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Kill me baby, the review. When I started watching Kill me baby, I didn't really know what to expect. Sure, I read it featured assassins and ninja's, fit into some random high school playground, but that was about it. The opening was horrible, so after the first watching, I skipped that altogether. On with the stor--- Oh wait.. It seems everyone forgot to actually hire anyone to write any kind of story? No worries! We'll just do a lucky star rip-of. What could go wrong? Well, other than the fact that I like my stories and that the concept has been done to death (take a few random... See full review
First of all, don't be dissapointed. This series contains cat girls as well! :) Story 5/10 There wasn't really much of a story to dog days. Some random guy got ported into a world full of dogs and cats, where they have friendly or not so friendly battles with eachother just for the sake of having battle(and money)(while typing that, a strange image of america came up with me, I don't know why). This kind of story has been done before, and it just had nothing new in itself(except for the cat and dog girls. Oh, there were guys as well, sometimes, in the background). So no a high score on the story... See full review
Suffered through this with me: Hesh Kämpfer Story 3.5 Titties, titties. Oh wait, you'd like hear about the story of Kämpfer. We've just summarized it in two words. The main storyline is involving Kämpfer fighting and ripping each other's clothes for no apparent reason. The Kämpfer are divided in two teams. Red, blue and white… but let's continue! Meet Natsure (boy mode). Who is a Kämpfer (girl mode). He spends most of his time being a girl that is being violated by all other... See full review
Co-writer in crime is Hesh. Find him here.. Or somewhere else Story 7/10 Everybody knows professor Layton from his puzzle games. These games involve professor Layton and his assistant solving all kinds of puzzles and with every puzzle or set of puzzle solved, you get further in the story. The movie is set up in the same way. Professor Layton is asked to solve a mystery by Janice Kathly. Janise's friend suddenly appears again in front of her even though she's supposed to be dead. The girl she met that day knew things only... See full review
I started this anime thinking it would be another one of those cloth ripping fighting between girls anime. It was that, but also much more. There has been put time in thinking about the progression of the characters even though the clothing in this anime has the tendency to rip the same way over and over again. The story is a bit plain, but that doesn't make it bad. Better a good story stolen than a bad one made. The animation, is awesome. Flashy battles and smooth moves in every episode. The special moves executed by the characters are nothing less than marvelous. I'd definetly recommend this anime to... See full review
Review made in cooperation with Hesh. http://www.anime-planet.com/users/Hesh Story 3.5/10 Occult is like a meal from a fast-food restaurant: Sure, it looks good enough and is tasty. But when you're done, you're still craving dessert. It starts off with the thing its promising: An occult academy. But as the story progresses, they keep on adding more random shit that we could've done without. They lose track of the main story very fast and making it feel very episodic (even worse, they take three episode per "mystery&rdquo... See full review
Story 6/10 An all school girls turned co? All the girl being perverts (instead of the male students)? Oh boy, I got to watch this. (my train of thought reading the synopsis). If you're looking for a decent plot or a nice story, go somewhere else. Seitokai yakuindomo doesn't have either of it. Seitokai yakuindomo is about an all-girls school turned co. The girls don't really mind this though; it's more like a dream come true for most of them. Through the whole series it's one perverted joke after the other. Most of them you can see coming from a mile away, but... See full review
Story 5/10 If someone would tell you the future is fixed and cannot be changed, would you tell them they're wrong? If someone would tell you that you will die and tell you the exact location, the way you're going to die and every detail possible about your death, would you not try to prevent it? Well, I can say that you wouldn't if you're a character from X TV. The story basically is about two groups of people, one who wants to destroy humanity and one who wants to preserve it. Thing is, the people from the destroy side don't necessarily want to destroy humanity... See full review


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Download IDF's latest Campaign Update here [2].
WHO Executive Board - January 2013
Diabetes was high on the agenda of the Executive Board of the World Health Organisation, held from 21-29 January 2013. WHO Member States focused on two important consultations for diabetes and NCDs - including to endorse the set of nine global NCD targets [3] and discuss the next Global NCD Action Plan (GAP) [4] 2013-2020. Member States are in support of the GAP's overall structure, but are in agreement with IDF and the NCD Alliance that more work is needed to before it is adopted at the World Health Assembly in May 2013. The NCDA Alliance gave a statement [5] at the Executive Board (EB) focusing on our critical priorities for the GAP, which are principally the need for leadership, resources, civil society engagement and a robust reporting system. The process to finalise the GAP is now as follows:
February: online consultation with member states, civil society and the private sector that IDF will participate in;
6-12 March: in person consultation with Member States, civil society and the private sector to inform WHO's final draft of the Global NCD Action Plan;
21-28 May: Global NCD Action Plan is adopted by governments at the World Health Assembly, Geneva.
You can read the NCD Alliance's analysis [6] of the First Draft GAP and watch this space for future updates on how to get involved.
Global Thematic Consultations on Post 2015 Development Agenda
As the process to define the post-2015 development agenda builds momenutum, the UN is convening a series of 11 consultations on different dimensions of global development. IDF and the NCD Alliance are influencing the important consultations for diabetes and NCDs - health, inequalities, food security and nutrition and environmental sustainability. Find out more about these consultations, and add your voice, through the UN's World We Want [7] online platform. Download IDF's responses to the thematic consultations on Indigenous Peoples and Inequality [8], E [9]nvironmental Sustainability [10], Food Security and Nutrition [11], and Health [12].
IDF's submission to the Global Thematic Consultation on Health has now been published [13] on the UN 'World We Want' website after review from an expert task team. Based on over a hundred submissions by leading academics, governments and NGOs, WHO have now released a synthesis report [14] on Health in the Post-2015 Agenda. We are pleased to see strong inclusion of diabetes and NCDs as priorities for future global development, and recognition that the post-2015 agenda 'offers a unique opportunity to focus attention on NCDs alongside the MDGs and harness new resources needed to address all health challenges'. IDF submitted a response to the synthesis report [15]in February.
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In their 2003 local residential awards, the New Zealand Institute of Architects described the Hartdegan's house as "a passionate and joyful building" responding to a complex site. Owners Ken and Eska think of it as a finely crafted machine for luxurious living. And as passionate architecture fans, they knew what they wanted.
They'd tested other parts of Auckland before finding the sloping, tree-covered site in Remuera. Ken had carefully researched award-winning Auckland architects before commissioning Leo van Veenendaal of VRLA. "People were nervous about the site," says Ken, "but it's the last pocket of 200-year-old trees here and we wanted to work around them."
