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I am getting soooo pumped. Very cool tech is happening right now. Too bad I can't talk about it...
I love it when a plan comes together...
So far so good, learning some interesting things about building bootable CD-ROMs. Thank goodness, there are a number of good projects already oth there putting together the CDs - the Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit, the LNX-BBC, the BBLCD Toolkit and others. Still, it has taken me about a week to come to grips with El Torito, initrd, rdev, syslinux, cloop, and all of the other niggly things that can go wrong.
It is really cool to break through bottlenecks and actually create something other than coasters...
Stay tuned...
My heart goes out to the folks who are without work involuntarily, good luck in the job search!
I'm a startup guy. I'm in the throes of getting a new venture off the ground. It's awesome. I love watching an idea turn into reality, watching other people get jazzed about the idea, watching an idea blossom into a business. It's better than sex. Really. After all of the crap I've been through with my last startup, there's a part of me that's astonished that I'm throwing myself into the breach yet again. Still, it feels so great to be working on something creative again. And the hope (folly?) is that I'll take the lessons I learned in the last go-round and make sure to not let them happen again.
Having fun with the bbq - since it's almost autumn in SF, the summer fog is finally lifting and so I've been doing a lot of grilling in the afternoons. Yum. Melody just keeps talking more and more, I'm secretly convinced she's a child genius. She's solving puzzles made for 4 year olds, and she isn't even 2 yet! She shows a lot of signs of giftedness. Whoops! There goes all of my jinx-buzzers, going off again. Wierd that I'm superstitious about good thing happening in my life - I'm much more comfortable when I'm struggling, in a wierd sort of way.
New Arrivals
Yee ha! Finished with my big consulting project yesterday. Flew out to Denver and gave a presentation to the CEO and senior management team, and it went well. The final report we wrote turned out to be 360 pages long. No kidding. Double sided and bound, it still seemed about as big as a midsized city's white pages. Heh heh. I'm really looking forward to this week off before LinuxWorld - I need to get my batteries recharged again.
Looks like Melody's caught something - she had a fever of 100.5 this morning. Poor baby...
Want a good laugh? Check this out. Where else can you combine humor, religion, civil liberties, and microsoft-bashing all in one non-fiction story? Worth the read.
Cool, passed a major test today - went over the final report with the customer's team this afternoon, and they were impressed. I still have a few more things to work on, but the major hump is over. Now all I gotta worry about is the presentation to the CEO on friday. I'm looking forward to it.
Domain names
Who says you can't find good dot com domain names anymore? I just picked up a sweet domain tonight. Heh heh heh.
Got it built on my debian box, from source. Digitial Video editing, with batch procesing capabilities, and good SMP utilization apparently. Quite nice little package. Too bad that you can't go directly to Real format from it - you apparently have to output to quicktime, and then convert it from there, possibly with some free Real tools. Haven't gotten that far.
I'm really getting into this show. Very cool stuff. I love the Thomas Newman theme music, too. This week's episode was creepy with the SIDS baby, though. Having an 18 month old made that one hit a little too close to home.
Cranking onwards and upwards. Making the final push for one of my clients, I've been doing nothing but writing reports and cleaning up interviews, writing a tech audit, you name it. Ugh! Busy busy busy. No time really to spend with the family, I'm spending most of my time sitting on the damned computer getting these reports done.
I was interviewed by Michael J Hammel of LWN on the current state of calendaring on Linux, both open source and proprietary code. He made a mistake in an attribution, saying that dyork was involved in ReefKnot. What I told him was that ReefKnot was being led by skud who worked at the same company as dyork, and that I didn't remember Skud's full name at the time of the interview. Sorry Kirrily! Sorry, Dan!
Any former Metricom Ricochet users out there? I bet you've now got a useless modem on your hands. Anybody want to sell their modem? If so, send me an email.
Sweet, just rebuilt my firewall box, turning it back into a real firewall - not a firewall with a web server, FTP server, cvs server, streaming media server, etc. I migrated all of my important web sites over to another server. All in all, a pain in the ass, but at least I have the box running debian instead of an old version of red hat. Bad news? I had to reboot it after a 265 day uptime...
Phew. Just checking in, I've been deep underwater doing work for a client. In addition, I've been learning software RAID for Linux, the Linux LVM, and I've switched over to the new version of Mozilla (although 0.91 is the latest in debian-unstable, I'm awaiting 0.93 to make it into sid).
I'm actually still getting some work done. No time lately to work on Openflock or GCTP though... Grrr. I would really like it if the next company I start doesn't have to rely on proprietary software for group calendaring...
Whew! Busy day. After getting a bunch more work done for one of my clients, I sat down and finished the article about privacy I've been working on. It should really shake a few people up - there's some scary stuff happening right now, I can tell you from personal experience.
dyork, I'm really glad to see that the LPI has matured to the point where you feel comfortable letting go of the reins. Kudos on a job well done! csm, congratulations! You're brought tremendous integrity and a lot of hard work to the LPI, and it's great to see that the LPI is getting such a qualified new leader.
Now if I could only get some time off to go play golf...
Sweet! I got dvgrab working on my box, and I successfully grabbed an hour of digital video from my camcorder, scene by scene. I figure that at MPEG1 compression, I can get about 2 hours of video and audio onto a standard CDROM. That mean that I can take all nine hours of video that I have from Melody's birth onwards and put them all on about 4 CD-Rs. This will also be a lot easier to burn and distribute than copying the DV to videotape directly. Interestingly, ~1 hour of (almost raw) video and audio is 11.4 GB of data. Now I know how many hard disks I need to buy for my ultimate DV/NAS box.
