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Tracee Davidofsky
– Tracee Davidofsky passed on Nov. 29, 2012, from cancer, at the age of 53. She was surrounded by family as she began her journey to Heaven. Born in Clarksville, Tenn., on Oct. 17, 1959, to Robert and Bettie Young. Tracee graduated from Tupelo High School and attended Ole Miss.
As a child Tracee enjoyed horseback riding and dance and as an adult she could always be found on the dance floor once the music started. Tracee was a skilled organizer and the driving force behind numerous neighborhood parties. Tracee loved travel, especially to places with sandy beaches, fruity drinks and starry nights. Tracee was a business owner, big sister and a loving wife and mother.
She is survived by her husband, Eric; her sons, Sam and Bradly; her parents, Doc and Bettie Robbins; and her siblings Angel Williams and Lance Young.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Collierville Funeral Home with burial in Flower Mound, Texas.
The family will receive friends 4 to 6 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Bessie Brown
TUPELO – Bessie Lee Raper Brown, 94, went to be with the Lord early Saturday morning, Dec. 1, 2012, at Sunshine Rest Home after a long illness. She was born July 12, 1918, to Dexter and Fannie Horton Raper and graduated from Belden High School in 1936. On July 5, 1942, she married Charles E. Brown and made their home in East Heights for 60 years. She was a life long member of Tupelo Free Will Baptist Church and was active in all activites of the church until her health began to fail. She taught the Beginner's Sunday School Class, was active in Ladies Auxiliary and Vacation Bible School. Also, she volunteered at Morganwood Youth Camp and participated in Lawhon PTA during her children's school years. She was a member of East Heights Garden Club. Mawmaw Bessie was an excellent cook and always wanted to feed everyone who visited her. She also was a very talented seamstress and made all her daughters clothes, including their wedding dresses. She was loved by many and will be greatly missed.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Tupelo Free Will Baptist Church with the Rev. Steve Nichols and the Rev. Terry Pierce officiating. A eulogy will be given by the Rev. Jeff Nichols. Burial will be in Priceville Cemetery. W.E. Pegues Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Survivors include two daughters, Cheryl Nichols (Steve) of Guntown and Beverly Ford (Jerry) of Sumrall; one son, Eddie Brown (Janie) of Guntown; six grandchildren, Michael Nichols (Michelle) of Endville, Amy Brown of Saltillo, Charles Brown, III (Candace) of Booneville, Rachel Oakes (Tim) of Saltillo, Karli Douglas (Marc) of Sumrall and Harrison Ford of Durham, N.C.; 11 great-grandchildren, Elizabeth Grace Nichols, Sadie Bess Nichols, Meredith Brown, Cooper Brown, Ethan Oakes, Daniel Oakes, Aiden Brown, Henry Brown, Keeli Douglas, Jackson Douglas and Chance Douglas; and two brothers, Elkin Raper and Otis Raper of Osceola, Ark.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Charles E.Brown in 1983; two brothers, Lawrence Raper and Leonard Raper; and two sisters, Bernice Richey and Blanche Green.
Pallbearers will be Michael Nichols, Tim Oakes, Charles Brown, Cliff Nichols, Ross Nichols and Harrison Ford.
Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home and one hour prior at the church on Monday.
Memorials may be made to Tupelo Free Will Baptist Church Building Fund, 1650 N. Veterans Blvd., Tupelo, MS 38804.
Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com.
Rosie Griffin
OKOLONA – God called Rosie May Pickens Griffin, 92, home to heaven on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center. Surrounded by her family whom she was completely devoted, Nanny Poss, as she was affectionately known, was born on May 1, 1920, in the Pontocola Community to the late Birdis Goodwin Pickens and Mallie Malvina Wilson Pickens. She married Curtis Griffin on July 2, 1942, a marriage of 56 years until his death on March 26, 2000. Rosie worked in the Okolona School Cafeteria before becoming associated with Futorian Furniture where she worked until retirement. A longtime member of First Baptist Church of Okolona, Rosie was a wonderful mother, grandmother, sister and friend to all. She loved life, had a jovial personality, was a master cook and caregiver to her family and community. She loved wrestling on TV, fishing and gospel music including ole time sacred harp singing. Hers was a worthy, purpose filled life.
A service celebrating her life will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Okolona Chapel of Holland Funeral Directors with Bro. Jim Manley officiating. Burial will follow in Lee Memorial Park.
Survivors include three daughters, Brenda McBunch (Billy Mc) of Amory, Donna Lindley (James) of Shannon and Pat Goodson of Wren, a son, Spencer Griffin of Okolona; seven grandchildren, Jon Page, Stacy Tate, Angie Young, Austin Griffin, Faith McDaniel, Kelli Griffin and David McBunch; nine great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Addie Loyd of Shannon/Okolona and Mrs. Opal Henderson of Covington, Ga.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Curtis; a daughter, Ruby Page; three brothers, Bill, R.T. and Abbey Pickens; and three sons-in-law, Gary Page, Henry Goodson and the Rev. Allison Bell.
Pallbearers will be Austin Griffin, David McBunch, Brandon Lindley, Talmadge Wayne Griffin, Gus Hamilton, Tommy Rogers and Billy McBunch. Honorary pallbearers will be nieces and nephews and the staff at Shearer-Richardson Nursing Home in Okolona which lovingly cared for Nanny Poss her last years.
Visitation is noon until service time today.
Condolences may be e mailed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Mae Griffis
TUPELO – Mae B. Griffis died at North Mississippi Medical Center. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Grayson Porters Mortuary.
Hazel Brooks
GUNTOWN – Hazel Brooks, 81, died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at Community Hospital in Verona. She was a retired beautician and driver for the handicapped and elderly bus. She enjoyed meeting friends, yard work and playing with her grandchildren. She was a charter member of Center Star Methodist Church.
Service will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Waters Funeral Home with Bro. Buddy Rushing and Bro. Curtis Shelton officiating. Burial will be in Center Star Cemetery.
She is survived by one son, Harvey Brooks (Shelly) of Guntown; four sisters, Betty Moody of Truman, Ark., Peggy Blair of Dennison, Texas, Judy Thomas of Texas and Brenda Chisholm of Amory; two brothers, Jimmy Fleming of Aurora, Ill., and Jerry Fleming (Janice) of Fulton; one grandchild, Andy Brooks (Christie); two great-grandsons, Grayson and Deacon Brooks; and one great-granddaughter, Ella Frances Brooks.
She is preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, A.G. Brooks; parents, Carlton and Jewel Fleming; brothers, Larry Fleming and Floyd Fleming; and sisters, Helen Fleming, Bobbie Hahn and Susie Duboise.
Pallbearers will be Steve Brooks, Scotty Brooks, Donnie Jones, Mitch Rutherford, Jason Rutherford and Bobby Fleming. Honorary pallbearers are Don Nichols and Lisa McCarver.
Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Tommy J. Parsons
IUKA – Tommy J. Parsons, 65, died Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, at his residence.
Services are scheduled for 1 p.m. Monday at Cutshall Funeral Home Chapel in Iuka. Interment will follow in Providence Cemetery.
Visitation is 10 a.m. until service time Monday at the funeral home.
An online guestbook can be accessed at www.cutshallfuneralhome.com.
Billy J. Houston
BALDWYN – Billy J. Houston, 82, died Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, at his home. He was born July 11, 1930, in Ozark community of Itawamba County to Charlie and Belvie Waddel Houston. He retired after 30 years of service and maintenance at American Motors in Kenosha, Wis. He was a member of Kirkville Baptist Church. He enjoyed working in his yard and spending time with his family.