They had a demanding brief for the house itself - it had to work as Eska's barrister's chambers and Ken's music studio. The style of the house reflects their passion for Craftsman architects Greene & Greene and early 20th-century furniture. "We could never copy," notes Ken, "but we were influenced by their craftsmanship and detail."
From the private right of way, the bagged-brick and copper-clad volumes of the house glow against the giant kauri and totara behind. The copper is coated to achieve the soft green patina. Horizontal timber slats and sliding shutters manage sun and privacy, paying homage to the Craftsman Japanese aesthetic. Each level delivers a different glimpse of the trees, with decks, courtyards and windows carefully sited to collect sun and views.
Graceful timber detailing also features inside, with glowing kwila floors and cedar joinery. Clever interior planning means that business clients arrive at the boardroom, with a view of treetops from folding glass doors. Eska's adjacent office enjoys the same peaceful outlook, while the storeroom is plumbed to become a future en suite.
Sliding doors separate the private side of the house from the business end, although the boardroom becomes the formal dining room when Ken and Eska entertain. Architect Leo loves coming for dinner and enjoying the tree views from the living room terrace and sliding timber windows. "You get the best views from your seat," insists Ken. The fireplace is mostly for effect, as gas central heating and insulation keep the house comfortable year-round.
Careful detailing by interior architect Paul Rosnell is evident, from the silky oak panels in the living room to clever built-in storage throughout. The separate, eat-in kitchen features tons of customised storage, including drawers in the kick-boards and a generous scullery/pantry room. The Craftsman aesthetic continues in the timber accents on soft grey cabinets.
Timber panelling and clever storage feature downstairs too, tucked into the tree trunks. In the spacious library, tall built-in bookshelves frame slivers of tree views, creating a calm space. Next door, a bright guestroom opens on to its own sunny courtyard. The two downstairs bathrooms share a similar palette of timber and tile, incorporating more clever storage and underfloor heating.
Insulated for sound and opening on to the woody slope, Ken's domain offers multiple possibilities. The suite of two rooms and bathroom is currently his music studio and office, but ideal for teenager or granny.
The third floor master suite is a real tree-top haven. "It's wonderful to live under the umbrella of the trees," they say. Grandchildren can sleep in the sunny fourth bedroom, or admire fat wood pigeons from the tree-top deck. Shuttered sliding windows collect morning sun, and pull breezes from the double-height atrium below. In the generous master bathroom, Eska loves her private bathtub among the trees, and the cleverly-fitted walk-in closet swallows her shoe collection.
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Whew. Nice to be home after being "on tour" for the last 2 months. H2K to Defcon to IS2K (Seoul) to Linuxworld. Next summer I plan to spend more time not travelling... except maybe for NYC or Las Vegas. Okay, back to work. I'm going to finish up some writing work I've been putting off and then I'll have more time to write code and/or manage the software projects I've already initiated. I'm trying not to stretch myself too thin, so I need to keep it simple. Writing, Francesca, skateboarding will probably end up turning into Day Job, Francesca, skateboarding, writing... when I finish writing it will become Day Job, Francesca (if she puts up with me), skateboarding, and project management.
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- A LADY in a picture once I saw
- Who reminded me of Mother—
- Now book and picture show me her no more,
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- I believe there is no other
- In all the picture‐books—at any rate
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10.16: History of Paleozoic Life
If you woke up and found yourself in the Paleozoic, would you recognize the planet?
Probably not. You'd see things like this bizarre soft-bodied animal. The creature had five eyes, and a long nose like a vacuum cleaner hose. This creature was found as a fossil in the Burgess shale.
Paleozoic Life
The Paleozoic saw the evolution a tremendous diversity of life throughout the seas and onto land.
Cambrian Explosion
The Cambrian began with the most rapid and far-reaching evolution of life forms ever in Earth's history. Evolving to inhabit so many different habitats resulted in a tremendous diversification of life forms. Shallow seas covered the lands, so every major marine organism group, including nearly all invertebrate animal phyla, evolved during this time. With the evolution of hard body parts, fossils are much more abundant and better preserved from this period than from the Precambrian.
The Burgess shale formation in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, contains an amazing diversity of middle Cambrian life forms, from about 505 million years ago. Paleontologists do not agree on whether the Burgess shale fossils can all be classified into modern groups of organisms or whether many represent lines that have gone completely extinct.
Paleozoic Evolution
Throughout the Paleozoic, seas transgressed and regressed. When continental areas were covered with shallow seas, the number and diversity of marine organisms increased. During regressions the number shrank. Arthropods, fish, amphibians and reptiles all originated in the Paleozoic.
Trilobites were shallow marine animals that flourished during the lower Paleozoic.
Simple plants began to colonize the land during the Ordovician, but land plants really flourished when seeds evolved during the Carboniferous (Figure below). The abundant swamps became the coal and petroleum deposits that are the source of much of our fossil fuels today. During the later part of the Paleozoic, land animals and insects greatly increased in numbers and diversity.
A modern rainforest has many seed-bearing plants that are similar to those that were common during the Carboniferous.
Mass Extinctions
Large extinction events separate the periods of the Paleozoic. After extinctions, new life forms evolved (Figure ). For example, after the extinction at the end of the Ordovician, fish and the first tetrapod animals appeared. Tetrapods are four legged vertebrates, but the earliest ones did not leave shallow, brackish water.
Permian Extinction
The largest mass extinction in Earth's history occurred at the end of the Permian period, about 250 million years ago. In this catastrophe, it is estimated that more than 95% of marine species on Earth went extinct. Marine species with calcium carbonate shells and skeletons suffered worst. About 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species (land animals) suffered the same fate. This was the only known mass extinction of insects.
This mass extinction appears to have taken place in three pulses, with three separate causes. Gradual environmental change, an asteroid impact, intense volcanism, or changes in the composition of the atmosphere may all have played a role.
- During the Cambrian explosion many more life forms evolved than at any other time in Earth's history.
- Today's fossil fuels originated in the tremendous number of plants that spread over the land during the Carboniferous.
- The major periods of the Paleozoic are separated by extinction events, the largest of which brought the end of the Paleozoic.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
1. What were the first creatures to dominate the land?
2. What happened 250 million years ago?
3. What is a flood basalt eruption?
4. What happened to the Earth's temperature during this extinction?
5. What occurs when the Earth's temperature raises 4-5 degrees?
6. When did the extinction event begin?
7. When did the marine extinction phase begin?
8. What caused the increase of carbon-12?
1. Give three reasons that the Cambrian is significant for the evolution of life.
2. How did extinctions during the Paleozoic lead to changes in life forms?
3. What brought about the Permian extinction?
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Before we meet today's author, I want to announce that the winner of the drawing for Crossing Oceans, by Gina Holmes, is:
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Now let's meet novelist Cerella Sechrist, author of Love Finds You in Hershey, Pennsylvania (Summerside Press, February 2010).
