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Good luck up there The rest of the country will see it soon enough. Just wait until it reaches a city like Chicago. Keep your pantry stocked...if you can afford to.
We live in Cuba now.
Good luck up there The rest of the country will see it soon enough. Just wait until it reaches a city like Chicago. Keep your pantry stocked...if you can afford to.
We live in Cuba now.
Turns out ALL the state of WI Senators did the 2 step and did not show up for a scheduled vote today!!
JFK ("Profiles in Courage") would be proud.
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Wisconsin Democratic Lawmakers Run!!!
Madison Law enforcement officers are searching for Democratic senators boycotting a Senate vote on Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair plan Thursday in an attempt to bring the lawmakers to the floor to allow Republicans to move forward with action on the bill.
One Democratic senator said that he believed at least most of the members of his caucus are in another state. At least one, however, Sen. Chris Larson (D-Milwaukee) said he was still in his Capitol office listening to constituents.
In a press conference just off the Senate floor, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) said that Democrats were "not showing up for work" and that police were searching for them to bring them to the floor.
"That's not democracy. That's not what this chamber is about," Fitzgerald said of the boycott to reporters.
Sen. Tim Cullen (D-Janesville) confirmed Thursday that Democrats are boycotting the Senate action on the bill in efforts to block a quorum and keep the measure from passing. Because 20 senators of the 33-member house are needed to be present to pass a fiscal bill, the body's 19 Republicans will not be enough to pass the budget repair bill without at least one Democrat present.
"They can't pass this bill if there's not a Democrat in the chamber," Cullen said.
Cullen said he believed most of the Democrats were now outside Wisconsin, though he declined to say where.
"I think they're all out of state. I am anyway," Cullen said.
Speculation in the Capitol pointed to Illinois as the state where Democrats had headed.
Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller (D-Monona) released a statement calling on Republicans to listen to unions and protesters calling for changes to the bill, which would cut benefits and almost all union bargaining rights for public employees.
"Democrats believe it is wrong to strip people of their right to have a say in the conditions of their employment and to use state law to bust unions," Miller said. "These people deserve to be heard and their rights ought to be respected."
Cullen said Democrats hope delaying the bill will give more time for union demonstrators to win over any possible wavering Republicans. He said the decision was made by other Democrats at a meeting at which he was not present.
Fitzgerald said he believed the last time such an action had happened was in the mid-1990s when the Assembly was at odds over a bill to help finance Miller Park. He said he was not sure how much authority law enforcement officials would have to compel Democrats to show up.
The tactic wasn't winning over Sen. Rob Cowles (R-Green Bay), a moderate whom unions had been trying to court to vote against the bill. Cowles called the blockage of the Senate vote an attempt to "shut down democracy."
The Senate convened at 11:30, with 17 Republicans but no Democrats present. After a prayer and the pledge of allegiance, action was immediately disrupted by demonstrators in the gallery shouting, "Freedom, democracy, unions."
Senate President Mike Ellis (R-Neenah) made a call of the house to bring the three additional senators needed to vote on the bill to the Senate floor.
If a Democrat does show up for the vote, a handful of GOP senators will decide the fate of Walker's bill.
The Senate is meeting amid massive demonstrations that have so packed the Capitol that movement outside the Senate chambers is difficult at best.
Spokesmen for the Republican governor and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) said they were confident that the GOP lawmakers had the votes they needed to pass the bill without further changes. Walker has said that the proposal's cuts to worker benefits and to decades-old union bargaining laws are needed to help balance the state's gaping budget shortfall in this year and the next two.
Republicans control the Senate 19-14, meaning they can lose only two votes and still pass the bill if all Democrats oppose it. Some Republicans have shown reluctance about the bill, though so far none have said publicly that they will vote against it.
Even after voting for the proposal in the Legislature's budget committee just before midnight Wednesday, Sen. Luther Olsen (R-Ripon) showed his concern about the effects of the proposal on workers.
"I will probably vote for it" on the Senate floor, Olsen said.
On a 12-4 party-line vote Wednesday, the Joint Finance Committee added new civil-service protections for local government employees and kept cuts to public worker benefits. The budget committee began debating the bill at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, after Republicans spent hours behind closed doors crafting the changes. The Senate and Assembly could now act on it as early as Thursday.
"This will pass in that form," Fitzgerald said.
The changes the committee adopted would require all local governments to create civil-service systems similar to the one for the state. It would also allow limited-term employees to keep their benefits. Some limited-term employees have worked for the state for years, and the original version of the bill would have taken away all their health care coverage and retirement benefits.
The debate in the committee was impassioned and at times emotional.
"People have said they're willing to sacrifice. Why are we going after people's rights?" asked Rep. Tamara Grigsby (D-Milwaukee).
But Rep. John Nygren (R-Marinette), whose wife is a teacher, said he believed the bill was needed to ensure schools are run efficiently.
"What about the right of the taxpayer to run a frugal school district?" Nygren said.
The changes did not appease the thousands of teachers and state workers who have filled the Capitol for two days.
They booed loudly as they learned the bill still would take away their union rights as they watched the committee proceedings on televisions mounted in the Capitol Rotunda.
"I think it's disgusting," said John Bausch, a Darlington music teacher in elementary and middle school.
"This is not what Wisconsin is all about. We've had collective bargaining for (50) years and to throw it all out without our say is a disgrace."
More are expected to come to the Capitol after Mary Bell, president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council, urged teachers and other Wisconsin residents to come to Madison on Thursday and Friday. She stopped short of asking teachers to walk off their jobs.
In Milwaukee, Superintendent Gregory E. Thornton said teachers are expected to be at work Thursday and Friday, and failure to do so, without a valid excuse, will result in disciplinary action.
WEAC's effort came as Madison schools closed Wednesday because more than 40% of teachers called in sick so they could lobby legislators. Madison schools will be closed Thursday for the same reason. Other districts also were considering closing.
Walker, who proposed the bill, said he was "disappointed" with the action by the Madison teachers and that he appreciates that other public employees are showing up for work. He said he respects workers' right to demonstrate but that he is "not intimidated into thinking that they're the only voices out there."
In a sign of the national attention the proposal is drawing, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has scheduled a telephone call with Walker for Thursday, said Jim Bradshaw, a spokesman for the federal agency. The Associated Press reported Duncan said Wednesday at a Denver conference of teacher unions and school administrators that the move in Wisconsin and other states to strip teachers of bargaining rights worries him.
In an interview with WTMJ-TV (Channel 4), President Barack Obama said public workers have to be prepared to make concessions but that he thought Walker's plan was unduly harsh on unions.
Walker offered the bill to help shore up the state's finances in advance of a budget to be delivered Tuesday that is expected to include major cuts in areas like aid to local schools and governments.
He first wants the budget repair bill passed to help clear up a $137 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year ending June 30 and ease solving a deficit of more than $3 billion over the next two years. The cuts to benefits would save taxpayers nearly $330 million through mid-2013.
Major elements of the budget-repair bill remain in place. It would require most public workers to pay half their pension costs - typically 5.8% of pay for state workers - and at least 12% of their health care costs. It applies to most state and local employees but does not apply to police, firefighters and state troopers, who would continue to bargain for their benefits.
