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The World Will Not End Tomorrow
The Sun will rise on the morning of December 22 and find most of humanity still living. I can say that with a great deal of confidence, though my scientist's brain tells me I should say the world "probably" won't end tomorrow. After all, there's a tiny chance, a minuscule probability…but it's so small we don't have to worry about it, just like we don't have to worry about being struck down by a meteorite while walking down the street. It could happen, but it almost certainly won't.
My confidence comes from science. I know it sounds hokey, but it's true. There's no scientific reason—absolutely none—to think the world will end tomorrow. Yes, the world will end one day, and Earth has experienced some serious cataclysms in the past that wiped out a significant amount of life, but none of those things are going to happen tomorrow. (I'll come back to those points in a bit.) We're very good at science, after centuries of work, and the kinds of violent events that could seriously threaten us won't take us by surprise.
Why the World Won't End
So where does this stuff come from? Whose idea was it that "the end of the world will be on December 21, 2012"? The culprit, according to those who buy into the idea, is that the end of the world was predicted by the Mayas in their mythology, and codified in their calendar. However, it's pretty safe to say that the Mayas didn't really predict the end of the world, even though I don't know much about the great Mayan civilization that existed on the Yucatan peninsula in what is now Mexico from antiquity until the Spanish conquest.
|See this calendar? It's being touted as a Mayan
calendar in articles about the "end of the world",
but it ain't Mayan. It's an Aztec calendar. Please
don't mix up civilizations.
The Mayas were the only people in the Americas known to have developed a complete written language, which is part of how we know a lot about them despite their destruction by the hand of European invaders. In particular, we know about their calendar, and the divisions they used. We use what's called a decimal system for numbers, based on the 10 fingers of our hands. That's why we break things up into decades (ten years) and centuries (ten decades), as well as a millennium (ten centuries). The Mayas liked different divisions of time: their b'ak'tun is approximately 394 years, and they placed a certain significance on a cycle of 13 b'ak'tuns. (I suspect the Klingon language in Star Trek borrowed some of its vocabulary from ancient Mayan.)
In the "Long Count," one version of the Mayan calendar known to us, the present world came to be on August 11, 3114 BC. That world will end at the close of the 13th b'ak'tun from that creation day, which happens to be December 21, 2012. However, there's good reason to think that the Mayas didn't believe this would be the end of all things: other calendars exist that refer to an even longer span of years, stretching thousands of years into the future!
Even more importantly, though: the Mayan cosmology (their view of the universe) was cyclic, as in many other religions. This world was not the first in this cosmology, and it won't be the last. In such a view, the true universe is eternal, and the cycles of time are a kind of divine rebooting, which don't really end anything. The end of the 13th b'ak'tun might be a transformative event in the Maya cosmology, but it's not the end of the world.
Frankly, I'm not sure why we should care even if the Mayas did believe this was the end of the world. As I said previously, there's no scientific reason to think the world will end tomorrow. But maybe you might think there's a non-scientific reason—divine intervention to wipe out the Earth, perhaps. However, I'd venture to guess that most of us don't adhere to the Mayan religion. Their gods are not the gods most people worship. The prophesied arrival on Earth of Bolon Yookte' K'Uh, the Nine-Footed God is not something central to my belief system, and probably not yours either.
In fact, millennial thinking is far more a Christian thing than it is a Mayan thing—or frankly most other religions. When people talk about the supposed end of the world tomorrow, they use the Christian terminology: Armageddon (referring to Megiddo, a place in northern Israel, named in the Book of Revelation as the site of the last battle) or the apocalypse (literally the "uncovering", when all that was hidden becomes revealed). These weren't concepts in the Mayan religion, and nothing in the Christian religion says the world will end on December 21, 2012.
The World Will End…Eventually
Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.–Robert Frost
Science tells us the world won't end tomorrow. It also tells us the Mayan cosmology is wrong: time doesn't go in cycles forever. Earth began 4.5 billion years ago, and will end in about 5 billion years more—at least as a livable world, which is what counts for us. In between its beginning and end, it is defined by cycles: the length of rotation (days) and the time to travel around the Sun (years), with its associated seasons. Other cycles are pretty arbitrary: centuries and b'ak'tuns don't have any particular significance in terms of astronomical events.
The end of the world as we know it will happen in about 5 billion years, when the Sun ceases fusing hydrogen into helium in its core. When that happens, the Sun will grow into a red giant star, swallowing up Mercury and Venus. Earth probably won't be devoured, but with the Sun's surface so much closer, things will become distinctly unpleasant. It's unlikely the atmosphere or oceans could survive, meaning the end of most life. (Some microbes could probably continue to live underground. That kind of thing is a story for another day.) However, 5 billion years is a long time from now.
Could another cataclysm overtake us before that time? Yes. As you may know, about 65 million years ago, a large asteroid smashed into Earth, an event that at least helped end the reign of dinosaurs, and ushering the extinction of many other species.
Unfortunately, we can't rule out the possibility that could happen again. There are enough asteroids and comets in our Solar System that could eventually cross orbital paths with Earth; if a large specimen collided with us, it would be devastating.
However, we're talking about tomorrow. No asteroid will strike Earth on December 21: astronomers keep careful track of everything near our planet, and nothing we know of is on a collision course with Earth for the near future. Asteroids and comets are really the only things we have to worry about doing serious damage for life on Earth, but you can sleep easy tonight and tomorrow night: we're safe.
|If you could somehow see the planets during
daylight hours, here's how they would
appear tomorrow at noon. There's no
alignment. (You can see this for yourself
using the free planetarium program
Some people have talked about fairly far-fetched ideas: alignments of planets, or lining up Earth, the Sun, and the center of the galaxy. The planets of the Solar System aren't aligned tomorrow—the image shows where several of them are in relation to the Sun at noon. Jupiter isn't anywhere close to the planets you see. You'd need a pretty strong imagination to say they're lined up in any way: while they do lie along a line, that's the way they always are, since they all orbit the Sun more or less in the same plane. Alignment with the galactic center is even more simple to dismiss: about once a year, the Sun appears aligned with the galactic center in the sky. And nothing happens.
Another explanation I've seen involves a mysterious planet called "Nibiru" or "Planet X," which either will collide with Earth or otherwise generate a baleful influence. Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer, has a lot about the Nibiru nonsense, so I won't repeat what he says. Suffice to say Nibiru doesn't exist: there's no evidence for it, and (surprise!) it's not anything that came from Mayan mythology to begin with, so there's no reason to associate it with a December 21 apocalypse.
A Positive Conclusion
Science, I think, is reassuring in the midst of panic. Why people like to scare themselves and others with misguided ideas of the world's end, I am not qualified to say. I don't know how many people are convinced the world will end tomorrow, compared with the number of people who are either wholly skeptical or those who might be a little worried. However, let me reassure you again: the world will not end tomorrow. We can take comfort in the knowledge that December 22 will come, 2012 will end, and a new year—a new cycle—will begin. Any remaking of the world is up to us, so rather than worrying about imaginary apocalypses, let's commit to improving the lives of those who live on our magnificent planet.


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You, Jerry and Tula were a pleasure to deal with.
Waterspook Sables Dark Secret, MH (Sable)
Trumarcs Bankshot Bandit, MH ( Fats)
Waterspook Tomfoolery, SH ( Tommie)
Waterspook Bankshot Whiz Bang,JH (Jesse)
Waterspooks Girl Named Bill, SH ( Billie- my princess.....)
Waterspook Kickin' Gunshot, SH ( Boom)
Waterspook Kickin' Good Time MH(Kick)
Waterspooks Partner In Crime, SH ( Bouncer)
Brush Creek Waterspook, JH, WC- my first girl.(Spooky)
Mike Peters
great thread...you can't beat fun for a good time!
This is sort of off topic, but I am going to ask these questions anyway...
For those who have actually used top stud dogs currently have you found this:
1. do most owners of top stud dogs today not want to do natural breedings?
2. are most stud dog owners not guaranteeing AI breedings, as in side by side AI, fresh chilled, frozen?
3. have most stud dog owners stopped offering a pro-rated refund if there are fewer than 3 (or 4) puppies? Or no puppies at all?
1. Yes, most seem to only do side by sides or AI.
2. I have had both ways in the past 5 years. The one who did not guarantee the breeding was for a deceased stud.
3. Most are counting 3-4 pups as a litter and pro rate less. Many do have an upfront fee that is non-refundable. ($100-$200) as a breeding fee.
Mike Peters