Services were at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at Waters Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Irvin officiating. Burial will be in Kirkville Cemetery.
He is survived by his daughter, Mary Ann Busby (Johnny)of Pontotoc; a daughter-in-law, Connie Houston of Saltillo; sister, Robbie McDaniel of Booneville; three sisters-in-law, Brenda Houston of Madison, Ann Hopkins of Fulton and Betty Wiseman (John) of Baldwyn; four grandchildren, Matt Houston of Pontotoc, Amanda Poppelreiter (Jeremy) of Saltillo, Robert Busby (Jorden) of Memphis and Charlie Busby of Hattiesburg; great-grandson, Rock Busby; several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; first wife and mother of his children, Lucy Houston (1957) and second wife, Jimmie Lou Houston; son, Mike Houston; brothers, Jake Houston, Bo Houston, Sam Houston, Tom Houston and Charles "Red" Houston (Nov. 30, 2012); nephew, Gifford Houston.
Pallbearers were Robert Busby, Charlie Busby, Jeremy Poppelreiter, Mark Smith and Mitchell Hood. Honorary pallbearers were Doug Houston, Bill Fleming, Carl Hansen, his caregiver, Judy Wolfe, Edith, Michelle and Evon.
Alice Brown
NEW ALBANY – Alice Lee Turner Brown, 91, died Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County. She was born Aug. 30, 1921, in Pontotoc County to Virgle Lee Turner and Ora B. Turner. She was a homemaker. In her early years she enjoyed gardening, cooking and quilting. She also enjoyed gospel music. She was a member of Liberty Baptist Church.
Services will be 2:30 p.m. today at United Funeral Service Chapel with the Rev. Tommy Wilder and the Rev. Derrick Finley officiating. Burial will be in the New Harmony Cemetery.
She is survived by two sons, Hugh Paul Brown (Sandra) of New Albany and David Andy Brown (Annette) of Iuka; a granddaughter, Hannah Noelle Brown of Iuka; two stepgranddaughters, Nicki Marion of North Carolina and Shanna Scales of New Albany; a stepgrandson, Sam Stiles of New Albany; two stepgreat-granddaughters, Anna Stiles of New Albany and Kyla Marion of North Carolina; and two stepgreat-grandsons, Cody Pilcher and Josiah Scales, both of New Albany.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of 65 years, Jessie Paul Brown; an infant son, Stanley Wayne Brown; a brother, Andrew Turner; and three sisters, Clara Bertha McKeown, Mavis Leach and Mary Ellen Tackett.
Pallbearers will be Billy Ray Taylor, Wendell Elder, Gregg Fitzgerald, Cody Pilcher, Sam Stiles and Allen Russell.
For online condolences, visit unitedfuneralservice.com.
Billy Horton
TUPELO – Billy Lynn Horton, 65, died Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, at his residence. He was a member of East Corinth Baptist Church. He was a 1964 graduate of Ecru High School and was a 1974 graduate of the University of Mississippi where he was a proud alumnus. He was a retired Command Sgt. Maj. in the Mississippi Army National Guard. He coached girls basketball and junior high football at several schools including, Iuka and Corinth and he was named the Girls Basketball Coach of the Year in 1978-1979. He was the current principal at Plantersville Middle School. He enjoyed the lake and boating, spending time with his family and was dedicated to educating children. He was a loving father and grandfather, a precious brother and a loving son to his parents.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Browning Funeral Home Chapel in Pontotoc with the Rev. Jimmy Russell officiating and Coach John Smiley and Coach Bill Rosenthal will deliver the eulogy. Burial will follow in the Ecru Cemetery.
Survivors include his daughter, Ginger Carol Horton Murray (Steve) of East View, Tenn.; a sister, Gail Jaggers (Steve) of Pontotoc; a brother, Jerry Horton (Helen) of Ecru; three grandchildren, Casey James, Luke Bond and Kaitlyn Murray; three nephews, Jason Horton (Starla), Eric Jaggers and Matt Jaggers; one niece, Elizabeth Jaggers; and his great-niece and nephew, Myah and Jack Horton.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Lee Russell Horton and Ruby Lee Whitehead Horton.
Pallbearers will be Ronnie Horton, coach Bill Rosenthal, coach Mike Scott, Mike Heatherly, Casey James and coach Sanrick Shannon. Honorary pallbearers will be Jason Horton, Eric Jaggers, Matt Jaggers, faculty and staff of Plantersville Middle Schools, Superintendent of Education Jimmy Weeks and Shannon Primary School Principal Shelly Brooks.
Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. today and noon to 2 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Online condolences may be offered at www.browningpontotoc.com.
Lucy Self
POTTS CAMP – Lucy Self, 55, died Nov. 30, 2012, at Baptist DeSoto. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Serenity of New Albany.
James Betts
TUPELO – James "Lightning" Betts, 86, died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at his residence in Mt. Vernon.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Lee Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Lee Memorial Park.
Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. today.
J.R. Spencer
RED BAY, Ala. – James Robert "J.R." Spencer, 73, died Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, at ECM Hospital.
Services are at 11 a.m. Monday at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel in Red Bay, Ala. Burial will be in Ebenezer Cemetery.
Visitation is 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Willard Richardson
BOONEVILLE – Willard Yancey Richardson, 87, died Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, at Baptist Memorial Hospital. She was born Nov. 3, 1925, to Clyde and Mary Yancey. She was a member of Rienzi Baptist Church and she was a member of Eastern Star.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at McMillan Funeral Home with Bro. Charlie Cooper officiating. Burial will be in the Rienzi Cemetery.
Survivors are one daughter, Clarareece (Jimmy) Taylor of Corinth; two sons, Johnny (Annette) Richardson of Rienzi and Dennie (Donna) Richardson of Booneville; three sisters, Evelyn Thompson of Union Grove, Wis., Nell McCoy of Shannon and Sara Eaton of Rienzi; three brothers, Raymond, Gerald and Harold Yancey, all of Rienzi; five grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, J.W. Richardson; her parents; two sisters, Lois Reed and Mildred Yancey; and five brothers, Bill, Joe, Jim, Marion and Robert Yancey.
Visitation is 3 to 9 p.m. today and until service time on Monday at McMillan Funeral Home.
Condolences can be made at www.mcmillanfuneralhome.com.
Joe Keown
CALHOUN CITY – Elvie Joe Keown, 44, died Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. He was a member of the Nazarene Church in Calhoun City. He was a mechanic for Cannon Motor Company in Oxford. He enjoyed fishing, camping and dirt track car races.
Service is at 3:30 p.m. today at Parker Memorial Funeral Home Chapel in Bruce, with the Rev. Jimmy Vance, the Rev. Mike Whitten and Bro. Chat Bush officiating. Interment is at Oak Springs Cemetery in Derma.
He is survived by his parents, Charles and Sandra Keown of Calhoun City; two sons; two grandchildren; his sisters, Lisa Chrestman (Kendall) and Neda Rivera (Brad) of Calhoun City; three nephews, Ryan Chrestman of Pontotoc, Bradley Fletcher and Brandon Fletcher, both of Calhoun City; two nieces, Kayla Chrestman and Heather Mabry of Calhoun City; four uncles; and three aunts.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Elvie and Ruth Fleming, Roy and Virginia Keown; and an uncle, Jerry Keown.
Pallbearers are Kendall Chrestman, Ryan Chrestman, Bradley Fletcher, Brandon Fletcher, Michael Luther and Brad Scott.
Online condolences may be made at www.parkermemorialfuneralhomes.com.