Except for police, firefighters and troopers, raises would be limited to inflation unless a bigger increase was approved in a referendum. The non-law enforcement unions would lose their rights to bargain over anything but wages, would have to hold annual elections to keep their organizations intact and would lose the ability to have union dues deducted from state paychecks.
The most significant change the Joint Finance Committee approved would require local governments that don't have civil-service systems to create an employee grievance system within months. Those local civil-service systems would have to address grievances for employee termination, employee discipline and workplace safety.
The bill also gives Walker's Department of Health Services the power to write rules that would change state laws dealing with medical care for children, parents and childless adults; prescription drug plans for seniors; nursing home care for the elderly; and long-term care for the elderly and disabled outside of nursing homes.
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The news from that region indicates it was pretty orchestrated eh? All the Democrats loaded up on a bus and left town???
And the Dingy Harry followers are so sure it's the Republicans that are going to shut down the government. Don't think Obama's warriors aren't involved in all this crap.
Hang in there RK. Your Gov has plenty of the TEA Partiers in full support of his party's activities. What your state has begun is just that...the beginning of all these folks on the public dole suddenly realizing the democrats that dole it out, have run out of other peoples money.
Please don't look at this as I'm gloating. It's just reality setting in, and has been predicted by way more intelligent folks than me.
Before you liberals chastise all the Republicans for being the cause of these type of cuts, how arrogant must you be while on the public payroll, to think those pensions and bennys will continue forever? Now that the coffers are empty, how many want to continue to squeeze blood from that dry turnip?
The realization has to start smacking the Democrats along side the head pretty soon. Even their toady support of such luminaries as Cuomo in NY, and the left's beloved "Moonbeam" in California have seen the writing on the wall, and what Christy has done in NJ and Walker is doing in Wisconson will pale compared to what those two states will need to do.
The POTUS and his followers can claim "union-busting" all they want, but it's just simple reality. When the chips are down...the buffalo is empty.
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
Oh.....the humanity!!!!!
It has been reported that in 1 district some kids were picketing in front of their schools with signs reading;
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I heard they have been located by the media in IL. When are you guys in WI gonna start extradition procedures?
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I would over haul the whole education system in every state. Public schools would be funded for all legal residence until the fifth grade. At that time a free public education would be provided to the top ten percent of students. The next forty percent would be provided a public education, but their parent would pay for it. The higher the rank the lower the cost. All other students would have to go to private schools. Each year the students would take another test and be grouped based on their ranking. This system should be able to sustain the pay of the teachers and since the bottom half of students will one day end up on public aid I see no need to waste education dollars. The students will work harder to move up in ranking because their parents will be pushing them to work to their fullest ability. All education dollars will go only to core education.
This idea is borrowed from my daughters law school funding department. To get into the school the students take the LSAT and along with grades are ranked. The student at the top gets the most aid and as the ranking goes down so does the aid, there is just so much aid money that the students in the lower rankings pay full price. Each year of school the students are ranked again. The aid is adjusted based on ranking. This is a private school and all the gifted money comes from private sources.
Athletes and special needs students have more educational benefits than the best and the brightest. I have no problem with talented kids playing sports, but the money should not come out of the education budget. If you want your kid to play then pay for it yourself or get a sponsor. Also I have no problem in helping special needs students, but I do not think I should pay for their food, transportation, and their study materials. Is this not every parents duty to meet these needs?
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Speeding Up by Falling Down
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Look up—way, way up. This photo shows New York City's iconic Empire State Building. It rises majestically for a total of 102 stories above street level.
The Back Story
- According to an urban myth, a penny dropped from a skyscraper like the Empire State Building will turn into a lethal weapon by the time it reaches the ground.
- The reason? Acceleration due to gravity will increase the speed of the penny so much that it will be speeding like a bullet by ground level.
- Is this just a myth, or is it true? That's what Discovery Channel's Mythbusters wanted to know.
- The Mythbusters accelerated a penny to the maximum speed it would have if it had dropped from the Empire State Building to the ground. Watch this video to see what happens to concrete, skulls, and skin when struck by the speeding penny:
Can You Apply It?
At the link below, learn more about how things speed up by falling down. Then answer the questions that follow.
- What is terminal velocity? What is the terminal velocity of a penny that falls off a skyscraper?
- Identify and explain the two forces that act on a falling object and determine its terminal velocity. When does terminal velocity occur?
- How does a penny's shape and weight affect its terminal velocity?
- Review velocity-time graphs at the following link: http://www.saburchill.com/physics/chapters/0002.html. Then sketch a graph to show how the velocity of a penny changes as it falls from a skyscraper to the ground.
- Describe what happens when a penny at terminal velocity strikes concrete, a skull, and skin.

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A Priori Nonsense and Ineluctable Truth (12.20.08)
I didn't engage in the ensuing debate because it's another one of those things that's not only wrong, but not even wrong. Few people are more hidebound, parochial, and unsophisticated than the typical liberal professor, who lives in such a small, closed circle that it's pretty easy to "prove" whatever they need to prove in order to keep reality at bay.
Academia (as always, we are speaking of the humanities, not the hard sciences) has essentially been reduced to a domain of rationalism, which, in the absence of metaphysical truth, quickly becomes sub-rationalism and irrationalism. As I have noted in the past, there are only three methods of gaining knowledge about the world, 1) logic and empiricism (i.e., inductive and deductive reasoning), 2) revelation, and 3) pure intellection. Obviously, the vast majority of liberal academics categorically reject the latter two categories, which leaves only the reason, narrowly construed.
Now, reason is a method. It is empty until it is provided with content that has to come from elsewhere. In short, reason cannot provide its own content. So something other than reason has to provide it, and here you see at once the gap through which so much modern nonsense rushes in. Because these metaphysical yahoos of the academic left will rely on a sham substitute for revelation and intellection to provide the missing content.
Here we touch on the question of pure intelligence, for it is fair to say that the intellect itself is an interior revelation, while revelation represents exteriorized intellect. They are two sides of the same coin, and both flow from a higher source, which can be none other than Truth. But again, the liberal does not and cannot know any of this. However, sustained reflection should convince you that the intellect is a function of Truth, rather than vice versa -- just as something is not true because it is logical, but logical because it is true.
It has always been understood that the key to being a great scientist is the ability to identify a promising and generative problem. Here again, this mysterious process is completely a-logical. We cannot say it is "illogical," but it definitely doesn't obey the formal operations of mere linear logic. Rather, the ability to "see" an interesting problem -- and its potential solution -- is much closer to the realm of aesthetics than to logic.
Einstein, for example, was a mediocre mathematician. He did not arrive at his revolutionary theories through any strictly logical process, but by applying pure intelligence to problems that intrigued him but not others. Not only did he "see" the solution to those problems before he worked them out mathematically, but he was one hundred percent convinced that what he saw was true, regardless of empirical studies that didn't confirm his theory of gravitation until 1919. When asked what he would think if the empirical results did not support his theory, he replied, "I would feel sorry for dear old God. My theory is correct."
A couple of weeks ago I told the story of how I not only managed to bluff my way into graduate school, but once there, continue bluffing beyond the abilities of classmates who, unlike me, actually had undergraduate degrees in psychology. How did I do this? It took me a while in life to find my path, but once on that path, I definitely "knew" things that came to me in a non-empirical way. And in fact, looking back on it, I am quite sure that if I had begun studying psychology when in was 18 or 19, accumulating and memorizing what passes for psychological knowledge in academia, I would have in all likelihood buried this capacity for direct knowing under a load of received nonsense. Like so many academics, I would have been "educated" at the cost of my intellect.