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A moss that does well both in and out of water?
Ok guys and gals, I need your help with something.
On my riparium project I have decided that the glass above the water line looks really plain, and it drives me crazy. I was thinking of things I could do to line the top of the tank and take up some of that space on the glass so it didn't look so bare. Since I'm in north-west'ish Oregon the idea I had was to use moss, and at first I was just going to go gather some from outside (as we have plenty of it), clean and sterilize it, and find some way to anchor it. I think plenty of water splashes up to that point to keep it wet and happy, but I'm not positive it would anchor without any wood or something under it. Also it means I cant ever raise the water level back to the top, which I do from time to time to give "Blu" my DG a little extra room.
So, do you guys know of a moss that does as well outside of water as it does submerged in water? It will always stay damp from the spray coming off the HoB water hitting the rocks, and I will spray it with a spray bottle if I need to, but the very top part that anchors to the frame of the tank wont get quite as much.
My wife says that java moss wont die as long as one part of it is submerged and the rest of it stays damp. Is that true? I didn't think it would do well if part of it was above the water line, but she says people line rocks and bogwood for frogs and other critters to climb up and bask in the air on. Since it is one organism it will draw water up to the parts above the water line that need it?
What about Bladderwort or something like it? It is freaking beautiful, but I assume its an underwater only?
Any other good species I should check out?
Thanks in advance."A grain of sand is all I ever wanted to be. Lay me down and let the water wash over me, wash over me." -Mickey Newbury
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Duckweed would make a cool effect. I'm not sure if that's what your looking for, though.
EDIT: Here's what it sort of looks like abovewater:
Here's what it looks like on the waterline:
with the roots hanging down.
EDIT: EXTREMELY SORRY FOR FAILED PIC ATTEMPT: Sorry sorry sorry. That was a total mess-up.
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King of the Virtual [Cory] Catfish
meh don't think any of us saw it before you fixed it.
Yeah i actually have some duckweed in one of my tanks, and fairy moss in a lot of my tanks. Its kind of the same thing only a little bigger. Thanks for the suggestion tho. I love that stuff. One of my fav floating plants.
Im looking for something to line the glass tho, not float on the surface of the water.
Here is a pic of my riparium:
A little ways down that post there you see the pic of the tank. Its the first big pic. All the glass from the water line up, see how it just kind of looks messy? With the splashes of water on it. That is what I want to line. So vertical up the glass to the black frame of the tank, not horizontal along the water line like duckweed."A grain of sand is all I ever wanted to be. Lay me down and let the water wash over me, wash over me." -Mickey Newbury
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what I was thinking if you either have glass or acrylic is take light sandpaper Sand inside of the tank glass acrylic whatever you have, hang a piece of wood off the side of the tank with the moss on the piece of wood and start from there. I do have 1 question though I am in the process of trying to figure out if my local Moss is suitable for my tank, I haven't done any research on the name or anything are you familiar with short hair type greeeeen moss ? I really wanto grow because it is very beautiful, and you gave me the idea of growing it just like how you want to and I'm thinking about sanding the edge of my tank and seeing if it will stick, or what you can do is take maybe some sort of thin piece of wood and glue it to the tank, and take a flat head screwdriver in make grooves in that piece of wwood so it has something to grab onto150 gal. (1 black fin Pacu) Modified API Nexx modular filterX3+ a 1 litter bottle Moving Bed filter w/straws + DIY UFAS+ modified PowerHead to an aerated bacteria filter.
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Marie Monnom (Miss M. M...)
[Mlle M. M…] 1887
oil on canvas
canvas 49.5 (h) x 50.0 (w) cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris , Purchase 1982
© RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Khnopff presents a tranquil interior for his portrait of Marie Monnom, painted in Brussels in the vital year 1887. She sits modestly in a simple hooped armchair, forced forward by a large cushion. Strong verticals divide the canvas, with a moonlike mirror at upper left. Two diagonals animate the composition: the skirt from waist to knee, and a counterposed corner where the right plane of the room meets the back wall.
In 1888 the painting was displayed at the exhibition staged by Les XX (The Twenty), the society of modern artists which Khnopff co-founded in 1883. The Twenty consisted of founder members who invited twenty Belgian and the same number of foreign artists to show together. James McNeill Whistler participated in the first two exhibitions, in 1884 and 1886, and his influence on Khnopff is clear. He exhibited four paintings at the first show: Symphony in white, no. 3, Nocturne: blue and silver—Chelsea, Harmony in grey and green: Miss Cicely Alexander and Arrangement in brown and black: portrait of Miss Rosa Corder. Whistler's titles express tonal harmonies and musical analogies which are more significant than the identity of the sitter.
In Marie Monnom Khnopff adopts a subdued Whistlerian palette of blue and grey, restricting the colour range otherwise to brown and black, white and grey and subtle pink skin hues. Silvery-grey gloves hide any other flesh. The subject is presented in profile, invoking the processional, almost frozen nature of ancient Egyptian and Greek prototypes, as well as Whistler's famous portrait of his mother. Also notable is the shallow space borrowed from Whistler. We have no sense of traditional orthogonal depth, which is cut off by dominant vertical planes and a flat blue curtain.
Who is this contained young woman? Marie Monnom (1866–1959) was the daughter of an avant-garde Belgian publisher, Veuve Monnom (the Widow Monnom). One of many little-known female modernists, Madame Monnom knew many artists and writers: she produced the journal L'Art moderne, where Emile Verhaeren heralded Khnopff, and printed the dramatic lithographs Shadows (Les chimères)1889 by Redon (Eyes closed and The sleep of Caliban). Marie, later Maria, would marry Khnopff's friend, the Belgian Divisionist painter van Rysselberghe (Sailing boats and estuary and The man at the tiller) in 1889.
This painting was shown in Paris in 1888, at the exhibition of painting and sculpture by thirty-three French and foreign artists. Khnopff's later career encompassed scandalous Symbolist works of the Rose + Croix period of the 1890s, a brilliant debut at the first exhibition of the Vienna Secession in 1898, and his extraordinary modernist house, the Villa Khnopff. But it is in these quiet paintings of his family and friends that the newly confident artist demonstrates his absorption of contemporary art.
Christine Dixon
Text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009
From Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin and beyond Post-Impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay exhibition book, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009


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LiverKick's 2012 Best of Kickboxing Awards
- Written by Rian Scalia
It's that time of the year (or it might even be a bit late) to recap the best of kickboxing in 2012 now that it's over. We saw some great fights, great knockouts, fighters who had breakout years and great events.
Fighter of the Year
I know some are going to say Semmy Schilt here but ultimately I had to go with Giorgio Petrosyan, the LiverKick #1 ranked middleweight. He fights in the deepest division in kickboxing and still completely dominates it, being in my opinion the undisputed best kickboxer in the world. With four top ten at the time wins on the year, he went undefeated again in 2012. Another reason why I chose Petrosyan over Schilt is because all of his wins were in the regular 3x3 fight format, whereas Schilt had the same number of top ten wins as Petrosyan but three of them were in the 2x2 format. Some people also won't like this, but Petrosyan really has no huge physical advantages over his opponents, as they all weigh in at 70kg or under. The bottom line is that Giorgio Petrosyan had another excellent year and remains the number one kickboxer in the world.
Honorable mentions: Semmy Schilt (LiverKick #1 Heavyweight), Murthel Groenhart (LiverKick #2 Middleweight)
Fight of the Year
It was actually kind of disappointing that there weren't that many candidates for this award, but unfortunately there are a ton of fights that we don't have any video of so we only have so much to work with. On a positive note, Genji Umeno vs. Chang Hyun Lee was an amazing fight and I feel that it was the best of 2012. Umeno came into the fight a heavy favorite, with Lee being a complete unknown. The result was a highly competitive, action packed fight with Umeno possibly having the edge until getting dropped in the third round. Lee came away with the decision win and stole the show, which featured the entire K-1 Final 16 at heavyweight.
Honorable mentions: Dzhabar Askerov vs. Robin van Roosmalen (LiverKick #3 Middleweight), Hirotaka Urabe (LiverKick #9 Lightweight) vs. Naoki Ishikawa III
KO of the Year
This one actually crept up on me at the last minute, as I almost forgot about it. Thankfully I remembered because Shuichi Wentz's high kick knockout of Romie Adanza at the K-1 US Grand Prix in Los Angeles on September 8 was brutal, unexpected and scary all in one. The ensuing reaction after the knockout made it that much better, but also made it that much worse, if that makes any sense. Adanza was out cold, stiffened up and twitching.
Honorable mentions: Hirotaka Urabe KO1 Masato Kobayashi, Michael Duut KO3 Ricardo van den Bos, Ryuya Kusakabe KO3 Ilias El Hajoui, Daniel Ghita KO2 Brian Douwes
Event of the Year
I was looking at what people were saying the event of the year was and was quite surprised that no one mentioned the GLORY 70kg First 16 in Stockholm, Sweden on May 26. Top to bottom it was a great show with great fights. It had one of the honorable mentions for fight of the year in Askerov vs. van Roosmalen. It also had big upsets such as Davit Kiria's win over Kem Sitsongpeenong, as well as the emergence of some of the breakout fighters of the year in Sanny Dahlbeck and the aforementioned Kiria. Nieky Holzken vs. Alex Harris was another great fight with a great finish. Overall it was just a great event from top to bottom.
Honorable mentions: It's Showtime 54/55 (January 28), It's Showtime 57/58 (June 30)
Prospect of the Year
I was hesitant to proclaim Roman Mailov as the prospect of the year because he has two really tough fights coming up that I think he might lose but nevertheless, Mailov is the definition of a prospect that was built up really well in 2012. His year started in March where he had his first fight at 70kg, moving up from his previous weight of 63.5-65kg. He kept winning while gradually increasing the level of competition in front of him. Overall, he went 9-0 in 2012 and was signed to GLORY by the end of the year. Like I mentioned before, he has some very tough fights coming up (Yuta Kubo on January 14) where he's being thrown into deep waters, but in 2012 I don't think there was another fighter who was built up so well.
Honorable mentions: Alim Nabiev, Vitaly Lisnyak


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Emma Roberts enjoys vintage fashion and visiting the Louvre.
Emma Roberts resents having to diet in order to fit Hollywood beauty ideals, but not enough to stop doing it.
Emma Roberts has a complicated relationship with food.
Emma Roberts appreciates "man repeller" styles of clothing.
Emma Roberts likes Lauren Conrad's rainbow dye job from last year, and might just try it on herself.
Emma Roberts enjoys vintage fashion and visiting the Louvre.
Emma Roberts wants this hair.
Emma Roberts would like to be respected for playing quirky, comedic roles that do not rely solely on her good looks, like Kristen Wiig.
Caption: "My idol looking #chic as usual @gwynethpaltrow"
Emma Roberts is somewhat off the mark in her attempts to emulate Gwyneth Paltrow.
Emma Roberts is somewhat susceptible to poorly conceived "D.I.Y." projects.
Emma Roberts often gets lost.


