard and felt such horror in it that she went mad, and never recovered sanity enough to tell how or why"
A gentleman, a disbeliever in ghosts, dared to sleep in it, and was found a corpse in the middle of the floor, after frantically ringing for help in vain. Rumour suggests other cases of the same kind, all ending in death" Mayfair Magazine, 10 May 1879.
In 1840, there were reports of "supernatural" noises coming from the house, which was often empty and deserted for long periods. Jessie Middleton in her Grey Ghost Book wrote that a little Scots girl in a kilt haunted the house. The child was supposed to have been tortured to death in the top-most room of the house. Another of Jessie's stories suggests a girl called Adeline jumped from the top floor window to escape from her lecherous Uncle and since has haunted that room.
We've all heard of the Haunted Mansion ride in Disneyland, FL right?
Did you know theres also REAL ghost who haunt it along with the mechanical Ghouls?
The REAL Ghosts in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion
Hundreds of people visit the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland every day. In fact, it holds a record for being the most visited Dark ride and Disney Imagineers worked hard using old magician tricks to create these illusions. What they may not have known was that there are now several real ghosts haunting the place. In the early 1950s Walt Disney and one of his top Imagineers Ken Anderson began working on the idea of a walk through haunted house. The inspiration came from a Disney cartoon about the Headless Horseman. The visitor was to enter a New England style house and follow the story through the attraction until it reached a climax in a graveyard scene. Anyone who has visited the attraction knows that ideas changed and Disney and Anderson developed a New Orleans style house that the visitor rides through on a "Doombuggy". It does, however, retain the graveyard scene form the original plans.
Construction of the building was put on hold in 1962, but halted in 1966 when Walt Disney died. The designers were in a quandary as Walt had not finished the planning. For a few years the public could see the frame of the building poking over the construction fence. Urban legends surfaced about how the ride was being re-designed because it was so scary that it supposedly caused a man to have a heart attack. The attraction finially opened in 1969.
While the building was built on property that had no previous construction on it, it did manage to attract someone who had died nearby. In the 1940s a man who had been piloting a small plane crashed in a lake near where the park was to be built later. His ghost has settled into the Haunted Mansion. Referred to by Cast Members (employees) as "the man with the cane" he is often seen late at night, especially after closing.
"The man in a tuxedo" is another spirit, though no one really knows who he is. One day an employee was working in the area where passengers disembark. There is a mirror there, so the attendant can see when the riders come up behind her. She kept seeing a shadow in the mirror, and when she turned around no one was there. The figure seemed to be wearing a tuxedo. Then, she felt a chill and a hand placed on her shoulder. Of course, she turned to find no one there. The woman ran out of the Haunted Mansion and soon quit her job. There is a legend concerning a woman who wanted to scatter her young son's ashes inside the Haunted Mansion, but was forbidden by Disney officials. She snuck the ashes inside and covertly scattered them. Apparently, this was NOT her son's last wish as since she did that people have sometimes seen the apparition of a crying boy sitting near the exit.
Though there have been many stories circulated, one person ever actually died in the Haunted Mansion. Each year Disneyland sponsors "Grad Night", which is for high school seniors. Two teenage boys were riding along in a Doombuggy when one of them decided that he wanted to see the room called "Séance Circle" up close. The young man stepped out on to the black painted walkway that was next to the tracks. What he did not realize was that there was a gap between the walkway and the platform on which the display sat. He stepped off the walkway and plunged fifteen feet to the floor, breaking his neck. "Séance Circle" has been odd since the beginning. A sound designer was setting up equipment in the area before the attraction was open to the public. He kept hearing music coming from behind one of the new walls. He surmised that a radio had been walled up accidentally. After several days the music had never ended and no radio announcer ever came on. The man could never find the source of the sound, so he arranged for a speaker to go in the area and drown it out.
There have been many legends associated with the Haunted mansion. If you ever visit, keep your eyes open. You may just spot a real ghost!
Berry Pomeroy Castle
The castle has been the scene of numerous ghostly sightings and strange phenomena. The most enduring ghosts seem to be the terrifying apparitions of a White Lady and a Blue Lady. The White Lady haunts the dark dungeons, and rises from St Margaret's Tower to the castle ramparts, where she has been seen beckoning to witnesses (as recently as 1987). According to the legend she is the spirit of Margaret Pomeroy, who was imprisoned in the dungeons by her sister Eleanor. Eleanor was jealous of both her beauty and her affections for the man she had designs upon. Margaret slowly starved in the dungeons, a long drawn out and painful death. Whether she is the source of the feeling of unease and horror some people experience at the castle is unknown.
The Blue Lady is not confined to specific areas of the castle and is supposed to lure people into parts of the ruin. Traditionally she is seen as the ghost of the daughter of one of the Norman Lords of the castle. She was raped by her father, who then strangled the resulting child in one of the upper rooms.
In other tales it is she who strangles the child, haunting the castle in anguish. When seen, her face is said to portray this suffering. She is regarded as a death portent to members of the Seymour family.
The castle has been the scene of many other ghostly sightings and phenomena. Strange lights have been witnessed, voices have been heard, and there have been reported cold spots and freak winds, although the latter is always possible in an open ruin. Other apparitions reported include a lady in a grey dress, the ubiquitous Cavalier, and strange shadows with no earthly presence to cast them.
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BDC "Emancipation Nation Watch Party" on Constitution Day
Visit the BDC Mon., Sept. 17th to participate in live-feed, national "Emancipation Watch Party" The "Watch Party" is modeled on the watch parties Northern abolitionists held on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation becoming law on January 1, 1863. As the Civil War began to unfold, the Union had a serious question to answer: What to do about the enslaved people left behind - in Beaufort District and other places of the occupied South? President Abraham Lincoln had quite a problem. Gen. David D. Hunter, an ardent abolitionist and Commander of the Department of the South based on Hilton Head Island, took it upon himself to order that "the persons in these three States (viz., South Carolina, Georgia and Florida)...heretofore held as slaves, are therefore declared free" in an order dated 9 May 1862. Lincoln rescinded Hunter's order with a Presidential Proclamation issued ten days later on 19 May 1862. Lincoln spent much of 1862 preparing for the most important decision of his presidency: "What to do about slavery?" Issuance of the presidential Emancipation Proclamation on Sept. 22, 1862 transformed the Federal goal of the Civil War to preserve the Union into a war that would also free the slaves. Historians speaking at the event include: Edward L. Ayers, Eric Foner, Thavolia Glymph, Gary Gallagher and Christy Coleman. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (http://www.neh.gov/events/emancipation-nation-celebrating-freedom-consti...), and with generous support from HISTORY, the event will take place before a live student audience at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. We'll project the live stream in the 2nd floor lobby at 311 Scott Street just outside the BDC Research Room door for you to join us at 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Mon., Sept. 17th. No registration is necessary. The event is free.

