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Woman charged in theft from insurance agency
An Evans woman was arrested Wednesday after the president of the Augusta agency where she worked accused her of stealing cash.
Jennifer Marie Green, 33, of Pheasant Run Drive, was charged with theft by taking.
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In Cedar Ridge Elementary School's annual five-day United We Care food drive, the class that brings in the most items is treated to a free pizza party.
On Thursday morning, second-grader Kaden Mielitz ensured his classmates will be the ones chowing down.
When Mielitz, his mother Katie, school counselor Gay Tranum and four schoolmates carted $435 worth of food items from his car to the school, depositing them into their own special bins, that pretty much put the icing on the cake.
The Columbia County Fairgrounds came to life Thursday as the annual county fair began its 10-day run.
Excited families gathered in front of the gates more than an hour before the fair opened.
"I'm excited," Columbia County Merchants Asso-ciation President Richard Fender said before the opening. "I couldn't hardly sleep last night to tell you the truth."
Financial identity theft is on the rise and authorities say there's a lot residents can do to prevent becoming a victim.
Would-be thieves are trying to get money or a person's personal information to get access to their money, Columbia County sheriff's Capt. Clay Smith said.
"Do not give out any information," Smith said. "No date of birth, no Social Security number, no credit card number. ... Guard (personal information) with your life."
The owner of longtime Augusta restaurant The Cotton Patch is adding a second location in Evans.
Owner Bryan Mitchell anticipates opening the restaurant, to be named either Eli's Cotton Patch West or Eli's American Kitchen, by January across from the Evans Wal-Mart in the Shoppes at Camelot shopping center, 4446 Washington Road.
The new restaurant will retain many similar features of its riverfront counterpart, such as a casual, low-country theme, but also will allow Mitchell more space and storage to experiment with his cuisine offerings, he said.
A judge ruled Thursday to deny a new trial for Scott Dean.
The former Columbia County commissioner's adopted daughter, Silda Dean, testified at an Oct. 4 hearing that her allegations of child molestation against him were false.
But her recantation, which is considered newly discovered evidence, is not a legal cause to grant a new trial, according to the ruling from Superior Court Judge James G. Blanchard Jr.
A Martinez gas station that closed its gas pumps last week because of tainted gasoline has now stopped selling diesel fuel until the problem is fixed.
The diesel fuel pumps at the Circle K at 457 Old Evans Road were bagged and marked "out of order" Monday while waiting for state officials to approve the sale of fuel.
The problems began Oct. 23, when an A&W Oil Co. tanker driver dropped gasoline into the station's diesel tanks and diesel into the gasoline tanks, according to Rich Lewis, the Georgia Department of Agriculture Fuel and Measures Division director.
Evans Towne Center Park is going to the dogs Saturday for the annual Hounds Around Towne event.
From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, dogs and their owners will compete in the Hyperflite Skyhoundz DiscDogathon World Qualifier 2014, a canine disc competition.
Last year, the event was held in April.
"The temperature was in the 90s that day," Columbia County Community Events Specialist Virginia Atkins said. "In order to keep our doggies cool, we moved it to November."
The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff's Office incident reports:
Burglar falls through ceiling
A Martinez woman said last week that a burglar fell through her bedroom ceiling.
The 35-year-old woman said that she returned home at about 5:40 p.m. on Oct. 23 and found a hole in her bedroom ceiling. The woman said she left the back door cracked open for her dog while she was at work. Someone fell through the ceiling while walking in her attic, where $7,000 in cash was stolen.
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I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
I voted no, too much to scroll through
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I'm undecided for now, I could go either way...I have mixed feelings.
no i do not. for many, that would be far too great a power to wield and abuse
another no. the larger the sig, the less likely i am to pay attention to. images would just be more clutter to scroll through to get to the posts.
As Jax said it's just too much clutter. If this is done for some reason, I hope there would also be an option in the User CP to block them.
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It is not if you do two things
1. restrict the sizes to something normal
2. import a plugin that restricts redundant sigs from the same poster in the same page.
this could work if you give it a chance, stop being so negative.
oh and a hells yes from me!
also whats the difference if you look at a pic or read all the text currently in the sigs now?
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Ok, 1 month later, let's talk about the Doctor again...
They aired the last few eps of season 2 here in the US. "Love & Monsters" I thought was interesting but devolved into a dopey mess, and that ending was funny but kinda silly. Apparently, the villain was from a fan contest, a kid came up with the design for it, I hear it the kid was disappointed because he wanted his alien to be the size of a bus rather than a fat guy in a suit - whoops!
Then there was "Fear Her" which I think may be the worst piece of crap I've ever seen, the story was utter pap and the humor was extremely forced. Since I already knew Rose was leaving the show in the next few eps, the foreboding at the end fell flat.
Finally, Sci-Fi channel aired the 2-part season finale eps "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday" back to back, but as the first ep started they gave away the HUGE twist of the Daleks being in it!!! I was livid, that would have been such an awesome surprise at the end of part 1! I was surprised to be glad to see Mickey back, that was a good twist, and although I couldn't care less about Torchwood, this was a very entertaining episode with only a modicum of deus-ex-machina at the end. The final stuff was very touching, and then the lead-in to the Christmas Special was cute. Unfortunately, we have no idea when we'll be seeing the xmas special.
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.
the xmas special is ok. not exeptional but ties in nicely and has some nice doctor moments. the effects are patchy but when they're good they're very good. it had a few snippets of season three tagged on the end. a nice appetite whetting. It also has a very cool practical effect that surprised me.
season one of Torchwood ends this new years eve. a double episode finale. I still think it sucks. It just doesn't know what it is. it could be great but the writing and direction are flabby and weak. The acting is part pantomime and part amateur. And considering it's supposed to be an adult show it still feels like awkward doctor who mixed with saphire and steel. mixed with cop drama. it's messy and untamed. And Captain Jacks pan sexual shenanigans are a little disturbing to say the least. (I mention that only coz it's been set up in doctor who already)
it probably won't sit well with the moral high grounders of American society. However, it may appeal to viewers of the ghost whisperer and such shows where the oddity and implausibility are what attracts the viewer.
It'd be nice if they aired the special in advance of season 3, and it'd be nice if season 3 aired without the delay we've gotten in the first 2 seasons.
