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Poppy's Place
Poppy's Place is a cosy apartment in a peaceful part of the city of Hvar. It has a beautiful view of the sea. This place is famous for the owner's small black dog with curly hair, called Poppy.
From here the distance to the town center is only 10 minutes on foot. The nearest and the most beautiful beach, Pokonji Dol, is 500m from here, and a supermarket is just 100m away.
In front of the house there is a parking place. Costs of electricity, water, linen, air conditioning, gas and towels are included in the price.
We will do our best to give you an unforgettable vacation on Croatia's sunniest island.
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Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 2 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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Costs of electricity, water, linen, air conditioning, gas and towels are included in the price.
Tourist taxes are included in the price.
Check-in: 2pm.
Check-out: 12 noon.
Children under 7 years stay for free. Children aged 7-14 years stay for half price.
Balance is due upon arrival in cash only, please.
We have a 48hr cancellation policy. Late cancellations and no-shows shall be charged the equivalent of the first night's accommodation.
Please contact us after booking in order to arrange free pickup and we'll wait for you at Hvar bus station.
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As you get off the Catamaran in the port, turn right and follow the path until you get to the beach where you see a church. On the left side of the beach there are stairs near the restaurant, take the stairs and continue along the road which turns right and then left. You will come to a crossroad where you turn right on the main road. After walking for a few minutes, you will come to the second crossroad where you turn left up the hill. Continue walking and you will find Poppy's place on the right side of the road where it turns left.
Whatever is your choice of traveling, when you come to the city of Hvar, go to the bus station, and we will pick you up.
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Poppy's Place is located in a quiet part of the city of Hvar, near the city center (approximately 10 min. walk).


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The Australian sisters Florence Beresford Martin (b Ballarat, Victoria, 28 August 1908 – d Sydney, 20 December 1984) and Emily Kathleen Martin (b 4 September 1903 – d ?) collaborated on art and theatre design projects. In 1935 Florence and Kathleen began exhibiting together. They first collaborated on theatre design in Melbourne—The lower depths (1936), Murder in the cathedral (1937) and The cherry orchard (1938).
In 1940, they entered de Basil's competition to design costumes for an Australian themed ballet during the Ballets Russes tour. The first prize went to artist Donald Friend, but their entry was highly commended and de Basil commissioned them to design costumes for La Lutte éternelle (1940).
Kathleen and Florence then designed for a production of Midsummer night's dream (1941), and for the Borovansky Company's Fantasy (1941), performed at Melbourne's Princess Theatre. In 1942 they moved to New York, where Kathleen worked for leading theatrical costumier Edith Lutyens Bel Geddes, and Florence returned to studying art and design.
Florence spent 1945 working for the Teatro Municipal Ballet Company in Rio de Janeiro, designing costumes for The red poppy and Papoula Vermelha, and the set and costumes for Luta eternal. She continued to work in Rio de Janeiro until 1947, focusing on theatrical design, including Judgement of Jupiter, Malediction, Nocturne and Burleska. She then became a designer for the Foxhole Ballet and Grant Mouradoff's ballet company, Circus.
The sisters moved to London in 1952, where Florence gave up theatre design to concentrate on painting, and returned to Australia in 1972.
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am a married woman and a devoted muslim too, but before i got married i was a member in one of the sites on the internet and thats actually how i got to know my husband. my target on that site was to spread the word of Allah and i really enjoyed doing that with all my heart and soul coz it used to keep me busy and devoted more on reading the quran and hadith so that i can deliver new information world wide. But wen i got married he told me to stay away from it. it hurt me but since his my husband i had to accept. i signed out of that site and he stayed on it claiming its not good for women. how true is it in islam for awoman not to spread the word of God online
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Original post made by Giddy with Excitement, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Mar 27, 2013
Walmart worker activists have been saying for a while that the company is causing itself problems by understaffing stores, leading not just to overworked and underpaid workers but to poorly stocked shelves and long checkout lines, but big-money investors weren't listening. Now, a major Bloomberg article by Renee Dudley backs them up:
Last month, Wal-Mart placed last among department and discount stores in the American Customer Satisfaction Index, the sixth year in a row the company had either tied or taken the last spot. [...]
Wal-Mart is entangled in what [MIT operations management professor Zeynep] Ton calls the "vicious cycle" of under-staffing. Too few workers leads to operational problems. Those problems lead to poor store sales, which lead to lower labor budgets.
While Walmart has added 455 stores in the past five years, it has cut its workforce by about 20,000. Workers complain that they're too short-staffed to move products from the stockrooms to the aisles, while customers complain that they can't find basic goods, leading some to shop at competitors, including Costco and Trader Joe's among others.
Costco's CEO recently argued to raise the minimum wage, but Walmart management is attempting to keep labor costs at rock bottom levels. Apparently Walmart's efforts to minimize labor costs are backfiring. Costco's better paid employees are happier and more productive. Higher worker productivity at Costco is making up for the difference in wage rates.
Costco isn't the only chain to find that better pay translates into higher productivity; the same is true at Trader Joe's and convenience-store chain QuikTrip.
Walmart dismisses the complaints about bare shelves and lack of customer service as coming from "a handful of people." But when a reporter goes into a store and sees lines "about five deep" and "empty spaces on shelves large enough for a grown man to lie down," sights replicated at multiple stores, more than a handful of people are affected.
Thanks again to Kathleen on a parallel post for that nifty promo piece and glossy photo. Too bad the photographer didn't go inside to photo the overworked and underpaid workers, the bare shelves, the long lines, and customers made dizzy for the store's chemicals and lighting. Have at it all you Walmart supporters!
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a resident of Gatewood
on Mar 27, 2013 at 5:25 pm
Long lines won't bother me in the least! I plan to shop there and am glad the store will open soon!
a resident of Charter Oaks
on Mar 27, 2013 at 6:30 pm
This is nonsense written by someone opposed to the store. The San Ramon Walmart market is open and there are rarely lines. Way better than anything Safeway offers. I don't work for them, but do go to the San Ramon market instead of Safeway. Prices are 30 to 40% less and the store is gorgeous with lots of selection, wide aisles, perfectly stocked shelves and plenty of staff. Their shelves are far better stocked than safeway's.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 27, 2013 at 9:31 pm
Like I've said over and over again ... People are constantly predicting DOOM for each step of change that takes place. The problem is that the predictions are coming true. It's all delusional.
Long lines! People in Africa starving! The economic collapse of the planet! The nation falling asunder the Big O Administration!
Meanwhile, stock markets soar, countries are finding equilibrium, and the change has been as all changes are ... both good / bad / and permanent.
a resident of Del Prado
on Mar 27, 2013 at 9:32 pm
Don't worry, Giddy, if you're correct those evil market forces will show WalMart the door. There won't even be any need for government intervention.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 27, 2013 at 10:29 pm
boy, those union thugs are getting pretty desperate, eh? Kinda like trying to round up the cattle after they are out of the barn.......union goons, your ship has sailed, the fat lady has sung, the parties over....pick your favorite euphamism...you goons are toast. Go the way of the dinosaurs already.
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After spending most of his teens studying acting with the legendary Stella Adler, and working as an actor in live TV and various theaters around the country, including the New York and the American Shakespeare Festivals, Peter Bogdanovich began directing plays Off-Broadway and in N.Y. summer theater at age 20. He wrote a series of three monographs on Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, and Alfred Hitchcock for the Museum of Modern Art, the first such retrospective studies of these directors in America. He also began writing a classic series of feature articles and profiles for Esquire, most notably a ground-breaking tribute to Humphrey Bogart, as well as definitive pieces on James Stewart, Jerry Lewis, John Ford, and others.