Syble Jones
BALDWYN – Syble Jones, 94, died Dec. 1, 2012, at her daughter's home in Olive Branch. She enjoyed reading her Bible, puzzles, playing solitaire and her dog, "Baby Girl". She was a seamstress and housewife. She was a member of Friendship Baptist Church.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Waters Funeral Home with Bro. John Cagle officiating. Burial will be in Friendship cemetery.
Survivors include her daughter, Virginia "Ginny" Fletcher of Olive Branch; sister-in-law, Donna Meador of Terrell, Texas; two grandchildren, Skip Fletcher (Michelle) and William Fletcher (Angy); four grandchildren, Lauren Alexandria Fletcher, Carley Jane Fletcher, Cady Elaine Fletcher and Courtney Lee Fletcher; host of nieces and nephews; and caregivers, Floyd and Eddie Mae Cockrell.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Loyd Jones; great-grandson, David Andrew Fletcher; parents, George and Ida Meador; and brother, Dorsey Meador.
Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Joyce Criswell
RIPLEY – Joyce May Woolsey Criswell, 79, died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at Tippah County Hospital in Ripley. She was born May 17, 1933, to William Russell and Grace Almeda Garner Woolsey in Osceola, Ark. She was a homemaker and worked for several years in food services at Tippah County Hospital. She loved and was loved by her family and friends and enjoyed spending time with them.
Services are at 1 p.m. Monday at McBride Funeral Home Chapel in Ripley, with Dr. Rex Yancey officiating. Interment is at Criswell Cemetery in Ripley.
She is survived by her sons, Ronnie Criswell (Kathy) of Quito, Tenn., and Randy Criswell (Melissa) of Ripley; daughters, Cathy Wilbanks (Johnny) of Ripley and Paula Jordan (Vince) of Myrtle; six grandchildren, Jason Elliott, Cortney Wilbanks, Justin Jordan, Emily Michelle Criswell, Jenna Jordan and Emily Kate Criswell; step-grandchildren, Robert Wilbanks (Tammy) and Landon Smith; four great-grandchildren; two step-great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Herbert Cleveland Criswell; her parents; sisters, Rachel Enrleen Woolsey Seek, Imogene "Polly" Woolsey Cushman, Eunice Woolsey Hastings, Ruth Lanell Woolsey and Mildred Louise Woolsey; brother, Chester Neal Woolsey; and half-brother, William Russell Woolsey Jr.
Pallbearers are Jason Elliott, Justin Jordan, Robert Wilbanks, Landon Smith, James Wilbanks and Jesse Wilbanks.
Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. today and 7 a.m. until service time Monday at the funeral home.
To view and sign an online guest book, visit www.mcbridefuneralhome.com.
Myrtle Brown
FULTON – Myrtle Lois Brown, 82, died on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, at Community Hospice at Darlington Oaks. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by E.E. Pickle Funeral Home.
Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at eepicklefuneralhome.com.
Richard Blaylock
DERMA – Richard Earl Blaylock, 61, died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. He was born Oct. 27, 2951, in Derma. He was a self-employed mechanic. He was a member of Derma Pentecostal Church. He served as alderman for the town of Derma for more than 20 years.
Service is at 1:30 p.m. today at Derma Pentecostal Church with Bro. Billy Patterson, Bro. Harold Smith, Bro. Jerry Wilson and Bro. Bob McCool officiating. Interment is at Oak Springs Cemetery in Derma. Parker Memorial Funeral Home in Bruce is in charge of arrangements.
He is survived by his wife, Betty Ann Thomas Blaylock of Derma; his mother, Jessie Mae Langford Blaylock of Southaven; one sister, Mary Nell Marshall of Horn Lake; and one brother, John T. Blaylock of Southaven.
He was preceded in death by his father, J. T. Blaylock; and one son, Richard Timothy Blaylock.
Pallbearers are Scott Bennett, Terry Bounds, Keith Havens, Matt Lowe, Bobby Marshall, John Marshall, Larry Patterson, Greg Pollan and Randy Lee Skinner.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Parker Memorial Funeral Home, P.O. Box 458, Bruce, MS 38915.
Online condolences maybe made at www.parkermemorialfuneralhome.com.
Lee Fields
TUPELO – Lee Fields, died Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. He was born May 25, 1942, in Michigan. He moved to Chicago, Ill. in his teenage years. He worked at a Chicago men's clothing store for several years, as a security guard at Sears Bank and Trust, and as operating officer for Climb the Ladder for 32 years. He also worked at Walgreens for five years and First Bank of Milwaukee, Wis., for 10 years, when his health started to fail. He then moved to Tupelo.
Services will be held at noon Monday at N.L. Jones Funeral Chapel.
He is survived by one brother, Charles Fields of California; four sons, Lee Fields Jr., Ricke Fields and Gregory of Chicago, Ill., and Marcus Hill of Milwaukee, Wis.; several grandchildren; one goddaughter, Tankika Pointer of Tupelo; special friend, Carolyn Shumpert; and best friend, James Shumpert.
He was proceeded in death by his parents; and his twin sister.
Tommy Sanders
SALTILLO – Tommy Ray Sanders, 65, died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center. He was born Feb. 27, 1947, in Tupelo, to Murry Edward and Martha McBrayer Sanders. He was a member of Bethany Baptist Church.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at The Saltillo Chapel of W.E. Pegues with the Rev. Frank Breaux officiating. Burial will be in McNeil Cemetery.
Survivors include two sons, Mark Sanders (Sonya) of Pratts and Craig Sanders (Patty) of Saltillo; one brother, Willie Wimbs (Betty) of Tupelo; four grandchildren, Leslie Brown (Thomas) of Pontotoc, Andrew, Emily and Austin Sanders, all of Saltillo; two great-grandchildren, Andrea Yother and Jade Brown, both of Pontotoc; and a special friend, Mary Jane Patterson of Saltillo.
He was preceded in death by his parents; one daughter, Charlotte Dean; and one sister, Brenda Jo Sanders.
Pallbearers will be Wayne Riddle, Andrew Sanders, D.J. Sims, Johnny Pannell, James Enis, Eric Bishop and Austin Ray Sanders.
Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home in Saltillo.
Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com.
Betty Abraham
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Betty Abraham, 54, died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at Methodist Hospital North in Memphis. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Ripley Funeral Home.
Ronnie Spight
TIPLERSVILLE – Ronnie Spight, 47, died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Foster and Son Funeral Home in Ripley.
David Mooney
BOONEVILLE – David Wyatt Mooney, 74, died Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, at his home.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Booneville Funeral Home Chapel. Burial with military honors will be in the Mormon Cemetery.
Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

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New Zealand's first foray into Fast5 netted mixed results, with the Fast Ferns drawing their opening match against Jamaica, but wowing the crowd with their array of tricks.
The 38-all draw wasn't the only shock result from the opening night's action, with Australia slumping to a 33-15 loss to Malawi in their second match-up of the evening.
World champions in the long form of the game, Australia struggled in their first two Fast5 outings, going down to England 29-27 in their opener, before they were upstaged by a dazzling long-range shooting display from the Malawi Queens.
While the other top nations are using the tournament as an opportunity to expose their youngsters to the international environment, Waimarama Taumaunu selected a full-strength line-up for the Auckland tournament.
Taumaunu's advice to her side heading into the weekend was to enjoy themselves and be creative - an instruction the Ferns keenly grasped in last night's opener.
For periods of the 24-minute match the Ferns were like the Harlem Globetrotters of netball, with their full range of trickery on display.
There were long bombs delivered into the circle with pinpoint precision, some exceptional long-range shooting, and the crowd favourite "Harrison Hoist".
The Ferns could not quite find the right balance between the high-risk play and opting for safety.