Again, I always use the term "intellect" in its time-honored way, as that which allows the human being to distinguish between substance and accidents. Intellection is direct knowledge of reality, very much analogous to physical perception. If you see something with your eyes, no one will ask you to prove the existence of sight. But in our current anti-intellectual climate, if you perceive something equally vividly with the intellect, you will be asked to provide logical proof -- itself a wholly illogical demand.
In reality, only an intellect of equal or greater depth can judge the claims of the intellect. And there is no rational basis whatsoever for determining who has the deeper intellect. It is only something we can know with our own awakened intellect. I can assure you that, for example, Frithjof Schuon's intellect is infinitely deeper than, say, Richard Dawkins' -- indeed, it couldn't be more obvious. But can I prove it with logic? Of course not, any more than one can prove the greater artistic depth of one musician over another.
So in approaching these studies that prove conservatives are somehow maladjusted, you must first try to imagine the puny intellects of the researchers, and the problems that intrigue them as a result of that puniness. Obviously, trapped within the constraints of their narrow vision, they felt that it was worthwhile to study the link between conservatism and maladaptive personality traits, because their little minds already saw the connection. Therefore, it was just a matter of confirming their prejudice.
A deeper intellect will see much different problems. Reality is hierarchical and layered, so that something that is true on a shallow level may be false on a deeper level. Again, academia confines itself to such a superficial level, that it ends up being a self-reinforcing enterprise. For example, few things are more fascinating to the bovine intellects of academia than diversity, a construct which holds not the slightest bit of interest to an intellect of greater depth. So how do you even debate a person who thinks that skin color is of vital importance? There's nothing to discuss, because I honestly don't remember how to be so stupid, whereas they frankly don't have the capacity to be any deeper.
I saw a beautiful example of this incredible stupidity on dailykos yesterday. It was written by a couple who are deeply disturbed at the prospect of the Supreme Court putting an end to government mandated racial discrimination, because of the effect it will have on "diversity." They are presently in the process of selecting a school for their kindergarten aged daughter. They have about seven schools to choose from and are weighing a number of criteria, including -- I kid you not -- "number of GLBT families and GLBT-friendly staff" and race: "Specifically, the balance of race.... We eliminate from consideration ANY school that has more than 60% of a single ethnic group." Naturally, they have had to eliminate several "excellent schools," but one wonders how they can be simultaneously excellent and insufficiently diverse?
The writer claims that "we want [our child] to learn that the real world is one of many different types of people of different races, sexualities, ethnicities, languages, etc., to learn not to make judgements based on race or religion or ethnicity." But by indoctrinating their daughter to believe that race determines anything, aren't they teaching just the opposite? That we should by law be forced to make such odious distinctions? They also say they want their daughter "to learn that many different viewpoints can come to the truth better than just a few." How can this absurd statement possibly be true? Truth is true, irrespective of whether a million people believe it or no one believes it. But for the multiculturalist, all falsehoods are equally true.
Which comes back to my original point about the silly studies linked to yesterday. From the moment I entered graduate school, one of the issues that most fascinated me was this question of psychopathology. We all know that mental illness exists -- although even then, there was a big movement among leftist psychologists in the 1960's arguing that mental illness didn't really exist, and that it was essentially a designation assigned by the powerful to the powerless.
But to say "mental illness" is to say "mental health," and to say "mental health" is to say design and function. In short, the mind, just like any other organ, was designed to do something. To the extent that it fails to achieve this end, it is in a state of pathology, or ill health.
So before we address the question of whether conservatism is a form of mental illness, we must first determine what the mind was designed to do. I didn't read the studies, but I seriously doubt that the researchers took it upon themselves to do this. Nor will I be able to do so today, because I've just run out of time. Perhaps tomorrow, if anyone's interested.


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Dec 26, 2009
Christmas Eve Finally & Abby Challenges Landis to Dance Contest
Abby and I had a long day but in the end I feel more encouraged than I have in a while. We left for the hospital at 8:30 in the morning and weren't home until 7 PM. The spinal tap itself didn't take very long but Abby didn't wake up until 6 hours after the procedure. I am not sure why it is taking her so long to wake up after the sedation is over. Fighting cancer is hard work and many of the medications she is taking can make you tired. It may just be the pain from the headache is gone and she can finally relax.
Whatever the reason, Abby had a wonderful 6 hour nap at the hospital and when she got home had the energy to run, play and dance. Seeing her beautiful smile again made me thankful we decided to drive through all of that ice and snow.
Thank you for praying for us today. The drive was a little nerve-racking, driving on ice and snow is not a skill I have perfected. Praise God we didn't slip once while we were driving or walking on it. I watched a lot of other cars slip and slide, but thankfully we didn't join them.
Abby was a little nervous as they were beginning her spinal, but over all was very relieved to know they were going to do it. She has learned that they take the pain away for a while and was thankful they were willing to help her.
While in the past Abby has been hard to keep comfortable, today Abby sedated beautifully for the spinal. I was with her the whole time and was very pleased with how it went.
We now suspect Abby's throat muscles are weak from the chemo. When she is sedated the weak muscles become too relaxed and Abby has to work harder than normal to breath. It is hard to listen to the sounds she makes while she is sleeping off the sedation but I am learning that Abby is up to the challenge.
Abby's intracranial pressure is still too high but it is lower than it has been since this started. The Diamox seems to helping some and the side effects are minimal. The on-call doctor, who did the spinal, was willing to increase her Diamox today. I am grateful we are moving towards a solution for Abby. God is good. Thank you for caring enough to pray for Abby.
From Brent
Abby Challenges Landis to a Dance Off
Get the kids, turn up the volume!!!
Abby's smile is back. Tonight Abby left Santa a plate full of sweets and went to bed dreaming of Christmas. I can't wait to watch her open her gifts. Oh yeah, she also challenged Landis to a dance contest... click here to view...
You get to pick the winner... leave your comments about the winner.
19 comments:
- Pam, mom, honey, said...
okay i think spidey boy has more movement but abby has more moves. MMMMMMMMMM, how about a tie and they both get a lollipop
- December 27, 2009 at 6:30 AM
- rubia said...
lol. That's great. Both kids seem to be having a blast. If I were to pick a winner, I'd have to vote for Landis.
- December 27, 2009 at 7:35 AM
- Debbie said...
What an answer to prayer! Praise God. I will update my last post on Heart Choices to share the news with many blogging friends who have been praying for Abby. But I will continue to pray. Yay God!
- December 27, 2009 at 7:56 AM
- Jess said...
Loved the dancing! It's definitely a tie! First place to both of your cuties! I am so happy to see Abby with such energy!
- December 27, 2009 at 8:01 AM
Merry Christmas to the entire Riggs family! Abby is such an inspiration to all of us as she suffers through pain and cancer and all it brings with it with such grace.
The video is priceless! I am not sure how anyone could possible pick a winner, but if I must -- Landis. Abby's smile and her booty shake is priceless, but it is Landis' expressions that did it for me.
- December 27, 2009 at 9:28 AM
- Mom to 9 Blessings! said...
Too cute Brent! Praising God it went well yesterday for Abby!
I think the bottom shake wins by Abby!
Love you all!