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Let's just call him our QB. Seriously he doesn't need a nickname.
Nicknames just come, you can't force them. The players will probably develop one for him.
Just Win Dolphins!
The Surgeon, thats what he was going to school for
Just beat those Stinking JETS
His nickname is the future is and always will be.
He doesn't really need a nickname right now. I'll just stick to Tanne and Tannehill.
Anything is probably better than that "Sho Nuff" name that Omar was spewing.....


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"How to Build Your Business with Internet Marketing Tools" topic of Women Business Owners Roundtable
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The roundtable will include two discussions, beginning with "Expanding Your Business Horizons," presented by Lisa Wise, director of the Broome County Public Library. Wise will discuss making business contacts, knowing your competition and researching your market with "ReferenceUSA." Cheryl DeVoe of Windy Mountain Graphics will present the second discussion. The topic is "The Why and the How of Your Small Business Website" and will discuss the benefits of a website for a business.
The roundtable costs $10 a person payable at the door and includes an improved continental breakfast. Attendees are encouraged to bring business cards and brochures to share.
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GEOL 480 - Special Studies Field Problems
Selected detailed geologic problems under the guidance of a qualified instructor. Prerequisite: permission of the department chairperson. A total of 6 hours of credit may be earned, but no more than 3 in any one semester or term.
College: Sciences and Humanities
Hours: 1-3
Permission: Y
Co-requisite: none
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Mostly dry today and tomorrow, some rain likely on Sunday.
There will be some bright or sunny spells today and it will be dry for most of us, though there is also a chance of a few showers. Feeling a little milder than of late with light winds. Maximum Temperature 14 °C.
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Breezy on Sunday with rain arriving from the southwest, this will clear to the northeast by Monday though further rain may arrive from the west later on Tuesday.
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Mostly dry today and tomorrow, some rain by Sunday.
A largely dry day with light winds and some bright or sunny spells. There will be a few light showers at times, these are most likely in the west and along North Sea coasts where it will feel chilly.
It will remain mainly dry overnight but there is the risk of the odd shower, mainly in the north and west. A slightly milder night with little frost.
Another largely dry day with some bright or sunny spells though with a continuing risk of some showers, mainly in the north. Generally milder but breezy across the far west.
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Breezy on Sunday with rain in the southwest travelling northeastwards to affect the northeast by Monday. This will clear away on Monday though some rain may arrive later on Tuesday.
Updated at: 0405 on Fri 28 Apr 2017
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UK Outlook for Tuesday 2 May 2017 to Thursday 11 May 2017:
Any showers on Tuesday should become lighter for many, but some may linger in the south east. Elsewhere it will be largely dry and bright, with some sunshine. Wednesday is likely to be dry with some sunshine for many, and temperatures next week are expected to be around average for early May, meaning we will lose the risk of overnight frosts. Then from Thursday onwards we are likely to see high pressure dominate. Easterly winds will develop, with largely dry and settled weather prevailing, and increasing amounts of sunshine. The settled weather is also likely to bring temperatures slightly above average, especially during the sunnier interludes, but it will feel cooler along eastern coasts, and there will be the risk of sea fog at times here too.
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Heading into the middle of May, continued dry and settled weather remains most probable. There may however be some occasional wetter interludes though, with the south most likely to see these. Temperatures are likely to remain above average for the time of year, and they will possibly become very warm at times. It will also continue to be drier than average.
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Letterwinners on spring sports teams at Hope College have been announced by athletic director Ray Smith and senior women's administrator Eva Folkert.
The spring season culminated a successful year of intercollegiate athletics as Hope College won the Commissioner's Cup for having the best cumulative men's and women's program in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). Hope also finished first in the MIAA men's and second in the MIAA women's all-sports standings.
It marked the 26th time in school history that Hope has won the coveted MIAA Commissioner's Cup, the most of any member school.
Thirteen athletes lettered all four years in their respective spring sport. They were: Kenneth Bart of Jenison (baseball), Deanna Clouse of Jackson (women's tennis), Erik Frost of Midland (men's tennis), Martha Graham of Midland (women's track), Kelly Kraft of Brown City, (softball), Justin Kribs of Jenison (baseball), Eric MacKenzie of Alpena (baseball), Allison Miller of Hopkins (softball), Kyle Morrison of Niles (men's track), L. Aaron Quimby of Quincy (baseball), Joel Teft of Grand Rapids (men's track), Kara VanAssen of Jenison (women's track), Christiana Watkin of Holland (women's track).
2004 Baseball Letterwinners
Player Yr. Hometown High School Kenny Bart**** Sr. Jenison Jenison Mike Billingsley*** So. Birmingham Birmingham Seaholm Brian Blanchard* Jr. Battle Creek Lakeview Nathan Brandsen** So. Holland Holland Christian Aaron Clark* Fr. Holland Holland Kurtis DeHorn* Fr. Allendale Allendale Jon Deming** Jr. Portage Portage Northern Jon Edmondson** So. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central Colin Fry* Fr. St. Joseph St. Joseph Dana Glass* So. Hudsonville Hudsonville Jordan Hall** So. Hudsonville Hudsonville Michael Howes** So. Alma Alma Nicholas Huizenga* Fr. Borculo Unity Christian Joshua Hundt* So. Lansing Okemos Daniel Keogh* Fr. Grosse Pt. Farms Grosse Pte. South Justin Kribs**** Sr. Jenison Jenison Bruce Lund** Jr. Reed City Reed City William Lutke* Fr. Allendale Unity Christian Eric MacKenzie Sr.**** Alpena Alpena George MacKenzie* So. Grosse Pt. Farms Grosse Pte. South Vance Nardin* Jr. Kentwood East Kenwood Anthony Pastrick* Fr. St. Joseph St. Joseph Aaron Quimby**** Sr. Quincy Quincy Michael Rodgers* Fr. Saline Saline Matt VanBeek* Fr. Hudsonville Unity Christian Michael VanderVelde* Fr. Grandville Grandville Andrew Vlasak*** Jr. Grosse Pointe Grosse Pte. South
2004 Softball Letterwinners
Player Yr. Hometown High School Emily Adams** So. Hudsonville Hudsonville Amanda Boden* So. Ithaca Ithaca Lindsay Brown* Fr. Grand Rapids Northview Lisa Burgess** Jr. Dorr Wayland Justine Campos* Fr. Holland Holland Danielle Constantin* Fr. Midland Midland Shanna Elston* So. Lambertville Emmanuel Baptist Candace Graham*** Jr. Hudsonville Hudsonville Kelsey Guisbert* So. Farmington Farmington Libby Hammon** So. Allegan Allegan Nicole Izenbaard* Fr. Kalamazoo Kalamazoo Christian Kelly Kraft**** Sr. Brown City Brown City Lauren Kucera* Fr. Dyer, Ind. Lake Central Allison Miller**** Sr. Hopkins Hopkins Kara Sayger** Sr. Rochester, Ind. Rochester Megan Sheehan*** Jr. Hudsonville Hudsonville Lauren Vande Kopple*** Jr. Rockford Rockford Ashley VanMeter*** Jr. Dansville Dansville Rebecca Whitman* So. Ludington Ludington
2004 Men's Tennis Letterwinners
Player Yr. Hometown High School Robert Dody* So. Whitehall Whitehall Kevney Dugan*** Sr. Holland, Mich. Holland Christian Erik Frost**** Sr. Midland, Mich. Midland Derek Phelan*** Sr. Warren, Mich. Warren Woods Tower Andy Phillips** So. White Pigeon Sturgis Andrew Ruemenapp** So. Petoskey Petoskey Jason Wagenmaker** Jr. Grand Haven Grand Haven
2004 Women's Tennis Letterwinners
Player Yr. Hometown High School Erin Bradley** So. Hastings Hastings Deanna Clouse**** Sr. Jackson Northwest Kortney DeVito*** Jr. Okemos Williamston Lauren Engel** So. Traverse City Central Anneliese Fox** So. Alma Alma Ashley Leary* Fr. Naperville, Ill. North Central Priya Malviya*** Jr. Holland Holland Amy Norris* Fr. Ann Arbor Pioneer Stephanie Springer*** Sr. Bloomfield Village Birmingham Seaholm Tracy Wilburn Fr. Dimondale Holt
2004 Men's Track Letterwinners
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New York City Meningitis Outbreak Hitting HIV-Infected Men
October 1, 2012
On September 27, the city's health department alerted local doctors about a deadly outbreak of bacterial meningitis among HIV-infected gay males in New York City. The outbreak has occurred over the last two years and includes a total of 12 cases and four deaths. The outbreak has recently accelerated, as four of those 12 cases were identified in the last month, during which one person died and another person was in critical condition. Investigators are trying to discover how the infection spread. The people with whom the men were in close contact have been treated with antibiotics. Bacterial meningitis can cause swelling of the membranes covering the spinal cord and brain. It is a rare disease, but people with HIV have weakened immune systems and are more susceptible to bacterial meningitis.
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I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
150 dollars for a non-armor figure?!? Sideshow has definitely lost touch with their market.
I don't know if they've "lost touch" as much as they've "caught up"....either way, it's not good news.
Sideshow has been the American distributor for higher priced sixth (& seventh) scale offerings from other companies for some time now,whose price range hovers near or above $200 each...so $150 is indeed inching closer to that.
If what Sideshow presents for this figure is what we're seeing here with this prototype (big giant "if" ...I know)....the price stings, but will be less painful, considering what the market is bearing now. Will the final figure have the same good textiles, fine cut-n-sew, sharp looking sculpt (not buried under gobs of a bad paint app), wide belt, an effective wash on the two-part boots along with good and solid interchangeable parts and well-working features ?
Hopefully the answer is a big YES on all of these. Sideshow CAN do it...the clones have gotten better with each successive release, the recent Boba Fett is a real stunner (at least I think so). Yes, Sideshow has had a fair share of flubs between proto and production, it's fair to note that both of those other companies have had their fair share of "misses" too.... Sideshow's efforts at giving some value-added additions to this release are commendable ( the light-up saber feature, the alternate portrait).
This is the one version of Kenobi I've been really waiting for (along with a Padawan Skywalker).
I used rewards points to order this (bought the price down to what these figures used to cost some years ago) and I'm hoping this figure is everything the proto is promising....
Wow, that's nutso. There's simply nothing there showing where the money is going with it, I am guessing they are trying to draw in that insanely high dollar amount through the light-up lightsaber (it is permanently attached to a swap-out forearm). This is a $75 figure that Sideshow a year ago would have punched to $90, now it's double what it should be.
The materials, paint, and sculpt don't match Hot Toys quality yet are now HT pricing, there aren't as many accessories (where are the communicator, breather, and hologram projector Qui-Gon came with? Instead we get a million generic hands). Sideshow even has a few 12" Hot Toys figures for around this price - Sucker Punch and Bruce Lee and even Spider-Man 3 and Black Widow from Avengers. There isn't a single thing on the Sideshow figure that looks up to par with HT - the sculpt isn't a home run, the paint even on the prototype looks at best ok, the outfit doesn't seem like it's tailored to the body and doesn't look like it's significantly better than the Qui-Gon one from years ago (a little better, yes, but not significantly so).
JB, you talk about what the market will bear, but compare the sales figures Sideshow had a few years ago before the insane pricejump - how fast exclusives sold through, how few non-exclusives lingered after release, and how larger the runs were - and you'll see the market isn't actually bearing these, Sideshow has driven away that market leaving a more exclusive group because they've priced themselves out of their previous market, and now they're hoping that exclusive group of a thousand or so folks will buy this because they buy everything SW.
My last Sideshow figures: Boba Fett, Cody, Battle Droids, Bly, Lando - and none of them lived up to their prototypes, usually in deco, fit-n-finish, and with Boba also cut-n-sew. I don't find that encouraging. Each one of them misses their cost-to-value ratio for me by small margins, in other words if they were cheaper I wouldn't have minded their flaws as much. 3 out of those 5 also failed QC in at least 1 area which required replacement which doesn't instill me with confidence for purchases (to be fair, my only Hot Toys purchase also had a QC failure which Sideshow replaced). As much as I like Boba, his helmet is the wrong color and the wrong sculpt for the film, his vest is too bulky to be accurate, the chest plates don't line up right on mine at least, the lower outfit doesn't have the same polish as the upper, the cape misses its sew by a small bit, and the body is sloppy - none of which I would have minded at $100 or minded as much at $125, but instead he's $175 and they pretend to justify it with a light-up base nobody wanted... AND mine had a QC issue to boot, it doesn't mean he's terrible but I have a hard time feeling giddy too. I'm confident if I ordered this Obi-Wan it'd have mediocre paint on the hairline at the very least, and I can't say if it happened to anybody else here they'd be surprised.
Anyway, I just find this so frustrating. I want to be on board, but there isn't any way I can justify this purchase.
I bought Qui-Gon new for 50 dollars. That would mean the light up lightsaber arm is worth 100 dollars, which I doubt. Even if figure in a gasoline inflation rate (200%), The figure would still be under $100. This to me, is a company that found a market that it can exploit.
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-
The Snowtrooper is $150, the Tusken is $125, how exactly is this figure better than those? This figure uses a buck body, has no armor, relatively simple outfit even if it is in 3 layers, generic hands, almost no accessories. I can understand some level of inflation, but this is 3 times the price of the first Sideshow Jedi figures from 7 years ago.
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.
Well, the Tusken and bossk are the last figures I'm buying. This has gotten ridiculous. The figures aren't selling well (except ganch) and the bottom line is I purchase these items as an investment. There is no point in buying something that doesn't gain value. Facebook is a better play at his point. I exaggerate of course.
I don't want to tear down Sideshow, I just want to understand what's going on and why they think I should be paying that much. I've been with them since day 1 of the SW license, and now here we are triple that range with less to show for it. I don't want the Snowtrooper to be my last figure, but they already priced me 90% out of the line and each figure is a friggin' struggle - naturally each figure also comes RIGHT when it's least convenient (2 days before Comic-Con, a week before Xmas, etc.,).
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.
I just got an email today about Bacara and Boba Fett and Fox being in stock, so that does help your point. A few years ago, Boba Fett would have sold through in a matter of days for the non-SE, and SEs would be gone in minutes.
I can't imagine selling my collection, but you make a good point - what happens when we're done with these? What did they cost us to keep around while we're enjoying them?
I'm still with Sideshow, but I can see the end of the road coming for my collection, it does seem like this Obi-Wan figure suggests there's no room for collectors with my level of passion yet who aren't wealthy.
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.