The Kiwi side held a healthy 16-10 lead at halftime, courtesy of some impressive shooting from Bailey Mes, but Jamaica managed to get their noses just in front by three-quarter time after outscoring the Ferns 17-10 in their powerplay quarter. With New Zealand saving their powerplay quarter - during which their score is doubled - until the final spell, the Ferns still looked in control of proceedings.
But New Zealand failed to make the most of their advantage, with Jamaica learning their lesson from their first-up loss to South Africa, and defending resolutely to starve New Zealand of possession during their powerplay quarter.
As frustration set in for New Zealand, so too did the errors, which the Sunshine Girls capitalised on with a late flurry of long-range goals.
Diminutive shooter Anna-Kaye Griffiths levelled the score at 38-all with 28 seconds left on the clock, and while the Ferns had the following possession, they could not break the deadlock.
New Zealand shooter Maria Tutaia said while the result may seem like a bit of a shock, it is the nature of the newly revamped format.
"We know that in this competition it's anyone's ball game, especially with the three-pointers and the two-pointers, no lead is really safe," said Tutaia.
The evening got off to a very pedestrian start, with Jamaica and South Africa looking tentative in their first match under the newly revamped rules.
South Africa's Chrisna Bootha will go down in the books as the first player to land a three-pointer, with the 1.88m shooter scoring the first "supershot" of the evening in the Proteas' surprise 34-25 first-up win over Jamaica. But Bootha didn't realise there was an unofficial competition running as to who would score the first "supershot".
"It never went through my mind - I just wanted to score goals," said Bootha.
South Africa's long-range shooting proved the difference in their opening match, as Elize Koetze's side made the most of their powerplay, scoring two supershots in the period, netting six points for each shot.
Top results
South Africa 34 Jamaica 25
England 29 Australia 27
New Zealand 38 Jamaica 38
Malawi 33 Australia 15


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Description Pachygrapsus crassipes, known as the striped shore crab or lined shore crab, is a small crab found on rocky and hard-mud shores of the west coast of North and Central America. Its range spans from Oregon to Baja California, Mexico. Typically, this crab will have a brown/purple or black carapace with green stripes. Its carapace is square and can reach 4 to 5 cm in size. The claws are red/purple with a mottled pattern on the upper surface, and white on the lower surface, while its legs are purple and green with a similar mottled appearance.
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Mark BittmanMark Bittman is one of the co-hosts of the popular culinary road-trip series Spain... on the road Again.
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How to Cook Everything won the Julia Child general cookbook award, the James Beard general cookbook award, and three other major international cookbook awards; it also spent a record 130 weeks on the L.A. Times Cookbook Hot List. In the late 90s, Bittman created a best-selling collaboration with the internationally celebrated chef, Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Their classic, Jean-Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef, is widely considered among the most accessible chef's cookbooks ever published. Bittman's first book, Fish—The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking, currently in its eighth printing, is the best-selling book on the subject. His other works include the blockbuster The Best Recipes in the World and the award-winning "Minimalist" cookbooks, now collected in Mark Bittman's Simple and Easy Recipes from the New York Times.
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Pretty wild! I wonder if he ever fishes a sunk line? Also, very wind resistant flies? Both of those may potentially introduce problems - pulling off a snag without a solid joint, turning over a big bushy fly without a graduation of stiffness and taper, etc.
On the other hand, it might mean he never needs anything besides a floater, and doesn't have to throw popsicle marabous to raise those native Ponoi monsters to the surface!
Suddenly I am very jealous.
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The one time manager of the Ponoi river lodge, Mariush, described a system so simple it is hard to believe.
The leader consists of about 12' of 12# chamelion Maxima with a perfection loop at one end. It is attatched to the line by tying an overhand knot in the fly line and looping the leader behind it with a girth hitch!
Mariush assured me the this was strong enough and proven by hundreds of customers.
The leader rolls the fly right out(if you can cast like he can).
Here's to keeping it simple.
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I can understand how you lefties are just gloating over this past election...making all the rest of us eat crow. But do you really follow and buy into this imbecelic philosophy of what will fix this nation is MORE SPENDING??? Are you all this dense. If so, you are far bigger fools than I first thought...you are far more at fault than just having white guilt. You are intent in bringing down this nation, even knowing what is happening in Europe? Have the unions made you all such mind-numbed robots that you are all no better than that pathetic crowd in Michigan? Have you no individual thought or pride in this nation? Do you think the taxes you allow the Democrats to extract from the producers of this country, and redistribute to the welfarists, will continue throughout your lifetime?
Here's what I predict. Should those of you with Republican representation be unable to convince your Congressperson to not allow Obama to succeed, or at least, do what they can to slow his efforts at killing your party, regardless of knowing you will be blamed anyway, this nation will NOT recover in your lifetime, nor your kid's OR grandkids. Oh I now how dejected you feel over what you saw happen last month. You had more faith in the voters to remove this regime from power. But others have decided this nation of fools have not had their fill of this poisonous koolaide yet, so they are willing to allow this empty suit to do whatever he wants, so only total rebellion will return this nation to anything close to what the founders envisioned it should be.
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The aqua blue swimming pool in the backyard of Deb Lawson's Spanish-style home is the jewel in its crown, say its owners. It's been 10 years since they bought their house in Auckland's Half Moon Bay and the pool is still its main draw card.
"We love cooking on the barbecue, eating and entertaining outside, and generally just enjoying the outdoors while we watch the kids race around on their bikes," says Lawson.
The back gate leading out to a huge private park was a bonus. "We have an annual summer barbecue with all our friends and their children, where we swim in the pool and take part in activities in the park, such as cricket and soccer. It's so much fun," she says.
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The interior was addressed too. The couple updated the living areas, which featured floral wallpaper and 1970s chandeliers, transforming them into calming havens. Scott took on all the demolition and building work, while Deb was in charge of painting and decoration. "I did, however, break up all the indoor tiles inside with a rotary hammer, which was lots of fun," she says.
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"too tall", "too small" by what measure?Originally posted by derek
i just compaired my 12 inch versions of R2 and 3-PO, and actually i think 3-PO is too tall and R2 is too small.
R2-D2 is 0.96 meters. "6 inch" R2-D2 is 0.16 meters. That is 1/6 scale.
C-3PO is 1.68 meters. "12 inch" C-3PO is 0.31 meters. If that should be 1/6 scale he would be 1.86 meters.


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Leggo!…no it's not a new Chris Brown song even though he definitely patented the phrase. Well move over Breezy. Ever heard of B. Smyth? He's Universal Motown's latest signee and Leggo is his debut single. It's definitely going to help that he has my guy Dos Cadenas featured on it. That's 2 Chainz; shout out to my Spanish speaking readers. This kid D Smyth can really sing. His style kind of reminds you of Mario way back when he first crept on the R&B scene almost a decade ago. Ethiopia H, the president at Motown, seems to have 2013 on target as the 'rebirth' of one of music's most legendary labels. B. Smyth is the first up…
The ink ain't even dry on Kid Ink's new deal over at RCA and he's already back to the studio with more heat for the street. Peep this new heater Poppin Shit which features King Los. Sony is really gearing up to make 2013 one of the most anticipated year in music for some time. You new have Sylvia Rhone, LA Reid, Salaam Remi and Tricky Stewart under the same roof. Kid Ink is a solid, strong artist whose fan base has followed him relentlessy from coast to coast. He will add fuel to the new revamped Sony engine. Poppin Shit has the potential to be something special. Stay Tuned.
