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People know about the five senses:
- Seeing
- Hearing
- Smelling
- Tasting
- Touching
(If you want to be more up-to-date scientifically, add Balance/Equilibrium to the list for a sixth sense.)
These senses are the way we know about the world around us. Each sense has a special way of receiving the outside information with one or more receptors. The receptors then send the information to our brain where we become aware or perceive it.
Without the proper receptors, we cannot sense the environment.
With our vision, we sense light, a small part of the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation in the environment. We see the wavelengths as colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), and if all the wavelengths are present we see white light.
If the wavelengths are on either side of the rainbow, e.g. infrared light or ultraviolet light, we can't see them. We don't have the receptors for infrared light or ultraviolet light. We build artificial receptors or cameras to sense this light and produce an image that we can perceive. Pictures made with these cameras show us images of our world that we miss just because we lack receptors for the information. These environmental cues are invisible to us.
That doesn't mean that these things are not natural, we just don't perceive them.
Some people seem to be more aware of their environment. They seem to have a "sixth sense" (or seventh sense if you want to be more technically correct…see first paragraph). That teacher with the "eyes in the back of her head" or the mother who knows when her child is in trouble. You may have been in a room and "felt" someone looking at you. Is it possible that these people are more "tuned-in" to the environment?
Maybe they sense invisible things in the environment such as gravity or creepy stare rays or "getting-into-mischief-vibes".
There are many "invisible" things in our environment. Things like radiation, air pressure, microscopic creatures, and love. When something is invisible to us, it becomes more difficult to understand. We tend to ignore it or find it mysterious or frightening. The spiritual world is a part of this invisible environment. I find the spiritual realm to have mystery and intrigue. Many people just choose to ignore the spiritual. So is this invisible environment "supernatural" or just a different part of the natural?
Sometimes God adjusts our senses to be able to see parts of this spiritual world. In Numbers 22:31, Balaam's eyes were opened and he saw the angel with sword drawn. In 2 Kings 6:17, Elisha's servant's eyes were opened and he saw the angel army upon the mountains. We tend to forget the fact that angels are among us. They need to be visible for us to stop ignoring them. What spiritual images are we missing because we lack receptors?
What type of receptor would let us see angel armies? Instead of a sensory receptor, the receptor for the spiritual realm appears to be faith, i.e. the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). Faith is what allows people to perceive the spiritual world and make it an important part of their lives. It provides the ability to sense God working in our lives.
I like the chorus of an old Sierra song, "…in the Story of Life, I've found the only way I can ever survive is reading by the light of my Faith…" (Sierra, 1998). Faith provides the "vision" to see life with its eternal meaning.
People have the ability to increase their sensitivity to the environment. We know that people who have lost their sight have the other senses become more sensitive. Other people have focused on their senses and increased awareness of their environment. With practice and meditation they can train their senses to be more tuned-in, increasing their "sense-ability".
This can happen in the spiritual realm also. Prayer allows us to focus on the spiritual. Meditation can train the faith receptors to be more sensitive. Maybe we can tune-in our spiritual seventh sense to become more aware of our true environment. More interaction with the spiritual world can make it less mysterious and less frightening. The increased sensitivity would allow us to be consciously aware of this invisible world that is all around us making it more "natural" in our lives.
What ways could you focus on your Faith to increase your sense-ability of God's presence in your life?
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Catoctin Mountain
A Mountain Heritage
On Catoctin Mountain you can read the story of a group of people and the effect they had on the land. It is written in old stone fences, logging roads, and the growth that now covers the land. You can find it along the old Hagerstown-Westminster Turnpike that crosses the mountains from east to west and separates the two parks. Catoctin Mountain Park is managed by the National Park Service and Cunningham Falls State Park, by the Maryland Forest, Park, and Wildlife Service.
Man's story here begins with the Indians, although little evidence remains of those who lived in Maryland before the arrival of Europeans. We do know that many small tribes farmed, hunted, and fished here. When the first Europeans arrived in Maryland, the Indians were engaged in a series of wars, and Maryland had become a middle or neutral ground where no Indians lived permanently. In 1732 as settlers began to arrive in the Monocacy River Valley, Indians were seldom seen. Tradition says, however, that the name "Catoctin" came from a tribe, the Kittoctons, who lived at the foot of the mountains near the Potomac.
The first Europeans were second-generation Americans and German immigrants. They had pushed west from Philadelphia until they reached the Susquehanna River and then turned southwest. They settled along the Monocacy River because of Lord Baltimore's attractive offer of 200 acres of land rent free for three years and one cent an acre each year thereafter. At mid-century more Germans, and some Swiss and Scotch-lrish pioneers came into the area.
Some of these settlers became loggers or charcoal makers supplying the Catoctin Iron Furnace, the remains of which are in Cunningham Falls State Park. Others supplied oak and chestnut bark, rich sources of tannin, to the developing tanneries in the Monocacy Valley. Farms were established in the mountain-top valleys. Today, you can find remnants of these old farms-stone fences and cellar pits-as you walk through the woods.
Over the years people started to leave the Catoctin area because the resources were becoming depleted from the clear-cutting for charcoal making, the stripping of bark for tanning, and logging. It was becoming more and more difficult for the people on the mountain to eke out a living.
In 1935, more than 4,046 hectares (10,000 acres) were acquired by the Federal government and developed as the Catoctin Recreational Demonstration Area. Under the management of the National Park Service and the Maryland Park Service, the land has been permitted to develop into an eastern hardwood climax forest, much as it was when seen by the first Europeans.
As you walk the trails you will find chestnut oak, hickory, black birch, and a scattering of other trees. Old fields in the mountain valleys are now covered with black locust, wild cherry, sassafras, and yellow poplar. In moist areas you will find red oak, beech, yellow poplar, yellow birch, hemlock, ash, and white oak. And along the way you may encounter some of the animals that make Catoctin their home. Take a walk or a hike in the parks, and with an open mind and keen eyes, let the mountain tell you its story.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
A photo album for this park can be found here.For information on other photo collections featuring National Park geology, please see the Image Sources page.
Currently, we do not have a listing for a park-specific geoscience book. The park's geology may be described in regional or state geology texts.
Please visit the Geology Books and Media webpage for additional sources such as text books, theme books, CD ROMs, and technical reports.
Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments & Seashores.
Lillie, Robert J., 2005.
W.W. Norton and Company.
9" x 10.75", paperback, 550 pages, full color throughout
The spectacular geology in our national parks provides the answers to many questions about the Earth. The answers can be appreciated through plate tectonics, an exciting way to understand the ongoing natural processes that sculpt our landscape. Parks and Plates is a visual and scientific voyage of discovery!
Ordering from your National Park Cooperative Associations' bookstores helps to support programs in the parks. Please visit the bookstore locator for park books and much more.
Information about the park's research program is available on the park's research webpage.
For information about permits that are required for conducting geologic research activities in National Parks, see the Permits Information page.
The NPS maintains a searchable data base of research needs that have been identified by parks.
A bibliography of geologic references is being prepared for each park through the Geologic Resources Evaluation Program (GRE). Please see the GRE website for more information and contacts.
NPS Geology and Soils PartnersAssociation of American State Geologists
Geological Society of America
Natural Resource Conservation Service - Soils
U.S. Geological Survey
Currently, we do not have a listing for any park-specific geology education programs or activities.
General information about the park's education and intrepretive programs is available on the park's education webpage.For resources and information on teaching geology using National Park examples, see the Students & Teachers pages.


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I'm not sure what wave these will be, but POTF2.com (http://www.potf2.com/potj/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14096&whichpage=5) got a picture of a cardback that shows these figures. The Clone Tank Gunner looks to be a repack of the clone from the AT-TE battle pack and the Turbo Tank, and the others are repaints or retools, aside from the all-new Malevolence Padmé. I loved Matchstick's helmet design so it'll be cool to have him in the line.


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Kansas City is a great arts town and there's a lot going on, particularly on our city's stages, this weekend.
We leave you this week with scenes from two new productions. First, the fast paced farcical thriller comedy, The Mystery of Irma Vep at the Kansas City Repertory Theater.
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WDNR is conducting meetings around the state to gather input to update Wisconsin's turkey management plan. During turkey season is a terrible time to hold them, even us special interest turkey hunters won't attend if hunting is available. I attended the one last night in Eau Claire, only because I filled my first and only tag for week 2 on Thursday. There were only 3 turkey hunters in attendance, 1 CO, 1 reporter, 1 UW wildlife professor, Scott and Krista the presenters.
This spring if the preliminary numbers hold there are only 100,000 spring turkey hunters left statewide in Wisconsin. Down from the peak of 160,000 5 years ago. Which means we have lost 20,000 hunters since 2011. Each year about 25,000 hunters who were drawn do not buy a license so you can't look at the available and sold permits to determine hunter participation. (these numbers are from my memory of last night's meeting and are rounded estimates from Scott Walter) Very bad long term news for the future of turkey hunting.
Very good news for hunters like me who love to hunt and are willing to pay to hunt, by that I mean buy a lot of OTC permits for each week in 3 units. In spite of all those purchases by us hardcore turkey nuts there is still thousands of OTC tags left. Meaning the turkey population can withstand a lot more hunting.
May I humbly suggest as we enjoy our turkey hunts we give this hunter decline some very serious consideration. Over on the Journal Sentential there are anti hunters posting about there is no need to kill turkeys. This is the first time I have seen antis active against turkey hunting.
The fall season hunter participation is worse there are only about 12,000 active turkey hunters, that is those who go out to hunt a turkey rather than those who just have a license in their pocket just in case a turkey presents an opportunity.
Our sport/way of life is dying right in front of our collective faces. Now the question is what do we do about it? Are we willing to accept change to the season scheme to make it more open and inviting to the not so dedicated turkey hunter? At this point would any change bring back the casual turkey hunter?
If you don't like the sound of casual turkey hunter, remember we all started out learning somehow.


