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This week, as the Supreme Court released its rulings on a variety of different issues, supporters of same-sex marriage were particularly anxious to hear an important piece of news: the Court's ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California's Proposition 8.
What is the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)?
The Defense of Marriage Act is a federal law that restricts federal marriage rights to opposite-sex couples. It was enacted on September 21, 1996 under the Clinton administration, though Clinton, among others who were involved in the law's enactment, has since changed his position and advocated for its repeal.
The law's exact wording on the issue of marriage is as follows:
"In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word `marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word `spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife." (Defense of Marriage Act)
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Prop. 8, or California Proposition 8, is a ballot proposition passed in California's November 2008 elections. Much like DOMA, it declares that only opposite-sex marriages may be recognized by the state of California. The proposition effectively overturns a California Supreme Court ruling released in May of 2008 that found marriage to be a fundamental constitutional right that should be granted to all couples. The timeline of same-sex marriage history in California is shown below:

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Afdhal NH. Diseases of the Gallbladder and Bile Ducts. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Textbook of Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011: chap. 158.
Glasgow RE, Mulvihill SJ. Treatment of gallstone disease. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 66.
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Went up to Lake Cachuma sunday. Left at 3:30 from pasadena and i was set up at 5:30. Super quiet at first, usually the gobblers are sounding off early but I could'nt get a peep out of them. I thought maybe thay didnt like my spot anymore? At grey light I heard the 1st gobble and it was'nt coming from the trees they had roosted in in the past. Great, now what do I do? Ive been hunting these birds for three years now and I thought I was finally gonna kill one "cuz I had them figured out!" ya right. The set-up goes like this.
The turkeys roost in tall oaks about 200 yds into the Los Padres National Forest. In the mourning they fly down and feed thier way to a squatter village within the National Forest where they are safe, because of proximity rules and the squatters themselves who seem to think the turkeys belong to them? So every time I hunt this spot I know point "A" and point "B" but the line between "A" and "B" is allways different.
This time I possitioned myself up on a hill that I could observe two known trails to point "B" I could hear the tukeys working thier way right to me and then... Nothin, zippo, silence. I stopped calling and sat still for a half an hour when somthing caught my eye as I was scanning my head to the right? 40 yards to my right and behind me a turkey ran up the hill to safety. Somehow the crafty critters swung wide around me? Then I saw another Tom working up the hill behind the first one! I swung around and put my 30 yd pin right on his chest and my arrow almost chopped his foot off. Maybe next week. At least I will have a rangefinder next time. My old one was left in a golfcart on thursday.IDIOT!!! Oh well if it was easy anyone could do it right? Not just us pathetically obssesed few.[:)]
Untill next time
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Description Low, gray, spineless, nearly hemispherical stems, usually one (rarely to fifty) forming a broad dense clump, each topped by usually one pink flower.
Habit: succulent native perennial shrub.
Height: to 3 in (7.5 cm).
Stem: dull gray green, flattish or pumpkin-shaped, ribbed or mosaic-furrowed, 2-5 in (5-12.5 cm) diameter; most of the stem is below ground.
Leaf: usually spineless; but with thick tufts of long, woolly, gray to tan, growing from areoles.
Flower: pale pink to white, vase-shaped, 0.5-1 in (12-25 mm) wide, from center of stem; opening at day, closing at night; dried flower persists.
Fruit: small berry, cylindrical to oval to club-shaped, pink to magenta to red, 0.5-0.75 in (12-18 mm) long; persist up to one year.
Warning Peyote "buttons" may cause vomiting and diarrhea as well as hallucinations if ingested. Sensitivity to a toxin varies with a persons age, weight, physical condition, and individual susceptibility. Children are most vulnerable because of their curiosity and small size. Toxicity can vary in a plant according to season, the plants different parts, and its stage of growth; and plants can absorb toxic substances, such as herbicides, pesticides, and pollutants from the water, air, and soil.
Flower May to September.
Habitat Desert limestone soil: Chihuahuan desert scrub, Tamaulipan thorn scrub, usually on or near limestone hills; 330-6200 ft (100-1900 m).
Range Southern Texas and northern Mexico.
Discussion Also known as mescal, mescal buttons, pellote, divine cactus. Several varieties are proposed. Cut and dried buttons of peyote, when chewed, produce color hallucinations and are important in certain Native American religious ceremonies. The plant contains narcotics. A federal permit is required to possess any part of the plant. Peyote has been almost eliminated by collectors in Texas, but in areas of Mexico it is still very common.


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 6, 2010 - Del Bueno of Grandview, WA is recalling all size packages of Queso Fresco Fresh Cheese because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
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#1 Sun 07 Jul 13 1:20pm
My new food blog
Hi everyone,
I have recently graduated from University, having studied economics for four years and hating it I have realised that I want to start and progress in a career that I have the utmost passion for, and for me that is food! I am interested in every aspect of food, where the produce comes from, how to create amazing dishes with sheer simplicity, unearthing new flavour combinations to create recipes, I just love it all. As soon as I graduated I started a food blog to show my passion for food. I have been uploading new posts 3 times a week, these posts consist of recipes, reviews of wines, beers, liquor, cheeses, and restaurants. I have really enjoyed the experience of having a food blog this far and I just want that to continue. I hope you enjoy it!
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Good luck with your blog! It looks great - nice photos, nice recipes!
#3 Sun 07 Jul 13 9:10pm
Re: My new food blog
Thank you so much! I am really glad that you like it, and I hope you like my future posts. Let me know if you try any of the recipes.
#4 Mon 08 Jul 13 12:43am
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I will! Why don't you put a link here whenever you update? That will keep more people up-to-date on your entries.
I'll let you know if I try a recipe. I am gluten-free these days, but seems like a lot of your dishes would be just fine for me. I love fish.
#5 Mon 08 Jul 13 2:47pm
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The best chocolate mousse I have tasted, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Available at www.thomasvinicombe.co.uk
#6 Wed 10 Jul 13 5:37pm
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My review of an amazing day at Borough Market I love this place so much! www.thomasvinicombe.co.uk
#7 Fri 12 Jul 13 4:22pm
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A new recipe for sizzling fajitas with a delicious fresh, and zingy salsa. It is so delicious and so quick and easy to make. www.thomasvinicombe.co.uk
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How to cook perfect pasta every time! http://www.thomasvinicombe.co.uk/2013/0 … pasta.html
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Cooking and trying different foods is my passion. I really enjoyed the pictures uploaded here. I really want to congrats you for your new blog and wish you luck for it's success.
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Re: My new food blog
Thank you so much. I am really glad that you enjoyed my blog. Food is my passion as well and I just want to try and share my passion and ideas with as many people as I can. I have loved blogging so far and I really hope you like everything that I continue to publish!
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Whom do we fear or trust? Faces instantly guide us, scientists say
Posted August 5, 2008; 09:57 a.m.
What's in a face?
Plenty, according to scientists at Princeton University.
A pair of Princeton psychology researchers has developed a computer program that allows scientists to analyze better than ever before what it is about certain human faces that makes them look either trustworthy or fearsome. In doing so, they have also found that the program allows them to construct computer-generated faces that display the most trustworthy or dominant faces possible.
Such work could have implications for those who care what effect their faces may have upon a beholder, from salespeople to criminal defendants, the researchers said.
In a paper appearing in the online edition this week of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Alexander Todorov, an assistant professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton, and Nikolaas Oosterhof, a research specialist, continue an inquiry into the myriad messages conveyed by the human face. In 2005, Todorov's lab garnered international headlines with a study published in Science demonstrating that quick facial judgments can accurately predict real-world election results.
Taking what they have learned over time -- namely that, rightly or wrongly, people make instant judgments about faces that guide them in how they feel about that person -- the scientists decided to search for a way to quantify and define exactly what it is about each person's face that conveys a sense they can be trusted or feared. They chose those precise traits because they found they corresponded with a whole host of other vital characteristics, such as happiness and maturity.