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More than 6,000 Scientologists from over 50 nations filled the streets and sidewalks at the 200 block of Fort Harrison Avenue on March 14, 2009, as Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center, Mr. David Miscavige, officiated at the ribbon cutting of the Clearwater, Florida landmark—the new Fort Harrison.
"Her bones were good, her breeding impeccable and her choice of residence couldn't have been more fitting: Clearwater, Florida," began Mr. Miscavige as he addressed those assembled. "When she originally opened in 1926, they called her 'the aristocrat of southern Florida hotels' and described her as a 'picturesque edifice' known all up and down the coast, as the toast of this city and an ever-bustling hub of wedding receptions, fashion shows, bridge teas and Rotary Club functions.
"She additionally saw no inconsiderable parade of luminaries. In the '60s and '70s the Phillies used to stay here during spring training and Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Buddy Rich all performed in our ballroom."
Mr. Miscavige's concluding remarks expressed both the spirit and significance of the occasion:
"The bottom line is the same bottom line for the last 80-plus years: this Fort Harrison is and will always remain a landmark and home for all of Clearwater."
And with that, he cut the 2,00-foot-long red ribbon and so ushered in a new beginning for the "Grand Dame of the West Gulf Coast."
A Monumental Restoration Project
The grand opening of the new Fort Harrison religious retreat was the culmination of an 11-month, million-man-hour restoration. All 267,000 square feet of the 83-year-old structure were stripped down to bare beams and rebuilt from the inside out.
Community Hub
The Fort Harrison has served as a hub for this community since the 1920s and continues to do so today. In addition to the Scientologists who avail themselves of the religious retreat's accommodations, restaurants and amenities while in Clearwater for religious services, the community at large also enjoys the Fort Harrison. Hundreds from across Tampa Bay gather for Open House brunches and community events, such as the Sunscreen Film Festival "Broadway and Beyond" concert, Harlem Nights Jazz Festival and other benefits for the arts. Couple that with the dozen or more interested people who simply walk in every day for a tour—and it is clear the Fort Harrison is, as it has always been, a home for Clearwater.


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T-Mobile Universal Micro USB Car Charger + Extra USB Port for Blackberry, HTC, Motorola, Samsung for $1.99
$2 S/H - Deal of The Day: 8/29!
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I don't understand why people still say it's a micro USB charger for a certain brand of device. In order to say it is a USB charger, it must be 5V and deliver a minimum of 0.5A and a maximum of 5A. Since there are next to zero micro USB devices that can't also charge from a computer, every phone with a micro USB takes 5V and 0.5A and so will work with any micro USB charger. A very few devices are capable of taking advantage of higher amperage chargers to charge faster, which is nice, but you can just buy a generic 5A charger. Unless your devices is the cheapest of Chinese knock-off, it will not draw the full 5A if it was not designed to.
If a device deviates from the 5V 0.5-5A USB specification, it cannot be marketed as USB (A, B, mini, or micro).
@themcnasty: Not all devices handle USB the same. Some devices will charge with just USB power supplied. Some devices will also need data in order to charge. I have a USB hub that is just connected to power. I use it to charge my phone. However, my wife's phone will not charge if connected because data is not being supplied. Some standalone chargers just supply power, some supply both power and data. If you have a charger that supplies both power and data it should charge all phones.
Good deal, but, the link directs to the home page, not the product page. You have to click the daily deal ad to get to the product.
What is the amperage on this charger? The specs on the page don't say. Is it only 0.5A, or is it higher?
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@themcnasty: It's all about SEO and metadata man, they're just making sure that people who search for [carrier name accessory type] or [device name accessory type] are able to find their items. :) Most folks aren't as informed about USB as you are.
@djsleeper: Knowing it's compatible with my phone is meaningless without listing the charging current. Especially if it's 500mA which would take twice as long to charge.


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Spring means a change of clothing – no more turtlenecks, heavy sweaters, boots, and wool coats. Remove all winter clothing from your closets and drawers for washing or sending to the dry cleaner. If there are items that haven't been worn for over a year, consider donating them.
Once the winter clothes are clean, store them properly to prevent moth damage. Airtight plastic bags work well, but it doesn't hurt to add moth crystals, lavender sachets, cedar blocks, or similar moth deterrents.
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Josephine L. Morgan, 89, of El Dorado, died Dec. 18, 2012. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Dec. 29, 2012 at the Lamar United Methodist Church. Visitation will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Dec. 28 at the Daniel Funeral Home in Lamar.
Mrs. Morgan was born June 19, 1923 in K.C., Mo., the daughter of Arthur and Georgia Kingsolver Langworthy. She was united in marriage to Ira Pershing Morgan and he preceded her in death in 2005. She had lived in Lamar, Mo., since 1970 before moving to El Dorado to be near their daughter. Survivors include two sons, Dr. Dennis B. Morgan of Staver, Mo., and Randall G. (Debbie) Morgan of Memphis, Tenn.; daughters, Paula (Mike) Fritschen of El Dorado and Pam Reeves of Overlan Park; sisters, Betty Paul of Lees Summit, Ga., and Lee Arnold of Florida; nine grandchildren; and five great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one daughter Joyce Roth.
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TEMPLE (January 7, 2013)—A Temple man was taken to a local hospital Sunday after he suffered burns as a result of a kitchen fire in his home.
Temple Fire and Rescue spokesman Thomas Pechal said the man's burns were not believed to be life-threatening.
Pechal said units were sent Sunday afternoon to an address in the 700 block of West Park Avenue after a caller reported a house fire.
The first unit on scene reported light smoke coming from a single story wood-framed residence.
All the occupants had escaped the house but one man had suffered burns.
