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|January 5, 2013 11:19 AM EST
NEW YORK, Jan. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Championship apparel commemorating the 2013 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic bears a variation on the well-known cotton tagline, The touch, the feel of cotton, the fabric of our lives. Reinvented as "The touch, the feel of victory," the phrase is fitting for the Cotton Bowl Classic, which since 1937 has pitted two cotton country college teams in gridiron battle. Texas A&M emerged victorious on the field this year, and the cotton-dominant tees and caps from 289c Apparel, Ltd. featured the Aggies' signature colors and logo. The variation on the popular tagline also speaks to a number of recent victories for cotton as a fiber and a crop.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130105/DC37560 )
"Everybody knows the cotton tagline," says Rick Baker, President/CEO of the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic. "We thought changing it up just slightly would take advantage of that recognition and be appropriate for our Cotton Bowl Classic merchandise."
The championship tees and caps feature the Texas A&M logo, the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic logo, the date of the game and the revised tagline.
Cotton Incorporated, the not-for-profit research and promotion company for cotton, introduced "The Fabric Of Our Lives" tagline in 1989 as part of a multi-channel advertising campaign. The campaign was retired in 2001; then reintroduced as "The Fabric of My Life" campaign in 2009. "Even with an eight-year hiatus, people remembered the touch, the feel of cotton tagline," explains Ric Hendee, senior vice president of consumer marketing at Cotton Incorporated. "That is a sign of both successful marketing and of consumers' ongoing love affair with cotton," Hendee adds.
There is much to love about cotton, these days: U.S. cotton growers continue to embrace efficiencies that reduce applications of chemical inputs and irrigated water for their crops; advanced textile technologies have made cotton a player in the athletic apparel category, merging cotton comfort with performance expectations; and scientific advances are helping to expand the use of cotton to other areas, such as livestock feed and a food source for a growing human population. Perhaps the next tagline revision will be "The Fabric and Food Of Our Lives?"
About Cotton Incorporated
Cotton Incorporated, funded by U.S. growers of upland cotton and importers of cotton and cotton textile products, is the research and marketing company representing upland cotton. The Program is designed and operated to improve the demand for and profitability of cotton.
SOURCE Cotton Incorporated
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Practically Speaking
Kyle and her husband moved to Brookfield in 1986. She became active in local politics and started blogging in 2004. Her focus is primarily on local issues but often includes state and national topics, too. Kyle looks at things from the taxpayers' perspective in a creative, yet down to earth way, addressing them from a practical point of view.
Medical College of Wisconsin's Dr. Bolender presents The Miracle of Human Development, Jan. 24, 2012
The Creation Science Society of Milwaukee is pleased to present Dr. David Bolender, Ph.D as their speaker on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 6:45pm. He will be discussing "The Miracle of Human Development from Conception to Birth".
Dr. Bolender is very familiar with this subject as he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy and Director of the Human Development Course at the Medical College of Wisconsin. "He also teaches Clinical Human Anatomy and Cell and Tissue Biology as well as advanced anatomy electives. ...he has participated in research on the role of growth factors in the development of the heart, limbs, and blood vessels."
Medical science has come a long way since the display of preserved human fetuses so many of us remember at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. As I recall, there was at least one real specimen at each stage of development. The display dated back to the 1930s. Back then, and even in my lifetime, "details of prenatal development were unclear for many years and the subject of much speculation and misinterpretation". But thanks to improved technology we get a glimpse into this once hidden realm. Advances in medical imaging has given us this "window into human development in the womb." "Dr. Bolender will share many of their most amazing new insights in this presentation."
This meeting is not to be missed! Bring your family and friends to Brookfield Lutheran Church, located at 18500 W. Burleigh Road, in Brookfield, Wisconsin on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 6:45pm. (The church is just east of Brookfield Road on Burleigh Road)
No wonder the Psalmist David wrote in Psalm 139:14:
I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Did you know? Humans at about 2 months have webbed fingers, but our DNA also carries the instructions for those webs to die, once the fingers develop from the buds. This is called PCD or Programmed Cell Death. These webs "serve as scaffolds, supporting the emergence of more permanent and specialized cells". (Don't feel badly if you didn't know this; I only learned about it at the last CSSM meeting with Biologist Paul Frank.)
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Future Speakers:
Dr. Gary Locklair PhD., Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 6:45pm, at Concordia University, Wisconsin
Jerry Frye, Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 7:15pm, at Brookside Baptist Church, Brookfield, Wisconsin
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UPDATE: Since the presentation is now past, check out this YouTube of Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth for a taste of what you missed. The photography is amazing! Dr. Tsiaras concludes regarding the complexity of this process "it's a mystery, it's magic, it's divinity".
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Death penalty is focus of debate, April 23
Posted April 19, 2004; 12:03 a.m.
Members of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society will debate the merits of the death penalty in the criminal justice system at 8:30 p.m. Friday, April 23, in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber.
Debaters will include junior Katherine Reilly and seniors Christian Asmar, Nick Pilchak and Steph Tatham. The topic is "Resolved: A Just Society Should Use the Death Penalty in the Criminal Justice System."
The debate is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Contact: Ruth Stevens (609) 258-3601


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By Ben Levisohn
China has decided not to release the industry data from its purchasing managers' index. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 0.% today.
North and South Korea agreed to discuss reopening a shuttered industrial park. The Korea Stock Exchange KOSPI Index fell 0.3%.
Malaysia's exports fell for a fourth consecutive month in May. The FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index rose 0.1%.
Thailand is expanding its airports to accommodate more tourists. The Stock Exchange of Thailand SET Index gained 0.7%.
Russian anticorruption blogger Alexei Navalny could be sentenced to six years in jail if prosecutors have their way. Russian prosecutors have requested Russia's Micex stock index has risen 0.2% so far today.
What's Nelson Mandela's condition? Those who know aren't saying. The FTSE/JSE Africa Top40 Tradeable Index has fallen 1.1%.
Turkey is not happy with the coup that ousted Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood-led government. Turkey's Istanbul Stock Exchange National 100 Index has dropped 0.1%.
Emerging Market Stocks in the News
Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said its second quarter earnings would come in below forecasts. HTC (2498.TW), meanwhile, reported that its second quarter profits had dropped 83%, well below forecasts.
Eike Batista, majority owner of OGX Petroleo e Gas (OGXPY), stepped down as chairman of utility MPX, as his empire continues to crumble.
Turkcell (TKC) investors could have a British court decision that could decide the Turkish telecom's ownership by July 9.
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I don't chime in on many of these discussions but I wanted to expand on the examples of aversive stimuli lest someone object to it's use.
Yelling "NO" or Ahhh, "Lunging at" or "towering over" a dog, Jerking on a lead, Jerking on a collar, Twisting an ear, Striking the dog, Getting in the dogs face and blowing the whistle (seen this one before) would all be aversive.
I particularly like this statement "It is not the level of unpleasantness, but rather the effectiveness...". I believe we can all agree that the "best" aversive stimuli you can use, is the one that can be the most effective with the least intensity.


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Thanks guys! My sister got me birthday balloons, so many that I had to put most in the trunk and cut the big one off and put it in the back seat to get it home, then retie it onto the bunch. Some of the rubber balloons are already losing height, but the mylar ones are still Birthdaying in there.
Rubber balloons sagging in sag order (none have lost their plump yet, just not hanging as high):
white with color swirls
pearly blue
pearly red
purple with happy birthday tampo
Rubber balloons NOT sagging yet:
3x green with happy birthday tampo
pearly dark blue
red with tampo
pink with tampo
Weird, huh? Also, they're kinda undulating in the air conditioning stream.