I don't remember anybody caring about Captain Jack's omnisexuality in his Who entries, but it wasn't the forefront of his character. I still have no interest in seeing Torchwood though, the concept feels exceptionally forced and silly and tacked-on, having Jack there might be what gets me to watch but I haven't heard much about it worth checking out and what we've seen of it in Dr Who was lame.
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.
the xmas special also explains a puzzle that remained from the previous xmas special.
about to start is the other spinoff from doctor who The Sarah Jane Adventures. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sja/ which is aimed squarely at kids.
I got the same. How is it that after all these years, Sarah Jane Smith finally gets her spinoff? Granted, the original was K-9 and Friends, but it's the same either way.
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.
something to do with a big lunch with Russel T. Davies and the producer of Dr. Who I reckon. shame about the site. maybe you could try going to the official BBC site and following links through to the doctor who site and then to the sarah jane mini site?
anyway. They've given sarah jane some kid assistants and given the show a similar atmosphere and production values as doctor who, so at least it's a step up from K9 and friends. Although it's very derivative from the clips I've seen. And no glimpse of K9. Though he's getting his own show too. albeit as a computer generated souped up version. So unless the doctor gets a new K9 that's also CGI or they do something to update the original K9's hardware, we may not see that particular version of K9 we all know and - know again.
well Torchwood finishes tomorrow i think and The sarah jane adventures starts a day later or a couple of days later. no idea when the K9 show starts though.
thinking about it, from being a lame duck consigned to the archives, Dr. Who and three spinoffs isn't bad going for a resurrection. I may hate the guy with a passion but Russel T. has definitely breathed life into the old beast again.
missed sarah jane coz i was eating my dinner but i heard it drifting through from the living room. it sounded a bit dull and the incidental music was very doctor who. but the main theme was awful. I'll try and catch the next episode for a better review.
gonna go watch the season finale of torchwood now.
Just saw the Daleks in Manhattan episode last night. The guy they met in Hooverville sounded familiar. Then it finally dawned on me that it was Captain Panaka! Indeed, the credits confirm it was Hugh Quarshie.


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What does "Simple" mean in the context of software?
A lot of computer programs, and especially many open-source applications like to boast that they are "simple". But what does it mean? Given the various applications and misapplications of this word, I can think of several meanings:
Easy to use.
Lacks complexity (whatever that means and implies).
Lacks extraneous features.
Very often, these meanings are at conflict with one another. For example, the GNOME developers have been keen on making the feature set as minimalistic (in accordance to meaning #4) as possible, which has taken the project to spiraling depths of unusability (opposing meaning #1). Furthermore, Arch Linux taglines itself as "a lightweight and flexible Linux® distribution that tries to Keep It Simple". However, during one day, I spent three incredibly vexing hours in trying to install it on a Virtual Box virtual machine, due to the installer's lack of usability, and if I had to do it on live hardware, it would have taken me much longer. You call that simple? I joked that it would take an engineering degree from a prestigious university to figure it out. I have that, but it did not help me much.
As a result, I have become incredibly suspicious and weary of any software that prides itself on its "simplicity", even though "simplicity" should be a good thing.
Bjarne Stroustrup (the creator of C++) has this to say about Java on his FAQ:
Much of the relative simplicity of Java is - like for most new languages - partly an illusion and partly a function of its incompleteness. As time passes, Java will grow significantly in size and complexity. It will double or triple in size and grow implementation-dependent extensions or libraries. That is the way every commercially successful language has developed. Just look at any language you consider successful on a large scale. I know of no exceptions, and there are good reasons for this phenomenon. [I wrote this before 2000; now (2012), the language part of the Java 7 specification is slightly longer in terms of number of pages than the ISO C++11 language specification.]
So simplicity is often a function of immaturity and incompleteness.
Of course, some things that call themselves "simple" are not simple in any of the meanings, for example SOAP, the so-called "Simple Object Access Protocol" (see the S stands for Simple), is not simple in any of the meanings I have given, but it is still called like that.
I feel that like the word "Zionism" no one is no longer sure what "simplicity" means, and as a result, some people no longer consider it a good quality to have. It's a shame, but that's life.


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It's been awhile since I've done any posting. Anyhow, I broke down and ordered the FX-7 wave from Planet Action and the figures arrived today. It only took about a week. Of course they were a few dollars more but it seems that N.Cal has become a dead zone for new stuff (with the exception of what JediBear has already mentioned).
Don't know if this has been mentioned anywhere but it seems that the new figures are being consecutively numbered. I think we've seen the end of .0000 card changes with the latest wave.
FX-7 is 0000
Amidala is 0100
Rebel Trooper is 0200
Imperial Officer is 0300
I'm interested in knowing what Zutton and Eeth Koth are numbered at (i.e. 0400 and 0500), can someone who has them let me know?


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Send him to me Randy. I'll see what I can do.
One thing I;ve done, bt not heard anyone mention:
A bark collar on during down time, so he;s not getting away with noise outside of training.
Send him to me Randy. I'll see what I can do.
One thing I;ve done, bt not heard anyone mention:
A bark collar on during down time, so he;s not getting away with noise outside of training.
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What is she noisy and crazy about ?
Discipline is no excuse for a lack of enthusiasm !!
The noise issue is pretty much gone, we worked directly on it for 5 days and 95% gone, the rest will be cleaned up down the road after dog is farther along in basics. Crazy and noisy about retrieving of course was the issue. Pup was pretty wild from the start about retrieving. I thought maybe you guys could tell me some of the things you would do if you had/have issues with your dogs. He's not going to be sold so classifieds are out, real live and true scenario here if you want to compare notes be back later..Randy
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Thanks again Randy!
As far as the answer not letting it happen in the first place is really unfair.
How are we to know if we don't know!
Following this thread closely, I'm sure Randy has a plan...........
Stan b & Elvis
First of all thanks so much for your input into this forum. Too many people answer with 'send 'em to a pro' or 'sell the dog'. These high strung dogs are like Thoroughbred race horses. People are expecting them to walk, trot and canter when all they want to do is RUN! There is a way to train them to be very good hunting and trialing dogs, but it must start very early.
My guess would be a few days of obedience only. Then start mixing in some marks thrown and only occasional ones retrieved when behavior warrants. Then probably working along side another dog or two taking turns with obedience and marking.
Now finally what is your plan for his typical workday now compared to before. Hopefully this will help all of those who have these high drive pups out there.