- December 27, 2009 at 9:55 AM
- Cathy said...
Bless her precious little heart, dancing like that. I am glad she is better.
- December 27, 2009 at 12:54 PM
- Jennifer said...
Well, this is a hard one...I think that Landis has a great variety of moves and style. However, seeing Abby in action and knowing what she had been through, I think she may pull it off. I feel confident that she could have busted even more moves on a better day.
I also look at the faces of both and see love, joy, fun, and happiness. With that, I say that their parents and family are the winner to get to have the gift of these two children (They are also blessed to have you). Thank you for sharing.
- December 27, 2009 at 1:20 PM
- Are These Kids All Yours? said...
So glad you made it safely home!!! :)
- December 27, 2009 at 4:37 PM
- Debi said...
So fun to see both. Loved Landis' expression and moves and Abby's "shaking her bootie like a duck"..Too funny.
Continued prayers are going up for sweet Abby and your family.
Love and hugs and prayers,
- December 27, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Definitely a tie! Abby has the great booty shakes, Landis has the great arm movement. What a precious, fun video. So glad Abby is feeling good!
- December 27, 2009 at 5:36 PM
- Personalized Sketches and Sentiments said...
Praise the Lord for your good report...of Abby's smile and rest! And for all of you to continue to be strengthened!
Yay! I finally have a few free days off to read some great blog posts! Boy! Sure have missed that!)
Hope your Christmas was a very blessed one!
Mele Kalikimaka & Hau'oli Makahiki Hou! (Hawaiian for Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!)
Blessings & Aloha!
- December 27, 2009 at 6:21 PM
What I really want to see is Brent and Michelle doing this same dance!!! PLEEEEZE!!
Be a sport guys! It's for the kids,right! And blog the video please ;)
- December 27, 2009 at 8:26 PM
- Jerry and Christy said...
Abby's little bottom shake is so cute.
Just wanted to let you know our whole church prayed for Abby today. My husband is an elder and he felt led to pray for her before communion. We always have a prayer for a special need just before communion. I have been praying for Abby ever since I saw your blog. Glad she had some relief today.
- December 27, 2009 at 11:48 PM
- hannahshope said...
What wonderful news! We are rejoicing with you. We pray that your Christmas day today will be filled with joy and that you will feel God holding you all so close. We will continue to pray that God will bring healing to Abby's little body! We love you guys!
Sam (Hannah's mom)
- December 28, 2009 at 5:21 AM
- Heather said...
They are too cute. I am glad that she is home and feeling a little better.
Landis has some moves, but Abby's little booty shaking is hilarious. She reminds me of my own 5 year old Abby who shakes her booty when she dances. It must be the age!
- December 28, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Okay. Here it is. If I was a "legit" judge, I would have no choice than to give them BOTH a FIRST place for different reasons! This is why...Landis, I'm convinced that Landis could well be a "natural" at dancing! Oh, yes, that little guy definitely can move!
Abby, on the other hand shakes her little "BOOTIE" like no one can! And, she had the most smiles showing she throughly enjoyed dancing; therefore, making it great fun to watch her! She caused me to smile! Both had me laughing and laughing and laughing!!!
I am going to keep this one in my "favorites!"
I do wish I had been there to see them perform in person! It had to have been even better!
Thanks for sharing, Brent!
Praying for Abby.
Bobbie B.
- December 28, 2009 at 10:59 AM
- Tisha said...
It is a tie! They both just made my day. :) So glad that Abby is home!
- December 28, 2009 at 3:44 PM
- Kimmie said...
You guys are a hoot. Landis and Abby are great dancers, I think Abby's but wiggle is a riot. I'd have to say you had my kids mesmerized with your dancathon.
Glad Abby is home and that the spinal tap helped with her headache. We will continue to pray. We look forward to the day that all of this will be behind her (and you) and healed will be the only word you have to type when speaking of cancer.
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Picked up Cody finally at Burbank today, and Galleria had CW Wave 3 so I got Plo Koon and the two IG-86s. They had two Asajj, two Dooku, and 1 3PO when I left. Didn't like the paint on either Asajj or I'd have gotten one of those also.
IG-86 is a fun droid. Army-builders who like articulation, there you go. Have at them. Ball-hinge hips, shoulders, elbows, ankles... swivel waist, wrists, head... and hinged 'fingers'. Joints all move smoothly, the guns fit well in the hands and on the pack. I wish there were some regular Battle Droids like THIS guy.


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I myself didn't get a chance to attend for my own reasons (wife dragged me elsewhere), but I am very curious as to how it fared.


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The reason for the sea turtle exhibit is that we want to educate the public on [sea turtle] conservation efforts. We want to make sure that the public gets a better understanding and appreciation for marine life. That is our whole goal here: that people understand marine life and oceans and are more willing to conserve them.
Where did you find Ozzy, a loggerhead sea turtle featured in the exhibit?
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int lastValue;void setup(){ Serial.begin(115200); // send data as fast as possible; DDRD = B00000010; // sets Arduino pins 2 to 7 as inputs ( 0 and 1 are serial port they are input and output ) lastValue = PORTD & B11111100; // read pins 2 to 7 , mask of bit 0, 1 (they are the serial port)}void loop(){ int x = PORTD & B11111100; if (x != lastValue) // if a new value found for the pins 2 to 7 { lastValue = x; // remember it and Serial.println(x, DEC); // send it to the PC. }}
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Steve Vai Joins Jimi Hendrix Tribute Tour
GW Jimi also blazed new trails in regard to how one could express oneself with the guitar, with his use of the whammy bar, effects and unusual techniques, which is something you have done throughout your career, as well.
VAI The guitar itself is such an infinite creature. There have been so many great guitarists, all of whom have had their own unique approach and sound. The instrument is capable of whispering and of roaring, and I like to try to utilize all of the dimensions of the guitar whenever I can. Hendrix had some really colorful dimensions, and he pretty much invented those colors himself. We sometimes take for granted how those things have become so much a part of our vocabulary as guitarists.
A lot of things about his approach to the guitar were distinct. It wasn't just a technical tool for him like it is for a lot of people today; he would never have sat down and taught a master class about his playing, and it's so rare to hear him talking about his strings or his amplifier or demonstrate a piece of gear. That concept didn't even exist back then—the guitar was just the instrument that he played, and it was his tool for expression. And one of the beautiful things about him was, as an expression of his youth, he was so fearless and courageous. When you look at the pictures of his lyric sheets, with certain words scratched out, and then you listen to the song and you can hear that he'd continued to tinker with it, you get the impression that he definitely had a vision for his music and it wasn't solidified in any given moment. He worked on his music constantly, and that in and of itself is inspiring.
GW What would you say is the greatest challenge of performing Jimi's music on this tour?
VAI The real challenge is presenting the tracks in a respectful way, not just as a pantomime of someone else's genius, with the hope of making it entertaining. When you hear the melody of a song that you love, it has a way of moving you. Even when I hear someone play something like, for example, the main riff in "Purple Haze" or "Little Wing," there's always an appreciation for that performer, but there's also a feeling of the intense mystique about the music and about Jimi himself. I'd like to try to retain that feeling the best that I can, so that people will be able to appreciate the song for the song. It's a very delicate responsibility to try to take one of his songs into another direction or area and not stomp on it. The goal is to try to keep that exquisite thread that is him that runs through all of his songs.