In 1966 he began working in movies first as Roger Corman's assistant on the hit, The Wild Angels. Though uncredited, Bogdanovich re-wrote most of the script and directed the second unit. Within a year, Corman financed Bogdanovich's first film as director-writer-producer-actor with the cult classic, Targets, starring Boris Karloff in his last great film role. In 1971, Bogdanovich commanded the approving attention of both critics and public with The Last Picture Show, starring then-unknowns Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, and other newcomers, a brilliant look at small-town Texan-American life in the early 1950s. The film won the New York Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Screenplay (which Bogdanovich co-wrote with novelist Larry McMurtry), the British Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and received a total of eight Academy Award nominations, including three for Bogdanovich. The Library of Congress later designated the film a National Treasure.
An unapologetic popularizer of the classic Hollywood era of great movie makers, Bogdanovich had a second huge success in 1972 with What's Up Doc?, a madcap romantic farce starring Barbara Streisand and Ryan O'Neal, made in the style of '30s screwball comedy; it won The Writers' Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay, on which Bogdanovich had worked with Buck Henry, David Newman and Bob Benton. One year later, he recreated a memorable vision of rural '30s America with Paper Moon, a Depression Era tale about a pair of unlikely con artists, which got four Academy Award nominations and won a Supporting Actress Oscar for nine-year-old Tatum O'Neal in her screen debut, the youngest performer ever to win an Academy Award. The film was also awarded the Silver Shell at The San Sebastian Film Festival.
Bogdanovich followed this success with the critically acclaimed Daisy Miller, for which he was named Best Director at the Brussels Film Festival. Another highly praised drama followed with Bogdanovich's version of the Paul Theroux novel, Saint Jack, starring Ben Gazzara and Denholm Elliot, which told the story of an amiable and ambitious American pimp living in Singapore. Shot entirely on location, the picture received the coveted Critics' Prize at the Venice Film Festival. After directing Audrey Hepburn in her last starring picture, the bittersweet romantic comedy, They All Laughed, co-starring Gazzara, John Ritter, and Dorothy Stratten, and filmed in New York, Bogdanovich scored another major triumph with 1985's Mask, starring Cher and Eric Stoltz in the true story of a boy whose face has been terribly disfigured by a rare disease and the mother who has instilled in her son a sense of confidence and love. The film won an Academy Award and Cher won the Best Actress Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
After guiding Michael Frayn's classic theater comedy Noises Off to the screen for Steven Spielberg's company with an all-star cast, including Michael Caine and Carol Burnett, he directed the well-received sequel to The Last Picture Show, based on Larry McMurtry's best-seller, Texasville. In 2002, Bogdanovich again received critical praise and commercial success with The Cat's Meow. This suspenseful and entertaining satirical drama tells the true story of a mysterious 1924 death on board the yacht of William Randolph Hearst; starring Kirsten Dunst (as Marion Davies), Eddie Izzard (as Charlie Chaplin), Edward Herrmann (as Hearst) and Jennifer Tilly (as Louella Parsons), all of whom garnered glowing notices.
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Well I can attest for living on little or no money. I had to scrape for almost 8 years to feed my family and dogs. Most of you don't understand what it is like to be a Vet with disabilities and raise a child with Autism. I think some people have lost perspective of what is really important in this country or lets say all around the world. When you have little or nothing and you have to sell everything in your house to pay for gas money. You have no place to go except back to the place you call home. I was one of the lucky ones. How about you all. Can you say that you have been to hell and back. I have practiced survival skills for years. The government trained me when I was 15 in the Job Corps. Now I am living fine doing what I like to do. Running a small business. You don't have to own a big ranch or have expensive things to be happy.
ours is about an 8x8 underground cellar. concrete walls, concrete stairs, metal door... enough room for the family to camp out in case of a tornado, and walls lined with shelves for canned goods.... one of these days I will can more than just applebutter LOL
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Well said Charley. I just add even though we lived in a mold house for 3 years it was only a temp. We now live in a fairly new house with no root cellar yet. We have our rain barrels and garden. Even after losing everything it is the American way to get the good things in life back. It just takes "time". Yes I will get a new puppy and train it! I can add that the 3 goldens I have now are very nice doggies. Not Champs but great companions. Make do or "dew" is the "key" word. Yes I own 2 old cars I paid cash. Yes cold hard cash. No credit cards. Never again. Now the bank owns the house. The good thing is that my husband works from home. We don't have to worry about putting any "roots" down anymore.


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By Jack Reed Jr.
I have enormous respect for the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Its role in the success of our community is, and has been, unparalleled.
Since its readers, likewise, care a great deal about Tupelo, I want to correct a somewhat misleading headline of a recent front page which read "Neelly, Reed Biggest Borrowers." More importantly, I want to discuss what I believe is a wise path of financial stewardship as we move Tupelo ahead.
Tupelo has over 30 different funds to administer, with multiple revenue sources and multiple expenditures. One of those funds is our "general fund" which handles the day-to-day operation of city government. It would equate with a "checking account." One of those funds is our "savings account," officially referred to as our "unrestricted fund" – sometimes informally referred to as our "rainy day fund."
The article in the Journal explained to what extent Tupelo mayors have transferred funds from the "unrestricted funds" account to our "general fund." It is just like a family needing to buy school supplies and transferring money from its savings account to its checking account.
Here is the important point: We did not borrow this money from a lender, which then would need to be paid back. We simply transferred it.
As our city fiscal year ends Sept. 30, I fully expect we will add money to our savings account because we ran our city responsibly and will come in below budget. Despite the recession, the City Council and Mayor just passed our second straight balanced budget, thus not requiring us to use any of our savings for operational needs.
Our unrestricted funds balance is $16.8 million dollars.
According to respected municipal financial advisors a conservative balance for a city is one quarter of its general operating budget. In our case that is one quarter of $34 million or $8.5 million. To be even more conservative, I have set $10 million as a safe reserve fund amount. That leaves us over $6 million dollars which is currently earning us less than $600 monthly at .12 percent interest.
Tupelo has made some great strides in the past three years, both financially and in beginning to address some revitalization issues that must be solved. Citizens and leaders are ready to build on these successes and really create a Tupelo renaissance.
To do that, without raising taxes, many of us believe we should redeploy some of our extra savings into action.
This fall the City Council and I will be carefully studying the very best, smartest ways to success.
We know the citizens approve of this ongoing work to demolish blighted areas and turn bad places into good places. We know we need to build a new police headquarters; some funds are already set aside for that project, but some more may be needed.
We know we need to address paving or overlay areas.
We know we need to intelligently attack substandard housing – rental and home owned – as we insure that "every part of town is a good part of town".
We know we need to do everything we can to support our Tupelo Public Schools and their neighborhoods.
There is a serious request for a new Lee County Library.
The CDF, along with the City, the County, and private developers continue to examine game changer projects to set our area apart in this new century.
None of these projects can be accomplished in a single year. All are worthy of our best consideration. The needs certainly exceed our current resources, but we can afford to take some important first steps.
The final, important point is this: We do have $6 million dollars to wisely deploy toward solving some of them, and it won't be "borrowing." It will be investing money we already have.
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Non-essential personnel to be dismissed at noon Tuesday, June 4
Posted June 3, 2002; 02:29 p.m.