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Chesapeake Bay Retrievers since 1981
We have a progressive Harvard educated constitutional scholar, and a neo-con Yale-daddy-bought-my-degree-braggin'-about-bein'-a-"C"-student" president..........
Now who's dummin' us down?
Oh yeah, one is reforming educational funding to make higher education affordable for working-class children by cutting Banksters out of the mix......and the other party is slashing funding for education and devaluing teachers......
Who's dummin' us down?
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
Bet Roger will never suggest we put a tax on government entitlement checks.
Yuk yuk yuk.
Thats a response full of substance. typical.
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
Is it any wonder that the top talking heads on the right, Limbaugh and Beck, never even made it through freshman year at college? Yet they represent themselves as the last word on foreign policy, economic policy, energy policy, etc. Heck, if you ask them, sure they would have chimed right in on Franco's thread when he asked if there were any nuclear accident experts on the forum. (I have a minor in nuclear engineering, so I knew enough to know what I don't know, and pretty much tried to keep my mouth shut.) You see, all our problems are just a matter of common sense, the kind that you hear from just plain folks sitting around the kitchen table. And hey, get a load of how much Limbaugh and Beck are pulling down. How much clearer indication of their unparalleled brilliance do ya need?
One of my favorite quotes:
There is always an easy solution to every human problemneat, plausible, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken
Wonder if I can hold my breath till the fist "elitist" slam?
"For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required." -- Luke 12:48
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I keep my beliefs in God to myself.
You may go to Church as a social hour event, to show how pious you are, and to profess your political beliefs, but please, leave me out of your little commenteries about God. I don't use God as a political tool. You go right ahead.
It was your boy who went to harvard and yale. I went to stupid little ol Texas A&M. Guess I can't compete with you Wisconsin elites.
You set the standard for arrogance and pompousness.
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God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
All things considered, I would have to say that I was much better off under Clinton, and that things have gone down hill ever since he left the White House. I believe we continue to pay for disastrous economic policies in Washington that reached pinnacles of stupidity during the first G. W. Bush administration from which we may not ever recover. I believe the current administration may have helped prevent the disaster from becoming worse, but that it has done little to make the situation better.
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IN the year 1845 Basil Montagu was the handsomest old English gentleman imaginable, although he must have been three score years and ten at the lowest computation, for he was one of many children, and the tragic death of his beautiful mother took place in 1779. He had snowy hair, blue eyes, and an aquiline nose of the most pronounced and aristocratic type; and his stately wife, the Mrs. Montagu so vividly described by Carlyle, was as dark as he was fair. They then lived at Storey's Gate, in the little house once occupied by Mrs. Norton. It is still standing,¹ and can be known by its porch and balcony, and by the mirrors which even yet reflect the park. Famous people have visited that small house, and I believe it was there that
¹ It has been destroyed this year.
page: 136 Meredith placed the London home of Diana of the Cross‐ways.
Basil Montagu was the son of the historic Lord Sandwich, the patron of Captain Cook and name‐father of the Sandwich Islands. His birth was irregular, and his life from beginning to end a strange romance. He was one of the three finally surviving children of Miss Ray, who was barbarously murdered as she was leaving Convent Garden Theatre by a young clergyman of the name of Hackman. It was a most piteous and dreadful crime, for there is no authentic record¹ of any worse flaw in the poor woman's character than that involved in her relations to Lord Sandwich, and her murderer was actuated by a mad jealousy which, according to reasonable testimony, she had done nothing to provoke. The event is reported in the serious‐minded Gentleman's Magazine, under date of April 7th, 1779. Here are the exact words in their quaint sobriety:—
¹ The spurious nature of the letters lately republished is surely demonstrated by Lord Sandwich's public recognition of his children.
page: 137 Rev. W. Hackman, who, being desperately in love with her, watched her from the play, and as she was stepping into her coach amidst a crowd of people, clapped a pistol to her ear and shot her through the head. She dropped and expired without a groan. His intent was instantly to destroy himself, but in that he failed, and endeavouring to make his escape, he was secured and committed to prison. He appeared to be perfectly in his senses, and endeavoured to justify the act by a sudden impulse that for a moment convulsed his mind. The deceased for more than sixteen years had been connected with Lord Sandwich, and had been the mother of nine children, five of whom are now alive. At the time when Lord Sandwich was attracted by her person she was in her sixteenth year, and an apprentice to a mantua‐maker in Clerkenwell. This murder affords a melancholy proof that there is no act contrary to reason that reasonable men will not commit when under the dominion of their passions. It is impossible to convey an idea of the impression made on all ranks of people when it was first reported; the manner of it struck every feeling heart with horror." page: 138 Such was the very human utterance of Sylvanus Urban, avoiding all reproach of the unfortunate mother of so many young children, who expiated her fault by so dreadful a fate. The street ballad, of the epoch which then usually commemorated events striking to the popular imagination, touches the same key, and Grub Street furnished a long poem on the death of Miss Ray; one verse of it, quoted by Thackeray, ends with a rough but touching piety:— "A clergyman, O wicked one! In Convent Garden shot her, No time to cry upon her God, It's hoped He's not forgot her."
It must be added that it would be unfair for the cloth to suffer in reputation for Hackman's atrocious deed. He had held His Majesty's Commission, and it was as a soldier that he first met Miss Ray, at Hinchinbrooke, and he sold out in pursuance of the object of his admiration. Why he took orders, how he obtained ordination, and why he should have imagined that by such extraordinary and disreputable plotting he could succeed in winning Miss Ray away from her children and their father, is one of those mysteries which surround the sphere of madness. At the page: 139 inquest, which was very fully reported on the next page of the magazine, Hackman seems to have made no effort at self‐defence, simply saying that jealousy had driven him mad. A Mr. Macnamara appeared as principal witness, and described how he had taken Miss Ray upon his arm in order to lead her to the carriage sent by Lord Sandwich, how he had suddenly felt the shock and the noise of the explosion, and the movement of the lady dropping on the pavement, dead! The pistol had been fired close to the back of her head.
Hackman was of course condemned, and suffered at Tyburn Tree on the 19th of April, whither he was taken in a mourning coach accompanied by the chaplain of Newgate, a sheriff's officer, and James Boswell of Auchinlick. Lord Carlisle also attended the execution, and gave an account of it to George Selwyn which is to be found in Selwyn's correspondence. Hackman stated that he had taken the pistol with the intent of committing suicide, but had been maddened by jealousy at the sight of Mr. Macnamara. Such was the poor crazy criminal whose deed filled all London with horror, and page: 140 orphaned a house full of children, causing the people of that day to overlook the irregularities of Miss Ray's life in their pity for her tragical fate.
It is wonderful and instructive to note that in the official life of Lord Sandwich, written by his domestic chaplain, the great minister is lauded as a model of all the virtues, in language which only the pompous diction of the last century could supply. He was sixty when this awful tragedy befell him, and survived to the age of seventy‐three, dying younger than did his son Basil. He was succeeded by his only legitimate son, born to him by his third wife, Dorothy Fane, which son became a man of no particular importance; but Basil rose to great eminence, and Basil's brother became Admiral Montagu, while the only surviving sister married the Sardinian Ambassador, Comte de Viry.
It was probably one result of the mother's melancholy death that Lord Sandwich thenceforth brought up the children of his dead mistress as kings have brought up their offspring, giving them his name, and, so far as he could, the advantages of his own rank. Basil's name is deeply writ on the Statute Book of England, page: 141 while from the Sardinian marriage sprang a train of curious circumstances, of which "The Lost Chord" survives as an echo of the Catholic marriage of Madame de Viry.
It should be also recorded by the truthful historian that pious proper George the Third was much attached to Lord Sandwich, and twice visited the fleet while that nobleman was at the head of the Admiralty. In this connection an anecdote is told (but not by the chaplain) of the inquisitive monarch. He asked to taste the pork and pease soup on which the equipage of a certain man‐of‐war was about to dine. Lord Sandwich sent a message to the purser, who sent word back that he could not "victual any man in a King's ship without a warrant from the captain." This was obtained in due form, and accompanied with the request that a nice piece of pork should be selected for his Majesty. The crusty purser declared that this was against all rule. Either the King or the First Lord of the Admiralty must "prick in the tub and take pot luck."
Returning to Basil Montagu (still a familiar figure when our Queen was young), he was in page: 142 due time sent by his father to Oxford, and thence to the Bar. While at college and under twenty‐one, he made a runaway marriage with a baronet's daughter. I forget her name, but he used to talk about her to me with much frankness. The young wife died in child‐birth, leaving a son, also named Basil, who grew up to manhood. The boyish father was heartbroken at her loss, and told, in his old age, how he spent the days thinking about her, and the nights in lying upon her grave. "But," said he, with old‐fashioned precision, "I reflected, my dear, that such indulgence in grief would never do; so I made a resolution to think of my wife for a quarter of an hour less every day, and I did so (impressively); and so at last I was cured of my sorrow." It is half a century since this narrative of a grief‐cure was given, but the quotation of the strange recipe is exact.
At the Bar Mr. Montagu built up a great reputation. He was intimately associated with Sir Samuel Romilly in successful efforts to abolish the punishment of death for those numerous offences, far short of murder, for which it was then pitilessly exacted. Together page: 143 they waged a long and successful crusade. Of the state of the law and the astounding callousness of the British judge at the beginning of this century, the following letter bears evidence, and is worth many statistics. In 1810 Sir Samuel received a letter signed Stephen R. Amwell, informing him that in passing through Maidstone, the writer had learned that three men, all convicted for slight offences, had been left for execution by the judge. One of them, Lawes by name, who had stolen property worth forty shillings, might be thought to have some claim to mercy because a bill to repeal in such cases the punishment of death was actually pending in Parliament. The man was to be hanged on the day following the receipt of the letter. Sir Samuel hastened to the Secretary of State, and he without delay sent on Amwell's letter to Judge Heath. Here is the judge's answer:—
"Sir,—I have received and read the letter with the signature of Amwell, and by some passages I am confident that he wrote me a letter, signed Amicus Curiæ, respecting Lawes. As for Lawes, he was guilty of house‐breaking, and page: 144 most probably burglary, in the dwelling house of Mary Wilkins, a widow woman, who carries on the business of baker at Minster, and stole plate to the value of £20 and upwards, to the best of my recollection. As housebreaking has been frequent in Kent and no person appeared to give him a character, I left him for execution. Stephen Nichols was convicted of stealing two heifers, which the prisoner and his brother, who has absconded, pretended to have bought for £34. They were driven from the close of a poor widow woman whose property they were, and slaughtered by the prisoner.
"The third is Peter Presnel, who was convicted for breaking into the cottage of John Orpin, no persons being therein, and stealing therein property to the value of five shillings; in fact, the things were of the value of forty shillings. It was found that the cottage was broken into while the prosecutor was absent at his labour, and all the valuable things were stolen by the prisoner. I consider this offence the worst of all, because, if not checked, it would destroy all parsimony and frugality among cottagers. In truth, I tried ninety‐nine prisoners at page: 145 Maidstone; and excepting one executed for murder, I only left the above three for execution, and not one of those could adduce a single witness to his character.
"I have the honour to be, etc.,
"Bedford Square,
"April 8th, 1810."
No respite was sent, and consequently the three men were hanged. Nichols was reported in the newspapers to be a boy of nineteen.
The abolition of these ghastly laws and practices was the main triumph of Basil Montagu's middle age; but his house was for years the centre of bright, refined activity; 25, Bedford Square, was blessed by all the younger spirits of literature and the law.
In his old age, when all his sons and daughters were married or otherwise scattered (for of the boys I have no accurate count), he was a devotee of Lord Bacon, whose works he edited, and of whom he ever spoke with fanatic admiration.
