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In vitro fertilization (IVF) is the joining of a woman's egg and a man's sperm in a laboratory dish. In vitro means outside the body. Fertilization means the sperm has attached to and entered the egg.
IVF; Assisted reproductive technology; ART; Test-tube baby procedure
Normally, an egg and sperm are fertilized inside a woman's body. If the fertilized egg attaches to the lining of the womb and continues to grow, a baby is born about 9 months later. This process is called natural or unassisted conception.
IVF is a form of assisted reproductive technology (ART). This means special medical techniques are used to help a woman become pregnant. It is most often tried when other, less expensive fertility techniques have failed.
There are five basic steps to IVF:
Step 1: Stimulation, also called super ovulation
Step 2: Egg retrieval
Step 3: Insemination and Fertilization
Step 4: Embryo culture
Step 5: Embryo transfer
IVF is done to help a woman become pregnant. It is used to treat many causes of infertility, including:
IVF involves large amounts of physical and emotional energy, time, and money. Many couples dealing with infertility suffer stress and depression.
A woman taking fertility medicines may have bloating, abdominal pain, mood swings, headaches, and other side effects. Many IVF medicines must be given by injection, often several times a day. Repeated injections can cause bruising.
In rare cases, fertility drugs may cause ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS). This condition causes a buildup of fluid in the abdomen and chest. Symptoms include abdominal pain, bloating, rapid weight gain (10 pounds within 3 - 5 days), decreased urination despite drinking plenty of fluids, nausea, vomiting, and shortness of breath. Mild cases can be treated with bed rest. More severe cases require draining of the fluid with a needle.
Medical studies have shown so far that fertility drugs are not linked to ovarian cancer.
Risks of egg retrieval include reactions to anesthesia, bleeding, infection, and damage to structures surrounding the ovaries, including the bowel and bladder.
There is a risk of multiple pregnancies when more than one embryo is placed into the womb. Carrying more than one baby at a time increases the risk of premature birth and low birth weight. (However, even a single baby born after IVF is at higher risk for prematurity and low birth weight.)
It is unclear whether IVF increases the risk of birth defects.
IVF is very costly. Some, but not all, states have laws that say health insurance companies must offer some type of coverage. But, many insurance plans do not cover infertility treatment. Fees for a single IVF cycle include costs for medicines, surgery, anesthesia, ultrasounds, blood tests, processing the eggs and sperm, embryo storage, and embryo transfer. The exact total of a single IVF cycle varies, but may cost more than $12,000 - $17,000.
After embryo transfer, the woman may be told to rest for the remainder of the day. Complete bed rest is not necessary, unless there is an increased risk of OHSS. Most women return to normal activities the next day.
Women who undergo IVF must take daily shots or pills of the hormone progesterone for 8 - 10 weeks after the embryo transfer. Progesterone is a hormone produced naturally by the ovaries that helps thicken the lining of the womb (uterus). This makes it easier for the embryo to implant. Too little progesterone during the early weeks of pregnancy may lead to miscarriage.
About 12 -14 days after the embryo transfer, the woman will return to the clinic so that a pregnancy test can be done.
Call your health care provider right away if you had IVF and have:
Statistics vary from one clinic to another and must be looked at carefully.
According to the Society of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (SART), the approximate chance of giving birth to a live baby after IVF is as follows:
Lobo RA. Infertility: etiology, diagnostic evaluation, management, prognosis. In: Lentz GM, Lobo RA, Gershenson DM, Katz VL, eds. Comprehensive Gynecology. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Mosby; 2012: chap 41.
Goldberg JM. In vitro fertilization update. Cleve Clin J Med. May 2007; 74(5): 329-38.
The Practice Committee of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology and the Practice Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Criteria for number of embryos to transfer: a committee opinion. Fertil Steril. Jan 2013;99 (1):44-46.
Jackson RA, Gibson KA, Wu YW, et al. Perinatal Outcomes in Singletons following in vitro fertilization: a meta-analysis. Obstet Gynecol. 2004;103: 551-563.
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text: It was supposed to rain here today, so I didn't make any plans. Only instead of rain, the wind came in and said "aw man, F dat!" (the wind is a poser) and the sun was blasting it up to mid 60s so I hit the pool for a 45 minute workout and soak in the hotter than hot tub.


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Quarrel, separation or withdrawal from loved ones in dreams. If a person turns away from you, turns back, throws, leaving you, the dream means that your relationship is upset. Such gestures or postures symbolically reflect a lack of understanding and support.
If we have our favorite, and this happens quite often, it means that you are «in touch» with the object of your thoughts and feelings. You are currently so focused on this person that just scan all his actions and even thoughts. Surprisingly, this natural ability almost all of us have a love or strong anxiety for loved ones. That each of us can use it daily, we do not even suspect. This requires an unusual focus on someone or something, and in this case, everything happens by the will of the entity that is you.
All the dreams about our favorite — a full report on their work and intentions. And also about those events that directly affect your relationship. These are the dreams we need to solve already carefully deciphering all the symbols. Sometimes for years could have the same person in the past was a very warm relationship. And despite the fact that fate has not brought with him, he or she come in my dreams, leaving unforgettable feelings of tenderness, care and love. Such dreams are a continuation of your relationships, often talking about the karmic connection between you or kinship, although life is different and changes «flashy» attitude, making the amendment.
If, hand on heart, you can say that you haven't thought about the person, and he himself had a dream, most likely that you received the signal on a mental level from him, that is, you thought about it.
In any case, if you want to learn «pure» truth without any impurity of your thoughts, train your skills lucid dream (if you know how) or use the install — affirmations, inducing prophetic dreams. Over time, this practice eliminates your ability to clear the awareness and control of dreams.
Look for the icon «Man» «Guy»
«Symbols of relationship and love
The most unpleasant dreams about our loved ones, are dreams about infidelity. Here the same principle. We live, getting rid of stress, in dreams what you fear in life. There is one rule: if you had something you were afraid, 99.9% of the % that your sleep will not be repeated in life.
What dream characters indicate cheating?
See the symbol of «Treason»
Look for the icon «Wedding»
See the interpretation of the symbol «people» completely


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I have sucessfully ported Gnapster to Gtk. I have a tree on my system that will link either with or without gnome. The GTK interface need a little polishing and fixing, but it basically works. The whole project was 10 hours of work, split across about 30 hours of Real Life. We expect the changes to go into the next release of Gnapster. However, there are some licensing concerns that will have to be cleared up before then :(
The diff is currently 55k. Tomorrow I will fix the final issues so that popups actually do the function you select, and diaogs also work.
This was a cool little project, and I will probably be doing some long-term work on Gnapster too.
Wonder if the RIAA will come after me.


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Yellow Eyes
|This book is pretty preachy (if you're not a republican your wrong and you're what's wrong with the universe), and long. The story also centers around haunted warships, which is a bit of a leap for this series. On the other hand, its a good read if you can put up with those bits. Overall ok, but not the best in the series.
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8.4: Fog
Where is the most famous fog in the U.S.?
San Francisco, the city by the bay, is known for its fog. There's an old joke: "I spent the coldest winter of my life in San Francisco one summer." That's because of the fog! There is a big difference in temperature between the two sides of the city. On the Pacific side, where there is fog, temperatures are low. On the bay side, where there isn't fog, temperatures are much higher.
Fog (Figure below) is a cloud on the ground. Fog forms when humid air near the ground cools below its dew point. Each type of fog forms in a different way.