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Weather helps firefighters make gains near Yosemite
Yosemite National Park, CA - With the help of cooler temperatures and higher humidity, crews working to corral the massive wildfire on the edge of Yosemite National Park in California are hoping to make additional gains.
The fire is now 60 percent contained, up from 45 percent last night. After growing by another nine square miles, the blaze covers more than 357 square miles.
Full containment isn't expected for two and a-half more weeks.
A state fire spokesman says there's a "nice window" of "more cooperative weather." But he says gusty winds and dryer conditions are expected in the middle of the week, again raising the fire danger.
The fourth largest fire in California history has claimed 111 structures, including 11 homes.


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Reality Check: Ad Takes Aim At Walker On Pension Funds
City Of Milwaukee, County Faced Different Pension Dilemmas
MADISON, Wis. - In this We the People Fact Finder report, WISC-TV looks at a question one viewer had after seeing a recent ad about Republican candidate for governor Scott Walker and pension funds.
Pat Gilbert of Madison asked: "Did Scott Walker borrow $400 million to correct a problem with pension funds?"
The city of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County had two very different pension dilemmas, but an ad from Democrat Tom Barrett, who is Milwaukee's mayor, leads viewers to think the dilemmas are the same, WISC-TV reported.
"Under Tom Barrett, the city of Milwaukee met the crisis head on, and Barrett used smart budget cuts to help solve the problem," says the ad.
A WISC-TV analysis found this needs clarification.
The city of Milwaukee's pension issues last year amounted to a $49 million shortfall in the pension fund following the 2008 drops in the stock market. Milwaukee County's gap was 20 times that.
Barrett did make cuts rather than borrow money to balance the city budget, but he also raised the tax levy about 4 percent to cover the shortfall, WISC-TV reported.
"In Milwaukee County, Scott Walker borrowed $400 million, and passed the pension debt onto the next generation," says the ad.
A WISC-TV analysis found this also needs clarification.
It's true that Walker, who is the Milwaukee County executive, was supportive of a move by Milwaukee County to issue $400 million in pension obligation bonds to help cover a nearly $1 billion long-term shortfall in the pension fund.
What does that mean? Essentially the county borrows money at a low interest rate, invests it at a higher interest rate and hopes to profit. That of course is all dependent on the market.
In this case, $400 million was borrowed at about a 6 percent interest rate, then put into the pension fund, where the assumed rate of return is 8 percent. That 2 percent difference goes to increase the pension fund as well.
Walker called it a cost-savings move, saying in the long run it could make the county $237 million over 35 years. But it's risky considering market fluctuations, WISC-TV reported.
Last year, the pension fund made 22 percent, according to the county budget director, and this year it's likely to be only 1 or 2 percent.
To further compare, the city of Milwaukee's pension fund is now more than 100 percent funded. Milwaukee County's, while making strides, is only about 93 percent funded.
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You can't plan for what you don't have and expecting our batsmen to grit it out on the first morning of a test in conditions that might offer something to the bowlers was doing just that.
Brendon McCullum's decision to bat first, a decision that ultimately doomed the Black Caps, was founded on an unrealistic belief in what his team was capable of.
It was a decision that reflected the way he has conducted his career and why he has been dogged by inconsistent results.
You simply can't play cricket that is unsustainable and expect to gain consistency in the long run. You will be consistent all right - consistently inconsistent, which sums up our team and McCullum.
Positivism is fine. Dare to dream big - yes, I get all that. But overconfidence is not being positive; overconfidence is just plain dumb. A good dose of realism is what this team and its leader needs right now. Hopefully the past few days have drummed that home.
Perhaps some good other test teams could have made it work, batting first and aiming to win by bowling last on a dry, up and down pitch. However, this team is not one of them and is not geared up for that style of play.
There is no harm in acknowledging that.
It is not negative to acknowledge that you lack skills in one department, so maybe your best chance to avoid exposing your weakness is to emphasise another department, even if that means going against the norm. It's called playing to your strengths.
However, you must always be looking to improve your weaknesses so you can expand your game planning ability. For our team, that means the top order has got to tighten up their defensive work.
They still fail to move their feet appropriately, play with hard hands and defend too wide. But they know that, don't they? So why is it taking so long? The answer to that lies in how much time they can put into improving their test games. 'Not enough' is the answer to that.
It takes months to change a technical flaw and not months of playing; it takes months of training to drill the right habits before they will hold up under match pressure. Our top order don't get that time under the congested schedule that sees them playing Twenty20 series and tournaments at every opportunity.
A practice game and, if they are lucky, a couple of first-class games are not going to change the techniques and approaches that have been letting them down for many years now.
Therein lies the challenge for New Zealand Cricket if they are serious about improving our test fortunes. It's worth doing because test cricket is not going away any time soon and there is the opportunity to go up the rankings because we aren't the only nation whose test game has been badly affected by the money of T20.
Somehow New Zealand Cricket has to find six batsmen who can devote enough time to developing and maintaining techniques and approaches that will be sustainable at test level.