Broadcast 2000
I also now have a reason for 100Mbps in the house - I have been unable to get Broadcast 2000 to run on my debian box. In the meantime I'm stuck with a windoze box running Ulead VideoStudio 4.0 SE Basic - basically the video editing software that came with the Firewire card I bought. I also found that I can't use xanim to display MPEGs made in this process. I can use realvideo files that it generates, however. When will we get a decent video viewer for Linux? Something that can view quicktime and newer MPEG streams?
PCMCIA Firewire Cards
By the way, don't ever get a PCMCIA Firewire card. I got one, and it is essentially useless for capturing video. Lots of dropped frames, lost audio, the works. Funny, a PCI card from the same vendor shows no such problems, even with a Pentium Pro 200 CPU. I guess that just shows ya that PCI is a MUCH faster bus than PCMCIA - even cardbus - even a 33MHz PCI bus.
Next Project
Must get more disks for new NAS box, and must get 100BT switch for the living room...
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CORINTH – Petitions asking the city of Corinth to set an election on the legal sale of liquor and wine within the city limits will be presented at today's regular meeting.
More than 3,000 signatures were gathered on the petitions, significantly more than the 2,395 required to have the city set the election, said City Clerk Vickie Roach.
She will present the certification to the board at the 5 p.m. meeting in city hall.
"We've been through all the petitions and the poll books, and they're good to go," Roach said.
The city attorney is preparing a resolution calling for the election, and the board is expected to set an election date.
With the requirement that at least 30 days' notice be given for the election, the earliest date the election could be held is Dec. 11, Roach said.
The election is permitted within the city under Senate Bill 2497 that took effect in January.
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Term: High priest
Hierophant: One of the trumps of the Major Arcana of the tarot. Numbered V. In the system of Eliphas Levi, it corresponds to the Hebrew letter Heh. In the system of the Golden Dawn, The Hierophant corresponds to the Hebrew letter Vav and the astrological sign of Taurus.
Hierophant: An officer of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. When the temple is set up for Neophytes, the Hierophant (Greek for "initiating priest") sits in the East, represents the dawning Light, and is the main ritual officer. When a woman holds this office she is called the Hierophatria or Hieropantissa.
High Priest:
A male Witch who, often with a High Priestess, is the leader of a coven. In traditional covens, to achieve this level requires extensive training and experience. In covens that have a three-degree system, a High Priest will have been initiated into the third degree. It is often abbreviated as HP.
The 5th Major Arcanum of the Tarot
Image: Pope or other major religious leader
Hebrew letter: Vav
Divinatory meaning: Authority, Wisdom, Spirituality
Path on the Tree of Life: 16th path connecting Yesod to Tiphareth.
Qabalistic Description. The 5th Key, the 16th Path. Magus of the Eternal Gods. This Path connects Chesed (Mercy) with Chokmah (Wisdom). The primary function of the Hierophant is to tie together the Great Above to that which is Below. The Hierophant is also the Great Teacher of the Mysteries, bringing understanding as the link between sensory experience and inner illumination. Vav means the nail, binding things together.
Card Description. The Hierophant as High Priest is the counterpart of the High Priestess. As Aries is the house of Mars and the exaltation of the Sun, so Taurus is the house of Venus and the exaltation of the Moon. He is the reflective or mystical aspect of the masculine. He is the thinker as the Emperor is the doer.
His colors unlike those of the Emperor vary considerably. Red, orange, maroon, deep brown, and chestnut brown, suggest veiled thought, interior power, endurance, contemplation and reconciliation. This card frequently indicates the hidden guardianship of the Masters.
Interpretation. Divine wisdom, occult wisdom, manifestation, explanation, teaching. The Hierophant differs from, though resembling in some respects, the meaning of The Magician, The Prophet, and The Lovers.
Psychological Value. You may use this Arcanum when you are eager to act, but have not yet figured out what your true heart's desire is, or when you are wasting your efforts on things you don't need, instead of focusing on your truest desires. It helps you develop generosity, sincerity, justice, tact, courtesy and refinement, as well as your sense of order and organization. It can help you to understand how to best present yourself socially. (According to the Divine Arcana of the Aurum Solis—Divinity: Zeus; Greek Letter: Upsilon.)
source: Llewellyn's Complete Book of Psychic Empowerment, by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke & Joe H. Slate (Llewellyn Publications) - Carl Llewellyn Weschcke
Also See: Pope, High Priest, Jupiter
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Lead shifts, battle continues in Wisconsin Supreme Court race Posted on April 8, 2011
By Kirsten Adshead Wisconsin Reporter
Incumbent Supreme Court Justice David Prosser now leads in the race against Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg after human error kept all votes from Brookfield from being counted in the initial tally.
The inclusion of Brookfield gave Prosser a net gain of 7,582 votes in Waukesha County.
We discovered the data sent to me from the city of Brookfield was not transferred to the final report given to the media Tuesday night. It was human error, which I apologize for, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said Thursday during a news conference in Waukesha.
Kloppenburg held a 204 lead over Prosser Thursday, leaving her ahead by less than one-one-hundredth of a percentage point after nearly 1.5 million votes, based on unofficial results reported by the Associated Press.
Kloppenburg declared victory Wednesday.
Melissa Mulliken, Kloppenburgs campaign manager, said the campaign would be filing open records request for all documentation related to the Waukesha County vote.
Just as Assistant Attorney General Kloppenburg has run to restore confidence in the court, Wisconsin residents also deserve to have full confidence in election results, Mulliken said in a statement.
The numbers quickly began to change Thursday as county canvassing boards met to certify the election results.
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Brian McLaren is one of the so called faces of the emergent church movement; a postmodernistic religious movement utilizing a twisted view of Christianity as one of its drawing cards.
Here is a statement found in A Generous Orthodoxy by McLaren and a link to his "clarification" of the statement...(just as an introduction to the way he thinks):His clarification: http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives...odoxy_237.html"I must add, though, that I don't believe making disciples must equal making adherents to the Christian religion. It may be advisable in many (not all?) circumstances to help people become followers of Jesus and remain within their Buddhist, Hindu, or Jewish contexts. This will be hard, you say, and I agree. But frankly, it's not at all easy to be a follower of Jesus in many 'Christian' religious contexts, either."