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GODFREY ORMISTON scudded along the terrace, past the dining‐room windows, at the top of his speed, and Miss St. Quentin followed him at a hardly less unconventional pace. Together they burst, by the small, arched side‐door, into the lobby. There ensued discussion lively though brief. Then, Winter setting wide the dining‐room door in invitation, sight of Honoria was presented to the company assembled within.—She, in brave attire of dark, red cloth, black braided and befrogged, heavy, silk cords and knotted, dangling tassels,—head‐gear to match, dark red and black, a tall, stiff aigrette set at the side of it,—in all producing a something delightfully independent, soldierly, ruffling even, in her aspect, as she pushed the black‐haired, bright‐faced, slim‐made lad, her two hands on his shoulders, before her into the room.
"May we come to luncheon as we are, Cousin Katherine?" she cried. "We're scandalously late, but we're also most ferociously hungry and"—
But here, although Lady Calmady turned on her a welcoming and far from unjoyful countenance, she stopped dead; while Godfrey incontinently gave vent to that which his younger brother—sitting beside his mother, Mary Ormiston, at table, on Richard Calmady's right—described mentally as "the most awful squawk." Which squawk, it may be added,—whatever its effect page: 551 upon other members of the company,—as denoting involuntary and unceremonious descent from the high places of thirteen‐year‐old, public‐school omniscience on the part of his elder, produced in eight‐year‐old Dick Ormiston such over‐flowings of unqualified rapture that, for a good two minutes, he had to forego assimilation of chocolate soufflet, and, slipping his hands beneath the table, squeeze them together just as hard as ever he could with both knees, to avoid disgracing himself by emission of an ecstatic giggle. For once he had got the whip hand of Godfrey!—Having himself, for the best part of an hour now, been conversant with interesting developments, he found it richly diverting to behold his big brother thus incontinently bowled over by sudden disclosure of them. He repressed the giggle, with the help of squeezing knees and a certain squirming all down his neat, little back; but his blue eyes remained absolutely glued to Godfrey's person, as the latter, recovering his presence of mind and good manners, proceeded solemnly up to the head of the table to greet his unlooked‐for host.
Honoria, meanwhile, if guiltless of an audible squawk, had been—as she subsequently reflected—potentially, alarmingly capable of some such primitive expression of feeling. For the shock of surprise which she suffered was so forcible, that it induced in her an absurd unreasoning instinct of flight. Indeed, that had happened, or rather was in process of happening, which revolutionised all her outlook. For that the unseen presence, consciousness of which had come to be so constant a quantity in her action and her thought, should thus declare itself in visible form, be materialised, become concrete, and that instantly, without prologue or preparation, projecting itself wholesale, so to speak, into the comfortable commonplaces of a Sunday luncheon—after her slightly uproarious race home with a perfectly normal schoolboy, from morning church too—affected her much as sudden intrusion of the supernatural might. It modified all existing relations, introducing a new and, as yet, incalculable element. Nor had she quite realised what power the unseen Richard Calmady, these many years, had exercised over her imagination, until Richard Calmady seen, was there evident, actually before her. Then all the harsh judgments she had passed upon him, all the disapproval of, and dislike she had felt towards, him, flashed through her mind. And that matter too of his cancelled engagement!—The last time she had seen him was in the house in Lowndes Square, on the night of Lady Louisa Barking's great ball, standing—she could see all that now—it was as if photographed upon her brain—always would be—and it turned page: 552 her a little sick.—Nevertheless it was impossible to pause any longer. It would be ridiculous to fly, so she must stick it out. That best of good Samaritans, Mary Ormiston, began talking to Julius March across the length of the table.
"Oh dear, yes, of course," she was saying. "But I never realised she was a sister of your old Oxford friend. I wish I had. It would have been so pleasant to talk about you and about home in that far country! Her husband is in the Rifle Brigade, and she really is a nice, dear woman. I saw a great deal of her while we were at the Cape."
And so, under cover of Mary's kindly conversation, Miss St. Quentin settled down into her lazy, swinging stride. Her small head carried high, her pale, sensitive face very serious, her straight eyebrows drawn together by concentration of purpose, concentration of thought, she followed the boy up the long room.
As she came towards him, Richard Calmady looked full at her. His head was carried somewhat high too. His face was very still. His eyes—with those curiously small pupils to them—were very observant, in effect hiding rather than revealing his thought. His manner, as he held out his hand to her, was courteous, even friendly; and yet, notwithstanding her high and fearless spirit, Honoria—for the first time in her life probably—felt afraid. And then she began to understand how it came about that, whether he behaved well or ill, whether he was good or bad, cruel or kind, seen or unseen even, Richard, of necessity, could not but occupy a good deal of space in the lives of all persons brought into close contact with him. For she recognised in him a rather tremendous creature, self‐contained, not easily accessible, possessed of a larger portion than most men of energy and resolution, possessed too—and this, as she thought of it, again turned her a trifle sick—of an unusual capacity of suffering.
"I am ashamed of being so dreadfully late," she said as she slipped into the vacant place on his left, Godfrey Ormiston was beyond her, next to Julius March.—Honoria was aware that her voice sounded slightly shaky, in part from her recent scamper, in part from a queer emotion which seemed to clutch at her throat.—" But we walked home over the fields and by the Warren, and just in that boggy bit where you cross the Welsh‐road, Godfrey found the slot of a red‐deer in the snow, and naturally we both had to follow it up."
"Naturally," Richard said.
"I'm not so sure it was a red‐deer, Honoria," the boy broke in.page: 553
"Oh yes, it was," she declared as she helped herself to a cutlet. "It couldn't have been anything else."
"Why not?" Richard asked. He was interested by the tone of assurance in which she spoke.
"Oh, well, the tracks were too big for a fallow‐deer to begin with. And then there's a difference, you can't mistake it if you've ever compared the two, in the cleft of the hoof."
"And you have compared the two?"
"Oh, certainly," Honoria answered.—She was beginning to recover her nonchalance of manner and indolent slowness of speech. "I lose no opportunity of acquiring odds and ends of information. One never knows when they may come in handy."
She looked at him as she spoke, and her upper lip shortened and her eyes narrowed into a delightful smile—a smile, moreover, which had the faintest trace of an asking of pardon in it. And it struck Richard that there was in her expression and bearing a transparent sincerity, and that her eyes—now narrowed as she smiled—were not the clear, soft brown they appeared at a distance to be, but an indefinable colour, comparable only to the dim, yet clear, green gloom which haunts the under‐spaces of an ilex grove upon a summer day. He turned his head rather sharply. He did not want to think about matters of that sort. He was grateful to this young lady for the devoted care she had bestowed on his mother; but, otherwise, her presence was only a part of that daily discipline which must be cheerfully undertaken in obedience to the exigencies of his new and fair idea.
"Probably it is a deer that has broken out of Windsor Great Park and travelled," he said. "They do that sometimes, you know."
But here small Dick Ormiston, whose spirits, lately pirouetting on giddy heights of felicity, had suffered swift declension bootwards at mention of this thrilling adventure in which he, alas, had neither lot nor part, projected himself violently into the conversational arena.