- Radiation fog forms at night. Skies are clear, and the relative humidity is high. The ground cools as temperature goes down. Air near the ground cools below its dew point. Tule fog is an extreme form of radiation fog. This type of fog strikes the Central Valley of California in winter.
- Advection fog is famous in San Francisco, California. Warm, moist air comes in from the Pacific Ocean. The air blows over the cold California current. When the air cools below its dew point, fog forms. Sea breezes bring the fog onshore.
- Steam fog appears in autumn when cool air moves over a warm lake. Water evaporates from the lake surface. As the water vapor cools, it condenses. The fog appears like steam.
- Warm humid air travels up a hillside and cools below its dew point to create upslope fog.
(a) Tule fog in the Central Valley of California. (b) Advection fog in San Francisco. (c) Steam fog over a lake in Algonquin Park, Canada. (d) Upslope fog around the peak of Mt. Huang in China.
Fog levels are declining along the California coast as climate warms. The change in fog may have big ecological changes for the state.
Learn more at: http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/science-on-the-spot-science-of-fog.
- fog: Air condensed below its dew point that is near the ground like a cloud.
- Fog forms when there is a difference in temperature between the land and the air.
Use the resource below to answer the questions that follow.
- What is radiation fog?
- What is the danger of valley fog?
- What is advection fog?
- Why do sea fogs form?
- How does upslope fog form?
- What is ice fog?
- What causes freezing fog?
- Why does fog form?
- What set of conditions causes tule fog?
- Compare and contrast the different types of fog.
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Eugene von Guérard
Nature revealed
Dates + times
27 April - 15 July 2012
Open 10.00 am – 5.00 pm every day
Recorded information +61 2 6240 6501
General information +61 2 6240 6411
For visitors with mobility difficulties +61 2 6240 6411
email contact
Education Resource
Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed is a touring exhibition from the National Gallery of Victoria – the children's trail and education resources here below were developed by the NGV's Education and Public Programs team.
Explorer trail: Fern gullies to mountain tops (1.3mb, pdf)
Further Eugene von Guérard education resources available on the National Gallery of Victoria website.
Image detail above: Eugene von Guerard
Lake Wakatipu with Mount Earnslaw, Middle Island, New Zealand (1877–79) oil on canvas
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1971
A National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition
Eugene von Guérard (1811–1901) is arguably Australia's, and certainly Victoria's, most important colonial landscape painter. Born in Vienna and trained as a painter in the European art centres of Rome, Naples and Düsseldorf; von Guérard migrated to Australia in 1852.
Von Guérard's meticulous landscapes are remarkable in their detail and much valued for their depiction of Australian and particularly, Victorian, landscapes of the mid-1800s. This exhibition demonstrates how von Guerard's artistic endeavours in Australia were informed by his interest in the geography, geology and vegetation of the Australian 'New World'. His representations of the forests of Gippsland and the Otways, the crater lakes of Victoria's volcanic Western District and the peaks of the Kosciuszko plateau hold important environmental significance today.
The work of von Guérard has not been the subject of a dedicated exhibition since 1980. Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed features over 150 works, including many of von Guérard's beloved iconic landscapes, as well as several beautifully illustrated sketch books, and some never-before-seen paintings. Through his detailed brushstrokes and breathtaking compositions, visitors can explore the magnificent Australian, New Zealand and European landscapes he captured on his expeditions around the world.
Eugene von Guerard Lake Wakatipu with Mount Earnslaw, Middle Island, New Zealand (1877–79)
oil on canvas Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1971


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I just received the following additional email from Ann:
"...I probably should add that I am also very concerned that we do not over select against Goldens with ichthyosis. This is one of the first genetic tests we have available and we know that roughly two thirds of Golden Retrievers of European lines and a significant number of American Golden Retrievers will be either affected or carriers. We also know that in American Goldens, at this time, the most frequent manifestation may be dandruff. While it is reasonable to use the test to guide the breeding of ichthyosis carriers and affected Golden Retrievers, we will undoubtedly soon have genetic tests for diseases that are far more serious than ichthyosis (e.g SAS). I believe that it is important that our gene pool remains diverse and we do not narrow it in an attempt to eliminate the gene for ichthyosis just because we have a test for this gene.
Ann F. Hubbs DVM, PhD ...."


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TUPELO – Tupelo High School's Theatre Company is going to represent Mississippi at the International Thespian Conference in Nebraska this summer, but the students have to get there first.
The students are hosting a benefit performance of the play "Almost, Maine," this Sunday.
The company produced the romantic play earlier this year, but for the Nebraska conference, they've had to shorten it to 45 minutes.
"The original has nine different scenes, with all of the scenes taking place on the same night in a small town called Almost, Maine," said Shannon Shepherd, who plays Sandrine in the play. "We've cut it down to three scenes for Nebraska."
With the entire play set in one town in one night, many of the stories overlap.
"It takes you through the many phases of love: You see a relationship start, a couple that's been together for 10 years and another one that's broken up and moving on," said Austyn Davis, who plays a waitress in the play. "There's a lot of symbolism."
All 50 states will be represented at the conference, said director Allana Austin, and THS was chosen to represent Mississippi.
There will also be solo and duet acting competitions, and students Davis, Shepherd, Mary Ellen Cobb, Wesley Burcham and Noah Cox will compete.
There will be refreshments after the show on Sunday.
"We hope the benefit performance will assist us in going to Nebraska," Shepherd said. "We love what we do. We love to entertain."
Dim The Lights
WHAT: Tupelo High School Theatre Company presents "Almost, Maine" benefit performance
WHEN: 2:30 p.m. Sunday
WHERE: Tupelo High School Fine Arts Auditorium
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If you are a designer who offers plans, or kit boats, we invite you to enter your information in the Directory of Boat Plans & Kits. There is no charge! This is for boats of ANY hull material. And if you're in the market for a boat to build, this is a fine place to start.


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Q: Where did you find your original inspiration for Snowman Gatherings?
A: Living in Wisconsin where snow is on the ground for up to 5 or 6 months a year, it is only natural to be thinking of snowmen. I searched for vintage prints in my antique quilts that reminded me of snow. Then I colored them in two shades of blue and three shades of cream/tan.
Q: What TV show or movie does your collection fit best in?
A: Frosty the Snowman.
Q: Tell me about your sewing machines. What kinds do you have and how many?
A: I stitch mainly on my Juki, but I also own 2 Berninas and a couple of featherweights. One black and one white!
Q: What is your favorite part of the fabric industry?
A: Teaching, I enjoy sharing my knowledge with others and their appreciation for it.
Q: From what aspect of your life do you draw creativity?
A: I draw most of my inspiration from my gardens, but I also get a lot of it from antique quilts.
Q: What is your design process?
A: I hand draw my motifs.
Q: What is your favorite print in the collection?
A: I love the two snowman prints, but I also love the tan prints. They are awesome backgrounds that can be used in any quilt.
Q: What is the most challenging part of the design process?
A: Waiting for the fabric to come in. It seems to take forever! You want to see how it is going to look on fabric and so far everything has looked great.
Q: What are your favorite and least favorite colors and why?
A: You are not going to believe this but, white and then blue. I love black, red and tan, but I believe all colors are important and I use every color. Speaking of colors, I can't wait for you to see the next "gatherings" line!
We hope you enjoyed this inside look at Primitive Gatherings and her latest collection, Snowman Gatherings. For even more, we have a little interview from Fall Quilt Market to satisfy your primitive cravings! Watch Lisa in action, as she chats about the collection.