In 1845 my parents lived in his near neigh‐ page: 146 bourhood neighbourhood , and I thought it an immense honour to help him prepare gigantic rolls of paper, which were pasted together till they were of the size of a small sheet. On these Mr. Montagu would print in huge capitals the names of the Cardinal Virtues. I understood at the time that these had some connection with Lord Bacon! It is not my impression that Mr. Montagu was particularly gifted with devotion to the Counsels of Perfection, but to this day I cannot see Truth and Temperance printed on a handbill in Roman letters without thinking of my dear old friend. I do not know what purpose he had in view, but I can hardly think that so important a personage intended to deliver a lecture to any audience lower in status than the assembled Bar!
Quite towards his closing years Mr. Montagu suffered some reverse of fortune which must have been caused by younger members of his family. The little establishment at Storey's Gate was broken up, and he and his wife retired to France. I last saw him waving a good‐bye to my parents on the pier of Boulogne, He was buried in the cemetery on the St. Omer page: 147 Road, with one short line of noble epitaph, well deserved, for he had certainly used his life of labour for the cause of Justice and Liberty and the happiness of Mankind.
It is difficult to attempt the portrait of any one who has already been described by Carlyle. He threw all his impressions on paper with a touch of unconscious virulence, so that even his best‐loved heroes, even Oliver himself, disclosed under his revelations a cruel or a distressful side. I knew that beautiful lady of Carlyle's description very well, as the young know the old; and I knew her for the course of many years, for Mrs. Montagu long survived her husband, and, returning to England, lived to a great age in the house of her daughter, Mrs. Procter. Whatever sorrows she had to bear, and they were neither few nor slight, she bore them in silence with a splendid courage, and did her best for all around her. No woman of our time could have had more reason to feel outraged by any allusion to her private griefs, and when I look up at the windows of the little house in page: 148 Storey's Gate, where I once spent long hours, listening with enthusiasm to her wise and kindly wisdom, I feel amazement after a lapse of a long half‐century that the image of such a wife and mother should remain associated with the unredressed insults of Carlyle's ungrateful pen. But to this subject I must needs return when I come to speak of her daughter, Mrs. Procter.
Mrs. Montagu's maiden name was Benson, and she came from the same family stock as the present Archbishop of Canterbury. She was born in York. I do not know what was the occupation of her father, but I have reason to believe that her uncle was incumbent of the living of Bolton on the Wharfe, and that by him, and in his parish church, she was early married to a young lawyer named Skepper, a lineal descendant of the second partner of the famous firm of Fust and Scheffer, the earliest printers. This marriage must have occurred shortly before the year 1800. Mr. Skepper died early, and when Basil Montagu met the young widow, which I have always supposed to have happened while he was on the Northern Circuit, page: 149 her little Anne was a very young child. I have no record of the place or date of Mrs. Skepper's marriage to Mr. Montagu. My father's first memory of her referred to her as installed in the large house, No. 25, Bedford Square, where the children of his two previous marriages were gathered, nor do I know anything about Mr. Montagu's second wife, who died prematurely, leaving, I think, two sons. Little Anne Skepper was thus brought up in the house of her stepfather, and could recall no other parent; she ever regarded him with profound respect and warm affection, and was a true sister in all her dealings with the other children of that complicated family. Mrs. Montagu was at all ages a most beautiful person; the only figure which in any way recalls her to me is the well‐known portrait of Mrs. Siddons as Queen Catherine. Speaking of Anne Skepper's marriage to the poet Mr. Procter, then better known as Barry Cornwall, Mr. Coventry Patmore, who knew them all, says, "That a poet could hardly have aspired to a greater temporal reward than the friendship of the Basil Montagus and the hand of their daughter will not be questioned by any of the page: 150 many living persons who have had the happiness of knowing the family. No young man who understood what honour meant, and none understood it better than the high‐minded and sensitive young poet, could think that fame had in store for him any favour which could surpass or equal those which she was now conferring on him. Hence, perhaps, the sudden and final extinction of his literary ambition, which seemed to occur about this time, notwithstanding an amount of popular encouragement that, under ordinary circumstances, was calculated to fire him to redoubled exertions. The manners, at once stately and genial, of Mr. Basil Montagu and his wife have few or no counterpart in modern society. The stateliness was not that of reserve but of truth in action, and the geniality arose, not from easy good‐humour, but from earnest goodwill. Of Mrs. Basil Montagu it may indeed be said that for a young man to know her was an education. Even at a time when her great personal beauty was slightly (it was never more than slightly) obscured by age, there was that about her that no well‐disposed and imaginative young man could long behold without feeling page: 151 that he was committed thereby to leading a worthy life. If the reader is inclined to smile at this praise as somewhat obsolete in its mode, let him be assured by one who knew Mrs. Montagu that it seems so only because that style of woman is obsolete."
I have quoted at length this page from Mr. Coventry Patmore's biography of Mr. Procter because there are now left so few people who can recall the Montagu household. It was in the little drawing‐room at Storey's Gate that I first met Mr. Patmore. He had just published his first book.
Mrs. Montagu's great personal beauty and distinction were heightened by the pains which she took with her peculiar dress; it was almost that of a "Plain Friend," and recalled the aspect of Elizabeth Fry. She never indulged in more than three dresses, and the material was black satin, which in the years when I first remember her (in the Forties) was very much in vogue. I imagine that she must have allowed herself one new dress every year, and she wore the three in strict and careful rotation. The costume was cut low and square in front, as in so many of the page: 152 portraits of Reynolds and Gainsborough; ample folds of white muslin met the dress, and, mounting to the chin, encircled her fine old face and head in beautiful pleats; the effect was that of a cap, but I do not know how it was managed, and it was a standing jest among her intimate friends that no one could ever divine the modus operandi of Mrs. Montagu's toilet. I believe that the robe was cunningly fastened upon the shoulder, and the point of junction concealed under a fold of black satin. I have often seen her clear starching and ironing out the voluminous folds of white muslin with her own stately hands. The effect of the whole costume was charming to behold.
She wrote a remarkably beautiful Italian hand, or rather what we now know as the Elizabethan writing, the stems of the letters serried together, and the letters themselves wide apart. Every word was plainly separate. In her old age she was fond of teaching writing to her young friends. She would not tolerate a blot upon the page, and she abhorred a word of slang in conversation. It was just the time when Boz and Pickwick had started fresh forms of speech page: 153 among the new generation of young men and maidens, and I regret to say that they occasionally fell with her into deep disgrace! No one ever gave me so much the impression of a moral soldier under arms as Mrs. Basil Montagu. About a month before her death her son‐in‐law went upstairs to pay her a visit in her private sitting‐room. He came down and said to Mrs. Procter "My dear Anne, your mother must be ill; she has allowed herself to cough in my presence." During that last thirty days, Mrs. Montagu sat up quietly reading as usual; she was a religious woman, and when she could no longer go out to church, she read her books of devotion steadily at home, but her daughter one day, standing softly behind her, saw that the book was upside down in her mother's hand. When at length one Friday morning the brave old lady could no longer rise and sit in her accustomed arm‐chair, it was the first time that her granddaughter, Adelaide Procter, had ever seen her head recumbent upon its pillow. In three days she had quietly passed away, and for all those, now few in number, who can still familiarly remember her, the name of Anne Benson Montagu recalls page: 154 an image of majestic beauty and dauntless moral courage of which Englishwomen may well be proud.
A few words must be added about the only daughter of the famous advocate. Carlyle refers to her as having made "a considerable foreign marriage;" about which he evidently knew nothing, for it was not in any way a legitimate subject for his covert sneer.
Emily Montagu was born in Bedford Square, and was, I think, about fifteen years younger than her half‐sister Anne, who felt for her an affection which was one of the softest points in Mrs. Procter's character. I only saw her at one epoch, when, in middle age and a second time widowed, she came back to England to see her mother, then living in Mr. Procter's household. This was her story.
It will be remembered that the daughter of Lord Sandwich, educated and dowered by him, eventually married the Sardinian Ambassador, Comte de Viry. She disappeared from England, and over Sardinia and Savoy swept the great storm of the French Revolution, during which the House of Savoy took refuge page: 155 in the island, conveyed thither under the escort of the British Fleet. Forty years passed; the last king of the old line of Savoy, Charles Felix, was restored to his kingdom after Waterloo; and after a ten years' reign, he died a holy death, and his coffin was conveyed in a "Water Funeral" across the Lake of Bourget (close to Aix‐les‐Bains) and laid in the abbey church of Hautecombe, where his forefathers had also been buried. Hautecombe is still considered an isolated point of Italian soil. To Charles Felix succeeded his distant cousin, the Prince de Carignan, whom we know as Carlo Alberto, and it was during the reign of that liberal king that two young Sardinian gentlemen came over to the Embassy in London, whose names were Comte William de Viry and Comte Adrien de Revel. The first‐named was, of course, nephew to Basil Montagu, and both of them were attracted to the refined, gentle daughter of the household. Emily Montagu preferred her cousin, but there were difficulties, probably arising from unwillingness on the part of the parents to part with their only girl. Comte de Revel at this juncture conquered his own feelings, and did page: 156 his best to promote his friend's happiness. Presently the family opposition was surmounted, and Miss Montagu became Comtesse William de Viry, and went away with her husband to Turin. This was about the year 1840. But the marriage was of short duration; Comte William died early, leaving two very young children, a boy and a girl. The boy was the king's godson, and destined to be a royal page; he was named Alberto, and was his mother's darling. Then began a long renewed courtship on the part of Comte Adrien de Revel, a courtship of romantic tenderness and very little hope, for de Revel was sent on foreign missions, St. Petersburg always looming in the distance, and Alberto could not legally leave Italy, and Comtesse William de Viry refused to listen to her faithful lover until both were middle‐aged. At last, when Alberto was fifteen, and some change was made in the boy's position and education, his mother gave way. Adrien de Revel obtained his lifelong desire, and they were married at Turin, where the Court to which they were attached habitually resided. After the ceremony they went to Genoa for their honeymoon, intending to return page: 157 shortly to the capital and their usual duties, for both of them were of an ideal strain, and fidelity to all their engagements was with both the habit of their lives. The long‐deferred wedding had taken place on a Wednesday, and on the next Monday morning Comte de Revel awoke at early dawn in the grip of the Cholera Fiend, then hovering over Europe. Nothing availed to save him. There were only twenty lives lost in Genoa, but his, alas! was one.
There is no need to say more. They are all gone now: the faithful lover, the faithful mother, and also the two children whom they had reared from their early orphanhood. Alberto became a soldier, and his sister eventually entered a convent. Madame de Revel did not survive many years, but I have only a vague memory of the news of her death coming to London, and of the grief caused by it to the English relatives who had always loved her well.
The father and mother of Adelaide Procter were both so highly gifted, and their household was page: 158 known to so many surviving friends, that it is only fitting their names should precede her own, although she achieved a greater fame; yet there were years when "Barry Cornwall" was known to all, and when his songs were sung all over England. Two of them, "The sea, the sea, the open sea," and the "Return of the Admiral," have their permanent place, though many of his charming and poetic pages have sunk into comparative oblivion. In his own person he was a refined and somewhat silent man, with a head said to resemble Sir Walter Scott's in miniature, and he was extremely beloved by the literary world. But he lived an interior life, into which, I think, none but his wife ever penetrated. He was profoundly attached to her, and she was for ever shielding him from the wind that blew too roughly. He had many sorrows, and death twice visited his household under most pathetic circumstances. To ward off blows from "Brian" and to sustain him with her own abundant strength, was Mrs. Procter's constant care, and in this she showed a side of her character wholly unsuspected by the outer world.page: 159
Mr. Procter was born so long ago as 1787, and was not far from forty when he married the lovely girl, Anne Skepper, who had been brought up in the home of her stepfather, Basil Montagu. Bryan Walter Procter came from the North of England. He was educated at Harrow, and spent his holidays at the house of a great‐uncle who lived about a dozen miles from London; and his first real instructress in literature was a female servant, born in a better station of life, who had read Richardson and Fielding and worshipped Shakespeare. She used to recite whole scenes to the boy, and encouraged him to buy a Shakespeare of his own. "But," says he, "I had not leisure to study and worship my Shakespeare long, for at the end of a month or six weeks my destiny drove me back to school." There he had two schoolfellows, boys named Robert Peel and George Gordon Byron. Of Byron, Mr. Procter says that he then showed no signs of poetic grace. "He was loud, even coarse, and very capable of a boy's vulgar enjoyments. He played at hockey and racquets, and was occasionally engaged in pugilistic encounters." Of himself he says he was neither page: 160 very short nor very tall, neither handsome nor hideous. He survived Byron for fifty years, seeing the dawn, the zenith, and the partial oblivion of his fame.