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Found the Teebo wave this morning at the Zumbehl Wal*Mart in St. Charles. They only received one case, so I picked one set up for myself and another set for someone local. I am waiting to here from him, so if he does not want them I will put them up for grabs! That left two of each fig on the shelf, although the card was creased on one of the reamaining Teebo figures
I saw another interesting thing while I was there. There was a pallet of Lego's sitting in the aisle with several marked "Star Wars - Do not stock any earlier than April 23". They did not have any other markings besides that, so who knows what was in them. Obviously they were EPII items though!!! They were taking them back to a holding area as I was leaving. I have a feeling the backrooms of some of these stores are starting to get some great things!


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Scholars to discuss writing in the arts
Posted February 11, 2008; 11:32 a.m.
Five distinguished scholars from universities in Europe and the United States will lead sessions addressing various theoretical, historical and technical questions raised by forms of writing in the arts at a symposium on Friday, Feb. 15, in 106 McCormick.
The event, titled "Notations: Writing in the Arts," will cover topics including architecture, painting, music, dance and poetry. Sessions will run from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Speaking will be: Mario Carpo of Yale University/ Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-La Villette; Thomas Schestag of Johns Hopkins University; André Lepecki of New York University; Agathe Sultan of the Université de Bordeaux; and Peter Szendy of the Université de Paris X.
The symposium, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Gauss Seminars in Criticism.


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What the next year will bring in Atherton
Original post made by Nostradamus, Atherton: other, on Nov 6, 2012
1. The parcel tax for Atherton residents goes up to over $3,000 per year.
2. Police Chief Ed Flint "retires" (actually is fired). He is replaced with Sherman Hall IV, the son of "Sherman III" who is a leader in the Wiest and "No on F" movements.
3. Atherton withdraws from the library JPA and takes the library money to give to the new police station/cops.
4. Atherton cops are the only police officers in California who have not had to give any salary, pension, or benefit concessions. This all ties into #1.
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a resident of Atherton: other
on Nov 6, 2012 at 9:23 am
Now if Denise Kupperman wins:
1. Parcel taxes do not go up, and possibly go down.
2. Police Chief Ed Flint stays on to clean up the police department. The two prime movers behind the APOA PAC, Mattes and Metzger, are no longer with the police department.
3. Yay or nay on F, the library money stays with the library, and is not given to cops. If Lewis and Fisher are correct, and private money is at the ready to build a new town center, it is built.
4. Police make required concessions so Atherton's budget stays balanced without raising parcel taxes. Cops grumble, but none leave other than the ones who are forced to by Flint. Since every other community in California has reduced police costs during the Great Recession, cops have no where to go to get more money (the fictional argument they have created against balancing Atherton's budget).
Which looks better to you?
a resident of Atherton: other
on Nov 8, 2012 at 10:42 am
You did not even mention Greg Conlon.
What you are stating is that you believe Widmer and Dobbie need one more vote to push big cuts on the police.
Kupperman was not disclosing that she would be the third vote for Widmer and Dobbie. Maybe the lack of disclosure of her views hurt her.
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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of disk drive maker Seagate Technology (STX) are up $1.05, or 2.5%, at $43.23, after Deutsche Bank's Sherri Scribner raised her rating on the stock to Buy from Hold today, and raised her price target to $46 from $40, writing that current valuation offers "an attractive entry point."
Scribner already has a Buy ration on Western Digital (WDC) shares, and a $72 price target.
Despite a "dismal PC market," and projected hard drive shipment declines, the industry is defending margins, she observes, while the stock valuation is below historical norms:
While we admit HDD unit growth is unlikely to return to past growth levels, we expect the industry to begin to see low-single digit unit growth beginning in C2H-13. We believe this growth will come from more profitable near-line and enterprise drives, helping HDD companies grow revenue and earnings despite lower volumes. With only 2 companies having a significant ability to change prices, we expect more modest price declines going forward, helping profitability […] The historical average price-to-earnings ratio for HDD companies is 10x forward earnings, and Seagate and Western Digital are currently trading below this at 7x our FY-14 estimates. In recent years, the industry has traded below past historical averages due to concerns about SSD [solid-state drive] cannibalization. With the industry now consolidated and focusing on profitability as well as shareholder returns, we expect multiples to expand for the HDD names, eventually returning to past levels as the industry starts to see unit growth again. We expect the positive mix shift to higher- margin enterprise drives to offset slower PC demand, and expect HDD unit growth to resume at low-single digit levels staring in C2H-13. With shares trading below historical P/E multiples we see upside to the shares.
Western Digital stock today is up $2.05, or 3.4%, at $62.45.
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That's not an error message, that is a normal message after a successful compilation.
Can you please tell me how you created an new tab, because I can't find the button indicated in the tutorial to make a new tab.
(but then I still wonder why the tutorial doesn't show it like that).
And indeed, the .ccp file is missing.
But the pitches.h file as shown in the tutorial is not a proper library at all
As I stated, I use IDE version 1.0.4.
I don't know what you mean by "dialog",
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Ever since it's debut in late 2012, Sword Art Online quickly became one of the popular anime series of this decade. However, it has also become one of the most controversial alongside it's popularity. After some goading by my peers, I decided to give it a chance and my stand on it is..... sorta in the middle.
Story Right off the bat SAO (Sword Art Online) seems like an fresh and creative story: A VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Game) is sweeping the market, and people of varying social classes are lining up to play it. However, the game turns... See full review
Overview After the critical success of Street Fighter II: The Movie, the producers from Nakamura Animation must have felt it was imperative that they make an animated feature (or it's a two-piece OVA if you go by the subs) based on yet another popular fighting game franchise and that is Tekken. One time when I had encountered this little piece and considering I'm somewhat of a Tekken fan, I held some high expections but boy did it fail to live up to them and more! Story Apparently, this feature is based on the first two games... See full review
Ranma 1/2 is an anime that any worshipper of classic anime should at least know off, it was one of many anime titles that help to boost the popularity of anime in the 90's, and for fans of the harem genre, it is very important due to defining the "lovers in denial" storytelling portion of it. Story
The story of Ranma 1/2 revolves around a 16-year-old boy named Ranma Saotome, who is raised to be a man among men, forced into marriage with a girl of the same age named Akame Tendo, youngest daughter of Soun Tendo, by a deal shared between the fathers of both (Genma... See full review
Much earlier this year, I wrote a review on Elfen Lied but I didn't like the result so I scrapped it. My opinion was forced and I left out a lot of techanical details. Elfen Lied was an anime that was glorified by anime fans everywhere, many of those who rate it as one of the best anime ever made, rating above true masterpieces such as Cowboy Bebop even. After hearing those ludicrous acclaims, I watched the show for my self and put aside what everyone else says about it. STORY The story in Elfen Lied isn't really much brag about, it tries desperately hard at being a deep... See full review


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Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
The perfect ending to a meal is a homemade warm fruit crisp topped with a dollop of whipped cream. Spring rhubarb and strawberries are the perfect combination of sweet and tart and work so well together for this comforting dessert.
So many of you are asking me for rhubarb recipes, so I picked this from the archives and brought it to the top for your convenience. It's a favorite of mine and perfect for this time of year!
Since making Strawberry Rhubarb Compote a few weeks back I've been craving some type of Strawberry Rhubarb cobbler or crisp and the latter won. I can't pass up rhubarb whenever I see it in the farmer's market and lately it's been showing up more frequently in my local supermarket.
I've yet to figure out how to make the perfect low fat whipped cream from scratch, but I found this all natural whipped topping at my organic market called truwhip, with no high fructose corn syrup, no hydrogenated oil, and it's delicious! Their website has a store finder to locate it at a store near you.
If whipped cream is not your thing, I also LOVE eating this with a scoop of frozen yogurt, yum!!
Calories: 219.1 • Fat: 7 g • Protein: 3 g • Carb: 38.4 g • Fiber: 3.8 g • Sugar: 23.9 g
Sodium 2.8 mg
- 1 lb strawberries, hulled and quartered
- 1 lb rhubarb stalks (about 5 or 6) cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1/2 orange, zested and juiced
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1/4 cup agave nectar or honey
- 1 cup Quaker quick oats
- 1/2 cup 100% white whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar, not packed
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Combine strawberries and rhubarb in an oven safe dish.
Add agave nectar (or honey)…
Then orange juice and orange zest; sprinkle with cornstarch and toss until fruit is well coated.
Mix remaining ingredients for the topping in a medium bowl then spread over fruit.
Bake until topping is golden brown and fruit is bubbling, about 40 minutes.
Serve with a scoop of fat free frozen yogurt or a dallop of whipped cream and enjoy!!


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I hope raph is behind this knowledge graph launch as well.
Another interesting discovery today is this debate between a linguistic ex-missionary field worker vs. towering intellectual giant on their long stretched battle about recursion & culture-language connection and universal grammar of happiness. I'll give a re-write when I sip through my own factual findings and faith initiatives.