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Like him a little or Hate him a whole damn lot, Lil Reese has planted his GBE flag in this rugged hip hop terrain and is going to say what he has to say. Need proof? Peep this new Reese/ Juelz Santana joint Bodies. At first glance, it's like Harlem teamed up with The Chi. But its deeper then that maybe even deeper then rap. Let's just leave it like that. I like this Juelz collabo with Reese but can we get Keef, Durk, Killa Cam and JR Writer in the mix or better yet the remix?
I've always said All Hail to the Female MC. So it's definitely worth checking out the fresh new track from Lanz Pierce My Diploma. It features even fresher production from the wizard of boards Diplo and Boys Noize. Pierce's wordplay isn't anything special but her punch lines are pretty amusing and fun. It's that modern day hipster hip hop rap shit that isn't quite as fresh as Azealia Banks but noticeable enough to get your attention. Lanz's EP Point of No Return drops soon and we shall see…Until We Read Again
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So sorry Diane and Gooser. Praying for you guys. Good dog, Bailey
So sorry Diane and Gooser. Praying for you guys. Good dog, Bailey
God bless!- Jamee
"If your dog doesn't like someone you probably shouldn't either"[/U]- Author unknown
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Jamstar's Hot Tubb "Cuzzi" (NAFC Tubb x HR Kali JH QA2)
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#1 cheerleader: SJ's Gotta-Lot-A Go Lil "Jake"
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HR Stevie-Joe's Super "Star"- my heart dog, I love you baby
October 24, 2001-January 6, 2013
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So sorry. Not much better than the love of a good dog. I am giving my little old girl extra lovin' this morning in Bailey's honor. Let your memories of her make you smile....
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November, 1999
I read last year that Canada has followed the United States in fortifying flour with folic acid to prevent neural tube defects. Do we know yet whether this strategy is working?
In Canada, flour is fortified with folic acid to a level of 0.15mg/100g. Although a mandatory date was set for November 1, 1998, most if not all companies implemented the change on or before January 1, 1998. Recent figures from the United States, where the deadline for fortification was January 1998, show that by March 1999, mean folate levels in flour doubled, substantially decreasing the risk for neural tube defects.
Two large randomized, blinded controlled studies have documented the effect of folic acid supplementation before pregnancy on prevention of neural tube defects (NTDs).1,2 On average, Canadian women consume 200mg/d of folic acid; 400 mg/d are needed to prevent a first NTD.3 Because the neural tube is fused within the first month of pregnancy, folic acid supplementation later than that (eg, at 2 or 3 monthsí gestation) does not prevent NTDs. Because at least half of all pregnancies are unplanned, many women are likely to find out they have conceived too late for an intervention with folic acid to have a therapeutic effect. Because of this, the only effective solution to preventing folic-acid preventable NTDs is to fortify a commonly used food staple.
In January 1998, the United States Food and Drug Administration put into effect a new regulation that enforced adding 140mg of folic acid per 100g of flour (in addition to other vitamins already added). This level of fortification would, it was believed, increase "average" womenís folic acid intake by 80 to 100mg/d. Researchers acknowledged that this level might not be high enough to prevent all preventable cases of NTDs.4 In May 1999, Jacques and colleagues5 reported the effect of this fortification, as measured in March 1999, using patients followed in the Framingham Heart Study.
Among subjects not using vitamin supplements, serum concentrations of folic acid increased from 4.6 to 10.0ng/mL (11 to 23nmol/L) (P<.001) between prefortification and postfortification visits. The prevalence of low folate concentrations (<3ng/mL) decreased from 22% to 1.7% (P<.001).
To put this important result in the context of risk for NTDs, we reviewed the concentration-response curve of serum folate with NTD risk per 1000 births established by Daly et al.6 Based on this curve, the risk of NTDs would have decreased from 2 to 0.9 cases per 1000 births (Figure 15,6). In Canada, this would mean a reduction from 800 cases to 360 cases a year, although we should be cautious in extrapolating Irish figures to those in North America because North Americaís population is more heterogenous in terms of racial origins.
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- Wald N, Sneddon J, Densem J, Frost C, Stone R. MRC vitamin Study Research Group. Prevention of neural tube defects: results of the MRC Vitamin Study. Lancet 1991;338:131-7.
- Czeizel AE, Dudas I. Prevention of the first occurrence of neural tube defects by periconceptional vitamin supplementation. N Engl J Med 1992;327:1832-5.
- O'Connor DL. The folate status of Canadian women. In: Koren G, editor. Folic acid for the prevention of neural tube defects. Toronto, Ont: The Motherisk Program; 1995. p. 73-87.
- Oakley GP Jr. Eat right and take a multivitamin. N Engl J Med 1998;338:1060-1.
- Jacques PF, Selhub J, Bostom AG, Wilson PWF, Rosenberg IH. The effect of folic acid fortification on plasma folate and total homocysteine concentrations. N Engl J Med 1999;340:1449-54.
- Daly LE, Kirke PN, Molloy A, Weir DG, Scott JM. Folate levels and neural tube defects: implications for prevention. JAMA 1995;274:1698-702.
Figure 1. Relationship between serum folate level and risk of neural tube defects (NTDs): The increase in folate levels in the United States decreased the risk of NTDs by more than half.
Adapted from Daly et al6 with additional data from Jacques et al.5


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Drive-up ATMs have braille for two reasons.
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2. Blind people need to have access to cash, too, and it's not uncommon for them to be driven to an ATM by a sighted driver. Usually they sit in the rear driver's side seat and the driver just pulls a little more forward than normal so the blind person can access the ATM.


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Within the context of the departmental and program mission statements, this course serves as the final project for the MPA program. The course is intended to provide a synthesis of all previous coursework and professional and/or internship experience directed toward the production of a professional administrative or policy analysis paper. The Master of Public Administration Capstone Project is the culmination of a student's academic experience. Students work on a 300 hour internship and then use the internship experience to write a Capstone paper addressing management or policy issues that were identified during the internship experience. Students work closely with both faulty and practitioner committee members in the design and delivery of the projects.
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Symposium focuses on marine life history, April 29
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"Lives of the Sea," a symposium on the history of marine life, is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, April 29, in 101 Icahn Lab. The event will bring together scientists and historians who are concerned with the changing character of marine environments.
D. Graham Burnett, a Princeton historian of science and the organizer of the symposium, will serve as moderator and offer introductory remarks.
"This gathering represents an effort to draw scientists and historians into conversation," Burnett said. "In the last few years there have been controversies over different techniques for establishing pre-exploitation baseline values for several marine populations, particularly whales. Some of these techniques rely on actual historical source material; others make use of genetic sampling and are independent of archival catch data. Interdisciplinary work is essential to reconcile the discrepancies. These sorts of conflicts between different scientific techniques are particularly interesting to historians of science, but I would hope that this event would be valuable to anyone concerned with marine conservation, ocean science or policy issues."
The event is sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute with support from the Program in the History of Science. For more information, view the PDF of the event flyer or contact Burnett.


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The other day I had to ask someone which was left and which was right. Was the extreme (pick your party) on the left or the right? I honestly couldn't remember.
Who decided the definitions of "left" versus "right" and why did they choose them? Am I the only one who wonders these things?
Honestly, I'm amazed you guys enjoy debating this stuff so much! But, I'm glad that this separate spot was made for it.
Just a few hours 'til the sun comes up and we'll be training some dogs!


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"Immersion/Interaction," a 12-artist exhibit organized by Allison Paschke and R.K. Projects in the old nuts and bolts factory, the Kellaway Center (461 Main St, Pawtucket, through October 27), invites another sort of participatory experience.