All non-essential University personnel will be dismissed at noon Tuesday, June 4.
This early dismissal is an experiment necessitated by Commencement activities and the current high level of construction on campus. It is intended to help alleviate the unusual traffic patterns created by the construction.
"Last year on Commencement day, there were huge traffic tie-ups as departing parents and students were trying to leave campus at the same time as employees, leading to hours spent by many in the area of Elm Drive, the New South garage and public roads surrounding the campus," according to a memo issued by Dan Scheiner, acting vice president for human resources, and Jerry Witsil, director of public safety.
Those with questions about essential and non-essential personnel should contact their human resources region manager .
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- Well, not a hugely productive day. COFFEE is plodding forward. Big news is we can now test the app in its entirety: it's nice to see all the disparate parts coming together, with no nasty integration problems :)
- PhD
PhD work is starting to pick up. I found a really nice emacs mode for XML DTD's, called
tdtd. It kinda reminds me that I really ought to learn how to use some of emacs' more advanced features. I can't help feeling that emacs is the sort of app that you could use for a lifetime and still not fully exploit.
I'm seriously thinking of implementing my next bit of PhD work in Python, rather than SML. ocaml would be the best of all possible worlds, although I don't think I have time to get to grips with it, right now. So, the plan is to implement the current stuff in Python and maybe rewrite some of it in ocaml. There's a small amount of DB munging and other stuff that might remain written in Python, but the nice thing about ocaml is that it's a lot more bullet-proof.
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The annual Ladies Night Out event sponsored by the Campbellsville/Taylor County Chamber of Commerce and the School of Business and Economics at Campbellsville University is set for Thursday, July 24.
The event is from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. and the theme is musicals.
Cost is $15 per person. Tables will consist of eight people. Those who attend should decorate their table according to a musical theme. This year, organizers are allowing any woman who is not taking part to attend.
Children can learn discipline and the exciting and interesting aspects of martial arts at the Heart of Kentucky Youth Festival presented by John Cox Martial Arts.
Hosted at Centre Square in downtown Lebanon, the festival will have slides and bouncers, a race car display, model airplanes, a karate photography studio, Stranger Danger classes, arts and crafts, martial arts demonstrations, four-wheeler safety exhibit, a rock wall climb, helicopter display, food and hot air balloon rides, weather permitting.
Downtown Liberty will come alive on Saturday, May 24 as it remembers the 1950s and 1960s through a classic car show, games, entertainment, food and music.
Beginning at noon, a classic car show, sponsored by the Casey County Cruisers, will liven up the courthouse square until 5 p.m. Trophies and cash awards will be given for the best in several class divisions.
The USS America Carrier Veterans Association will host its sixth bi-annual reunion to reunite the crew of the USS America on June 24-28.
The reunion will be at the Crown Plaza Jacksonville Riverfront Hotel in Jacksonville, Fla.
Guests will include a representative from the office of the Secretary of the Navy and Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund.
For more information, visit www.ussamerica.org or call (888) 391-CV66.
Campbellsville Elementary School will host a Walk-A-Thon Fitness Day on Thursday, May 22 at 10 a.m. to raise money for handicapped accessible playground equipment.
Students will ask for donations, which are due Wednesday, May 21.
For more information, call Shirley Cox at 465-4561.
A trike-a-thon to raise funds for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will be tomorrow from 5 to 8 p.m. at First Baptist Church's Imani Center.
The fundraiser is sponsored by First Hope Child Developmental Center.
Funds collected will help St. Jude in its ongoing fight against childhood catastrophic diseases.
A trike-a-thon is designed to expose pre-schoolers to using riding toys safely. It also involves parents in safe behavior practices to help ensure their child's well being.
The organizers and volunteers of Kids Outdoor Day would like to extend the opportunity to the local and national business community to become an event sponsor.
Kids Outdoor Day is a fun filled day of outdoor activities for children of all ages to participate in, such as archery, boating, fishing, shooting sports, game calling, outdoor education and much more.
This year's event is set for Saturday, June 7 at Green River Lake State Park and Camp Kentahten.
A Relay for Life horse ride will be Sunday, May 18 at Mike and Monica Henning's farm on Bald Knob Road in Lebanon.
Food and drinks will be available and door prizes will be given away. The ride starts at noon.
For more information, call (270) 692-2076 or (270) 692-4677.
Campbellsville University will offer an encore performance of "Just a Breeze to a Hurricane," an original contemporary musical production written by CU senior composition major Matthew Hodge of Taylorsville.
The encore will be performed at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 7 in The Gheens Recital Hall of the Gosser Fine Arts building and will be professionally video recorded.
Tickets are required for the show, and will cost $5 for the general public. CU students can attend for free by presenting their student ID at the door.
Most of us look forward to the warmer temperatures that accompany the arrival of spring. But with warmer weather comes the threat of severe storms.
Americans live in the most severe weather-prone country on earth. Each year, Americans cope with an average of 10,000 thunderstorms, 5,000 floods, 1,000 tornados and an average of six deadly hurricanes.
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STUART The lifeguard who attempted to save a kiteboarder Wednesday off Stuart Beach was the victim of a shark attack himself more than 20 years ago.
So as he fought rough winds and high waves on Wednesday, Daniel Lund, 46, realized what lay ahead about 20 yards before he reached the kiteboarder, Stephen Schafer, a quarter-mile off the beach. He saw blood in the water and "two or three sharks" nearby.
Lund, a nine-year veteran whose leg was severely injured by a shark in 1986 off Hutchinson Island, swam in anyway.
"It was nerve-wracking," Lund said today in his first interview after the fatal shark attack that claimed Schafer, 38. The fatal attack, also off Hutchinson Island, was the first in Martin County.
Knowing from experience and lifeguard training that sharks tend to bite, then swim away, and come back to their victim, Lund moved fast to recover Schafer. The man had several big gashes in his leg and arm, according to a police report.
"The amount of blood that was in the water was definitely going to attract them," Lund said.
Lund cradled the man's head in one arm and paddled back to shore with the other. The waves were so rough that both were thrown apart once before they made it in.
Lund recovered the man a second time on his buoy and brought him to the beach where paramedics started CPR. Schafer later died at Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart.
Lund said Schafer talked to him until they were about half-way from shore. He wouldn't say what Schafer's last words were, but Lund said he remained hopeful throughout the ordeal that the man would survive the attack.
"You don't ever want to lose somebody," he said.


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Description Short and stout with a short tail. Blackish/brown above with white flecks. Brown underside. 13 coastal grooves.
Dimensions Length: 7-10cm (3-3.5")
Breeding Burrows near breeding ponds. Breeds january through March. Eggs laid underwater on submerged twigs and underwater plants.