"Mother," he piped, his words tumbling one over the other in his eagerness—"Mother, I expect it's the same deer that grandpapa was talking about when Lord Shotover came over to tea last Friday, and wanted to know if Honoria wasn't back at Newlands again. And then he and grandpapa yarned, don't you know. Because, Cousin Richard—it must have been while you were away last year—the buckhounds met at Bagshot and ran through Frimley and right across Spendle Flats "—
"No, they didn't, Cousin Richard," Godfrey interrupted. "They ran through the bottom of Sandyfield Lower Wood."page: 554
"But they lost—any way they lost, Cousin Richard," the younger boy cried.—"You weren't there, Godfrey, so you can't know what grandpapa said. He said they lost somewhere just into Brockhurst, and he told Lord Shotover how they beat up the country for nearly a week, and how they never found it, and had to give it up as a bad job and go home again. And—and—Lord Shotover said, rotten bad sport, stag‐hunting, unless you get it on Exmoor, where they're not carted and they don't saw their antlers off. He said meets of the buckhounds ought to be called Stockbrokers' Parade, that was about all they amounted to. And so, Cousin Richard, I think—don't you, mother?—that this must be that same deer."
Whereat the elder Dick's expression, which had grown somewhat dark at the mention of Lord Shotover, brightened sensibly again. And, for cause unknown, he looked at Honoria, smiling amusedly, before saying to the very voluble, small sportsman:—
"To be sure, Dick. Your arguments are unanswerable, convincingly sound. No reasonable man could have a doubt about it! Of course it's the same deer."
Thereupon the luncheon went forward gaily enough, though Miss St. Quentin was conscious her contributions to the cultivation of that same gaiety were but spasmodic. She dreaded the conclusion of the meal, fearing lest then she might be called upon to behold Richard Calmady once again, as she had beheld him—now nearly six years ago—in the half‐dismantled house in Lowndes Square, on the night of Lady Louisa Barking's ball. And from that she shrank, not with her former physical repulsion towards the man himself, but with the moral repulsion of one compelled against his will to gaze upon a pitifully cruel sight, the suffering of which he is powerless to lessen or amend. The short, light‐made crutches, lying on the floor by the young man's chair, shocked her as the callous exhibition of some unhappy prisoner's shackling‐irons might. It constituted an indignity offered to the Richard sitting here beside her, so much as to think of, let alone look at, that same Richard when on foot. Therefore it was with an oddly mingled relief and sense of playing traitor, that she rose with the rest of the little company and left him by himself. She was thankful to escape, though all the while her inherent loyalty tormented her with accusation of meanness, as of one who deserts a comrade in distress.
But here the small Dick, to whom such complex refinements of sensibility were as yet wholly foreign, created a diversion by prancing round from the far side of the table and forcibly page: 555 seizing her hand. He was jealous of the large share Godfrey had to‐day secured of her society. He meant to have his innings. So he rubbed his curly head against her much braided elbow, butting her lovingly in the exuberance of his affection as some nice, little ram‐lamb might. But just as they reached the door, through which Lady Calmady and the rest of the party had already passed, the boy drew up short.
"I say, hold on half a minute, Honoria, please," he said.
And then, turning round, his cheeks red as peonies, he marched back to where Richard sat alone at the head of the table.
"In case—in case, don't you know," he began, stuttering in the excess of his excitement—"in case, Cousin Richard, mummy didn't quite take in what you said at the beginning of luncheon—you did mean for really that I was to come and stay here in the summer holidays, and that you'd take me out, don't you know, and show me your horses?"
And to Honoria, glancing at them, there was a singular, and almost tragic, comment on life in the likeness, yet unlikeness, of those two faces—the features almost identical, the same blue eyes, the two heads alike in shape, each with the same close‐fitted, bright‐brown cap of hair. But the boy's face flushed, without afterthought or qualification of its eager happiness; the man's colourless, full of reserve, almost alarmingly self‐contained and still.
Yet, when the elder Richard's answer came, it was altogether gentle and kindly.
"Yes, most distinctly for really, Dick," he said. "Let there be no mistake about it. Let it be clearly understood I want to have you here just as long, and just as often, as your mother and father will spare you. I'll show you the horses, never fear, and let you ride them too."
"A—a—a real big one?"
"Just as big a one as you can straddle." Richard paused.—"And I'll show you other things, if all goes well, which I'm beginning to think—and perhaps you'll think so too some day—are more important even than horses."
He put his hand under the boy's chin, tipped up the ruddy, beaming, little face and kissed it.
"It's a compact," he said.—"Now cut along, old chap. Don't you see you're keeping Miss St. Quentin waiting?"
Whereupon the small Richard started soberly enough, being slightly impressed by something—he knew not quite what—only that it made him feel awfully fond, somehow, of this newly dis‐ page: 556 covered cousin and namesake. But, about half‐way down the room, that promise of a horse, a thorough‐bred, and just as big as he could straddle, swept all before it, rendering his spirits uncontrollably explosive. So he made a wild rush and flung himself headlong upon the waiting Honoria.
"Oh! you want to bear‐fight, do you? Two can play at that game," she cried, "you young rascal!"
Then, without apparent effort or diminution of her lazy grace, the elder Richard saw her pick the boy up by his middle, and, notwithstanding convulsive wrigglings on his part, throw him across her shoulder and bear him bodily away through the lobby, into the hall, and out of sight.
Hence it fell out that not until quite late that evening did the moment so dreaded by Miss St. Quentin actually arrive. In furtherance of delay she practised a diplomacy not altogether flattering to her self‐respect, coming down rather late for dinner, and retiring immediately after that meal to the Gun‐Room, under plea of correspondence which must be posted at Farley in time for to‐morrow's day mail. She was even late for prayers in the chapel, so that, taking her accustomed place next to Lady Calmady in the last but one of the stalls upon the epistle‐side, she found all the members of the household, gentle and simple alike, already upon their knees. The household mustered strong that night, a testimony, it may be supposed, to feudal as much as to religious feeling. In the seats immediately below her were an array of women‐servants, declining from the high dignities of Mrs. Reynolds the housekeeper, the faithful Clara, and her own lanky and loyal North‐Country woman Faulstich, to a very youthful scullery‐maid, sitting just without the altar rails at the end of the long row. Opposite were not only Winter, Bates the steward, Powell, Andrews, and the other men‐servants; but Chaplin, heading a detachment from the house stables, and—unexampled occurrence!—Gnudi the Italian chef, with his air of gentle and philosophic melancholy and his anarchic sentiments in theology and politics, liable,—these last,—when enlarged on, to cause much fluttering in the dove‐cot of the housekeeper's room. "To hear Signor Gnudi talk sometimes made your blood run cold. It seemed as if you couldn't be safe anywhere from those wicked foreign barricades and massacres," as Clara put it. And yet, in point of fact, no milder man ever larded a woodcock or stuffed it with truffles.
Alone, behind all these, in the first of the row of stalls with their carven spires and dark‐vaulted canopies, sat Richard Calmady, whom all his people had thus come forth silently to page: 557 welcome. But, through prayer and psalm and lesson, as Miss St. Quentin noted, he remained immoveable, to her almost alarmingly cold and self‐concentrated. Only once he turned his head, leaning a little forward and looking towards the purple, and silver, and fair, white flowers of the altar, and the clear shining of the altar lights,
—"Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
The words were given out by Julius March, not only with an exquisite distinctness of enunciation, but with a ring of assurance, of sustaining and thankful conviction. Richard leaned back in his stall again, looking across at his mother. While Honoria, taken with a sensitive fear of inquiring into matters not rightfully hers to inquire into, hastily turned her eyes upon her open prayer‐book. They must have many things to say to one another, that mother and son, as she divined, to‐day,—far be it from her to attempt to surprise their confidence!