GW For this tour, you've picked a nice cross-section of songs to play: "May This Be Love," which is a beautiful ballad, "Love or Confusion" and the crushingly heavy "Midnight."
VAI These are three Hendrix songs that I've been dying to play for years, and they are all songs that I used to play with my high school band. "Midnight" is such a great track, one that's under the radar because it was on an album [War Heroes] that was not as well known as some of the others. I think it's one of Jimi's greatest guitar performances ever. The tone is incredible, and my favorite part is where the track sounds out-of-tune toward the end due to the studio flanging. The sound of that track is so interesting, and I have no idea how they got it.
"May This Be Love" has always been a touching song for me. As a song, it's very simple and sweet, but he sort of reinvented the guitar with every song he ever recorded, and I love this invention. The tonality of the song, his touch…I'm going to do different stuff, because I can't get that tone, and I don't want to even try to sound like him. It's a very peaceful song, the way he effortlessly plays through the chord progression, and the way in which he decided to use the delay and run his guitar along the mic stand at the beginning. That song is like a little capsule of one side of Jimi, and it's a treasure. When I was a teenager, I used to sit and play along to the solo section over and over.
The way he plays that solo, all on one string, is something that I'd never heard before, and it's fascinating. That entire approach was an entire frame of mind, and he grabbed onto this atmosphere and made it come out of his fingers. There's no explaining it, and you'll never hear him explaining it to someone. He wouldn't say, "Well, I put my first finger on the fourth fret, and then pull off and slide down"; he'd be more likely to say, "Just pretend there are no strings on the guitar!" That's what that song is. When you listen to the way he phrases his lines, it's a profound language, like sentences from another planet.
"Love or Confusion" is great too. Just the lyrics, "Is that the stars in the sky or is it the rain falling down?" and the way the feedback guitar just screams through the entire track. Forget it—that's another one of those moments where the meaning of cool has been completely redefined. If you listen to all of the "flower power" music through the Sixties and what was popular on the radio at that time, the attitude and atmosphere of his music changed the terrain completely, giving the music a different dimension that's so authentic and sincere, and inspired.
For example, "She's So Fine," from Axis: Bold as Love, was the only song not written by Jimi; it was written by Noel Redding. That song epitomizes a sound that was considered hip, and pop and mod in the Sixties, but to me it already sounded dated by the time I heard it. It's a Sixties hippy song, and it's funny, but next to the Jimi songs on the record it sounds pretty lightweight. The coolest part of the whole song is Jimi's end solo, which culminates with the big dive bomb with the whammy bar. It's like he redefines the whole genre with that one sound. And then the next track is "If Six was Nine." How could anything compete with that piece of music? It's so heavy.


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Yuca Mangú, or Mashed Yuca with Garlic Sauce, is a breakfast staple in the Dominican Republic. Here, we feature frozen GOYA® Yuca, which boasts a mild, creamy consistency (similar to a potato) – the ideal canvas for the red-onion-and-garlic-spiked sauce. For an authentic Dominican breakfast, serve with sliced salami. Or, swap in Mashed Yuca for your mashed potatoes at your next family dinner!
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"Italian Renaissance Drawings," an exhibition from the Princeton University Art Museum's collection, is on view through June 17.
The exhibition, which accompanies "Italian Renaissance Painting and Sculpture," a course taught by Visiting Associate Professor Elizabeth Pilliod of Oregon State University, includes works by Michelangelo, Frederico Barocci, Jacopo Bertoia, Girolamo Macchietti, Battista Naldini, and Il Tintoretto. For more information about the exhibition and related programs, call (609) 258-3788 or visit artmuseum .
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Yeah, for one we got there 45 minutes before the sun went down. We left from LA headed towards Little Rock, AR at 10:30ish when we should have left more like around 9:00 to see a bit more. The fact that it is .13 gigapixels is simply because I'm using a Digital SLR and not a GigaPan arm. I had to do the photos by hand and then stitch them together in Photoshop CS4, which with only 2gigabytes of ram seems to get pretty slow at times. And who are these fans?
Jason how the hell can a person drive all the way to the Grand Fricken Canyon and shoot a gigpan that is only .13 gigapixels?? This is not the super awesomeness that your fans are now demanding. you have got some "splaining" to do


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Friday, July 02, 2010
Antibacterials and Leaky Gut
Parents have grown more concerned about dirt as it regards their children's health and safety. The concern is no doubt fostered by the many commercials showing enlarged bacteria on the TV screen that are shown to be lurking on countertops, bathrooms and children's toys. One begins to wonder how any of us survived prior to these "life saving" antibacterial products.
It just makes sense that killing these evil microscopic beasties would be a good thing doesn't it? On the face of it, it does make sense; the facts however state otherwise.
Let's take a look at some factors:
1. Antibacterials kill "good bacteria"
Antibacterial cleansers suppress the immune system. The body's ability to protect itself from offending organisms is in part predicated upon maintaining a balanced microbiome with plenty of health-promoting good bacteria from probiotics.
In order for our GI tract to protect us from pathogenic organisms and remain healthy and strong itself, it must ideally contain about 85 percent good bacteria. Unfortunately when you use an antibacterial cleanser, you're killing good and bad bacteria.
When you kill the good bacteria you have weakened your immune system and put your GI tract at risk – the exact opposite of what we need to do.
Perhaps it's better to wash more frequently with hot water and regular soap than to weaken our immune system.
A common chemical used in antibacterial products is triclosan. Scientists worry that bacteria that become resistant to triclosan will also become resistant to antibiotics. Triclosan, by killing normal bacteria, creates an environment where mutated bacteria that are resistant to triclosan are more likely to survive and reproduce. Laboratory studies have found a number of different strains of mutated bacteria that are resistant to triclosan as well as certain antibiotics.
2. Resistant bacteria are being created that antibiotics can't kill
The reality is that all these germ-killing products may end up leaving us even more vulnerable to infection, says a Tufts University microbiologist. Similar to the concerns over using antibiotics too much, the worry is that overuse and misuse of these antibacterial products will kill off good bacteria and weak bacteria, leaving only the strongest and most resistant bacteria behind.
Antibiotic resistance has become an increasingly serious problem worldwide and the link to antibacterials may prove to be very significant.
3. Hygiene Hypothesis and development of allergies, eczema and asthma
"The image that germs should be destroyed, and kids should be raised in a sterile home is a mistake. If we over-clean and sterilize, children's immune systems will not mature," says Dr. Stuart Levy, the director of the center for adaptation genetics and drug resistance at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He says recent studies have shown an increase in asthma and allergies in homes that are overly clean.
The "hygiene hypothesis," theorizes that there is a correlation between too much hygiene and increased allergies and asthma. This hypothesis is based on studies that have found an increase in the frequency of allergies, asthma, and eczema in persons who have been raised in more sterile and hygienic environments. In one study, children who grew up on farms had fewer allergies than did their counterparts who did not live on farms.
Levy says the only place for antibacterials is in caring for the very ill whose immune systems are compromised. He recommends that hospitals only use them around very weakened patients.
People should clean with chlorine bleach, hydrogen peroxide or alcohol, he says. While these products can also be considered antibacterials, Levy says once you have cleaned with them, they are gone. Newer antibacterials, however, leave behind a residue that continues to kill bacteria for some time after you use them, which doesn't give good bacteria a chance to reestablish themselves.
