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The late Private Social reopens December 11 as "more approachable" restaurant Barter
First Tiffany Derry's cooking made a big splash at Private Social. Then Najat Kanaache's modernist antics had everyone buzzing about PS. Now, after closing the restaurant, located in Uptown Dallas, brothers and co-owners Patrick and Michael Halbert are taking a new approach — one they call "more approachable."
Since shuttering the business in July, the Halberts have gutted the space and, again, rebranded it as Barter. They completely revamped the menu to focus on Dallas cuisine. Barter begins dinner service Wednesday, December 11.
"We represent Dallas by showing how diverse the community actually is, how the food scene actually is developing," Patrick said by phone recently.
That includes "go-to American items" like cheeseburgers, sandwiches and steaks, as well as fresh takes on old classics, he said. Prime examples include Barter's fried bologna sandwich, which is served on Texas toast with sour pickles and chips, and the chili soft-shell crab fajitas.
The Halberts consulted with celebrity chef Tim Love to devise the menu, and his touch can be seen in items like the wild boar ribs with homemade barbecue sauce and a variety of in-house sausages.
And now a word about the restaurant name: Tenderloin, ribeye and New York strip steaks come with the option to "barter by the ounce," meaning patrons can choose the size they want, with a minimum four ounces for tenderloin and eight ounces for ribeye and strip. Guests do not actually barter for the meat, but Patrick said the idea is to embrace Dallas' history as a trading post while offering a customizable meal.
That history also acts as the theme of Barter. The 5,200 square feet of restaurant was redesigned with wood and rustic-looking metal, Einstein light bulbs and 19th century photographs of Dallas from the Dallas Public Library. The Halberts added a cork floor and an exposed brick wall, which changed the layout and flow of the space. The restaurant now has an indoor/outdoor bar. Even the front door is in a new place.
Perhaps the most drastic difference between Private Social and Barter is the price of dishes. The majority of the food is now under $15, with the exception of entrees, which range from $16-29. Entrees include gulf snapper ($26), lamb chops ($29), chicken thighs ($22), fish and chips ($19), and striped bass tostada ($16). Steak by the ounce is available at market price. Patrick's hope is this will make Barter more approachable and attract a larger volume of hungry patrons.
One thing that hasn't changed is local mixologist Rocco Milano's presence behind the bar. Barter offers more than 60 wines, 20 beers and spirit flights, as well as four craft cocktails on draft. Additionally, the restaurant designates a cocktail "Book of the Month" from which bartenders spotlight classic drinks to "experience what other people were doing at other times and other places," Patrick said.
This month, they are pulling recipes from The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks by David Embury, published in 1948. Book cocktails run $9 apiece (see full menu below). Other specialty cocktails range from $9-12 each.
The restaurant is open from 5-10 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, and 5-11 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Barter is closed Sundays for now. The owners hope to open for lunch and Sunday brunch in about a month.
Barter, 3232 McKinney Ave., Dallas; 214-969-6898; barteruptown.com.


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Looking back
The Rebels split two games during the week, losing the first one at struggling South Carolina, 63-62, creating a feeling that this team must win each of its remaining regular season games to position itself for an NCAA berth.
The Rebels responded by blowing past Auburn 88-55 at Tad Smith Coliseum.
Ole Miss was held scoreless for more than 5 minutes to close the game in Columbia as S.C. finished on a 7-0 run.
Three days later, Marshall Henderson tied a school record with eight 3-pointers, and Andy Kennedy became the school's winningest coach with his 145th victory.
Looking ahead
The next two foes in the Rebels' quest to win out are Texas A&M at home and rival Mississippi State on the road.
Ole Miss hosts the Aggies on Wednesday night. They lost by two in College Station as A&M's Elston Turner, son of the former Ole Miss star, scored 37 points.
The Rebels won big against MSU earlier this year, but Kennedy was not pleased with the team's play in the second half.
Who's hot
Henderson was 8 for 12 from 3-point range against Auburn and finished with 28 points.
Who's not
Reserve forward Anthony Perez was 0 for 1 shooting for the fourth-straight game and had three turnovers in 12 minutes.
RPI watch
WarrenNolan.com has the Ole Miss RPI at 57 going into the Texas A&M game.
Bottom Line
The Rebels need to win out to strengthen their resume and finish 13-5 in the league. They need contributions beyond Henderson, who has shown he can light it up but had strung together four games of less then 30 percent 3-point shooting prior to Auburn.

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Boss hopes for turning point
Dean Saunders tonight urged his team to make the last-gasp point against Watford a watershed moment to climb the Championship table after a dramatic 1-1 draw at Molineux.
Bakary Sako's injury time equaliser cancelled out Almen Abdi's superb first half free kick to send the home crowd into raptures and give Wolves something to build on with 11 games remaining.
Wolves will still keep an eye on tomorrow's npower Championship fixtures occupying the relegation places, but with the manager hoping for a fresh injection of belief having come back against the high-flying Hornets.
"It isn't a win but it does feel like it when you get an equaliser in injury time," he said.
"Great credit to the players, they are fighting and hopefully it will give them belief.
"Watford are a good team and we knew that – they have scored a lot goals all season and are very good away from home.
"They are second in the league , have some very good technical players and have been on a great run.
"They got the first goal and that was always going to be a problem because they are very good on the break.
"I don't think it was a free kick but the lad took it well and bent it over the wall.
"I thought we contained them for most of the first half but once they get in front they are very good on the counter and that meant we were up against it having to chase the game.
"It's St David's Day today so I thought I might get a bit of luck but I didn't realise their keeper Bond was Welsh as well!
"He had a good day and made two great saves in the first half from Kevin Doyle and Björn.
"At half time the players were a bit down because it was another punch in the chin for them but they came out in the second half and stayed in the game.
"I knew Watford would get a few chances on the break but we crept back into the game.
"When Jack (Robinson) missed the chance when it came across the face I wondered if we'd get another chance but the players are fighting but it feels like we have won."
So can the last gasp draw prove a turning point, particularly with Wolves clearly needing wins and quickly?
"I hope so, it could turn the season for us," said Saunders.
"At Doncaster the number of goals we scored in injury time was ridiculous.
"That normally happens when you are at the top because the players have got the belief they can beat anyone and score at any time.
"I was pleased with the fight and the determination of the players and I was pleased with the three subs when they came on.
"I thought Dave Davis did well.
"He must have won about 15 tackles when he came on, Sylvan looked dangerous when the ball came bear him in and around the box and Jake Cassidy worked hard as well.
"I thought the three of them came on and made a difference for us.
"I am pleased for the players because people may think they don't care and they don't try sometimes but they are all trying and having a go – believe me.
"I have just got to keep them going.
"We have got to take the feeling we have got now into Tuesday's game and believe we can beat Millwall.
"And if we win there then this becomes a good point.
"Then we have got Forest and then some teams who are around us in the table.
"It is tough at the minute but we are fighting and hopefully we can get ourselves out of this position.
"The confidence of the players is the biggest problem and sometimes we get to loose balls second and are not on the front foot.
"That's because when you lose your confidence every step you take can be a doubt and every chance you have you think you are going to miss.
"I know the supporters are frustrated and there is frustration around the building because we shouldn't be in this position.
"I have been brought in to get us in a better position and am trying my best and the players are trying their best.
"Things don't go for you sometimes and their keeper made two great saves but we have to keep going.
"We are in a sticky situation now and need every point.
"It's a good point against a team near the top of the league and we could have done the same against Cardiff at the weekend.
"All my career I have set about proving the doubters wrong and I am going to do that here as well."
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Hope for liver cancer patients in Taiwan: Varian Medical launches TrueBeam STx radiotherapy system
Singapore: Doctors at the Cheng Ching General Hospital, Taiwan, are treating liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) with image-guided radiosurgery using a new TrueBeam STx system from Varian Medical Systems. Varian had recently received SFDA clearance to market its UNIQUE radiotherapy system in China. It also treated an 82-year-old prostate cancer patient using its TrueBeam radiotherapy system for the first time in Australia and also supplied its intensity-modulated radiotherapy systems to the Da Nang cancer hospital in Vietnam.
"With TrueBeam STx, we can generate images of the tumor during the treatment, and use them to adapt the treatment in real-time. This helps us to better target the liver tumor and minimize exposure of nearby critical organs like the duodenum or the stomach," said Dr Po-Ming Wang, chief radiation oncologist at the hospital.