She rose from her knees, cutting her final petitions somewhat short, directly the last of the men‐servants had filed out of the chapel; and, crossing the Chapel‐Room, a tall, pale figure in her trailing, white, evening dress, she pulled back the curtain of the oriel‐window, opened one of the curved, many‐paned casements and looked out. She was curiously moved, very sensible of a deeper drama going forward around her, going forward in her own thought—subtly modifying and transmuting it—than she could at present either explain or place. The night was cloudy and very mild. A soft, sobbing, westerly wind, with the smell of coming rain in it, saluted her as she opened the casement. The last of the frost must be gone, by now, even in the hollows; the snow wholly departed also. The spring, though young and feeble yet, puling like some ailing baby‐child in the voice of that softly‐complaining, westerly wind, was here, very really present at last. Honoria leaned her elbows on the stone window‐ledge. Her heart went out in strong emotion of tenderness towards that moist wind which seemed to cry, as in a certain homelessness, against her bare arms and bare neck.—"Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these my brethren"—page: 558
But just then Katherine Calmady called to her, and that in a sweet, if rather anxious, tone.
"Honoria, dear child, come here," she said. "Richard is putting me through the longer catechism regarding those heath fires in August last year, and the state of the woods."
Then, as the young lady approached her, Lady Calmady laid one hand on her arm, looking up in quick and loving appeal at the serious and slightly troubled face.
"My answers only reveal the woful greatness of my ignorance. My geography has run mad. I am planting forests in the midst of cornfields, so Dickie assures me; and making hay generally—as you, my dear, would say—of the map."
Still her eyes dwelt upon Honoria's in insistent and loving appeal.
"Come," she said, "explain to him, and save me from further exposition of my own ignorance."
Thus admonished the young lady sat down on the low sofa beside Richard Calmady. As she did so Katherine rose and moved away. Honoria determined to see only the young man's broad shoulders, his irreproachable dress clothes, his strangely still and very handsome face. But, since there was no concealing rug to cover them, it was impossible that she should long avoid also seeing his shortened and defective limbs and oddly shod feet. And at that she winced and shrank a little, for all her high spirit and inviolate, maidenly strength.
"Oh yes! those fires!" she said hurriedly. "There were several—you remember, Cousin Katherine?—or I daresay you don't, for you were ill at the time. But the worst was on Spendle Flats. You know that long, three‐cornered bit"—she looked Richard bravely in the face again—"which lies between the Portsmouth Road and our cross‐road to Farley? It runs into a point just at the top of Star Hill."
"Yes, I know," Dickie said.
He had seen her wince.—Well, that wasn't wonderful! She could not very well do otherwise, if she had eyes in her head. He did not blame her. And then, though it was not easy to do so with entire serenity, this was precisely one of those small unpleasant incidents which, in obedience to his new code, he was bound to accept calmly, good‐temperedly, just as part of the day's work, in fact. He had done with malingering. He had done with the egoism of sulking and hiding—even to the extent of a couvre‐pieds. All right, here it was!—Richard settled his shoulders squarely against the straight, stuffed back of the Chippendale sofa, and talked on.page: 559
"It's a pity that bit is burnt," he said. "I haven't been over that ground for nearly six years, of course. But I remember there were very good trees there—a plantation at the top end, just before you come to the big gravel‐pits, and the rest self‐sown. Are they all gone?"
"Licked as clean as the back of your hand," Honoria, replied, warming to her subject. "They hardly repaid felling for firewood. It made me wretched. Some idiot threw down a match, I suppose. There had been nearly a month's drought, and the whole place was like so much tinder. There was an easterly breeze too. You can imagine the blaze! We hadn't the faintest chance. Poor, old Iles lost his head utterly, and sat down with his feet in a dry ditch and wept. There must be over two hundred acres of it. It's a dreadful eyesore, perfectly barren and useless, but for a little sour grass even a gipsy's donkey has to be hard up before he cares to eat!"—Miss St. Quentin shifted her position with a certain impatience. "I can't bear to see the land doing no work," she said.
"Doing no work?" Dickie inquired. He began to be interested in the conversation from other than a purely practical and local standpoint.
"Of course," she asserted. "The land has no more right to lie idle than any of the rest of us—unless it's a bit of tilth sweetening in fallow between two crops. That is reasonable enough. But for the rest," she said, a certain brightness and self‐forgetting gaining on her—"let it contribute its share all the while, like an honest citizen of the universe. Let it work, most decidedly let it work."
"And what about such trifles as the few hundred square miles of desert or mountain range?" Richard inquired, half amused, half, and that rather unwillingly, charmed. "They are liable to be a thorn in the side of the—well, socialist."
"Oh, I've no quarrel with them. They come under a different head."—Honoria's manner had ceased to be in any degree embarrassed, though a slight perplexity came into her expression. For just then she remembered, somehow, her pacings of the station platform at Culoz, the salutation of the bleak, pure, evening wind from out the fastnesses of the Alps, and all her conversation there with her faithful admirer, Ludovic Quayle. And it occurred to her what singular contrast in sentiment that bleak, evening wind offered to the mild, moist, westerly wind‐complaint of the homeless baby, Spring—which had just now cried against her bosom!—And again Honoria became conscious of being in contact, both in. herself and in her surround‐ page: 560 ings, with more coercing, more vital drama than she could either interpret or place. Again something of fear invaded her, to combat which she hurried into speech.—"No, I haven't any quarrel with deserts and so on," she repeated. "They're uncommonly useful things for mankind to knock its head against—invincible, unnegotiable, splendidly competent to teach humanity its place. You see we've grown not a little conceited—so at least it seems to me—on our evolutionary journey up from the primordial cell. We're too much inclined to forget we've developed soul quite comparatively recently, and therefore that there is probably just as long a journey ahead of us—before we reach the ultimate of intellectual and spiritual development—as there is behind us physically from, say the parent ascidian, to you and me. And—and somehow"—Honoria's voice had become full and sweet, and she looked straight at Dickie with a rare candour and simplicity—"somehow those big open spaces remind one of all that. They drive one's ineffectualness home on one. They remind one that environment, that mechanical civilisation, all the short cuts of applied science, after all count for little and inevitably come to the place called stop. And that braces one. It makes one the more eager after that which lies behind the material aspects of things, and to which these merely act as a veil."
Honoria had bowed herself together. Her elbows were on her knees, her chin in her two hands, her charming face alight with a pure enthusiasm. And Richard watched her curiously. His acquaintance with women was fairly comprehensive, but this woman represented a type new to his experience. He wanted to tolerate her merely, to regard her as an element in his scheme of self‐discipline. And it began to occur to him that, from some points of view, she knew as much about all that, as much about the idea inspiring it, as he did. He leaned himself back in the angle of the sofa, and clasped his hands behind his head.
"All the same," he said, "I am afraid those burnt acres on Spendle Flats are hardly extensive enough to afford an object for me to knock my head against, and so enforce salutary remembrance of the limitations of human science. Possibly that has already been sufficiently brought home to me in other ways."
He paused a minute.
Honoria straightened herself up. Again she saw—whether she would or no—those defective shortened limbs and oddly shod feet. And again, somehow, that complaint of the moist spring wind seemed to cry against her bare arms and neck, begetting an overwhelming pitifulness in her.page: 561
"So, since it's not altogether necessary we should reserve it as an object‐lesson in general ineffectualness, Miss St. Quentin, what shall we do with it?"