4. Antibacterials not effective in normal household – Efficacy Questioned
According to the American Medical Association, "Despite their recent proliferation in consumer products, the use of antimicrobial agents such as triclosan in consumer products has not been studied extensively. No data exist to support their efficacy when used in such products or any need for them. . . may be prudent to avoid the use of antimicrobial agents in consumer products."
Further, a study of over 200 healthy households found that those households that used antibacterial products did not have any reduced risk for symptoms of viral infectious diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that antibacterial soaps are not necessary in everyday use, and washing hands with ordinary soap and warm water is an effective way to ward off infections.
5. Triclosan can cause hormonal imbalance
A Swedish study found high levels triclosan in three of five human milk samples, indicating that the chemical does get absorbed into the body, often in high quantities. Triclosan is also able to bioaccumulate in fatty tissues.
Concerns over triclosan interfering with the thyroid gland's hormone metabolism led to a study that discovered triclosan had a marked hypothermic effect [lowered the body temperature], and overall caused a "nonspecific depressant effect on the central nervous system" of mice.
Research also shows that antibacterial soap can change the hormonal makeup of human and animal cells in laboratory tests. University of California, Davis scientists found that triclosan "increased gene expression that is normally regulated by testosterone," and caused glands that rely on testosterone, including the prostate, to grow larger. As a result, the scientists concluded that antibacterial soap is an endocrine-disrupting substance [it causes hormonal imbalance].
On April 8, 2010, the FDA announced a formal inquiry into the safety of triclosan. It announced its review after queries from Rep. Edward J. Markey, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on Energy and the Environment. In a letter the FDA said it shares Markey's concern about the potential effects of triclosan and triclocarban as "endocrine disruptors" that can adversely affect the function of hormones. Evidence of these effects emerged since 1994, the last time the FDA last addressed the use of triclosan in consumer products. The FDA is unsure of triclosan's impact on internal organs, but laboratory animal tests show distortions in thyroid hormones. Infertility was also evident, as levels of testosterone and estrogen in the body were diminished.
The agency said its safety review would take about a year. It is also writing a proposed rule that could potentially limit use of triclosan in consumer products, but couldn't say how soon the rule would be finished.
For now, it added, it doesn't have evidence that triclosan in antibacterial soap offers a benefit beyond soap and water.
And if all of the above "good news" wasn't bad enough…
6. Triclosan transforms into Dioxin
There have been a number of concerns about triclosan and its link to dioxin. Dioxin can be highly carcinogenic and can cause health problems such as weakening of the immune system, decreased fertility, altered sex hormones, miscarriage, birth defects, and cancer.
Triclosan is listed as "could be" and "suspected to be" contaminated with dioxins in the EPA's Dioxin Reassessment. In addition to being formed during the manufacturing process, dioxin may also be formed upon incineration of triclosan . Researchers who added triclosan to river water and shined ultraviolet light on the water found that between one and twelve percent of the triclosan was converted to dioxin in the water, leading to fears that sunlight could transform triclosan to dioxin naturally. An even more serious health threat may stem from treatment of triclosan-tainted water at water treatment plants -- sunlight could convert chlorinated triclosan into highly toxic forms of dioxin.
Well, that is quite a lot of data to take in, I know. I researched many sources to find current data that covered the many facets of health and safety that are potentially affected by these substances. I hope I have presented a compelling argument against their use. I truly don't think we need to wait until the FDA bans their use. How much damage could occur in the interim?
If your child's school uses these products, show them this article. If you have many such products in your household consider getting rid of them. This isn't a hygiene issue, clean is still good. It's how we achieve clean that is a matter we must reconsider. Good old fashioned soap (with no antibacterials present), water, alcohol and hydrogen peroxide do the job just fine with no nasty side effects.
Please, please share this data with friends and family and, as always, let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
Also check out a video of Dr Vikki Petersen speaking on this topic.
Antibacterials and Leakey Gut
Yours in health,
Dr Vikki Petersen
Founder of HealthNOW Medical Center
Co Author of "The Gluten Effect"
4 comments:
- Anne said...
Thank you for this. I work in the medical field and use either antibacterial soap or a waterless antibacterial cleaner on my hands many times a day at work. I will be checking the ingredients to see if Triclosan is in these products. Of course if they do contain Triclosan I probably can't do anything about it.
- Dr Vikki Petersen said...
Hello Anne,
I do understand your dilemma working in the medical field. There are soaps that are effective with ingredients that don't include triclosan. I know it would take some effort but alerting institutions as to the danger of this substance could perhaps result in their making a change. It would certainly do us all good in the long run.
Let me know how I can be of help.
Dr Vikki Petersen
Also check your toothpaste. Colgate "TOTAL" products contain triclosan. Triclosan is actually classified as a pesticide. Why would anyone put a pesticide in their mouth???
Great article.
THANK YOU for spreading the word.
- lumin smith said...
leaky gut syndrome
has been linked with many conditions, such as: Celiac Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, Autism, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Eczema, Dermatitis, Ulcerative Colitis.


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Côte d'Ivoire: Return remains difficult for the displaced
Two months after the post-electoral violence in Côte d'Ivoire, there are still approximately 322,277 Ivorian Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) across the country and more than 200,000 Ivorian refugees in 13 neighboring countries, most of them in Liberia, according to the latest UNHCR statistics. The registration of IDPs is ongoing.
In Abidjan and in the West, many IDPs are willing to return to their homes. However, according to the latest OCHA situation report, persistent fear of insecurity and the destruction of their homes and livelihoods are discouraging them from returning.
On 10 June, three humanitarian assessment teams visit 17 neighborhoods in Abidjan where 27,646 people are now threatened by flooding. The visit found enormous needs in shelter, water, sanitation, and hygiene. Humanitarian workers and the Government are now working together to relocate people threatened by flooding.
The Ministry of Health has confirmed 42 cases of cholera in the Koumassi district of Abidjan following the flooding. UNICEF has provided local health authorities with medical supplies to treat up to 1,000 affected people. Radio public awareness campaigns were also launched across the country to teach people how to purify water.
In addition, teams comprised of UNHCR, partner agencies, local authorities, and IDP representatives visited seven villages in the West to assess conditions for return and the level of damage or destruction of homes. The assessment recommended that those residents whose houses require simple repairs and plastic sheeting should be assisted immediately.
Currently Côte d'Ivoire only receives 25% of the total need in humanitarian funding, which impedes humanitarian assistance in the country, particularly in the West.
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Binghamton University hosts Aging Conference
BINGHAMTON -- Binghamton University will host The Southern Tier Center on Aging's inaugural conference, "Enhancing Quality of Life in Later Years," October 1-3, 2010, at the University Downtown Center.
The conference is designed to provide attendees with cutting-edge research and hands-on practice workshops pertaining to quality of life issues currently facing older adults and caregivers. The conference committee is soliciting proposals for poster and paper presentations, workshop sessions and roundtable discussions. The proposal deadline has been extended to July 16, 2010.
The Center is hosting four nationally- and internationally-known aging professionals including The President of the American Geriatrics Society and Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Upstate Medical University, Sharon Brangman, MD; The President and Co-Founder of the Eden Alternative and Green House Project, William Thomas, MD; Associate Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry and Medical Director of the Late Life Depression Center at the University of Pittsburgh, Mark Miller, MD; and Vice President and Geriatric Medical Director for Excellus Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Patricia Bomba, MD, FACP.