The new TrueBeam system at Cheng Ching General Hospital is the first in Taiwan. The new TrueBeam STx will continue to enable IMRT and RapidArc treatments, but with greater precision and higher dose delivery rates that make it possible to complete advanced treatments in less time.
Dr Wang is especially excited about the Gated RapidArc capabilities of the new TrueBeam STx machine, which use technology to monitor a patient's breathing and compensate for tumor motion during RapidArc treatments. "We anticipate using Gated RapidArc to deliver highly precise radiosurgical procedures for colorectal, liver, and lung tumors," Dr Wang said.
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Visa-willing, I'll be in San Francisco for about three weeks from early October. The SynthaSite Cape Town office is heading over to the San Francisco office for a mix of team training, team building, end-of-year partying, and planning sessions.
My last trip to San Francisco in May/June included Google I/O and a Pylons/TG2/WSGI sprint, and I really enjoyed being in the company of geeks. This time around, it doesn't seem like there are any good conferences to squeeze in or stay around for and so far my only plans are to attend the Bay Area Python Interest Group with Jonathan.
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The local Charlotte weather man say it will be nice tomorrow. I t may rain tonight what about poor Bill & everyone else why not move it today why tomorrow? They let Michelle go out there in a possible rain storm no one was worried than. But all of a sudden on a nice day we cant put peoples lives at risk How stupid do they think we are?
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You don't have to go to a restaurant to satisfy your craving for the crisp, tangy, cheesy goodness of Caesar salad. Making one at home is as simple as shopping for the best ingredients and using them to make your own salad, croutons, and dressing. In this video, you'll learn how to make each of these components, and put them all together for a classic Caesar salad.
Start off by prepping your croutons: Position a rack in the center of the oven and heat the oven to 350°F. Cut 4 large slices of white sandwich bread into roughly 1 inch square pieces. Put the bread cubes on a large rimmed baking sheet.
Melt 6 tablespoons of unsalted butter in a 1- to 2-quart saucepan over medium-low heat. Add the garlic, mashing it gently with the back of a wooden spoon, and raise the heat to medium.
Cook until the butter is fragrant, stirring occasionally this will take about 3 or 4 minutes. It's fine if the garlic starts to brown around the edges. Take the pan off the heat and discard the garlic.
Drizzle the butter over the bread cubes. Toss with your hands until the cubes are evenly coated. (Don't worry if some crumble.) Spread them in a single layer and sprinkle with 3/4 tsp of kosher salt.
Bake until the croutons are a deep golden-brown, about 15 to 17 minutes.
While the croutons cool, prep your Parmesan cheese and lettuce.
Cut a 2 and 3/4-ounce chunk of Parmigiano Reggiano into small cubes, then pulse them in your food processor until they're coarsely grated to the consistency of large grains of sand.
Trim one large head of romaine lettuce, quarter it lengthwise, then cut it crosswise into roughly 1-inch wide strips. Wash the lettuce and dry it very well, so the dressing will adhere to the leaves.
Now make the dressing: in a liquid measuring cup, combine 1/4 cup canola oil and 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil.
In the pitcher of your blender, put 6 oil-packed anchovies, 4 large garlic cloves, smashed and peeled, 1 large egg yolk, 2 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice, 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard, 1 teaspoon of finely grated lemon zest, 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, and 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper. Blend until they're completely combined.
With the motor running on medium high, carefully pour in the oils in a slow, steady stream. The dressing will emulsify as soon as all of the oil is incorporated. Stop the motor, add 1/2 cup finely grated Parmigiano, and quickly blend to combine.
Put the lettuce in a large salad bowl. Drizzle a little less than 1/3 cup of the dressing over the lettuce and toss well. Taste and add more dressing if necessary, a teaspoon or so at a time, until the leaves are nicely dressed.
Add 1/4 cup of the Parmigiano and toss well. Taste a leaf and add more cheese if you like. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Add the croutons, toss well, and serve.
Videography by Gary Junken and Michael Dobsevage; editing by Cari Delahanty
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Princeton is observing Sexual Violence Awareness Week with a series of events. On Friday, April 14 from 10-4 p.m., the Clothesline Project, a visual display of violence aimed at women, will be on view in the Hyphen at Chancellor Green. For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Research In Motion Ltd. investors saw its shares seesaw on Thursday, with the stock popping early after the company's results beat expectations, then falling back after it became clear the company would be spending heavily on the new BlackBerry 10 launch.
In addition, RIM US:RIMM signaled some big changes coming in its services plans with the new software, driving uncertainty among investors who were trying to figure out what the possible changes could mean. The shares eventually fell about 9% in after-hours trading. Read: RIM profit, sales drop, but results beat Street.
Are Apple and Samsung headed back to a new trial?
U.S. patent office issues a preliminary ruling against Apple's "pinch to zoom" patent, which Apple used in its case against Samsung. Ian Sherr reports. (Photo: Google)
When an analyst asked for more details on whether there would be a new fee structure for services with BlackBerry 10 software and devices, executives were mum on any further details. RIM Chief Executive Thorsten Heins did say, however, that the company is looking to implement a segmented services offering.
"There are unanswered questions around the future of its high-margin services business," Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu wrote to MarketWatch in an email.
In addition to the services changes, RIM executives said they would increase marketing spending for the Jan. 30 launch of the company's widely anticipated, next-generation BlackBerry 10 software, along with new devices. But Heins added that RIM has $2.9 billion in cash and no debt.
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....that the Bantha in ANH is actually an ELEPHANTS
Apparently, a Bantha costume was prepared and the elephant was made to wear that. Obviously the animal was not too thrill about the new costume and the shooting was delayed quite a bit.
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On November 1, 1997 my life changed forever. At the age of thirteen I was playing a routine soccer game and began to feel uncomfortable. I came off the field and told my Dad that I wasn't feeling right. I had him put his hand on my chest because my heart seemed to continue to race at a fast rate, even at times I wasn't running. He told me to sit out the rest of the game. Once the game ended, as my Dad and I were walking back to the car, I got sick to my stomach and the last thing I remember was trying to buckle my seatbelt. I had lost consciousness and my Dad had to perform CPR as 911 was called.
Thankfully because my Dad knew and performed CPR, I regained consciousness as I was taken to the nearest emergency room, where my Mom and sister met us there. It was clear that something was terribly wrong, as my heart was beating at 330 beats per minute. I remember turning to my Mom, who is a nurse, and asking why my heart rate wouldn't slow down. With no prior history of heart problems, neither she nor the physicians could explain why my heart wasn't responding to any of the medications.
A cardiologist arrived on scene and made the decision to shock my heart. My Dad, Mom, and sister were all upset because they knew that if my heart didn't respond to the shock my chances of survival were not good. Thankfully my heart returned to a normal rate after the shock.
For the next week, my life was consumed by tests and studies to find out what was wrong. It was determined that I have heart disease called right ventricular dysplasia. Unfortunately for me, there is no cure, but there is treatment. I have a device in my abdomen called an Automatic Internal Cardiac Defibrillator. This monitors my heart and will electronically shock it when I sustain a high heart rate. I have been saved four times by this device.
Now at twenty-three years old, I have been implanted with my third device. Living with heart disease is not easy, because at any moment my heart rate could jump from 60 beats per minute to 300 beats per minute. I didn't have a choice in getting heart disease, but as scary as that is I have made the commitment to live a successful and healthy life. I am so grateful for the medical advances and cardiovascular research funded by the American Heart Association, which has contributed to why I am here today.


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Providence mayor-turned-Congressional candidate David Cicilline has released three ads. "Jobs Now," shot at Capco Steel in Providence, touts the candidate's credentials on job creation — with a series of workers saying they owe their jobs to Cicilline's initiatives.
The message is well-tuned to the moment: Rhode Island's 12-percent unemployment rate is the fourth-highest in the country and job creation is the primary concern among an anxious electorate.
Cicilline gets less-than-perfect marks for the ad, though, since it left him with something of a public-relations headache. The ad, at one point, uses a headline focused on the city's "First Source" ordinance, which compels companies receiving tax breaks to give unemployed residents priority in hiring.
State Representative David Segal, also running for the Democratic nomination, has cried foul — saying he had to sue the Cicilline administration to compel enforcement of the "First Source" ordinance.