Cerella D. Sechrist makes her home in southern Pennsylvania, under an hour's drive from the sweet life in Hershey. Growing up, her family annually celebrated an event called "Cookie Baking Day" where everyone gathered to bake over 80-dozen cookies, including one of their specialties: Peanut Blossoms topped with a Hershey's kiss. It therefore stands to reason that her love of desserts is a genetic inheritance and not to be taken lightly. When dieting, she consoles herself with midnight viewings of the Food Network.
Please tell us five random things we might not know about you.
-- Growing up, I was homeschooled.
-- I just adopted two pug puppies.
-- Though my name is unusual, my mom actually got it out of a baby name book.
-- I have the same initials (and the same middle name) as both my brother and sister: our middle names are my mother's maiden name.
-- I am what my family calls "directionally dysfunctional" with the unfortunate inability to find my way out of a paper bag.
Please tell us a bit more about the plot of Love Finds You in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Chef Sadie Spencer has learned that in life, as well as in food, sour balances sweet. After returning to her deliciously charming hometown of Hershey with a young daughter in tow, Sadie has managed to rise from the ashes following the death of her husband, the passing of her mother, and the dissolution of her career as a TV chef. With the help and encouragement of her best friend, Jasper, she opens a restaurant and looks forward to savoring the sweet side of life.
That is, until a handsome Russian entrepreneur arrives in town, apparently intent on opening up his own restaurant in direct competition to hers. Sadie becomes obsessed with honing the one skill she's never had--creating desserts--to keep up with her adversary, and in the process, she finds a love that's simply icing on the cake.
What is it about your lead character that will make your readers care about her?
The best reason I can give is the one that made me care about my heroine, Sadie: I could identify with her need to be talented at something she simply wasn't good at. I think we all have a time when we have to recognize our limitations and let go of things we can't have in order to focus on what we already have. Of course, learning those lessons can be very difficult, and Sadie's struggle is extremely relatable.
Why will readers enjoy your novel?
Other than the blatant associations to chocolate?
I've had many readers tell me that reading Love Finds You in Hershey is like watching a movie: you can just "see" the events unfolding before your eyes. It's much like settling in with a romantic comedy flick. And don't forget to have chocolate munchies handy as you read.
Oh, my goodness, if you say chocolate one more time, my defenses will crumble.
If you were the casting director for the film version of your novel, who would play your lead roles?
In light of my response to the previous question, I have to say how much I enjoy answering this one!
For my heroine Sadie, I would choose either Sandra Bullock
or Jennifer Garner. They both seem like the kind of down-to-earth women you could spend an afternoon with--much like Sadie herself.
In the novel, Jasper's look is described as a "surfer dude gone country", so I always imagined him as a delightful blend of Owen Wilson
and Keith Urban.
Dmitri, Sadie's competitor, is darkly handsome, and I think Goran Visjnic is the perfect casting choice for him.
What is one thing you've learned about yourself as a result of your writing career?
I've learned the art of perseverance when things don't come easily. If you love something, if you feel called to it, you don't give up on it. It took me thirteen years to get published, and there were often days when I despaired of ever seeing a book in print. Writing has taught me my own limitations, but it's also stretched my character in ways I hadn't thought possible.
Choose an inanimate object to represent you. Explain what you have in common with that object.
I'll go with a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Sweet on the outside and a little nutty on the inside. (It helps that they're my favorite Hershey's candy.)
Excuse me for a moment.
"Aaaaaand we're back," she said, licking the chocolate from her fingers.
What is the last book you read that moved you?
The young adult novel: Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. It has some profound insight into teen suicide and the theory that everything we do matters--the way we touch another's life, for good or for ill, can have a lasting effect we may never fully recognize.
What are you working on now?
I'm researching my next novel--another foodie tale! These days, you can find me staying up late, watching the Food Network and flipping through cookbooks.
Where else can readers find you or your writing online?
The trailer for Love Finds You in Hershey can be viewed at my website. My website also features lots of extra features from Love Finds You in Hershey: recipes, Sadie's blog, a soundtrack, links, a photo gallery and more!
You can also visit my blog at www.thecerellalife.com or join me on Facebook.
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JACKSON – The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) would like to inform motorist of an upcoming traffic switch on U.S. Highway 45 in Lowndes and Noxubee County.
On February 6, at 8 a.m., MDOT will switch traffic from the existing U.S. Highway 45 south to the newly paved lanes, weather permitting. This four-lane project is located between Brooksville and Carson Road, and the new lanes will serve as the southbound lanes for the four-lane once the project is complete.
This $17,977,057.80 project was awarded to Phillips Contracting Company, Inc. of Columbus, MS. The project had a letting date of January 25, 2011 and is scheduled to be completed in March of 2014.
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By Tim Tutor/Pontotoc Progress
The Pontotoc High tennis team is still winning.
On Thursday of last week, the visiting Troopers of Mooreville fell to the Warriors of PHS, 5-2.
With visiting Region 1-4A competition just around the corner (Tishomingo County) on March 31, Pontotoc head coach Kevin Morrow was pleased with his charges effort last week.
"The win over Mooreville was a good win," he said."We're looking forward to hopefully getting Frankie Turner back in the lineup as she gets over an old injury."
After losses in both the boys and girls singles matches, the Warriors earned victories in the next five events.
Pontotoc's Cameron Timmons and Braden Timmons, in the No. 1 boys doubles, defeated Mooreville's Kelton Kingsley and Zach Shumpert in three sets, 6-2, 7-6, 7-1.
In boys No. 2 doubles, PHS' Jacob Hatcher and Deaton McAuley defeated Mooreville's Robert Jones and Dylan Lewis, 6-0, 6-1.
Pontotoc's Haylee Walker and Anna Chrestman, defeated Mooreville's Savannah Webb and Kacey Byrd, 7-5, 6-2, in the girls No.1 doubles match.
In girls No. 2 doubles, PHS' Ivy Robbins and Kristen Pennington defeated Mooreville's Morgan Sharp and Shelby Miller in three sets, 7-6, 6-3, 6-0.
Pontotoc's Jacob Ferguson and Katherine Downing, in mixed doubles action, defeated Mooreville's Jay West and Hannah Carr, 6-1, 6-0.