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Highlight of the Night: Orr Flattens Griffin
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Reality Check: Learn To Hang On To More Of Tax Money
Tax Pros Give Advice
MADISON, Wis. - We're all trying to hang on to as much of our money as possible right now, and hoping for refunds from the government as we finish up our taxes.
VIDEO: Watch The Report
But is getting a big check after the first of the year the best way to manage your money right now? If you'd rather hang on to it during the year, here's how to do it.
If you're one of the folks who loves getting a big tax refund check at the first of the year, all you're really doing is letting the government hang on to your money interest-free all year.
"Now, people are facing a bit of a crunch here in the recession and they may want to ask themselves, ?Is it better for me to get my money now??" said Jeri Miglietta, a tax professional with H&R Block.
Tax professionals like Miglietta said there are some easy ways to fix this. First, check out the W-4 form that you give to your Human Resources department at work and see how many "allowances" you've told them to withhold from your paycheck. If it's zero, they're taking out the maximum amount.
"You can get more money in your paycheck by reducing your W-4 allowances or you can do a whole analysis of what happened on this tax return, and what's going to change in the future," said Miglietta.
If you do that, you should look at your taxes this year and find out how much you owe, and estimate whether it will be the same next year. This step involves looking at plenty of new tax credits.
For example, if you have a baby in 2009, you could subtract $1,000 from what you owe. If you go back to school, subtract up to $2,500. If you are a new home buyer this year, you can get an $8,000 credit. The more you subtract, the less you might need to pay this year, and the more you can keep coming in your paycheck. On the flip side, if you make more money or get married and have two incomes, you might enter a new tax bracket and owe more.
Another new factor this year is the "Making Work Pay" tax credit passed in the stimulus bill. It will give you $400 more total in your paychecks throughout the year, or $800 per married couple.
You can claim the credit on next year's taxes, meaning it won't reduce your refund. That's only if you make less than $75,000 or $150,000 per couple, though. If you're in those tax brackets, you will still get more money in your paycheck, but won't be able to claim the credit on your taxes. That means that if there's not enough taken through withholding, you could owe money.
"The point is to plan for it, don't be surprised at the end of the year," said Miglietta. "Try and do some planning and say to yourself, yes, I do want my money now, so if I break even at the end of the year, good."
How do you re-evaluate this? You might want to talk to a tax professional, or check out www.irs.gov for tax credit and withholding information. It might just help you make ends meet right now.
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Application Name: World Cup Table Tennis™
Current Version: 4.5
iTunes Url: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id310303959?mt=8
Size: 22.9 MB
Jailbroken Device ipa Download: [ipa]World Cup Table Tennis v4.5
GameSave for Non-Jailbroken and Jailbroken.
- 955,000,555 Cogs
1 - Download the game save backup at Download files and extract it.
2 - Delete and reinstall the app.
3 - Logout of Game Center, Open the app till you get to the menu, then close the app from the multitask.
4 - Put the documents folder in the 「TableTennis/Library/Preferences/」 using (iFile, DiskAid, iFunBox...) or other apps.
5 - It will ask you to replace the old documents folder, do so.
6 - Launch the game and don't load save from iCloud.


text: Buffalo's TeraStation 5200 is a high performance two drive network storage solution ideal for businesses and demanding users requiring a reliable RAID-based network storage solution for larger networks and business critical applications. With the powerful Intel® Atom? D2550 processor, TeraStation 5200 provides exceptional performance during file transfers and everyday NAS functions. TeraStation 5200 runs many services simultaneously and the dynamic combination of the dual core 1.86 GHz processor and 2GB DDR3 RAM enables the acute ability to focus on concurrent tasks with minimal performance degradation: experience maximum network throughput while a replication job runs in the background, surveillance video is recording from multiple IP-based cameras and remote users are accessing content. TeraStation 5200 is packed with business class features such as surveillance video management, Active Directory support, disk quota support, share level replication, failover support, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, hot-swap hard drives, iSCSI targeting and USB 3.0 accessory support.


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|31 July 2009
|Eurocom Entertainment
|Disney Interactive
Lead the G-Force on their secret mission to save mankind.
Based on the Jerry Bruckheimer 2009 summer movie blockbuster, G-Force is an exciting action video game that puts players in control of Darwin, the guinea pig leader of the covert intelligence G-Force squad, and his housefly surveillance sidekick, Mooch.
Team up with the other G-Force agents and use high-tech gadgets, awesome weapons, and pint-sized teamwork to save the world from an army of evil household appliances.
- Featuring original voices from the hit animated movie
- Experiment with hi-tech gadgets and weapons exclusive to the game
- Manipulate your environment to defeat enemies and solve puzzles


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Alesis Micron
The Micron is like an Ion packed into a compact 3-octave keyboard for the "on-the-go" musician. The Micron boasts the same analog modeling sound engine as the acclaimed Alesis Ion, offering breakthrough analog realism, high-resolution control, and tremendous value. The Micron is compatible with Ion programs and holds over 1,000 programs and multitimbral setups. It's therefor best used as a preset type synthesizer - either download your own Ion patches or others into the Micron and take them on the go. Sure the Ion is a hands-on synth programmer's feast, but the Micron gives you access to the same power as the Ion in a compact synth ideal for gigging, practicing, composing and just good old fashion playing around with!
Most obviously, the Micron has done away with just about all the real-time controllers found on the Ion, offering just three 360-degree endless parameter knobs, two assignable modulation sliders and one assignable backlit pitch wheel. Slim pickin's but enough for live performances (you only have two hands!) or quick tweaks. Sure you can delve deeper into patch editing and even the extensive twelve-route modulation matrix (with 114 sources and 78 destinations) but that's tedious with so few controls.
Despite its rather simple looking design, the Micron does house a beast inside - full of programmable functions! Just like the Ion, the Micron offers continuously variable wave shapes, plus osc-sync and FM synthesis. The Micron has 8-voice polyphony with three oscillators per voice, and is up to 8-part multitimbral. There are two multimode filters with 20 filter types (upgraded from 16 in the Ion), three envelope generators and two LFOs with multiple wave shapes and sample & hold. In addition to its powerful modulation matrix, the Micron offers a programmable step sequencer, an arpeggiator, a rhythm sequencer for drum kits, and a dynamic realtime phrase sequencer - all of which sync to MIDI clock. Effects include a 40 band vocoder that does not use up any polyphony, 4 insert effects, and stereo master effects. Stereo inputs let you process external audio through its effects, filters and vocoder - just as you can with the Ion.
So, if twiddling knobs all day is not your thing, but the sounds that come from such efforts are what you are looking for then the Micron may be the synth for you! Instant access to thousands of incredibly realistic analog synth sounds with all the power and programmability of the Ion. The Micron offers all that and more but for less money because of its minimalist design/interface.
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- Demos & Media
Really impressive playing of the Micron, sounds like a guitar player!
Manual - Alesis have made manuals and program charts for many of their products available on-line, for free download as .PDF files!
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 8 voices (up to 8 multitimbral parts)
- Oscillators - Alesis proprietary DSP Analog Modeling: Three oscillators per voice, with continuously variable wave shapes (Sine, Square-Pulse, Saw-Triangle), sync and FM
- Filter - 2 multi-mode filters with 20 classic and unique filter types.
- Envelopes - 3 EGs: Pitch/Mod, Filter, and the Amp have their own ADSR envelopes.
- LFO - 2 multi-wave LFOs and 1 S&H. Ring Modulator. FM. hard&soft OSC sync.