Tammy Bell
I use lots of OB in the presents of marks. Leave the stick and collar out of it. High and tight lead with heeling and sitting while marks are going off. Let the dog see 20+ marks during a week and retrieve maybe 1 or 2. It also helps if you dog associates something with getting to retrieve... like the beep or duck call on winger electronics. I will set up all my wingers push-pull the dog to the one I want then hit the duck call on it, if he is calm through the call, pop the mark. Even if he is calm as the mark comes out keep the lead tight and heel/sit drill away from the mat. Do this many times. The only time you want your dog excited for a mark is when you cut him loose to get it.
This is my version, very interested to hear Randy's.
Gavin B.
I have/had the same type pup. Last spring I went to a Lardy Seminar as an owner/handler primarily for line manners/noise. I can say at least for that seminar, my dog became the poster child of bad line manners. She had a huge problem with whining and even barking in the holding blind, on the way to the mat and while the birds were going down. Mike tried several things on the dog to get a handle on the noise part (she also had a creeping problem) and finally hit upon putting a bumper in her mouth from the truck all the way to being released from the mat. They can't bark or even whine very much with the bumper in the mouth. I continued that for a LONG time after the seminar until I think the dog forgot about making noise. A year later I rarely have a noise issue and if I do, a simple quiet and a nic from the collar quiets her right down. Mike also solved the creeping problem too...at a field trial last summer one of the judges mentioned to me that my dog was one of the best mannered at the trial. Thank you very much Mike Lardy!
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Joseline Hernandez is milking the rumors like a professional! The reality star whose had her gender questioned on numerous occasions decided to host a lesbian party during Atlanta's Pride Weekend.
PHOTOS: Joseline and K Michelle Party It Up!
The Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta star wore a very revealing outfit when she showed up to Traxxx nightclub and had the girls going crazy!
One young lady got in Joseline's ear and it looks like a bunch of slick talk was going on.
PHOTOS: Joseline Shows Stebbie How Much She Loves Him
Joseline is also going hard on her Pride obligations. She tweeted:
"I only party with bad bitches and they'll all be at @girlsinthenight 's Unforgettable #ATLPride party at DOA tomorrow!"
One thing is for sure, Joseline is all about that check!
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If you have followed the blog for any length of time, you know a couple "Non Scouting" things about me. First, I am a huge Football fan, and second, I can't stand the way professional athletes throw their status around and set terrible examples.
And just when you think it is safe to go back in the water… Plaxico Burress and Terrell Owens stumble back into the lime light with bone head decisions and drama. Great if that's what you want from your sports figures, but the fact that all day long sports talk radio could not seem to get off of the subject.
Last night Tim Tebow of the University of Florida restored hope when he was awarded the Maxwell award for colleges most outstanding player for the second time (only the second player in history to recieve this award twice), well deserved. But what impressed me was when he was called to the stage to receive the Disney Spirit Award. Given annually to college football's most inspirational figure. As I watched ESPN as they presented his giving attitude and how, unlike other Florida College students, Tim spent his Spring break in the Philippines on a humanitarian mission instead of partying it up on South Beach.
He truly is the kind of young man that we could use in Sports these days. I did not hear to much about that on the radio today, it seems that talking about how a bone head who shot him self in a strip club is far more interesting, and how a loud mouth, selfish receiver is unhappy with the number of catches he gets must be head line news. I won't bang on the media here, because they only air what we have told them we want to hear… but it sure would be nice to see a great story like Tebow receiving the Spirit Award.
But all was right in my little corner of America tonight. I had the privilege of attending one of my Scouts "Holiday Concerts" tonight. And No he's not my son, but I was invited to attend, so I went. This Scout just made Second Class on Sunday, a rank that really tested him and demonstrated that he was willing to do the hard work. He plays the violin in the 6th grade orchestra, and he's pretty good too. I sat with his parents and when he turned to look at them and saw me sitting there, he waved at me and smiled.
I could not help but feel pride in his accomplishments. The orchestra played a number of Christmas songs and wrapped up the show with We wish you a Merry Christmas.
After the show his parents and I met him in the lobby of the Performing Arts center. He thanked me for coming and asked if I could see him up on the stage. "Of course I did.. you did well.. I am proud of you", I said to him and thanked him for inviting me. He told me I was welcome to come to any of his concerts. I am happy that I am worthy of being a part of his life.
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You also don't need to have one processor do every thing. Use a WiFi cam mounted on the 'bot. Link the cam to the PC and have the PC do the image processing and send instructions to the 'bot. Lookup robotics - horse and rider.Mark
I am no expert at this, but the company I work for was using image processing hardware in their machines over 20 years ago(!). Isn't the Arduino (or a few of them connected together) "strong" enough to do what was done by hardware 20 years ago?
Pauses thread here for a moment and rewinds.....Is this really an image processing issue or just light following?
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I would love to join you guys BUT......I head to the Vineyard next week and have got to be careful with those chips ! Say, can we convince you to make a Monomoy pilgrimage on 6/30 ??
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Friday morning me and Roop will be down there but gone by evening. My father's day weekend has been comandeered by family obligations both days (birthdays, Christenings, etc). I don't even think I can do the CCA South Shore morning with an 11am start time on the first party.
All I can say is, it's a good thing I had my Father's Day early last weekend or I might be a bit frazzled over the amount of dress-up and don't-fish weekends lately.
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There's something cathartic about standing in moving water in the dead of night. My first fish ever on the fly rod was in the Canal near midnight. It made me want to sell my spin gear too. I think a lot of people mistake that sentiment for snobbery. It's really more an admission on my part that I suck at this (or at least I did) and that I need all the practice I can get.
Thanks for the kind words, but if you've fished with me for any length of time, you've seen some monstrously bad casts mixed in with the occasional 85 foot bomb. I have improved dramatically since last year (largely due to the writings of George Roberts). Smooth acceleration and a crisp stop makes a huge difference. I think what I lack most right now is consistency, but that will get better too, especially if I keep leaving the spin gear in the trunk.
Hey, anyone up for fishing the Cape this weekend? I'll be on Monomoy all day Sat. with my wife and son (rod stays in the car , but I have Friday or Sat. evening free.
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I guess I'll parrot what others have said.
Last night I was out on the deck enjoying the cool evening, drinking a beer, watching the moon cross the tree tops, listening to the coyotes move about, I was thinking it was a great night to be out.
I do 99% of my fishing at night due to my desire to spend as much of my free time as possible with my family. So, I wait until they're going to bed before I head out.