Mooreville's Marty Kelly defeated PHS' Ryan Henry, 6-4, 7-6, in the boys singles match, while the Trooper's Megan Rowland, in girls singles action, defeated Pontotoc's Shannon Montgomery, in a close one, 6-4, 6-4.


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Credit union moving to Carnegie and Frist centers, May 22
Posted May 8, 2006; 05:28 p.m.
The Princeton University Federal Credit Union will move to a new off-campus office at 104 Carnegie Center and increase its service offerings at the Frist Campus Center beginning Monday, May 22.
The credit union is moving from its current location in the Armory on Washington Road as part of the University's plan to construct a new chemistry building at the Armory site.
The new office at the Carnegie Center, which is off Route 1 in West Windsor Township, will provide a full range of services to credit union members. The credit union also will have a representative available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays on the 100 level of the Frist Campus Center, in addition to its existing ATM at that location.
The credit union serves some 10,000 members, including University employees and students as well as members affiliated with other local employers. For more information, visit the credit union's Web site.


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Looking Back - June 13, 2013
40 years ago, June 14, 1973
From the Country Echo
A new doctor, Dr. Michael Musty, started at the Pine River Clinic on July 1.
Cheryl Tweed, of Pequot Lakes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Tweed, received the St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing Centennial Club Award for 1973. The award was given in honor of the 100th anniversary of hospital schools of nursing.
30 years ago, June 16, 1983
From the Country Echo
The Nisswa Pickle Factory women's slow-pitch team increased its Crosslake League record to 2-0 after a victory over the Brother's Lodge team at Crosslake.
Jim Lee has re-joined the staff at KTIG as the station manager after a short break where he worked to get KTIG's sister station, KBHW in International Falls, on the air.
20 years ago, June 10, 1993
From the Country Echo
Our Savior's Lutheran Church finished adding a 25-foot high steeple, 40 years after the church building was completed in 1953.
The Crosslake-Ideal Lions donated a $20,000 computer filing system to the Pequot Lakes school library to replace the old index card system.
10 years ago, June 12, 2003
From the Lake Country Echo
(Advertisement) The Paul Bunyan Amusement Center in Baxter will close on Labor Day after 53 years of operation.
Eugene and Alvina Kennedy celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house on Sunday, June 22, from 1 to 4 p.m. at St. Alice Catholic Church in Pequot Lakes.


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I need to know some things about Foamboard guys
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2)can i get it at wal-mart?
3)is it paitible?
Also, what else to you use for dioramas? What is paster? Do you make it, or does it come as is? If you make it, please tell me how!
Anything else I should know before getting into the world of making dioramas?????


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Worst Pregnancy Advice
I remember when I was pregnant with my oldest child my mom told me that I shouldn't raise my hands above my head because it might cause the cord to be wrapped around the baby's neck. I knew it sounded ridiculous but I was young and scared and so for the entire nine months I never lifted my hands above my shoulders. Looking back on it now I realize how silly I was being.. This i just one of the numerous little tidbits of pregnancy advice I've gotten over the years from family, friends, and even well-meaning strangers.
What is the worst piece of pregnancy advice you've ever been given?
26th May 2012 07:21 AM #2
That one gave me a good laugh. LOL I swam with my last two babies, up to their due dates. Lots of raising of the arms above my shoulders for that, and both babies were just fine (no cord wrapping). Still chuckling over that one.
Can't think of any "wrong" well meaning pregnancy advice I was given. Anyone else?
28th May 2012 10:36 PM #3
Hee hee this post has made me giggle!
Hmmm let me see, I was told my a well-meaning friend not to bend forwards too far during pregnancy!
1st June 2012 10:28 PM #4
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When I was pregnant of my eldest son, I was told not to eat dark colored foods because elders said that it will stick on the skin of the baby forming different dark shapes around the body.
so for 9 months i decline eating dark colored foods.
2nd June 2012 12:52 PM #5
That is too funny! Eating dark foods will not affect a baby's skin color or create birth marks. Eating high quality foods that are dense in nutrients will help create a healthy baby with healthy skin, and that includes dark green leafy vegetables and dark red beets.
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Yes that is very tru ms. kate.
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9th June 2012 09:35 AM #8
I have heard something similar, that chocolate would cause the baby to have brown birth marks. I have a dark brown birthmark on my stomach that my mom calls a chocolate mark. =)
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13th July 2012 12:16 AM #10
It's such a shame there are so many pregnancy myths and so much bad advice out there. Particularly with a first baby, a woman can feel nervous and unsure as to what advice to follow. It's a great thing that this forum does it's bit to dispel these pregnancy myths which can be worrying for mums.
15th July 2012 04:08 AM #11
I agree LJ. Many of the myths are harmless, but there are so many that are negative and cause issues for new mums. Same with breastfeeding =/


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He won gold at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. This time around, in Vancouver, American speedskater Shani Davis once again swept past his competitors to earn the top prize in the men's 1,000-meter race, an event in which he already holds the world record.
Davis didn't even come close to winning his first two events during these Games, so Wednesday's win was a sweet comeback. "To go out there and win the 1,000 meter twice is truly amazing," Davis said.
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This will discuss ONLY the vehicle in the title of the thread (in this case Prince Xizor's Virago).
I will cover several unmade vehicles for the action figures per week, choosing them from a rotating schedule through the movies and the Expanded Universe.
I'll order it TPM, AOTC, ROTS, ANH, ESB, ROTJ, EU, and then keep going back through the order in that manner.
So here I'm only asking you if you'd buy Prince Xizor's Virago?
This ship (pictures below) could be made for the $24 starfighter assortment which has successfully sold EU vehicles.
The original intention was for Hasbro to make a Virago they'd desiged to be released with the Shadows of the Empire collection back in 1996.
I don't see this ship needing to do too much but fire maybe 4 plastic missiles for a play feature, and hold Xizor's and possibly Guri's figures with the cockpit arranged kind of like Jango's Slave-One.
The wings should close up for landings as shown in the one black and white photo, and maybe the firing guns should rotate around.
Note: to date, these EU ships have been polled for with the following results:
NO - Cade Skywalker's Mynock
NO - Yuuzhan Vong Corral Skipper Fighter
NO - Mara Skywalker's Jade Shadow
NO - Lando Calrissian's Lady Luck
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YES - Kyle Katarn's Moldy Crow
Also, a new and improved Outrider won as a vehicle from ANH (SE).
So do you want Prince Xizor's Virago made?
What other features would you want on it?
Why would you NOT want it?
How do you think it would sell if produced?