A second spot, "Saved," targets a senior set that votes in high numbers — featuring a series of older women recounting how the mayor protected their senior center from closure. "He's a sweetheart," says one.
Cicilline's most recent ad touts his Made in America Block Grant proposal, which would help American factories retool and retrain workers to "compete in the new economy." The spot closes with Cicilline: "I'm David Cicilline and I approved this message which was . . . made in Rhode Island," he says, with a group of workers around him joining in for the "Made in Rhode Island" bit.
The ad is sure to meet with some skepticism, given that many believe a return to industrial glory is unlikely in Rhode Island. And like his other two, it's missing some of the imaginative spark that animates the spots by rivals Segal and Bill Lynch. But its upbeat message and focus on jobs works well.
Lynch, the former party chairman, may have the best-produced ad in the campaign to date. "Judy" starts with a mock television show called "Let's Pick a Congressman" that lampoons his three competitors for the Democratic nomination.
"Blah," says Judy, an average voter watching the candidates, "isn't there anyone else?" The spot then cuts to Lynch sitting at a breakfast diner. "Like you, I'm fed up with career politicians and empty campaign promises," he says, before pledging to create jobs, protect Social Security, and fight for term limits.
"I'm Bill Lynch and I approve this message," he says, before Judy pops out from behind him and adds, "And so do I."
Lynch, who is playing catch up with Cicilline, has a lot to do with limited resources if he is going to win: discredit the frontrunner, push aside the other challengers, and get out a message of his own. And this high-production-values spot neatly checks all those boxes in 30 seconds.
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Four and upwards:
It's important at this stage that children are shown how to respect and handle a pet. They do not always have good control over their movements and coordination but they will want to treat their pets with love and kindness so a little help from us, guiding their hands, will go a long way.
We can do this by bringing Daniel our new Education Dog into the classroom and, through guidance, help children to stroke and pet Daniel. We can start to teach about Empathy and how animals FEEL the same things we do. We can also begin to discuss why a person might be mean or cruel to an animal; keeping in mind that we must impress upon the child that it is wrong to hurt an animal. At this stage it is important to accept that children often have a morbid curiosity and it is very important answer questions without having in depth discussions or questions on cruelty to animals. Therefore, we only very briefly will discuss such cases in an age appropriate way.
Seven to Ten year olds:
At this age, children form their earliest memories and impressions about the world we live in and it's important, that we, as adults, filter certain information. Even if a child witnesses violence as a way 'not to act towards others,' the fact is, they are still witnessing violence and can be strongly affected by it.
Ten to Twelve year olds:
Trusted adults, such as parents, teachers and family members can discuss with children of this age how they would react if their friends or peers treated animals cruelly. By doing this you can help the child overcome peer pressure to follow what is right. Children may encounter others abusing animals, and, knowing what is right and knowing they will be given support for doing what is right is very important to them; especially in light of very strong peer pressure.
Children emulate us, and, if we treat animals cruelly they will think that this is the correct way to behave. The more a child identifies with an adult the greater the impact that adult will have on that child; both good and bad.
It's important to make sure children know who they can trust. If they witness or know of an animal being cruelly treated they should tell an adult about it. For us, as adults, it's important to nurture the child's trust so they feel comfortable telling us.
Also check out the DSPCA Care Awards - you may know someone who you would like to nominate.
If your class is interested in fundraising for the DSPCA please download our simple Junior Fundraising guide.
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If you have a topic of interest that is not listed here, please ask and we will do our best to meet your needs. Humane education is an important part of the learning experience.
Why do some children abuse Animals - Information to be read by teachers only.
Our Programmes - We can come and talk to your kids about these programmes or you can download them and teach them to your children, you can contact Gillian Bird by telephoning her at (01) 4994705 or email email@example.com for more information and support. Please keep an eye on this page as we are working to add more programmes.
If you are interested in subscribing to our Primary School online Newsletter please email Gillian.
DeViney, E., Dickert, J. & Lockwood, R. (1983). The Care of Pets Within child Abusing Families. International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems, 3, 321 – 329
Adcione, F.R. Weber, C.V. & Wood, D.S. (1997), Animal Welfare and Domestic Violence: Final report, Logan, Utah: Utah State University.
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After watching "Clone Wars" I knew I couldn't rest until my Obi-Wan's leg articulation was fixed. So I went to Wal-Mart, picked up a basic Clone, and boiled and popped my way to a super-articulated Obi-Wan!
I also switched the hands, giving Kenobi the hinged wrists that are just too cool to pass up.
If you attempt this, you'll need to snip a bit off the stem of the hand; the pegs of the Clone's are a bit longer than Kenobi's. Also, you'll have to cut away a bit at the peg that goes into the hip. Compare Obi-Wan's leg to the Clone's once you pop it out and you'll see it's smaller. A little on each side should do the trick.


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By Sheena Barnett/NEMS Daily Journal
Is it Miss Scarlet with the candlestick, Professor Plum with the revolver or Mrs. White with the knife?
Find out at "Clue" – Live!, tonight at the Link Centre.
A cast of actors will live read the script of the 1985 comedy, based on the popular Parker Brothers game, complete with costumes, weapons, blackouts and three possible endings.
"The actors have scripts in hand as they read and act the story – but almost anything can and does happen," said Derek Russell, who's directing the show. "It's very laid-back, and you'll find the cast laughing along with the audience through most of the production."
The live-read aspect of the show is what drew John Carroll, who stars as the butler Wadsworth, and Suzanne Oakley, who stars as Miss Scarlet, to the production.
"One thing that helps is that we read – there's no memorization, and I've watched the movie numerous times (for inspiration). It allows you to be more spontaneous," Carroll said.
Oakley agreed.
"It's fun to hang on to the (script) and a revolver at the same time – it's hard to turn the page," she said, laughing. "It's a whole lot of fun."
For fans of the board game, several different versions of the game will be set up to play after the show. "Clue" game cards will also be on the back of each program so the audience can play along with the production, Russell said.
"This is not your typical theatrical production," he said. "You're not going to see this anywhere else."
– Dim the lights
What: "Clue" – Live!
When: 7:30 p.m. tonight
Where: Link Centre Concert Hall
Cost: $10/adults, $5/students
Info: (662) 690-4011
"Clue" -Live! cast: Tom Booth (Col. Mustard); John Carroll (Wadsworth); Doyce Deas (Mrs. Peacock); Josh Hewitt (Professor Plum); Suzanne Oakley (Miss Scarlet); Carol Upton (Mrs. White); Michael Upton (Mr. Green); Derek Russell (Mr. Boddy); Morgan Ricks (Yvette, The Cook); Spencer Pleasants (The Motorist, The Cop, The Chief).


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Back the Opposition
Let them fight it out back winner
Stay out of it
Send in Hillary
Send in Joe Biden
Back whatever the Saudi's do
He has always struck me as a reasonable, insightful person. Both he and SecDef Gates have shown great statesmanship, in rising above partisan lines to serve their country under opposition administrations. My hat is off to them.
Perhaps a delegation of Condy, Carter, and Cohen could put together a peace deal for the new Egypt?
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!


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SHE was more like a princess, yes, far more like a princess, than the lady who still hung on the wall in Tant' Sannie's bed-room. So Em thought. She leaned back in the little armchair; she wore a grey dressing-gown, and her long hair was combed out and hung to the ground. Em, sitting before her, looked up with mingled respect and admiration.
Lyndall was tired after her long journey, and had come to her room early. Her eyes ran over the familiar objects. Strange to go away for four years, and come back, and find that the candle standing on the dressing-table still cast the page: 26 shadow of an old crone's head in the corner beyond the clothes-horse. Strange that even a shadow should last longer than a man! She looked about among the old familiar objects; all was there, but the old self was gone.
"What are you noticing?" asked Em.
"Nothing and everything. I thought the windows were higher. If I were you, when I get this place I should raise the walls. There is not room to breathe here; one suffocates."
"Gregory is going to make many alterations," said Em; and drawing nearer to the grey dressing-gown respectfully. "Do you like him, Lyndall? Is he not handsome?"
"He must have been a fine baby," said Lyndall, looking at the white dimity curtain that hung above the window.
Em was puzzled.
"There are some men," said Lyndall, "whom you never can believe were babies at all; and page: 27 others you never see without thinking how very nice they must have looked when they wore socks and pink sashes."