Firefighters entered the smoke filled home to discover the stove fire was out but they checked for any persistent fire, then cleared the house of smoke using fans.
Dollar loss to the structure and contents is estimated at $1,000.
Pechal said investigation at the scene revealed the fire was unintentional.
The injured man's wife said she was in the kitchen cooking when a pan of oil overheated and caught fire.
Pechal said she called to her husband who came into the kitchen and tried to help, but was burned while he was trying to remove the flaming pan from the stove.


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STEUBENVILLE - The Board of Zoning Appeals said Monday it will not require the owner of a South Street property to comply with off-street parking requirements for his twice-a-week social club.
But Law Director S. Gary Repella cautioned that "a number of other issues" must still be addressed by Club 106 owner Derek Smith, including obtaining occupancy and liquor permits.
"The city is being vigilant about it," he told board members. "We're just making sure the owner of this club goes through the procedure to make it legitimate. After this, they're going to have to get an occupancy permit. We've also contacted liquor control. There are a number of different issues that will be addressed, if you follow this over the next six or seven months, to see it resolved."
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QUESTIONS FOR BOARD — Derek Smith shows members of the Steubenville zoning board a photo of another business located near his Club 106 that he said doesn't meet the city's off-street parking regulations, one of many he presented to them during Monday's meeting. - Linda Harris
City police say the club, located at 601-603 South St., has been a trouble spot: In August, two people were shot beside the club, and last month a man was grazed in the head after shots were fired inside Club 106.
Two months ago, Assistant City Law Director Costa Mastros sought an injunction to shut Club 106 down, citing building code and zoning violations. Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge Joseph Bruzzeze Jr., however, took the request under advisement, saying Smith must first be given an opportunity to comply with those requirements before he determines whether an injunction is warranted.
Monday's decision was the first of several approvals Smith will have to obtain to be in compliance with city regulations.
Prior to the vote, Smith's attorney, Gary Stern, told the board the club operates just two nights a week, typically starting at about 11 p.m. and closing before on-street parking is needed for other businesses. He also told the board requiring his client to provide paved off-street parking is unreasonable, and offered as evidence a number of photographs taken at other businesses in that area that do meet the same off-street parking requirement.
"It's unreasonable unless 51 percent of property owners comply," Stern said. "It's basically an industrial area. The owner operates as a social club at night, two nights a weeks ... when the streets are empty."
Stern said Smith "operates the club in a responsible way ... providing a service to people" in his community.
"He shouldn't be made to comply with parking regulations no one else in the area has to comply with," Stern insisted.
Late last month, Stern filed a counter-suit, claiming the city is selectively enforcing "vague technicalities" in zoning and building rules against his client. He's asking for damages in excess of $25,000 from the city and Anthony Bodo, the city's zoning officer.
During recent court proceedings, meanwhile, Smith said he'd purchased the property under a land contract, had done some remodeling inside and had applied for approvals to open a nightclub in the building.
He insisted it's not operating as a business, though he did tell the court he charges patrons $10 to cover utilities, supplies alcohol to his patrons and also allows them to bring their own.
During that same hearing, Bodo said the procedure for obtaining an occupancy permit had been explained to Smith in 2010 but he hadn't followed up.
In other business, the board also granted a variance to off-street parking requirements for Russell Hunt of Total Lawn Care, 175 Detmar Road.
The company is constructing a new office building, and Hunt told board members the road on which the offices will be situated is unimproved.
"I don't think it's a city road," he said, adding that other businesses in that particular area don't offer paved off-street parking, either.


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On and Off the Record
Releases by Shaky Feelin', Dan Grimm and Rubberneck Lions
By Michel Miller 11/15/2012
Shaky Feelin'
The Real Picture
Jam bands aren't known for brevity, and fans of Shaky Feelin' will happily feast on this bountiful collection of its best songs, the longest of which is just under 10 minutes. While repetition can be the genre's Achille's heel, Shaky Feelin' doesn't waste precious time on cheap filler. Thoughtfully arranged with ample time allotted to trading solos, The Real Picture is an outstanding effort from start to finish. Standard jam fare is punctuated with ska, calypso, bluegrass and Latin accents for a sound that should appeal to a broad audience. A solid rhythm section (big ups to the drummers — yes, plural — for spot-on, complex grooves that never sound too busy) provides the backbone of that feeling the band is named for, but it's all a lovely, gilded frame for Mark Masson's virtuosity. Inspired, emotional guitar solos are the hallmark of the jam, and Masson's are celestial. No doubt the quality of the record has something to do with Jon Debaun's involvement, but Masson and company have also done their homework.
— Michel Miller
Available on Amazon, Spotify, Rdio and at Salzer's Records.
Dan Grimm
It wasn't crack musicians and a pastoral landscape that earned Ventura the nickname Ventucky, but you wouldn't know that by listening to Dan Grimm. As a loyal lover does his beloved, Grimm is able to forgive the town its warts, even celebrate them, while somehow managing to capture the zeitgeist of the region in a few pretty little country numbers. It's his ability to so sublimely transmute local culture into melody and verse that has earned Grimm comparisons to the late great Jimmy Adams. It's only fitting that Ojai's Jonathan McEuen and Jesse Siebenberg would add some finger-picking heart to Grimm's strumming soul — the lap and pedal steel guitar parts are absolutely sumptuous. Grimm's plan to continue to release smaller packages of music more frequently, seems like a good plan. Take Ventucky to the beach and let it be your soundtrack for the end to another perfectly imperfect day in Bakersfield by the Sea.
— Michel Miller
Available on iTunes, Spotify and Amazon.
Rubberneck Lions
Couple Singles
This early sampling of one of Ventura's more promising rock bands is but a taste of what's to come on the full-length that's set for release in early 2013. Classic rock with psychedelic overtones à la Cream and Deep Purple, these three songs trace the dreamy meanderings of fantasy rock. Though the aesthetic is a bit Spiders from Mars, the sound isn't glam; enchanted forests seem a better fit. (While listening, I kept seeing mushrooms and mischievous gnomes.) Rubberneck Lions do their fair share of tripping the light fantastic, especially on "Cosmic Being" but they also, mercifully, get heavy in all the right places. Comparisons to the oft maligned but highly underrated band Wolfmother seem inevitable — and that's not a bad thing. Can't wait to hear what's next.