"Oh, plant," she said.
"With the ubiquitous Scotchman?"
"It wouldn't carry anything else, except along the boundaries. There you might put in a row of horn‐beam and oak. They always look rather nice against a background of firs.—Only the stumps of the burnt trees ought to be stubbed."
"Let them be stubbed," Richard said.
"Where are you going to find the labour? The estate is very much under‐manned."
"Import it," Richard said.
"No, no," Honoria answered, again warming to her subject. "I don't believe in imported labour. If you have men by the week, they must lodge. And the lodger is as the ten plagues of Egypt in a village. If a man comes by the day, he is tired and slack. His heart is not in his work. He does as little as he can. Moreover, in either case, the wife and children suffer. He's certain to take them home short money. He's pretty safe, being tired in the one case, or in the other, on the loose, to drink."
Dickie's face gave. He laughed a little.
"We seem to have come to a fine impasse!" he remarked. "Though humiliatingly small, that tract of burnt land must clearly be kept to knock one's head against after all."
Honoria rose to her feet.
"Richard, I wish you'd build," she said, in her earnestness unconscious of the unceremonious character of her address. "Iles ought to have done that before now. But he is old and timid, and his one idea has been to save. You know this Brockhurst property alone would carry eight or ten more families. There's plenty of work. It needn't be made. It is there ready to hand. Give them good gardens, allotments if you can, and leave to keep a pig. That's infinitely better than extravagant wages. Root them down in the soil. Let them love the place—tie them up to it"—
"Your socialism is rather quaintly crossed with feudalism, isn't it?" Dickie remarked.
He drew himself forward, slipped down off the sofa, stood upright. And then, indeed, the cruel disparity between his stature and her own—for tall though she was, he, by right of make and length of arm, should evidently have been by some two or three inches the taller—and all the grotesqueness of his page: 562 deformity, were fully disclosed to Honoria. For the second time that day, her tact, her presence of mind, her ready speech, deserted her. She backed a little away from him.
And Richard perceived that. It is not easy to be absolutely philosophic. Something of his old anger revived towards Miss St. Quentin. He shuffled forward a step or two, and, supporting himself with one hand on the arm of the sofa, reached down to pick up his crutches. But his grasp was not very sure just then. He secured one. To his intense annoyance the other escaped him, falling back on the floor with a rattle. Then, instantly, before he could make effort to recover it, Honoria's white figure swept down on one knee in front of him. She laid hold of the crutch, gave it him silently, and rose to her full height again, pale, gallant, stately, but with a quivering of her lips and nostrils, and an amazement of regret and pity in her eyes, which very certainly had never found place there heretofore.
"Thanks," Richard said.—He waited just a minute. He too was amazed somehow. He needed to revise the position.—"About those eight or ten happy families whom you wish to root so firmly in the soil, and the housing of them—are you busy to‐morrow morning?"
"Oh no—no "—Honoria declared, with rather unnecessary emphasis.
Generosity should surely be met by generosity. Dickie leaned his back against the arm of the sofa, and looked up at the speaker. Her transparent sincerity, her superb chastity—he could call it by no other word—of manner and movement, even of outline—the slight angularity of strong muscle as opposed to soft roundness of cushioned flesh—these arrested and impressed him.
"I had Chifney up from the stables this afternoon and made my peace with him," he said. "He was very full of your praises, Honoria—for the cousinship may as well be acknowledged between us, don't you think? You have supplemented my lapses in respect of him, as of a good deal else."—Richard looked away to the door of Lady Calmady's bedroom. It stood open, and Katherine came from within with some books, and a silver candlestick, in her hands.
"My dears," she said, "do you know it grows very late?"
"All right," he answered, "we're making out some plans for to‐morrow."—He looked at Honoria again.—"Chifney engaged that he and Chaplin would find a horse, between them, which could be trusted to—well—to put up with me," he said. "I promised to go down and have breakfast with dear Mrs. Chifney page: 563 at the stables, but I can be back here by eleven. Would you be inclined to come out with me then? We could ride over that burnt land and have a poke round for sites for your cottages."
"Oh yes, indeed, I can come," Honoria answered. Her delightful smile beamed forth, and it had a new and very delicate charm in it. For it so happened that the woman in her whom—to use her own phrase—she had condemned to solitary confinement in the back attic, beat very violently against her prison door just then in attempt to escape.
"Dear Cousin Katherine, good‐night. Good‐night, Richard," she said hurriedly.—She went out of the room, lazily, slowly, down the black, polished staircase, across the great, silent hall, and along the farther lobby. But she let the Gun‐Room door bang to behind her and flung herself down in the arm‐chair—in which, by the way, the old bull‐dog had died a year ago, broken‐hearted by over long waiting for the home‐coming of his absent master. And then Honoria, though the least tearful of women, wept—not in petulant anger, or with the easy, luxuriously sentimental overflow common to feminine humanity; but reluctantly, with hard, irregular sobs which hurt, yet refused to be stifled, since the extreme limit of emotional and mental endurance had been reached.
"Oh, it's fine!" she said, half aloud. "I can see that it's fine—but, dear God, is there no way out of it? It's so horribly, so unspeakably sad."
And Richard remained on into the small hours, sitting before the dying fire of the big hearth‐place, at the eastern end of the gallery. Mentally he audited his accounts, the profit and loss of this day's doing, and, on the whole, the balance showed upon the profit side. Verily it was only a day of small things, of very humble ambitions, of far from world‐shaking successes! Still four persons, he judged, he had made a degree or so happier.—His mother rejoiced, though with trembling as yet, at his return to the ordinary habits of the ordinary man. Sweet, dear thing, small wonder that she trembled! He had led her such a dance in the past, that any new departure must give cause for anxious questionings. Dickie sunk his head in his hands.—God forgive him, what a dance he had led her!—And Julius March was happier—he, Richard, was pretty certain of that—since Julius could not but understand that, in the present case at all events, neither fulfilment of prophecy nor answer to prayer had been disregarded.—And the hard‐bitten, irascible, old trainer, Tom Chifney, was happier—probably really the happiest page: 564 of the lot—since he demanded nothing more recondite and far‐reaching than restoration to favour, and due recognition of the importance of his calling and of the merits of his horses.—And nice, funny, voluble, little Dick Ormiston was happier too. Richard's heart went out strangely to the dear little lad! He wondered if it would be too much to ask Mary and Roger to give him the boy altogether? Then he put the thought from him, judging it savoured of the selfishness, the exclusiveness and egoism, with which he had sworn to part company forever.