Em remained silent; then she said with a little dignity,
"When you know him you will love him as I do. When I compare other people with him, they seem so weak and little. Our hearts are so cold, our loves are mixed up with so many other things. But he—no one is worthy of his love. I am not. It is so great and pure."
"You need not make yourself unhappy upon that point—your poor return for his love, my dear," said Lyndall. "A man's love is a fire of olive-wood. It leaps higher every moment; it roars, it blazes, it shoots out red flames; it threatens to wrap you round and devour you—you who stand by like an icicle in the glow of its fierce warmth. You are self-reproached at your own chilliness and want of reciprocity. page: 28 The next day, when you go to warm your hands a little, you find a few ashes! 'Tis a long love and cool against a short love and hot; men, at all events, have nothing to complain of."
"You speak so because you do not know men," said Em, instantly assuming the dignity of superior knowledge so universally affected by affianced and married women in discussing man's nature with their uncontracted sisters.
"You will know them too some day, and then you will think differently," said Em, with the condescending magnanimity which superior knowledge can always afford to show to ignorance.
Lyndall's little lip quivered in a manner indicative of intense amusement. She twirled a massive ring upon her forefinger—a ring more suitable for the hand of a man, and noticeable in design—a diamond cross let into gold, with the initials "R.R." below it.page: 29
"Ah, Lyndall," Em cried, "perhaps you are engaged yourself—that is why you smile. Yes; I am sure you are. Look at this ring!"
Lyndall drew the hand quickly from her.
"I am not in so great a hurry to put my neck beneath any man's foot; and I do not so greatly admire the crying of babies," she said, as she closed her eyes half wearily and leaned back in the chair. "There are other women glad of such work."
Em felt rebuked and ashamed. How could she take Lyndall and show her the white linen and the wreath, and the embroidery? She was quiet for a little while, and then began to talk about Trana, and the old farm-servants, till she saw her companion was weary; then she rose and left her for the night. But after Em was gone Lyndall sat on, watching the old crone's face in the corner, and with a weary look, as page: 30 though the whole world's weight rested on these frail young shoulders.
The next morning, Waldo, starting off before breakfast with a bag of mealies slung over his shoulder to feed the ostriches, heard a light step behind him.
"Wait for me; I am coming with you," said Lyndall, adding as she came up to him, "If I had not gone to look for you yesterday you would not have come to greet me till now. Do you not like me any longer, Waldo?"
"Yes—but—you are changed."
It was the old clumsy, hesitating mode of speech.
"You like the pinafores better?" she said quickly. She wore a dress of a simple cotton fabric, but very fashionably made, and on her head was a broad white hat. To Waldo she seemed superbly attired. She saw it. "My dress has changed a little," she said, "and I also; page: 31 but not to you. Hang the bag over your other shoulder, that I may see your face. You say so little that if one does not look at you you are an uncomprehended cipher." Waldo changed the bag, and they walked on side by side. "You have improved," she said. "Do you know that I have sometimes wished to see you while I was away; not often, but still sometimes."
They were at the gate of the first camp now. Waldo threw over a mug of mealies, and they walked on over the dewy ground.
"Have you learnt much?" he asked her simply, remembering how she had once said, "When I come back again I shall know everything that a human being can."
She laughed.
"Are you thinking of my old boast? Yes; I have learnt something, though hardly what I expected, and not quite so much. In the first place, I have learnt that one of my ancestors page: 32 must have been a very great fool; for they say nothing comes out in a man but one of his forefathers possessed it before him. In the second place, I have discovered that of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls' boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, 'Into how little space a human soul can be crushed?' I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move there, wide room. A woman who has been for many years in one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies, though she may expand a little afterward, when she breathes in the free world."page: 33
"Were you miserable?" he asked, looking at her with quick anxiety.
"I?—no. I am never miserable and never happy. I wish I were. But I should have run away from the place on the fourth day, and hired myself to the first Boer-woman whose farm I came to, to make fire under her soap-pot, if I had to live as the rest of the drove did. Can you form an idea, Waldo, of what it must be to be shut up with cackling old women, who are without knowledge of life, without love of the beautiful, without strength, to have your soul cultured by them? It is suffocation only to breathe the air they breathe; but I made them give me room. I told them I should leave, and they knew I came there on my own account; so they gave me a bed-room without the companionship of one of those things that were having their brains slowly diluted and squeezed out of them. I did not learn music, because I had no page: 34 talent; and when the drove made cushions, and hideous flowers that the roses laugh at, and a footstool in six weeks that a machine would have made better in five minutes, I went to my room. With the money saved from such work I bought books and newspapers, and at night I sat up. I read, and epitomized what I read; and I found time to write some plays, and find out how hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink and paper. In the holidays I learnt a great deal more. I made acquaintances, saw a few places and many people, and some different ways of living, which is more than any books can show one. On the whole, I am not dissatisfied with my four years. I have not learnt what I expected; but I have learnt something else. What have you been doing?"
"Nothing."page: 35
"That is not possible. I shall find out by and by."
They still stepped on side by side over the dewy bushes. Then suddenly she turned on him.
"Don't you wish you were a woman, Waldo?"
"No," he answered readily.
She laughed.
"I thought not. Even you are too worldly wise for that. I never met a man who did. This is a pretty ring," she said, holding out her little hand, that the morning sun might make the diamonds sparkle. "Worth fifty pounds at least. I will give it to the first man who tells me he would like to be a woman. There might be one on Robbin Island* who would win it perhaps, but I doubt it even there. It is delightful to be a woman; but every man thanks the Lord devoutly that he isn't one."
Lunatics at the Cape are sent to Robbin Island.page: 36
She drew her hat to one side to keep the sun out of her eyes as she walked. Waldo looked at her so intently that he stumbled over the bushes. Yes, this was his little Lyndall who had worn the check pinafores; he saw it now, and he walked closer beside her. They reached the next camp.
"Let us wait at this camp and watch the birds," she said, as an ostrich hen came bounding toward them with velvety wings outstretched, while far away over the bushes the head of the cock was visible as he sat brooding on the eggs.
Lyndall folded her arms on the gate-bar, and Waldo threw his empty bag on the wall and leaned beside her.
"I like these birds," she said; "they share each other's work, and are companions. Do you take an interest in the position of women, Waldo?"
"No."page: 37
"I thought not. No one does, unless they are in need of a subject upon which to show their wit. And as for you, from of old you can see nothing that is not separated from you by a few millions of miles, and strewed over with mystery. If women were the inhabitants of Jupiter, of whom you had happened to hear something, you would pore over us and our condition night and day; but because we are before your eyes you never look at us. You care nothing that this is ragged and ugly," she said, putting her little finger on his sleeve; "but you strive mightily to make an imaginary leaf on an old stick beautiful. I'm sorry you don't care for the position of women; I should have liked us to be friends; and it is the only thing about which I think much or feel much—if, indeed, I have any feeling about anything," she added, flippantly, readjusting her dainty little arms. "When I was a baby, I fancy my parents left me out in the page: 38 frost one night, and I got nipped internally—it feels so!"
"Show me what you feel," he said. "I have only a few old thoughts, and I think them over and over again; always beginning where I left off. I never get any further. I am weary of them. I am like an old hen that sits on eggs month after month and they never come out."
"And I," she said quickly, "am so pressed in upon by new things that, lest they should trip one another up, I have to keep forcing them back. My head swings sometimes. But this one thought stands, never goes—if I might but be one of these born in the future; then perhaps to be born a woman will not be to be born branded."
Waldo looked at her. It was hard to say whether she were in earnest or mocking.
"I know it is foolish. Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down," she said.page: 39
"But we are cursed. Waldo, born cursed from the time our mothers bring us into the world till the shrouds are put on us. Do not look at me as though I were talking nonsense. Everything has two sides—the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn."
"I am not laughing," said the boy solemnly enough; "but what curses you?"
He thought she would not reply to him, she waited so long.
"It is not what is done to us, but what is made of us," she said at last, "that wrongs us. No man can be really injured but by what modifies himself. We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force perhaps, but for the rest—blank; and the world tells us what we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says—"Work;" and to us it says—"Seem!" To you it says—As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm page: 40 is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labour is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says—Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labour. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.