I think the best thing about night fishing is the quiet. And casting is definitely easier. You can't really see if you're throwing a huge loop or a taling loop. You just have to go by feel and make it work. There's more fish (other than Saturday night during the clave)and it's more peaceful.
Stripping line, I agree with John, I have found the most successful strip being a long (2 -3') slow strip produces best.
I'd love to join you guys next time you head out.
RE:In the cool of evening
Al -
I have to make a supporting comment on John's note... I watched you casting on south beach while GregO was coming over to try to get that first striper I hooked on film. I looked over at you and had to ask Greg what you had been doing to get such radical progress with your loop formation and distance.
My casting history - start as a young teen with a fiberglass rod, don't do it very well for ten years, and fish with conventional gear as a crutch. One day many years later when I have the bug bad I sell all my conventional gear at a garage sale in Seattle to finally get serious about fly fishing. Many, many years later I feel comfortable with the long wand.
You fast-trackers don't know how good you've got it!
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Congratulations on the fish ! Night fishing is a new game altogether......The largest fish I have taken have been at night on the Vineyard. Your senses really become heightned........you hear fish swirling and popping from what seems to be hundreds of yards away. One of the things I learned about night fishing and the retrieve is that in most cases, you have to use a "painfully slow" retrieve. Just when you think you cannnot go any slower, slow it down ! The rewards (as you found) can be great, though.
By the way, I do not think your casting was sucky by any stretch !!
Take care....
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Funny, I was letting the dog out last night and noticed how bright the moon was, and how a warm front seems to be settling in. Although I am quite a ways from the shoreline it felt like a good night to be fishing.
It certainly was not a good night to be watching basketball if you're a Larry Bird fan!
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Jim W, Rich D and I just got back from some night fishing down in Wareham. A perfect evening for it. No wind, not too many bugs, a bright clear sky and, best of all, cooperative fish. Black clousers and black beachglass silversides were the ticket. A slow deliberate strip produced much better results than the quick snappy strip I have a habit of making.
So much depends on your ability to feel the line and the fly at the end of it. At Monomoy I was focussed on my sucky casting and not paying enough attention to what I was doing after it. Tonight I settled down a bit and just plunked it out there and finally started fishing with a firm line, keeping contact with the fly, feeling it being pulled by eddies, bouncing off the bottom, dragging across the gravel, being picked up by fish.... and quickly dropped, being picked up by fish and -- oh! fish on. Happiness is.... I landed a few decent ones. It was a rush to say the least. I couldn't think of a better way to spend a Wednesday night (and Flag Day to boot). Thanks Jim and Rich.
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As a follow-up to what I posted the other day about Republican claims that illegals will get healthcare coverage because the healthcare reform bill does not include enforcement provisions to exclude them from buying health insurance through the exchange. As many of you know, Republicans claim that Obama lied about illegals not being covered because enforcement was left out. Here is an interesting article that I found on medicalnewstoday.com. It discussed the success of the legislation meant to keep undocumented folks from getting medicaid. It looks like one of the dumbest things we could have ever done, and now Republicans would like it expanded into the HCR bills.
link - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/77904.php
It seems that the enforcement through the SAVE program excludes those who are eligible and in the end manages to increase costs, not decrease them. So, if this is true, that I wouldn't support adding these enforcement provisions any reform bill.Think about the cost involved in checking documentation on the literally millions who could be shopping for insurance through an exchange. You could need a government department the size of the IRS. Stupid Stupid Stupid!Medicaid Proof-of-Citizenship Rules Lead To Enrollment Decline Among U.S. Residents, Not Undocumented Immigrants
New Medicaid proof-of-citizenship rules have reduced the number of beneficiaries in many states, although most of those dropped from the rolls were eligible for the program but could not provide adequate documentation, according to a Government Accountability Office report released on Monday, CQ HealthBeat reports. The GAO report also found that the rules -- initially projected to save the federal government $50 million and state governments $40 million in fiscal year 2008 -- "are likely to cost federal taxpayers significantly more than they generate in savings" because of higher administrative costs (Carey, CQ HealthBeat, 7/24).
Under the law, individuals seeking care through Medicaid must show proof of U.S. citizenship, such as a birth certificate, passport or other form of identification. The law's intent is to prevent undocumented immigrants from claiming to be citizens in order to receive benefits provided only to legal U.S. residents (Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, 6/18).
A GAO survey of 44 states showed that 22 states reported a decline in Medicaid enrollment since the rule took effect, while 12 states said enrollment has not changed and 10 did not know whether it decreased or not. According to the survey, a majority of states reporting enrollment drops attributed the declines to the exclusion of eligible beneficiaries.
State responses also indicated that federal officials underestimated the cost of implementing the new rules. GAO said that CMS officials "did not account for the increased administrative expenditures reported by the states, and the agency's estimated savings from ineligible, noncitizens no longer receiving benefits may be less than anticipated" (Freking, AP/San Francisco Chronicle, 7/24).
A separate analysis released on Tuesday by the majority staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform showed that in six states, for every $100 of federal money spent implementing the new documentation rules, the federal government saved 14 cents. In those six states, $8.3 million was spent to identify eight undocumented immigrants out of a total of 3.6 million Medicaid beneficiaries, for a savings of $11,048.


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Description Introduced. A thorny, deciduous shrub from Asia with grooved, brown to purplish-brown branches and simple, unbranched thorns; introduced as a hedge plant and considered an invasive or noxious weed in many areas.
Height: 2-8' (0.6-2.4 m).
Leaves: 1/2-1 1/2" (1.2-4 cm) long; spoon-shaped, with narrow base, wide tip; untoothed.
Flowers: creamy yellow, solitary or borne in small clusters along the stem; April-May.
Fruit: elliptical red berries, 1/2" (1.2 cm) long, in clusters.
Habitat Mainly open areas, such as pastures, open woodlands, roadsides, and wetlands, but also found in mature forests.
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Making a cheesecake can be intimidating. When is it done? Why did it crack? Can it be frozen? To understand cheesecake you must first know that it is more of a custard than a cake. Eggs play a key role in its structure. The other ingredients are important of course, but the eggs determine doneness and whether it has a surface crack. Because eggs are easy to overcook, it is important to bake the cheesecake at a low temperature and possibly in a waterbath. For the same reason, cheesecakes should be removed from the oven when they are not completely set (the residual heat will cook them through without overcooking and causing the dreaded crack). And finally, yes, cheesecakes freeze very well.