He stretched his hand out over the arm of the chair, craving for some creature, warm, sentient, dumbly sympathetic, to lay hold of.—He remembered there used to be a man down near Alton, a hard‐riding farmer, who bred bull‐dogs—white ones with black points, like Camp and Camp's forefathers. He would tell Chifney to go down there and bespeak the two best of the next litter of puppies.—Yes—he wanted a dog again. It was foolish perhaps, but after all one did want something, and, since other things were denied, a dog must do and he wanted one badly.—Yet the day had been a success on the whole. He had been true to his code. Only—and Richard shrugged his shoulders rather wearily—it had got to be begun all over again to‐morrow, and next day, and next—an endless perspective of to‐morrows. And the poor flesh, with its many demands, its delicious and iniquitous passions, its enchantments, its revelations, its adorable languors, its drunken heats, must it have nothing, nothing at all?—Must that whole side of things be ruled out forever? He had no more desire for mistresses, God forbid—Helen, somehow, had cleansed him of all possibility of that. And he would never ask any woman to marry him. The sacrifice on her part would be too great.—He thought of little Lady Constance.—Simply, it was not right.—So, practically, the emotional joys of life were reduced to this—they must consist solely in giving—giving—giving, of time, sympathy, thought and money. A far from ignoble programme no doubt, but a rather austere one for a man of liberal tastes, of varied experience, and of barely thirty.—And he was as strong as a bull now. He knew that. He might live to be ninety.—Yes, he thought he would ask for little Dick Ormiston. The boy would be an amusement and interest him. And then suddenly the vision of Honoria St. Quentin, in her red and black‐braided gown, with that air of something ruffling and soldierly about it, whipping the small Dick up in her strong arms, throwing him across her shoulder and bearing him off bodily; and of Honoria again later, her sensitive face all alight, as she discoursed of the ultimate aim and purpose of page: 565 life and of living, came before him. Above her white dress, he could see her white and finely angular shoulders as she swept down to pick up that wretched crutch.—Yes, she was a being of singular contrasts, of remarkable capacity, both mental and practical! And she might have a heart—she might. Once or twice it had looked rather like it.—But, after all, what did that matter? The feminine side of things was excluded. Besides he supposed she was half engaged to Ludovic Quayle.
Dickie yawned. He was sleepy. His meditations became unprofitable. He had best go to bed.
"And the devil fly away with all women, saving and excepting my best‐beloved mother," he said.


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Conference Social Events
Region ReceptionTuesday, March 20, 20126:00 pm
Fat's Catering and Banquet Facility
1015 Front Street, Sacramento, CA
The Inter-mountain and California Regions would like to open the Conference with a reception at Fat's Catering and banquet Facility - an excellent restaurant with a long history in Sacramento. Located in historic Old Town Sacramento, the menu is best described as California-Asian. Enjoy a complimentary glass of wine, beer or soft drink and grab some appetizers while you mingle with fellow friends. This event is open to all Conference attendees.
Exhibitors' ReceptionWednesday, March 21, 20125:30 pm to 7:00 pmSacramento Convention Center, Exhibit Hall
The Exhibitors' Reception is a highlight of the Conference activities and a great kick-off to a fantastic week. Held the first evening of the Conference in the Exhibit Hall, this event is an opportunity to visit with friends, colleagues and browse the exhibit hall. The reception includes light hors d'oeuvres and beverages. One drink ticket per person and a cash bar will be offered. This event is included with your Conference registration fee for most registrations.
Conference Social EventThursday, March 22, 20126:00 pm to 9:30 pm
The California Automobile Museum
The California Automobile Museum is a short walk to Old Town Sacramento "Old Sac" as the locals call it and is the location of our Conference Social Event. This event is a wonderful time to mingle with those you have met during the week and enjoy an evening together. Light fare and one drink ticket per person with a cash bar will be offered throughout the evening. Selected registrations receive a complimentary entrance and drink ticket for the evening or tickets may be purchased before Wednesday, March 21st. Bus transportation will be provided. Buses will depart from the Sacramento Convention Center, at the J street entrances, beginning at 5:45 pm and will run continuously throughout the evening.
If you will not receive a ticket and would like to purchase a ticket to attend this event, you must purchase tickets in advanced. Please contact the Conference Registrar at (301) 493-0290 x109 in advanced or inquire at the Registration Desk on-site.
The California Automobile Museum provides a history tour on wheels in a spacious 72,000 sq. ft. facility. More than 150 vehicles are on display, many of them privately owned, and range from the earliest models of the 20th century to prototypes of alternative energy for the 21st century. There are cars—and memories---for anyone who appreciates every decade in between, from the Model T and tailfins to the Brass Era or the speed of racing.
Join us for an amazing RIDE through automobile history!
Closing BreakfastFriday, March 23, 20128:00 am to 8:30 amSacramento Convention Center, Exhibit Hall
The Closing Breakfast is held on the last day of the Conference. This continental breakfast buffet is one last opportunity to talk with exhibitors and old and new friends. Taking place in the Exhibit Hall, the Closing Breakfast is a wonderful opportunity to make those final contacts and leisurely view the exhibit hall one last time. This event is open to all conference attendees.


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Microsoft changed the browser characteristics of the current IE to be completely non-standard and non-conforming, breaking many things in the process. The next update of Vidyo desktop should be supporting the current version of IE. It's unclear at this point, weather the update will support the Metro User Interface.
Workaround: Compatibility mode
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Rhythm & Booms moves to Lake Monona
Event to be held along John Nolen Dr. on Saturday, June 28
MADISON, Wis. - In a news conference Wednesday morning, officials said Rhythm and Booms will be moved from the north side to downtown for safety, accessibility and profitability.
The event -- formerly at Warner Park -- will take place on a 1.6-mile stretch of John Nolen Drive that will shut down for the celebration. The four-lane roadway will be split with two lanes reserved for viewing and two lanes for concessions and public safety personnel parking, event coordinators said.
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said efforts put into previous two Fourth of July events at Elver Park and Warner Park will be funneled into the single Rhythm and Booms celebration on Lake Monona.
"Our commitment to Warner and Elver will be merged into this one event," Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said at the conference.
Madison Festivals Inc. leader Rita Kelliher said the event will be held on a Saturday next year -- on June 28 -- and fireworks will be shot from a barge on Lake Monona.
John Nolen Drive will be blocked off from traffic from Lakeside to Williamson. Parking will be at the Alliant Center, which offers 8,500 spots, downtown ramps and some private lots, Kelliher said.
The Warner Park event was on a weekday instead of a Saturday this year, and shortened from an all-day affair. Neighbors said they were supportive of keeping Rhythm and Booms on the north side if it continued to be like this year's event, but wanted it moved somewhere else if it returned to the way it has been. The Warner Park celebration was not financially sustainable, Kelliher said.
Kelliher said the John Nolen Drive event will be more appealing to sponsors because it will offer activities throughout the day beginning at 2 p.m.
She also said the downtown location brings the crowd closer to hospitals and will require less staff for fest-goers' safety.
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Here are some things going on this morning in your world of tech:
Shares of Apple (AAPL) are up $7.65, or 1.2%, at $643.03, notching new 52-week highs, as the stock receives further price target increases in advance of Monday's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, and following much discussion yesterday of the $3 billion acquisition of Beats.
Bill Shope with Goldman Sachs, who has a Buy on the stock, raised his price target to $720 from $635, concluding the company has several ways to increase cash flow through software and services, writing "We expect upcoming hardware refreshes to act as powerful near-term drivers of earnings momentum and stock performance, but platform enhancements such as mobile payments, connected home solutions, and personal health monitors should be far more important for driving switching costs and installed base expansion over time, and this is what will determine if Apple's cash flow can remain robust and substantially increase from current levels."
Also this morning, Maynard Um of Wells Fargo reiterates a Sector Perform rating on the shares, and raises his "valuation range" to $595 to $640 from a prior $515 to $585, writing that Apple has gotten "more aggressive in the last six months" about adding to the number of carriers now selling the iPhone, which totals 323. That could help when the new model is out, he writes.
Shares of Splunk (SPLK) are down $7.44, or almost 15%, at $42.60, worsening their after-hours decline following better-than-expected fiscal Q2 results, but a view for the year's revenue that was slightly light of consensus.
Price targets are coming down at several shops this morning, though there've been no actual ratings changes, that I can see.