"Humans seem to be wired to look to faces to understand the person's intentions," said Todorov, who has spent years studying the subtleties of the simple plane containing the eyes, nose and mouth. "People are always asking themselves, 'Does this person have good or bad intentions?'"
To conduct the study, the scientists showed unfamiliar faces to test subjects and asked them to describe traits they could gauge from the faces. The scientists boiled down the list of traits to about a dozen of the most commonly cited characteristics, including aggressiveness, unkemptness and various emotional states. The researchers showed the faces to another group and asked them to rate each face for the degree to which it possessed one of the dozen listed traits.
Based on this data, the scientists found that humans make split-second judgments on faces on two major measures -- whether the person should be approached or avoided and whether the person is weak or strong.
From there, using a commercial software program that generates composites of human faces (based on laser scans of real subjects), the scientists asked another group of test subjects to look at 300 faces and rate them for trustworthiness, dominance and threat. Common features of both trustworthiness and dominance emerged. A trustworthy face, at its most extreme, has a U-shaped mouth and eyes that form an almost surprised look. An untrustworthy face, at its most extreme, is an angry one with the edges of the mouth curled down and eyebrows pointing down at the center. The least dominant face possible is one resembling a baby's with a larger distance between the eyes and the eyebrows than other faces. A threatening face can be obtained by averaging an untrustworthy and a dominant face.
These examples show computer-generated faces displaying the common features the Princeton researchers' test subjects rated as trustworthy: from most trustworthy at left; to neutral in the middle; to least trustworthy at right. Credit: Oosterhof & Todorov
"If you can think of an emotion being communicated by the face as a kind of signal, you can understand that we can amplify that signal into what was almost a caricature to see if we get the proper effect," Todorov said. "And we do."
The research raises questions about whether the brain is equipped with a special mechanism for "reading" or evaluating faces, he said. Some studies of infants have shown that, when offered a choice between looking at a random pattern and one resembling a human face, infants prefer the face. And there is evidence that face-seeking is deeply rooted in both the psyche and evolution as the amygdala, a primitive region of the brain, is stimulated when someone spies a scary face.
While it may be true that people have little control over their facial features, the study also indicates that expressions may be important as well, which could have implications for people in jobs that require extensive interactions with the public.
The research was supported by the National Science Foundation and a Huygens Scholarship from the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education.


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My MP Prime finally showed up, they didn't even ring the doorbell, I had checked the door 5 minutes prior to find nothing, and then got an email saying it was delivered and there it was. TRU's shipping method wasn't that great, just 1 airpack and it got punctured when they closed the box, luckily nothing was actually wrong with the packaged item within.
First impressions:
The packaging is a bit awkward, it's a rectangular window box attached to a cardboard flared base. Prime is off to the side holding the matrix chamber open, while his trailer and goodies take up the rest of the box. The main tray is lopsided at the bottom which makes standing outside the box impossible. Getting most out was easy, Prime also has rubber bands running through his chest holding a small tray over the matrix in his chest and getting those bands out requires transforming partway. The instructions are hard to find, they're in the window box but under the thick back insert at the bottom.
Prime and the trailer have rubber wheels. Prime has die-cast toe chunks and heelspurs, and the matrix is die-cast with a clear blue plastic crystal at the center.
The trailer is pretty nifty, although hard to open the main halves. The swing out base legs with the geared feet that drop down are a nice touch. The trailer interior has a lot of sculpted relief detail but no paint, and feels like it could have another thing going on, the fold-down seats are an odd touch but not unwelcome. There are no missiles for the manned repair / battle pod, but the trailer has fold-down doors on the top to let that pod stick out the top with the trailer closed around it.
Prime's truck looks really nice, easily the best truck mode so far. This set is a good representation of the experience of that original G1 Prime. The truck of course takes a lot of liberties - the high rear deck and the tiny side windows and sculpted doors - but overall it just holds up as being a nice-looking solid truck-like thing. The truck isn't as solid as it looks, there are a few panels that need massaging, but mainly it's not difficult. There are some fit & finish issues from using so much plastic though, panels that don't seat or line up quite right including the back of the truck. They left the toe chunks/truck tail unpainted. There's still no actual 5th-wheel although the pretense of one was barely sculpted on the legs. The trailer has the swivel with a pair of prongs that plugs into the truck.
The transformation is interesting, not as frustrating in the chest as MP-1, but still has a lot going on that requires things happening at specific times.
The bot looks pretty good, the proportions are more towards the cartoon look, which means smaller head, and the only real difference to the cartoon look is the smaller rectangular windows for the chest rather than the big square ones on the show. The arms seem a touch too long, but largely it looks good. It's quite different from MP-1, and considerably smaller which gives it more of an accessible feeling, a toy you could reasonably pick up and pose and interact with. The only die-cast metal are the toe chunks, heel spurs, and a small part of the spine/torso. The matrix requires the crystal at the center to be facing inwards for the chest to close fully, and even then it doesn't quite get there by a few millimeters. The chest doors don't close that well in general though, sitting at slightly mismatched heights due to the hinge pin shot through the plastic at slightly different angles - this is a common Hasbro manufacturing issue but on a bigger figure that costs this much, it stands out that much more. Sculpting is pretty good, the arms seem a tad toyetic in their sculpting, but otherwise it holds up with a good amount of detail that's not over the top.
Articulation is very good although not to the level of MP-1, and some of the designs are more on the toy side than the genius of that previous figure - simple hinges instead of double joints. The ankles are very weak though, they don't lean back, only forward which is an odd choice, and they lean forward far too easily. The sliding shoulder joints allow for a lot of range of motion. The head is a vertical hinge on a horizontal swivel.
Fit & finish issues creep up also such as the back panel that holds the folding gun not closing quite as nicely as it should, some seams like the upper arms and the rear of the gun and few other areas not closed all that tightly, the panel for the neck doesn't have a stop so it's nearly always dislodged backwards or forwards, and on mine there's several areas where paint has worn off after a single transformation - mostly the die-cast spine piece, but also the outside of the front fenders which end up inside the chest. Then there's the fact that the robot mode feels a little loose in the torso, it's only held together by a single tab snapped onto the faux grille stomach and while nothing falls apart, it doesn't feel as solid as it could - but it's a design conceit that probably was necessary, and the figure isn't floppy for it.
Surprisingly, for once the instructions not only get everything, they get everything right. The transformation is relatively clear, and the gimmicks are all on the page. The only thing lacking is transformation from truck to robot, but one can reverse-engineer that from the robot to truck instructions.
Overall, my first impression is that this is a good set. While each is good, no one element is worth the price of admission on its own, but together it all makes for a quality Optimus Prime experience.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Since I have the Japanese release and not the American, I'm curious - does the US release have loose smokestacks too, or will they stay up when you position them?
All Hail Darth Schmitsky!
So, stupid post office delivered it this morning... TO THE WRONG ADDRESS! I'm going to go down there tomorrow with the tracking number, and then write a stern letter to Amazon complaining about the use of FedEx Smartpost.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Picked up Voyager Ultra Magnus and Thundertron earlier this week. While Thundertron is neat just because he is different, Ultra Magnus is very cool. If you like the cyberverse commander version, get the voyager.
"You know I love the guy but I swear he writes like freaking Yoda."-Dean Winchester
R12:2-Be Transformed
I found and bought GDO Sandstorm and TFP Rumble today. Now I just need the aforementioned TFP Voyager Ultra Magnus and I'll be done with Transformers Prime...don't think I'll be interested in Beast Hunters except for maybe a deluxe Smokescreen.
I briefly thought about saving MP Prime for Christmas to open up but couldn't wait that long. I have him out of the box but haven't attempted to transform yet.
Beast Hunters??? Is this a new line?
That's my jacket!
That's the subtitle for Prime Season 3.
I have this feeling Toledo is dead to the Hasbro toy line. I haven't seen any new Transformers or Star Wars single figures since the Phantom Menace line came out earlier is year. Is saw the first edition line once, and I'm glad I decided to pick up my vehicon, but this year has been disastrous to my collection, but profitable to my wallet.