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ABOUT twenty minutes later the young lady, still booted and spurred, opened the door which leads from the Chapel‐Room into Lady Calmady's bed‐chamber. As she did so a gentle warmth met her, along with a sweetness of flowers. Within, the melancholy of the bleak twilight was mitigated by page: 411 the soft brightness of a pink‐shaded lamp, and a fitful flickering of firelight. This last, playing upon the blue‐and‐white, Dutch tiling of the hearth and chimney‐space, conferred a quaint effect of activity upon the actors in the biblical scenes thereon depicted. The patriarch Abraham visibly flourished his two‐inch sword above the prostrate form of hapless Isaac. The elders pranced, unblushingly, in pursuit of the chaste Susanna. While poor little Tobit, fish in hand, clung anxiously to the flying draperies of his long‐legged, and all‐too‐peripatetic, guardian angel. Such profane vivacity, on the part of persons usually accounted sacred, offered marked and almost cynical contrast to the extreme quiet otherwise obtaining, accentuated the absoluteness, deepened the depth, of it. For nothing stirred within the length and breadth of the room, nor did any smallest sound disturb the prevailing silence. At these southward‐facing casements no harsh wind shrilled. The embroidered curtains of the state‐bed hung in stiff, straight folds. The many‐coloured leaves and branches of the trees of the Forest of This Life were motionless. Care, the leopard, crouched, unobservant, forgetful to spring; while the Hart was fixed spell‐bound in the midst of its headlong flight. A spell seemed, indeed, to rest on all things, which had in it more than the watchful hush of the ordinary sick‐room. It suggested a certain moral attitude—a quiet, not acquiesced in merely, but promoted.
Upon Honoria—her circulation quickened by recent exercise, her cheeks still tingling from the stinging sleet, her retina still retaining impressions of the stern grandeur of the wide‐ranging fir woods and grey‐brown desolation of the moors—this extreme quiet produced an extremely disquieting effect. Passing from the Chapel‐Room and the society of her late companions—all three persons of distinct individuality, all three possessing, though from very differing standpoints, a definitely masculine outlook on life—into this silent bed‐chamber, she seemed to pass with startling abruptness from the active to the passive, from the objective to the subjective side of things, from the world that creates to that which obeys, merely, and waits. The present and masculine, with its clear practical reason, its vigorous purposes, was exchanged for a place peopled by memories only, dedicated wholly to submissive and patient endurance. And this fell in extremely ill with Honoria's present humour; while the somewhat unseemly antics of the small, scriptural personages, pictured upon the chimney‐space and hearth, troubled her imagination, in that they added a point of irony to this apparent triumph of the remote over the immediate, of tradition over fact.page: 412
Nor as, stung by unspoken remonstrance, she approached Lady Calmady was this sense of intrusion into an alien region lessened; or her appreciation of the difficulties of the mission she had been deputed by doctor, priest, and amiable, young fine‐gentleman—her late companions—to fulfil, by any means lightened.
For Katherine lay back in the great rose‐silk and muslin‐covered arm‐chair, at right angles to the fireplace, motionless, not a participant merely, so it seemed to the intruder, in that all‐embracing quiet, but the very source and centre of it, its nucleus and heart. The lines of her figure were shrouded in a loose, wadded gown of dove‐coloured silk, bordered with swans‐down. A coif of rare, white lace covered her upturned hair. Her eyes were closed, the rim of the eye‐socket being very evident. While her face, though smooth and still graciously young, was so emaciated as to appear almost transparent. Now, as often before, it struck Honoria that a very exquisite spiritual quality was present in her aspect—her whole bearing and expression betraying, less the languor and defeat of physical illness, than the exhaustion of long sustained moral effort, followed by the calm of entire self‐dedication and renunciation of will.
On the table at her elbow were a bowl of fresh‐picked violets and greenhouse‐grown tea‐roses, some books of the hour, both English and French, a miniature of Dickie at the age of thirteen—the proud, little head and its cap of close‐cropped curls showing up against a background of thick‐set foliage. On the table, too, lay a well‐worn, vellum‐bound copy of that holiest of books ever, probably, conceived by the heart and written by the hand of man—Thomas à Kempis' Imitation of Christ. It was open at the chapter which is thus entitled—"Of the Zealous Amendment of our Whole Life." While close against it was a packet of Richard's letters—those curt, businesslike communications, faultlessly punctual in their weekly arrival, which, while they relieved her anxiety as to his material well‐being, stabbed his mother's heart only less by the little they said, than by all they left unsaid.
And looking upon that mother now, taking cognisance of her surroundings, Honoria St. Quentin's young indignation, once again, waxed hot. While, since it was the tendency of her mind to run eagerly towards theory, to pass from the particular to the general, and instinctively to apprehend the relation of the individual to the mass, looking thus upon Katherine, she rebelled, not only against the doom of this one woman, but against that doom of universal womanhood of which she offered, page: 413 just now, only too eloquent an example. And a burning compassion animated Honoria for all feminine as against all masculine creatures; for the bitter patience demanded of the passive, as against the large latitude permitted the active principle; for the perpetual humiliation of the subjective and spiritual under the heavy yoke of the objective and practical; for the brief joy and long barrenness of all those who are condemned to obey and to wait, merely, as against those who are born to command and to create.
From a child she had been aware of the element of tragedy inherent in the fact of womanhood. It had quickened exaggerations of sentiment in her at times, and pushed her into not a little knight‐errantry,—witness the affair of Lady Constance Quayle's engagement. But, though more sober in judgment than of old and less ready to set her lance in rest, the existence of that tragic element had never disclosed itself more convincingly to her than at the present moment, nor had the necessity to attempt the assuaging of the smart of it called upon her with more urgent voice. Yet she recognised that such attempt taxed all her circumspection, all her imaginative sympathy and tact. Very free criticism of the master of the house, of his sins of omission and commission alike, were permissible in the Chapel‐Room and in the presence of her late companions. The subject, unhappily, had called for too frequent mention, by now, for any circumlocution to be incumbent in the discussion of it. But here, in the brooding quiet of this bed‐chamber, and in Lady Calmady's presence, all that was changed. Trenchant statements of opinion, words of blame, were proscribed. The sinner, if spoken of at all, must be spoken of with due reticence and respect, his wilfulness ignored, the unloveliness of his conduct gently, even eagerly, explained away.
And, therefore, it came about that this fair champion of much‐wronged womanhood, though fired with the zeal of righteous anger, had to go very softly and set a watch before her lips. But as she paused, fearful to break in too abruptly upon Lady Calmady's repose, she began to question fearfully whether speech was, in truth, still available as a means of communication between herself and the object of her solicitude. For Lady Calmady lay so very still, her sweet face showed so transparent against the rose‐silk, muslin‐covered pillows, that the younger woman was shaken by a swift dread that Dr. Knott's melancholy predictions had already found fulfilment, and that the lovely, labour‐wasted body had already let the valiant, love‐wasted soul depart.
"Cousin Katherine, dear Cousin Katherine," she called very page: 414 gently, under her breath; and then waited almost awestricken, sensible, to the point of distress, alike of the profound quiet, which it seemed as an act of profanity to have even assayed to break, and of the malign activity of those little, scriptural figures anticking so wildly in the chimney‐space and on the hearth.
Seconds, to Honoria of measureless duration, elapsed before Lady Calmady gave sign of life. At length she moved her hands, as though gathering, with infinite tenderness, some small and helpless creature close and warm against her bosom. Honoria's vision grew somewhat blurred and misty. Then, with a long‐drawn, fluttering sigh, Katherine looked up at the tall, straight figure.
"Dick—ah, you've come in! My beloved—have you had good sport?" she said.
Honoria sat down on the end of the sofa, bowing her head.
"Alas, alas, it is only me, Cousin Katherine. Nothing better than me, Honoria St. Quentin. Would that it were someone better," and her voice broke.
But Lady Calmady had come into full possession of herself.