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quote: Josh McNeil is one of the top prospects in America and has over 40 scholarship offers. On Thursday night, McNeil trimmed his list to five schools. "Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Florida, and Miami are my final five schools," said Josh McNeil (6'5/240). McNeil will visit Alabama this Saturday and Sunday. On Monday, he will head to Georgia. He will also visit the school that offered him tonight very soon. "I just confirmed I will be taking a visit to LSU with Lewis Neal (6'2/235) when he goes on June 23," he said.
o any of you keeping up with Eddie Vanderdoes? Dude is a monster..6'4 302 Ib defensive end from California who says he has relatives in BR/Louisiana and could see himself here
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I kept coming back to this thread and counting every time.
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Binghamton University hosts annual holiday drives for families in need
BINGHAMTON, NY -- Binghamton University students, faculty and staff aim to bring joy to the lives of needy families though various holiday drives scheduled for the coming weeks.
Binghamton University President Lois B. DeFleur and Binghamton Mayor Matthew Ryan will be on hand for the 19th annual Student Association holiday drive to be held at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, December 10, in the Susquehanna Room of the University Union. Hundreds of gifts ranging from toys to clothing to food certificates will be collected and distributed to over 100 individuals in the Binghamton School District. Tables will be set up to sort the gifts, which will then be transported to the schools and distributed to the families.
As part of the annual Hard to Heart Holiday Project, thousands of donated items will be sorted into more than 1,200 gift bags starting at 9 a.m. Monday, December 15, in the basement lounge of O'Connor Hall located in the Dickinson community. Once the bags are sorted they will be delivered to the Salvation Army and the Children's Home for distribution. Each year Residential Life and the National Resident Hall Honorary team up with the Salvation Army and the Children's Home to make the holiday season a little brighter for needy Binghamton-area children.
At the University Downtown Center the Masters in Social Work (MSW) Student Organization has joined with the Broome County Youth Bureau to sponsor an Angel Tree Holiday gift drive. A Christmas tree adorned with tags containing gift ideas has been placed in the reception area of the Department of Social Work located in room 312. Individuals are invited to take a tag and donate a gift. The deadline to drop off the gifts is 3 p.m. Friday, December 12.
Physical Facilities and Parking Services are also supporting Toys for Tots and the entire campus is supporting Chow through donations of food. Collection barrels will be placed throughout campus during the weeks of December 8 and 15.