- Effects - One insert drive effect per voice, Two master effects processors, with reverb and delay. Built-in 40-band Vocoder.
- Keyboard - 37 keys (velocity, release velocity sensitive).
- Memory - 1,000 Programs (500 preset programs, with space for 400 more) fully compatible with Ion programs.
Over 200 preset pattern sequences and 250 preset drum rhythms, with space for hundreds more.
- Arpeg/Seq - Arpeggiator: MIDI-sync-able multiple-pattern plus *random* feature.
Sequencers: Programmable step pattern sequencer; Dynamic real-time phrase sequencer; Drum Rhythm Sequencer.
- Real-Time Controllers - 3 360-degree endless parameter knobs, 2 assignable modulation sliders, assignable backlit pitch wheel.
- Control - MIDI (4-part multitimbral) IN/OUT/THRU
- Date Produced - 2004
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YOUR CAREER HAS MIXED HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS WITH SOME IDIOSYNCRATIC SMALLER FILMS. HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHAT TO DO? The first time I used discretion about choosing films was not till after Back to the Future came out in 1985. After that film came out and had made so much money I felt a certain obligation towards finding films that somehow reflected what my own psychological interests were. The first film I acted in after that was River's Edge.
I have been able to divorce myself from the content of the films that I act in and look at acting as a craft helping other filmmakers to accomplish what they want to do. Usually, filmmakers have hired me because there is something they felt would be interesting to accomplish with me in their film, and I can try to do something interesting as an actor. If for some reason the director is not interested in doing something that I personally find interesting with the character then I can console myself that the money I am making to be in their production can help fund my own films that I am truly passionate about. Usually, I feel as though I am able to get something across as an actor that I feel good about.
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE "BIG SLIDE SHOW" PERFORMANCE? For "Crispin Hellion Glover's Big Slide Show," I perform a one-hour dramatic narration of eight different books I have made over the years. The books are taken from old books from the 1800s that have been changed to different books from what they originally were. They are heavily illustrated with original drawings, reworked images, and photographs.
When I first started publishing the books in 1988, people said I should have book readings. But the way the illustrations are used within the books help tell the story, so the only way for the books to make sense was to have visual representations of the images. This is why I knew a slide show was necessary. The illustrations from the books are projected behind me as I perform the show.
The fact that I tour with the film helps the distribution element. I consider what I am doing to be following in the steps of vaudeville performers.
WHAT WAS THE PROCESS IN CREATINGWHAT IS IT? I wrote it as a short film originally to promote the viability of having a majority of the characters that do not necessarily have Down Syndrome be played by actors with Down Syndrome.
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For those who have not been exposed to the clever marketing strategery behind Girl Scout Cookies, it basically goes like this: About this time every year, thousands of young girls sell boxes of cookies on heavily-trafficked street corners for fundraising. The cookies are only moderately tasty. The girls are of course much too young to be interesting to even a dirty old man such as myself (although they are often accompanied by mothers who are). The trick is that the cookies only have limited availability -- not only are they only sold a few weeks in each year, but the scouts also seem to have this uncanny ability to disappear from street corners exactly when you want to buy a box.
Being denied something repeatedly, of course, means that I crave it even more. The box of Thin Mints than I bought at lunchtime is almost gone. I blame my officemates.


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Barneveld girls basketball heads to State
First trip since 2007
BARNEVELD - The Barneveld girls basketball team is back at the state tournament, but this time it's in Green Bay, not Madison.
The Lady Eagles have won four state championships-- all in Madison, but this year's tournament has moved to the Resch Center in Ashwaubenon and begins Thursday with the Division Five semifinals.
Barneveld will play South Shore Thursday afternoon at about 3:15 pm.
The girls have been practicing against boys at school this week and head coach Jim Myers says "with what we're going to see with South Shore and their size, it will help us this week to at least practice against that."Barneveld girls basketball heads to State


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The dog, a fox red male, about 2.5 to 3 y/o and in shape, had been trained all summer and was somewhat acclimated to the heat.
The dog was dove hunting and had made 4 retrieves, and went down about 3-3:30. Dog was taken to a pond for cooling and failed to respond. Temps were in mid to high 80's.
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Breeding 1-3 eggs are deposited in summer, hatch in early fall.
Habitat Sandy areas, primarily in high pine and broadleaf hammock areas.
Range N. and c. Florida.
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A record 92% of Tripura's 2,358,493 voters exercised their franchise on Thursday. Polling was mostly peaceful for the 60-member assembly.
The ruling Left Front — led by the CPI(M) — is hoping to return for a record fifth straight time in the northeastern state with the contest being mainly between the ruling alliance and the Congress.
Tripura had record polling of 91.22% in the last elections in 2008, which was so far the highest in the country. Back then, the CPI(M) had won 46 seats and the CPI one while the Congress bagged 10. Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura got one seat and Revolutionary Socialist Party bagged two seats.


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A traditional campus bonfire to celebrate the Princeton football team's wins over Harvard and Yale this season will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, on Cannon Green. The bonfire festivities also will be webcast live on the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students website. The Undergraduate Student Government and the four undergraduate class governments are sponsoring the event. Commemorative T-shirts and posters also will be sold at the bonfire, with proceeds benefitting Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.