"Look at this little chin of mine, Waldo, with the dimple in it. It is but a small part of my person; but though I had a knowledge of all things under the sun, and the wisdom to use it, and the deep loving heart of an angel, it would not stead me through life like this little chin. I can win money with it, I can win love; I can win power with it, I can win fame. What would knowledge help me? The less a woman has in her head the lighter she is for climbing. I once heard an old man say, that he never saw intellect help a woman so much as a pretty ankle; and it was the truth. They begin to page: 41 shape us to our cursed end," she said, with her lips drawn in to look as though they smiled, "when we are tiny things in shoes and socks. We sit with our little feet drawn up under us in the window, and look out at the boys in their happy play. We want to go. Then a loving hand is laid on us: 'Little one, you cannot go,' they say; 'your little face will burn, and your nice white dress be spoiled.' We feel it must be for our good, it is so lovingly said: but we cannot understand; and we kneel still with one little cheek wistfully pressed against the pane. Afterwards we go and thread blue beads, and make a string for our neck; and we go and stand before the glass. We see the complexion we were not to spoil, and the white frock, and we look into our own great eyes. Then the curse begins to act on us. It finishes its work when we are grown women, who no more look out wistfully at a more healthy life; we are page: 42 contented. We fit our sphere as a Chinese-woman's foot fits her shoe exactly, as though God had made both—and yet He knows nothing of either. In some of us the shaping of our end has been quite completed. The parts we are not to use have been quite atrophied, and have even dropped off; but in others, and we are not less to be pitied, they have been weakened and left. We wear the bandages, but our limbs have not grown to them; we know that we are compressed, and chafe against them.
"But what does it help? A little bitterness, a little longing when we are young, a little futile searching for work, a little passionate striving for room for the exercise of our powers,—and then we go with the drove. A woman must march with her regiment. In the end she must be trodden down or go with it; and if she is wise she goes.
"I see in your great eyes what you are page: 43 thinking," she said, glancing at him; "I always know what the person I am talking to is thinking of. How is this woman who makes such a fuss worse off than I? I will show you by a very little example. We stand here at this gate this morning, both poor, both young, both friendless; there is not much to choose between us. Let us turn away just as we are, to make our way in life. This evening you will come to a farmer's house. The farmer, albeit you come alone on foot, will give you a pipe of tobacco and a cup of coffee and a bed. If he has no dam to build and no child to teach, to-morrow you can go on your way with a friendly greeting of the hand. I, if I come to the same place to-night, will have strange questions asked me, strange glances cast on me. The Boer-wife will shake her head and give me food to eat with the Kaffirs, and a right to sleep with the dogs. That would be the first step in our page: 44 progress—a very little one, but every step to the end would repeat it. We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurses' knees. We will be equals again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."
Waldo looked in wonder at the little quivering face; it was a glimpse into a world of passion and feeling wholly new to him.
"Mark you," she said, "we have always this advantage over you—we can at any time step into ease and competence, where you must labour patiently for it. A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say—'Come, be my wife!' With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. page: 45 Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world." She ran her little finger savagely along the topmost bar, shaking off the dozen little dewdrops that still hung there. "And they tell us we have men's chivalrous attention!" she cried. "When we ask to be doctors, lawyers, law-makers, anything but ill-paid drudges, they say,—No; but you have men's chivalrous attention; now think of that and be satisfied! What would you do without it?"
The bitter little silvery laugh, so seldom heard, rang out across the bushes. She bit her little teeth together.
"I was coming up in Cobb and Co.'s the other day. At a little wayside hotel we had to change the large coach for a small one. We were ten passengers, eight men and two women. As I sat in the house the gentlemen came and page: 46 whispered to me, 'There is not room for all in the new coach, take your seat quickly.' We hurried out, and they gave me the best seat, and covered me with rugs, because it was drizzling. Then the last passenger came running up to the coach—an old woman with a wonderful bonnet, and a black shawl pinned with a yellow pin.
"'There is no room,' they said; 'you must wait till next week's coach takes you up;' but she climbed on to the step, and held on at the window with both hands.
"'My son-in-law is ill, and I must go and see him,' she said.
"'My good woman,' said one, 'I am really exceedingly sorry that your son-in-law is ill; but there is absolutely no room for you here.'
"'You had better get down,' said another, 'or the wheel will catch you.'
"I got up to give her my place.
"'Oh, no, no!' they cried, 'we will not allow that.'page: 47
"'I will rather kneel,' said one, and he crouched down at my feet; so the woman came in.
"There were nine of us in that coach, and only one showed chivalrous attention—and that was a woman to a woman.
"I shall be old and ugly, too, one day, and I shall look for men's chivalrous help, but I shall not find it.
"The bees are very attentive to the flowers till their honey is done, and then they fly over them. I don't know if the flowers feel grateful to the bees; they are great fools if they do."
"But some women," said Waldo, speaking as though the words forced themselves from him at that moment, "some women have power."
She lifted her beautiful eyes to his face.
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up page: 48 the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act. If Goethe had been stolen away a child, and reared in a robber horde in the depths of a German forest, do you think the world would have had 'Faust' and 'Iphegenie?' But he would have been Goethe still—stronger, wiser than his fellows. At night, round their watch-fire, he would have chanted wild songs of rapine and murder, till the dark faces about him were moved and trembled. His songs would have echoed on from father to son, and nerved the heart and arm—for evil. Do you think if Napoleon had been born a woman that he would have been contented to give small tea-parties and talk small scandal? He would have risen; but the world would not have heard of him as page: 49 it hears of him now—a man great and kingly, with all his sins; he would have left one of those names that stain the leaf of every history—the names of women, who, having power, but being denied the right to exercise it openly, rule in the dark, covertly, and by stealth, through the men whose passions they feed on and by whom they climb.
"Power!" she said, suddenly, smiting her little hand upon the rail. "Yes, we have power; and since we are not to expend it in tunnelling mountains, nor healing diseases, nor making laws, nor money, nor on any extraneous object, we expend it on you. You are our goods, our merchandise, our material for operating on; we buy you, we sell you, we make fools of you, we act the wily old Jew with you, we keep six of you crawling to our little feet, and praying only for a touch of our little hand; and they say truly, there was never an ache or pain or page: 50 broken heart but a woman was at the bottom of it. We are not to study law, nor science, nor art, so we study you. There is never a nerve or fibre in a man's nature but we know it. We keep six of you dancing in the palm of one little hand," she said, balancing her outstretched arm gracefully, as though tiny beings disported themselves in its palm. "There—we throw you away, and you sink to the devil," she said, folding her arms composedly. "There was never a man who said one word for woman but he said two for man, and three for the whole human race."
She watched the bird pecking up the last yellow grains; but Waldo looked only at her.
When she spoke again it was very measuredly.
"They bring weighty arguments against us when we ask for the perfect freedom of women," she said; "but, when you come up to the objections, they are like pumpkin-devils, with page: 51 candles inside, hollow, and can't bite. They say that women do not wish for the sphere and freedom we ask for them, and would not use it!
"If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut? Why not open it, only a little? Do they know, there is many a bird will not break its wings against the bars, but would fly if the doors were open.
"Then they say again, 'If women have the liberty you ask for, they will be found in positions for which they have not talent!' If two men climb one ladder, did you ever see the weakest anywhere but at the foot? The surest sign of fitness is success. The weakest never wins but where there is handicapping. Nature, left to herself, will as beautifully apportion a man's work to his capacities as long ages ago she graduated the colours on the bird's breast. If we are not fit you give us to no purpose the page: 52 right to labour; the work will fall out of our hands into those that are abler."
She talked more quickly and eagerly as she went on, as one talks of that over which they have brooded long, and which lies near their hearts.
Waldo watched her intently.
"They say women have one great and noble work left them, and they do it ill.—That is true; they do it execrably. It is the work that demands the broadest culture, and they have not even the narrowest. The lawyer may see no deeper than his law books, and the chemist see no further than the windows of his laboratory, and they may do their work well. But the woman who does woman's work needs a many-sided, multiform culture; the heights and depths of human life must strike an answering chord in her; she must have knowledge of men and things in many states, a wide catholicity page: 53 of sympathy, the strength that springs from knowledge, and the magnanimity which springs from strength. We bear the world, and we make it. The souls of little children are marvellously delicate and tender things, and keep for ever the shadow that first falls on them, and that is the mother's or at best a woman's. There was never a great man who had not a great mother—it is hardly an exaggeration. The first six years of our life make us; all that is added later is veneer; and yet some say, if a woman can cook a dinner or dress herself she has culture enough.