He led a hard‐working life in London as a barrister, and later in a Government office.
In looking through the memoir published in his widow's lifetime, I was chiefly struck by a letter in which he describes his study, and says, regretfully, that he has never been abroad, never seen Italy or France, he, the poet and the lover of Italian art; and by another letter about the page: 161 Indian Mutiny, in which "Our son (the only son I have, indeed) escaped from Delhi." He tells how this young man, left to him after the death of his eldest boy Edward, had been in Delhi, and how he and four or five other officers, four women, and a child, escaped. The men were "obliged to drop the women a fearful height from the walls of the fort amidst showers of bullets. They were seven days and seven nights in the jungle without money or meat, scarcely any clothes, no shoes. They forded rivers, lay on the wet ground at night, lapped water from the puddles, and finally reached Meerut."
Montagu Procter married some years later the youngest of the ladies here spoken of. At the time of the Mutiny she was a girl of fifteen. He became eventually a general, and, returning to England, survived his father, but predeceased his mother, who, indeed, lost successively all her children save two.
Of Mrs. Procter much will inevitably be written in future years. She was a very remarkable person, and lived in possession of almost unbroken health and faculties until nearly ninety. As a girl ("my dearest girl," writes the page: 162 poet during his betrothal) she had been extremely pretty. She was an early playmate of my mother's, but my memory of her dates from her middle age, and extends over nearly fifty years. She was the daughter by a first marriage of Mrs. Basil Montagu, and always spoke of her mother with the greatest reverence. But of the race of poets to which she was inextricably bound, she spoke with a half‐laughing satire. One was evidently her life‐long lover, and one was her child, and several others clustered about her like bees. She did not exactly hold a salon; there was no great fortune in the household, nor any sort of pretension whatever, and Mrs. Procter gave one the impression of having her hands very full; but everybody of any literary pretension whatever seemed to flow in and out of the house. The Kembles, the Macreadys, the Rossettis, the Dickens, the Thackerays, never seemed to be exactly visitors, but to belong to the place. Three of the daughters became Catholic, and Mrs. Procter, who, I imagine, did not dwell much on the next world, stood between them and the sensitive father, to whom the loss of close union was a great misery. I used to think it infinitely page: 163 touching to see Mrs. Procter trying to harmonize the household. If "Brian" could be kept cheerful and if nobody was ill (and, alas! somebody was very often ill), then the quick vivid mother of the family seemed content. She had a habit of going into the world, a habit of dressing fashionably, a habit of writing the nearest and most concise notes possible; but her consistent, steady kindness had assuredly some deep spiritual root, of which she never spoke. Like her mother, she never abdicated for a moment her great tenue, never kept her room, never lowered the scale of her dress, never lost her composure; I should doubt if in sixty years a meal had ever been placed upon the table which she had not herself ordered. It was my fate to be very closely associated with her under circumstances in which ninety‐nine people out of a hundred would have broken down, and yet when she lost her daughters, it was their friend whom she tried to spare. I particularly remember her taking me with her to the Catholic cemetery in Kensal Green to plant a quantity of ivy on Adelaide's grave. I can see her kneeling at the headstone, twisting the sprays, with a face of anxious, page: 164 steady determination. That grave is now a place of pilgrimage to American and Colonial travellers. It is thickly overgrown with ivy, but nobody guesses that the mother planted it herself.
Many years afterwards, Edythe Procter died very suddenly—indeed, in a manner truly tragical—failure of the heart's action. Mrs. Procter was then more than eighty; and before the announcement could traverse the Continent in the newspapers, came a careful letter, addressed to a delicate friend at Mentone, and on the corner of the envelope two tiny, neatly‐written words, "Bad News."
Such were the environments of Adelaide Procter's life—a short life, for she died at the age of thirty‐eight. Of outward incidents, apart from the sudden blossoming of her literary fame, there were scarcely any. The year spent in Italy, where her aunt, Madame de Viry, was attached to the Court circle at Turin, was certainly a determining influence on her life. Emily de Viry had become a devout Catholic, and at that time the saintly wife of Victor Emmanuel was living. The example impressed page: 165 Adelaide's mind, and doubtless contributed to her religious change. At Aix‐les‐Bains is a large portrait en pied of the young Queen of Sardinia in her bridal dress. It looks, at first sight, to be a purely conventional picture, but the eyes are of a haunting depth. They recall a word‐picture of the Queen returning from Holy Communion, which Adelaide Procter gave. The wife of Victor Emmanuel was passing along one of the galleries of the Palace, her face "shining as with an interior lamp," when she was met by the young English girl, who never forgot the sight. Of this association Adelaide Procter always bore the trace. In her religious attitude she resembled a foreign rather than an English Catholic. She looked like a Frenchwoman mounting the steps of the Madeleine, or a veiled Italian in St. Peter's. The one thing she never mentioned was her own conversion.
One of Miss Procter's sisters, named Agnes, joined the order of the Irish Sisters of Mercy; and in looking back to our childhood I best remember her, as the nearer to my own age.
In 1840 the Procters lived in St. John's Wood, page: 166 and used to visit their grandparents in Storey's Gate; and in this house it must have been that two children were sitting by the fireside one evening. There was no other light in the room, and Agnes Procter (Sister Mary Francis) suddenly made a confidence; saying, in a tone of intense childish conviction, "I do love mama." These words made an ineffaceable impression on the hearer, for the little speaker was never supposed to be at all imaginative, and certainly Mrs. Procter did not pose before the world as a tender woman—rather the reverse—though her intimates knew her for a very good and kind one. And the last time that I saw Sister Mary Francis she was kneeling by that mother's open grave at Kensal Green, her sincere, gentle face, under its veil, looking but little changed since the day of her profession some thirty years before. It may not be irrelevant to add that shortly after her somewhat unexpected death after a few days' illness, the Reverend Mother spoke of Sister Mary Francis' great and unusual affection for her mother as of a profound sentiment rarely noticed either in or out of the religious life. It was the sweet soul's one page: 167 earthly romance. I do not know in what light Mrs. Procter's memory will go down to posterity when the letters and memoirs of the generation in which she played so large a social part come to be written and published; but this image of her as enshrined in her daughter's heart should be recorded, for it is true.
Of the gifted eldest daughter the mother was intensely proud, and well may she have been, for a more vital spirit never inhabited a finely‐wrought frame. Adelaide Anne Procter was so curiously unlike her poems, and yet so distinct in individuality, that it is a pity she was not painted by any artist capable of rendering her singular and interesting face. There was something of Dante in the contour of its thin lines, and the colouring was a pale, delicate brown, which harmonized with the darker hair, while the eyes were blue, less intense in hue than those of Shelley; and like his also was the exquisitely fine, fluffy hair, which when ruffled stood out in a halo round the brow. A large oil painting of her exists, done, I believe, by Emma Galiotti, and it is like her as she appeared in a conventional dress and a most lugubrious mood, but the real page: 168 woman was quite different. She had a forecast of the angel in her face and figure, but it was of the Archangel Michael that she made one think. There was something spirited and almost militant in her aspect, if such a word can be applied to one so exquisitely delicate and frail. She was somewhat older than myself, and therefore, while I remember Agnes as a little girl, my first distinct memory of Adelaide dates from a period when she was already grown up, and had returned from Turin.
In her manner and dress she bore all the marks of a very exquisite breeding. She was conversant with foreign languages, knew French and Italian well, and wrote a peculiarly clear and delicate hand. One of her minor accomplishments was that of illumination. Monsignor Gilbert possessed two excellent examples of her skill in this unusual art. In her youth she danced lightly and well. All these little details go to make up the portrait of a very charming personality.
She was already thirty before her name had been heard, except as that of Barry Cornwall's "sweet, beloved First Born." Her poems circu‐ page: 169 lated circulated among friends, just as Rossetti's used to do, being copied from hand to hand. Then one was sent by her anonymously to Charles Dickens, and inserted by him in a Christmas number of Household Words. Dickens thus tells the story:—"Happening one day to dine with an old and dear friend, distinguished in literature as 'Barry Cornwall,' I took with me an early proof of the Christmas number of Household Words, entitled 'The Seven Poor Travellers,' and remarked, as I laid it on the drawing‐room table, that it contained a very pretty poem, written by a certain Miss Berwick. Next day brought me a disclosure that I had so spoken of the poem to the mother of the writer in the writer's presence; that I had no such correspondent in existence as Miss Berwick, and that the name had been assumed by Barry Cornwall's daughter, Miss Adelaide Anne Procter."
From this time forward, I forget the year, she continued to write in Household Words, and the poems attracted so much attention that people used to pretend they had written them. When they were at length collected into volume, with the writer's name attached, they page: 170 rushed into fame, and circulated all over the kingdom; and Miss Procter received a pathetic appeal from a young lady, who asked her could it be true that these lovely verses were all hers, for her lover had been in the habit of assuring her, as each poem successively appeared, that it was his own! Twelve editions followed one another, and five years after, the demand for her poems was still "far in excess of that for the writings of any living poet except Mr. Tennyson." I think it caused her a feeling of shyness amounting to pain to have so far outstripped her poet‐father in popular estimation. "Papa is a poet. I only write verses."
It remains to say a few words about her poems. Since for years they had a larger sale than those of any other poet save Tennyson, they must have penetrated into every reading household in Great Britain. Of late, however, their popular fame seems chiefly to repose on the "Lost Chord," nobly set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan. It is wonderful to see the enthusiasm infused by this page: 173 song. The vast audience of St. James's Hall thrills as one man when it is given. But in the beauty of the narrative poems, and in the profound depth of feeling of those which have an autobiographical source, the student of Victorian literature will, I am convinced, find permanent delight; and that many verses and many lines will survive may be inferred from that perfection of form which is essential to lasting fame. Miss Procter always used the plainest words to convey her thought, the simplest, choicest words to express her feeling. Some of those which deal with the human heart are wonderfully sweet and subtle.
- "If you break your plaything yourself, dear,
- Don't you cry for it all the same?
- I don't think it is such a comfort,
- One has only oneself to blame.
- "People say things cannot be helped, dear,
- But then that is the reason why;
- For if things could be helped or altered,
- One would never sit down to cry."
- "Why, our criminals all are sheltered,
- They are pitied, and taught, and fed;
- That is only a sister—woman,
- Who has got neither food nor bed—
- And the Night cries, 'Sin to be living,'
- And the River cries, 'Sin to be dead.'"
¹ Now that Monsignor Gilbert has been withdrawn from our midst, there is no reason for refraining to say that he, who was her confessor, and whom she certainly trusted above all, read through this paper and ratified it with his approval.page: 176
- "Nay; goods in our thrifty England
- Are not left to lie and grow rotten;
- For each man knows the market value
- Of silk, or woollen, or cotton...
- But in counting the riches of England,
- I think our Poor are forgotten!"
And lastly, I have been told upon the highest authority that her personal habits of piety were of the most fervent and consistent kind. The intensity of her susceptible nature found expression and support in her faith. She was strengthened in much suffering, and consoled in much grief, by ardent love of God. She never failed in courage when to publicly confess obedience to the Catholic Church demanded strength of no usual sort, for her lot was cast among those who did not acknowledge the claim; and she, who was eminently delicate in fibre and subject to many fears, went down by slow degrees into the page: 177 "valley of the shadow of Death," with a cheerful heroism rarely seen.
So we laid masses of snowdrops all about her, and for years the recurring sight of them brought back the vision of that calm spiritual face amidst the flowers. But of her, more than of others, it truly appeared that only the frail worn envelope lay there. While on earth she had habitually dwelt in the spiritual world; and into its inner depths, behind the veil, the Lord, whom she so well loved, had led her, by a long and painful path, so that it seemed to those who knew her as if by an almost imperceptible vanishing she had been withdrawn from their eyes. page: 178 Edythe now lies in the same grave in the Catholic Cemetery at Kensal Green, and the names of the two sisters are folded in the ivy which their mother planted there.