Did you take the baked cheesecake out of the refrigerator and see a big puddle of liquid on top? The worst-case scenario is that you overbaked the cake. Just like when you overcook scrammbled eggs, the protein in your cake, if overcooked, will squeeze out its water. Or it could be that you refrigerated the cheesecake to soon after puliing it from the oven and the moisture condensed on the cake top. You will know which case you are in when you cut the cake. The overcooked cake will be dry and contain small holes. The other cake will just have a soggy top. If yours was overcooked, there's not much you can do but to serve it with extra sauce and hope people don't notice. In the future, check you oven temperature and make sure it is correct.
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 1:56 PM GMT on May 31, 2010
The Eastern Pacific hurricane season of 2010 is off to a bad start. The mounting death toll from Central America's Tropical Storm Agatha has made that storm one of the top ten deadliest Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones on record. Agatha was a tropical storm for just 12 hours, making landfall Saturday on the Pacific coast of Guatemala as a 45 mph tropical storm. However, the storm brought huge amounts of moisture inland that continue to be wrung out as heavy rains by the high mountains of Guatemala and the surrounding nations of Central America. So far, flooding and landslides have killed at least 83 people in Guatemala, 13 in neighboring El Salvador, and one in Honduras. Guatemala is also suffering from the Pacaya volcano in Guatemala, which began erupting four days ago. At least three people have been killed by the volcano, located about 25 miles south of the capital, Guatemala City. The volcano has destroyed 800 homes with lava and brought moderate ash falls to the capital.
Figure 1. Flood damage in Zunil, Quetzaltenango, in Guatemala on May 29, 2010, after heavy rains from Tropical Storm Agatha. Image credit: Sergio Huertas, climaya.com
Agatha is the deadliest flooding disaster in Guatemala since Hurricane Stan of 2005, which killed 1,513. In a bizarre coincidence, that storm also featured a major volcanic eruption at the same time, when El Salvador's Santa Ana volcano blew its top during the height of Stan's rains in in that country on October 1. The eruption killed two and injured dozens, and worsened the mud flow damage from Stan's rains. The deadliest Eastern Pacific tropical cyclone on record for Guatemala was Hurricane Paul of 1982, which made landfall in Guatemala as a tropical depression. Flooding from Paul's rains killed 620 people in Guatemala.
Figure 2. Two-day rainfall totals for Central America as estimated by satellite, for the period 7pm EDT Friday May 28 - 7pm EDT Sunday May 30, 2010. Rainfall amounts of 350 mm (14 inches, orange colors) were indicated for portions of Guatemala. The Guatemala government reported that rainfall exceeded 36 inches in some regions. Image credit: Navy Research Lab, Monterey.
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Light onshore winds out of the south to southwest are expected to blow over the northern Gulf of Mexico all week, resulting increased threats of oil to the Alabama and Mississippi barrier islands, according to the latest trajectory forecasts from NOAA. These persistent southwesterly winds will likely bring oil very close to the Florida Panhandle by next weekend.
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My post on what oil might do to a hurricane
Gulf Oil Blog from the UGA Department of Marine Sciences
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Deepwater Horizon Unified Command web site
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text: Since I have seen a Dallas thread I thought I would start one. I found several Count Dookus and Yodas at the TRU at 75 and Park Ln. That was at 5:00 and I only bought one Dookua and no Yodas. The clerk was still unpacking cases when I left and had at least 3 cases of the assortment that contains Dooku. Come on Dallas collectors, help me out I NEED BESPIN LUKE/VADER.


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They conducted a prospective analysis of data from an Australian study (the Blue Mountains Eye Study) that included four examinations during a 15-year period.
Of 2,389 participants, 257 individuals (10.8 percent) were regular aspirin users. After the 15-year follow-up, 63 individuals from the 2,389 participants developed incident neovascular AMD, according to the results.
"The cumulative incidence of neovascular AMD among nonregular aspirin users was 0.8 percent at five years, 1.6 percent at 10 years, and 3.7 percent at 15 years," said the director of WMI's Centre for Vision Research, Professor Paul Mitchell.
"Among regular aspirin users, the cumulative incidence was 1.9 percent at five years, 7 percent at 10 years and 9.3 percent at 15 years, respectively, indicating that regular aspirin use is significantly associated with an increased incidence of neovascular AMD. This increase was around 2.5-fold, after accounting for potentially confounding variables."
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THE merry, spring sky was clear, save in the south where a vast perspective of dappled cloud lay against it, leaving winding rivers of blue here and there, as does ribbed sand for the incoming tide. As the white gate of the inner park—the grey, unpainted palings ranging far away to right and left—swung to behind them, and Henry, the groom, after a smart run, clambered up into his place again beside Camp on the back seat of the double dog‐cart, Richard's spirits rose. Ahead stretched out the long vista of that peculiar glory of Brockhurst, its avenue of Scotch firs. The trunks of them, rough‐barked and purple below, red, smooth, and glistering above, shot up some thirty odd feet—straight as the pillars of an ancient temple—before the branches, sweeping outward and downward, met, making a whispering, living canopy overhead, through which the sunshine fell in tremulous shafts upon the shining coats and gleaming harness of the horses, upon Ormiston's clear‐cut, bronzed face and upright figure, and upon the even, straw‐colored gravel of the road. The said road is raised by about three feet above the level of the land on either side. On the left, the self‐sown firs grow in close ranks. The ground below them is bare but for tussocks of coarse grass and ruddy beds of fallen fir page: 108 needles. On the right, the fir wood is broken by coppices of silver‐stemmed birches, and spaces of heather—which shows a purple‐brown against the grey of the reindeer moss out of which it springs. Tits swung and frolicked among the tree‐tops, and a jay flew off noisily with a flash of azure wing‐coverts and volley of harsh, discordant cries.
The rapid movement, the moist, pungent odour of the woodland, the rhythmical trot of the horses, the rattle of the splinter‐bar chains as the traces slackened going downhill, above all the presence of the man beside him, were pleasantly stimulating to Richard Calmady. The boy was still a prey to much innocent enthusiasm. It appeared to him, watching Ormiston's handling of the reins and whip, there was nothing this man could not do, and do skilfully, yet all with the same easy unconcern. Indeed the present position was so agreeable to him that Dickie's spirits would have risen to an unusual height, but for a certain chastening of the flesh in the shape of the occasional pressure of a broad strap against his middle, which brought him unwelcome remembrance of recent discoveries it was his earnest desire to ignore, still better to forget.