Bhavan Suri of William Blair, who has a Market Perform rating on the shares, writes that the results were "solid," but that "we suspect the raise was not enough and the second quarter's margin and earnings outlook will disappoint investors, especially given that the stock still trades at 10-times forward revenue.
Canaccord Genuity's Richard Davis, cutting his price target to $70 from $115, despite raising estimates, writing "We are lowering our price target from $115 to $70 to adjust for valuation reset we have seen in the high-growth software market – as one of the best positioned players in the machine data analytics space with a likely upward bias to estimates, we continue to believe that SPLK deserves a premium valuation."
Ed Maguire of CLSA, who sticks with his Buy rating and $80 target this morning, writes that "We'd note that a wide amplitude in the trajectory of Splunk's stock is inherent to high-growth companies at a similar stage, as recent pullbacks offer an attractive buying opportunity for long-term investment."
Shares of OmniVision Technologies (OVTI), on the other hand, up $2.63, or 13%, at $22.77, hanging on to some but not all of the gains from last night after the company's much-better-than-expected fiscal Q4 report and Q1 forecast.
Targets are moving higher, and the stock got upgrades from at least two shops, from Northland Securities's Thomas Sepenzis and from Raymond James's Hans Mosesmann — though in two different directions, with Sepenzis upping to the equivalent of a Buy, and Mosesmann cutting the stock to Underperform from Market Perform. Mosesmann writes that "If the strength in smartphones were coming from a more defensible position (i.e., high-end PureCel technology), then the company could easily defend its socket position in next platform transitions."
"However, the lower-end smartphone transitions are likely to be driven on price. As such, the current momentum may prove ephemeral."
Shares of Nimble Technology (NMBL) are up 51 cents, or 2%, at $27.39, after the company yesterday afternoon reported fiscal Q1 results that topped consensus and also beat with its forecast for this quarter.
Estimates are rising this morning, though ratings and targets seem mostly to be staying in place. Needham & Co.'s Richard Kugele, reiterating a Buy rating, and a $35 price target, writes "For investors wanting to skate where the storage demand puck is going, rather than where it has been,we believe NMBL is the answer."
"Far from crying about weak storage demand, a pause in customer interest while alternatives are explored, or even the cloud, NMBL posted 110% y/y growth."
Shares of Infoblox (BLOX) are down $7.88, or 38%, at $12.64, extending last night's losses after the company missed fiscal Q3 revenue expectations and said its CEO is stepping down to pursue other interests. The stock got five cuts in ratings today to the equivalent of a Hold, from Goldman, Deutsche, Stephens, Pacific Crest, and William Blair.
Pac Crest's Brent Bracelin, cutting the shares to Sector Perform from Outperform, and cutting writes "The prospects for this promising new growth company have turned sour."
"While large customers, partners and field contacts remain positive on Infoblox's technology, it has become clear there is not a quick and easy fix for the sharp slowdown in product orders that began last October."


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Deeplinks Blog posts about NSA Spying
The United States makes an improper division between surveillance conducted on residents of the United States and the surveillance that is conducted with almost no restraint upon the rest of the world. This double standard has proved poisonous to the rights of Americans and non-Americans alike. In theory, Americans enjoy better protections. In practice there are no magical sets of servers and Internet connections that carry only American conversations. To violate the privacy of everyone else in the world, the U.S. inevitably scoops up its own citizens' data. Establishing nationality as a basis for discrimination also encourages intelligence agencies to make the obvious end-run: spying on each other's citizens, and then sharing that data. Treating two sets of innocent targets differently is already a violation of international human rights law.
EFF has long believed that the First Amendment is as important to thinking about the NSA's spying as the Fourth Amendment. When the government can track to whom you talk, when and for how long, like it did with the telephone records collection under section 215 of the Patriot Act, it knows with whom you associate. When it tracks who talks to politically active organizations, it scares people out of participating in the political and social issues of the day.
So what's the status of our flagship case raising those First Amendment concerns, First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles v. NSA? How does the passage of the USA Freedom Act change what could happen to that case? We thought it was time for a short update.
Refresher on the First Unitarian Church Case
This week EFF presented evidence in two of its NSA cases confirming the participation of Verizon Wireless, Sprint and AT&T in the NSA's mass telephone records collection under the Patriot Act. This is important because, despite broad public acknowledgement, the government is still claiming that it can dismiss our cases because it has never confirmed that anyone other than Verizon Business participated and that disclosing which providers assist the agency is a state secret. This argument was successful recently in convincing the D.C. Circuit to reverse and remand the case of Klayman v. Obama.
Often overlooked in discussions of the USA FREEDOM Act passed in June are the changes made to the National Security Letter (NSL) statute. The law addresses some of the more obvious problems with NSLs but fails, by a long shot, to bring them up to the standard required by the U.S. Constitution. Most critically, USA FREEDOM did not fix the problem of overbroad, potentially eternal gag orders or the fact that the NSL statute relegates the court to little more than a rubber stamp.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit's opinion today in Klayman v. Obama is highly disappointing and, worse, based on a mistaken concern about the underlying facts. The court said that since the plaintiffs' phone service was provided by one subsidiary of Verizon—Verizon Wireless—rather than another—Verizon Business—they couldn't prove that they had standing to sue. The court sent the case back to U.S. District Judge Richard Leon to give the Klayman plaintiffs an opportunity to prove that their records were in fact collected. The appeals court did not rule one way or the other of the constitutionality of the mass collection program.
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Posted November 11, 2006; 09:47 p.m.
A free public screening of "The Lost Boys of Sudan," an
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is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17, in McCosh 10. After the
screening, the director and one of the "lost boys" will be available to
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Director Megan Mylan is touring the country with her film to promote awareness of the Sudanese crisis. The film tells the story of Santino Chuor and Peter Dut, two boys orphaned in the civil war, who walked hundreds of miles to a refugee camp in Kenya before coming to America. Joseph Deng, another Sudanese refugee who now lives near Philadelphia, will appear with Mylan after the film.
Sponsors of the screening include Princeton's chapter of Amnesty International and the Pace Center. For more information, call Julian Smisek at (609) 986-7464.


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On Sunday, I looked at the struggles of Kansas City closer Joakim Soria after he blew his fourth save chance of the season. On Monday, Soria blew up again, giving up three runs in the ninth inning as Anaheim came back to beat the Royals 9-8. And now, at least in the short-term, he will no longer be the man Kansas City calls upon to seal the deal in the ninth inning. Following Monday's loss, Ro...


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GURNEE, IL - The Village of Gurnee has set the following schedule to discuss the Fiscal Year 2014/2015 proposed budget. The hearings are to be held at the Gurnee Village Hall, 325 N. O'Plaine Road. The following schedule is subject to change in the event of time constraints and/or scheduling conflicts:
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Last night at our troop meeting I had a Scout approach me and announce that "My Family is Poor". And that was the reason that he did not participate in many activities.
Well, to begin, we do not charge extra for activities, all activities are paid through dues (which he is paid up for). But it struck me as odd that the announcement was made.
My response… Well son, I seem to have heard that a Scout is thrifty. So what are YOU doing about it?
Yes, I put the situation for paying for Scouting right in his lap… not Mom and Dad's bank account.
Are you collecting cans, shoveling snow, mowing lawns, do odd jobs for neighbors? NO, NO, NO.
Did you sell popcorn, candy, and Christmas wreaths? NO, NO, NO.
Then what are you doing to be thrifty?