Nowhere in your incoherent ramblings did you come anywhere close to the answer. Thanks to you, everyone in this room is now stupider having heard you. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul. -Billy Madison-
Alright, I'm not really done with the TFP collection as thanks to Target's 11.99 sale on deluxes, I picked up 2 more Vehicons along with Generations Onslaught, Blast Off and Swindle. I guess I may as well try to find Brawl and Vortex within the next few days before the sale ends.
I guess there's considerably less interest in Vehicons now because they were impossible to find a few months ago. Or else packing 2 per case has made a huge difference?


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RecitalSCHUMANN AND BARTOK HIGHLIGHT BRONFMAN RECITAL IN WEILL
by Lee Ormasa
Friday, April 21, 2017
Those people once addicted to the Angry Birds game application likely suffered an auditory flashback during the opening measures of the allegro from Bartoks Suite, Op. 14, the opening work in Yefim Bronfmans April 21 recital at Weill Hall. The repetitive opening figures of the Bartok were...
SymphonyHULKING MAHLER "TITAN" AT SO CO PHIL'S SEASON FINALE
by Terry McNeill
Saturday, April 08, 2017
A composers first symphony rarely gives a clear indication of what beautiful complexities will follow over the years. Early Mozart and Tchaikovsky are examples, and the big exceptions to this axiom are the firsts of Beethoven, Shostakovich and Mahler. Tackling Mahler s D Major Symphony (No. 1,...
SymphonySANTA ROSA SYMPHONY STAYS CLOSE TO HOME
by Steve Osborn
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Santa Rosa Symphony concerts usually feature high-powered soloists imported from afar, but for their recent Bring on the Strings concert set, they stuck close to home, thrusting their principal violin, viola and cello into the limelight. The violinist (Joseph Edelberg) and the violist (Elizabeth P...
RecitalSLAM BANG SONORITY IN HAOCHEN ZHANG'S SCHROEDER RECITAL
by Terry McNeill
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Piano Competition winners are in ample supply, and its often a hit and miss proposition as to their sterling interpretative qualities. However, the quadrennial Van Cliburn Competition in Ft. Worth has continually produced top-level artists, and the 2009 winner Haochen Zhang proved a formidable per...
SymphonyFOREIGN AFFAIRS CHARACTERS OF THE BAROQUE
by Sonia Morse Tubridy
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Akademie f■r Alte Musik Berlin, known as Akamus, played a Weill Hall concert March 12 in a program called "Foreign Affairs -Characters of the Baroque. The ensemble, that began in 1984, has 15 musicians led by concert master Bernhard Forck. Attired in elegant black with red accents, ranging from tie...
RecitalMUSCULAR PIANISM DOMINATES MILL VALLEY CHAMBER SOCIETY RECITAL
by Terry McNeill
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Piano recitals since the beginning of the genre open with finger pieces - Scarlatti or Soler Sonatas, Bach, a Mendelssohn Prelude and Fugue or perhaps Mozart or Haydn. Sarah Daneshpours March 12 opening work at the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society series abruptly avoided the norm with the 10-minut...
RecitalNOVEL HAYDN AND SCHUMANN IN YARDEN'S OAKMONT RECITAL
by Terry McNeill
Thursday, March 09, 2017
Israeli pianist Einav Yarden has been a frequent Sonoma County visitor, playing private recitals for Spring Lake Village and Concerts Grand, and twice performing for Music at Oakmont. The Berlin-based artist returned to Oakmonts Berger Auditorium March 9 with a program that was neither for connois...
ChamberCONSUMMATE ENSEMBLE FROM THE MIRÆ IN WEILL
by Sonia Tubridy and Nicki Bell
Sunday, March 05, 2017
A March 5 Weill hall audience of 350 leaned in to share an intimate musical space and to hear the Mirµ String Quartets sterling concert. Starting with Haydn's Op. 20, No. 4, the four musicians seemed to want listeners to be enveloped in their music. The Mirµ plays with the feat of being four dist...
RecitalBRILLIANT VIOLIN AND PIANO ARTISTRY CHARMS SCHROEDER HALL AUDIENCE
by Terry McNeill
Sunday, February 26, 2017
A tiny Schroeder Hall audience heard a flawless recital Feb. 26 by Yu-Chien Tseng, arguably the best recent local violin recital since Gil Shahams transversal of the complete Bach Suites in Weill and Frank Almonds Oakmont recital in 2015. Muscular playing was the afternoons norm, and with pianis...
ChamberMUSIC AND ART MELD IN ZUCKERMAN TRIO CONCERT
by Nicki Bell
Friday, February 24, 2017
A Feb. 24 Weill Hall concert by the Pinchas Zuckerman Trio juxtaposed formidable music making with palpable associations about visual art. Brahms C Minor "Sonatensatz (Scherzo) is a short youthful work for violin and piano, and was an opening call to action. Lively and vigorous playing alternated...
A BANDONEONIST WALKS INTO A BAR ...by Steve Osborn
Sunday, February 08, 2015
Seeing a bandoneµn player in front of a symphony orchestra reminds one of the old joke about a kangaroo walking into a high-priced bar. The bartender says, "We don't get many kangaroos in here," to which the kangaroo replies, "With these prices, I can see why." Likewise, if a bandoneµnist were to walk into an orchestra rehearsal and be told, "We don't get many bandoneµnists in here," he or she might well reply, "With this instrumentation, I can see why."


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The republic recon fighter with obiwan and boba with speeder were said to be canceled by hasbro. Although the republic recon fighter is said to be with anakin now in wv 2 of the maul packaging.
The mando assult vehicle is still MIA , EE still lists it as coming out jan and i know u can get it in tri logo on canadian shelves , there are quite a few on ebay with tri logo and one or two production samples of english ones, hopefully it doesnt fall through the cracks.
The other thing we are missing are the 2 dvd 2packs that walmart was supposed to have they came out in the uk but are still missing over here. The 2 brain invaders packs.
on another note i have gotten most of the new stuff just missing the new vintage repack vehicles and the discover the force line and a few new CW thats about it.


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Follow the Matriarchs, heroines and prophetesses of the Bible and the New Testament in this special tour of Israel
Jerusalem: city of prophetesses, heroines and queens
Overview of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives – this spiritually significant mountain is also the place for a bird's-eye view of the mountains and valleys surrounding the city and the way it grew through the ages.
Huldah's Tomb –Huldah the prophetess (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chron. 34:22) has been commemorated here since the Middle Ages. The lady buried here is sacred by other names to other faiths: to Christians, she is St. Pelagia, a fifth-century singer from Antioch who abandoned her former life to devote herself to God. To Muslims, she is Lady Raba'ah, a ninth-century religious luminary.
Eleona (Pater Noster) – one of the first churches to be founded on the Mount of Olives in 326 CE by Queen Helene, the mother of King Constantine who was the first Christian emperor. Queen Helene also identified Calvary and the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem; in this and other ways she left an indelible mark on Christian history.
The Western Wall – a last remnant of the Second Temple, and as such, the holiest place in the Jewish world and a scene of fervent prayer and Bar Mitzvah celebrations (Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays).
The Southern Wall Archaeological Park – a "still-life" of the original Herodian street, revealing Roman destruction Robinson's Arch, and where a highlight is Hulda's Gates, named after the prophetess, and by tradition a teacher, who both censured and comforted at the end of the First Temple period.
The Davidson Visitor Center – housed in an eighth-century CE palace, where beautiful displays and a virtual-reconstruction, high-definition interactive model bring Jerusalem's history alive.
The Israel Museum – the Ethnography Wing reveals ways that customs involving women and families in traditional cultures can reflect those of the Bible; the Shrine of the Book, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered; the 1:50 Model of Second Temple Jerusalem.


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During spare moments at the Ubuntu Below Zero conference (they're a very friendly bunch of people) I've been hacking on my little spam training tool, written in Mono and Gtk#.