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I wish you all my best wishes for this new year.
I hope 2013 will be as exciting as 2012 for the MySQL community.
Thank you for spending time on MySQL[Plus] in 2012, I hope to have more and more readers in 2013.
If you would like to read (or read back) my posts published in 2012, here is the summary :
- How to quickly identify queries with pt-query-digest and pt-query-advisor from rules?
- A (little) MySQL bug story…
- Temporary file behavior… (and how lsof save my life)
- How to exclude a database from your dump with ZRM
- RainGauge, the new killer tool?
- Few words about pt-archiver
- What's up with the advice tools?
- Covering or not covering, that is the question
- MySQL 101 : Numeric type attributes and maximum value
And all the most useful slides of 2012 are also on [Plus] : http://www.mysqlplus.net/mysql-docs/
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CHAPTER XIII.page: 219
A DAY or two after Noël came back from Hastings there was snow; it was jolly. And we cleared it off the path. A man to do it is sixpence at least, and you should always save when you can. A penny saved is a penny earned. And then we thought it would be nice to clear it off the top of the portico, where it lies so thick, and the edges as if they had been cut with a knife. And just as we had got out of the landing‐window on to the portico, the Water Rates came up the path with his book that he tears the thing out of that says how much you have got to pay, and the little ink‐bottle hung on to his buttonhole in case you should pay him. Father says the Water Rates is a sensible man, and knows it is always well to be prepared for whatever happens, however page: 220 unlikely. Alice said afterwards that she rather liked the Water Rates, really, and Noël said he had a face like a good vizier, or the man who rewards the honest boy for restoring the purse, but we did not think about these things at the time, and as the Water Rates came up the steps, we shovelled down a great square slab of snow like an avalanche—and it fell right on his head . Two of us thought of it at the same moment, so it was quite a large avalanche. And when the Water Rates had shaken himself he rang the bell. It was Saturday, and Father was at home. We know now that it is very wrong and ungentlemanly to shovel snow off porticoes on to the Water Rates, or any other person, and we hope he did not catch a cold, and we are very sorry. We apologized to the Water Rates when Father told us to. We were all sent to bed for it.
We all deserved the punishment, because the others would have shovelled down snow just as we did if they'd thought of it—only they are not so quick at thinking of things as we are. And even quite wrong things sometimes lead to adventures; as every one knows who has ever read about pirates or highwaymen.page: 221
Eliza hates us to be sent to bed early, because it means her having to bring meals up, and it means lighting the fire in Noël's room ever so much earlier than usual. He had to have a fire because he still had a bit of a cold. But this particular day we got Eliza into a good temper by giving her a horrid brooch with pretending amethysts in it, that an aunt once gave to Alice, so Eliza brought up an extra scuttle of coals, and when the greengrocer came with the potatoes (he is always late on Saturdays) she got some chestnuts from him. So that when we heard Father go out after his dinner, there was a jolly fire in Noël's room, and we were able to go in and be Red Indians in blankets most comfortably. Eliza had gone out; she says she gets things cheaper on Saturday nights. She has a great friend, who sells fish at a shop, and he is very generous, and lets her have herrings for less than half the natural price.
So we were all alone in the house; Pincher was out with Eliza, and we talked about robbers. And Dora thought it would be a dreadful trade, but Dicky said—
"I think it would be very interesting. And you would only rob rich people, and be very generous to the poor and needy, like Claude Duval."page: 222
Dora said, "It is wrong to be a robber."
"Yes," said Alice, "you would never know a happy hour. Think of trying to sleep with the stolen jewels under your bed, and remembering all the quantities of policemen and detectives that there are in the world!"
"There are ways of being robbers that are not wrong," said Noël; "if you can rob a robber it is a right act."
"But you can't," said Dora; "he is too clever, and besides, it's wrong anyway."
"Yes you can, and it isn't; and murdering him with boiling oil is a right act, too, so there!" said Noël. "What about Ali Baba? Now then!" And we felt it was a score for Noël.
"What would you do if there was a robber?" said Alice.
H.O. said he would kill him with boiling oil; but Alice explained that she meant a real robber—now—this minute—in the house.
Oswald and Dicky did not say; but Noël said he thought it would only be fair to ask the robber quite politely and quietly to go away, and then if he didn't you could deal with him.
Now what I am going to tell you is a very strange and wonderful thing, and I hope you page: 223 will be able to believe it. I should not, if a boy told me, unless I knew him to be a man of honour, and perhaps not then unless he gave his sacred word. But it is true, all the same, and it only shows that the days of romance and daring deeds are not yet at an end.
Alice was just asking Noël how he would deal with the robber who wouldn't go if he was asked politely and quietly, when we heard a noise downstairs—quite a plain noise, not the kind of noise you fancy you hear. It was like somebody moving a chair. We held our breath and listened—and then came another noise, like some one poking a fire. Now, you remember there was no one to poke a fire or move a chair downstairs, because Eliza and Father were both out. They could not have come in without our hearing them, because the front door is as hard to shut as the back one, and whichever you go in by you have to give a slam that you can hear all down the street.
H.O. and Alice and Dora caught hold of each other's blankets and looked at Dicky and Oswald, and every one was quite pale. And Noël whispered—
"It's ghosts, I know it is"—and then we page: 224 listened again, but there was no more noise. Presently Dora said in a whisper—
"Whatever shall we do? Oh, whatever shall we do—what shall we do?"
And she kept on saying it till we had to tell her to shut up.
O reader, have you ever been playing Red Indians in blankets round a bedroom fire in a house where you thought there was no one but you—and then suddenly heard a noise like a chair, and a fire being poked, downstairs? Unless you have you will not be able to imagine at all what it feels like. It was not like in books; our hair did not stand on end at all, and we never said "Hist!" once, but our feet got very cold, though we were in blankets by the fire, and the insides of Oswald's hands got warm and wet, and his nose was cold like a dog's, and his ears were burning hot.
The girls said afterwards that they shivered with terror, and their teeth chattered, but we did not see or hear this at the time.
"Shall we open the window and call police?" said Dora; and then Oswald suddenly thought of something, and he breathed more freely and he said—
"I know it's not ghosts, and I don't believe page: 225 it's robbers. I expect it's a stray cat got in when the coals came this morning, and she's been hiding in the cellar, and now she's moving about. Let's go down and see."
The girls wouldn't, of course; but I could see that they breathed more freely too. But Dicky said, "All right; I will if you will."
H.O. said, "Do you think it's really a cat?" So we said he had better stay with the girls. And of course after that we had to let him and Alice both come. Dora said if we took Noël down with his cold, she would scream "Fire!" and "Murder!" and she didn't mind if the whole street heard.
So Noël agreed to be getting his clothes on, and the rest of us said we would go down and look for the cat.
Now Oswald said that about the cat, and it made it easier to go down, but in his inside he did not feel at all sure that it might not be robbers after all. Of course, we had often talked about robbers before, but it is very different when you sit in a room and listen and listen and listen; and Oswald felt somehow that it would be easier to go down and see what it was, than to wait, and listen, and wait, and wait, and listen, and wait, and then perhaps to hear It, whatever it was, come page: 226 creeping slowly up the stairs as softly as It could with Its boots off, and the stairs creaking, towards the room where we were with the door open in case of Eliza coming back suddenly, and all dark on the landings. And then it would have been just as bad, and it would have lasted longer, and you would have known you were a coward besides. Dicky says he felt all these same things. Many people would say we were young heroes to go down as we did; so I have tried to explain, because no young hero wishes to have more credit than he deserves.
The landing gas was turned down low—just a blue bead—and we four went out very softly, wrapped in our blankets, and we stood on the top of the stairs a good long time before we began to go down. And we listened and listened till our ears buzzed.
And Oswald whispered to Dicky, and Dicky went into our room and fetched the large toy pistol that is a foot long, and that has the trigger broken, and I took it because I am the eldest; and I don't think either of us thought it was the cat now. But Alice and H.O. did. Dicky got the poker out of Noël's room, and told Dora it was to settle the cat with when we caught her.page: 227
Then Oswald whispered, "Let's play at burglars; Dicky and I are armed to the teeth, we will go first. You keep a flight behind us, and be a reinforcement if we are attacked. Or you can retreat and defend the women and children in the fortress, if you'd rather."
But they said they would be a reinforcement.
Oswald's teeth chattered a little when he spoke. It is not with anything else except cold.
So Dicky and Oswald crept down, and when we got to the bottom of the stairs, we saw Father's study door just ajar, and the crack of light. And Oswald was so pleased to see the light, knowing that burglars prefer the dark, or at any rate the dark lantern, that he felt really sure it was the cat after all, and then he thought it would be fun to make the others upstairs think it was really a robber. So he cocked the pistol—you can cock it, but it doesn't go off—and he said, "Come on, Dick!" and he rushed at the study door and burst into the room, crying, "Surrender! you are discovered! Surrender, or I fire! Throw up your hands!"
And, as he finished saying it, he saw before page: 228 him, standing on the study hearthrug, a Real Robber. There was no mistake about it. Oswald was sure it was a robber, because it had a screwdriver in its hands, and was standing near the cupboard door that H.O. broke the lock off; and there were gimlets and screws and things on the floor. There is nothing in that cupboard but old ledgers and magazines and the tool chest, but of course, a robber could not know that beforehand.
When Oswald saw that there really was a robber, and that he was so heavily armed with the screwdriver, he did not feel comfortable. But he kept the pistol pointed at the robber, and—you will hardly believe it, but it is true—the robber threw down the screwdriver clattering on the other tools, and he did throw up his hands, and said—
"I surrender; don't shoot me! How many of you are there?"
So Dicky said, "You are outnumbered. Are you armed?"
And the robber said, "No, not in the least."
And Oswald said, still pointing the pistol, and feeling very strong and brave and as if he was in a book, "Turn out your pockets."
The robber did: and while he turned them page: 229 out, we looked at him. He was of the middle height, and clad in a black frock‐coat and grey trousers. His boots were a little gone at the sides, and his shirt‐cuffs were a bit frayed, but otherwise he was of gentlemanly demeanour. He had a thin, wrinkled face, with big, light eyes that sparkled, and then looked soft very queerly, and a short beard. In his youth it must have been of a fair golden colour, but now it was tinged with grey. Oswald was sorry for him, especially when he saw that one of his pockets had a large hole in it, and that he had nothing in his pockets but letters and string and three boxes of matches, and a pipe and a handkerchief and a thin tobacco pouch and two pennies. We made him put all the things on the table, and then he said—
"Well, you've caught me; what are you going to do with me? Police?"
Alice and H.O. had come down to be reinforcements, when they heard a shout, and when Alice saw that it was a Real Robber, and that he had surrendered, she clapped her hands and said, "Bravo, boys!" and so did H.O. And now she said, "If he gives his word of honour not to escape, I shouldn't call the police: it seems a pity. Wait till Father comes home."page: 230
The robber agreed to this, and gave his word of honour, and asked if he might put on a pipe, and we said "Yes," and he sat in Father's armchair and warmed his boots, which steamed, and I sent H.O. and Alice to put on some clothes and tell the others, and bring down Dicky's and my knickerbockers, and the rest of the chestnuts.
And they all came, and we sat round the fire, and it was jolly. The robber was very friendly, and talked to us a great deal.
"I wasn't always in this low way of business," he said, when Noël said something about the things he had turned out of his pockets. "It's a great come‐down to a man like me. But, if I must be caught, it's something to be caught by brave young heroes like you. My stars! How you did bolt into the room,—'Surrender, and up with your hands!' You might have been born and bred to the thief‐catching."
Oswald is sorry if it was mean, but he could not own up just then that he did not think there was any one in the study when he did that brave if rash act. He has told since.
"And what made you think there was any one in the house?" the robber asked, when page: 231 he had thrown his head back, and laughed for quite half a minute. So we told him. And he applauded our valour, and Alice and H.O. explained that they would have said "surrender," too, only they were reinforcements.
The robber ate some of the chestnuts—and we sat and wondered when Father would come home, and what he would say to us for our intrepid conduct. And the robber told us of all the things he had done before he began to break into houses. Dicky picked up the tools from the floor, and suddenly he said—
"Why, this is Father's screwdriver and his gimlets, and all! Well, I do call it jolly cheek to pick a man's locks with his own tools!"
"True, true," said the robber. "It is cheek, of the jolliest! But you see I've come down in the world. I was a highway robber once, but horses are so expensive to hire—five shillings an hour, you know—and I couldn't afford to keep them. The highwayman business isn't what it was."
"What about a bike?" said H.O.
But the robber thought cycles were low—and besides you couldn't go across country with them when occasion arose, as you could page: 232 with a trusty steed. And he talked of highwaymen as if he knew just how we liked hearing it.
Then he told us how he had been a pirate captain—and how he had sailed over waves mountains high, and gained rich prizes—and how he did begin to think that here he had found a profession to his mind.
"I don't say there are no ups and downs in it," he said, "especially in stormy weather. But what a trade! And a sword at your side, and the Jolly Roger flying at the peak, and a prize in sight. And all the black mouths of your guns pointed at the laden trader—and the wind in your favour, and your trusty crew ready to live and die for you! Oh—but it's a grand life!"
I did feel so sorry for him. He used such nice words, and he had a gentleman's voice.
"I'm sure you weren't brought up to be a pirate," said Dora. She had dressed even to her collar—and made Noël do it too—but the rest of us were in blankets with just a few odd things put on anyhow underneath.
The robber frowned and sighed.
"No," he said, "I was brought up to the law. I was at Balliol, bless your hearts, and page: 233 that's true anyway." He sighed again, and looked hard at the fire.
"That was my Father's college," H.O. was beginning, but Dicky said—
"Why did you leave off being a pirate?"
"A pirate?" he said, as if he had not been thinking of such things. "Oh, yes; why I gave it up because—because I could not get over the dreadful sea‐sickness."
"Nelson was sea‐sick," said Oswald.
"Ah," said the robber; "but I hadn't his luck or his pluck, or something. He stuck to it and won Trafalgar, didn't he? 'Kiss me, Hardy'—and all that, eh? I couldn't stick to it—I had to resign. And nobody kissed me."
I saw by his understanding about Nelson that he was really a man who had been to a good school as well as to Balliol.
Then we asked him, "And what did you do then?"
And Alice asked if he was ever a coiner, and we told him how we had thought we'd caught the desperate gang next door, and he was very much interested and said he was glad he had never taken to coining. "Besides, the coins are so ugly nowadays," he said, "no one could really find any pleasure in page: 234 making them. And it's a hole and corner business at the best, isn't it?—and it must be a very thirsty one—with the hot metal and furnaces and things."
And again he looked at the fire.
Oswald forgot for a minute that the interesting stranger was a robber, and asked him if he wouldn't have a drink. Oswald has heard Father do this to his friends, so he knows it is the right thing. The robber said he didn't mind if he did. And that is right, too.
And Dora went and got a bottle of Father's ale—the Light Sparkling Family—and a glass, and we gave it to the robber. Dora said she would be responsible.
Then when he had had a drink he told us about bandits, but he said it was so bad in wet weather. Bandits" caves were hardly ever properly weathertight. And bush‐ranging was the same.
"As a matter of fact," he said, "I was bush‐ranging this afternoon, among the furze‐bushes on the Heath, but I had no luck. I stopped the Lord Mayor in his gilt coach, with all his footmen in plush and gold lace, smart as cockatoos. But it was no go. The Lord Mayor hadn't a stiver in his pockets. page: 235 One of the footmen had six new pennies: the Lord Mayor always pays his servants" wages in new pennies. I spent fourpence of that in bread and cheese, that on the table's the tuppence. Ah, it's a poor trade!" And then he filled his pipe again.
We had turned out the gas, so that Father should have a jolly good surprise when he did come home, and we sat and talked as pleasant as could be. I never liked a new man better than I liked that robber. And I felt so sorry for him. He told us he had been a war‐correspondent and an editor, in happier days, as well as a horse‐stealer and a colonel of dragoons.
And quite suddenly, just as we were telling him about Lord Tottenham and our being highwaymen ourselves, he put up his hand and said "Shish!" and we were quiet and listened.
There was a scrape, scrape, scraping noise; it came from downstairs.
"They're filing something," whispered the robber, "here—shut up, give me that pistol, and the poker. There is a burglar now, and no mistake."
"It's only a toy one and it won't go off," I said, "but you can cock it."page: 236
Then we heard a snap.
"There goes the window bar," said the robber softly. "Jove! what an adventure! You kids stay here, I'll tackle it."
But Dicky and I said we should come. So he let us go as far as the bottom of the kitchen stairs, and we took the tongs and shovel with us. There was a light in the kitchen; a very little light. It is curious we never thought, any of us, that this might be a plant of our robber's to get away. We never thought of doubting his word of honour. And we were right.
That noble robber dashed the kitchen door open, and rushed in with the big toy pistol in one hand and the poker in the other, shouting out just like Oswald had done—
"Surrender! You are discovered! Surrender, or I'll fire! Throw up your hands!" And Dicky and I rattled the tongs and shovel so that he might know there were more of us, all bristling with weapons.
And we heard a husky voice in the kitchen saying—
"All right, governor! Stow that scent sprinkler. I'll give in. Blowed if I ain't pretty well sick of the job, anyway."
Then we went in. Our robber was standing page: 237 in the grandest manner with his legs very wide apart, and the pistol pointing at the cowering burglar. The burglar was a large man who did not mean to have a beard, I think, but he had got some of one, and a red comforter, and a fur cap, and his face was red and his voice was thick. How different from our own robber! The burglar had a dark lantern, and he was standing by the plate‐basket. When we had lit the gas we all thought he was very like what a burglar ought to be. He did not look as if he could ever have been a pirate or a highwayman, or anything really dashing or noble, and he scowled and shuffled his feet and said: "Well, go on: why don't yer fetch the pleece?"
"Upon my word, I don't know," said our robber, rubbing his chin. "Oswald, why don't we fetch the police?"
It is not every robber that I would stand Christian names from, I can tell you but just then I didn't think of that. I just said—'do you mean I'm to fetch one?"
Our robber looked at the burglar and said nothing.
Then the burglar began to speak very fast, and to look different ways with his hard, shiny little eyes.page: 238
"Lookee "ere, governor," he said, "I was stony broke, so help me, I was. And blessed if I've nicked a haporth of your little lot. You know yourself there ain't much to tempt a bloke," he shook the plate‐basket as if he was angry with it, and the yellowy spoons and forks rattled. "I was just a‐looking through this 'ere Bank‐ollerday show, when you come. Let me off, sir. Come now, I've got kids of my own at home, strike me if I ain't—same as yours—I've got a nipper just about 'is size, and what'll come of them if I'm lagged? I ain't been in it long, sir, and I ain't 'andy at it."
"No," said our robber; "you certainly are not."
Alice and the others had come down by now to see what was happening. Alice told me afterwards they thought it really was the cat this time.
"No, I ain't 'andy, as you say, sir, and if you let me off this once I'll chuck the whole blooming bizz; rake my civvy, I will. Don't be hard on a cove, mister; think of the missis and the kids. I've got one just the cut of little missy there bless 'er pretty 'eart."
"Your family certainly fits your circumstances very nicely," said our robber.page: 239
Then Alice said—
"Oh, do let him go! If he's got a little girl like me, whatever will she do? Suppose it was Father!"
"I don't think he's got a little girl like you, my dear," said our robber, "and I think he'll be safer under lock and key."
"You ask yer Father to let me go, miss," said the burglar; "'e won't 'ave the 'art to refuse you."
"If I do," said Alice, "will you promise never to come back?"
"Not me, miss," the burglar said very earnestly, and he looked at the plate‐basket again, as if that alone would be enough to keep him away, our robber said afterwards.
"And will you be good and not rob any more?" said Alice.
"I'll turn over a noo leaf, miss, so help me."
Then Alice said—
"Oh, do let him go! I'm sure he'll be good."
But our robber said no, it wouldn't be right; we must wait till Father came home.
Then H.O. said, very suddenly and plainly:
"I don't think it's at all fair, when you're a robber yourself."page: 240
The minute he'd said it the burglar said, "Kidded, by gum!"—and then our robber made a step towards him to catch hold of him, and before you had time to think "Hullo!" the burglar knocked the pistol up with one hand and knocked our robber down with the other, and was off out of the window like a shot, though Oswald and Dicky did try to stop him by holding on to his legs.
And that burglar had the cheek to put his head in at the window and say, "I'll give yer love to the kids and the missis"—and he was off like winking, and there were Alice and Dora trying to pick up our robber, and asking him whether he was hurt, and where. He wasn't hurt at all, except a lump at the back of his head. And he got up, and we dusted the kitchen floor off him. Eliza is a dirty girl.
Then he said, "Let's put up the shutters. It never rains but it pours. Now you've had two burglars I daresay you'll have twenty." So we put up the shutters, which Eliza has strict orders to do before she goes out, only she never does, and we went back to Father's study, and the robber said, "What a night we are having!" and put his boots back in the fender to go on steaming, and then we all page: 241 talked at once. It was the most wonderful adventure we ever had, though it wasn't treasure‐seeking—at least not ours. I suppose it was the burglar's treasure‐seeking, but he didn't get much—and our robber said he didn't believe a word about those kids that were so like Alice and me.
And then there was the click of the gate, and we said, "Here's Father," and the robber said, "And now for the police."
Then we all jumped up. We did like him so much, and it seemed so unfair that he should be sent to prison, and the horrid, lumping big burglar not.
And Alice said, "Oh, no—run! Dicky will let you out at the back door. Oh, do go, go now."
And we all said, "Yes, go," and pulled him towards the door, and gave him his hat and stick and the things out of his pockets.
But Father's latchkey was in the door, and it was too late.
Father came in quickly, purring with the cold, and began to say, "It's all right, Foulkes, I've got—" And then he stopped short and stared at us. Then he said, in the voice we all hate, "Children, what is the meaning of all this?"page: 242
And for a minute nobody spoke.
Then my Father said, "Foulkes, I must really apologize for these very naughty—"
And then our robber rubbed his hands and laughed, and cried out:
"You're mistaken, my dear sir, I'm not Foulkes; I'm a robber, captured by these young people in the most gallant manner. 'Hands up, surrender, or I fire,' and all the rest of it. My word, Bastable, but you've got some kids worth having! I wish my Denny had their pluck."
Then we began to understand, and it was like being knocked down, it was so sudden. And our robber told us he wasn't a robber after all. He was only an old college friend of my Father's, and he had come after dinner, when Father was just trying to mend the lock H.O. had broken, to ask Father to get him a letter to a doctor about his little boy Denny, who was ill. And Father had gone over the Heath to Vanbrugh Park to see some rich people he knows and get the letter. And he had left Mr. Foulkes to wait till he came back, because it was important to know at once whether Father could get the letter, and if he couldn't Mr. Foulkes would have had to try some one else directly.
We were dumb with amazement.page: 243
Our robber told my Father about the other burglar, and said he was sorry he'd let him escape, but my Father said, "Oh, it's all right: poor beggar; if he really had kids at home: you never can tell—forgive us our debts, don't you know; but tell me about the first business. It must have been moderately entertaining."
Then our robber told my Father how I had rushed into the room with a pistol, crying out ... but you know all about that. And he laid it on so thick and fat about plucky young uns, and chips of old blocks, and things like that, that I felt I was purple with shame, even under the blanket. So I swallowed that thing that tries to prevent you speaking when you ought to, and I said, "Look here, Father, I didn't really think there was any one in the study. We thought it was a cat at first, and then I thought there was no one there, and I was just larking. And when I said surrender and all that, it was just the game, don't you know?"
Then our robber said, "Yes, old chap; but when you found there really was someone there, you dropped the pistol and bunked, didn't you, eh?"
And I said, "No; I thought, 'Hullo! here's a robber! Well, it's all up, I suppose, page: 244 but I may as well hold on and see what happens.'"
And I was glad I'd owned up, for Father slapped me on the back, and said I was a young brick, and our robber said I was no funk anyway, and though I got very hot under the blanket I liked it, and I explained that the others would have done the same if they had thought of it.
Then Father got up some more beer, and laughed about Dora's responsibility, and he got out a box of figs he had bought for us, only he hadn't given it to us because of the Water Rates, and Eliza came in and brought up the bread and cheese, and what there was left of the neck of mutton—cold wreck of mutton, Father called it—and we had a feast—like a picnic—all sitting anywhere, and eating with our fingers. It was prime. We sat up till past twelve o'clock, and I never felt so pleased to think I was not born a girl. It was hard on the others; they would have done just the same if they'd thought of it. But it does make you feel jolly when your pater says you're a young brick!
When Mr. Foulkes was going, he said to Alice, "Good‐bye, Hardy."
And Alice understood, of course, and kissed him as hard as she could.page: 245
And she said, "I wanted to, when you said no one kissed you when you left off being a pirate."
And he said, "I know you did, my dear."
And Dora kissed him too, and said, "I suppose none of these tales were true?"
And our robber just said, "I tried to play the part properly, my dear."
And he jolly well did play it, and no mistake. We have often seen him since, and his boy Denny, and his girl Daisy, but that comes in another story.
And if any of you kids who read this ever had two such adventures in one night you can just write and tell me. That's all.