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I THINK it could not have been long after that time that I took up a project which was of extraordinary use to me. My mind, considered dull and unobservant and unwieldy by my family, was desperately methodical. Every thing must be made tabular that would at all admit of it. Thus, I adopted in an immense hurry Dr. Franklin's youthful and absurd plan of pricking down his day's virtues and vices under heads. I found at once the difficulty of mapping out moral qualities, and had to give it up,—as I presume he had to. But I tried after something quite as foolish, and with immense perseverance. I thought it would be a fine thing to distribute scripture instructions under the heads of the virtues and vices, so as to have encouragement or rebuke always ready at hand. So I made (as on so many other occasions) a paper book, ruled and duly headed. With the Old Testament, I got on very well; but I was amazed at the difficulty with the New. I knew it to be of so much more value and importance than the Old, that I could not account for the small number of cut and dry commands. I twisted meanings and wordings, and made figurative things into precepts, at an unconscionable rate, before I would give up: but, after rivalling any old puritan preacher in my free use of scripture, I was obliged to own that I could not construct the system I wanted. Thus it was that I made out that great step in the process of thought and knowledge,—that whereas Judaism was a perceptual religion, Christianity was mainly a religion of principles,—or assumed to be so.page: 28
For many years past, my amazement has been continually on the increase that Unitarians can conceive that they are giving their children a Christian education in making their religious training what it is. Our family certainly insisted very strongly, and quite sincerely, on being Christians, while despising and pitying the orthodox as much as they could be despised and pitied in return; while yet, it must have been from wonderful slovenliness of thought, as well as ignorance, that we could have taken Unitarianism to be Christianity, in any genuine sense,—in any sense which could justify separate Christian worship. In our particular case, family pride and affection were implicated in our dissent. It was not the dissent that was to be wondered at, but its having degenerated into Unitarianism. Our French name indicates our origin. The first Martineaus that we know of were expatriated Huguenots, who came over from Normandy on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. They were, of course, Calvinists,—so fully admitting the Christian religion to be a scheme of redemption as to deserve, without limitation or perversion, the title of Christians. But their descendants passed by degrees, with the congregations to which they belonged, out of Calvinism into the pseudo‐Christianity of Arianism first, and then of Unitarianism, under the guidance of pastors whose natural sense revolted from the essential points of the Christian doctrine, while they had not learning enough, biblical, ecclesiastical, historical or philosophical, to discover that what they gave up was truly essential, and that the name of Christianity was a mere sham when applied to what they retained. One evening when I was a child, I entered the parlor when our Unitarian minister, Mr. Madge, was convicting of error (and what he called idiotcy) an orthodox schoolmaster who happened to be our visitor. "Look here," said Mr. Madge, seizing three wine‐glasses, and placing them in a row: "here is the Father,—here's the Son,—and here's the Holy Ghost; do you mean to tell me that those three glasses can be in any case one? 'Tis mere nonsense." And so were we children taught that it was "mere nonsense." I certainly wondered exceedingly that so vast a majority of the people of Norwich could accept such nonsense, page: 29 and so very few see through it as the Unitarians of the city: but there was no one to suggest to me that there might be more in the matter than we saw, or than even our minister was aware of. This was pernicious enough: but far worse was the practice, necessarily universal among Unitarians, of taking any liberties they please with the revelation they profess to receive. It is true, the Scriptures are very properly declared by them to be not the revelation itself, but the record of it: but it is only through the record that the revelation can be obtained—at least by Protestants: and any tamperings with the record are operations upon the revelation itself. To appreciate the full effect of such a procedure, it is only necessary to look at what the Unitarians were doing in the days of my youth. They were issuing an Improved Version, in which considerable portions were set aside (printed in a different type) as spurious. It is true, those portions flatly contradicted some other portions in regard to dates and other facts; but the shallow scholarship of the Unitarians made its own choice what to receive and what to reject, without perceiving that such a process was wholly incompatible with the conception of the Scriptures being the record of a divine revelation at all. Having begun to cut away and alter, there was no reason for stopping; and every Unitarian was at liberty to make the Scriptures mean what suited his own views. Mr. Belsham's Exposition of the Epistles is a remarkable phenomenon in this way. To get rid of some difficulties about heaven and hell, the end of the world, salvation and perdition, &c., he devised a set of figurative meanings which he applied with immense perseverance, and a poetical ingenuity remarkable in so thoroughly prosaic a man; and all the while, it never seems to have occurred to him that that could hardly be a revelation designed for the rescue of the human race from perdition, the explanation of which required all this ingenuity at the hand of a Belsham, after eighteen centuries. I as a deeply‐interested a reader of those big volumes as any Unitarian in England; and their ingenuity gratified some of my faculties exceedingly; but there was throughout a haunting sense of unreality which made me uneasy,—a consciousness that this kind of solemn amusement was no page: 30 fitting treatment of the burdensome troubles of conscience, and the moral irritations which made the misery of my life. This theological dissipation, and the music and poetry of psalms and hymns, charmed away my woes for the hour; but they were not the solid consolation I needed. So, to work I went in my own way, again and again studying the New Testament,—making "Harmonies," poring over the geography, greedily gathering up every thing I could find in the way of commentary and elucidation, and gladly working myself into an enthusiasm with the moral beauty and spiritual promises I found in the Sacred Writings. I certainly never believed, more or less, in the "essential doctrines" of Christianity, which represent God as the predestinator of men to sin and perdition, and Christ as their rescuer from that doom. I never was more or less beguiled by the trickery of language by which the perdition of man is made out to be justice, and his redemption to be mercy. I never suffered more or less from fear of hell. The Unitarianism my parents saved me from that. But nothing could save me from the perplexity of finding so much of indisputable statement of those doctrines in the New Testament, nor from a covert sense that it was taking a monstrous liberty with the Gospel to pick and choose what made me happy, and reject what I did not like or could not receive. When I now find myself wondering at Unitarians who do so,—who accept heaven and reject hell,—who get rid somehow of the reign of Christ and the apostles on earth, and derive somehow a sanction of their fancy of a heaven in the stars, peopled with old acquaintances, and furnished for favourite pursuits, I try to recal the long series of years during which I did the same thing, with far more, certainly, of complacency than of misgiving. I try to remember how late on in life I have said that I confidently reckoned on entering the train of Socrates in the next world, and getting some of his secrets out of Pythagoras, besides making friendship with all the Christian worthies I especially inclined to. When I now see the comrades of my early days comfortably appropriating all the Christian promises, without troubling themselves with the clearly‐specified condition,—of faith in Christ as a Redeemer,—I remind page: 31 myself that this is just what I did for more than the first half of my life. The marvel remains how they now, and I then, could possibly wonder at the stationary or declining fortunes of their sect,—so evidently as Unitarianism is a mere clinging, from association and habit, to the old privilege of faith in a divine revelation, under an actual forfeiture of all its essential conditions.
My religious belief, up to the age of twenty, was briefly this. I believed in a God, milder and more beneficent and passionless than the God of the orthodox, inasmuch as he would not doom any of his creatures to eternal torment. I did not at any time, I think, believe in the Devil, but understood the Scriptures to speak of Sin under that name, and of eternal detriment under the name of eternal punishment. I believed in inestimable and eternal rewards of holiness; but I am confident that I never in my life did a right thing, or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment. To the best of my recollection, I always feared sin and remorse extremely, and punishment not at all; but, on the contrary, desired punishment or any thing else that would give me the one good that I pined for in vain,—ease of conscience. The doctrine of forgiveness on repentance never availed me much, because forgiveness for the past was nothing without safety in the future; and my sins were not curable, I felt, by any single remission of their consequences,—if such remission were possible. If I prayed and wept, and might hope that I was pardoned at night, it was small comfort, because I knew I should be in a state of remorse again before the next noon. I do not remember the time when the forgiveness clause in the Lord's Prayer was not a perplexity and a stumbling‐block to me. I did not care about being let off from penalty. I wanted to be at ease in conscience; and that could only be by growing good, whereas I hated and despised myself every day. My belief in Christ was that he was the purest of all beings, under God; and his sufferings for the sake of mankind made him as sublime in my view and my affections as any being could possibly be. The Holy Ghost was a mere fiction to me. I took all the miracles for facts, and contrived to page: 32 worship the letter of the Scriptures long after I had, as desired, given up portions as "spurious," "interpolations" and so forth. I believed in a future life as a continuation of the present, and not as a new method of existence; and, from the time when I saw that the resurrection of the body and the immortality of the soul could not both be true, I adhered to the former,—after St. Paul. I was uncomfortably disturbed that Christianity had done so little for the redemption of the race: but the perplexity was not so serious as it would have been if I had believed in the perdition of the majority of men; and, for the rest, I contrived to fix my view pretty exclusively on Christendom itself,—which Christians in general find a grand resource in their difficulties. In this way, and by the help of public worship, and of sacred music, and Milton, and the Pilgrim's Progress, I found religion my best resource, even in its first inconsistent and unsatisfactory form, till I wrought my way to something better, as I shall tell by and by.