It's been a long time coming, but 0.1.4 fixes a niggling little bug that's been annoying me for a while; in previous releases you couldn't tell if the ham/spam training commands completed successfully. I've added an extra dialog box to alert you if there was a problem. I've also added tooltips to make it more obvious how to train on a message.
You can get it from here: http://spamtrainer.sourceforge.net/


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I must start by saying i train without the ecollar.
My pup has been through double t and swimby, we are currently working on patternblinds. The past two times i have taken her hunting and i send her on a blind she totally disregards the stop whistle, and i am not sure how to correct this?? She does great in drills such as tt an swimby, but when shots start getting fired and its the real deal its like all training is thrown out on the whistle stop she just wants to hunt without interruption.
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THERE be loves many and gods many; and happy the man whose god and love are one—happy for the time being; most miserable of mortals when the time of revelation comes and at one stroke both god and lover crumble into dust.
Harry's love for Undine had sprung into life, full grown and omnipotent, on that first afternoon when he met her in the woods; and if from that time it could not be said to have grown stronger, it had certainly grown larger, until at last the whole world animate and inanimate, intellectual and moral, was for him but one being, imaged and reflected in a thousand ways. Women's dresses and faces had a new meaning for him; for, though standing afar off, were they not like to hers? And the little wild forest flowers that she loved, were they not emblems of her, as they nodded their innocent white heads at one another? In the books that he read, he paused only when he came to some sentence that might have been hers; and all that was beautiful and sweet sang back her name to him. Dark days came page: 112 for his well-worn bible, and for Beecher's Life Thoughts and a score of brethren who had been his daily study. She never read them; and they were thrown contemptuously onto a lower shelf, to lie there till the wheel of time should have turned.
"Why do you always change the topic when our conversation turns to religious subjects?" Harry asked Undine one day, some four months after their first meeting, as he sat in the low bow-window in front of Cousin Jonathan's house, with his feet resting on the gravelled path outside.
Undine stood behind him, mending a great rent in her dress, made as they had been rambling in the wood together in search of the wild flowers which now, tied into a great bunch, he held in his hand.
"Religion is like love," answered Undine. "It flourishes best in silence, and is to be felt, not spoken of."
"I don't mean merely what one may call emotional religious subjects," he answered, looking up into her face with his great pleading woman's eyes. "You were arguing last night with Mrs. Barnacles about the right or wrong of committing suicide. You never talk with me about such things; your conversation with me is always about the smallest trivialities, such as you talk of to Miss Mell."
The dark eyes above him looked down on him with that half-pitying, half-scornful look that was so often in them when they rested on him.page: 113
"You must be contented with what you get," she said.
"But you give me so very little."
There was something very piteous in the words and in the face that looked up at her which would have cut sore against the hearts of many women; but she cared nothing, only said: "I give light where I get it. When you enlighten my spiritual darkness, I shall try and do as much for yours."
She had a contemptuous pity for the great boy, with his manly years and his crammed brain, and his passionate love that had made him follow her about for the last four months and serve her like a dog.
"If a bird is only fitted to live among the marshes and reeds in the valley, why tempt it after you to the cold high rocks where the eagle finds a glorious life in the clear cold air?" So Undine said to him, and so thinking, she made no attempt to lead her poor wild duck to the heights for which nature had never fitted him, and where he must die of frost and starvation.
His ideas as to what her views might be were not very clear, but he had a vague notion that she believed in nothing; accordingly he had convinced himself that he also believed in nothing and he had not a little disgusted and very much astonished her by informing her, as he scraped up and down with his boots on the gravel, that he was an infidel, an page: 114 atheist beside whom Hume was orthodox and Voltaire a credulous believer.
"I am sorry to hear it," was Undine's brief reply.
"Why should you be sorry that I resemble you?" he asked.
"I was not aware that you did so," she answered. "Will you please tell me the name of that little purple flower? I wish I had all at my finger ends that you have."
He told her the name of the flower and sat twirling the bunch round in his hands.
Undine stooped down for it, when the rent in her dress was mended.
"I wish you would choose out one flower and give it to me," he said, never removing his gaze from her face. "May I have one?"
"Of course you may," said Undine, carelessly holding out the bunch. "They are very pretty; choose which you like."
"I care nothing about it unless you give it me," he answered, in a deep passionate voice that always angered her.
"There," she said, pulling out a great gaudy dandelion, which in spite of his disapproval she had persisted in putting in the bunch.
"How long the shades are growing. I really must go and get tea ready. I'm very discourteous to dismiss you in this way, am I not?" said his angel, and with a laugh fluttered out at the back door.page: 115
It was not often the case (and it showed the discretion of all parties that it was not) that they were alone together, the three Blairs, father and sons. On this evening, however, all three sat in the smoking-room and all three were smoking; for had not Undine said that "A man who does not smoke is as bad as a woman that swears." It was purgatory before that time to Harry Blair, but he stuck to his pipe with the resolution of a martyr.
There was a blazing fire in the grate, and at one side of it sat Albert Blair; while before it lay a great curly brown-and-white dog with his nose resting on his master's foot.
"You are leaving for London tomorrow, are you not?" he asked his father, who sat on the opposite side of the fire.
"Yes," was the short rejoinder.page: 116
"Be back at the beginning of summer?"
"Perhaps so. Depends on circumstances."
"When are you taking yourself off?"
"Don't know."
The master of the dog had more than one attraction in Greenwood, and a lady who must be kept in hand close by; so, though the place was wretchedly dull, he was in no hurry to leave it.
"There is no need to ask when you go," said the father, turning with one of his most sinister smiles to his youngest son. "We all know you are booked for Greenwood till a certain individual, despairing of a richer morsel, shall consent to swallow you."
Harry Blair threw down his pipe, emptying its contents on his trousers and the carpet; and drawing himself up and making a tremendous effort to look dignified and serene, after the manner of his elder brother, he said with trembling lips: "I must beg of you to say no more upon a subject upon which you are in total and absolute ignorance."
His father laughed, one of his coarse brutal laughs; Albert leaned down to stroke Prince's head and went on curling his moustaches.
"As to my being in total ignorance," said the father, "I know nearly as much of your little beauty as you do yourself, and infinitely more about woman in general, I fancy. She would think no more of throwing you overboard, along with her books and her flowers, if by doing so she could gain a few page: 117 thousand a year, than I do of knocking the ashes off the end of my cigar."
Harry Blair rose to his feet, knocking over the tumbler that stood at his elbow. His hot blood, which in schoolboy days had gained for him the highly appropriate sobriquet of "Fire Brain," was now fairly roused:
"If any man but my father had dared to speak those words," he said with tremendous passion, "I would have knocked them down his throat; as it is, I will only prove to you that they are a lie, a cowardly dastardly lie."
His father spoke with a quiet sneer: "You surely forget in whose house you are standing, whose money it is that causes women to look at you! Go and tell your beautiful Undine that your father has turned you out of his house, that you have not a penny in the world, nor the wits to make one; go and tell her that your father would rather see his money rolling in the gutter than that a penny of it should ever come to you. Go and tell her that, and see what her answer will be! Go, go at once."
There was no passion in the words; they were calmly, sneeringly spoken, as words are that have been lying on the tongue for years, ready for use.
Albert Blair sat lazily looking into the fire. He had known it would come to this some day, and he was glad; it gave him a better chance.
When he looked up his brother had left the room, page: 118 and his father, sitting opposite him, was puffing away vigorously.
"The young dog!" he said after a pause. "He has all his mother's damned impertinence, and he shall learn a lesson or two yet before he dies. Young dog!"
Albert made no remark and a long silence followed, suddenly broken, greatly to his surprise, by a long-continued, deep chuckling laugh proceeding from his father. The Piece-of-perfection for once fairly opened his eyes and stared at him. His respected senior was not generally given to mirth, even of the demoniac order.