The mission of the Southern Tier Center on Aging is to be a pioneer in interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, researching and fostering positive change in challenges confronting older adults and their caregivers. This is accomplished with the collaboration of researchers, students and educators from Binghamton University and Upstate Medical University, along with practitioners and consumers from agencies and communities in New York's Southern Tier.
To learn more about the conference and for proposal and registration submission information, please visit the aging website at www2.binghamton.edu/ifis/index.html.


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LUNCHEON over, we betook ourselves (the weather being too hot to go out) to the hall, and there prepared for an afternoon of coma. The blinds were pulled down "On purpose to keep out the light," but stealthy arrows crept through, and lay along the faded blue and red patches of the Turkey carpet and the dim worsted work of the straight‐backed chairs. It was profoundly still; one could hear the silence, which was only broken by the buzzing of the flies on the window‐pane. Dolly had thrown herself—nay, not thrown, for that suggests an idea of violence never conveyed by Dolly's roughest movement—had sunk into a rocking‐chair, and sat swaying gently to and fro.
Miss Lestrange never read, and seldom page: 166 spoke in the family circle. I think she thought it waste of time. She knitted now, mute as Andersen's poor pretty mermaid, and meditated on heavenly themes, to judge by her countenance. I sat on a bench by the long table in the window; a tall bench, whence my legs dangled like gallows' birds, while my elbows rested on a big book, of which I read a page and a half. The book was Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy," and it did not interest me in the least. I had selected it as being one of the biggest and most ponderous volumes in the library, as having likewise a ponderous title, promising to be good for edification. I, arguing, with faulty logic, that from so weighty a tome I must needs extract much weighty matter.
Truth to tell, I was deeply dissatisfied with myself, and with the weedy unstocked condition of my mind's fair garden. Dolly did well to despise me; I was but a poor creature, and despicable; foolishest, childishest, among women. I knew absolutely nothing; I had not the least idea what the Bill of Rights was about, nor who page: 167 fought the battle of Fontenoy, or any other battle either. Dick would despise me too when he came to know me better; would get tired of me, and find me insipid. Whether a more accurate knowledge of dates would make me a more original companion, I did not stop to inquire. To remedy my deficiencies I turned to Burton, and asked him to tell me something about something; tell me a few facts, was my cry, like the little turnip in Kingsley's "Water Babies."
"Knowledge is Power," is a true aphorism, I suppose; but, after all, what is all human knowledge? The sum of our knowing is to leave a deeper, more hopeless conviction of our utter unknowingness. What a chétif scrap of a science is mastered by the greatest proficient in, the foremost pioneer of that science? How the ripened spirits of the departed wise, bathing in wisdom's clear fount above, must smile, looking down on the smatterings of learning, on the strength of which we dub ourselves philosophers and pundits. Solomon, saith the Book of Kings, knew three thousand proverbs, and his songs page: 168 were a thousand and five. Doubtless; and yet assuredly there must have been ten times three thousand proverbs that he knew not—a hundred thousand songs never sung by him.
In the morning of this our little life, we set forth on some one of the many paths that lead to knowledge's citadel. The way is steep, but we are resolute; it is hedged with briars, and encumbered with great stones; the briars scratch us, and we break our shins over the stones, but we struggle on with a good courage. Our road is becoming smooth; we shall reach the prize in time. Then Death lays his numb hands on our hearts, and we are still, and the path is closed to us for ever. Is it for ever, though? Is not the pitiful incompleteness of our labours here, the fragmentary character of our best efforts, strongest, most convincing proofs of our soul's undyingness? Shall we not trace out in a nobler sphere that same path we loved on earth? the same, only with the briars cut down and the stones cleared away? Will not our poor crooked lives he rounded into Wisdom's perfect circle? page: 169 Our Elysium is no occupationless, pleasureless Ner wana of swinish, plethoric repose; in our asphodel meadows we shall each of us have some mighty problem to work out, some godlike scheme to effect; and our brains will not tire, our eyes will not ache, and our hands not fail in the doing.
To what a distance have I strayed from myself and my self‐disgust? I have been up to heaven and down again. Burton's very detailed and minute analysis of the corporeal humours, which are melancholy's parents and grandparents, failed to enchain my attention. An idea struck me.
"Dolly," said I, and my sudden word cut the silence sharply.
"Do you know much, Dolly?"
"What do you mean?" measuredly came the words from her lips.
"I mean, do you know much about any sensible sort of things? Are you very well up in history and biography, and those sort of things?"
"Had not you better add 'Shakespeare and the musical glasses?' I suppose I page: 170 am about as well informed as most other people."
Click, click, go her needles.
"Do you know enough to be able to teach me. I wonder?"
"Probably; my acquirements would be small else."
I pass by the sneer on the other side; it was but my ignorance's due.
"I wish you would give me lessons in something, Dolly; we used to learn German together once. Do you remember? Why cannot we begin again?"
"Thank you very much, but I'd infinitely rather be excused."
The long gray stocking grows under the swift white fingers; she ruffles her smooth brow in the agony of counting stitches.
"I'd do my best to get on; I'd do whatever you told me; I do feel my ignorance so oppressive, Dolly—quite a heavy burden."
"I'm extremely sorry to hear it, and I'm sure you'd make a delightful pupil, but I think, on the whole, I should prefer not. I don't want to qualify myself for a gover‐ governess page: 171 ness just yet, though I daresay that's what I shall have to come to."
"N‐o‐o‐o," I stutter, "I don't think so."
"You do know," says she, paling a little with anger, "and why you should think it worth while to lie about such a trifle I cannot conceive. If his name is ever such a mystery I don't doubt I shall fathom it without your help."
No more in that strain; the key changes page: 172 to a "pathetic minor," for Collins entering announces "Mrs. Coxe and Major M'Gregor." Dolly's tongue was an instrument of great compass; it could play any tune, from the Hundredth Psalm to "Wapping Old Stairs," and discourse excellent music. I did not, assuredly, expect my lover to kiss me, or take me in his arms then and there, but I felt a thrill of cold disappointment when I found him shaking hands with me in the same commonplace manner that Sir Hugh Lancaster or Mr. Bowles the curate might have done. He was presented by Mrs. Coxe to Dolly, who smiled pensively, and cast down her eyes.
I made no attempt to entertain our guests, but clave to my tall bench and my folio. I remember I read one inverted sentence over six times running, without a glimmering of its meaning penetrating to my brain. Dick came over presently, and looked over my shoulder.
"What light literature have you got there?"
I turn to the title‐page and point gravely, Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy."page: 173
"H'm! cheerful kind of title! and is that Mr. Burton himself? Rum old party, isn't he?"
The curled Greek head stoops lower; the amber moustache touches my ear.
"Did you get home all right last night, Nell?"
"Did not catch a cold?"
"Nor get a blowing up?"
"That's all right; where's your father to‐day?"
"Gone into Berkshire for a week."
"H'm! when the cat's away you know; and so that's Miss Dolly, is it?"
"Yes, isn't she lovely?"
Thus I ask, unknowing that never will man, come to years of discretion, be betrayed into the smallest commendation of one woman's beauty to another.
"Oh, I don't know; I haven't thought about it; I suppose I have been thinking too much of how lovely somebody else is."