"The mightiest and noblest of human work is given to us, and we do it ill. Send an untutored navvie to work into an artist's studio, and see what you will find there! And yet, thank God, we have this work," she added quickly: "it is the one window through which we see into the great world of earnest labour. The meanest girl who page: 54 dances and dresses becomes something higher when her children look up into her face and ask her questions. It is the only education we have and which they cannot take from us."
"And they say," she went on, "that we complain of woman's being compelled to look upon marriage as a profession; but that she is free to enter upon it or leave it, as she pleases.
"Yes—and a cat set afloat in a pond is free to sit in the tub till it dies, it is under no obligation to wet its feet; and a drowning man may catch at a straw or not, just as he likes—it is a glorious liberty! Let any man think for five minutes of what old maidenhood means to a woman—and then let him be silent. Is it easy to bear through life a name that in itself signifies defeat? to dwell, as nine out of ten unmarried women must, under the finger of another woman? Is it easy to look forward to an old age without honour, without the reward page: 55 of useful labour, without love? I wonder how many men there are who would give up everything that is dear in life for the sake of maintaining a high purity."
She laughed, a little laugh that was clear without being pleasant. "And then, when they have no other argument against us, they say—'Go on; but when you have made women what you wish, and her children inherit her culture, you will defeat yourself. Man will gradually become extinct from excess of intellect, the passions which replenish the race will die.' Fools!" she said, curling her pretty lip; "a Hottentot sits at the road-side, and feeds on a rotten bone he has found there, and takes out his bottle of Cape-smoke and swills at it, and grunts with satisfaction; and the cultured child of the nineteenth century sits in his arm-chair, and sips choice wines with the lip of a connoisseur, and tastes delicate dishes with a page: 56 delicate palate, and with a satisfaction of which the Hottentot knows nothing. Heavy jaw and sloping forehead—all have gone with increasing intellect; but the animal appetites are there still—refined, discriminative, but immeasurably intensified. Fools! Before men forgave or worshipped, while they were weak on their hind legs, did they not eat and drink and fight for wives? When all the latter additions to humanity have vanished, will not the foundation on which they are built remain?"
She was silent then for a while, and said somewhat dreamily, more as though speaking to herself than to him,—
"They ask, What will you gain, even if man does not become extinct?—you will have brought justice and equality on to the earth, and sent love from it. When men and women are equals they will love no more. Your highly-cultured women will not be lovable, will not love.page: 57
"Do they see nothing, understand nothing? It is Tant' Sannie who buries husbands one after another, and folds her hands resignedly,—'The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord,'— and she looks for another. It is the hard-headed, deep thinker who, when the wife who has thought and worked with him goes, can find no rest, and lingers near her till he finds sleep beside her.
"A great soul draws and is drawn with a more fierce intensity than any small one. By every inch we grow in intellectual height our love strikes down its roots deeper, and spreads out its arms wider. It is for love's sake yet more than for any other that we look for that new time." She had leaned her head against the stones, and watched with her sad, soft eyes the retreating bird. "Then when that time comes," she said lowly, "when love is no more bought or sold, when it is not a means of making bread, page: 58 when each woman's life is filled with earnest, independent labour, then love will come to her, a strange, sudden sweetness breaking in upon her earnest work; not sought for, but found. Then, but not now—"
Waldo waited for her to finish the sentence, but she seemed to have forgotten him.
"Lyndall," he said, putting his hand upon her—she started—"if you think that that new time will be so great, so good, you who speak so easily—"
She interrupted him.
"Speak! speak!" she said, "the difficulty is not to speak; the difficulty is to keep silence."
"But why do you not try to bring that time?" he said with pitiful simplicity. "When you speak I believe all you say; other people would listen to you also."
"I am not so sure of that," she said with a smile.page: 59
Then over the small face came the weary look it had worn last night as it watched the shadow in the corner, Ah, so weary!
"I, Waldo, I?" she said. "I will do nothing good for myself, nothing for the world, till some one wakes me. I am asleep, swathed, shut up in self; till I have been delivered I will deliver no one."
He looked at her wondering, but she was not looking at him.
"To see the good and the beautiful," she said, "and to have no strength to live it, is only to be Moses on the mountain of Nebo, with the land at your feet and no power to enter. It would be better not to see it. Come," she said, looking up into his face, and seeing its uncomprehending expression, "let us go, it is getting late. Doss is anxious for his breakfast also," she added, wheeling round and calling to the dog, who was endeavouring to unearth a mole, an page: 60 occupation to which he had been zealously addicted from the third month, but in which he had never on any single occasion proved successful.
Waldo shouldered his bag, and Lyndall walked on before in silence, with the dog close to her side. Perhaps she thought of the narrowness of the limits within which a human soul may speak and be understood by its nearest of mental kin, of how soon it reaches that solitary land of the individual experience, in which no fellow footfall is ever heard. Whatever her thoughts may have been, she was soon interrupted. Waldo came close to her, and standing still, produced with awkwardness from his breast-pocket a small carved box.
"I made it for you," he said, holding it out.
"I like it," she said, examining it carefully.
The workmanship was better than that of the grave-post. The flowers that covered it were delicate, and here and there small conical pro- protuberances page: 61 tuberances were let in among them. She turned it round critically. Waldo bent over it lovingly.
"There is one strange thing about it," he said earnestly, putting a finger on one little pyramid. "I made it without these, and I felt something was wrong; I tried many changes, and at last I let these in, and then it was right. But why was it? They are not beautiful in themselves."
"They relieve the monotony of the smooth leaves, I suppose."
He shook his head as over a weighty matter.
"The sky is monotonous," he said, "when it is blue, and yet it is beautiful. I have thought of that often; but it is not monotony and it is not variety makes beauty. What is it? The sky, and your face, and this box—the same thing is in them all, only more in the sky and in your face. But what is it?"
She smiled.
"So you are at your old work still. Why, page: 62 why, why? What is the reason? It is enough for me," she said, "if I find out what is beautiful and what is ugly, what is real and what is not. Why it is there, and over the final cause of things in general, I don't trouble myself; there must be one, but what is it to me? If I howl to all eternity I shall never get hold of it; and if I did I might be no better off. But you Germans are born with an aptitude for burrowing; you can't help yourselves. You must sniff after reasons, just as that dog must after moles. He knows perfectly well he will never catch it, but he's under the imperative necessity of digging for it."
"But he might find it."
"Might!—but he never has and never will. Life is too short to run after mights; we must have certainties."
She tucked the box under her arm and was about to walk on, when Gregory Rose, with page: 63 shining spurs, an ostrich feather in his hat, and a silver-headed whip, careered past. He bowed gallantly as he went by. They waited till the dust of the horse's hoofs had laid itself.
"There," said Lyndall, "goes a true woman—one born for the sphere that some women have to fill without being born for it. How happy he would be sewing frills into his little girl's frocks, and how pretty he would look sitting in a parlour, with a rough man making love to him! Don't you think so?"
"I shall not stay here when he is master," Waldo answered, not able to connect any kind of beauty with Gregory Rose.
"I should imagine not. The rule of a woman is tyranny; but the rule of a man-woman grinds fine. Where are you going?"
"What to do?"
"See—see everything."page: 64
"You will be disappointed."
"And were you?"
"Yes; and you will be more so. I want some things that men and the world give, you do not. If you have a few yards of earth to stand on, and a bit of blue over you, and something that you cannot see to dream about, you have all that you need, all that you know how to use. But I like to see real men. Let them be as disagreeable as they please, they are more interesting to me than flowers, or trees, or stars, or any other thing under the sun. Sometimes," she added, walking on, and shaking the dust daintily from her skirts, "when I am not too busy trying to find a new way of doing my hair that will show my little neck to better advantage, or over other work of that kind, sometimes it amuses me intensely to trace out the resemblance between one man and another: to see how Tant' Sannie and I, you and Bonaparte, St. Simon on his page: 65 pillow, and the Emperor dining off larks' tongues, are one and the same compound, merely mixed in different proportions. What is microscopic in one is largely developed in another; what is a rudimentary fold in me is a great active organ in you; but all things are in all men, and one soul is the model of all. We shall find nothing new in human nature after we have once carefully dissected and analyzed the one being we ever shall truly know—ourself. The Kaffir girl threw some coffee on my arm in bed this morning; I felt displeased, but said nothing. Tant' Sannie would have thrown the saucer at her and sworn for an hour; but the feeling would be the same irritated displeasure. If a huge animated stomach like Bonaparte were put under a glass by a skilful mental microscopist, even he would be found to have an embryonic doubling somewhere indicative of a heart, and rudimentary buddings that might have become conscience page: 66 and sincerity:—Let me take your arm Waldo. How full you are of mealie dust.—No, never mind. It will brush off.—And sometimes what is more amusing still than tracing the likeness between man and man, is to trace the analogy there always is between the progress and development of one individual and of a whole nation; or, again, between a single nation and the entire human race. It is pleasant when it dawns on you that the one is just the other written out in large letters; and very odd to find all the little follies and virtues, and developments and retrogressions, written out in the big world's book that you find in your little internal self. It is the most amusing thing I know of; but of course, being a woman, I have not often time for such amusements. Professional duties always first, you know. It takes a great deal of time and thought always to look perfectly exquisite even for a pretty page: 67 woman. Is the old buggy still in existence, Waldo?"