When I was seven years old,—the winter after our return from Newcastle,—I was kept from chapel one Sunday afternoon by some ailment or other. When the house door closed behind the chapel‐goers, I looked at the books on the table. The ugliest‐looking of them was turned down open; and my turning it up was one of the leading incidents of my life. That plain, clumsy, calf‐bound volume was "Paradise Lost;" and the common blueish paper, with its old‐fashioned type, became as a scroll out of heaven to me. The first thing I saw was "Argument," which I took to mean a dispute, and supposed to be stupid enough: but there was something about Satan cleaving Chaos, which made me turn to the poetry; and my mental destiny was fixed for the next seven years. That volume was henceforth never to be found but by asking me for it, till a young acquaintance made me a present of a little Milton of my own. In a few months, I believe there was hardly a line in Paradise Lost that I could not have instantly turned to. I sent myself to sleep by repeating it: and when my curtains were drawn back in the morning, descriptions of heavenly light rushed into my memory. I think this must have been my first expe‐ page: 33 rience experience of moral relief through intellectual resource. I am sure I must have been somewhat happier from that time forward; though one fact of which I am perfectly certain shows that the improvement must have been little enough. From the time when Ann Turner and her religious training of me put me, as it were, into my own moral charge, I was ashamed of my habit of misery,—and especially of crying. I tried for a long course of years,—I should think from about eight to fourteen,—to pass a single day without crying. I was a persevering child; and I know I tried hard: but I failed. I gave up at last; and during all those years, I never did pass a day without crying. Of course, my temper and habit of mind must have been excessively bad. I have no doubt I was an insufferable child for gloom, obstinacy and crossness, Still, when I remember my own placability,—my weakness of yielding every thing to the first word or tone of tenderness, I cannot but believe that there was grievous mistake in the case, and that even a little more sympathy and moral support would have spared me and others a hideous amount of fault and suffering.
How I found my way out we shall see hereafter: meantime, one small incident, which occurred when I was eleven years old, may foreshadow my release. Our eldest brother, Thomas, was seven years older than myself. He was silent and reserved generally, and somewhat strict to us younger ones, to whom he taught our Latin grammar. We revered and loved him intensely, in the midst of our awe of him: but once in my childhood I made him laugh against his will, by a pun in my Latin lesson (which was a great triumph) and once I ventured to confide to him a real difficulty,—without result. I found myself by his side during a summer evening walk, when something gave me courage to ask him—(the man of eighteen!)—the question which I had long been secretly revolving:—how, if God foreknew everything, we could be blamed or rewarded for our conduct, which was thus absolutely settled for us beforehand. He considered for a moment, and then told me, in a kind voice, that this was a thing which I could not understand at present, nor for a long time to come. I dared not remon‐ page: 34 state remonstrate ; but I was disappointed: and I felt that if I could feel the difficulty, I had a right to the solution. No doubt, this refusal of a reply helped to fix the question in my mind.
I have said that by this time I had begun to take moral or spiritual charge of myself. I did try hard to improve; but I fear I made little progress. Every night, I reviewed the thoughts and actions of the day, and tried to repent; but I could seldom comfort myself about any amendment. All the while, however, circumstances were doing for me what I could not do for myself,—as I have since found to be incessantly happening. The first great wholesome discipline of my life set in (unrecognized as such) when I was about eight years old. The kind lady who took me upon her lap at Mr. Drummond's lecture had two little girls, just the ages of Rachel and myself: and, after that incident, we children became acquainted, and very soon, (when the family came to live close beside us in Magdalen Street) as intimate as possible. I remember being at their house in the Market Place when I was seven years old; and little E. could not stand, nor even sit, to see the magic‐lantern, but was held in her papa's arms, because she was so very lame. Before the year was out, she lost her leg. Being a quiet‐tempered child, and the limb being exceedingly wasted by disease, she probably did not suffer very much under the operation. However that might be, she met the occasion with great courage, and went through it with remarkable composure, so that she was the talk of the whole city. I was naturally very deeply impressed by the affair. It turned my imagination far too much on bodily suffering, and on the peculiar glory attending fortitude in that direction. I am sure that my nervous system was seriously injured, and especially that my subsequent deafness was partly occasioned by the exciting and vain‐glorious dreams that I indulged for many years after my friend E. lost her leg. All manner of deaths at the stake and on the scaffold, I went through in imagination, in the low sense in which St. Theresa craved martyrdom; and night after night, I lay bathed in cold perspiration till I sank into the sleep of exhaustion. All this is detestable to think of now; but it is a duty to relate the truth, because page: 35 parents are apt to know far too little of what is passing in their children's imaginations, unless they win the confidence of the little creatures about that on which they are shyest of all,—their aspirations. The good side of this wretched extravagance of mine was that it occasioned or strengthened a power of patience under pain and privation which was not to be looked for in a child so sensitive and irritable by nature. Fortitude was in truth my favorite virtue; and the power of bearing quietly a very unusual amount of bodily pain in childhood was the poor recompense I enjoyed for the enormous detriment I suffered from the turn my imagination had taken.
This, however, is not the discipline I referred to as arising from my companionship with E. In such a case as hers, all the world acquiesces in the parents' view and method of action: and in that case the parents made a sad mistake. They enormously increased their daughter's suffering from her infirmity by covering up the fact in an unnatural silence. E.'s lameness was never mentioned, nor recognized in any way, within my remembrance, till she, full late, did it herself. It was taken for granted that she was like other children; and the delusion was kept up in play‐hours at my expense. I might almost say that from the time E. and I grew intimate, I never more had any play. Now, I was fond of play,—given to romp; and I really wonder now when I look back upon the many long years during which I stood, with cold feet and a longing mind, with E. leaning on my arm, looking on while other children were at play. It was a terrible uneasiness to me to go walks with her,—shy child as I was,—fancying every body in the streets staring at us, on account of E.'s extreme difficulty in walking. But the long self‐denial which I never thought of refusing or grumbling at, must have been morally good for me, if I may judge by the pain caused by two incidents;—pain which seems to me now to swallow up all that issued from mere privation.—The fatigue of walking with E. was very great, from her extreme need of support, and from its being always on the same side. I was never very strong; and when growing fast, I was found to growing sadly crooked, from E.'s constant tugging at one arm. page: 36 I cannot at all understand how my mother could put it upon me to tell E.'s mother that I must not walk with her, because it made me crooked: but this ungracious message I was compelled to carry; and it cost me more pain than long years of privation of play. The hint was instantly taken; but I suffered the shame and regret over again every time that I saw E. assigned to any one else; and I had infinitely rather have grown crooked than have escaped it by such a struggle.—The other incident was this. We children were to have a birthday party; and my father gave us the rare and precious liberty to play hide‐and‐seek in the warehouse, among the packing‐cases and pigeon‐holes where the bombasines were stored. For weeks I had counted the days and hours till this birthday and this play; but E. could not play hide‐and‐seek; and there we stood, looking at the rest,—I being cold and fidgety, and at last uncontrollably worried at the thought that the hours were passing away, and I had not had one bit of play. I did the fatal thing which has been a thorn in my mind ever since. I asked E. if she would much mind having some one else with her for a minute while I hid once,—just once. O no,—she did not mind; so I sent somebody else to her, and ran off, with a feeling of self‐detestation which is fresh at this day. I had no presence‐of‐mind for the game,—was caught in a minute; and came back to E. damaged in self‐respect, for the whole remaining course of our friendship. However, I owe her a great deal; and she and her misfortune were among the most favourable influences I had the benefit of after taking myself in hand for self‐government. I have much pleasure in adding that nothing could be finer than her temper in after life, when she had taken her own case in hand, and put an end, as far as it lay with her to do so, to the silence about her infirmity. After I wrote my "Letter to the Deaf," we seemed to be brought nearer together by our companionship in infirmity. Years after that, when I had written "The Crofton Boys," and was uneasy lest my evident knowledge of such a case should jar upon her feelings,—always so tenderly considered,—I wrote her a confession of my uneasiness, and had in reply a most charming letter,—free, cheerful, magnanimous;— page: 37 such a letter as has encouraged me to write as I have now done.