"Who?" ask I, looking up with inno‐ innocent page: 174 cent inquiry; but somehow I read in the deep loving eyes who it is, and I begin to fiddle nervously with good Master Burton's yellowing leaves. Dolly's voice breaks upon my trance; it comes cooing softly across the hall.
"Nelly, dear, will you kindly run and get my portfolio of Bournemouth sketches; Mrs. Coxe is good enough to say she should like to see them; do go, there's a dear child! they are in the left top corner of my chiffonier; you cannot miss finding them."
I rise and go reluctant; I misdoubt me concerning Dolly and her sketches. They are not in the left top corner of the chiffonier, nor indeed in the chiffonier at all, and it takes me ten minutes diligent search to find them. When I return the position of affairs is changed, which does not tend to the ameliorating of my temper. Dick is balancing himself on a three‐legged stool within six inches of Dolly's knee, and she (her knitting dropped, her soul in her eyes) is gazing at him with mournful absorption, while he narrates some trivial incident of everyday life.page: 175
I move a small table in front of Mrs. Coxe, place the portfolio upon it, and retire to my distant comer, fully expecting my handsome Gilderoy to come and share my solitude. Whether he would have done so or not is a question now to be classed with such as "What would have been the course of English history had Queen Elizabeth married Philip of Spain? or had Richard Cromwell been the man his father was? or what would have been the fate of Norwich, if the man in the moon had not come down too soon?" Whatever Dick's intentions were, Dolly was too prompt for him.
"Oh, Mrs. Coxe," cried she, sinking on her knees, in the prettiest attitude of despair, beside that lady, who, being short‐sighted, was holding one of my sister's artistic efforts within a quarter of an inch of her snub nose, feeling its beauties with that sensitive feature, "Oh, Mrs. Coxe, I could not possibly think of letting you examine my poor little daubs so critically; you'd find as many faults in them as there are stars in heaven. They ought to be looked at at the distance of page: 176 half a mile at least. Major M'Gregor" (diffidently, with a slight tremor in her voice), "would it trouble you very much, or could you, would you be so very kind as to hold up this one, only just this one, at the proper distance, for Mrs. Coxe to see? There, oh thanks so much. Nothing could be better! Oh, how good you are!"
Poor Mrs. Coxe screws up her eyes, and peers, and succeeds in discerning a confused blotch of blue and green and yellow.
"H'm! h'm! yes! yes!" says she, knowing that say something she must. "What a fine bit of colouring! and how well you have managed that patch of light on the hill‐side!"
"It isn't a patch of light, Mrs. Coxe—it's a white cow," says Dolly, sweetly, correcting her.
Mrs. Coxe has her back to me, but by the wobbling motion of her big blue feather, I see that she is discomfited. I grin a ghastly grin.
"It's a shame to detain you so long, Major M'Gregor, isn't it?" asks Dolly, speaking with some little effort, in her page: 177 coyness, at having to address a stranger again. "Nelly is showwoman generally, and a very good one she is too, but somehow she seems a little knocked up with the heat or something to‐day."
"I'm not the least knocked up," growl I, "brief and stern," as the skipper in the song.
"Aren't you, dear? I'm glad of that: I thought you were. You see, Major M'Gregor, you're the only gentleman to‐day, and we think we have a right to make a sort of slave of you—don't we, Mrs. Coxe?" The soft fawn eyes seek his with timid deprecation, and then droop suddenly, and the velvet cheeks deepen in colour to the hue of a dog‐rose's heart. Dick, of course, protests that if there is one employment he loves above another it is holding up water‐colour sketches at arm's length for his hostess's inspection. If it is an irksome task to him he disguises his tedium under it uncommonly well. I meanwhile bite my nails, my lips, the top of a pencil, and anything else I can lay my teeth on. There are about a hundred sketches, and on each one Mrs. page: 178 Coxe has to make comments; some few as fortunate as the one I have recorded; some more, some less so. At length they come to an end, and our guests rise to depart. I take a sudden resolution; nobody shall hinder me; the bit is between my teeth. I would open the hall‐door myself for our visitors.
"Nelly, dear," cooes my sister‐cushat, "will you ring the bell for Collins to open the door?"
"No," said I, doughtily, "I will not; I'll open it myself."
Dick was looking at her, and she could not scowl prohibition at me; but I think she made a little memorandum of it. However, I gained my point; ran and opened the heavy door while Dolly remained in the inner room. Mrs. Coxe passed out first, and having so passed was good‐natured, and "never looked behind."
Dick loitered, and (Mrs. Coxe's extensive back being turned) took my face between his two broad hands.
"Bad luck, Nell! bad luck!" he said, a little disappointedly; "not five words with you to‐day!"page: 179
"No," said I, and my countenance was troubled; "nor you won't either, now Dolly has come home!"
"Dolly be blowed!" said he, irreverently. "We must pack her off pretty quick if she spoils our sport, mustn't we? but she won't, I'm sure; she looks good‐natured; she'll help us."
I shook my head.
"Give me one kiss, pretty one, to take away with me; nobody's looking!"
Our lips met—met joyfully, clingingly; parted grudgingly.
"One more, Nell!"
"No, no, no! Mrs. Coxe will turn round."
"Mrs. Coxe will do nothing of the kind; Mrs. Coxe is a sensible woman, and minds her own business."
"Indeed, indeed, you ought to go and open the gate for her," I said, wrenching my countenance out of his hands.
"In a minute! in a minute! no hurry. Nell, you're looking rather pretty to‐day, only your cheeks want pinching or doing something to, to put a little colour into them."page: 180
"They never have any colour; it would not look natural."
"Well, then, I suppose I must put up with them, ugly as they are! Nell, where will you come and meet me tonight?"
My eyes clave to his face, and feasted on its beauty. I would have gone to meet him in a dungeon, in a charnel, in death's stronghold itself. The door to the hall opened softly, and he dropped my hand like a hot potato. Enter Dolly, not a whit discomposed by her position of Mar Plot.
"I thought," she said, suavely, "that this might be your stick, and that you had forgotten it!"
So speaking, she held up a walking‐stick for his inspection. It had been in papa's possession full twenty years, and she knew it.
"Oh, thanks, thanks; no, it isn't mine; I've got mine here. Well, I won't keep you out in the sun any longer—good morning!"
Thus he departed. My wrath surged and boiled like broth in a pot.page: 181
"You knew that stick wasn't his, Dolly?" quoth I, irefully.
She shrugged her shoulders.
"Hein! if I did, what then? One little ruse is as good as another, isn't it? Your little ruse was the hall‐door,mine was the walking‐stick, that's all; quits, don't you see?"
I did not see, nor did I vouchsafe another word to Dorothea that evening.


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By Tiernan Ray
Storage equipment component maker Emulex (ELX) this afternoon reported fiscal Q3 revenue and earnings per share that topped analysts' expectations, and forecast this quarter's earnings per share higher as well.
Revenue in the three months ended in June rose to $99.8 million, yielding EPS of 7 cents.
Analysts had been modeling $97.2 million and 3 cents per share.
For the current quarter, the company sees revenue of $93 million to $99 million, and EPS of 7 cents to 11 cents. That compares to the average estimate for $97.2 million and 3 cents.
Emulex shares are up 24 cents, or 4.3%, at $5.87, in late trading.