His statement and his clarification are in direct opposition to Paul's instructions to the Corinthian Christians regarding the same topic...2 Corinthians 6: 14-18 ( http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...20;&version=49
The point, however, of this post is this...the link below is a response from Chuck Colson after McLaren wrote a response to an article Chuck wrote for Christianity Today. Chuck's response is one of the best condensed detailings I have read on the subject of postmodernism...well worth reading the entire response:


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Authorizing Legislation: Section 371 of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended
The National Family Caregiver Support Program (NFCSP), established in 2000, provides grants to States and Territories, based on their share of the population aged 70 and over, to fund a range of supports that assist family and informal caregivers to care for their loved ones at home for as long as possible.
Families are the major provider of long-term care, but research has shown that caregiving exacts a heavy emotional, physical and financial toll. Many caregivers who work and provide care experience conflicts between these responsibilities. Twenty two percent of caregivers are assisting two individuals, while eight percent are caring for three or more. Almost half of all caregivers are over age 50, making them more vulnerable to a decline in their own health, and one-third describe their own health as fair to poor.
The NFCSP offers a range of services to support family caregivers. Under this program, States shall provide five types of services:
These services work in conjunction with other State and Community-Based Services to provide a coordinated set of supports. Studies have shown that these services can reduce caregiver depression, anxiety, and stress and enable them to provide care longer, thereby avoiding or delaying the need for costly institutional care.
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While the Aging Network has always been involved with meeting the needs of both care recipients and family caregivers, by creating the National Family Caregiver Support Program, Congress explicitly recognized the important role that family caregivers occupy in our nation's long-term services and supports system. As of the 2006 Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act, the following specific populations of family caregivers are eligible to receive services:
Each family caregiver presents his or her own unique needs and preferences for the types of programs and services they wish to receive at any given point in time. Further, the programs and services that are available vary from state to state and community to community. Fortunately, a number of national organizations and programs exist to help inform and support program development and innovation. Please see resources and links below for additional information regarding research, technical assistance and support for program development.
In FY 2010, the most recent year for which service data is available, over 700,000 caregivers received services through the National Family Caregiver Support Program. These services helped them better manage their caregiving responsibilities while ensuring their loved ones remained in the community for as long as possible. Service highlights include the following:
Data from AoA's national surveys of caregivers of elderly clients shows:
To obtain more information about the services caregivers received, visit the AGing Integrated Database (AGID), an on-line query system based on AoA-related data files and surveys, and includes population characteristics from the Census Bureau for comparison purposes. The system allows users to produce customized tables in a step-by-step process and output the results in print or spreadsheet form. Information on NFCSP services and recipients is available through this database.
Funding for Family Caregiver Support Services during the past four years is as follows:
In 2010, the U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA) launched a yearlong celebration to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the NFCSP. AoA worked in concert with national caregiver organizations and associations to mark this important achievement. Additionally, AoA encouraged states and communities to recognize the important role family and friends play in caring for friends and loved ones, and to celebrate the impact of caregiver support services, including the NFCSP. Learn more about the NFCSP 10th Anniversary Celebration and to access archived videos featuring the personal stories of family caregivers and other materials associated with the 10th Anniversary Celebration.
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National Alliance for Caregiving
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The Alliance was created to conduct research, do policy analysis, develop national programs, increase public awareness of family caregiving issues, work to strengthen state and local caregiving coalitions, and represent the US caregiving community internationally. Recognizing that family caregivers provide important societal and financial contributions toward maintaining the well-being of those they care for, the Alliance's mission is to be the objective national resource on family caregiving with the goal of improving the quality of life for families and care recipients.
The National Family Caregivers Association
The National Family Caregivers Association educates, supports, empowers and speaks up for the more than 50 million Americans who care for loved ones with a chronic illness or disability or the frailties of old age. NFCA reaches across the boundaries of diagnoses, relationships and life stages to help transform family caregivers' lives by removing barriers to health and well being.
Generations United
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The Brookdale Foundation Group—Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP)
Established in 1996 in response to a growing understanding of the need for enhanced services and supports for grandparents raising grandchildren, The Brookdale Foundation Group established the Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP) to encourage and promote the creation or expansion of services for grandparents and other relatives who have taken on the responsibility of surrogate parenting due to the absence of the parents. Currently RAPP provides supportive services, primarily to relative caregivers caring for children outside the foster care system, through an extensive network of support groups across the country.
This website was created by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Cooperative Extension System. Here, caregivers and advocates can access a wide range of information and materials designed to help them learn about and provide supportive services to family and relative caregivers. Topics include disaster preparedness, military families, grandparents raising grandchildren, housing, and nutrition.
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Michigan State University College of Law's Lori E. Talsky Center for Human Rights of Women and Children will host Dr. Ioana Cismas for a talk on international law's human right to food on Wednesday, February 5, 2014. The lecture, "Food: You Have a Human Right to It—No Matter What Congress Says," will be held at noon in room 471 of the Law College building.
"To judge from current efforts by Congress to make it difficult for poor people to afford eating, you'd never know that there has long been an international human right to food," said Professor Susan Bitensky, the Alan S. Zekelman Professor of International Human Rights Law and director of the Talsky Center. "Indeed, human existence depends on its fulfillment, as does a person's exercise of all other rights."
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The shift from the conservatism dominating American politics during the presidency of George W. Bush to a new brand of liberalism under President Barack Obama is the subject of a lecture by journalist and author George Packer set for 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, in McCosh 50. His talk is titled "The New Liberalism."