"My dear, I must have been dozing, and my thoughts had wandered far on the backward road, as is the foolish habit of thoughts when one grows old and is not altogether well and strong."—Katherine spoke faintly, yet with an air of sweetly playful apology. "One is liable to be confused, under such circumstances, when one first wakes—and—you have the smell of the sleet and the freshness of the moors upon you." She paused, and then added:—"But, indeed, the confusion of sleep once past, I could hardly have anything dearer for my eyes first to light on than your very dear self."
Hearing which gracious words, indignation in the cause of this woman, burning compassion for the wrongs and sorrows of universal womanhood, both of which must be denied utterance, worked very forcibly in Honoria. She bent down and taking Lady Calmady's hand kissed it. And, as she did this, her eyes were those of an ardent, yet very reverent lover, and so, when next she spoke, were the tones of her voice.
But Katherine, still anxious to repair any defect in her recognition and greeting, and still with that same effect of playful self‐depreciation, spoke first.
"I had been reviewing many things, with the help of blessèd Thomas à Kempis here, before I became so drowsy. The dear man lays his finger smartly upon all the weak places in one's fancied armour of righteousness. It is sometimes not quite easy to be page: 415 altogether grateful to him. For instance, he has pointed out to me conclusively that I grow reprehensibly selfish."'
"Oh, come, come!" Honoria answered, in loving raillery. "Thomas is acute to the point of lying if he has convinced you of that!"
"Unhappily, no," Katherine returned. "I know it, I fear, without any pointing of Thomas's finger. But I rather shirked admission of my knowledge—well, for the very bad reason that I wanted very badly to put off the day of amendment. Now the holy man has touched my witness and"—she turned her head against the pillows and looked full at the younger woman, while her under‐lip quivered a little. "My dear, I have come to be very greedy of the comfort of your companionship. I have been tempted to consider not your advantage, but solely my own. The pointing finger of Thomas has brought it home to me that Brockhurst and I are feeding upon your generosity of time, and helpfulness, to an unconscionable extent. We are devouring the best days of your life, and hindering you alike from work and from pleasure. It must not be. And so, my dear, I beg you go forth, once more, to all your many friends and to society. You are too young, and too gifted, to remain here in this sluggish back‐water, alongside a derelict like me. It is not right. You must make for the open stream again and let the free wind and the strong current bear you gladly on your appointed course. And my gratitude and my blessing will go with you always. But you must delay no longer. For me you have done enough."
For a little space Honoria held her friend's hand in silence.
"Are—are—you tired of me then?" she said.
"Ah, my dear!" Katherine exclaimed. And the exclamation was more reassuring, somehow, than any denial could have been.
"After all," Honoria went on, "I really don't see why you're to have a monopoly of faithfulness. There's selfishness now, if you like—to appropriate a virtue en bloc, not leaving a rag, not the veriest scrappit of it for anybody else! And then, has it never occurred to you, that I may be just every bit as greedy of your companionship as you of mine—more so, I fancy, because—because"—
Honoria bowed her head and kissed the hand she held, once again.
"You see—I know it sounds as if I was rather a beast—perhaps I am—but I never cared for anyone—really to care, I mean—till I cared for you."page: 416
"My dear!"—Katherine said again, wondering, shrinking somewhat, at once touched and almost repulsed. The younger woman's attitude was so far removed from her own experience.
"Does it displease you? Does it seem to you unnatural?" Honoria asked quickly.
"A little," Lady Calmady answered, smiling, yet very tenderly.
"All the same it's quite true. You opened a door, somehow, that had always been shut. I hardly believed in its existence. Of course I had read plenty about the—affections, shall we call them? And had heard women and girls, and men, too, for that matter, talk about them pretty freely. But it bored me a good deal. I thought it all rather silly, and rather nasty perhaps."—Honoria shook her head. "It didn't appeal to me in the least. But when you opened the door"—she paused, her face very grave, yet with a smile on it, as she looked away at the little figures anticking upon the hearth. "Oh, dear me, I own I was half scared," she said, "it let in such a lot of light!"
But, for this speech, Lady Calmady had no immediate answer. And so the quiet came back, settling down sensibly on the room again—even as, when at dawn the camp is struck, the secular quiet of the desert comes back and possesses its own again. And, in obedience to that quiet, Katherine's hand rested passively in the hand of her companion, while she gazed wonderingly at the delicate, half‐averted face, serious, lit up by the eagerness of a vital enthusiasm. And, having a somewhat sorrowful fund of learning to draw upon in respect of the dangers which all eccentricity, either of character or development, inevitably brings along with it, she trembled, divining that noble and strong and pure though it was, that face, and the temperament disclosed by it, might work sorrow, both to its possessor and to others, unless the enthusiasm animating it should find some issue at once large and simple enough to engage its whole aspiration and power of work.
But abruptly Honoria broke up the brooding quiet, laughing gently, yet with a catch in her throat.
"And when you had let in the light, Cousin Katherine, good heavens, how thankful I was I had never married. Picture finding out all that after one had bound oneself, after one had given oneself! What an awful prostitution."—Her tone changed and she stroked the elder woman's hand softly. "So you see you can't very well order me off, the pointing finger of Thomas notwithstanding. You have taught me"—
"Only half the lesson as yet," Katherine said. "The other page: 417 half, and the doxology which closes it, neither I, nor any other woman, can teach you."
"You really believe that?"
"Ah! my dear," Katherine said, "I do more than believe. I know it."
The younger woman regarded her searchingly. Then she shook her charming head.
"It's no good to arrive at a place before you've got to it," she declared. "And I very certainly haven't got to the second half of the lesson, let alone the doxology, yet. And then I'm so blissfully content with the first half, that I've no disposition to hurry. No, dear Cousin Katherine, I am afraid you must resign yourself to put up with me for a little while longer. Your foes, unfortunately, are of your own household in this affair. Dr. Knott has just been holding forth to us—Julius March, and Mr. Quayle, and me—and swearing me over not only to stay, but to make you eat and drink and come out of doors, and even to go away with me. Because—yes, in a sense your Thomas is right with his pointing finger, though he got a bit muddled, good man, not being quite up‐to‐date, and pointed to the wrong place"—
Honoria left her sentence unfinished. She knelt down—her tall, slender figure, angular, more like that of a youth than like that of a maid, in her spare, mud‐stained habit and coat. Impulsively she put her hands on Lady Calmady's hips, laid her head in her lap.
"Have you but one blessing, oh! my more than mother?" she cried. "Do we count for nothing, all the rest of us—your household, and tenants rich and poor, and Julius the faithful, and Ludovic the bland, and that queer lump of sagacity and ugliness, John Knott? Why will you kill yourself? Why will you die and leave us all, just because one person is perverse? That's hardly the way to make us—who love you—bear with and pity him and welcome him home.—Oh! I know I am treading on dangerous ground and venturing to approach very close. But I don't care—not a hang! We're at the end of our patience. We want you, and we mean to have you back."
Honoria raised herself, knelt bolt upright, her hands on the arms of Lady Calmady's chair, her expression full of appeal.
"Be kind to us, be kind," she said. "We only ask you, after all, to eat and drink—to let Clara take care of you at night, and let me do so by day.—And then, when you are stronger, you must come away with me, up north, to Ormiston. You have not page: 418 been there for years, and its grey towers are rather splendid overlooking that strong, uneasy, northern sea. It stirs the Viking blood in one, and makes that which was hard seem of less moment. Roger and Mary are there, too—will be all this summer. And you know it refreshed you to see them last year. And if we go pretty soon the boys will be at school, so they won't tire you with their racketing. They're jolly monkeys, though, in my opinion, Godfrey wants smacking. He comes the elder‐brother a lot too much over poor, little Dick.—But that's neither here nor there. Oh! it's for you to get out of the backwater into the stream, ten times more than for me. Dearest physician, heal thyself!"