— Michel MillerAvailable at www.reverbnation.com/rubbernecklions. Rubberneck Lions will perform at Bombay Bar and Grill on Friday, Nov. 16, for the RAWwards semifinals.
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5 Creepy Christmas Traditions from Around the World
#2. Zwarte Piet
The Netherlands have a version of Santa Claus much like our own, with one exception: He has a sidekick. His name is Zwarte Piet, and he's the Robin to Sinterklaas' Batman. The pair arrives by boat every Christmas to hand out gifts to all good children. The bad children, however, are abducted by Zwarte Piet, who takes them back to Spain as punishment. Prior to this article, we would have laughed at the ineffectiveness of that "punishment." "Oh no, please don't take me back to a sunny and beautiful European vacation spot! I'll be good!" But now we understand the reluctance to relocate to a land where Christmas time is like living underneath a ruptured sewer line for a fortnight.
Still, could be worse
There's another problem, though. Time makes fools of us all, and what's an acceptable tradition one century can be considered monstrous the next. Zwarte Piet is no different: The Netherlands has been trying for years now to downplay the idea that Zwarte Piet is ... you know ...
Santa's slave.
There are efforts in the Netherlands to discontinue the tradition, understandably, but purists argue that Zwarte Piet is something like a chimney sweep. He's the one who goes up and down the chimney delivering presents on behalf of Sinterklaas, so it's only natural that he would be covered in soot, right? That's the only reason why white people dressed up as Zwarte Piet paint their faces black! And, uh, he has cartoonishly large lips because the soot it ... it swells them? And he has an afro wig because ... well, shit. OK, fine, he's racist.
Also, he leaves a pack of Kools beneath your pillow. Just ... uncalled for, Netherlands. Not cool.
#1. Krampus and Perchta (The 'Belly-Slitter')
Austria's version of Santa Claus is also pretty close to ours, except that instead of extremely racist sidekicks, Santa Claus does his rounds with an entourage of demons. First, there's Krampus, who accompanies Saint Nick as he visits your house. If you've been good that year, you get presents from Santa. If you've been bad that year, Krampus abducts you and hurls you straight into the pits of hell.
It's just another method of child-rearing, really. You have positive reinforcement, like we use in the West, where we encourage our kids to be good so they can get presents. And then you have negative reinforcement, like in Austria, where every year they tell their children that a demon sneaks into their bedrooms at night and may burn them alive for all eternity if they don't finish their goddamn vegetables this instant, Franz.
"Are these Legos on the stairs? Oh, you kids! I know somebody WHO IS GOING TO FUCKING BURN TOMORROW!"
Perchta is the slightly kinder alternative to Krampus -- though we use the word "kinder" in the Austrian sense, which only means that her horror is slightly less than the alternative. She traditionally shows up during the 12 days of Christmas, before Santa and his pet devil, to sort of pre-punish misbehaving children. Because burning in hell isn't quite enough incentive to get your homework done, apparently. Perchta won't drag you to hell, though. Her nickname is "the belly-slitter," and it's pretty much what you think: She slits open your damn belly if you've been bad.
We don't mean to pass judgment on other cultures here, but the cons seem to drastically outweigh the pros: As a child in Austria, if you've been good, you either get a firetruck and some Pokemon cards, or else something comes to your house and disembowels you. Jesus, can you at least opt out of Christmas altogether? Is there a third box to check between 'inexpensive toy' and 'tortured to death'?
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Newtown Committee Votes to Raze Sandy Hook School
NEWTOWN, Conn.—A committee here voted late Friday night in favor of razing Sandy Hook Elementary School—where 20 children and six adults were shot and killed on Dec. 14—and building a new facility in its place.
It was an emotional decision for the elected officials who made up the 28-member task force that voted unanimously for building a new school at the site of one the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
Several committee members had tears streaming down their cheeks moments after the vote. Residents in the crowd cried and hugged each other after the votes were cast.
"I think that decision was very necessary in order to help our community heal. Not knowing the future creates its own anxiety. And we need to get over that hump. I'm very proud of the work that this task force did," said E. Patricia Llodra, first selectman of Newtown and a task-force member.
The panel's recommendation now goes to the Board of Education. Eventually there will be a town referendum on the issue.
The new school is estimated to cost between $42 million and $47 million, which the state of Connecticut and the federal government is expected to cover, Ms. Llodra said. The earliest it may open is Jan. 2016.
The surviving Sandy Hook students have been attending Chalk Hill Middle School in nearby Monroe, Conn., since January. For parents like Christine Wilford, hearing that her son could eventually return to Sandy Hook Elementary was welcome news.
"I am ecstatic with the decision," Ms. Wilford, whose 8-year-old son attends Sandy Hook. She also has two other younger children who will eventually go to the school. "My concern was just coming back to Sandy Hook and having the kids close by."
Dan Krause has a daughter in the second grade at Sandy Hook Elementary. He said his daughter wants to return to her own school as soon as possible.
"She'll tell you that she wants to go back to her school and she misses her school," Mr. Krause. "She loves Chalk Hill, but she really wants to go back to her school."
No residents spoke Friday against returning to site. And while the task force voted unanimously in favor of rebuilding at the existing location, many had mixed feelings about it.
"It's a gut-wrenching decision," said James Gaston, a member of Newtown's Board of Selectman and a task-force member. He said he could have supported either building a new school at the existing site or constructing a new facility less than a mile away—the final serious options considered.
The town is now bracing to hear from residents who object to returning to the existing Sandy Hook site. Many teachers at the school have told Ms. Llodra that they don't want to go back, she said. At another public meeting earlier in May, Brian Engel, whose 6-year-old daughter died at the school, said he opposed reopening or rebuilding the school.
"We will do everything we can, everything possible to help them be better emotionally, be better able to accept this decision. We recognize that their own hurt is such that they are unable to accept this decision right now," Ms. Llodra said. "We are hoping that we are able to help them enough and as we go through this journey that they are able to be with us."
The panel examined more than 40 sites in Newtown as possible locations. Most were eliminated due to specifications such as topography or access to sewers and roads.
By Friday, the panel had narrowed its list down to a handful of options. In the end it came down to rebuilding the school on the existing site or locating the new facility nearby.