For just at starting there had been a rather bad moment. Winter, having settled him on the seat of the dog‐cart, was preparing to tuck him in with many rugs, when Ormiston said:—
"Look here, dear old chap, I've been thinking about this, and upon my word you don't seem to me very safe. You see this is a different matter to your donkey‐chair, or the pony‐carriage. There's no protection at the side, and if the horses shied or anything—well, you'd be in the road. And I can't afford to spill you the first time we go out together, or there'd be a speedy end of all our fun."
Richard tried to emulate his uncle's cool indifference, and take the broad strap as a matter of course. But he was glad the tongue of the buckle slipped so directly into place; and that Henry's attention was engaged with the near horse, which fretted at standing; and that Leonard, the footman, was busy making Camp jump up at the back; and that his mother, who had been watching him from the lowest of the wide steps, turned away and went up to the flight to join Julius March standing under the grey arcade. As the horses sprang forward, clattering the little pebbles of the drive against the body of the carriage, and swung away round the angle of the house, Katherine came swiftly down the steps again smiling, kissing her hand to him. Still, the strap hurt—not poor Dickie's somewhat ill‐balanced body, to which in truth it lent an agreeable sense of page: 109 security, but his, just then, all too sensitive mind. So that, notwithstanding a fine assumption of gaiety, as he kissed his hand in return, he found the dear vision of his mother somewhat blurred by foolish tears which he had resolutely to wink away.
But now that disquieting incident was left nearly ten minutes behind. The last park gate and its cluster of mellow‐tinted, thatched cottages was past. Not only out‐of‐doors and all the natural exhilaration of it, but the spectacle of the world beyond the precincts of the park—into which world he, in point of fact, so rarely penetrated—wooed him to interest and enjoyment. To Dickie, whose life through his mother's jealous tenderness and his own physical infirmity had been so singularly circumscribed, there was an element, slightly pathetic, of discovery and adventure in this ordinary, afternoon drive.
He did not want to talk. He was too busy simply seeing—everything food for those young eyes and brain so greedy of incident and of beauty. He sat upright and stared at the passing show.—At the deep lane, its banks starred with primroses growing in the hollows of the gnarled roots of oaks and ash trees. At Sandyfield rectory, deep‐roofed, bow‐windowed, the red walls and tiles of it half smothered in ivy and cotoneaster. At the low, squat‐towered, Georgian church, standing in its acre of close‐packed graveyard, which is shadowed by yew trees and by the clump of three enormous Scotch firs in the rectory garden adjoining. At the Church Farm, just beyond—a square white house, the slated roofs of it running up steeply to a central block of chimneys, it having, in consequence, somewhat the effect of a monster extinguisher. At the rows of pale, wheat stacks, raised on granite staddles; at the prosperous barns, yards, and stables, built of wood on brick foundations, that surround it, presenting a mass of rich, solid colour and of noisy, crowded, animal life. At the fields, plough and pasture, marked out by long lines of hedgerow trees, broken by coppices—these dashed with tenderest green—stretching up and back to the dark, purple‐blue range of the moorland. At scattered cottages, over the gates of whose gardens gay with daffodils and polyanthus, groups of little girls and babies, in flopping sun‐bonnets and scanty lilac pinafores, stared back at the passing carriage, and then bobbed the accustomed curtsey. In the said groups were no boys, save of infant years. The boys were away shepherding, or to plough, or bird‐minding. For as yet education was free indeed—in the sense that you were free to take it, or leave it, as suited your pocket and your fancy.page: 110
Richard stared too at the pleasant, furze‐dotted commons, spinning away to right and left as the horses trotted sharply onward—commons whereon meditative donkeys endured rather than enjoyed existence, after the manner of their kind; and prodigiously large families of yellow‐grey goslings streeled after the flocks of white geese, across spaces of fresh sprung grass around shallow ponds, in which the blue and dapple of the sky were reflected. He stared at Sandyfield village too—a straight street of detached houses, very diverse in colour and in shape, standing back, for the most part, amid small orchards and gardens that slope gently up from the brook, which last, backed, here by a row of fine elms, there by one of Lombardy poplars, borders the road. Three or four shops, modest in size as they are ambitious in the variety of objects offered for sale in them, advance their windows boldly. So does the yellow‐washed inn, the Calmady arms displayed upon its swinging sign‐board. A miller's tented waggon, all powdery with flour, and its team of six horses, brave with brass harness and bells, a timber‐carriage, and a couple of spring‐carts, were drawn up on the half‐moon of gravel before the porch; while, from out the open door, came a sound of voices and odour of many pipes and much stale beer.
And Richard had uninterrupted leisure to bestow on all this seeing, for his companion, Colonel Ormiston, was preoccupied and silent. Once or twice he looked down at the boy as though suddenly remembering his presence and inquired if he was "all right." But it was not until they had crossed the long, white‐railed bridge, at the end of Sandyfield street—which spans not only the little, brown river overhung by black‐stemmed alders, but a bit of marsh, reminiscent of the ancient ford, lush with water‐grasses, beds of king‐cups, and broad‐leaved docks—not until then, did Colonel Ormiston make sustained effort at conversation. Beyond the bridge the road forks.
"Left to Newlands, isn't it?" he asked sharply.
Then, as the carriage swept round the turn, he woke up from his long reverie, waking Richard up also, from his long dream of mere seeing, to human drama but dimly apprehended close there at his side.
"Oh, well, well!" the man exclaimed, throwing back his head in sharp impatience, as a horse will against the restraint of the bearing‐rein. He raised his eyebrows, while his lips set in a smile the reverse of gay. Then he looked down at Richard again, an unwonted softness in his expression.page: 111
"Been happy?" he said. "Enjoyed your drive? That's right. You understand the art of being really good company, Dick."
"What's that?"
"Allowing other people to be just as bad company as they like."
"I—I don't see how you could be bad company," Dickie said, flushing at the audacity of his little compliment.
"Don't you, dear old chap? Well, that's very nice of you. All the same I find, at times, I can be precious bad company to myself."
"Oh! but I don't see how," the boy argued, his enthusiasm protesting against all possibility of default in the object of it. Richard wanted to keep his hands down,—unconsciousness, if only assumed, told for personal dignity,—but, in the agitation of protest, spite of himself, he laid hold of the top edge of that same chastening strap. "It must be so awfully jolly to be like you—able to do everything and go everywhere. There must be such a lot to think about."