But Katherine, though deeply touched by the loving ardour of the younger woman's appeal, and the revelation of tenderness and watchful care, constantly surrounding her, which that appeal brought along with it, could not rouse herself to any immediate response. Sternly, unremittingly, since the fair July night when Richard had left her nearly five years earlier, she had schooled herself into unmurmuring resignation and calm. In the prosecution of such a process there must be loss as well as gain. And Katherine had, in great measure, atrophied impulse; and, in eradicating personal desire, had come near destroying all spontaneity of emotion. She could still give, but the power of receiving was deadened in her. And she had come to be jealous of the quiet which surrounded her. It was her support and solace. She asked little more than not to have it broken up. She dreaded even affection, should that strive to draw her from the cloistered way of life. The world, and its many interests, had ceased to be of any moment to her. She asked to be left to contemplation of things eternal and to the tragedy of her own heart. And so, though it was beautiful to know herself to be thus cherished and held in high esteem, that beauty came to her as something unrelated, as sweet words good to hear, yet spoken of some person other than herself, or of a self she had ceased to be. All privilege implies a corresponding obligation, and to the meeting of fresh obligations Katherine felt herself not only unequal, but indisposed. And so, she smiled now upon Honoria St. Quentin, leaning back against the rose‐silk and muslin‐covered pillows, with a lovely indulgence, yet rather hopelessly unmoved and remote.
"Ah! my dear, I am beyond all wish to be healed after the fashion you, in your urgent loving‐kindness, would have me," she said. "I look forward to the final healing, when my many mistakes and shortcomings shall be forgiven and the smart of page: 419 them removed. And I am very tired. I do not think it can be required of me to go back."
"I know, I know," Honoria replied.—She rose to her feet and moved across to the fireplace, her straight eyebrows drawn together, her expression one of perplexity. "I must seem a brute for trying to drag you back. When Dr. Knott, and the other two men, asked me to come and reason with you, I was on the edge of refusing. I hardly had the heart to worry you. And yet," she added wistfully, "after all, in a way, it is just simply your own dear fault. For if you will be a sort of little kingdom of heaven to us, you see, it's inevitable that, when you threaten to slip away from us, we should play the part of the violent and do our best to take our kingdom by force and keep it in spite of itself."
"You overrate the heavenliness of the poor little kingdom," Katherine said. "Its soil has become barren, its proud cities are laid waste. It's an unprofitable place, believe me, dearest child. Let it be. Seek your fortune in some kingdom from which the glory has not departed and whose motto is not Ichabod."
"Unfortunately, I can't do that," the younger woman answered. "I've explained why already. Where my heart is, there, you see, my kingdom is also."
"Ah! my dear, my dear," Katherine said, touched, yet somewhat weary.
"And after all it is not wholly for our own sakes we make this fight to keep you."—Miss St. Quentin's voice sank. She spoke slowly and as though with reluctance. "We do it for the sake of the person you love best in the world. I don't say we love him very much, but that is beside the mark, We owe him a certain duty—I, because I am living in his house, the others because they are his friends. When he comes home—as come he surely will—they all say that, even while they blame him—would it not be an almost too cruel punishment if he found Brockhurst empty of your presence? You would not wish that. It's not a question of me, of course. I don't count. But you gone, no one—not even the old servants, I believe—would stay. Blame would be turned into something awkwardly near to hatred."
Lady Calmady's serenity did not desert her, but a touch of her old loftiness of manner was apparent. And Miss St. Quentin was very glad. Anything, even anger, would be welcome if it dissipated that unnatural, paralysing calm.
"You forget Julius, I think," she said. "He will be faithful page: 420 to the very end, faithful unto death. And so will another friend of happier days, poor, blind, old Camp."
A sudden inspiration came to Honoria St. Quentin.
"You must only count on Julius, I am afraid, Cousin Katherine—not on Camp."
And to her immense relief she perceived Lady Calmady's serenity give a little. It was as though she came nearer. Her sweet face was troubled, her eyes full of questioning.
"Camp grew a little too tired of waiting about three weeks ago. You did not ask for him"—
"Didn't I?" Katherine said, smitten by self‐reproach.
"Never once—and so we did not tell you, fearing to distress you."
Miss St. Quentin came over and sat down on the end of the sofa again. She rested her hands on her knees. Her feet were rather far apart. She fixed her eyes upon the small prophets and patriarchs anticking upon the hearth.
"But it wasn't really so very bad," she said reflectively. "And we did all we could to smooth his passage, poor, dear beast, to the place where all good dogs go. We had the vet out from Westchurch two or three times, but there was nothing much he could do. And I thought him a bit rough. Nervousness, I fancy. You see the dog did not like being handled by a stranger, and made it rather hot for him once or twice. I could not let him be worried, poor old man, and so Julius March, and Winter, and I, took turn and turn about with him."
"Where did he die?"
"In the Gun‐Room, on the tiger‐skin."—Honoria did not look round. Her voice grew perceptibly husky. "Chifney and I sat up with him that last night."
"You and Chifney?" Lady Calmady exclaimed, almost in protest.
"Yes. Of course the men would have been as kind as kind could be. Only I had a feeling you would be glad to know I was there, later, when we told you. You see Chifney's as good as any vet, and I had to have somebody. The dog was rather queer. I did not quite know how to manage him alone."
Lady Calmady put out her hand. Honoria took it silently, and fell to stroking it once more. It was a declaration of peace, she felt, on the part of the obstinate well‐beloved—possibly a declaration of something over and above peace.
"Winter saw to our creature comforts," the young lady continued. "Oh, we weren't starved, I promise you! And Chifney was excellent company."page: 421
She hesitated a moment.
"He told me endless yarns about horses—about Doncaster, and Newmarket, and Goodwood. I was greatly flattered at being regarded as sufficiently of the equestrian order to hear all that.—And he told me stories about Richard, when he was quite a little boy—and about his father also."
Honoria had a conviction the tears were running down Lady Calmady's cheeks, but she would not look round. She only stroked the hand she held softly, and talked on.
"They were fine," she said, "some of those stories. I am glad to have heard them. They went home to me. When all is said and done, there is nothing like breeding and pluck, and the courtesy which goes along with them. But after midnight Camp grew very restless. He had his blanket in the big arm‐chair—you know the one I mean—as usual. But he wouldn't stay there. We had to lift him down. You see his hindquarters were paralysed, and he couldn't help himself much. It was pathetic. I can't forget the asking look in his half‐blind eyes. But we couldn't make out what he wanted. At last he dragged himself as far as the door, and we set it open and watched him, poor, dear beast. He got across the lobby to the bottom of the little staircase"—
The speaker's breath caught.
"Then we made out what it was. He wanted to get up here, to come to you.—Well, I could understand that! I should want just that myself, shall want it, when it comes to the last. He whimpered when Chifney carried him back into the Gun‐Room."
Honoria turned her head and looked Lady Calmady in the face. Her own was more than commonly white and very gentle in expression.
"He died in the grey of the morning, with his great head on my lap. I fancy it eased him to have something human, and—rather pitiful—close against him. Julius had just come in to see how we were getting on. I won't declare he did not say a prayer—I think he did. But I wasn't quite as steady as I might have been just then."