Xizor is 150 years old or something like that. Black Sun and the Prince with his ship could feasibly fit into the Clone Wars series. He was around at this time. Do you want to see Xizor become involved with the show and have the cartoon add this ship?


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As Allahpundit already noted in an update to his excellent post on John McCain's suspension of his campaign, Harry Reid went out of his way to tell him, "don't bother". However, as John McCormack notes at the Weekly Standard, that's just a day after Reid's insistence that McCain return to support the Bush administration's bailout plan. How soon they forget:
But yesterday, Reid demanded that the White House made sure the legislation had John McCain's backing, and Reid floated this bogus piece of news clearly intended to force McCain's hand: "I got some good news in the last hour or so … it appears that Sen. McCain is going to come out for this." McCain flatly denied that he had endorsed the plan.
So Harry Reid says that it's essential that John McCain backs legislation designed to avert the greatest economic meltdown since the Great Depression. And when McCain says the highly problematic legislation, in its current form, is not good enough, Reid tells McCain to stay away from Capitol Hill. Who's playing politics with economic crisis?
Well, everyone is, but this gambit from Reid is really transparent. He wanted McCain on the hook so that Reid could blame McCain for the political fallout. When McCain called Reid's bluff — and that's what appears to have happened here — Reid did what Reid always does: retreat.
I think Reid fears more than just the idea that McCain will "risk injecting presidential politics into this process or distract important talks about the future of our nation's economy." What Reid fears is that McCain will return to lead the Republican effort to reach a compromise, and the Senate and House GOP will let him do it. If McCain takes ownership of the bailout effort and manages to get his suggestions on limiting executive compensation and so on as part of the finished product, he will be able to trot McCain-Dodd on the campaign trail as yet another reform he's accomplished by working across the aisle. And in a time of crisis, no less.
And what will Obama be able to say? He gave a couple of speeches and raised cash for himself while McCain went to work for the nation.
If that's what McCain and the Republicans have in mind, this could be the coup of the entire campaign. While Obama went out and sucked up to fundraisers, McCain built the bipartisan compromise that saved the American financial system. If he succeeds, McCain will have trumped Obama on what should have been the Democrats' best issue.
Update: Here's the video from yesterday of Reid demanding leadership from McCain:
"We need, now, the Republicans to start producing some votes for us. We need the Republican nominee for president to let us know where he stands and what we should do."
Notice that Reid never demanded leadership from the Democratic nominee for President. I guess he already knows that would be a futile request.
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BROCKHURST HOUSE had slumbered all day long in the steady warmth of the July sun. The last three weeks had been rainless, so that the short turf of the uplands began to grow crisp and discoloured, while the resinous scent of the fir forest, at once stimulating and soothing, was carried afar out over the sloping cornfields and low‐lying pastures. Above the stretches of purple‐budding heather and waste sandy places, upon the moors, the heat‐haze danced and quivered as do vapours arising from a furnace. Along the under side of the great woods, and in the turn of the valleys, shadows lingered, which were less actual shadows than blottings of blue light. The birds, busy feeding wide‐mouthed, hungry fledglings, had mostly ceased from song. But the drowsy hum of bees and chirrup of grasshoppers was continuous, and told, very pleasantly, of the sunshine and large plenty reigning out of doors.
For Katherine the day in question had passed in Martha‐like occupations.—A day of organising, of ordering and countermanding, a day of much detail, much interviewing of heads of departments, a day of meeting respectful objections, enlightening thick understandings, gently reducing decorously opposing wills. Commissariat, transport, housing of guests, and the servants of guests—all these entered into the matter of the coming wedding. To compass the doing of all things, not only decently and in order, but handsomely, and with a becoming dignity, this required time and thought. And so, it was not until after dinner that Katherine found herself at leisure to cease taking thought for the morrow. Too tired to rest herself by reading, she wandered out on the troco‐ground followed by Camp.
London had not altogether suited the bull‐dog as the summer wore on. Now, in his old age, so considerable a change of surroundings put him about both in body and mind. Seeing which, Richard had begged his mother to take the dog with her on leaving town. Camp benefited, unquestionably, by his return to country air. His coat stared less. He carried his ears and tail with more sprightliness and conviction. Still he fretted after his absent master, and followed Katherine's footsteps very closely, his forehead more than ever wrinkled and his unsightly mouth pensive notwithstanding its perpetual grin. He attended page: 350 her now, squatting beside her when she paused, trotting slowly beside her when she moved, a silent, persistent, and, as it might seem, somewhat fatefully faithful companion.
Yet the occasion was to all appearances far from fateful, the night and the scene, alike, being very fair. The moon had not yet risen, but a brightness behind the sawlike edge of the fir woods eastward heralded its coming, while sufficient light yet remained in the western and northern sky for the mass of the house, its ruddy walls and ranges of mullioned windows, its pierced, stone parapet and stacks of slender, twisted chimneys, to be seen with a low‐toned distinctness of form and colour infinitely charming. Soft and rich as velvet, it rose, with a certain noble serenity, above its terraces and fragrant, red‐walled gardens, under the enormous dome of the tranquil, far‐off, evening sky.
Every aspect of this place, in rain and shine, summer and winter, from dawn to dark and round to dawn again, was familiar to Katherine Calmady. Coming here first, as a bride, the homely splendour of the house, and the gladness of its situation crowning the ridge of hill, appealed strongly to her imagination. Later it sheltered her long sorrow, following so hard on the heels of her brief joy. But, in both alike, during all the vicissitudes of her thought and of her career, the face of Brockhurst remained as that of a friend, kindly, beneficent, increasingly trusted and beloved. And so she had come to know every stick and stone of it, from spacious, vaulted cellar to equally spacious, low‐roofed, sun‐dried attic—the outlook from each window, the character of each room, the turn of each stairway, the ample proportions of each lobby and stair‐head, all the pleasant scents, and sounds, and colours, that haunted it both within and without. It might have been supposed that after so many years of affectionate observation and commerce, Brockhurst could have no new word in its tongue, could hold no further self‐revelation, for Lady Calmady. Yet, as she passed now from the arcaded garden‐hall, supporting the eastern bay of the Long Gallery, on to the level, green square of the troco‐ground, and stood gazing out over the downward sloping park—the rough, short turf of it dotted with ancient thorn trees and broken by beds of bracken and dog‐roses—to the Long Water, glistening like some giant mirror some quarter‐mile distant in the valley, she became sensible of a novel element in her present relation to this place.