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Ok, i'm sure they are a lot of cool toy lines. But lets just put the top 5. (in no particular order or in order if u like)
Star Wars
G.I. Joe
Masters of the Universe
Super Powers
Yep, those are my top 5.
Ok, i'm sure they are a lot of cool toy lines. But lets just put the top 5. (in no particular order or in order if u like)
Star Wars
G.I. Joe
Masters of the Universe
Super Powers
Yep, those are my top 5.
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Top 5 eh?
Star Wars Vintage/POTJ
Transformers Gen 1/RID
GI Joe ARAH
Star Trek TNG (Playmates)
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
1. hmm, Legos.
3, Thundercats, come on they had light up eyes!!
5. G.I. Joes were pretty cool back in the day,, Even though I didn't have many I always played with my friends.
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1. Star Wars
2. Transformers
3. G.I. Joe
4. LEGO sets (especially the Space ones)
5. Ummm....I had these 3 3/4" Fisher Price action figure and vehicle toys that were pretty cool. Anyone else remember those? They are sort of on the list by default 'cause I never played with He-Man or Thundercats or TMNT, but they were fun and they worked well with my Star Wars and G.I. Joe guys... ummm...did anybody else have these things...guys??
Yep, i remember those, sort of like Construction workers and stuff. My cousin had a couple of those.
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"Adventure people" was the name of the Fisher Price 3 3/4" figures. They were kind of like a scaled down "Adventure Team" for those of us from that GI Joe era. My favorites were Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Adventure People, Tonka trucks, and GI Joe.
Like my dad always said, "Be original son. Dont quote someone else."
1) Transformers G1
2) GI Joe 3 3/4
3) Star Wars POTJ
4) Master of the Universe
5) McFarlane's Movie Maniacs
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1.Star Wars
2.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
3.The Real Ghostbusters
4.Spider-Man animated series
I never was into GI Joe....
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An impressive and well-dressed crowd squeezed into the Charleston Marriott for the sold-out party honoring Zucker, which was also a fundraiser for the Center for Women. The soft strains of two violinists filtered down the staircase, but the cocktail hour reverberated with lively conversation and laughter as servers slipped through the crush of people with platters of savory canapes.
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Perfect for the weekday dash, or a sunny country morning, our brown and serve sausage links make a tasty team with pancakes, eggs, or a cup of black coffee (for you minimalists). Speaking of minimal, our sausages contain organic pork and a blend of savory spices—period.
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I did not like the flavor at all. Now I am stuck with the rest of the ones that I ordered.
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My family really enjoyed the flavor of these breakfast links. And we love knowing our meat has come from animals that are healthy, well-cared for, and free from antibiotics, GMO feed etc. However, we did not care for how tough the casing is on the outside of these links. We prefer a softer slicing and chewing experience. Thank you!
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Family: Lycaenidae, Gossamer-wing Butterflies view all from this family
Description The Bog Copper or Cranberry-Bog Copper (Lycaena epixanthe (=Epidemia epixanthe)) is a North American butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Adults like to sip drops of dew clinging to leaves and almost exclusively nectar on their host plant, Cranberries. Because of this, Bog Coppers will spend their entire lives within the area of a single acid bog. Even though their flight is weak and close to the ground, Bog Coppers are hard to catch because of the habitat in which they live in. Also, 85% of the Bog Coppers life span is spent in the egg.
The Bog Copper is the smallest U.S. copper. The upper side of the males wings is dark gray-brown with a purplish sheen (it glows under UV light very strongly). The male has very few black basal spots on the fore wing. The hind wing outer margin has orange markings. The upper side of the females wings is very similar to the males except the female has a lighter purplish iridescence. The underside of the wings in both sexes varies from whitish-gray to yellowish-tan. The wingspan measures ⅞ to 1 inch.
Dimensions 7/8-1" (22-25 mm).
Habitat Freshwater swamps, marshes & bogs.
Range Plains, Great Lakes, New England, Eastern Canada, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic, Western Canada.


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29 December 2014 - 9:10amThis piece was originally published on the ODI blog Development Progress. Ten years ago when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit land, killing 230,000 people and destroying the lives and livelihoods of many more, its human cost was immeasurable. The tsunami unleashed an unprecedented national and international...


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Gase has taken an interesting approach to instilling a winning culture in Miami. He is cocky. He is smart. He is borderline deranged.
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Whats starting to nother me is that they dont have a really compelling character. They could seriously kill anyone except Daryl and I wouldnt give a ****. He is probably the closest thing to interesting on the cast. I mean, I keep watching for the violence and zombies, but this show could be much better. The premise is pretty much carrying the show now. Not sure how much longer it can though.
Apparently strong ratings so far paved the way for a 3rd season
Dam, great episode...kind of upset about Otis though...**** got real atm.
SpoilerThat well scene is a perfect example of how this show could be so much better. They have 5 wells and a zombie is in one. To any sane, rational person, the best thing to do in that situation is just kill the SOB and close off that well. A zombie has been pissing, sweating and oozing into that well for God knows how long. Youre really going to risk getting one of your few able bodied men's legs bitten off to try pull a zombie out the well? Then what? Its then cool to drink the zombie ooze water? Plus you got the Asian moving up about 1 inch for every 4 feet of rope they pull, which was kinda funny. Dont even get me started on the zombies or lack thereof. One all episode. Instead we get to watch them look for some mentally ******** girl thats been lost for like 4 episodes now. Awesome.
I really could forgive them for the ****ty plot if there were more action this season. Season one was good because there was always something going on. Now, they just sit and chill in their magic farm that zombies mysteriously cant find, burn electricity and take hot showers without huge diesel supplies, search for a girl I wish would turn up dead and cry about some kid that got shot that I really dont care about. Give me zombies dammit. Move the plot along. Do something instead sitting in a magic farm.
this season has been slow so far. scenes dragging on, lots of filler, not enough zombies, too many cliffhangers that need to be wrapped up (man and son that found him in the first episode, merl, him finding out about his wife banging his best friend - which apparently she got pregnant from, little girl lost for how long now?, etc..) they need to wrap some of that **** up - no need to overcomplicate a show about a zombie apocalypse.
there needs to be way more zombie killing and less unfinished story lines for that show to last. i hope it does - big fan of that show - and pretty much anything zombie related.