She turned her head, looking back at the figures upon the hearth. She was satisfied. Lady Calmady's long‐sustained calm had given way, and she wept.
"We buried him, in his blanket, under the big Portugal‐laurel, where the nightingale sings, at the corner of the troco‐ground, close to Camp the First and Old Camp. The upper servants came, and Chaplin and Hariburt from the house‐stables, and Chifney and the head‐lad—and some of the gardeners. page: 422 Poor, old Wenham drove up in his donkey‐chair from the west lodge. Julius was there, of course. We did all things decently and in order."
Honoria's voice ceased. She sat stroking the dear hand she held and smiling to herself, notwithstanding a chokiness in her throat, for she had a comfortable belief the situation was saved.
Then Clara entered, prepared to encounter remonstrance, bearing a tray.
"It's all right, Clara," Miss St. Quentin said. "Lady Calmady is quite ready for something to eat. I've been telling her about Camp."
And Katherine, sitting upright, with great docility and a certain gentle shame, accepted food and drink.
"Since you wish it, dearest," she said, "and since Julius must not be left alone in a quite empty house."
"Our kingdom of heaven stays with us then?" Honoria exclaimed joyously.
"Such as it is—poor thing—it will do its best to stay. I thought I had cried my eyes dry forever, long ago. But it seems not. You and Camp have broken up the drought."
"I have not hurt you?" Honoria said, in sudden penitence.
"No, no—you have given me relief. I was ceasing to be human. The blessed Thomas was right—I grew very selfish."
"But you're not displeased with me?" Honoria insisted. Lady Calmady's playfulness had returned, but with a new complexion.
"Ah! it is a little soon to ask that!" she said. "Still I will go north with you a fortnight hence—go to Ormiston. And by then, perhaps, you may be forgiven. Open the casement, dearest, and let in the wind. The air of this room is curiously dead. Give my love to Julius and Ludovic. Tell them I will come into the Chapel‐Room after dinner to‐night.—What—my child, are you so very glad?—Kiss me.—God keep you.—Now I will rest."


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How does a river deepen its channel?
One way is through nickpoint propagation. A nickpoint develops when the river's base level drops. (Base level dropping could be caused by sea level dropping, or the land uplifting, or other reasons.) On the river, you'd recognize a nickpoint as a waterfall or a series of rapids. Great Falls is a nickpoint along the Potomac, for instance, and so is Little Falls.
As water falls over the nickpoint, it excavates the rock which underlies the waterfall. As rock is removed, the nickpoint retreats in an upstream direction.
If base level were to drop again, perhaps due to sea level drop like seen here, it would cause a new nickpoint to develop close to base level. As time goes by, that nickpoint will work its way upstream too.
As each nickpoint propagates upstream, it carves a new channel, a new gorge. These gorges get longer because of nickpoint propagation, but they get wider due to mass wasting. The river chews its way downward, but that leaves large cliffs unsupported by the rock that used to hold them up. As a result, they tend to collapse into the river, which carries away the debris. So as time goes by, each nickpoint serves as the lead for a new valley carved in the middle of older, wider valleys. You could visualize these valleys as a nested series of "rowboat" shapes, each with a nickpoint at its bow. In the area of the Billy Goat Trail, Mather Gorge is the innermost and narrowest of these levels.
Why is Mather Gorge so straight? One possibility is that a major crack in the Earth's crust, a fault, runs along the bottom of Mather Gorge. This fault would have crumbled up the rocks along its surface, making for an easy spot where the river could erode away rock.
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Minnesota Indian Scholarship Program Is Up and Running at the Minnesota Office of Higher Education
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The Minnesota Indian Scholarship program, which provides need-based grants to Minnesota residents attending public and private institutions in the state, was transferred to the Office of Higher Education from the Minnesota Department of Education on July 1, 2007. The program awarded $1.9 million in August to 485 students attending college this fall.
The Minnesota Indian Scholarship program awards scholarships to eligible students who have one-quarter Indian ancestry and whose college costs are not met through federal and state grants and other scholarships. The program was transferred to the Office of Higher Education, in part, to place it with other student financial aid programs managed by the agency. Megan FitzGibbon, the program's manager, was hired in August to administer the Indian Scholarship program and two other state financial aid programs. Applications, awards and disbursements are handled through the Minnesota Office of Higher Education in St. Paul.
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"This important program enables students to reach their dream of attending college," said Susan Heegaard, Director of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education. "When combined with federal, state and other aid available to students, the Minnesota Indian Scholarship can make a life-changing difference for students."
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Realizing the potential of Santa Barbara County as a premium grape-growing region, Fess and his son, Eli, originally set out in 1989 to plant a small vineyard and sell fruit to local producers. But, as Fess' daughter, Ashley explains, "Fess is from Texas, so he can't do anything small." The Fess Parker Winery and Vineyard now farms almost 700 acres on four vineyards throughout Santa Barbara County. View all Fess Parker Wines
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California has nearly 100 American Viticulture Areas (AVAs) and accounts for almost 90% of wine production in the United States. In our section of Other California, we include wines from smaller AVAs as well as wines from the California AVA. Here are a few smaller AVAs you may see on the label:
Livermore Valley AVA, located right outside of San Francisco and home to wineries such as Wente.
Lodi County AVA, an AVA further east of San Francisco and known for its excellent, old-vine Zinfandels.
San Francisco Bay AVA, a sprawling AVA that covers Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties, to name a few. Wine that holds only the California AVA is typically a wine that includes grapes from a number of different AVAs, which leads to the general labeling of the wine as California. This does not denote the quality of the wine, only the diversity of where the grapes originate.
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The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.


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Thou shalt not forget thine ordinary manners nor thy common civility, just because thou art amongst thy brothers and sisters.
Thou shalt tolerate the tiresome relative (at least for a little while).
Thou shalt not play footsie with a distant cousin or thy cousin's spouse.
Sniping and carping about a reunion's lack of organization is an abomination.
Thou shalt orchestrate spontaneous praise unto the reunion organizer.
Thou shalt not talk about everything under the sun. Agree to disagree, and steer clear of controversial topics.
Parents shall not use intimate details of their kids' lives as conversational fodder. (Boasts of children's accomplishments are acceptable, but parents shall be discreet in their phrasing and timing.)
Thou shalt not reveal devastating family secrets about thyself or others unless thou hast arranged therapeutic support systems.
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More Tubes Increase Performance
Usually, when a boat, or car, or whatever comes with two of something standard, with an option for three, it implies that the item with just two isn't quite as good. That's not the case with the Cast-A-Way 221: According to a company rep we interviewed, the reasons people opt for the extra tube are to carry more weight and/or to use bigger engines and therefore go faster. Adding the third tube raises the maximum capacity from 2,300 lbs (1,043 kg) to 2,675 lbs (1,213 kg) with a round tube, and 2,900 lbs (1,315 kg) with the high-performance PTX tube.
Naturally, both options increase cost, both for the boat itself and the larger outboard; our local dealer said he hadn't sold a 221 Cast-A-Way yet with the three-tube option. Staying with the standard two tubes meant the boat would perform fine with a 70-hp outboard; base price with that set-up is around $35,000. In all cases, the tubes are .090-gauge aluminum, multi-chambered, with .100 gauge hydrodynamic nosecones.