The year 1811 was a marked one to me,—first, by my being sent into the country for my health, for the whole summer and autumn; and next for the birth of the best‐beloved member of my family,—my sister Ellen.—It was not a genuine country life in a farm‐house, that summer, but a most constrained and conventional one, in the abode of a rich lawyer,—a cousin of my father's, who sent a daughter of his to our house for the advantage of city masters, in exchange for me, who went for health. I was not, on the whole, happy them:—indeed, it is pretty clear by this time that I was not happy anywhere. The old fancy for running away came back strongly upon me, and I was on the very point of attempting it when a few words of concession and kindness upset my purpose, as usual. I detested the governess,—and with abundant reason. The very first day, she shut me up and punished me because I, a town‐bred child, did not know what a copse was. "Near yonder copse," &c. She insisted that every body must know what a copse is, and that therefore I was obstinate and a liar. After such a beginning, it will be easily conceived that our relations could not be cordial or profitable. She presently showed herself jealous of my being in advance of her pupils in school‐room knowledge; and she daily outraged my sense of justice, expressly, and in the most purpose‐like manner. She was thoroughly vulgar; and in a few weeks she was sent away.—One annoyance that I remember at that place was (what now appears very strange) the whispers I overheard about myself, as I sat on a little stool in a corner of the dining‐room, reading. My hostess, who might have said anything in her ordinary voice without my attending to her, used to whisper to her morning visitors about my wonderful love of reading,—that I never heard anything that was said while I sat reading, and that I had written a wonderful sermon. All the while, she pretended to disguise it, winking and nudging, and saying "We never hear any thing when we are reading:" "We have written a sermon which is really quite wonderful at our age," &c. &c. I wished that sermon at Jericho page: 38 a hundred times; for in truth, I was heartily ashamed of it. It was merely a narrative of St. Paul's adventures, out of the Acts; and I knew it was no more a sermon than a string of parables out of the Gospels would have been.
There were some sweet country pleasures that summer. I never see chestnuts bursting from their sheaths, and lying shining among the autumn leaves, without remembering the old Manor‐house where we children picked up chestnuts in the avenue, while my hostess made her call at the house. I have always loved orchards and apple‐gatherings since, and blossomy lanes. The truth is, my remembrances of that summer may be found in "Deerbrook," though I now finally, (as often before,) declare that the characters are not real. More or less suggestion from real characters there certainly is; but there is not one, except the hero, (who is not English,) that any person is justified in pointing out as "from the life." Of the scenery too, there is more from Great Marlow than from that bleak Norfolk district: but the fresh country impressions are certainly derived from the latter. It was there that I had that precious morsel of experience which I have elsewhere detailed;*—the first putting my hand in among the operations of Nature, to modify them. After a morning walk, we children brought in some wild strawberry roots, to plant in our gardens. My plant was sadly withered by the time we got home; and it was then hot noon,—the soil of my garden was warm and parched, and there seemed no chance for my root. I planted it, grieved over its flabby leaves, watered it, got a little child's chair, which I put over it for shelter, and stopped up the holes in the chair with grass. When I went at sunset to look at it, the plant was perfectly fresh; and after that, it grew very well. My surprise and pleasure must have been very great, by my remembering such a trifle so long; and I am persuaded that I looked upon Nature with other eyes from the moment that I found I had power to modify her processes.
In November came the news which I had been told to expect. My sister Rachel had been with us in the country for a fort‐
page: 39 night; and we knew that there was to be a baby at home before we went back; and I remember pressing so earnestly, by letter, to know the baby's name as to get a rebuff. I was told to wait till there was a baby. At last, the carrier brought us a letter one evening which told us that we had a little sister. I still longed to know the name, but dared not ask again. Our host saw what was in my mind. He went over to Norwich a day or two after, and on his return told me that he hoped I should like the baby's name now she had got one;—"Beersheba." I did not know whether to believe him or not; and I had set my mind on "Rose." "Ellen," however, satisfied me very well. Homesick before, I now grew downright ill with longing. I was sure that all old troubles were wholly my fault, and fully resolved that there should be no more. Now, as so often afterwards, (as often as I left home) I was destined to disappointment. I scarcely felt myself at home before the well‐remembered bickerings began;—not with me, but from the boys being troublesome, James being naughty; and our eldest sister angry and scolding. I then and there resolved that I would look for my happiness to the new little sister, and that she should never want for the tenderness which I had never found. This resolution turned out more of a prophecy than such decisions, born of a momentary emotion, usually do. That child was henceforth a new life to me. I did lavish love and tenderness on her; and I could almost say that she has never caused me a moment's pain but by her own sorrows. There has been much suffering in her life; and in it I have suffered with her: but such sympathetic pain is bliss in comparison with sack feelings as she has not excited in me during our close friendship of above forty years. When I first saw her it was as she was lifted out of her crib, at a fortnight old, asleep, to be shown to my late hostess, who had brought Rachel and me home, The passionate fondness I felt for her from that moment has been unlike any thing else I have felt in life,—though I have made idols of not a few nephews and nieces. But she was a pursuit to me, no less than an attachment. I remember telling a young lady at the Gate‐House Concert, (a weekly undress concert) the next night, that page: 40 I should now see the growth of a human mind from the very beginning. I told her this because I was very communicative to all who showed me sympathy in any degree. Years after, I found that she was so struck by such a speech from a child of nine that she had repeated it till it had spread all over the city, and people said somebody had put it into my head: but it was perfectly genuine. My curiosity was intense; and all my spare minutes were spent in the nursery, watching,—literally watching,—the baby. This was a great stimulus to me in my lessons, to which I gave my whole power, in order to get leisure the sooner. That was the time when I took it into my head to cut up the Bible into a rule of life, as I have already told; and it was in the nursery chiefly that I did it,—sitting on a stool opposite the nursemaid and baby, and getting up from my notes to devour the child with kisses. There were bitter moments and hours,—as when she was vaccinated or had her little illnesses. My heart then felt bursting, and I went to my room, and locked the door, and prayed long and desperately. I knew then what the Puritans meant by "wrestling in prayer."—One abiding anxiety which pressed upon me for two years. or more was lest this child should be dumb: and if not, what an awful amount of labour was before the little creature! I had no other idea than that she must learn to speak at all as I had now to learn French,—each word by an express effort: and if I, at ten and eleven, found my vocabulary so hard, how could this infant learn the whole English language? The dread went off in amazement when I found that she sported new words every day, without much teaching at first, and then without any. I was as happy to see her spared the labour as amused at her use of words in her pretty prattle.