"Yes; but the harness is broken."
"Well, I wish you would mend it. You must teach me to drive. I must learn something while I am here. I got the Hottentot girl to show me how to make 'sar-sar-ties' this morning; and Tant' Sannie is going to teach me to make 'kapjes.' I will come and sit with you this afternoon while you mend the harness."
"Thank you."
"No, don't thank me; I come for my own pleasure. I never find any one I can talk to. Women bore me, and men, I talk so to—'Going to the ball this evening? Nice little dog that of yours. Pretty little ears. So fond of pointer pups!' And they think me fascinating, charming! Men are like the earth, and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and page: 68 they think there is no other, because they don't see it—but there is."
They had reached the house now.
"Tell me when you set to work," she said, and walked toward the door.
Waldo stood to look after her, and Doss stood at his side, a look of painful uncertainty depicted on his small countenance, and one little foot poised in the air. Should he stay with his master or go? He looked at the figure with the wide straw hat moving toward the house, and he looked up at his master; then he put down the little paw and went. Waldo watched them both in at the door and then walked away alone. He was satisfied that at least his dog was with her.


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Cornerstone of the exhibition "Themes & Variations. The Empire of Light" is the Magritte's masterpiece, today conserved in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, venue of the Guggenheim Collection in Venice. The exhibition aims then to go along with the visitor through a journey on light, thanks to unique combinations and innovative dialogues between works of different generations and trends.
Themes & Variations is the exhibition formula conceived by Luca Massimo Barbero and that offers visitor a fresh perceptions of the museum's collections by means of a dialogue with works by more contemporary artists from other collections, thus opening up new, multiple possible interpretations.
You can so have the possibility to see masterpieces of Gabriele Basilico, Salvador Dalì, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lucio Fontana, Anish Kapoor and other international well-known artists.
The exhibition will be hosted at the Guggenheim Museum in Venice from Febraury 1st to April 14th, 2014.


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Christian Biographies & Memoirs
Read the uplifting biographies, memoirs and stories from people of faith-some who have come before us and others who still walk with us on this Earth. These inspiring, motivation books from Family Christian, shared by famous and everyday people alike, remind us how God can transform, heal and restore our lives.
Same Kind of Different as Me: Movie Edition
Denver Moore, Ron Hall, Lynn Vincent$16.99Add Your ReviewHeart-rending, triumphant, and true! Denver lived as a virtual slave in Louisiana and a homeless drifter in Texas---until he met Deborah. But her art dealer husband, Ron, is uncomfortable around the man. When she's diagnosed with cancer, can Ron embrace her dream of rescuing... Learn More
Taking My Life Back: My Story of Faith, Determination, and Surviving the Boston Marathon Bombing
Rebekah Gregory, Rebekah Gregory, Anthony Flacco$19.99Add Your ReviewOn April 15, 2013, Rebekah Gregory and her five-year-old son waited at the finish line of the Boston Marathon to support a friend who was running. When the blasts of terrorists' homemade bombs packed with nails and screws went off three feet away, Rebekah's legs took the bru... Learn More
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Dodie Osteen, Joel Osteen$16.99Add Your ReviewDodie Osteen, mother of Joel Osteen, gives readers a personal account of her extraordinary life and shares what she has learned about love, faith, and family. As the wife of forty-four years to the late Pastor John Osteen, founder of Lakewood Church, Dodie Osteen stood as... Learn More
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We are now taking orders for National Amateur training birds.
We plan on making a delivery route to MN, WI, IA (anywhere else?) the last week of May and again before the training week of June.
Birds will be available for training at Mondovi to be picked up but if there are large orders they can be delivered elsewhere on the route to your pen.
You may order by calling/texting - Kiley Buettner at 605 351 1811 or emailing: firstname.lastname@example.com
The number listed on the premium is for our Hunting Club - you can leave a message on the machine there as well. 712 838 4890
Please list the number of ducks and pheasants - and where you plan on training (if you are in a training group)


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The Stories Behind DJ Deadeye's "Substance Abuse"
DJ Deadeye makes no apologies for saluting traditional East Coast boom bap. In fact it's quite the opposite sentiment, as, along with ST. da Squad affiliates like Termanology, the Lawrence-bred vinyl sensei and beatmaker has ushered unapologetic, lyric-heavy hip-hop back into the forefront. His seven-years-in-the-making debut, Substance Abuse, is a throwback of sorts in that Deadeye took the time and energy to unite more than 30 MCs and a dozen co-producers for a stew of thoughtful, thematic blacktop bangers.
In curating his spread, Deadeye looked to emblematic examples of mixtape mastery along the lines of DJ Clue's Def Jam releases and the Tony Touch LP classic, The Piece Maker. Like Touch and Clue, he's dropped a slew of mixtapes, and stockpiled his heaviest heat for the big moment. Sure – DJ Khaled still runs with the classic formula, as do a select number of commercial-minded tastemakers. Nonetheless, Deadeye is the anomaly who keeps it close to the street, and who rarely veers off of the Atlantic. We met up with him around Fenway to get some background on his long-awaited smorgasbord.
01. Substance Abuse (feat. Gauge / Termanology)
This is the lead-in track for a reason. The first joint made for the project, Deadeye snagged the drums from producer Arabian Night in 2004, right around the time that Knight was living here in Boston, recording with the Kreators, and smoking the legendary GZA joint, "Breaker Breaker."
02. Get Out Our Way (feat. Ea$y Money / Ghetto / Reks / Superstah Snuk)
Looking to J. Cardim for a cinematic backdrop (that dates back to 2005), here Deadeye and some Lawrence comrades reach for the stars, with Ea$y Money (formerly Ed Rock) flashing his vocal range on the hook. Ghetto, Reks, and Snuk commence with major mic theatrics.
03. Hispanic Mechanic (Skit)
"My father's a hispanic mechanic, and Term's dad is a hispanic mechanic," says Deadeye, "so that was that. They're all crazy old school dudes who work hard – it just made sense."
04. Wild Puerto Ricans (feat. Tony Touch / Termanology / Ea$y Money)
Originally an exclusive for Deadeye's debut, this Tony Touch blessing wound up dropping on Termanology's Time Machine project first. "It was popping so hard that I just let him hold it for the mixtape."
05. Favorite Town (feat. Geechi Suede / Steele / Esso / Ali Vegas / Trife Diesel)
A salute to Deadeye's favorite metropolis to visit, this one features an MC from every borough (Trife's verse is particularly fresh). "I picked dudes who could hold it down," says Deadeye, "Esso is an up-and-coming dude from Harlem, and you know who the rest of them are."
06. Had It Comin' (feat. Big Shug / Freddie Foxxx / Panchi (NYG'z))
"Victory, who's my dude from 978, has had this beat forever, just chilling," says Deadeye. "It was time to pull it out…This shit is hard to say the least."
07. M.A.N.Y. Styles (feat. Kay R / Larry Cheeba / Famoso / Artisin / Sha Stimuli)
With an assist from Larry Cheeba, a Worcester vet who used to rock as L da Headtoucha, Deadeye used this platform to showcase slept-on talent. "These are dudes who I know who are ill, and who haven't gotten the shine that they deserve," he says. "I also wanted to make the connection between Mass and New York – they're closer than most people think."
08. I'm Gonna Make It (feat. Kali / Willie The Kid / Young Vaughn / Jon Hope)
The most geographically diverse cut on the project, this J. Cardim ringer reaches all the way from Providence to Los Angeles for some pimped out, Shaft-ready rhyme wreckage. "There's no denying that we usually keep it close to the East Coast," says Deadeye, "but nobody can deny that I know where the talent is from all over the country."