Rather than art for your eyeballs, Nestor Armando Gil asks you to walk a winding path of salt that crunches under your feet. Andrew Lloyd Goodman invites you to smash gears made of candy on a Plexiglass screen with a camera beneath that is supposed to record the action. Naho Taruishi asks you to close your eyes as you watch her video of flickering colors; you lose your sense of hue, but register an agitated pulsing. Paul Myoda's clear acrylic Glittering Machine: Ratchet spins into motion when it senses your presence and clanks a metal star like a little gong. The results are hit-and-miss — with the ideas frequently more interesting than the experience, as in Taruishi's video for closed eyes.
The best work here is Paschke's Hypatia, which spreads across the old factory's vast space, filling it with intricate arrangements of hundreds of small porcelain sculptures resembling pyramids (some decorated with indecipherable pictograms) or whale teeth. She invites visitors to "touch, move, and listen." If you clack the pieces on the cement floor they sound a bit like shells or bells. But they're arranged in such careful designs that it can be intimidating to consider altering them. And they're pleasing just to scan as aerial views of sprawling ancient cities or. say, an Egyptian necropolis.
At AS220's Project Space (93 Mathewson St, Providence, through October 27), Rebecca Siemering presents sculptures of angel wings, a suit, and bonnets assembled from lottery tickets and betting slips. It's not clear what she's saying about the allure of the ups (and downs) of gambling. But her crafty transformation of the recycled materials impresses.
Read Greg Cook's blog at gregcookland.com/journal.
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IT was not without a movement of inward thanksgiving that, the festivities connected with Sir Richard and Lady Calmady's home‐coming being over, Julius March returned to his labours in the Brockhurst library. Humanity at first hand, whatever its social standing or its pursuits, was, in truth, always slightly disturbing to him. He felt more at home when dealing with conclusions than with the data that go to build up those conclusions, with the thoughts of men printed and bound, than with the urgent raw material from which those thoughts arise. Revelation, authority—these were still his watchwords. And, in face of them, even the harmless spectacle of a country neighbourhood at play, let alone the spectacle of the human comedy generally, is singularly confusing.
He sought the soothing companionship of books with even heightened relief one fair morning some three weeks later. For Mrs. St. Quentin and Mademoiselle de Mirancourt had arrived at Brockhurst the day previously, and Julius had been sensible of certain perturbations of mind in meeting these two ladies, one of whom was a devout Catholic by inheritance and personal conviction, while the other, though nominally a member of his own communion, was known to temper her religion with a wide, if refined, philosophy. Conversation had drifted towards serious subjects in the course of the evening, and Mrs. St. Quentin had admitted, with a playful deprecation of her dear friend's rigid religious attitude, that no one creed, no one system, offered an adequate solution of the infinite mystery and complexity of life—as she knew it. The serene adherence of one charming and experienced woman to an authority which he had rejected, the almost equally serene indifference on the part of the other to the revelation he held as absolute and final, troubled Julius. Small wonder then, that early, after a solitary breakfast, he retired upon the society of the odd volumes cluttering the shelves of the Long Gallery, that he sorted, arranged, catalogued, grateful for that dulling of thought which mechanical labour brings with it.
But fate was malicious, and elected to make a sport of Julius this morning. Unexpectedly importunate human drama obtruded itself, the deep places of the story—such as, in the innocence page: 24 of his ascetic refinement, he had never dreamed of—began to reveal themselves.
He had climbed the wide, carpeted steps of the library ladder and seated himself on the topmost one, at right angles to a topmost shelf the contents of which he proposed to investigate, duster and notebook in hand. The vast perspective of the gallery lengthened out before him, cool, faint‐tinted, full of a diffused and silvery light. The self‐coloured, unpainted panelling of the walls and bookcases—but one shade warmer in tone than that of the stone mullions and transoms of the lofty windows‐gave an indescribable delicacy of effect to the atmosphere of the room. Through the many‐paned, leaded lights of the eastern bay, the sunshine—misty, full of dancing notes—streamed in obliquely, bringing into quaint prominence of light and shadow a very miscellaneous collection of objects.—A marble Buddha, benign of aspect, his right hand raised in blessing, seated cross‐legged upon the many‐petalled lotus. A pair of cavalier's jack‐boots, standing just below, most truculent and ungainly of foot‐gear, wooden, hinged, leather‐covered. A trophy of Polynesian spears, shields, and canoe paddles. A bronze Antinous, seductive of bearing and dainty of limb, but roughened by green rust. A collection of old sporting‐prints, softly coloured, covering a bare space of wall, beneath a moose skull, from the broad flat antlers of which hung a pair of Canadian snow‐shoes. Along the inside wall of the great room, placed at regular intervals, were consol tables bearing tall, oriental jars and huge bowls of fine porcelain, filled with potpourri; so that the scent of dried rose‐leaves, bay, verbena, and many spices impregnated the air. The place was, in short, a museum. Whatever of strange, grotesque, and curious, Calmadys of past generations had collected in their wanderings, by land and sea, found lodgment here. It was a home of half‐forgotten histories, of valorous deeds grown dim through the lapse of years; a harbour of refuge for derelict gods, derelict weapons, derelict volumes, derelict instruments which had once discoursed sweet enough music, but the fashion of which had now passed away. The somewhat obsolete sentiment of the place harmonised with the thin, silvery light and the thin sweetness of spices and dead roses which pervaded it. It seemed to smile, as with the pitying tolerance of the benign image of Buddha, upon the heat and flame, the untempered scarlet and purple of the fleeting procession of individual lives, that had ministered to its furnishing. For how much vigorous endeavour, now over and done with, never to be recalled, had indeed gone to supply the furnishing of that room! page: 25 —And, after all, is not the most any human creature dare hope for the more or less dusty corner of some such museum shelf at last? The passion of the heart testified to by some battered trinket, the sweat of the brain by some maggot‐eaten manuscript, the agony of death, at best, by some round shot turned up by the ploughshare? And how shall anyone dare complain of this, since have not empires before now only been saved from oblivion by a few buried potsherds, and whole races of mankind by childish picture‐scratchings on a reindeer bone? Tout lasse, tout passe, tout casse. The individual—his arts, his possessions, his religion, his civilisation —is always as an envelope, merely, to be torn asunder and cast away. Nothing subsists, nothing endures, but life itself, endlessly self‐renewed, endlessly one, through all the endless divergencies of its manifestations. And, as Julius March was to find, hide from it, deny it, strive to elude it as we may, the recognition of just that is bound to grip us sooner or later and hold us with a fearful and dominating power from which there is no escape.
Meanwhile, his occupation was tranquil enough, comfortably remote, as it seemed, from all such profound and disquieting matters. For the top shelf proved not very prolific of interest. One book after another, examined and rejected as worthless, was dropped—with a reproachful flutter of pages and final thud—into the capacious paper‐basket standing on the floor below. Then, at the far end of the said shelf, he came unexpectedly upon a collection of those quaint chap‐books which commanded so wide a circulation during the eighteenth century.
Julius, with the true bibliophile's interest in all originals, examined his find carefully. The tattered and dogs‐eared, little volumes, coarsely printed and embellished by a number of rough, square woodcuts, had, he knew, a distinct value. He soon perceived that they formed a very representative selection. He glanced at The famous History of Guy of Warwick; at that of Sir Bevis of Southampton; at Joaks upon Joaks, a lively work regarding the manners and customs of the aristocracy at the period of the Restoration; at the record of the amazing adventures of that lusty serving‐wench, Long Meg of Westminster; and at that refreshing piece of comedy known as Merry Tales concerning the Sayings and Doings of the Wise Men of Gotham.