"I'll do it," he chuckled, "I'll do it." And then, seeming to remember himself, he rose, kicked the dog, and took his departure, leaving his son in undivided possession of the fire and his own meditations.
The next morning was cold and stinging and Undine half repented that she had not stayed at home, as Cousin Jonathan wished, in place of going for her morning walk.
She was just turning homeward when, hearing a step beside her, she looked round, and saw, to her great astonishment, no less a personage than Mr. George Blair, looking redder than usual and almost out of breath.
"I heard this was your favourite early walk," he began, after wishing her good morning; "and I have walked myself almost out of breath, fearing I page: 119 might miss you. I have long wished for an opportunity of seeing you in private, and at last I have it."
A pause followed, Undine ransacking her brain to discover some possible cause for his desiring a private interview with her.
"I trust," he began again, "that you will not be much surprised at what I am about to say. I trust—I feel in fact convinced—that you have understood what the attraction has been which has led me so often to your cousin's house. Though so much your senior in years, I trust, my dear Miss Bock, that you will believe me when I assure you that the affection which I offer you is as ardent and as sincere as that which any younger man might give you, and that, with the will, I have also the power to surround my wife—and such, if you will permit me, I would make you—with everything which can induce to happiness. I cannot ask, I would not desire, an immediate answer. It is of course only right that you should first seek the advice of your friends; but will you not give me some hope, however faint it may be?"
He paused to take breath at the end of his pedantic little oration, while Undine turned on him a face in which nothing but blank astonishment was written; it changed to one of disgust as her eyes rested on the little red-faced creature. He saw the look and had expected to see it. He had had, as he said, great experience in woman, and knew that the handsome penniless young lover must hope to page: 120 carry the day by storm or not at all, that time and reflection are fatal to his success; while the man of fifty, with his bloated face and bags of money, has nothing but these to rely on; and they work for him more surely when he is absent than present.
He took no notice of the look she gave him, but it made him swear in the fatty depths of his inmost heart that, come what would, he should yet have her as his wife. He drew the little scarlet cloak that was slipping back lightly over her shoulder, and fastened it with a brooch formed of diamond-studded flowers which he drew from his pocket.
"Pray do not," she said, as she wrenched it loose and held it out to him as though it had been a creature which stung her hand. "You do me a great honour," she said; "but it is quite impossible, quite."
The old man peered out at her from his rolls of fat, and before turning to leave her said, "Then I had best wish you good morning; but before I do so may I beg of you, my dear Miss Bock, to remember that if ever you should change your mind (and we never know what the future may bring us), I shall not have changed. I leave for London tomorrow," he continued; "and unless you should write to me, having altered your mind, as I sincerely hope you may do, it may be long before we meet again. Good-bye, Miss Bock." And without waiting for her reply he turned away and trotted down the lane. Undine stood to watch him as he rolled out of sight.page: 121
"His wife!" She laughed a merry, mocking laugh. "His wife!"
The idea of being any man's wife, of bearing any man's children, was absurd enough to her, to whom a lover was only a reality of the imagination, to be adored, worshipped, and endowed with every perfection mental and physical, but not to be seen, clothed in flesh and blood; just as we dream of heaven, but would laugh to scorn the man who offered to show it us.
Her merry mocking laugh would have sounded almost as derisive had it been Albert Blair, the son and graceful Apollo, instead of George Blair, the father, old and coarse.
"Money," she said. "What is money?" And kicked with her little foot a rotten stick which lay in her path as contemptuously as she had just thrown from her the wealth that a word might have made hers.
Aye, gold and love, what are they? The great gods that rule us! Gold, god of the body with its lusts and its clay; Love, god of the soul with its fire and its passions. As long as a human being lives shall they, too, not live and struggle and strive for the mastery?—the one ruling over the young and fresh, the other stealing his kingdom from him when he grows old and wrinkled?
"Money! What is money?" said Undine, derisively, for she had seen no deeper into life than love page: 122 songs and dreams could take her; and she wrapped the little scarlet cloak about her and went home light of heart and singing.
She found a letter waiting for her on her bedroom table, but took off her things and stood warming her hands at the fire before opening it.
"Only from poor Harry Blair, about some book or flower," she said. "Poor" falls naturally before some names; it did before his.
She opened the letter and threw the wrapper into the fire, where it flamed up and turned to ashes, like a young heart devoured by that cruel merciless old God of Love.
At first as she read she looked a little puzzled, then angry, then amused, and finally with a mingling of all three upon her face sat down before the fire with the three great blue sheets in her lap.
It was as passionate an appeal as ever was penned by arrow-smitten man.
For her sake he had given up all—fortune, friends, rank—without a thought and without a regret. She alone could give him that for which alone he longed, that which alone could make him happy. Would she refuse him? No, she could not, would not; he felt sure of that. Nothing else was dear to him on earth, nothing else did he desire. So it ran on. It might be years, he said, before he could make her his wife, but all he yearned page: 123 to know was that her heart was his, her head, her soul.
When Undine got thus far the disgust she felt got into her fingers, which sent the two sheets she had finished into the fire after the wrapper.
"The father asked for my body and offered me gold in return; he asks my soul, spirit and body, and has nothing in the universe to give but a pair of great staring woman's eyes, and a soft brain, crammed to bursting and without a particle of sense in it." So she said to herself, as she sat tearing up the last page, still unread, and letting the fragments fall in a blue shower at her feet.
Well was it for the hapless penman that he could not see this and was not where he longed to be—lying at her feet; better wandering the woods where now and then, as the wind swayed the leafless branches, he would catch a glimpse of the house which held her.
She had just finished writing him a few very cool and careless lines in answer, when the breakfast bell rang.
"I will say nothing about it to Cousin Jonathan. It must make a man feel wretchedly small to find that another knows his love has been thrown back at him. And I suppose it is a kind of love they both have for me," she thought as she rose to go.
Passing out at the door, she caught sight of her own face in the little glass that hung on the opposite page: 124 wall, and for the first time that morning a womanly, or in justice let us say a human, feeling of pleasure came to her.
It is so nice to be desired by others, so nice to be beautiful.
When she entered the breakfast-room Cousin Jonathan was standing with his back to the fire, dressed in his everlasting salt-and-pepper coat and plaid trousers.
"I'm a little wretch," she thought as she looked at him. "Here is a man who has been more than a father to me, and yet whenever I look at him I detest him. And two men have told me this morning that they loved me, and I feel no sorrow that I can't return it as a true-hearted woman would. I'm a heartless creature and horribly hard, there's no doubt of it."
"You are late this morning," said Cousin Jonathan. "I suppose you have been writing your answer."
"To whom?" asked Undine.
"The letter you received was given me to bring. I know all about it," replied Cousin Jonathan, smiling. He felt no trepidation as to what her answer might be; for, if there was one thing which the little man had studied in the last three years, it was the character of the pink-and-white thing before him. He understood her better than anyone else had ever done, in many ways. He knew of that page: 125 power of passion that lay dead and unawakened beneath the cold, feelingless shell; and he knew as surely that the day would come when it would be called into wild life, not by his hand or that of any Harry Blair, with woman's eyes and soft trusting nature.
"You have still got your red cloak on; I always like you best in it," he said, as he drew her to him to receive the morning kiss he had given her ever since she came to him.
Undine turned quickly from him and sat down to pour out his tea.
"Where is Cousin Jane this morning?" she asked.
"She is feeling worse than usual and has just sent for the doctor," he answered as he drew his chair near to the table and to her. "What answer are you going to give a certain individual?" he asked her, after a pause.
"There is only one answer I could give him," she replied, shortly, as she passed Cousin Jonathan's tea.
"And he gave up everything for you! His father has vowed to have nothing more to do with him; and now all the world will say that you did not marry him because he had no prospects."
Undine laughed her little scornful laugh.
"All the tongues on earth may clamour; they cannot hurt me," she answered.