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I HAD gone to sleep weeping, as the night does, I awoke smiling as the morning. The troubles that had seemed so gigantic at 11 P.M., had contracted themselves to very moderate dimensions at 7 A.M. From mountains they had become, not indeed quite molehills, but very gentle elevations. Dolly had a way of touching people on the raw; of course it was to her interest to make me believe Dick unfaithful; and as to my father, why he did look rather ill and droopy of late. I had been thinking so, myself, darling old thing! but then the hot weather never suited him; it always made him flag, as it did the flowers; when fresh winds came and cool cloudy skies, both page: 88 he and they would hold up their heads again, and brighten.
My code of morals, my system of rewards and punishments was very simple, the story book code; later on in life we find that the human race's kicks and half‐pence are not administered in strict accordance with the rules of that code. The good boy gets cakes and ale; the naughty boy gets a whipping. There seemed to me an antecedent improbability in the idea of such an enormous grief being laid on the poor slight shoulders of a harmless girl, whose life, as far as overt acts of wickedness were concerned, was a sheet of white paper. It seemed like putting a camel's load on a fly's back. An enormous grief always does seem improbable when it is the first of its family. Its brothers and sisters excite less astonishment, though perhaps no less anguish.
"I saw two magpies yesterday." I say to myself, "that is a good omen; my letter will come to‐day." I am standing before my looking‐glass, sticking up page: 89 my dead‐leaf cables, with long hair pins. I don't look in the least the sort of woman that anything remarkable is likely to happen to; a fair, soft, foolish woman made to say loving inanities to a husband, to make socks for his children, and be utterly hum‐drum and common‐place and happy. The loud whir‐ir‐ring of the gong comes sounding upstairs, deadened by the thick oak doors; I run down in a hurry. My father is always up and out very early, long before any of us; while the house is yet in the housemaid's possession. He is out now, and I have to read prayers. I sit down with dignity in the old oak arm‐chair, nearly black with age and varnish, and of the most uncompromising straightness of back—what strong spines our ancestors must have been blessed with, for apparently they never indulged in the luxury of leaning—open the ancient calf‐backed Bible, in which twenty‐one and nineteen years ago respectively, my father recorded the doubtful blessing of his daughters' births.page: 90
Opposite me, on a long bench, sit the servants, in clean caps and aprons, and behind them open windows, and the sun, and the green trees, and the June airs at play. It is a very long chapter; all about the Israelitish wars, how Joshua and his host took Ai and the king thereof, and the people thereof, and killed them all; and then went off to Libuah, and did the same there, and then on again ditto. How tired they must have got of cutting and hacking those poor Aborigines! About the middle of the bloody annals I look up, and take a glance off through the window over the servants' heads, and see the old postman with the swinging gait and the withered‐apple cheeks, shambling down the drive. He is earlier than his wont. I lose my place and grope hopelessly for it with eyes and fingers, for about five minutes. Having found it, I set off at a hard gallop and race through Thursday morning, third week in Thornton's "Family Prayers," skipping the "Queen, the Clergy, and the Children of this family" altogether. I come to Amen, at page: 91 last; and before the servants are off their knees, I am at the Hall door.
The old postman has gone again; he is half way up to the gate by now; he knows our manners and customs and has left the bag hanging on the bell. I tear it open; the Times and a Pamphlet; half‐a‐dozen blue envelopes in the usual sprawly tradesmen's hands for Sir Adrian Lestrange—poor darling Sir Adrian, I wish I might pitch them all at the back of the fire—a pink note, and two letters for Miss Lestrange, and one letter for Miss Eleanor Lestrange.
One letter, but alas! alas! not the right one! It is, as I find out later, when I have patience to read it, from a sister of my mother's, an excellent 'mère de famille,' and its purport is chiefly to tell me that dear Cecilia has had the nettle‐rash, and that dear Archie has passed for the Line, and has come out 41st, and, indeed, no wonder, considering the way in which he has been reading for the last three months. Now I throw it down and stamp upon it.
"What's the matter," asks Dolly, com‐ coming page: 92 ing tripping downstairs; and the young June morning is not fresher or fairer than she. Dolly does not often favour us with her company at our morning orisons.
"Everything's the matter," I say exhaustively, picking up my aunt's effusion, and flinging it to the other end of the room.
"Not got your letter yet?"
"Dear me! how odd! are you sure it has not slipped inside that Magazine?"
"How could it?" I say gruffly.
"Perhaps you forgot to give him your direction?" (How likely!)
"No, I didn't."
"Perhaps you did not write it clear enough?"
"I wrote it as plain as a pikestaff!"
"Hm! perhaps he is ill?"
"Don't say that!" I cry eagerly, turning pale, "I'd rather he'd have forgotten me than that; no, I don't think that I would either; oh Dolly, Dolly, what can be the matter?" I sink down on the bench and cover my eyes with my hand.
"Perhaps it'll come to‐morrow?" says page: 93 Dolly; turning away, and in a kinder voice than usual.
"It'll never come!" I say tempestuously, flinging down my head on my arms, on the cold wooden table.
"Sh! Sh! don't make a scene! here's papa!" By a great effort I throw off my own trouble, for the time; defer it to a more convenient season; I can always do that for him, and then I go to the old man and put my arms about him, and thank him for the flowers he has brought—he always brings me a little pretty bunch, summer and winter—and kiss the old pale weary face so lovingly. The dew and the moist night airs have lifted up the heads of the plants and shrubs that drooped so yesterday, but I misdoubt me this old scathed tree will never hold his head up again bravely, till the dear Lord transplants him to a kindlier, warmer clime.