Finally, hidden behind the outstanding frame of the bookcase, he discovered four tiny volumes tied together with a rusty, black ribbon. A heavy coating of dust lay upon them. A large spider, moreover, darted from behind them. Dust clung un‐ page: 26 pleasantly to its hairy and ill‐favoured person. It was a matter of principle with Julius never to take life; yet instinctively he drew back his hand from the books in disgust.
"Araignée du matin, chagrin," he said, involuntarily, while he watched the insect make good its escape over the top of the bookcase.
Then he flicked uneasily at the little parcel with his duster, causing a cloud of grey atoms to float up and out into the room. Julius was perhaps absurdly open to impressions. It took him some seconds to recover from his sense of repulsion and to untie the rusty ribbon around the little books. They all proved to be ragged and imperfect copies of the same work. The woodcuts in them were splotched with crude colour. The title page was printed in assorted type—here a line of Roman capitals, there one in italics or old English letters. The inscription, consequently, was difficult to decipher, causing him to hold the tattered page very close to his short‐sighted eyes. It ran thus—
"Setting forth a true and particular account of the dealings of Sir Thomas Calmady with the Forester's Daughter and the bloudy death of her Only Child. To which is added her Prophecy and Curse."
Julius had been standing, so as to reach the length of the shelf. Now he sat down on the top step of the ladder again. A whole rush of memories came upon him. He remembered vaguely how, long ago, in his childhood, he had heard legends of this same curse. Staying here at Brockhurst as a baby‐child with his mother, maids had hinted at it, gossiping over the nursery fire at night; and his mind, irresistibly attracted, even then, by the supernatural, had been filled at once by desperate curiosity and by panic fear. He paused, thinking back, singularly moved, as one on the edge of the satisfaction of long‐desired knowledge, yet slightly contemptuous, both of his own emotion and of the rather vulgar means by which that knowledge promised to be obtained.
The shafts of sunshine fell more obliquely across the eastern end of the gallery. Benign Buddha had passed into shadow; while a painting by Velasquez, standing on an easel near by, caught the light, starting into arresting reality. It represented a hideous and mis‐shapen dwarf, holding a couple of graceful greyhounds in a leash—an unhappy creature who had made sport for the household of some Castilian grandee, and whose gorgeous garments were ingeniously designed to emphasise the physical degradation of his contorted body. This painting, appearing to page: 27 Julius too painful for habitual contemplation, had, at his request, been removed from his study downstairs to its present station. Just now he fancied it looked forth at him queerly insistent. At this distance he could distinguish little more than a flare of scarlet and cloth‐of‐gold, and the white of the hounds' flanks and bellies, under the strong sunlight. But he knew the picture in all its details; and was oppressed by the remembrance of tragic eyes in a brutal face, eyes that protested dumbly against cruelty inflicted by nature and by mankind alike. He, Julius, was not, so he feared, quite guiltless in this matter. For had there not been a savour of cruelty in his ejection of the portrait of this unhappy being from his peaceful study?
And thinking of this his discomfort augmented. He was assailed by an unreasoning nervousness of something malign, something sinister, about to befall or to become known to him.
"Araignée du matin, chagrin," he repeated involuntarily.
He laid the four little chap‐books back hastily behind the outstanding woodwork of the bookshelf, descended the steps, walked the length of the gallery, and leaning against one of the stone mullions of the great, eastern bay‐window looked out of the wide‐open casement.
The prospect was, indeed, reassuring enough. The softly‐green square of the troco‐ground, the brilliant beds and borders of the brick‐walled gardens, the grey flags of the great terrace —its row of little orange trees, heavy with flower and fruit, set in blue painted tubs—lay below him in a blaze of August sunshine. From the direction of the Long Water in the valley, Richard Calmady rode up, between the thorn trees and the beds of bracken, across the turf slopes of the park. It was a joy to see him ride. The rider and horse were one in vigour and in the repose which comes of vigour—a something classic in the natural beauty and sympathy of rider and of horse. Half‐way up the slope Richard swerved, turned towards the house, sat looking up, hat in hand, while Katherine stood at the edge of the terrace looking down, speaking with him. The warm breeze fluttered her full, muslin skirts, rose and white, and the white lace of her parasol. The rich tones of her voice and the ring of her laughter came up to Julius, as he leant against the stone mullion, along with the droning of innumerable bees, and the cooing of the pink‐footed pigeons—that bowed to one another, spreading their tails, drooping their wings amorously, upon the broad, grey string‐course running along the house‐front just beneath. Mademoiselle de Mirancourt, a small, neat, grey and page: 28 black figure, was beside Katherine, and, now and again, he heard the pretty staccato of her foreign speech. Then Richard Calmady rode onward, turning half round in the saddle, looking up for a moment at the woman he loved. His horse broke into a canter, bearing him swiftly in and out of the shadow of the glistening, domed oaks and ancient, stag‐headed, Spanish chestnuts which crowned the ascent, and on down the long, softly‐shaded vista of the lime avenue. While Camp, the bull‐dog, who had lain panting in the bracken, streaked like a white flash up the hillside in pursuit of his well‐beloved master.
And Julius March moved away from the open window with a sigh. Yet what, after all, of malign or sinister was perceptible, conceivable even, in respect of this glorious morning and these happy people—unless, as he reflected, something of pathos is of necessity ever resident in all beauty, all happiness, the world being sinful, and existence so prolific of pain and melancholy happenings? So he went back, climbed the library steps again, and taking the little bundle of chap‐books from their dusty resting‐place, set himself, in a somewhat penitential spirit, to master their contents. If the occupation was distasteful to him, the more wholesome to pursue it! So, supplying the deficiencies of torn or defaced pages by reference to another of the copies, he arrived by degrees at a clear understanding of the whole matter. The story was set forth in rhyming doggerel. The poet was not blessed with a gift of melody or of style. Absence of scansion tortured the ear. Coarseness of diction offended the taste. And yet, as he read on, Julius reluctantly admitted that the cruel tale gained credibility and moral force from the very homeliness of the language in which it was chronicled.
Thus Julius learned how, during the closing years of the Commonwealth, the young royalist gentleman, Sir Thomas Calmady, dwelling in enforced seclusion at Brockhurst, relieved the tedium of country life by indulgence in divers amours. He was large‐hearted, apparently, and could not see a comely face without attempting intimate acquaintance with the possessor of it. Among other damsels distinguished by his attentions was his head forester's handsome daughter, whom, under reiterated promise of marriage, he seduced. In due time she bore him a child, ideally beautiful, according to the poet of the chap‐book, blessed with "red‐gold hair and eyes of blue," and many charms of infantile healthfulness. And yet, notwithstanding the noble looks of her little son, the forester's page: 29 daughter still remained unwed. For just now came the Restoration, and, along with it, a notable change in the outlook of Sir Thomas Calmady and many another lusty, young gallant; since the event in question not only restored Charles the Second to the arms of his devoted subjects, but restored such loyal gentlemen to the by no means too strait‐laced society of town and court. Thence, some few years later, Sir Thomas—amiably willing in all things to oblige his royal master—brought home a bride, whose rank and wealth, according to the censorious chap‐book, were extensively in excess of her youth and virtue.
Julius lingered a little in contemplation of the quaint woodcut representing the arrival of this lady at Brockhurst. Clothed in a bottle‐green bodice—very generously décolletée—her head adorned by a portentous erection of coronet and feathers, a sanguine dab of colour on her cheek, she craned a skinny neck out of the window of the family coach. Apparently she was engaged in directing the movements of persons—presumably footmen—clad in canary‐coloured coats and armed with long staves. With these last, they treated a female figure, in blue, to, as it seemed, sadly rough usage. And the context informed Julius, in jingling verse, how that poor Hagar, the forester's daughter, conveniently defiant of custom and of common sense, had stoutly refused to be cast forth into the social wilderness, along with her small Ishmael and a few pounds sterling as price of her honour and content, until she had stood face to face with Sarah, the safely church‐wed, if none too reputable, wife. It informed him, further, how the said small Ishmael—whether alarmed by the violence of my lady's men‐servants, or wanting merely, childlike, to welcome his returning father—ran to the coach door and clambered on the step; whence, thanks to a vicious thrust —so declares the chap‐book—from "the painted Jezebel within," he fell, while the horses plunging forward caused the near hind wheel of the heavy, lumbering vehicle to pass over his legs, almost severing them from his body just above the knee.