The softness was still upon Ormiston's face.—"Such a lot?" he said. "A jolly lot too much, believe me, very often, Dick."
He looked away up the copse‐bordered road, over the ears of the trotting horses.
"You've read the story of Blue Beard and that unpleasant locked‐up room of his, where the poor, little wives hung all of a row? Well, I'm sorry to say, Dick, most men when they come to my age have a room of that sort. It's an inhospitable place. One doesn't invite one's friends to dine and smoke there. At least no gentleman does. I've met one or two persons who set the door open and rather gloried in inviting inspection—but they were blackguards and cads. They don't count. Still each of us is obliged to go in there sometimes himself. I tell you it's anything but lively. I've been in there just now."
The dappled cloud creeping upward from the southern horizon veiled the sun, the light of which grew pale and thin. The scent of the larch wood, on the right, hung in the air. Richard's eyes were wide with inquiry. His mind suffered growing‐pains, as young minds of any intellectual and poetic worth needs must. The possibility of moral experience, incalculable in extent as that golden‐grey outspread of creeping, increasing vapour overhead, presented itself to him. The vastness of life touched him to fear. He struggled to find a limit, clothing his effort in childish realism of statement.page: 112
"But in that locked‐up room, Uncle Roger, you can't have dead women—dead wives?"
Ormiston laughed quietly.
"You hit out pretty straight from the shoulder, Master Dick," he said. "Happily I can reassure you on one point. All manner of things are hung up in there—some ugly—almost all ugly now, to my eyes, though some of them had charming ways with them once upon a time. But, I give you my word, neither ugly nor charming, dead nor alive, are there any wives."
The boy considered a moment, then said stoutly:—"I wouldn't go in there again. I'd lock the door and throw away the key."
"Wait till your time comes! You'll find that is precisely what you can't do."
"Then I'd fetch them out, once and for all, and bury them."
The carriage had turned in at the lodge gate. Soon a long, low, white house and range of domed conservatories came into view.
"Heroic remedies!" Ormiston remarked, amused at the boy's vehemence. "But no doubt they do succeed now and then. To tell you the truth, Dick, I have been thinking of something of the kind myself. Only I'm afraid I shall need somebody to help me in carrying out so extensive a funeral."
"Anybody would be glad enough to help you," Richard declared, with a strong emphasis on the pronoun.
"Ah! but the bother is anybody can't help one. Only one person in all this great rough and tumble of a world can really help one. And often one finds out who that person is a little bit too late. However, here we are. Perhaps we shall know more about it all in the next half‐hour, if these good people are at home."
In point of fact the good people in question were not at home. Ormiston, holding reins and whip in one hand, felt for his card‐case.
"So we've had our journey for nothing you see, Dick," he said.
And to Richard the words sounded regretful. Moreover, the drama of this expedition seemed to him shorn of its climax. He knew there should be something more, and pushed for it.
"You haven't asked for Mary," he said. "And I thought we came on purpose to see Mary. She won't like us to go away like this. Do ask."
Colonel Ormiston's expression altered, hardened. And Richard, in his present hypersensitive state, remembered the cool scrutiny bestowed on the winged sea‐gull of his dream last page: 113 night. This man had seemed so near him just now while they talked. Suddenly he became remote again, all understanding of him shut away by that slight insolence of bearing. Still he did as Richard prayed him. Miss Cathcart was at home. She had just come in from riding.
"Tell her Sir Richard Calmady is here, and would like, if he may, to see her."
Without waiting for a reply, Ormiston unbuckled that same chastening strap silently, quickly. He got down and, coming round to the farther side of the carriage, lifted Richard out; while Camp, who had jumped off the back seat, stood yawning, whining a little, shaking his heavy head and wagging his tail in welcome on the doorstep. With the bull‐dog close at his heels, Ormiston carried the boy into the house.
The inner doors were open, and, up the long, narrow, pleasantly fresh‐tinted drawing‐room, Mary Cathcart came to meet them. The folds of her habit were gathered up in one hand. In the other she carried a bunch of long‐stalked, yellow and scarlet tulips. Her strong, supple figure stood out against the young green of the lawns and shrubberies, seen through the French windows behind her. She walked carefully, with a certain deliberation, thanks to her narrow habit and top‐boots. The young lady carried her thirty‐one years bravely. Her irregular features and large mouth had always been open to criticism. But her teeth, when her lips parted, were white and even, and her brown eyes frankly honest as ever.
"Why, Dickie dear, it is simply glorious to have you and Camp paying visits on your own account."—Her speech broke into a little cry, while her fingers closed, so tightly on the tulips that the brittle stalks snapped, and the gay‐coloured bells of them hung limply, some falling on to the carpet about her feet. "Roger—Colonel Ormiston—I didn't know you were home—were here!"—Her voice was uncontrollably glad.
Still carrying the boy, Ormiston stood before her, observing her keenly. But he was no longer remote. His insolence, which, after all, may have been chiefly self‐protective, had vanished.
"I'm very sorry—I mean for those poor tulips. I came to pay my respects to Mr. and Mrs. Cathcart, and not finding them was preparing to drive humbly home again. But"—Certainly she carried her years well. She looked absurdly young. The brown and rose‐red of her complexion was clear as that of the little maiden who had fought with, and over‐ page: 114 come, and kissed the rough, Welsh pony refusing the grip by the roadside long ago. The hint of a moustache emphasised the upturned corners of her mouth—but that was rather captivating. Her eyes danced, under eyelids which fluttered for the moment. She was not beautiful, not a woman to make men run mad. Yet the comeliness of her body, and the spirit to which that body served as index, was so unmistakably healthful, so sincere, that surely no sane man, once gathering her into his arms, need ask a better blessing.—"But," Ormiston went on, still watching her, "nothing would satisfy Dick but he must see you. With many injunctions regarding his safety, Katherine made him over to me for the afternoon. I'm on duty, you see. Where he goes, I'm bound to go also—even to the destruction of your poor tulips."
Miss Cathcart made no direct answer.
"Sit here, Dickie," she said, pointing to a sofa.
"But you don't really mind our coming in, do you?" he asked, rather anxiously.
The young lady placed herself beside him, drew his hand on to her knee, patted it gently.
"Mind? No; on the whole, I don't think I do mind very much. In fact, I think I should probably have minded very much more if you had gone away without asking for me."