The second choice was problematic because the town doesn't own the entire parcel of land. That other site was also on the opposite side of a firehouse where parents gathered after the attack on Dec. 14 to find out if there children survived. That site continues to be an emotional trigger for many residents.
Another drawback was that if the school were rebuilt near the firehouse, people would be able to see the old Sandy Hook Elementary School from the new site.
In the end, the task force concluded that rebuilding a new school at the existing site was the most feasible way to keep the school located within the Sandy Hook area.
The town plans to let teachers and other family members of victims walk through the existing Sandy Hook Elementary School before it is razed. John Vouros, a Newtown school-board member and a task-force member, wants to keep teachers involved throughout the entire rebuilding process.
"Little by little, if we are instrumental and do our job properly, we can guide them on a monthly basis through the happiness of this building," Mr. Vouros said. "I think it can be created in such a beautiful way that there can be happiness there."


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The 5 Weirdest Ways Music Can Mess With the Human Brain
The entire reason music exists is because of its almost magical ability to push your buttons. An upbeat song gets you going, a sad song makes you cry and drink. But the more science studies music's effect on the human brain, the more bizarre things we discover.
For instance ...
#5. It Changes Your Ability to Perceive Time
Hold music -- the stuff you hear on the line when you call everyone from the bank to your local bail bond agency -- didn't fall into America's phone lines by accident. It's designed specifically to reduce the amount of time you think you're waiting, so that you're less likely to hang up in anger. Other places that involve waiting, such as doctors' offices, use a similar trick. Time shrinkage is also the aim of most retail stores, which is why you'll rarely enter a mall, supermarket or clothing store without hearing some sort of music in the background.
Our coke dealer always has Iggy Pop on at his apartment.
How the hell does music do that?
To understand why exactly music makes it seem like less time has passed, think of the human brain as a mountain lion that is eating a bag of money. It doesn't matter what the zookeepers distract it with -- food, shiny objects or just shouting and yelling. All that matters is that they give another zookeeper the chance to sneak up and retrieve the money while the lion is busy deciding which one of them to eat.
Similarly, when your brain is steadily distracted, you'll be less likely to notice things around you in detail, and this includes the passage of time. Our brains have limited input capacity, and when something else is using up that capacity, we're less likely to think things like, "I've been standing in line to get Richard Moll's autograph for three goddamn hours" or "Do I really need this Garfield alarm clock?"
"Will Katy Perry really sleep with me if I keep buying her music?"
But it works the opposite way, too. In some situations, listening to music can actually expand perceived time. For example, listening to music while performing tasks that require concentration will usually cause us to overestimate the amount of time that has passed. The theory is that as your mind switches back and forth between perception of the music and concentration on the challenging tasks, it forms separate "events," or distinct memories. When your brain thinks about what you've been doing for the past hour, you'll remember more of these events and recall that the hour was quite long.
Experiments have found that time also expands when we're listening to familiar music that we dislike.
When we hear the opening chords of a song, our brain remembers the whole thing and immediately skips ahead and plays it mentally. This fake mind-music is extremely vivid, working on exactly the same parts of the brain as actual music does. So the effect is that you take a few moments to vividly imagine that you're sitting through five minutes of that damn New Radicals song before you come back to reality only to realize that you still actually have to sit through it.
#4. It Taps Into Primal Fear
OK, imagine how you would sound for a second if you saw your friend Jason across the street and wanted to get his attention by yelling his name. Now imagine you see your friend Jason across the street, suddenly realize a car is careening down the road about to hit him, and shout his name to warn him.
"Sorry, Mike, I thought you were Jason."
Despite the fact that you are yelling the same thing both times, even in your head you can hear how the two sound different. Human beings have a very good, very nuanced sense of what kind of noise indicates a greeting and what kind of noise indicates you are about to be mauled by a honey badger. And that sense is being used against you in every scary movie you have ever seen. There is a reason that horror films scare the crap out of us, and it's not just the creepy settings, dramatic buildup and sudden reveal of the bad guy RIGHT BEHIND YOU. It's the music.
And, sometimes, the Jack Nicholson.
How the hell does music do that?
There are certain sounds that humans will automatically associate with sudden and painful death because they tap into our evolutionary fear of the screams of other animals (and other human beings). Screams of fear in almost any animal are made up of what scientists have dubbed "discordant noises." Any noise that makes you feel very unpleasant falls into this category. We know if we hear other living things making those discordant noises that we have to get the fuck out, because something bad is going to happen.
As illustrated.
Movie directors know this and make good use of it when deciding on the score for a film. That dramatic buildup and subsequent scary reveal is almost always accompanied by really freaky music or somebody screaming his ass off (or both).
But this technique is hardly limited to horror movies. For instance, in his original draft of The Social Network, Andy Sorkin wanted a song called "Love of the Common People" to play over the opening credits scene. Here's what that would have looked like:
That poppy calypso music makes you feel that everything is dandy. Sure, Mark Zuckerberg has just been dumped, but it's all OK! He's running through the Harvard campus and is about to invent Facebook and become a billionaire. Yay!
Instead, we got a Trent Reznor-penned tune that sounded like this:
Listen to that lower-level background music throughout. It sounds like random, angry notes played behind a simple piano tune, and those notes are creating discordant sound. Suddenly you're apprehensive, feeling like something really bad is about to happen (we're talking getting sued for $64 million bad). So next time you're getting a little too freaked out by a movie, remember that muting the television is a far better decision than looking away.
Depending on the film, you might want to do both.
#3. It Makes You Stronger
It's no secret that many people prefer to listen to music when they work out. But music doesn't just make physical activity more pleasant -- it actually makes our physical performance measurably better. When listening to music, people are able to hold heavy weights for longer than when they're standing in silence. They can also complete sprints in smaller amounts of time and are even able to reduce their oxygen intake.
This is why Rocky does all of his training in musical montages.
How the hell does music do that?
Similar to the time-perception effect we referenced above, one element is just plain old distraction. Obviously, if your mind is listening to music, it's not thinking about how much your legs hurt or how much longer you've got to run before the treadmill makes that final beeping noise. But there's much more to it than that.
First, there's synchronicity. When you match your movements to a steady musical tempo, you spend less time and effort on the inefficient slowing down and speeding up that happens when you're going by your own rhythm. Music also increases the incidence of "flow" states -- states of meditation-like calm in which everything works right for an athlete and that is strongly linked to enhanced performance.