Julius March, his spare, black figure crouched together, sat on the top step of the library ladder musing. His first movement had been one of refined and contemptuous disgust. Sensuality, and the tragedies engendered by it, were so wholly foreign to his nature and mental outlook, that it was difficult to him to reckon with them seriously and admit the very actual and permanent part which they play, and always have played, in the great drama of human life. It distressed, it, in a sense, annoyed him that the legend of Brockhurst, which had caused him elaborate imaginative terrors during his childhood, should belong to this gross and vulgar order of history. Yet indubitably—as he reluctantly admitted—each owner of Brockhurst had, very certainly, found death in the midst of life, and that according to some rather brutal and bloody pattern. This might, of course, be judged the result of merest coincidence. Had he leisure and opportunity to search them out, he could find, no doubt, plausible explanation of the majority of cases. Only that fact of persistent violence, persistent accident, did remain. It stared him in the face, so to speak, defiant of denial. And the deduction, consequent upon it, stared him in the face likewise. He was constrained to confess that the first clause of the deeply‐wronged mother's prediction had found ample fulfilment.—Julius paused, shifted his position uneasily, somewhat fearful of the conclusions of his own reasoning.
For how about the second clause of that same prediction? How about the advent of that strange Child of Promise, who pre‐ordained in his own flesh to bear the last and heaviest stroke at the hands of retributive justice, should, rightly bearing it, bring salvation both to himself and to his race? Behind the coarse and illiterate presentment of the chap‐book, Julius began dimly to apprehend a somewhat majestic moral and spiritual tragedy, a tragedy of vicarious suffering crowned by triumphant emancipation. Thus has God, as he reflected with a self‐condemnatory emotion of humility, chosen the base things of the page: 31 world and those which are despised—yea, and the things which are not, to bring to nought the things which are!—His heart, hungry of all martyrdom; all saintly doings, went forth to welcome the idea. But then, he asked himself almost awed, in this sceptical, rationalistic age, are such semi‐miraculous moral examples still possible? And answered, with strong exultation—as one finding practical justification of a long, though silently, cherished conviction—yes, that even now, nineteen centuries after the death of that divine Saving Victim to whose service he had devoted his life and the joys of his manhood, such nobly sad and strange happenings may still be.
And, even while he thus answered, his eyes were drawn involuntarily to the portrait of the unsightly dwarf, painted by Velasquez. The broad shaft of sunlight had crept backward, away from it, leaving the canvas unobtrusive, no longer harshly evident either in violence of colour or grotesqueness of form. It had become part of the great whole merely, modulated to gracious harmony with the divers objects surrounding it, and, like them, softly overlaid by a diffused and silvery light.


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This forum has inspired me to contact Norm Coleman, Senator R MN (side note, I didn't vote for him) about something that has captured my interest. I had been reading how the 1872 mining laws were designed for westward expansion of the lands west of the Mississippi River.The various states in the area have been left with clean up of these mining areas that ceased production over 150 years ago and yet the patents and claims are the same as in 1872.
This law also governs hobby miners, rock hounds, etc.
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Dear Mr. Halstead:
Thank you for taking the time to contact me concerning the General Mining Act of 1872. I am continuing to study the various reforms that have been proposed and believe that mining operations need to take into account their impact on the environment.
The General Mining Act of 1872 is a United States federal law that authorizes and governs prospecting and mining for economic minerals, such as gold and silver, on federal public lands. This law, approved on May 10th, 1872, codified the informal system of acquiring and protecting mining claims on public land, formed by prospectors in California and Nevada from the late 1840s through the 1860s. The bill has been modified somewhat over the years.
The most current legislation before the Senate regarding this issue is the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2007 (H.R. 2262). H.R. 2262 was introduced on May 10, 2007, by Representative Nick Rahall (D-WV) and on November 1, 2007, it passed the House by a vote of 244-166. Now it has been referred to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. This bill would permanently end the practice of granting patents for mining claims, and impose a royalty on existing mining on federal lands. The royalty money would go 70% to a cleanup fund for past abandoned mining operations, and 30% for affected communities. Mining on privately owned land would not be affected.
Additionally, on September 27, 2007, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held an oversight hearing regarding hardrock mining on federal lands. According to the Committee, there are multiple reforms they want to examine in 2008 before moving forward on legislation. The Senate plans to hold another hearing in January on reforming the General Mining Act of 1872. For details on when the hearing will take place, I encourage you to visit http://energy.senate.gov/public/.
Thank you once again for contacting me. If I may be of further assistance to you, please do not hesitate to contact me again.
Norm Coleman
United States Senate


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Hooding Ceremony
The master's degree hood first appeared in the high Middle Ages, during the 12th and 13th centuries, when the university first came into being. Originally attached to the church, the scholars and pupils of these first colleges were largely clerks or aspiring clerics. the cap, gown, and hood we know today grew out of the clerical dress of that period. Stephen Langton, England's greatest medieval archbishop, standardized all clerical garb at the Council of Oxford in 1222, style of robing accepted for academics in the United States in 1895 at a convention at Columbia University.
The most distinctive element of the academic garb is the hood, a medieval relic descended from cowls worn by monks to ward off drafts in English monasteries. Ithaca's master's and doctoral graduates will be honored each year by joining in this ancient tradition through the graduate hooding ceremony.


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Eyes are a marvel of evolution that first appeared in trilobites during the Cambrian explosion approximately 543 million years ago. There's no doubt that eyes are complex; they have many parts that work together to give us the visual experience we humans and many of our animal cousins share today.
Because of its complexity, many creationists see the eye as a weak point in evolutionary theory. They make an argument of irreducible complexity: that if any single part of the eye was missing it wouldn't function. Therefore, eyes must have been created in their current form - by a creator!
But as Dr. Ivan R. Schwab explains in his new book Evolution's Witness: How Eyes Evolved, this argument doesn't hold vitreous fluid. Much simpler eye designs not only existed in our evolutionary past, but in some animals alive today! We know how eyes evolved, and (spoilers!) no creator is needed. From the Amazon description of Evolution's Witness:
From initial photoreception 3.75 billion years ago to early spatial recognition in the first cupped eyespot in Euglena to fully formed camera style eyes the size of beach balls in ichthyosaurs, animals have processed light to compete and survive in their respective niches. It is evolution's greatest gift and its greatest triumph.
Tune in to Atheists Talk this Sunday, January 6th for our interview with ophthalmologist Ivan R. Schwab as he shares with us the story of the evolution of the eye.
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That is the current "work around" Nick.By the way, does that comment get to the developers or is there another method to report issues in Beta versions.Lee
Thanks Nick, I will drop a report of there. In the mean time others giving V1.5 a fly are warned! XD@RetroleftyClearly IDE 1.5 is a beta release to let people play with their new Due boards and is not suppose to be a replacement for the current production 1.0.3 release for all the other arduino boards.It is clear that it supports Due! However, it is not clear, that it is not supposed to be a replacement for the whole range of Arduino boards! The developers have not made it clear & I gather neither of us can read their minds.
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