09. Bang!!! (feat. Lunox / Clip / Singapore Kane / H Blanco)
Deadeye's been stashing this militaristic MGI & Goodwill heater for half-a-decade, but feels confident in its evergreen aesthetic. "It's on some old school Prodigy shit," he says. "I also knew I wanted Lunox on the hook – his voice is crazy, it was perfect for this."
10. Livin' Lost (feat. Slaine / Esoteric / Krumbsnatcha / Ea$y Money)
"Slaine came through and was the first one to rap on it, and he spit this insane verse about his life being fucked up and shit," remembers Deadeye, who has a video dropping for this soon. "At the end of the verse, he said "living lost," so that was the name of the song – it fit."
11. Just In Case (feat. Chaundon / O-Dash / Big Pooh)
"Chaundon is a mad funny dude," says Deadeye. "I met him on tour, and we said we had to do something. The track is about how if this rap shit doesn't work, niggas is going to go back to what they were doing before."
12. We Run It (feat. ST. Da Squad)
"This is kind of like our street anthem, but it has kind of a clubby vibe," says Deadeye. "It's a little bit different from what people have heard from us before."
13. Showtime (feat. Termanology / Superstah Snuk)
"They go at it in the lab together," says Deadeye of the deadly ST. da Squadrons. "They go back and forth on this whole song, complementing the shit out of each other."
14. Intermission (feat. Cormega)
"Mega's just cool man," says Deadeye. "He's a cool ass dude – I saw him at the 1982 release party at S.O.B.'s in New York, told him I needed him on this, and he made it happen."
15. The Law (feat. Lunox / Hectic / Sonic / Ghetto)
"That song is totally about Lawrence," says Deadeye. "It starts out with a robbery, and with me on the street hustling. It's basically a 978 story, so everyone on there is from Lawrence."
16. Un-Cut (feat. Craig G. / Mr. Cream / Checkmark / Blacastan / Lord Nez / Reef the Lost Cauze)
"J. Ferra who produced this – I never knew much about him, but I'm friends with his manager," says Deadeye. "I was looking for cats in the Bean who had fire, and he had fire…I saw Craig G at the Knitting Factory when Statik spun for Consequence and Kanye, and we chopped it up. The joint is kind of like a boxing match with dudes just going in. Everybody kills their shit on this one…Mr. Cream, by the way, is Redman's cousin – the dude sleeping on the floor in that episode of MTV "Cribs".
17. Blood Brothaz Pt. 2 (feat. ST. Da Squad)
"The first version of this, which also had a Moss beat, was on the [Commonwealth Records release] A Boston State of Mind Volume 2," says Deadeye. "This is a completely different beat – the first one is more RZA-esque, while this one is more Premo-esque."
18. Girl Interrupted (feat. Termanology / Skyzoo)
Deadeye puts this one simply: "Anyone who's ever head these guys separate and on their own knows why I had to put them together."
19. The Storm (feat. Hectic / Clip / Ea$y Money / Letia Larock)
"This one has a bluesy kind of feel to it," says Deadeye. "It's about repenting for your sins, and talking to God. We did this in 2009, and we got Letia to do the hook with this other singer named Jazz."
20. My Addiction (feat. Nash / Donny Goines / Ea$y Money / Nick Javas)
"This is just about being addicted to certain things, whether you realize it or not," says Deadeye. "Nash is my dude from Philly – a singer and producer with million-dollar hooks. Nick Javas is Premo's main artist – a white dude from New Jersey. He's a good dude, and he does a great job outside of his element here."


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DMI checks are a last resort
Most x86 devices export various bits of system information via SMBIOS, including the system manufacturer, model and firmware version. This makes it possible for the kernel to alter its behaviour depending on the machine it's running on, usually referred to as "DMI quirking". This is a very attractive approach to handling machine-specific bugs - unfortunately it also means that we often end up working around symptoms with no understanding of the underlying issue.
Almost all x86 hardware is tested with Windows. For the most part vendors don't ship devices that don't work - if you install a stock copy of Windows on a system, you expect it to boot successfully and reboot properly. Basic ACPI functionality should be present and correct, including processor power-saving states. Time should pass at something approximating the real rate. And since stock Windows isn't updated with large numbers of DMI quirk entries, the hardware needs to do this with an operating system that's already shipped.
Which means that if Linux doesn't provide the same level of functionality, it means we're doing something different to Windows. Sometimes this is because we're doing something fundamentally different with the hardware - the HP NX6125, for example, resets its thermal trip points if the timer is set up in a different way to Windows. In this case we've decided that the additional functionality of doing things the Linux way is worth it, and we'll just blacklist the small set of machines that are broken by it.
But other times there's no need for the difference. For years we were triggering system reboots in a different way to Windows and then adding DMI workarounds for any systems that didn't work. The problem with this approach is that it's basically impossible to guarantee that you've found the full set of broken hardware. It's very easy to add another DMI quirk, but it doesn't solve the problem for anyone who bought a machine, tried Linux and gave up when they found reboot didn't work. More recently we've added a pile of quirks for Dells - turns out that in all cases we're working around a bug in their firmware that hangs if we're using VT-d.
We typically don't merge code that fixes a specific example of a problem without at least considering whether there's a wider class of similar problems that could all be solved at once. We should take the same attitude to DMI quirks. Sometimes they're the least harmful way of handling an issue, but most of the time they're just fixing one person's itch and leaving a larger number of people to continue cursing at Linux. There should at least be a demonstration of an attempt to understand the underlying problem before just adding another quirk, and every patch that permits the removal of some DMI checks should be greeted with great cheer.


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They call him the King of Concerts….Chris Fritz, the man behind Capitol Federal Park & the Kanrocksas Music Festival…has been booking concerts since he was 15. He is the Co-Owner and Executive Vice President of New West Presentations.
Chris Fritz has made an exciting and rewarding career in the entertainment industry. Chris' promotional career started in Chicago and has evolved over the past 45 years from club owner and manager to concert and sports promoter. His promotions have attracted millions of music and sports fans nationally and internationally.
In 1983, Chris teamed up with long-time business acquaintance Russ Cline, then Marketing Director for the Kansas City Chiefs. They collaborated in the formation of several companies, using their expertise to produce sports and entertainment events.
Chris was a partner in United Sports of America, a major promoter of motor sports in the United States and Canada; Globe Construction, a company that specialized in event production construction; and in 1984 was co-founder, along with Russ Cline, of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League, owning all of the teams until 1998. Chris is currently the co-owner of the Philadelphia Wings and was inducted into the National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame in 2006 as a member of its inaugural class.
In addition, Chris partnered with Russ Cline to produce the AND1 Mix Tape Tour for three years. He is also President of New West Presentations, which is currently expanding into certain creative concepts for television, musicals, and movies, creating a unique network of talent for collaboration in multiple projects. Chris is currently involved in artist management, representing Kansas City's "Racy Grace" and Austin, Texas' "Meridianwest Band". He is also a consultant to Live Nation, which produces shows worldwide. Performances vary from children's shows to rock n' roll and are presented in multi-capacity venues, ranging from 2,000 seat performing arts centers to 80,000 seat stadiums.
He has been orchestrating the Kanrocksas Music Festival since construction began on the Kansas Speedway. The two day event brings together some of the biggest names in the music industry including Eminem, Muse, Flaming Lips and The Black Keys. Kathy Quinn sits down with Fritz to get a unique perspective on the realization of this concert promoter's dream.
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It is impossible to educate those with a total class envy slant to everything they view. What is so frustrating about those hypocrites is they never see any problems with the likes of a George Soros, or any number of mega-millionaire/billionaires in the Democrat party.
So it's almost a surety, they are envious of your wealth, and how you've come by it...certainly not legally...but on the backs of the poor. After all, you ARE an employer, and all of those are ripping off their employees. Only the brave union bosses can keep you from crapping on your staff...paying them less than a living wage...not providing any benefits, so their poor family is sick all the time.
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I swung by the awesome BikeSauce space the other day to check out their new social hub (couches, tables and library!) and drop off some I Bike T.O. t-shirts. We gave them to the 'Sauce at cost so they can sell them to raise some money for themselves (they're a registered non-profit).
They gave me some cool buttons. Who wants one? 🙂