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We often talk about how important it is for kids to get enough exercise–60 minutes every day–but what they really need is play. What's the difference? According to Dr Tony Okely, associate professor at the University of Wollongong in Australia, "Exercise is defined as physical activity that is structured, planned, and repetitive with an aim of increasing one or more components of health-related fitness." The problem is that a lot of parents get their kids all sorts of mini exercise equipment–stuff like treadmills and weight benches. But what they really need is to be sent packing to ride their bikes with their buddies around the neighborhood, or to just go to a park and run around like loons.
Reminds me of what a dog trainer once told me: "A tired dog is a happy dog, and a happy dog is an obedient dog. Same goes (well, almost) with kids. A tired and sweaty kid is a healthy kid. What they need to be doing is having fun. gym memberships are over the top.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/play-not-exercise-for-fit-kids-20120307-1uk01.html#ixzz1ogeahcT9
Does your child really need fitness equipment–treadmills,


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Are the rumours that I have heard true? Is Peter Jackson planning on making The Hobbit as a prequal to The Lord Of The Rings?
I would love to see it, would anyone else?
Are the rumours that I have heard true? Is Peter Jackson planning on making The Hobbit as a prequal to The Lord Of The Rings?
I would love to see it, would anyone else?
"Giggety giggety!"
Jek Porky 2008
It's just rumblings now, nothing confirmed yet. But it's possible that it could happen. Especially after the huge success of both Fellowship and Towers. And the likely success of Return as well. I'm sure that Peter Jackson will want to take a while off though, before he actually delves into the world of Middle Earth again.
MTFBWY and HH!!
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AGENTS OF ATLAS - Returns in Early 2009.
i'd only want to see this made if the same actors play thier roles from FOTR. (bilbow, gandalf and gollum)
They probably would keep the same actors Derek, especially since we saw Bilbo in the flashback to finding the ring at the start of Fellowship. They were able to make him easily look younger, just by pulling back the skin to smooth out his wrinkles.
Ian McKellan can also easily be made to look a bit younger. Though I think Gandalf looks the same in the Hobbit as he does in LOTR's. And Gollum is CGI, so no need to worry about the actual actor aging.
MTFBWY and HH!!
Jar Jar Binks
AGENTS OF ATLAS - Returns in Early 2009.
Because I've never read any of the books, I don't know anything about them. Are The Hobbit and The Lord Of the Rings the only books centered around the Baggins' family, and Gandalf? Or do they appear in more books. Do you think we'll see any more films made from the other books?
"You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you!" - Obi-Wan Kenobi
"There's a gentleness about a total Star Wars geek that is sublime."- Rick McCallum
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Pendo!- The hobbit isn't really centered on the Baggins family persay, but Bilbo is tapped to help take out the evil dragon, Smaug. Gandalf kinda, i don't wanna say forces him into it, but convinces him to do it. It's kinda like another Fellowship, cause Bilbo has many companions on his journey. You kinda hear him talk about it a bit in the film FOTR where he says he wants to see mountains and see Murkwood (sp?) and stuff. It's in the Hobbit where the Elves give him Sting and hence why Gollum would recognize it. He even tells the hobbit children a story at this party.
It just kinda happens he stumbles upon Gollum in his cave and beats him in a game of riddles and finds the ring. Bilbo uses the ring a few times in the book to take enemies out though.
This is just from my memory of reading the book a few years back in high school. If anybody has any more details or corrections, lemme know. cheers!
"Woke up at 9.55am. Soon as I woke up, I looked at Suzanne and she looked at me. I said, 'Did I tell you about the immune system?' Suzanne starting laughing, I said, 'it's amazing.' She said, 'Not now.'"
My girlfriend and I were talking about making the actor who plays Bilbo look younger, and she quite rightly pointed out that there's no need for him to look any younger during The Hobbit than he looks in the Shire at the start of the Fellowship movie - he doesn't really age whilst he has the ring.
She a clever 'un.
I think I read something where Jackson said he has NO plans in making the Hobbit. I wish he would though, I've seen the Hobbit cartoon movie and I would love to see it in live-action.
"Hokey packaging and ancient gimmicks are no match for good detail on your figure, kid."
"I am a Klingot from Oklahoma in human boy form."
"We came, we saw, we conquered... We, woke up!"
Personally, I hope they don't make The Hobbit. Although I know The Hobbit was originally written and published before the Lord of the Rings books, I think a prequel would still feel like a spin-off.
I'm probably a bit biased though - I don't like The Hobbit book very much.
I also heard that Peter Jackson has no plans to make The Hobbit into a film, but he did say that he hopes someone does in the future. Who knows? Maybe he will allow another director to tackle it with WETA at his disposal.
There were also rumors about a Simarillon mini-series airing on the HBO network, directed by PJ. But he specifically stated, in the interview I read, that he wants to move on to smaller movies after ROTK. He stated that he never understood why people didn't film three movies at a time when he started, but he understands now better than anybody.
Just think though, that when ROTK is released, it will be a film that has been eight years in the making.
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Raymond Norman Burnham
Raymond Norman Burnham, 66, of Reedsburg, formerly of Richland Center, died Thursday, February 14, 2013 at the Belmont Nursing Home in Madison. He was born January 27, 1947 the son of Charles and Marjorie (Miller) Burnham. Ray enlisted in the US Navy serving at the Navy Pier in Chicago. He worked at the University of Wisconsin as a janitor for many years. Ray enjoyed fishing, doing crosswords, playing cards, and watching television, especially wrestling.
Survivors include his daughter, Heather (Kevin) Kelley of Reedsburg, three grandchildren, Benjamin, Paige, Abby, Brothers and sister: Sandra (Eugene) Cooke of Baraboo, Dale Burnham of Richland Center, James (Julie) Burnham of Viola, six nieces, Tara Burnham, Jamie Cooke, Tracey Burnham, Laura Burnham, Megan Burnham and Janelle Burnham, two great nieces, two great nephews, other relatives, and friends.
Ray was preceded in death by his parents, brother Joe, and two nieces.
Memorial services will be held on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 6:00 PM at the Pratt Memorial Chapel with Reverend Craig Peach officiating. Military will be conducted by the Local Military Memorial Honors Unit. Friends may call on Thursday, February 21, 2013 from 4:00 PM until the time of the service at 6:00 PM. The Pratt Funeral and Cremation Service of Richland Center is assisting the family with their arrangements. Online condolences can be made at prattfuneralservice.com