"There, I told you so, Uncle Roger," the boy said triumphantly. Camp had jumped up on to the sofa too. He put his arm comfortably round the dog's neck. It was as well to acquire support on both sides, for the surface of the glazed chintz was slippery, inconveniently unsustaining to his equilibrium.—"It's an awfully long time since I've seen Mary," he continued, "more than three weeks."
"Yes, an awfully long time," Ormiston echoed, "more than six years."
"Dear Dickie," she said; "how pretty of you! Do you always keep count of my visits?"
"Of course I do. They were about the best things that ever happened, till Uncle Roger came home."
Forgetting herself, Mary Cathcart raised her eyes to Ormiston's in appeal. The boy's little declaration stirred all the latent motherhood in her. His fortunes at once passed so very far beyond, and fell so far short of, the ordinary lot. She wondered whether, and could not but trust that, this old friend and new‐comer was not too self‐centred, too hardened by ability and success, to appreciate the intimate pathos of the position. Ormiston read and answered her thought.page: 115
"Oh! we are going to do something to change all that," he said confidently. "We are going to enlarge our borders a bit, aren't we, Dick? Only, I think, we should manage matters much better if Miss Cathcart would help us, don't you?"
Richard remembering the locked‐up room of evil contents and that proposal of inclusive funeral rites, gave this utterance a wholly individual application. His face grew bright with intelligence. But, greatly restraining himself, he refrained from speech. All that had been revealed to him in confidence, and so his honour was engaged to silence.
Ormiston pulled forward a chair and sat down by him, leaning forward, his hands clasped about one knee, while he gazed at the tulips scattered on the floor.
"So tell Miss Cathcart we all want her to come over to Brockhurst just as often as she can," he continued, "and help us to make the wheels go round a little faster. Tell her we've grown very old, and discreet, and respectable, and that we are absolutely incapable of doing or saying anything foolish or naughty, which she would object to—and"—
But Richard could restrain himself no longer.—"Why don't you tell her yourself, Uncle Roger?"
"Because, my dear old chap, a burnt child fears the fire. I tried to tell Miss Cathcart something once, long ago. She mayn't remember"—
"She does remember," Mary said quietly, looking down at Richard's hand and patting it as it lay on her lap.
"But she stopped me dead," Ormiston went on. "It was quite right of her. She gave the most admirable reasons for stopping me. Would you care to hear them?"
"Oh! don't, pray don't," Mary murmured. "It is not generous."
"Pardon me, your reasons were absolutely just—true in substance and in fact. You said I was a selfish, good‐for‐nothing spendthrift, and so"—
"I was odious," she broke in. "I was a self‐righteous little Pharisee—forgive me"—
"Why—there's nothing to forgive. You spoke the truth."
"I don't believe it," Richard cried, in vehement protest.
"Dickie, you're a darling," Mary Cathcart said.
Colonel Ormiston left off nursing his knee, and leaned a little farther forward.
"Well then, will you come over to Brockhurst very often, and help us to make the wheels go round, and cheer us all up, and do us no end of good, though—I am a selfish, good‐for‐ page: 116 nothing spendthrift? You see I run through the list of my titles again to make sure this transaction is fair and square and above‐board."
A silence followed, which appeared to Richard protracted to the point of agitation. He became almost distressingly conscious of the man's still, bronzed, resolute face on the one hand, of the woman's mobile, vivid, yet equally resolute face on the other, divining far more to be at stake than he had clear knowledge of. Tired and excited, his impatience touched on anger.
"Say yes, Mary," he cried impulsively, "say yes. I don't see how anybody can want to refuse Uncle Roger anything."
Miss Cathcart's eyes grew moist. She turned and kissed the boy.
"I don't think—perhaps—Dickie, that I quite see either," she answered very gently.
"Mary, you know what you've just said?"—Ormiston's tone was stern. "You understand this little comedy? It means business. This time you've got to go the whole hog or none."
She looked straight at him, and drew her breath in a long half‐laughing sigh.
"Oh, dear me! what a plague of a hurry you are in!" she said. "Well—then—then—I suppose I must—it is hardly a graceful expression, but it is of your choosing, not of mine—I suppose I must go the whole hog."
Roger Ormiston rose, treading the fallen tulips under foot. And Richard, watching him, beheld that which called to his remembrance, not the hopeless and impotent battle under the black, polished sky of his last night's dream, but the gallant stories he had heard, earlier last night, of the battles of Sobraon and Chillianwallah, of the swift dangers of sport, and large daring of travel. Here he beheld—so it seemed to his boyish thought‐the aspect of a born conqueror, of the man who can serve and wait long for the good he desires, and who, winning it, lays hold of it with fearless might. And this, while causing Richard an exquisite delight of admiration, caused him also a longing to share those splendid powers so passionate that it amounted to actual pain.
Mary Cathcart's hand slid from under his hand. She too rose to her feet.
"Then you have actually cared for me all along, all these years?" Ormiston declared in fierce joy.
"Of course—who else could I care for? And—and—you've loved me, Roger, all the while?"
And Ormiston answered "Yes,"—speaking the truth, though page: 117 with a difference. There had been interludes that had contributed somewhat freely to the peopling of that same locked‐up room. But it is possible for a man to love many times, yet always love one woman best.
All this, however, Dickie did not know. He only knew they dazzled him—the man triumphantly strong, the woman so bravely glad. He could not watch them any longer. He went hot all over, and his heart beat. He felt strangely desolate too. They were far away from him, in thought, though so close by. Dickie shut his eyes, put his arms round the bull‐dog, pressed his face hard against the faithful beast's shoulder; while Camp, stretching his short neck to the uttermost, nuzzled against him and essayed to lick his cheek.
Thus did Richard Calmady gain yet further knowledge of things as they are.


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I read the script and then spoke to a friend of mine who worked on the movie and it's legit. My thoughts are that it is EXACTLY what I anticipated when they hired Michael Bay. A series of very cool action sequences connected by a chain of cliches, a thin plot, and without any perceiveable depth or even a good over-arching theme. You'd think people would watch SPIDER-MAN or X-MEN and learn the lesson that people expect more than just great effects and a good thrill ride. They do not, however, and this will be a very forgettable film. Expect an amazing trailer, good opening box office, and quick drop off the following weekend. Such a shame.
Now, onto happier news - where do I get Jetfire? That thing makes me giddy.