For the first time, in all her long experience, she was at Brockhurst quite alone. The house was vacant even of a friend. For Julius March had, rather to Katherine's surprise, selected just page: 351 this moment for the paying of his yearly visit to a certain college friend, a scholarly and godly person, now rector of a sleepy, country parish away in the heart of the great Midlandshire grasslands. Katherine experienced a momentary sense of injury at his going. Yet perhaps it was as well. Between the turmoil of the past London season, the coming turmoil of the wedding and the large and serious issues which that wedding involved, this time of solitude might be salutary. To Katherine, just now, it seemed as a bridge carrying her over from one way of life to another. A but slightly known country lay ahead. Solitude and self‐recollection are good for the soul if it would possess itself in peace. The fair brightness of the Indwelling Light had not been obscured in her during these months devoted to the world and to society. But it was inevitable that her consciousness of it, and consequently its clear‐shining, should have suffered diminution at times. The eager pressure of things to be done, things to be seen, of much conversation, the varied pageant of modern life perpetually presented to her eyes and her intelligence, could not but crowd out the spiritual order somewhat. Of late she had had only time to smile upon her God in passing, instead of spending long hours within the courts of His temple. This she knew. It troubled her a little. She desired to return to a condition of more complete self‐collectedness. And so, the first movement of surprise past, she hailed her solitude as a means of grace, and strove, in sweet sincerity, to make good use of it.
And yet—since the human heart, if sound and wholesome, hungers, even when penetrated by godward devotion, for some fellow‐creature on whom to expend its tenderness—Katherine, just now, regretted to be alone. The scene was so beautiful, she would gladly have had someone look on it beside herself, and share its charm. Then thoughts of the future obtruded themselves. How would little Constance Quayle view Brockhurst? Would it claim her love? Would she embrace the spirit of it, and make it not only the home of her fair, young body, but the home of her guileless heart? Katherine yearned in spirit over this girl standing on the threshold of all the deeper experiences of a woman's life, of those amazing revelations which marriage holds for an innocent and modest maiden.—But oh! how lovely are such revelations when the lover is also the beloved!
Katherine moved on a few paces. The thought of all that, even now at forty‐eight, cut her a little too sharply. It is not wise to call up visions of joys that are dead. She would think of something else, so she told herself, as she paused in her rustling grey dress upon the dry, gravel path, the surface of which still page: 352 sensibly held the warmth of the sun, while Camp squatted soberly on his haunches beside her. But, at first, only worrying thoughts responded to her call.—It was not quite kind, surely, of Julius to have left home just now. It was a little inconsiderate of him. If she dwelt on the thought of that, clearly it would vex her—so it must be banished. Reynolds, the housekeeper, had really been very perverse about the turning of the two larger china‐closets into extra dressing‐rooms for the week of the wedding, and Clara showed an inclination to back her up in opposition. Of course the maids would give in—they always did, and that without any subsequent attempt at small reprisals. Still the thought of that, too, was annoying and must be banished.—At dinner she had received a singular letter from Honoria St. Quentin. It contained what appeared to Katherine as rather over‐urgent protestations of affection and offers of service, if at any future time she—the writer—could be of use. The letter was charming in its slight extravagance. But it struck Katherine as incomprehensibly penitent in tone—the letter of one who has not treated a friend quite loyally and is hot with anxiety to atone. It was dated this morning too, and must have been posted at some surprisingly early hour to have thus reached Brockhurst by the day mail. Lady Calmady did not quite relish the missive, somehow, notwithstanding its affection. It lacked the perfection of personal dignity which had pleased her heretofore in Honoria St. Quentin. She felt vaguely disappointed. And it followed that this thought, therefore, must go along with the rest. For she refused to be disquieted. She would compel herself to be at peace.
So, putting these small sources of discomfort from her, as unworthy both of her better understanding and of this fair hour and fair place, Katherine yielded herself wholly to the influences of her surroundings. The dew was rising—promise of another hot, clear day to‐morrow—and along with it rose a fragrance of wild thyme from the grass slopes immediately below. That fragrance mingled with the richer scents of jasmine, full‐cupped, July roses, scarlet, trumpet‐flowered honeysuckle, tall lilies, and great wealth of heavy‐headed, clove carnations, veiling the red walls or set in the trim borders of the gardens behind. A strangely belated nightingale still sang in the big, Portugal laurel beside the quaint, pepper‐pot summer‐house in the far corner of the troco‐ground, where the twenty‐foot, brick wall dips, in steps of well‐set masonry, to the grey, three‐foot balustrade. She never remembered to have heard one sing so late in the summer. The bird was answered, moreover, by another singer from the coppice, bordering the trout‐ page: 353 stream which feeds the Long Water, away across the valley. In each case the song was, note for note, the same. But the chant of the near bird was hotly urgent in its passion of "wooing and winning;" while the song of the answerer came chastened and etherealised by distance. A fox barked sharply on the left, out in the Warren. And the churring of the night‐hawks, as they flitted hither and thither over the beds of bracken and dog‐roses, like gigantic moths, on swift, silent wings, formed a continuous accompaniment, as of a spinning‐wheel, to the other sounds.
Never, as she watched and listened, had the genius of Brockhurst appeared more potent or more enthralling. For a space she rested in it, asking nothing beyond that which sight and hearing could give. It was very good to breathe the scented air and be lulled by the inarticulate music of nature. It was good to cease from self and from all individual striving, to become a part merely of the universal movement of things, a link merely in the mighty chain of universal being. But such an impersonal attitude of mind cannot last long, least of all in the case of a woman! Katherine's heart awoke and cried again for some human object on which to expend itself, some kindred intelligence to meet and reflect her own. Ah, were she but better, more holy and more wise, these cravings would doubtless not assail her! The worship of the Indwelling Light would suffice, and she would cease from desire of the love of any creature. But she had not journeyed so far upon the road of perfection yet, as she sadly told herself. Far from it. The nightingale sang on, sang of love, not far hence, not far above, not within the spirit only, but here, warm, immediate, and individual. And, do what she would, the song brought to her mind such love, as she herself had known it during the few golden months of her marriage—of meetings at night, sweet and sacred; of partings, sweet and sacred too, at morning; of secret delights; of moments, at once pure and voluptuous, known only to virtuous lovers. It was not often that remembrance of all this came back to her, save as a faint echo of a once clear‐sounding voice. Indeed she had supposed it all laid away forever, done with, even as the bright colours it had once so pleased her to wear were laid away in high, mahogany presses that lined one side of the lofty state‐bedroom upstairs. But now remembrance laid violent hands on her, shaking both mind and body from their calm. The passion of the bird's song, the caressing suavity of the summer night, the knowledge, too, that so soon another bride and bridegroom would dwell here at Brockhurst, worked upon her strangely. She struggled with herself, surprised and half angered by the force of her own page: 354 emotion, and pleaded at once against, and for, the satisfaction of the immense nostalgia which possessed her.