It's all in the music.
Music can even make you feel less pain. Patients listening to music after surgery need less sedatives, report less pain and have lower blood pressure. As if that's not impressive enough, doctors have found that specially selected melodic music dramatically reduces stress in patients during unsedated brain surgery. In some cases, music caused patients to relax so much that many of them fell into a deep sleep, while people sliced into their exposed brains with fucking scalpels.
And even if you're lucky enough to be asleep during surgery, there's a good chance the doctors working on you are listening to music, since most surgeons believe it improves their performance, too. So the next time you're about to go under a general anesthetic, consider the fact that the guy with the scalpel might soon be timing his incisions to Whitesnake.
"Here I go again on my own, sawing through the whitest bones I've ever knooown ..."


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text: It's not often that I get requests to make lessons based on characters from one of Luigi's game series. Today I will fill a request and show you "how to draw a Polterpup", step by step. These adorable doggies are exactly what they look like, ghost K-9s. These ghostly dogs are found in 'Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon' game. They aid Luigi in more ways than one. They can carry items for him like keys and gold dog bones. They can also give life back to Luigi by restoring his hit points but this can only happen if Luigi has a gold dog bone. Anyways, drawing a Polterpup is going to be exciting and fun. I know you will be amped to tackle this lesson because drawing Mario or Luigi characters always is. Adios people and enjoy.


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Your Dog's Health Screening Documentation
In This Article:
Other Orthopedic Problems
Elbow dysplasia refers to inherited elbow disease, consisting of one or more problems in the elbow joint. Usually, a dog with elbow dysplasia in one elbow has it in both. Symptoms of elbow dysplasia include lameness, faulty movement as the dog tries to compensate for elbow pain by turning his front toes inward, and limited range of motion in the elbow. Symptoms usually appear in puppyhood; the exact age depends on the individual's particular problems as well as environmental influences, such as weight and exercise. In breeds that are prone to elbow dysplasia, breeding animals should be x-rayed and found free of elbow dysplasia before being bred.
A cushion of cartilage protects the ends of a dog's long leg bones. Although it protects the bone, the cartilage itself can be injured, particularly in a large, active, young dog. If the cartilage in the joint cracks and tears, the dog has osteochondrosis (OC). If bits of cartilage break free and float in and around the joint, the dog has osteochondrosis dissecans (OCD). OCD usually affects the shoulder or elbow, but may also occur in the hip or knee, causing inflammation of the joint (arthritis), lameness, and swelling of the joints (especially after exercise). OCD is usually quite painful. Symptoms usually appear when the dog is between four months and one year old. Research suggests that a dog must inherit a predisposition for OCD, which is then brought on by trauma, usually in the course of normal exercise.
As I write this, the OFA is conducting research on OCD, but at present there is no standardized screening test for the disease. If you're considering a breed in which OCD commonly occurs, ask the breeder about the incidence of the disease in your potential puppy's relatives. Your best bet is a pup with no close relatives affected by the disorder.
The patella, or kneecap, is located in the stifle joint in the dog's hind leg. If the patella luxates, it slips out of its normal position and locks the leg straight, which is painful and potentially crippling. Patellar luxation is a problem in many toy breeds as well as some larger breeds. A veterinarian can check for patellar luxation even in young puppies. Dogs with luxating patellas should never be used for breeding. If you're considering a breed prone to this disorder, ask to see either OFA certification or a letter from a veterinarian certifying that the parents have normal patellas. If possible, ask that your puppy be examined by a vet before you bring him home, or retain the option of returning him for a full refund within a certain time if your own vet finds his patellas to be abnormal during his first puppy exam.
Other orthopedic problems occur in some breeds and affect different parts of the skeletal system, including the spine and various joints. Learn about your breed, and if it is prone to any of these disorders, insist on seeing the appropriate documentation before you buy your puppy.
Inherited Eye Disease
Inherited eye disorders affect many breeds. If eye diseases are a problem in your chosen breed, be sure to see documentation of an eye examination within the previous year. Ask about the grandparents of the puppy as well; hopefully, there is evidence that they also passed yearly eye examinations until at least six or seven years of age. In some breeds, the puppies, too, should have their eyes examined at a specific age, so find out whether that is recommended for your breed. All eye examinations should be done by an American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists (ACVO) board-certified specialist. General practice vets don't have the special training or the equipment necessary to administer a thorough eye examination.
The Canine Eye Registry Foundation (CERF) maintains a registry of purebred dogs that have been examined by ACVO Diplomats (members) and found to be free of major inherited eye disease. CERF also issues certificates to those owners who submit the results of the ophthalmologist's exam. However, many breeders prefer to see the actual examination form rather than a CERF certificate, because the ophthalmologist may note certain conditions that would not prevent a dog from getting a certificate, but which are of concern to careful breeders. In any case, you should see originals or copies of either a CERF certificate or a certification of eye examination by a veterinary ophthalmologist.
Testing for Other Inherited Disorders
So is that it? Watch out for orthopedic and eye problems and you're home free? Well, no, not quite. Some breeds are prone to inherited heart defects; blood disorders; kidney, liver, and lung disorders; diabetes; and deafness. The incidence of cancer is very high in some breeds. Idiopathic (inherited) epilepsy occurs in a number of breeds. A few breeds even have their very own inherited disorders that occur in no other breeds.
Unfortunately, no tests have been developed yet for some of these problems. Your best approach is to read as much as you can about the breed, find a breeder you trust, and ask her what she's doing to control the problem in her puppies. Ask for evidence of testing where that is possible, and find out as much as you can about relatives of the pup you're considering.
Remember, though, that there are healthy dogs out there! It's well worth the extra time and effort it takes to find a breeder who does everything humanly possibly to produce healthy pups from healthy parents.
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YORK, Pa. — The Bon-Ton Stores will close its Younkers Furniture Gallery in the Lakeshore Marketplace in Muskegon, Michigan, in June. The closing will affect approximately 20 associates at the location.
The Bon-Ton acquired the leasehold interests in the Muskegon Furniture Gallery store when they acquired Elder-Beerman in 2003. Bon-Ton does not expect the furniture gallery's close to affect operations at the Younkers department store located in The Lakes Mall.