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Labour's housing spokeswoman Annette King says National was promising to deliver three and four-bedroom homes for less than $485,000 at Hobsonville despite claiming Labour could not deliver the same sized homes for less on cheaper land.
Prime Minister John Key yesterday again scoffed at Labour's policy to build 100,000 houses after Labour's leader David Shearer conceded the promised $300,000 would only buy a small apartment or terraced unit in Auckland - not a family house.
On Sunday Mr Shearer said that four-bedroom homes could cost up to $550,000 in Auckland - but yesterday he revised those figures down again, saying four-bedroom homes in Auckland could be built for "in the $300,000s".
Mr Key said the policy was "not a policy, it's a pipe dream".
"Their answer is to borrow money and promise people you will get a house for under $300,000. But when they wake up - BOOMFA! - it's a one bedroom bedsit in the CBD."
However, Ms King said new information on the "affordable housing" National announced at Hobsonville Pt included four-bedroom homes for less than $485,000.
"That is four bedrooms for less than $485,000 at Hobsonville, the dearest land available at the moment. How can the Government build their 600 affordable homes at Hobsonville but argue that we can't build for less than that when we are doing 10,000 a year?"
Mr Shearer yesterday tried to back up his costings of a four-bedroom home for less than $400,000 by releasing information about a Housing Foundation development of 15 four-bedroom homes in West Auckland which were expected to sell for $425,000 each. He said Labour's would be less because of the savings from buying in bulk.
He said KiwiBuild homes would be at least 20 per cent lower than market prices because of cost savings on constructing in bulk and the lack of a developers' mark-up.
The policies
*Hobsonville Pt development to include about 600 affordable homes for less than $485,000
*Half of those will be less than $400,000
*Range from 60sq m one bedroom units to 300sq m four-bedroom houses.
*Build 10,000 homes a year for 10 years.
*Average home for $300,000
*Four-bedroom homes for $300,000-$400,000 in West or South Auckland.