"Ah! it is bitter, very bitter, to have had at once so much and so little. Bow my proud neck, O Lord, to Thy yoke.—If my beloved had but been spared to me I had never walked in darkness, far from the way of faith, and my child had never suffered bodily disfigurement. Perfect me, O God, even at the cost of further suffering. It is sad to be shut away from the joys of my womanhood, while my life is still strong in me. Break me, O Lord, even as the ploughshare breaks the reluctant clod. Hold not Thy hand till the work be fully accomplished, and the earth be ready for the sowing which makes for harvest.—Give me back the beloved of my youth, the beloved of my life, if only for an hour. Teach me to submit.—Show me, beyond all dread of contradiction that vows, truly made, hold good even in that mysterious world beyond the grave. Show me that though the body—dear home and vehicle of love—may die, yet love in its essence remains everlastingly conscious, faithful and complete. Bend my will to harmony with Thine, O Lord, and cleanse me of self‐seeking.—Ah! but still let me see his face once again, once again, oh, my God—and I will rebel no more. Let me look on him, once again, if only for a moment, and I shall be content. Hear me, I am greatly troubled, I am athirst—I faint"—
Katherine's prayer, which had risen into audible speech, sank away into silence. The near nightingale had fallen silent also. But from across the valley, chastened and etherealised by distance, still came the song of the answering bird. To Katherine those fine and delicate notes were full of promise. They bore testimony to the soul which dwells forever behind the outward aspect and sense. Whether she fainted in good truth, or whether she passed, for a while, into that sublimated state of consciousness wherein the veils of habit cease to blind and something of the eternal essence and values of things is revealed—perception overstepping, for once, the limits of ordinary, earth‐bound apprehension and transcending ordinary circumscription of time and place—she could not tell. Nor did she greatly care. For a great peace descended upon her, accompanied by a gentle, yet penetrating expectancy. She stood very still, her feet set on the warm gravel, the night air wrapping her about as with a fragrant garment, the ghostly sweetness of that far‐away bird‐song in her ears, while momentarily the conviction of the near presence of the man who had so loved her, and whom she had so loved, deepened within her. And therefore it was without alarm, without any shock of amazement, that gradually she found her aware‐ page: 355 ness of that presence change from something felt, to something actually seen.
He came towards her—that first Richard Calmady, her husband and lover—across the smooth, green levels of the troco‐ground which lay dusky in the mingling half‐lights of the nearly departed sunset and the rising moon—as he had come to her a hundred times in life, back from the farms or the moorlands, from sport or from business, or from those early morning rides, the clean freshness of the morning upon him, after seeing his racehorses galloped. He came bareheaded, in easy workmanlike garments, short coat, breeches, long boots and spurs. He came with the repose of movement which is born of a well‐knit frame, and a temperate life, and the grace of gentle blood. He came with the half smile on his lips, and the gladness in his eyes when they first met hers, which had always been there however brief the parting. And Katherine perceived it was just thus our beloved dead must needs return to us—should they return at all—laying aside the splendours of the spirit in tenderness for mortal weakness. Even as the Christ laid aside the visible glory of the Godhead, and came a babe among men, so must they come in humble, every‐day fashion, graciously taking on the manner and habit common to them during earthly life. Therefore she suffered no shrinking, but turned instinctively, as she had turned a hundred times, laughing very softly in the fulness of content, raising her hands, throwing back her head, knowing that he would come behind her and take her hands in his, and kiss her, so, bending down over her shoulder. And, when he came, she did not need to speak, but only to gaze into the well‐beloved face, familiar, yet touched—as it seemed to her—with a mysterious and awful beauty, beholding which she divined the answer to many questions.
For she perceived, as one waking from an uneasy dream perceives the comfortable truth of day, that her love was not given back to her, for the dear reason that her love had never been taken away. The fiction of Time ceased to rule in her, so that the joy of bride and new‐wed wife, the strange, sweet perplexities of dawning motherhood were with her now, not as memories merely, but as actual, ever‐present, deathless facts—the culminating, and therefore permanent, revelation of her individual experience. She perceived this continued and must continue, since it was the fine flower of her nature, the unit of her personal equation, the realisation of the eternal purpose concerning her of Almighty God. The fiction of old age was discredited, so was the bitterness of deposition, the mournful fiction of being passed page: 356 by and relegated to the second place. Her place was her own. Her standing ground in the universal order, a freehold, absolute and inalienable. She could not abdicate her throne, neither could any wrest it away from her. She perceived that not self‐effacement, but self‐development, not dissolution, but evolution, was the service required of her. And, as divinely designed contribution to that end was every joy, every sorrow, laid upon her; since by these was she differentiated from all others, by these was she built up into a separate existence, sane, harmonious, well‐proportioned, a fair lamp lighted with a burning coal from off the altar of that God of whom it is written, not only that He is a consuming fire, but that He is Love.
All this, and more, did Katherine apprehend, beholding the familiar, yet mysterious countenance of her well‐beloved. And the tendency of that apprehension made for tranquillity of spirit, for a sure and certain hope. The faculty which reasons, demands explanation and proof, might not be satisfied; but that higher faculty which divines, accepts, believes, assuredly was so. Nor could it be otherwise, since it is the spirit, the idea, not the letter, which giveth life.
How long she stood thus, in tender and illuminating, though wordless, communion with the dead, Katherine did not know. The deepest spiritual experiences, like the most exquisite physical ones, are to be measured by intensity rather than duration. For a space the vision sensibly held her, the so ardently desired presence there incontestibly beside her, a personality vivid and distinct, yet in a way remote, serene as the immense dome of the cloudless sky, chastened and etherealised as the song of the answering nightingale; and in this differing from any bodily presence, as the song in question differed from that of the bird in the laurel close at hand.
Gradually, and with such sense of refreshment as one enjoys who, bathing in some clear stream at evening, washes away all soil and sweat of a weary journey, Katherine awoke to more ordinary observation of her material surroundings. She became aware that the dog, Camp, had turned singularly restless. He slunk away as though wishing to avoid her near neighbourhood, crawled back to her, with dragging hind‐quarters, cringing and whining as though in acute distress. And, by degrees, another sound obtruded itself, speaking of haste and effort, notably at variance with the delicate and gracious stillness. It came from the highroad crossing the open moor, which loomed up a dark, straight ridge against the southern horizon. It came in rising and falling cadence, but ever nearer and page: 357 nearer, increasingly distinct, increasingly urgent—the fast, steady trot of a horse. The moon, meanwhile, had swept clear of the sawlike edge of the fir forest; and, while the thin, white light of it broadened upon the dewy grass and the beat of the horse‐hoofs rang out clearer and clearer, Katherine was aware that the dear vision faded and grew faint. As it had come, softly, without amazement or fear, so it departed, without agitation or sadness of farewell, leaving Katherine profoundly consoled, the glory of her womanhood restored to her in the indubitable assurance that what had been of necessity continued, and forever was.