"This is the day of the Coxes' croquet party, isn't it?" says Dolly, as we sat at breakfast, his 'Fate Shompater,' as Mr. Coxe resolutely calls it; "we need not go page: 94 till about four I should think, need we?"
"I shall not go at all!" I say doggedly.
"Nonsense," says Dolly, severely, "you must go; you cannot treat people in that way, accepting their invitations, and then never going near them, it's too bearish!"
"I don't want to go!" I say plaintively, turning towards my father, and stretching out my hand to stroke his.
"You want to stay with the old man, do you, Nell? So you shall! So you shall! there's plenty of people to go to the Coxes' fine party without you."
"Just as you please, of course," says Dolly, very coldly; "children of nature are not accountable beings, I suppose; poor Sir Hugh! I'd sooner meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than him in the state he'll be in to‐day!"
I frown at her to stop, but the mischief is done.
"Is Sir Hugh Lancaster to be there?" asks my father, lifting up his head.
"Yes, to be sure he is, he is coming all the way down from town, on purpose to see—Amaryllis Coxe."page: 95
We all held our tongues for a minute.
"I think, Nell," says my father, rising slowly to leave the room; "I think perhaps, you had better go, they are civil people, and there's no use giving offence."
"I suppose," says Dolly, as we entered the Coxian Park gates that afternoon; "I suppose, we shall finish up with a dance, for I heard Coxe père, telling Lady Capel that his daughters were 'so uncommonly fond of cutting capers, that if they could not have a 'op anywhere else, they got up a kick‐up at home.'"
It is hardly saying too much to put croquet as an invention on a level with gunpowder and printing; it certainly is more unmixedly beneficial to the human race than either of the others. Who can be sufficiently loud in praise of a common page: 97 standing ground, where man and woman can meet without man being effeminate, or woman masculine. It requires a strong effort of memory to realize the barren time when women struggled through their long weary days, unassisted by those gracious twins, croquet and afternoon tea. At the Coxe's croquet party, I need hardly say that there were a great many more women than men. I never yet was at a croquet party where such was not the case, for admirable pastime as it is, no man that is a man, and not a curate, will ever be induced to put his hand to a mallet, unless he has absolutely nothing else to do.
"There was Lady Grease Wrister, And Madam Van Twister, Her Ladyship's sister, Lord Cram and Lord Vultur, Sir Brandish O'Cultur With Marshal Carowzer, And old Lady Mowzer, And the great Hanoverian Baron Pansmouzer."
All the fashionable men are up in town of course, so are Lord and Lady Capel; they have gone to the Palace Hotel for a month; a poor equivalent for the house page: 98 in Park Lane, but better than nothing. So is Lady Lancaster; entertaining kindred frumps and foozles in Eaton Square.
The Scots Greys are still to the fore, for "England expects every man to do his duty," and their duty is at present to guard the Cathedral Close and Minor Canons of Nantford from invasion. Little De Laney is here too, much to his own disgust. Instead of leaning his jolly little smooth face out of the modest bow‐window of his corps' club, he is dancing attendance on a moribund uncle for whose gouty shoes he is lying in wait, the mercenary infant!
"Ammy! Ammy! Amaryllis, my dear!" cries Mrs. Coxe, as we appear on the scene—Amaryllis is mistress of the ceremonies, and is flitting about in an elaborate Parisian toilette, eminently suited for a Chiswick breakfast or a Horticultural Fête, and looks as she mostly does, all nose and bust—"here are the Miss Lestranges, my dear; I hope you can make up a set for them!"page: 99
Amaryllis looks doubtful; there are five or six sets in full force already, and how to provide the gentle stimulus of a man or two for each game, is the problem which has been making her curse the day on which she was born for the last half hour. What to do with our pauper population is a joke to it. All the parish priests, and all the red coats, with whatever carefullest economy expended, have been used up.
"There are Mortimer Spencer, and the two Miss Lestranges and myself, that's four," she says slowly; "but that would be so dull for them; there's Sir Hugh Lancaster and Mr. De Laney, but they won't play; my sisters asked them to join their game some time ago, but they would not; they said they did not know how."
"Perhaps," Dolly suggests, with a suave little smile, "perhaps if you ask them again, and make a great favour of it, they would not be so obdurate; people must not be allowed to be lazy on an occasion like this." Amaryllis shakes her head and goes reluctant; two minutes page: 100 more, and she returns in triumph, leading the two culprits. Hugh, as I am well aware, would be most happy to play dolls, marbles, jack straws, anything were I to be his assistant.
"Little birds that can sing and won't sing, must be made to sing," says my sister playfully, putting out a ready sisterly hand to Hugh, so "your lordships have condescended to yield to our importunities; we were meditating going on our knees, if that were necessary."
"The little birds are quite game for singing till they crack their little throats if anybody'll show 'em how," says De Laney, putting in his little oar. Hugh is never strong at badinage, he has as heavy a hand at it, as a bad cook has with onions. On the present occasion, I appear to have taken away his elderly breath, for he is staring at me as a school boy at a mince pie, as a pig at acorns. Really it is too bad of him, when he has been having the handsomest women in England, in the becomingest dresses passing in review before him every day for the last page: 101 week, that he should be gaping like a bird in the pip at a simple country girl in a little straw hat.
"What sides? what sides?" asks Amaryllis, "Morty, dear, put that hoop straight."
I go up to Mr. De Laney, who is arranging a little delicate bouquet of heliotrope and geranium in his button hole. "Will you be sure and play with me?" I say eagerly.
The young fellow looks slightly surprised.
"I, of course I will; proudest moment of my existence; only I think it fair to warn you that I never got through a hoop in my life."