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Public diplomacy and Islamic world is talk topic, Nov. 15
Posted November 11, 2004; 03:52 p.m.
A lecture titled "America in the World: U.S. Public Diplomacy and the Islamic World" is set for 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15, in 16 Robertson Hall.
Speaking will be Mary Catherine Andrews, special assistant to the president and director of the White House Office of Global Communications.
Established in January 2003 by President George W. Bush, the office was created to coordinate, strategically develop and disseminate communication programs on a global basis that are consistent, truthful and clear in their depiction of Americans and U.S. government policies. With the Bush administration since 2001, Andrews has been in her post since January 2004 and previously was on the staff at the Aspen Institute.
Her lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs .
Contact: Tom Bartus (609) 258-3601


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Imagine being able to afford so few diapers for your child, you're forced to keep the infant in wet, dirty diapers for extended periods, or even to try and dry them out before putting them on a second time.
This is what some women are doing, according to a newly released national study of mothers struggling with diaper need.
Commissioned by Kimberly-Clark, makers of products like Huggies diapers and Kleenex tissues, the Every Little Bottom study was conducted in February by surveying 1,008 mothers in Canada with children between newborn and four years. The study included moms living in financial hardship, as well as those who were financially stable.
The results of the study are startling — nearly one in five Canadian mothers report struggling to provide clean diapers for their babies, and have had to cut back on basics like food, electricity and child care in order to afford them.
Twenty-four per cent of mothers surveyed reported having to cut back on buying clothing in order to afford diapers, while 16 per cent said they cut back on food. One per cent said they didn't fill prescriptions or buy medication in order to save money and another one per cent said they cut back on child care.
When it comes to actions taken as a result of a need for diapers, just under half of the moms in need said they borrowed diapers from another mother, and 34 per cent reported putting their baby in a diaper that didn't fit. Some said they tried to get their child to use the toilet, used more diaper cream or left the baby without a diaper and prepared for accidents.
Twenty-nine per cent of mothers in diaper need said they let their baby stay in the soiled diaper for a longer period of time, and four per cent reported cleaning out the diaper and reusing it.
As a result of the need, moms said their babies were pulling off their own diapers, suffering from diaper rash, crying and showing other signs of irritation and discomfort.
"This study helps us understand a serious issue that has been largely unrecognized until now," said Dr. Nicole Letourneau, a lead researcher on the study and professor at the University of New Brunswick, in a news release.
"We are now able to understand the implications not having enough diapers has on both mothers and babies.
"Without enough diapers for the necessary routine changes, mothers and babies are feeling distressed, which often makes the bonding process as well as the job of parenting more difficult.
Cloth diapers are often not a realistic option for mothers in need who don't have in-home laundry access, since many laundromats don't allow them to be washed there for sanitary reasons. Most licensed daycare centres don't accept cloth diapers and require a days worth of disposables.
The diaper need experienced by mothers in financial hardship in this province is similar to what the Every Little Bottom study found nationally, said Eg Walters, executive director of the St. John's-based Community Food Sharing Network.
In the metro area alone, there are about two dozen food banks, which serve more than 16,000 people per month. The typical food bank client could be anyone, Walters said, but about 40 per cent are children under the age of 18, Walters said. Many more are single parents, both male and female.
"There's certainly a big need for diapers," Walters told The Telegram. "Not only diapers, but other products as well. Just think — you get up in the morning, you use a toothbrush, toothpaste, toilet paper. If you're a single mom with two or three teenage girls, the amount of feminine products you'd run through in the run of a month is significant. What happens is food banks can supply that type of product to the families, and then they can use that saved money to purchase milk and eggs and bread."
When the network does food drives, it concentrates on actual food, so items like diapers and wipes are in short supply. What they do get goes quickly, Walters said, and there are always people looking for them.
"They're always asking for all kinds of household detergents, toilet paper, paper towels, garbage bags — all the things that you and I, when we go to the grocery store, pick up and just don't think about," he explained.
"We do need these things."
As a result of the Every Little Bottom study, Kimberly-Clark created the Huggies Every Little Bottom program, and will donate up to 2.5 million diapers in Canada over the next eight months, including half a million to Food Banks Canada to share among their network of about 450 food banks, including those operated by the Community Food Sharing Network in St. John's.
Food Banks Canada is also working with Huggies to build awareness of diaper need and make additional diaper donations as part of the program. Huggies has also partnered with Girl Guides of Canada, organizing diaper drives for local food banks and promoting diaper collections.
"I think this is a great program, and it extends all across Canada," Walters said.
"It certainly helps food banks and food bank users across Canada."
Anyone wishing to donate to the Community Food Sharing Network can do so by visiting them at 21 Mews Pl. in St. John's, or by calling 722-0130. More information on the Every Little Bottom campaign is available online at www.everylittlebottom.com.


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Family: Heteromyidae, Pocket Mice and Kangaroo Rats view all from this family
Description Medium-sized, relatively short-tailed five-toed kangaroo rat. Color of back may be brownish, reddish, or blackish, depending on the subspecies. The belly is white.
Dimensions 208-365mm, 100-163mm, 50-96g
Similar Species Has shorter hind feet (39-44mm) than the Panamint Kangaroo Rat. The Chisel-toothed Kangaroo Rat has chisel-shaped lower incisors; the Gulf Coast Kangaroo Rat has an orange cast to the pelage and a shorter, less-crested tail.
Habitat Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Meadows & fields, Deserts, Grasslands & prairies
Range Plains, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, Texas, California, Northwest, Western Canada
Discussion Nocturnal and active year-round, Ords Kangaroo Rat is more often seen on cloudy nights and rarely on cold or snowy nights. Occupies variety of habitats associated with fine-textured, sandy soils including semiarid grasslands, mixed grasslands, and scrublands


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In the game Hot Potato, each player starts with 100 points. One unlucky player, chosen at random, is initially given the hot potato. On each turn, the player with the hot potato decides which player gets it next, and the recepient's score is decremented by one. The hot potato may not be passed to a player with a score of zero. The winner is the last player with a positive score.
I cannot fathom any coherent strategy for Hot Potato. How to approach it formally is a complete mystery to me.
Second Best
In the game Second Best, each player writes down a word and then all words are revealed. All players who wrote down the second most commonly occuring word are winners, everybody else are losers. In the case of a tie for second, everybody loses.
I can't make heads or tails of the strategy of Second Best either.


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T service restored in Downtown PittsburghJanuary 10, 2014 2:48 PM
The Port Authority's Light Rail Transit service has been restored in and trains are now operating in both directions, the transit agency said.
Service was disrupted and delayed through much of the morning when debris from a building fell onto the overhead line, knocking out power to the T in that part of Downtown.
Delays were reported on all light rail service routes because of a downed line near the Steel Plaza station Downtown. A piece of debris fell from the Manor Building parking garage at Fourth Avenue and Ross Street, knocking out power to the light rail system, said Port Authority spokesman Jim Ritchie.
Earlier in the day, delays averaged 20 to 30 minutes, Mr. Ritchie said.
The Port Authority is working with the owner of the structure and the city to ensure the structure is safe and no more debris will fall.
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Global climate change is subject of talk, Nov. 7
Posted November 3, 2005; 11:29 a.m.
Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, will deliver a lecture titled "Climate Change: Moving the Debate from 'Why' to 'How'" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, in 16 Robertson Hall.
Prior to joining the Pew Center, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing solutions to address global climate change, Claussen spent nearly 30 years in government service.She was assistant secretary of state for oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs in the Clinton administration and also served on the National Security Council as a special assistant to the president and senior director for global environmental affairs. From 1987 to 1993, she was director of atmospheric programs for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.


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Janus performs Composers' Ensemble concert, Feb. 15
Posted February 14, 2005; 06:03 p.m.
Janus, a New York-based flute-harp-viola trio, will perform in a Composers'
Ensemble concert scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15, in
Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall.
The trio -- Amanda Baker, Bridget Kibbey and Beth Meyers -- has presented concerts nationwide and is dedicated to educating its audiences and bridging the gap that can exist between performer, composer and listener.
Also performing will be: Derrick Ballard, bass; Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo-soprano; Douglas Jabara, baritone; Aaron Jackson, piano; Peggy Kampmeier, piano; and Andrew McKenna Lee, guitar.
Admission is free, and a reception will follow.


text: On Monday, September 10. I will be heading to Denver, Colorado to work for an extended period (6 weeks at least, possibly until February at most). My problems are: 1) I am unfamiliar with the Star Wars collecting hot spots in Denver. Anyone who can point me in a good direction would be visited by the Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Fairies I am sure. And 2) I will have no access to a computer, and therefor, none to SSG. I expect no help on this one...simpathy will do.


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Rawlinson provides guidance for teachers, helping them create positive classroom environments that foster high academic performance and enhance academic self-esteem. Chapter one discusses how feelings and attitudes affect the classroom environment. Chapter two focuses on how the act of teaching is viewed by some educators. Chapter three offers strategies for creating and maintaining a nurturing classroom atmosphere. Chapter four examines resiliency and the reason some students have it while others don't. Chapter five encourages educators to reflect on what-ifs. Finally, Rawlinson presents some thoughts on teaching, encouraging teachers to consider them. Information and strategies in My Teacher Told Me I Could will foster high academic performance and help students value themselves as learners.
My Teacher Told Me I Could will guide teachers in creating classroom environments that improve learning by enhancing student academic self-esteem.


text: Disney seems to be considering adding a Star Wars-themed land at the Disneyland Resort in California, and is gauging interest via an online survey. A screenshot from a Disney survey shows the question "How interested would you be in visiting a Star Wars themed land at the Disneyland Resort?" and uses Yoda's lightsaber as the progress bar for the survey.