And, therefore, she still listened but idly to the approaching sound, not reckoning with it as yet, though the roll of wheels was now added to the rapid beat of the hoofs of a trotting horse. It had turned down over the hillside by the cross road leading to the upper lodge. Suddenly it ceased. The shout of a man's voice, loud and imperative, a momentary pause, then the clang of heavy, iron gates swinging back into place; and once again the roll of wheels and that steady, urgent, determined trot, coming nearer and nearer down the elm avenue, whose stately rows of trees looked as though made of ebony and burnished silver in the slanting moonlight. On it came across the bridge spanning the glistering whiteness of the Long Water. And on again, steadily and no less rapidly, as though pressed by the hand of a somewhat merciless driver, hot to arrive, bearer of stirring tidings, up the steeply ascending hill to the house.
Lady Calmady listened, beginning to question whom this nocturnal disturber of the peace of Brockhurst might be. But only vaguely as yet, since that which she had recently experienced was so great, so wide‐reaching in its meaning and promise, that, for the moment, it dwarfed all other possible, all other imaginable, events. The gracious tranquillity which enveloped her could not be penetrated by any anxiety or premonition of momentous happenings as yet. It was not so, however, with Camp. For a spirit of extravagant and unreasoning excitement appeared to seize on the dog. Forgetful of age, of stiff limbs and short‐coming breath, he gambolled round Lady Calmady, describing crazy circles upon the grass, and barking until the unseemly din echoed back harshly from against the great red and grey façade. He fawned upon her, abject, yet compelling; and, at last, as though exasperated by her absence of response, turned tail and bounded away through the garden‐hall and along the terrace, disappearing through the small, arched side‐door into the house. And there, within, stir and movement became momentarily more apparent. Shifting lights flashed out page: 358 through the many‐paned windows, as though in quick search of some eagerly desired presence.
Nevertheless, for a little space, Katherine lingered, the fragrance of the wild thyme and of the fair gardens still about her, the somnolent churring of the night‐hawks and faint notes of the nightingale's song still saluting her ears. It was so difficult to return to and cope with the demands of ordinary life. For had she not been caught up into the third heaven and heard words unspeakable, unlawful, in their entirety, for living man to utter?
But things terrestrial, in this case as in so many other cases, refused to make large room for, or brook delay from, things celestial. Two servants came out, hurriedly, from that same arched side‐door. Then Clara, that devoted handmaiden, called from the window of the red drawing‐room.
"Her ladyship's there, on the troco‐ground. Don't you see, Mr. Winter?"
The butler hurried along the terrace. Katherine met him on the steps of the garden‐hall.
"Is anything wrong, Winter?" she asked kindly, for the trusted servant betrayed unusual signs of emotion. "Am I wanted?"
"Sir Richard has returned, my lady," he said, and his voice shook. "Sir Richard is in the Gun‐Room. He gave orders that your ladyship should be told that he would be glad to speak to you immediately."


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Posted May 20, 2004; 04:34 p.m.
Jonathan Menard , a scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, received a Presidential Early Career Award at a White House ceremony May 4.
Menard was among 57 researchers to receive the award, which is the nation's highest honor for scientists and engineers at the outset of their independent research careers. The awards were presented by John Marburger, science adviser to the president and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
In addition to a citation and plaque, the recipients received a commitment from their sponsoring federal agency for continued funding for five years. Menard was among seven researchers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, which funds the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Menard also was one of five researchers to win the Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award from the Department of Energy.
Menard was cited for "performing studies to optimize the stability of fusion plasmas and providing the heart of the physics basis for a new, spherical fusion plasma reactor." Researchers at the Plasma Physics Lab are seeking to harness nuclear fusion, the reaction that powers the sun, as a safe and economical source of energy. The effort involves creating superheated gasses called plasmas.
Menard received a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992 and a Ph.D. in plasma physics from Princeton in 1998. He conducted postdoctoral research at the PPPL before joining the research staff in 1999.
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text: Tycho, the stealth ship pilot does sort of look like the figure, but the figure is actually the phase II clone pilot (as seen in this image of Warthog's newer gear). "Cat and Mouse" is indeed chronologically the first episode in The Clone Wars series, at a time when clone pilots were normally the same as they appeared in AOTC, aside from specialty pilots like the stealth ship pilot. This figure is based on the appearance that doesn't happen until quite a while later. (Why they didn't just switch to the ROTS gear, I do not know.) If you're able to get one, you could indeed repaint it, but it would be too inaccurate for an official Hasbro release.


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Track: "As She's Walking Away" (iTunes>)
Artist: Zac Brown Band & Alan Jackson
Won for: Best Country Collaboration With Vocals
Previous wins: Zac Brown Band was named Best New Artist in 2009; Alan Jackson won Best Country Song for "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)" in 2001.
Did you know?: This year's win for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals marked the second GRAMMY Award each for the Zac Brown Band and Alan Jackson. "As She's Walking Away" appears on Zac Brown Band's You Get What You Give, the follow-up to their 2008 major label debut, The Foundation. The album topped the Billboard 200 and Billboard's Country Albums chart, and the song reached No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart in 2010.
Detailing a man's hesitation to reveal his true feelings for a woman, the song was co-written by Brown and songwriter Wyatt Durrette, who was inspired to write the lyrics after seeing a girl at a bar. "It was just one of those circumstances where you see a pretty girl in a bar and you don't have the guts to walk over to say hello to her," Durrette told TheBoot.com in 2010. "You find yourself missing that chance and…kicking yourself when you leave. That's what sparked the song…'I'm falling in love as she's walking away.'" Aside from the harmonious vocals of Brown and Jackson, the track features pedal/steel guitar by Clay Clook and fiddle courtesy of Jimmy De Martini.
Both Jackson and frontman Brown were born in Georgia. Jackson received GRAMMY nominations for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals GRAMMY in 2003 for "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" and 2004 for "Hey Good Lookin,'" both featuring Jimmy Buffett. Buffett also appears on You Get What You Give, lending vocals on "Knee Deep."
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