When breakfast was over she dispatched the note, as cold and killing a missive as ever carried destruc- destruction page: 126 tion to aerial castle. She did not love him, never could; would never care to be any man's wife; hoped they would always be good friends; hoped he would find some one to make him happy and love him; so the note ended.
All the morning she sat with Mrs. Barnacles who was really very ill; but when the afternoon came, bringing Miss Mell and Mrs. Goodman, she felt free to take her book and cloak and wander out.
'Twas cheerless and wintry enough, but the air was pleasant and fresh after the close room, and her book engrossed her attention.
Presently she heard voices, but did not look up until she found herself close to Albert Blair. There was no one with him but his dog, so she concluded he must have been speaking to it.
Master and dog made a pretty picture as they stood on a raised bank, with the leaden sky and leafless trees for a background. Both looked so strong and placid, so perfect after their types.
The half-closed eyes caught sight of her in a moment, and their owner came forward to meet her. He made some graceful remarks concerning the weather, inquired after her cousin; and they paused as they walked beneath the very trees where poor Harry had wandered in the morning.
"Here, sir! here!" he called to the dog, who bounded out of the little path in search of some imaginary game. The dog came slowly back and page: 127 rubbed his head against his master's knee, who stooped down to stroke his head.
"How absolutely that dog obeys you," said Undine, feeling as she always did in the presence of the Piece-of-perfection, at a loss for an idea.
"I make most things which belong to me do that," he answered, quietly; and as she glanced up at the firm lips beneath the delicate golden moustache she felt it must be so.
How nice it must be to have something you must obey, something you cannot help obeying, whether you wish or not! I never have, she thought.
"Have you had that dog long?" she asked.
"About two years, and he never leaves me; sleeps at the door of my room every night."
"You would miss him now if you were to lose him," said Undine, thinking of Socrates.
"Perhaps so," he replied, carelessly curling the tip of his moustache; "he is an exquisite animal. I have been offered fifty pounds for him, but would not let him go for four times that sum." Again he stooped and touched the dog's head, who walked close beside him, proud and pleased.
Undine, walking at the other side, envied him.
"Will you allow me the pleasure of carrying your book? It is rather too large a one for you," he said, noticing the ponderous volume under her arm.
Taking it from her, he glanced at the title, and Undine saw the satirical lines at the corner of his page: 128 mouth and eyes grow deeper; but he only said in his blandest tone, "Rather stiff reading, I should imagine," and stooped to loosen a dry branch that had caught in her skirt.
Undine wished the book buried under the highest pile of leaves that ever wind collected and left there to rot; though only half an hour before she had been so absorbed by it that Greenwood and the vanities of the present life were banished from her mind.
In the presence of all other men and women she could walk erect. Why in this man's presence was she bowed down, wishing only to do and say what he might approve? Others might ridicule her dress, her manners, her tastes, and she would cling to them with the greater tenacity; but if a line deepened round this man's mouth, she would have given untold treasure to be able to alter or disclaim them.
She was glad when the walk was over—as she always was to get out of his society—and yet, when she was alone before the fire, she took the great book and quietly tore out the leaves one by one and watched them wither and shrivel in the flames.
"I must be going mad," she said. "What makes me do this, and take such pleasure in doing it?"
Going mad!—of course she was, as we most of us go once in our lives and, thank the gods, not more than once.
Cousin Jonathan was sitting with his wife up- upstairs page: 129 stairs; and when it grew dark Undine built up the fire, blew out the light, and lay down on the sofa.
Presently down the passage came Cousin Jonathan on the way to his study; quietly, for Cousin Jonathan's footfalls were never heard. As he passed he looked in at the door. The red coals cast a ruddy glow over the little room, and the chairs and tables cast long flickering shadows on the brown wall. On the sofa in the corner opposite the fire she lay, just visible in her white dress, with arms clasped over her head and dark eyes fixed on the firelight: not seeing it, but only a tall figure with a rough dog at its side standing on a leaf-strewn bank, with the wintry sky and barren trees for setting.
Long the little figure in its brown coat and plaid trousers stood watching in the doorway; at last it entered and kneeled down softly beside her.
He had loved her so long, he had loved her so passionately, with the best love his nature could give; and tonight this love spoke itself in words as vehement and startling as the passion itself had been long restrained and covered over.
She started up and threw him from her, and, quivering with rage, stood before him.
Still on his knees at her feet, the little man caught her hand and glanced up at the face above him. Even in the dim firelight, the look of intense loathing it wore was visible. It brought him back to reason.page: 130
Dropping the hand, filled with insufferable shame, he crawled from the room almost on hands and knees, as though to hide him in the ground. As he shuffled through the doorway he dropped one green slipper on the mat.
Undine stood as one in a dream and watched the little figure in its plaid trousers and brown coat as it glided swiftly from the room, to pass out of her sight forever. For the little man, in his green plaid, with his angel eyes and beautiful prayers, she was to see no more, though from afar off his shadow might fall on and darken her.
As she passed out at the door she drew up her skirts, lest in passing they might touch the shoe that lay there.
"'Tis a pretty little thing," soliloquized Albert Blair as he walked home through the wood the same evening; "a pretty little thing, and if she were trained might be good for something. She would not care to be any man's wife, she tells my poor fool of a brother. Well, if these affairs of mine turn out well and I am able to indulge a fancy, who knows? How should you like a certain little eccentricity for a mistress, Prince?" he said, touching with the tips of his fingers the dog's head. "Whether I ever let things go as far as that or not, I may see what I can do with her. Ha, ha! How wrathful the poor boy would be, and the old one too, for I think page: 131 he had his thoughts of her." And Albert Blair smiled his quiet smile. He had but one smile for friend or foe, for prince and beggar, which meant nothing, told nothing, showed nothing.
The next morning, when Undine had fallen into her first troubled sleep, Mrs. Barnacles' maid came to rouse her.
Cousin Jonathan had been obliged to leave on some unexpected and most important business and might be gone for weeks. He had started before daybreak, and his wife was terribly cut up at his having left her when she was so ill. She seemed worse and wanted to see Undine at once, the girl said.
When Undine entered the room she found the poor invalid in tears. "It was so cruel of him to go away like this," she said, sobbing; "he knows how that hateful Miss Mell and Mrs. Goodman will talk and say he cares nothing for me, to go away and leave me when I am so ill, and yet he does it."
Undine tried to console her and felt she could not tell her, as she had determined, that in a few hours she also would leave.
In her cold way she felt pity for the poor woman whose husband cared as little for her as she did for him, who loved nothing, had no friends, and lived in the constant fear and dread of Goodman, Mell, & Co.
"I was thinking," Undine said, "of going to stay page: 132 with my grandmother. Since my grandfather's death she lives alone and has often asked me to come to her; but I will not leave you till you are better."
So all that day Undine sat at her bedside.
"Why don't you take a book and read? You could turn up a corner of the blind," said Mrs. Barnacles.
"I don't care to read today, thank you," said Undine.
"Why, what on earth has come to you?" said the invalid.
Later on the servant entered, to say that Mr. Albert Blair had called to know how her cousin was.
"Tell him she is no better," answered Undine.
"But he wanted to see Miss Bock herself," said the girl.
Undine rose and went downstairs.
He was leaning against the mantelpiece in the parlour when she entered, and his dog lay at his feet.
She looked ill and pale, but he had never liked her aspect so well as he did at that moment.
"Your cousin is seriously ill, I hear," he said as he came forward to meet her; "and you look as though you had not found much rest last night."
There was kindly feeling in the words but none in the tone or in the face that looked down at her, only bland politeness.
"I had not to sit up last night; Mr. Barnacles left only early this morning," answered Undine.page: 133
"So I heard just now. Wouldn't you allow me to send some one to sleep here? You have no man about the place, and it is a long way to the village to the doctor."
"No, thank you," said Undine, wondering to find in him such thoughtful kindness. "You are very good, but we require no one."
"I am sure you will feel very lonely. Won't you let me leave Prince to keep you company?" He noticed that she had stooped to caress the dog.
"He would not stay," said Undine, smiling.