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Hi to all. For the people who live in the island of Puerto Rico these are the SW figures that I have found: Dexter Jester,Genosian Warrior,Anakin Hangar Duel, Yoda, Count Dooku, Obi Wan /coruscant, Nikto,Seasee tin,Boba Fett,Jango Fett /kamino escape, r2 d2, c3po, Cap.Typho,Tuskain Raiders /female, clone troopers,Zam Wessel,Shak Ti,Padme, Anakin OP, Taun We,Royal Guard , Super Battle Droid and Battle Droid.
If you live in the island and you want to know where I found them just reply to this thread. Thank you and have a nice day.


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Chief Straub shakes up, reorganizes Spokane Police Department
Maj. Frank Scalise also demoted to captain
SPOKANE, Wash. - Spokane Police Chief Frank Straub is reshuffling his command deck, demoting Assistant Chief Scott Stephens and promoting Major Craig Meidl to assistant chief.
At an 11 a.m. press conference Friday, Police Chief Frank Straub announced that Stephens was being reassigned to the rank of captain, and that Meidl was being promoted to Assistant Chief of Police, effective after the start of the year.
In addition to Stephens, Major Frank Scalise is also being reassigned to captain.
The moves are part of Straub's restructuring of the Spokane Police Department as part of a strategic vision for 2013 that the city, through its Twitter account, said would be a "model for policing in our region and beyond."police reorganization vo
The department's strategic vision for 2013 includes focusing police efforts on neighborhoods; the department will concentrate on eight districts across the city.
"Fundamentally that has to do with the safety of your city and how your citizens feel in their city and that they need to feel safe, that they should be expected to feel safe and how do we do that," Spokane Mayor David Condon said Friday morning.
Stephens, who served as acting chief of police during the transition between former chief Anne Kirkpatrick's retirement and Chief Straub's hiring, will now be in charge of improving training techniques within the department.
The city said that crime is not just a police problem, but a community problem that will require a collaborative effort between residents in those neighborhoods and the police officers patrolling those districts.
The number of officers assigned to patrol downtown Spokane is jumping from two to seven and under the reorganization plan, the officers who patrol the city and the detectives who investigate crimes will be working for the same leader, Commander Brad Arleth. Together the two outfits will fight crime in the neighborhoods, from block to block and house to house.
"Where are those really hot spots of crime? Who are the people driving the crime in this neighborhood right here? What are they doing, who are their associates?" Chief Straub asked, adding that his intent is to go after criminals across the city with "laser-like focus" and get rid of them.
Citing a 14-percent increase in property crimes over the past two years, Straub also plans to target the buyers of your stolen goods.
"Because those people buying stolen property in the city, we're going to take you out of commission. We're going to put you out of business. Because if the people buying stolen property have no place to sell it, there's going to be less of a reason to steal your property," Straub said.
Straub thinks this new approach to fighting crime can make a difference.
"What we've looking for is not crime down by one or two percent, what we really want to see is crime going down, so instead of going up next year what you're gonna see is crime taking a significant decrease," he said.
- Give 4 Kids raises over $58k for Children's Miracle Network
- Man who lost leg in motorcycle crash reunites with dentist who saved him
- 3D printing technology helps cardiologists save lives
- National Prescription Drug Take Back Day
- Spokane man accused of sexually assaulting women faces serious penalties
- Idaho city officials eye former mill site along Spokane River


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I found out that if you buy $10 worth of SW stuff at KB, they give you a free TCG card. I don't know how strict they are on buying EP2 stuff, but I got a Falumpaset and wagon and they gave me one.
The card I got looks pretty close to the ones in the packs, but where it has the card number at the bottom (X/Y) it just has a number. For example, mine is Clone Warrior 4/163 with number 3 at the bottom.
It also comes with a $3 off coupon when you buy $15 of figures at KB as well as a voucher for a free 5 card pack when you buy the starter set.


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By Tiernan Ray
Avondale Partners's John Bright today reiterates a Market Outperform rating on shares of Synchronoss Technologies (SNCR) and on Apple (AAPL), based on data that implies healthy sales of iPad at AT&T (T) and Verizon Communications (VZ).
March Q1 sales trends for iPad are encouraging for Synchronoss's business activating devices, writes Bright:
We believe strong tablet sales (driven in part by the variety of pricing discounts) for 1Q14 will likely drive higher than expected net subscriber additions for AT&T and Verizon, translating to stronger tablet activations for 1Q14. Coupled with Verizon's strong marketing push for its "MORE Everything" wireless plans (more benefits = 25GB of free, cloud-based storage per device vs. 5GB prior), we believe these are incrementally positive data points for SNCR's main revenue streams (Activation ~60% C14E rev, ~9% growth y/y and Personal Cloud ~40% C14E rev, ~40% growth y/y) moving forward.
Syncronoss shares are down 19 cents, or 0.6%, at $33.34.


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Updated on 20 September 2012
Singapore: AusBiotech calls on the Federal Government to provide some certainty to the innovation sector as support programs are frozen, including Commercialisation Australia, the Clean Technology Investment Fund and payments under the R&D Tax Incentive. Concern is mounting as the Federal Government is unable to advise when programs will resume.
Following AusBiotech's contact, the Federal Government has advised that it is collecting additional information on how grants programs are being rolled out as a "normal part of the Budget process" and there will be a brief pause in the granting of funds.
The Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE) said the Government is "going through a process of examining every dollar of spending to make sure taxpayers are getting value for money," which it says is "exactly what fiscally responsible governments do." DIISRTE said that at this stage all the background work, such as preparation of guidelines and assessment of applications is continuing in the normal way.
AusBiotech's CEO, Dr Anna Lavelle, said: "This is a very concerning development on so many levels. This interruption to support for a burgeoning industry has the potential to wind back our hard-won momentum in biotechnology."
"On behalf of the industry I call on the Government to give a clear timeline for resumption and an assurance that these programs are not at risk - after years of policy planning, inquiries, reviews and funds have been invested in their implementation," said Dr Lavelle.
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Holy cow, I'm on the front page of slashdot. Holy cow.
Holy cow, I'm on the front page of slashdot. Holy cow.
That "later" happened a few months later than I expected. It was a little bumpy, but the thing is finally released (version 0.1 even). Hopefully someone will find it useful. Maybe I actually qualify for "journeyer" now.
Lots happening this week.
I am surprised at the remarkably low level of fear, uncertainty, and doubt regarding the Liberty specs released yesterday. Even most of the slashdot discussion is fairly reasoned. It's good to see something you have contributed released to the public, imperfect as it may be...
More later.
I have a different job, as of sometime in the vicinity of the last two weeks. I am doing at least some new and different things. This is good. I am doing lots of things. This is also good. I am doing too many of them at once. This is not good. I need to relax this weekend. Bye for now.
Spent a few hours porting mpeg4ip to Mac OS X so I can use it on my iBook. This was rather surprising in that it all worked on the first run except for the sound. I am amazed. I should debug the sound tomorrow (today, whatever, same diff).
...if only it was as easy to change the past in real life...
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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Sea to Summit eVent Compression Sack, L
- This item can only be shipped to U.S. addresses.
Air-permeable base made of eVent waterproof fabric
Rugged 70 D nylon body and lid
Waterproof seams are double stitched, tape sealed
Roll top Hypalon closure with lid and 4 straps
Reinforced stitching on all stress points
Sea to Summit eVent Compression Sack
A completely new concept in compression dry bags, the Sea to Summit eVent Compression Sack has no valve, but uses an air-permeable base made of eVent waterproof fabric. Allows air to be pushed out of the sack, but won't allow water to get back in. Suitable to keep contents dry in any wet situation where the bag is not submerged. Rugged 70 D nylon body and lid. Waterproof seams are double stitched and tape sealed. Roll top Hypalon closure with lid and 4 straps evenly compresses and maintains compressed size. Reinforced stitching on all stress points. Pull handle on the bottom. Super compact and very light.
Any roll-top dry sack must be closed properly to ensure water can't get in. Begin by folding the Hypalon strip down first and be sure to have at least three rolls before closing the buckle. Avoid contact with sharp objects or subjecting the sack to high abrasion, as this could compromise the waterproof fabric. Like all manufacturers of roll-top, fabric dry sacks, Sea to Summit recommends that sensitive electronic devices be 'double bagged' (i.e. putting electronics inside one dry sack then placing this inside a second dry sack). For maximum protection, the use of a waterproof hard case should be considered. Not intended for situations where dry sack will be submerged under water.
• Size: 9" x 20" / 23 x 51cm
• Weight: 5.9 oz 168g
• Volume Max/Min: 20/6.7 Liter


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The goal of the International Student Association (ISA) is to gather both international and non-international students, staff, and faculty to initiate an environment of cultural learning and promote international understanding, friendship, and goodwill. Throughout the year, we will provide opportunities for campus community members to broaden their horizons of knowledge and become better acquainted with diversity and foreign culture through activities and campus involvement.
In addition to our goals, we make it a priority to help our international students feel comfortable and make Rose-Hulman a place they can call their second home. We also provide opportunities for both international and non-international students who are interested in studying abroad.
Updated 4/15