"We are very grateful for the devoted Younkers Muskegon Furniture Gallery store associates and are committed to providing assistance to these associates," said Brendan Hoffman, president and CEO.
The affected associates in the Muskegon Furniture Gallery location will be offered the opportunity to interview for available positions at other Younkers stores or receive career transition benefits, including severance, according to established practices and state employment service support.
The Bon-Ton Stores operates 272 department stores, which includes 11 furniture galleries, in 24 states in the Northeast, Midwest and upper Great Plains under the Bon-Ton, Bergner's, Boston Store, Carson's, Elder-Beerman, Herberger's and Younkers. The department stores offer national and private brand fashion apparel and accessories for women, men and children, as well as cosmetics and home furnishings.


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Unanswered: how to fix video playin in android > 4.x
Since Android 4.0.3 our Sencha2 App with Phonegap 1.9 has some proplems to play a video.
In Android 2.3.4 and IOS .x and of course in the browser it is still working.
In the view we maked:
{ xtype: 'video', id: 'TestimonialDetailVideo', url: '', posterUrl: '' }
Ext.getCmp('TestimonialDetailVideo').setUrl("app/resources/vid/" +e.data.video); Ext.getCmp('TestimonialDetailVideo').setPosterUrl("app/resources/img/" + e.data.poster);
I tried to debug it and i've found out that:
Ext.getCmp('TestimonialDetailVideo').rendered /.initialized and all off these are true,
but the .media.dom.currentSrc is empty.
Thanks urb
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Skin cream usage for radiation-related skin reactions: An internet-based survey
The following surveys will help us to better understand skin cream usage for patients who develop skin redness/irritation during radiation therapy.
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The Annual Prayer Breakfast was held this morning at the Corvette Museum.
While the event is free, donations are gathered each year for any given charity.
This year's beneficiary was Hotel Inc, a non-profit designed to help those in poverty.
Col. Paul Longgrear served in Vietnam.
He is now going around the country telling his story about how he found Christianity during a battle he thought he wouldn't survive.
"I was just a punk kid on the street. I mean, I wasn't raised religious. In fact, I got in trouble in high school and had to go to another high school to live with my uncle who they thought could handle me. But when I met Jesus it changed my life and I became a productive citizen of America," Col. Longgrear says.
He says his goal is to encourage people to reach for their dreams, and let Christianity lead the way.
Those with the Corvette Museum estimate around $5,500 was raised for Hotel Inc.


text: Carl Eschenbach joined VMware in June 2002 and helped grow the company from $31M to over $6B in revenues and from 200 people to more than 18,000. As president and chief operating officer, he leads the company's Worldwide Customer Operations team, leveraging nearly 30 years of high-tech industry experience including infrastructure software, networking, telephony and storage. He is responsible for VMware's global go-to-market strategy, including sales, pre- and post-sales engineering, channels and alliances, marketing and support services. He also leads VMware's strategy and corporate development. Prior to joining VMware, Carl was Vice President of North America Sales at Inktomi, and held various sales leadership positions with 3Com, EMC and Lucent Technologies.


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Your tax-deductible gift to the Naval Institute Press underwrites worthy books that might not otherwise be published.
In this comic and irreverent novel, author and naval officer David Poyer--famous for such bestsellers as The Med, The Gulf, The Circle, and The Passage--brilliantly re-creates the hothouse world of the U.S. Naval Academy. When the book was first published in 1983 Roger Staubach, class of 1965, wrote, "Anyone who has attended a service academy will recognize Philo T. McGiffin and his classmates. However, anyone who has ever had a dream or a goal will feel a special kinship with Philo. This is a book worth reading."
Poyer's Philo, burdened with the name of Annapolis's legendary prankster of the class of 1882, attracts attention from the day he reports for Plebe Summer, and the upperclassmen soon make his life a living hell. Stoop-shouldered and meek, he seems an unlikely candidate to carry on the tradition of the original Philo, whose outrageous escapades had served as a symbol of subversive individualism to generations of midshipmen. At first Philo nearly buckles under from the strain, but gradually "The Mouse" learns to roar and ultimately to triumph in the grand style of his predecessor. Funny, touching, and enormously realistic, this madcap novel will bring back to everyone what it was like to be 17--and in deep trouble.
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Why do some people post comments that are actually answers to the question? Wouldn't posting an answer be better?
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
Most often I do this when I have some input to give that I think is helpful, but I don't have the time/care to write a detailed answer that meets my personal quality standards. Rather than an incomplete answer or not helping at all, I'll leave a comment to point them in the right direction.
Sometimes I'll put in a half-answer in the comments when I'm really not sure if I'm right or not, hoping that somebody can confirm what I'm saying. Then I'll go off and research the answer, and by the time I get back somebody else has confirmed what I said in a real answer, so I'll vote them up, or if nobody has, I'll answer myself.
I'm really just trying to spur a quick correct answer, and not put down something as an answer if I'm not sure it's right.
If I vote to close a question, I refuse to answer it as well. But sometimes I will give some input in the form of a comment. Occasionally such a comment from me will be a real answer.
Alternatively I'll post "have you tried ...?" comments. Someone posts a question saying they want to know how to parse XML, so I'll say "Have you tried XSLT/XPath?" with a link to a resource explaining it. You could call that an answer, but from my point of view it's just a verbose link.
To me, it's an answer if I'm supplying real information that I generated on my own, or aggregated on my own. If it's just a link it's not an answer. Your opinions may differ, but that's how I see it.
Comments cannot be downvoted. For unclear questions, if the question is clarified or other people interpret the question differently then people might downvote an answer that does not answer their interpretation of the question. Also someone may be afraid of losing rep from an answer that may not be what people want to hear if the truth is unpopular or politically incorrect.
Hopfully avoiding downvotes is not politically incorrect or else I should have posted this as a comment. :(
There are probably as many answers to this question as there are people answering in comments...
I'll do it sometimes if i have a suggestion that doesn't really seem like a complete answer, if the length and formatting restrictions of a comment allow it.
Sometimes, i just don't want to bother writing up a good answer, so i'll use the comment to post a hint, in the hope that it'll prompt someone else to go to the trouble of researching and fleshing it out.