"He will do just as I tell him," said his master, touching the dog with his foot. "Here Prince, lie down!"
The dog lay down again on the rug, but watched his master with anxious eyes as he turned to leave; and was only kept from following him by another stern, "Lie down!"
"Poor old fellow! It's very cruel of me to keep you," said Undine, kneeling down beside him after his master had gone, and burying her face in his rough curls.
"I'm very cruel, but I am so lonely, and I love nothing, nothing at all. I thought I loved my books and nature, but now I find I don't care anything, even for them. O Prince, I wish I were you! I don't want to be loved; I only want to love something."
The dog looked up at her with his loving, trust- trustful page: 134 ful eyes and tried to lick her face, till she buried it again in his neck.
Albert Blair called again the next day and every day in the dreary two weeks that followed, but he never stayed more than a few minutes, and sometimes did not even come in, only wanting to hear how the invalid was.
Undine as she sat before the fire, not caring to read or work, counted the slow hours as they passed, for they brought his coming nearer.
Prince stayed with her always. She had thought never to love another animal again when Socrates died; but our hearts are often larger than our wills, and the great curly dog had grown to be almost what the brown-eyed monkey had been to her in other days.


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Man...only 6 or 10?
Man...only 6 or 10?
Twitter: @ckparrot
Great thread idea BassFin!
My six (it's so hard to narrow it down to six!) would be:
1. Tyler Eifert
2. Cordarrelle Patterson
3. Ryan Swope
4. Justin Hunter
5. Brian Winters
6. Michael Mauti
Honorable mention list (I can't help myself!) includes Barkevious Mingo, Robert Woods, Justin Pugh, Bacarri Rambo, Zach Ertz, Cobi Hamilton, Travis Kelce, Mike Gillislee and Chase Thomas. Hell, who am I kidding, I couldn't even do a top 10, so those are my 15 guys, which the Dolphins are almost guaranteed not to draft.
It's just difficult to understand the rules by which these will be judged. If its all about whether 3 or 5 of them turn out awesome then all 6 of your guys should be your favorite 1st rounders.
How about two guys from each day of the draft? Two guys you think are going day one, two you think go day two, and two you think go day three?
The idea is to see which guys end up on most lists. Some people will load up on guys who will all go in the top 2 rounds. Some will add some more obscure names.
It's just a way for us to have fun and pass time until the draft is here. I encourage everyone to do it in whatever format floats your boat. As always CK, your way is very structured. But that's cool! I like your idea too. The only rule is it has to be a player you would love to see on aqua and coral.
Love seeing how different everyone's thinking is! And surprised and the number of OL on these lists so far.
Keep 'em comin'!
My top 10 man crush picks would be (in no order)
Sylvester Williams DT
Alec Ogletree LB
Jamie Collins OLB
Tank Carradine DE
Stedman Bailey WR
Jake Stoneburner TE
Kiko Alonso LB
Cordarrelle Patterson WR
Miguel Maysonet RB
Jordan Poyer CB
Honorable mentions: Jonathan Cooper OG, Eric Reid S, DJ Swearinger S, Markus Wheaton WR, Reid Fragel OT, Tyler Eifert TE
These are all guys who get me sitting up in my seat watching them. All over the draft, they're guys I maybe feel have something special, or I picked them out before they started rising up charts, or I feel they're undervalued.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. - S. Beckett
Lane Johnson
Keenan Allen
Matt Elam
Montee Ball
Kenjon Barner
QB Matt Barkley, USC
QB E.J. Manuel, FSU
QB Peter Lalich, California-PA (flag: character)
RB Eddie Lacy, Alabama
RB Giovanni Bernard, North Carolina
RB Johnathan Franklin, UCLA
RB Christine Michael, Texas A&M (flag: character)
RB Mike Gilislee, Florida
RB Marcus Lattimore, South Carolina (flag: medical)
RB Dennis Johnson, Arkansas
RB Zac Stacy, Vanderbilt
FB Lonnie Pryor, FSU
FB Kyle Juszczyk, Harvard
TE Tyler Eifert, Notre Dame
TE Travis Kelce, Cincinnati (flag: character)
TE Chris Gragg, Arkansas
TE Joseph Fauria, UCLA
TE Justice Cunningham, South Carolina
TE Phil Lutzenkirchen, Auburn
WR Cordarrelle Patterson, Tennessee
WR Tavon Austin, West Virginia
WR Stedman Bailey, West Virginia
WR Markus Wheaton, Oregon State
WR Quinton Patton, Louisiana Tech
WR Terrance Williams, Baylor
WR Justin Hunter, Tennessee
WR Da'Rick Rogers, Tennessee Tech (flag: character)
WR Marquess Wilson, Washington State (flag: character)
WR Mark Harrison, Rutgers
WR Marquise Goodwin, Texas
WR Chris Harper, Kansas State
WR Corey Fuller, Virginia Tech
WR/RB Denard Robinson, Michigan (flag: position switch)
OC/OG Brian Schwenke, California
OG Jonathan Cooper, North Carolina
OG Brian Winters, Kent State
OG Hugh Thornton, Illinois
OT Lane Johnson, Oklahoma
OT Luke Joeckel, Texas A&M
OT Eric Fisher, Central Michigan
OT Menelik Watson, FSU
OT Terron Armstead, Arkansas-Pine Bluff
OT Xavier Nixon, Florida
OT Levine Toilolo, Stanford (flag: position switch)
DE Bjoern Werner, FSU
DE Cornellius "Tank" Carradine, FSU (flag: medical)
DE Sheldon Richardson, Missouri (flag: position switch)
DE Alex Okafor, Texas
DE Corey Lemonier, Auburn
DE Devin Taylor, South Carolina
DE Cornelius Washington, Georgia
DE Quanterus Smith, Western Kentucky (flag: medical)
DE Joe Kruger, Utah
DT Sharrif Floyd, Florida
DT Star Lotulelei, Utah
DT Jesse Williams, Alabama
DT Kawann Short, Purdue
DT Brandon Williams, Missouri Southern
OLB Jarvis Jones, Georgia (flag: medical)
OLB Dion Jordan, Oregon
OLB Travis Johnson, San Jose State
LB Manti Te'o, Notre Dame
LB Arthur Brown, Kansas State
LB Khaseem Greene, Rutgers
LB Sio Moore, Connecticut
LB Zaviar Gooden, Missouri
LB DeVonte Holloman, South Carolina
LB Jake Knott, Iowa State (flag: medical)
LB A.J. Klein, Iowa State (flag: medical)
LB Vince Williams, Florida State
CB Dee Milliner, Alabama
CB D.J. Hayden, Houston (flag: medical)
CB Xavier Rhodes, FSU
CB Desmond Trufant, Washington
CB Darius Slay, Mississippi State
CB Leon McFadden, San Diego State
CB B.W. Webb, William & Mary
CB Robert Alford, Southeast Louisiana
CB Nickell Robey, USC
CB Terry Hawthorne, Illinois
CB Sanders Commings, Georgia
CB Kayvon Webster, South Florida
DS Matt Elam, Florida
DS Jonathan Cyprien, Florida International
DS Shamarko Thomas, Syracuse
DS Phillip Thomas, Fresno State
DS Baccari Rambo, Georgia (flag: character)
DS D.J. Swearinger, South Carolina
DB Duke Williams, Nevada (flag: character)
DB Josh Evans, Florida
Note: Players excluded from this list are not necessarily "hated" or anything like that.
I made my list today...I was going to make a separate thread, but I think I will just add to this...I divided it based on "my favorites", "overrated" and "underrated". A few players overlap with my favorites and underrated.