When I was a Scout, our Scoutmaster told us that part of being Thrifty was that a Scout paid his own way. I walked dogs, mowed lawns, and baby sat to pay my way through Scouting. I am sure that my parents wrote many checks also, but the point was, I worked to make a contribution.
While I truly believe that money will never be a reason for a boy not to participate in Scouting activities, all they have to do is want to be there, I do believe that the value of being Thrifty is one that can last their life times, setting them up for financial wellness in the future.
This Scout looked at me with surprise. I must have been the first one to ever insist that he work for what he gets.
There is no reason a boy has to do without Scouting, especially money. But paying your own way goes a long way in life, and a Scout is Thrifty. He sets a goal, makes a plan, works his plan, and reaps the benefits of the hard work he put into making it real.
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I really love this ruler rack - it's beautifully made and it holds a LOT of stuff.
I bought it from this eBay seller:
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Please tell me where I can find the link to see this ruler, and no I do not do ebay but please help me anyway you can. Thanks
Oh I just looked. I love it. I will order one soon. Bless his heart. I bet he has been swamped with orders.
Here you go...there is a picture at his site. Be sure to look at the wall hanging quilt ruler holder...it's great.
Thanks for the info. I showed my husband and he said order one. We could not make it for that.
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Christmas list item for sure.
Wow! Love all of his items. The jewelery boxes would be great Christmas gifts for my daughters-in-law and I showed the wall mounted quilt ruler holder to my husband and told him - there's my Christmas gift!!! He was impressed with the price as well as the quality of both items. Thanks, Jeanne!
This is great! I'm going to order one as soon as possible. Such craftmanship! Its really nice to see a good product out there that is built so well.
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Well this am went as good, well maybe even better than I could ever ask. Granted, I really did my homework on these birds (4 gobblers) and knew there strut/kill zone well. The hens have been taking them there for the past few weeks, but I noticed a week or so ago that the hens were all but gone and I thought the boys would really be love sick come opening day--they were!
I got in REAL early was sitting at 4:30 as I knew if they were there I would be close. Sat still till 5:30 when I heard was was clearly NOT a hen cluck--then Iremembered that gobblers will cluck this way when alone. So I waited a few more minutes and he clucked again and then another next to him did the same. Now it is 5:45 and I can see the decs well. At 5:50 the 2 of them fly down not 20 yards from the decs and the very second they hit the ground 2 more gobs sitting in the TREE NEXT TO ME[:o][:o] fly down and join up. Immediately they all break into spitting and drummping and the dominat gob takes charge walking right up to my jake and starts circling him.
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YUNUPINGU, Gulumbu
… I have this knowledge that my father told me, about the seven sisters and about the sky … I had this knowledge that these stars are in the sky, and this came to me about the universe.
Then I had this dream … one night; we were sleeping outside, my sisters and me, and we were looking up in the sky, and we saw a beautiful sky … it was bright and the sky was blue and light stars everywhere.
[When] I woke up … in the morning I had this vision and [was] told: 'do this'. Maybe hiding somewhere at the back of my mind [was] knowledge my father had. Then I got
these rocks and paints and brushes and hairbrush and then I did this first one … little piece of bark … and then I tried these stars.
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|Propwash A boat is a hole in the water into which you pour... good times!
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|So anyway. Stopping does not seem to be much of a problem. Going on the other hand My Jeep has about a year before she enters the 1/4million mile club so it may be time for a vehicle upgrade. I can get it down the street to the water but I don't know about going any distance with it.
Thanks for all the advice everyone. I've removed the drums and backing plates, no easy task I decided to go with straight hubs and go without brakes. The boat only has to get a mile or so to the harbor. I'm confident the the suburban will stop the trailer, if it doesn't an H2 should do the trick.:hehe:
If I get into highway towing the trailer is all prepped for the disc kit. 4 bolts, some stainless steel lines, modify the master cylinder, install the reverse lockout solenoid. Do you see why I went with hubs? But at least the tough work is over, saltwater sure does nasty things to nuts and bolts.
After dismantling the surge drum brakes and seeing the hose in the backplate that is supposed to rinse the drums and shoes I can tell you it's a poor design and probably close to useless. It will be discs for sure if I need more braking the the tow vehicle provides.
There's actually good news for owners of boat trailers-- you can retrofit stainless steel disc brakes onto your own trailer and do most of the work yourself... or that's what a couple of mechanics told me. Haven't done it myself, but I've watched it done, and it seemed relatively easy. You need to be careful that you install a solenoid/switch that allows you to back up, though, as surge-actuated brakes will lock on you.
It's been several years since I did the research, so I don't recall all the particulars, but at the time, there was a kit that made the process fairly easy.
My local marine dealer has the details-- Westside Marine in Port Townsend, WA. 360/385-1488. He's sold and shipped a number of kits to people all over the country.
Remember to purchase tires with the ST designation (special trailer). These tires have stronger sidewalls and were not available as radials until ten years ago when we the trailering folk still had to use bias tires. If you see those trailers slipping side to side on the road it is usually weak sidewalls on the tires.
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Alright Gregg, that's the spirit. That a sizable boat you're towing (3000+ ?) What are you pulling it with and how far. If I launch at the Plymouth ramp I should be OK but trailering to the cape might not be wise. I've got to replace the bearings anyway, which forces me to take a look at the brakes
Roop, you can say that again. I don't think those wash hoses on the backing plates are going to do much. The guys in FL may have the right idea, isn't the salinity much higher down there in the warm water?
Just got new tires today, I'll replace the wheel bearings this weekend, weather permitting and take it for a test drive.
I had envisioned more floating and less lying on the ground:hehe:
Surveyed the crap out of the boat, just glanced at the trailer.
Upon close inspection I have decided to drag it down to Drinkwater and have them replace the hubs as well as service the brakes.
Moral of the story... don't forget to spend time looking at the trailer.
Didn't you say your trailer has the rinse commection for a hose?
I know a lot of the guys in FLA like to bring a pump sprayer and spray down the trailer with soap & water after launching but that seems like OVERKILL to me.
|Trailers have brakes?:hehe: No brakes on our trailer just four bearings that regularly die on us.
Let's talk about Brakes
Or should I say Breaks!
That B.O.A.T. acronym is right on the money, pun intended.
What's the general consensus on Disc vs. Drum trailer brakes for in a saltwater application?
It seems to me the disc version would be easier to work on and more likely to hold up because you can wash them down. The more I read and talk to people about drums the more I lean towards discs. I have those wash out tubes on the ez-loader but the brakes are shot. Even if you wash it down after every trip how many wash out the drums after dumping the boat in the water. Saltwater sitting in the drum baking in the sun all day, I don't even want to think about the rate of rust.
So let's here about your trailer experiences.
Look for Jim rewires his trailer in future post.
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I've been busy. Boy, have I been busy.
The biggest thing is that I've been hired as the sysadmin at Progeny Linux Systems in Indianapolis. This means I'll be moving very soon. It'll definitely be interesting.
Got lots of little bugs and things to pick out of cupsys and diald, and the foomatic thingie from gtaylor to play with. Between that, packing, and my current employer's frantic rush to get lots of things done before I leave, I should be plenty busy.


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Thanks to the positively delectable Francesca Brazzorotto, I've been lucky enough to be granted a quick interview with Mr Argento himself on 9th April!! If anyone has any questions they'd like me to put to The Maestro, feel free to leave them here and if I have time (I have one or two of my own!) I will be glad to. Thanks again Francesca!
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