PTX Performance
Premier's patent-pending PTX design takes triple-tubes one step further: Rather than simply adding a third round tube down the middle, PTX technology incorporates a flat planing surface on the middle tube, which, on the 221, measures 36" (91 cm) rather than the 25" (63.5 cm) of the outer tubes. (The center tube is mounted differently than the outside ones, so the bottoms of all three are the same depth.) Lifting strakes on the insides of the outer tubes help shorten time-to-plane. Premier found that strakes on both sides of the tubes made the boat run too flat, but adding them only to the inside let the boat bank into turns, reducing radius and making for more agile handling.
Construction Details
Premier's tubes are pressure-tested during manufacture, and come fitted with Pals tube vents to compensate for outside temperature fluctuation; the vents will also prevent the tube from filling with water in the event of a puncture, according to the builder. The tubes are attached to the deck with extruded M-brackets and Z-channel crossmembers on 16" (40.6 cm) centers; the company feels putting crossmembers on 16" centers rather than industry-standard 24" (61 cm) makes a stiffer frame, which adds to the 221's stability. Extra crossmembers support the aluminum transom.
The deck is pressure-treated marine-grade plywood, the only wood in the boat. (Even the furniture is wood-free.) It's attached to the crossmembers not with through-bolts, usually the best fastening for marine construction, but with stainless-steel Tek self-drilling, self-tapping fasteners. The Tek fasteners are screwed through the deck directly into the crossmember, generating enough heat to weld the fastener in place, says Premier. The plywood deck is covered with marine-grade carpet or vinyl.
Our Recommendation
Premier is one of the top pontoon-boat builders, with lots of satisfied customers – enough that the company has earned the NMMA Customer Satisfaction Index award for six years in a row. How can we not suggest that you check out the Cast-A-Way 221 (or one of her two larger sisters) if you're in the market for a pontoon boat, especially if you like to fish? Combining aluminum tubes, high-quality construction, lots of standard equipment and the option of increased performance with PTX technology, recommending the 221 is a no-brainer for us. It's a real nice pontoon, and you can get into it for a reasonable price. What's not to like?
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So, what happened? Unfortunately ... nothing!Originally Posted by Cinescape Online
Oh, great! So, a rumor about the show getting revived is posted on the Internet and this causes the deal to fall through? Riiiiight ...Originally Posted by Cinescape Online
Unfortunately, David Kemper has been known to pull these kinds of stunts in the past, so I don't doubt that maybe he's got something in the works with reviving Farscape, jumped the gun on leaking the info, and it's blown up in his face!


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Family: Pinaceae, Pine view all from this family
Description Large dense, evergreen coniferous tree. Crown narrow, cylindrical, almost spire-like. Branches short, stout, arranged in whorls of 4 or 5, on one plane to form flat, horizontal sprays. Bark smooth gray becoming deeply furrowed, scaly ridges. Needles spiral, twisted, or upswept; green to blue-green above, two blue-white bands of stomatal bloom below. Cones green or purple ripening pale brown, 6-12 cm. long and 4-4.5 cm. broad. Scales have short bracts, hidden in the closed cone. Winged seeds released when the cones disintegrate.
Dimensions Height: 21-49 m. (70-160 ft)
Diameter: 0.5-1.2 m. (1 1/2-4 ft).
Habitat Mountains, Canyons & valleys.
Range California, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, Northwest, New England.
Discussion Popular as an ornamental landscaping tree and as a Christmas Tree.


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Forgive me Advogato, for I have sinned, it's been almost 3 years since my last blog posting.
Forgive me Advogato, for I have sinned, it's been almost 3 years since my last blog posting.
I missed my Annual Advogato post by 2 months... does that make me a bad person :(
one year has past and we meet again
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I should write a script that does this every year :S
Lalala! Years go by so fast these days... See you next year!
Time for my yearly advogato diary entry. nothing much to report. Still alive and blogging up a storm at my blog anyone looking for me will find information there.
Ahhh, it feels good to be back... such a long time, but it's still as plain as ever :).
I've most recently gotten involved with PHPCommunity.org, which we WILL make THE php community. Doing most of the work in the Content department... got a mailing list set up, so if anyone wants to come in and lend a hand please drop us a line.
OK, back to work :)
Geez, been a long time. Well, I've kept my blog busy, so didn't have anything to put here.
The last few days I've been adding different Custom Kewords to my Custom Keywords Wiki page. I just finished writing a script that parses the wiki page into a bookmarks file that you can feed to your Birds bookmark manager. It's still a bit buggy, but we'll have to solve those problems when we get to them :)
Questions or suggestions welcomed on my blog annoucement page, you can see the source for the converter there too.
I'm very proud to have discovered a way to satisfy my wife's need for shopping. Ebay works like a charm... and the best part about it is that she hasn't spent anything yet :)
Now that we're talking about ebay, I'll drop a blatent plug for something I'm selling there.
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Media and political accountability is topic, Nov. 30-Dec. 1
Posted November 19, 2007; 06:35 p.m.
A conference examining how new media affect political accountability will be held Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30-Dec. 1, in 1 Robertson Hall.
The conference, titled "The Changing Media and Political Accountability," is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, a research program within the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. It is being organized by Martin Gilens, associate professor of politics; Markus Prior, assistant professor of politics and public affairs; and Paul Starr, the Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and professor of sociology and public affairs.
Panel presentations will begin at 4:30 p.m. Friday with an overview of the "State of the News Media" by Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism in Washington, D.C. Rosenstiel's talk will be followed by a series of presentations about how the changing media affect the political information environment.
The conference will continue at 9 a.m. Saturday with panels focusing on implications for the link between media and citizen involvement, as well as between citizens and government. Speakers include: Paul DiMaggio, professor of sociology at Princeton; James Druckman, associate professor of political science at Northwestern University; Shanto Iyengar, director of the political communication lab at Stanford University; and Lynn Vavreck, assistant professor of political science at the University of California-Los Angeles.
A full conference schedule can be viewed online. The conference is open to the public, but registration is required by contacting Michele Epstein at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Family: Didelphidae, Opossums view all from this family
Description Unique with white head and long, scaly, prehensile tail. A medium-sized, rather ponderous-looking mammal with a long pink-tipped snout, white toes, and leathery, white-tipped ears. Body fur is gray with long white and gray guard hairs giving an overall scruffy appearance. Has bright yellow-green eyeshine at night.
Dimensions 350-940mm, 215-470mm, ? 800-6500g; / 300-3700g
Breeding For a mammal of its size, opossums have remarkable reproductive potential and very high turnover in their population. Females typically have one litter of 7-9 young, although in the south some females may have a second litter. Babies are born after only a 2-week pregnancy, but grow for another 8 weeks in their mothers pouch. Survival is low and the oldest known wild opossum was 36 months old when last captured.
Habitat Cities, suburbs & towns, Forests & woodlands, Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Swamps, marshes & bogs
Range Plains, Great Lakes, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Rocky Mountains, Southeast, Southwest, Florida, Texas, California, Northwest, Eastern Canada, Western Canada
Discussion Known for playing possum, a catatonic state assumed in the face of danger. Although it is omnivorous, its slow reflexes make it a better scavenger than active hunter. Diet typically includes a mixture of locally abundant fruits, grains, grubs, and carrion. Nocturnal and primarily terrestrial, opossums are also adept climbers and can exploit fruiting trees. These slow mammals are frequent roadkills, and are often preyed on by predators such as coyotes. Surviving the winter in northern areas requires the use of human houses, barns or sheds as dens. In the south they use a wide variety of woodland habitats. In the northern