E.J. Manual
Giovani Bernard
Stephan Taylor
Johnathan Franklin
Cordarrelle Patterson
Tavon Austin
Markus Wheaton
Stedman Bailey
Zack Ertz
Gavin Escobar
Luke Joeckel
Eric Fisher
Lane Johnson
Jonathan Cooper
Ziggy Ansah
Star Lotulelei
Sheldon Richardson
Jesse Williams
Kawann Short
Alec Ogletree
Jarvis Jones
Arthur Brown
Desmond Trufant
Jamar Taylor
D.J. Hayden
Jonathan Cyprien
Kenny Vaccaro
Matt Barkley
Ryan Nassib
Mike Glennon
Eddie Lacy
Keenan Allen
Tyler Eifert
Jordan Reed
Kyle Long
Chance Warmack
John Jenkins
Damontre Moore
Bjoern Werner
Margus Hunt
Manti Teo
Barkevious Mingo
Dee Millner
Johnthan Banks
Jordan Poyer
Tyrann Mathieu
Robert Lester
Matt Scott
Ray Graham
Miguel Maysonet
Justin Hunter
Aaron Dobson
Conner Vernon
Chris Harper
Jasper Collins
Travis Kelce
Vance McDonald
Brennan Williams
Earl Watford
Brian Schwenke
Sheldon Richardson
Jesse Williams
Kawann Short
Datone Jones
Tank Carradine
Joe Kruger
Cornellius Washington
Gerald Hodges
Meshak Williams
Blidi Wheh-Wilson
B.W. Webb
Demontre Hurst
Wanted to bump my man crush list. Bolded the picks for the night.
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CK, you want to move Richardson to DE?


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@John: thanks for the suggestion, but get a bit too big, it needs to fit inside a wristband. Or are there very flat motors that would do the job?
What is going on for the user here?? Is it something like a heart rate monitor??
The idea is simple: it's a "Boost Converter" often used in power supplies. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_converter I think all you'd need is the inductor and a small transistor to act as the switch.
You said "up to an inch (25mm) in diameter". Here's a nice little 5V DC motor with a 12mm diameter body (10mm across flats):http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/M1N10FB11G/P14354-ND/2417078
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Thread: 90g back to freshwater
90g back to freshwater
Hey new guy here my names Ethan I am 22. I have been in this hobby for about 10 yrs know.
Converting my 90g saltwater tank to freshwater.
Moved to michigan in 2010 and just recently started back in school while I work full time and my tank was becoming more of a chore than an enjoyment so I took it down this past February.
You guest it decided to get back in this time were it all started for me freshwater.
Please if you have and suggestions while im posting my progress please speak
Nothing is more important in this hobby than learning from others mistakes or success.
Cameras charging will post pictures tomorrow thanks again guys!!
Tank is a aqueon RR
RO/DI is bulk reef supplies unit
stand built by me
Rest of my stuff sold
This black friday pretty much went on a buying spree most of my stuff should be here tuesday or thursday and i can get stuff done than. Still need drift wood, lighting and some other odds and ends.
Low maintenance!!is key reason I took my saltwater tank down would like to enjoy it after work or while studying.
Tank plans semi planted with driftwood? New to the plants so will have to do some reading and find some easy to keep ones for beginners.
Fish I like help me pick?
knife fish
tiger barbs
some cichlids do not want a cichlid tank though can't stand looking at the same fish different color.Just me not hating on people who like those type of tanks.
giant danios
catfish like pictus?
was thinking discus but I don't know think I'll be right back were my saltwater tank was?
clown loachs but all the ones here are so tiny and i'd really like 4-6 inch one if i got one.
Equipment list what I bought already.
Plumbing- for durso standpipe and return/drain lines
Filter socks and holder
fluval bio max ceramic rings-14 boxes
media bags thinking about puting the rings in them to make it easier to clean? Really don't just want to dump them in my sump.
Sicce silent 4.0 pump- had a mag9.5 for the money couldn't complain but wanted a better pump this time. So it was a toss between ehiem or sicce which my skimmer used a sicce pro pump and I loved it so went that route.
marineland carbon
seachem flourite-5 bags plant substrate? or should I have gone a different route?
Thick foam pads for inserts and prefilters
300w jager ehiem heater think I should have bought 2?
cichlid gold, staple, bio-gold pellet was a super deal could not pass it up doesn't mean I have to get cichlids. I have a friend who has oscars so he will love it.
Seachem Prime which brings me to another question my tap water TDS is 150ppm. haven't tested hardness yet but pretty sure it is normal definitely not hard. Would you guys just use the tap water and treat with prime or go with RO water?
Been reading and with saltwater fish you don't have to worry about this because of the salt mixes but the RO units take out the bad but also the good minerals and what not that the fish use. Kent makes a product to put into the water to restore all the good stuff. But I feel like if ima do that miswell use tap water. Because my unit is a 1:2 ratio it'll be more environmentally friendly. What are your thoughts?
Last edited by Aquatic Life; 11-26-2012 at 05:17 AM.
Picking stock is your job, Get what you like that is suitable for your tank and your other stock lol. We will help you refine your list and avoid obvious errors such as IE: Clown loaches who are social and need groups and also get too large for your tank. Smaller birchirs only in the footprint of a 90, Oscars and convicts are both cichlids btw.
BTW - My water has 3 times the TDS your does and I don't have issues. I don't know if you meant to infer that Prime does something about it or not but your statement sort of looks that way. Prime does nothing about TDS for the record, Prime neutralizes chlorine/chloramines.
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Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Why pretend there are no stupid questions? Actually, There are many stupid questions: "Should I drink this bleach?" Is just one example.
Having said that, Just because it's a stupid question doesn't mean that it shouldn't be asked. It's better to know.
A warm beer is better than a cold beer. Because nothing is better than a cold beer, and a warm beer is better than nothing.
Lol just re read it does seem that way. Yea I know prime doesn't affect TDS. RO/DI water works wonders with saltwater fish and the benefits out way the negative. Just did some reading most people seem to only use them in their freshwater tanks if their water source is horrible.
So ima just stick with tap water and prime. Main thing I hated about using my RO/Di was the slow water output 90gpd gets old fast when you don't have a 100g storage tank. Or auto refill system.
List so far please pick at it.
setup 1?
senegal bichir
giant danios
synodontis eupterus catfish
african brown knife
convict cichlid/ram/firemouth/severum?
setup 2?
would like to maybe on my first oscar but no idea what could go with them if anything?
Stuff came alot sooner than expected which is sweet!
tank, stand, sump, stuff I got today.
Last edited by Aquatic Life; 11-26-2012 at 05:25 PM.
update got my driftwood todaysome pics..sorry for the reflections don't have a tank light so kinda hard to get pictures.
soaking it know while im waiting on the plumbing.
Last edited by Aquatic Life; 11-27-2012 at 06:51 PM.
If theirs any good sites or threads with this kind of information please let me know.
What kind of lighting do you guys suggest for plants?
Also what are some hardy plants for a first time planted tank owner?
On my salt tank I had an ATI 6 bulb t-5 fixture. So are we looking at that kind of power or would 2-4 bulbs work?
Was not a fan of LEDs for corals how are they for planted tanks?
Im thinking fo trying the aquatic life t5 linkable fixtures and start off with one and maybe add another later. Anyone have experience with this brand/fixture?


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Team Snuti's Progress Update
Today, we've completed and integrated most of the soundtrack and sounds into the game. Also, we have finished a large portion of the art and fixed up a few issues from yesterday.
This evening, we're focusing on getting the inventory system up and running and adding a few more assets into the game. Unfortunately, tomorrow we will be away for a day in London so we won't be able to do much on the game.
Here is a brief clip of the game play so far:
The game is taking shape
We are updating every day on our blog. Check it out: http://blog.snuti.net


text: Last week The Antlers had the pleasure of accommodating David and Kirsty Thoreson for a few days. As the Official Hotel of the Vail Symposium, we've had the honor of hosting a myriad of incredible speakers, but none more fascinating than David. In addition to being a great photographer and sailor, David puts the "A" in Adventure. He also happens to be one of the best story tellers I've ever heard. Whether it's for sheer excitement, or an insightful firsthand analysis of climate change, I recommend spending some time on his blog, and if you have a chance to see him in person, do NOT miss it!