Others have noted that they'll use comments to provide answers to inappropriate questions. I'll usually still post an answer in that case, but mark it CW... however, this can upset some people, and i'm not entirely sure whether it works to encourage other CW answers (ok), or just encourage other answers (not ok). So i'll occasionally post my answer as a comment then as well.
One possibility is that someone wanted to answer a question which was closed while they were preparing the answer, so they posted a comment instead.
Occasionally it's not obvious when your response should be an answer or a comment. I have sometimes commented on questions, and it's turned into a discussion that results in an answer. YMMMV :-)
If I vote to close a question because it's not appropriate for SO, etc., but it is a question that I know the answer to, I will often add the answer as a comment to be helpful but not encourage other answers.
Other times, like when my answer is really a joke and the question isn't CW, I'll choose to answer with a comment so that it isn't confused with a real answer to the question.
Because very often that "answer" isn't really an answer, but more like a hint or a suggestion. Which might be enough for some OPs, while not for others (and yeah, for some anything less than gif-me-teh-codez isn't).
Also, it's expected that answers are more profound and elaborated. For example one-liners are subject to deletion even if they actually answer the question.


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I have a web application with lots of Javascipt and CSS code. I want to minify the CSS and JS code using something like UglifyJS.
However, I don't want to program with the minified code and I want my team to checkout only the non-minified code. What's the most common way of doing this?
I guess you would push both the minified and non-minified code and have the code reference only minified files. Do most people create a file call BUILD that runs all JS/CSS files through the minifier? Programmers would then have to run the BUILD script before pushing right?


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Fred Lonidier's collection of photographs of Vietnam-era anti-draft organizing by Draft Resistance-Seattle and other antiwar activists. These galleries are part of the Pacific Northwest Antiwar and Radical History Project, which features a page on draft resistance in the Northwest during the Vietnam War. Copyright (c) Fred Lonidier.
"Big Firms get Rich, GIs Die"
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For anyone who's ever dreamt of life on the silver screen, your chance at fame may be nearer than you think.
Set to begin shooting this August through the end of September in Louisville and surrounding areas in Kentucky, filmmaker Archie Borders and co-producer Michael Fitzer have announced the first feature film, "Pleased to Meet Me," to be produced by the newly created 180 Degrees Production Company.
"Pleased to Meet Me," is the story of musician Pete Jones, lead singer of a seminal punk band, who experiences a slump in both his professional and personal life. Struggling to complete his latest album, he's approached by former partner and indie producer, Laura Klein, to appear on a segment of the syndicated radio show, "This American Life." He'll unite with an eclectic group of musicians who have never met to produce their one and only song in one day of studio magic.
Adapted from the script of "Everyone Speaks Elton John" featured on PRI's "This American Life," "Pleased to Meet Me" is a comical look into unfulfilled dreams and possibilities in the music industry.
Currently, John Doe, from punk group "X" will star in the film with actor and Grammy-winning musician Loudon Wainwright III. Singer-songwriter and actress, Aimee Mann and Grammy award-winning musician, producer and music supervisor Joe Henry have also signed onto the project.
A few smaller roles are still available and are expected to be filled by local talent. "We filled the big shoes with out-of-town cast and then we've really tried to populate with local musicians who are just as talented and just as capable; they just live here," said Fitzer, an Emmy award-winning writer, producer, director of photography and editor.
There will also be opportunities to appear as an extra in the film for a crowd scene shot at the Brown Theatre, Borders said. But if you're not one to stand in front of the camera, you can still play an extremely crucial role in the film through funding.
Via crowd-funding website, Kickstarter, Borders and Fitzer have begun a campaign to raise an additional $44,000 for the film in order to hire production assistants, rent supplement lighting and camera packages and complete the on-line edit, color-timing, final audio mix and production of the movie's soundtrack. Donations to the film may be pledged in any amount $1 and above. The catch, however, is the project will only be funded if at least $44,000 is pledged by Friday, Aug. 10. If more than the goal amount is raised, Borders and Fitzer will utilize the extra money to further promote the film.
"Crowd funding and what Kickstarter does (is), if you want to put in $50 you can put in $50, if you want to put in $100, you can put in $100. So people who (say) I wish I could help, they can help," Borders said. "And it promotes the arts here, it provides jobs for here, the money comes back into the community."
"It really has become a phenomenon and one thing that we like about Kickstarter is it's the all-or-nothing approach," Fitzer said. In return for donations, patrons receive incentives based on dollar amounts. Prizes range from a signed production photo to a full day recording session with your band in the same studio used in the film.
To wrap up the Kickstarter campaign, Borders and Fitzer will host a party Aug. 9 at the Butchertown Market from 5 to 9 p.m. that may feature some surprise musical performances.
Once the film has been completed, Borders and Fitzer would like to shop the film to the South By Southwest festival and possibly Sundance. And, more importantly, spread a message of hope for a dream deferred, while shining the spotlight on local musicians and actors still holding out for their big break.
"It was kind of cool to write something and hear that 'This American Life' piece about people who are at the point where they're like, do I keep doing this or do I go to work in a doctor's office or something," Borders said. "And that's a crucial moment in your life when you're trying to decide, is this what I want to do? … (Two) of our cast members … were in bands that did well, or were kind of at that point like, are they going to make it or not, and both of them have decided to (try different careers). … But they're about to star in a film with John Doe and Aimee Mann too. They're going to be thrown together with people who have been successful, and are successful in that industry. So it's going to be some real fireworks I think on camera."
To help crowd-fund "Pleased to Meet Me," visit www.kickstarter.com/projects/1694269900/pleased-to-meet-me-project. For more information on the film, visit www.pleasedtomeetmemovie.com.
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Egg Carton Flowers
- Empty egg cartons
- Scissors
- Paint, markers, or crayons
- Paintbrush
- Pipe cleaner
- Green construction paper
- Glue
- Cut apart an egg carton into individual sections and have your child paint the sections with a variety of colors. (Markers or crayons can also be used.)
- Poke a pipe cleaner through the bottom of each section to make a stem.
- Cut leaf shapes out of green construction paper and glue them onto the pipe cleaners.
- Several colorful flowers in a bud vase make a great gift or a decorative table centerpiece.
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Copyright © 1998 by Patricia Kuffner. Excerpted from The Preschooler's Busy Book with permission of its publisher, Meadowbrook Press.
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