"Miss Coxe," I say, lifting up a trembling voice and blushing, "Shall you and I and Mr. De Laney play the other three?"
"That would not be fair," puts in Dolly, with slight asperity in her tone; "you are such a good player; you have given us much the weakest side; you had better let me take your place, that would make it nearly equal!"page: 102
"I think," says Amaryllis, coming to my rescue, "that Miss Eleanor Lestrange's arrangement is the best on the whole; Mortimer is much better than I am, and I suppose that Sir Hugh and Mr. De Laney are about equal."
Dolly is too well mannered to oppose the fiat of the mistress of the ground, and she bites her lip, and says smiling, "Well, 'never say die' must be our motto, and Mr. Coxe won't scold us very much if we do get him into disgrace, will he?"
Mr. Coxe junior wears barnacles, and his complexion is spotted as the pard's; but his heart is tender. Dolly never puts all her money on one horse; she has many irons in the fire, and Mortimer Spencer De Lacy is her last and smallest one.
"Blue begins; Morty, give Miss Lestrange the blue."
I make an inward resolution that where my boy goeth, I will go; that the hoop or the tunnel, or the bell that bids defiance to his inexperienced chocolate ball shall do the same to my practised green; so page: 103 that I may have an excuse for sticking close into his pocket; it is the first time that the dear little fellow has ever been used as a chaperon, I fancy.
"I did not think I should see you again," I say, very friendlily, anxious to engage in conversation, and edging up to where he stands, dishonestly trying to kick his ball into position without being detected. "I thought you were going back to Windsor."
"So did I, but l'homme proposes, and l'homme's great uncle by marriage disposes."
"How tiresome for you; have you got to stay long?"
"Oh, I suppose till the old party up there," jerking his head in the direction of his uncle's place, "takes himself off to Abraham's bosom, which he does not seem in any hurry to do at present."
"You don't seem very sorry for the poor old gentleman," I say, laughing rather nervously and squinting out of the corner of my left eye, to discover the whereabouts of my Sir John Suckling.page: 104
"How can he expect one to be sorry for him, when he takes to dying at such an ungodly time? if he had put it off a month now, it would have suited me down to the ground; there's never much doing in July."
"That's the way somebody will be talking of you by‐and‐bye," I say with a smile.
"Not a doubt of it, unless I give them the slip by being cut off in my youth and beauty beforehand," he says, with a grin at the thought of his own demise.
The Coxian croquet ground is to other croquet grounds what the garden of Eden is to other gardens; it is the realization of a croquet player's dream. Flat as a billiard table, big as a race course, with a fountain plashing coolly into a stone basin in the middle, and with lime trees round it. They are all in flower now, and their yellowish, greenish, whitish blossoms make the air almost too heavy. The women in their blue and green and white dresses look like big pretty flowers starring the sunny grass.page: 105
Further off, a very smart marquee spreads its flag to the wind—of which, by‐the‐bye, there is uncommonly little—there, later on, we are to flourish the festive heels. Mr. Coxe comes strutting out presently with his little fat hands in his breeches pockets, and that face which would be of such eminent service to him in a Jacquerie, or French Revolution, stamping him so unmistakeably as of the people.
"Well, Miss Lestrange, and how are we getting on? progressing eh? ha! ha! progressing?"
"Not progressing at all, I'm afraid, Mr. Coxe!" says Dolly smiling; "on the contrary, retrograding, I think!"
"I'm afraid you don't find my son a very efficient coadjutor," continues Mr. Coxe pompously, putting his hands under his coat tails, and standing with his legs rather wide apart. Mr. Coxe will probably be among Lord —'s next batch of lords.
"Quite wrong!" says Dolly, glancing up under her little wild rose‐wreathed shepherdess hat at the blushing Mortimer. Bagging Mortimer, is like rook shooting, page: 106 Dolly thinks; the poorest of all sport, but still it is sport. Then half‐a‐dozen extra‐sized footmen come stalking along, bringing ices and Badminton on superb trays, and we stop pounding one another for a few minutes, and by the aid of these refreshments endeavour to bring ourselves down from boiling point. I see Sir Hugh pouring out a tumbler of Badminton for himself; a nice cooling drink; I hope he'll take a great deal of it. Soon we return to our game with renewed vigour.
"Send her away over there! tight croquet; I should; she plays next." This is a most unnecessary piece of brutality, for I, with my Grenadier, am struggling for the second hoop, far in the back ground, as I resolved at the outset I would be.
"We stick together like leeches!" the boy said to me, just now, very innocently; "Damon and what was the other f'la's name—something beginning with a P. you know." My poor green goes spinning off under the limes, disturbing the bees, and I, of course, have to go after it.
"My mother sent her love to you," says page: 107 a too, too well known voice at my elbow. Hugh is not like himself to‐day, somehow; he has not made a single joke, and he looks sheepish, and tail‐between‐the‐legs‐ish. Being in love is sadly unbecoming to a man; particularly to one who is not in the bloom of youth. Little Dresden shepherds in pink coats and blue breeches look pretty when they are casting sheep's eyes at little fat shepherdesses in powder, and red cheeks; but a real live man, sunburnt, hirsute, broadclothed, looks ridiculous. Flight, without the most flagrant incivility, is out of the question.
"I'm sure I'm very much obliged to her."
"I only came down from town last night."
"I came down on purpose for this—what d'ye call it—this croquet thing."
"Do you suppose I came down to see the Coxes?" Hugh never pays much attention to the requirements of Mrs. page: 108 Grundy; he is talking now with much more earnestness than the subjects that mostly come up at a croquet party, are calculated to engender.
I look down very demurely, and make a little excavation in the smooth turf with my mallet. "I don't know, I'm sure."
"Cannot you guess who I came to see? you are sharp enough generally." (He must be in love to call me sharp; he might as well compliment Dolly on her piety.)