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Let's not try to define prospects using only 2 dimensions. Sure, straight line speed is a great thing, and a 40 time is a good indicator, but speed is really much more than that. Suddenness, burst, first step, explosion, acceleration, whatever you call it going from one speed (e.g. stopped or 2nd gear) and quickly kicking it up to a much faster speed is how many WR's create separation and get open deep. Someone without this burst but has a gradual build up to a top speed doesn't create much separation even if their top gear is faster. Sometimes it means they only get open deep very late in the play and can be covered by a safety over the top by that time. Patterson has tremendous burst, so even if his top speed clocks in around 4.45 instead of 4.40, he is still a dramatic deep threat.
Similaraly, lateral quickness often has little connection to vertical top speed. Some WR's can stop on a dime, and move laterally completely avoiding the tackler ala Barry Sanders. Now Patterson doesn't have Barry Sanders level ankle-breaking lateral quickness, but combine his phenomenal burst with tremendous change of direction skills, loose fluid hips, excellent vision for lanes and blocking, and a real knowledge of how to set up his blocks and willingness to use his blocking means this kid is going to be special IMHO.
I haven't seen that kind of ability in a Dolphin uniform very often. Maybe Reggie Bush has that kind of ability, but really I'm thinking about David Overstreet (RIP) and Mark Clayton type of OMFG type of dazzling, breath-taking open field style. It devestates defenses, scares safeties to death, demoralizes Defensive Coordinators, and embarasses LB's. This type of electrifying player would put butts in the seats for Ross, TD's in the stat column for Tannehill, open up running lanes for our OL, and be for our offense what Victor Cruz provides for the Giants.
I've liked Patterson since he broke into the Tennessee lineup, but I thought we would be able to get him in round 2 because he was so raw. Clearly, if we want him, we'll have to use our first rounder, and I'm on board with taking him at #12. These pass rushers really almost all had disappointing seasons leaving me with a very boom-or-bust feel for any of them available at #12, so I'm hoping we grab Patterson.


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