"I don't know, I'm sure!" I say very pettishly; for I perceive that we are the objects of a good deal of amused notice, and I even detect my little naughty soldier chuckling all to himself behind his pocket‐handkerchief.
"I cannot bear being asked questions; will you move, please?"
I give my ball a great vicious hit, which sends it flying back to the haunts of men; and I fly after it, at the top of my speed. Hugh follows me, more surprised than sorrowful; he cannot and will not understand. His notions of courtship are like Samson's, who went down to Timnath, page: 109 and saw a woman that pleased him, and told his parents so, and after that it was all plain sailing. Our game comes to an end at last. Despite heroic efforts on the part of Amaryllis, our side is beaten. It would have been very odd if it had not been; seeing that I had been riding a donkey race, holding in my own jackass, and goading on my adversary's.
"Now for the muffin worry," says De Laney, as we stroll towards the house, having thrown down our implements of warfare.
"Yes," I say laughing; "we are all being walked off to have clean bibs and tuckers on!"
The Muffin Worry is an Aldermanic feast; a dinner in all but the name. Everything that a hundred‐guinea cook, silver epergnes, gold plate, hot‐house flowers, grapes as big as plums, and pines as big as pumpkins could do was done, and yet it all seemed to fall rather flat and dead somehow. Perhaps this was owing to the large preponderance of the fair sex; half a score of women being obliged to come page: 110 huddling in together. I am led into the room, where first Dick looked away my foolish heart, by Major Somebody—I did not catch the name—he wears golosches and his brother officers always talk of him as 'she.' On my other side is Violet Coxe. Ill‐natured he friends have christened the three Miss Coxes 'Free and Easy,' 'Freer and Easier,' 'Freest and Easiest,' Violet is 'Freest and Easiest.' Violet smokes Regalias, and calls men by their surnames to their faces. Lily smokes cigarettes, and Amaryllis does not smoke at all, because it makes her sick. Image to yourself the ne‐plus‐ultra of vulgarity, fastness, and good nature, and you have the gentle Violet.
"I never asked you about your spill the other night," she says, in her loud voice; "I had other fish to fry; ha! ha! you pitched on your head, didn't you, and kept flourishing your legs in the air, till Hugh Lancaster came and turned you right way up again.
"Oh, hush! hush!" I say in an agony of fear lest she should be overheard.page: 111
"Why it was not your fault, though I did hear some cock and bull story the other day, about the horses not having run away at all, and it's being all my grandmother!"
I flush crimson, and my eyes fill with tears.
"How cruel people are!" I say; "what a dreadful world it is!"
"Lor' my dear! he didn't mean to be cruel; he only thought you did it for a lark; I'd have done it as soon as look."
"Who was it said so?" I asked indignantly.
"Pon my honour I forget—oh yes, to be sure, it was that old rip Leroy—I remember now, because M'Gregor pitched into him so, when he said it, gave it him right and left."
My heart begins to beat wildly; I see the muslin of my dress agitated by its quick hard pulsations; here is an opportunity for getting some news of him.
"Mr. M'Gregor has gone to Ireland, I believe," I say faintly.page: 112
"Yes, poor old boy! he was as sick as a cat, I daresay, crossing; he's an awful bad sailor; we all cried when he went, and Ammy took to her bed, goodness knows why, for he never looked the same side of the room as her; good looking fellow isn't he? I always say that those destroying angels ought not to be let walk about loose, without tickets on their backs marked 'dangerous.'"
"He is handsome!" I say, turning away my head.
"Morty heard from him this morning, I saw his handwriting; and what did I do but open the letter and read every blessed word in it—wasn't Morty in a stew, oh no! not at all—and he sent his love to us all; wasn't it nice of him?" (He is not ill then; he can write to other people).
The room swims round me for a minute, then I seize a glass of water, and drink it.
"Was he—was he—pretty well?" I gasp.
"Oh, yes; he seemed very bobbish! he page: 113 said Cork was very jolly quarters, and there were heaps of pretty girls—goodness me what's the matter with you? why you are as white as the tablecloth—are you going to die?"
I do not die, though I almost wish to. Oh cruel, beautiful King Olaf! are you tired of me already? I knew that a poor stupid ignorant girl like me, was not a fit mate for you!
The long dull feast comes to an end, and the dancing begins in the marquee. There is the same band that they had at Wentworth; clack clack go the bones, and the fiddles squeak, and the everlasting weary tum te tum, tum te tum goes on again.
God knows I had not much inclination for dancing; but even tearing round and round, with dragging feet, and a heart as heavy as lead, is better than the inevitable alternative sitting out with Hugh. I have to dance with him of course.
"Come and take a turn outside," he page: 114 says, drawing me towards the scene of our late contest, where the limes' long shadows have thrown themselves all along upon the dewy grass, like black‐stoled nuns in prayer; and where the fountain is splashing and falling drip, drip, in silver showers in the moonlight.
"No, no!" I say hastily, drawing back, "I don't want to; the grass is wet."
"You did not seem to find it so just now, when you were sitting on those stone steps with De Laney ever so long," he says, rather affronted.
"Please don't tease!" I say with irritation.
"But there's something I want to say to you," he urges pertinaciously, catching my hand.
"For goodness sake, don't!" I say rudely; "I'm sure I should not like to hear it."
As we drove home that night Dolly said,page: 115
"Did Sir Hugh propose to you to‐day, Nell?"
"No," said I shortly, "and if he has a grain of sense he never will."


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KIPP students remind you to neuter your pet!
Davila students remind you to be kind to animals!
Improving reading skills
Community education
No more abuse and neglect!
Be part of the solution!
Spay, neuter, adopt, love!
Pet education, spay and neuter is the solution.
Stop the overpopulation!
learning to listen to animals
learning to listen to animals
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