For nearly two years after our return from that country visit, Rachel and I were taught at home. Our eldest brother taught Latin, and the next brother, Henry, writing and arithmetic: and our sister, French, reading and exercises. We did not get on well, except with the Latin. Our sister expected too much from us, both morally and intellectually; and she had not been herself carried on so far as to have much resource as a teacher. We owed page: 41 to her however a thorough grounding in our French grammar (especially the verbs) which was of excellent service to us afterwards at school, as was a similar grounding in the Latin grammar, obtained from our brother. As for Henry, he made our lessons in arithmetic, &c. his funny time of day; and sorely did his practical jokes and ludicrous severity afflict us. He meant no harm; but he was too young to play schoolmaster; and we improved less than we should have done under less head‐ache and heart‐ache from his droll system of torture. I should say, on their behalf, that I, for one, must have seemed a most unpromising pupil,—my wits were so completely scattered by fear and shyness. I could never give a definition, for want of presence of mind. I lost my place in class for every thing but lessons that could be prepared beforehand. I was always saying what I did not mean. The worst waste of time, energy, money and expectation was about my music. Nature made me a musician in every sense. I was never known to sing out of tune. I believe all who knew me when I was twenty would give a good account of my playing. There was no music that I ever attempted that I did not understand, and that I could not execute,—under the one indispensable condition, that nobody heard me. Much money was spent in instruction; and I dislike thinking of the amount of time lost in copying music. My mother loved music, and, I know, looked to me for much gratification in this way which she never had. My deafness put an end to all expectation of the kind at last; but long before that, my music was a misery to me,—while yet in another sense, my dearest pleasure. My master was Mr. Beckwith, organist of Norwich Cathedral;—an admirable musician; but of so irritable a temper as to be the worst of masters to a shy girl like me. It was known that he had been dismissed from one house or more for rapping his pupils' knuckles; and that he had been compelled to apologize for insufferable scolding. Neither of these things happened at our house; but really I wondered sometimes that they did not,—so very badly did I play and sing when he was at my elbow. My fingers stuck together as in cramp, and my voice was as husky as if I had had cotton‐wool in my throat. page: 42 Now and then he complimented my ear; but he oftener told me that I had no more mind than the music‐book,—no more feeling than the lid of the piano,—no more heart than the chimney‐piece; and that it was no manner of use trying to teach me any thing. All this while, if the room‐door happened to be open without my observing it when I was singing Handel by myself, my mother would be found dropping tears over her work, and I used myself, as I may now own, to feel fairly transported. Heaven opened before me at the sound of my own voice when I believed myself alone;—that voice which my singing‐master assuredly never heard. It was in his case that I first fully and suddenly learned the extent of the mischief caused by my shyness. He came twice a week. On those days it was an effort to rise in the morning,—to enter upon a day of misery; and nothing could have carried me through the morning but the thought of the evening, when he would be gone,—out of my way for three days, or even four. The hours grew heavier: my heart fluttered more and more: I could not eat my dinner; and his impatient loud knock was worse to me than sitting down in the dentist's chair. Two days per week of such feelings, strengthened by the bliss of the evenings after he was gone, might account for the catastrophe, which however did not shock me the less for that. Mr. Beckwith grew more and more cross, thinner and thinner, so that his hair and beard looked blacker and blacker, as the holidays approached, when he was wont to leave home for a week or two. One day when somebody was dining with us, and I sat beside my father at the bottom of the table, he said to my mother, "By the way, my dear, there is a piece of news which will not surprise you much, I fancy. Poor John Beckwith is gone. He died yesterday." Once more, that name made my heart jump into my mouth; but this time, it was with a dreadful joy. While the rest went on very quietly saying how ill he had looked for some time, and "who would have thought he would never come back?"—and discussing how Mrs. B. and the children were provided for, and wondering who would be organist at the Cathedral, my spirits were dancing in secret rapture. The worst of my besetting terrors was over page: 43 for ever! All days of the week would henceforth be alike, as far as that knock at the door was concerned. Of come, my remorse at this glee was great; and thus it was that I learned how morally injured I was by the debasing fear I was wholly unable to surmount.
Next to fear, laziness was my worst enemy. I was idle about brushing my hair,—late in the morning,—much afflicted to have to go down to the apple‐closet in winter; and even about my lessons I was indolent. I learned any thing by heart very easily, and I therefore did it well: but I was shamefully lazy about using the dictionary, and went on, in full anticipation of rebuke, translating la rosée the rose, tomber, to bury, and so on. This shows that there must have been plenty of provocation on my side, whatever mistakes there may have been on that of my teachers. I was sick and weary of the eternal "Telemachus," and could not go through the labours of the dictionary for a book I cared so little about. This difficulty soon came to an end; for in 1813 Rachel and I went to a good day‐school for two years, where our time was thoroughly well spent; and there we enjoyed the acquisition of knowledge so much as not to care for the requisite toil.
Before entering on that grand new period, I may as well advert to a few noticeable points.—I was certainly familiar with the idea of death before that time. The death of Nelson, when I was four years old, was probably the earliest association in my mind of mournful feelings with death. When I was eight or nine, an aunt died whom I had been in the constant habit of seeing. She was old‐fashioned in her dress, and peculiar in her manners. Her lean arms were visible between the elbow‐ruffles and the long mits she wore; and she usually had an apron on, and a muslin handkerchief crossed on her bosom. She fell into absent‐fits which puzzled and awed us children: but we heard her so highly praised (as she richly deserved) that she was a very impressive personage to us. One morning when I came down, I found the servants at breakfast unusually early: they looked very gloomy; bade me make no noise; but would not explain what it was all about. The shutters were half‐closed; page: 44 and when my mother came down, she looked so altered by her weeping that I hardly knew whether it was she. She called us to her, and told us that aunt Martineau had died very suddenly, of a disease of the heart. The whispers which were not meant for us somehow reached our ears all that week. We heard how my father and mother had been sent for in the middle of the night by the terrified servants, and how they had heard our poor uncle's voice of mourning before they had reached the house; and how she looked in her coffin, and all about the funeral: and we were old enough to be moved by the sermon in her praise at chapel, and especially by the anthem composed for the occasion, with the words from Job,—"When the ear heard her then it blessed her," &c. My uncle's gloomy face and unpowdered hair were awful to us; and, during the single year of his widowhood, he occasionally took us children with him in the carriage, when he went to visit country patients. These drives came to an end with the year of widowhood; but he gave us something infinitely better than any other gift or pleasure in his second wife, whose only child was destined to fill a large space in our hearts and our lives.—Soon after that funeral, I somehow learned that our globe swims in space, and that there is sky all round it. I told this to James; and we made a grand scheme which we never for a moment doubted about executing. We had each a little garden, under the north wall of our garden. The soil was less than two feet deep; and below it was a mass of rubbish,—broken bricks, flints, pottery, &c. We did not know this; and our plan was to dig completely through the globe, till we came out at the other side. I fully expected to do this, and had an idea of an extremely deep hole, the darkness of which at the bottom would be lighted up by the passage of stars, slowly traversing the hole. When we found our little spades would not dig through the globe, nor even through the brickbats, we altered our scheme. We lengthened the hole to our own length, having an extreme desire to know what dying was like. We lay down alternately in this grave, and shut our eyes, and fancied ourselves dead, and told one another our feelings when we came out again. As far page: 45 as I can remember, we fully believed that we now knew all about it.
A prominent event of my childhoOd happened in 1812, when we went to Cromer for the sake of the baby's health. I had seen the sea, as I mentioned, when under three years old, as it swayed under the old jetty at Yarmouth: and I had seen it again at Tynemouth, when I was seven: but now it was like a wholly new spectacle; and I doubt whether I ever received a stronger impression than when, from the rising ground above Cromer, we caught sight of the sparkling expanse. At Tynemouth, that singular incident took place which I have elsewhere narrated,*—that I was shown the sea, immediately below my feet, at the foot of the very slope on which I was standing, and could not see it. The rest of the party must have thought me crazy or telling a lie; but the distress of being unable to see what I had so earnestly expected, was real enough; and so was the amazement when I at last perceived the fluctuating tide. All this had gone out of my mind when we went to Cromer; and the spectacle seemed a wholly new one. That was a marvellous month that the nursemaid and we children spent there. When we were not down on the sands, or on the cliffs, I was always perched on a bank in the garden whence I could see that straight blue line, or those sparkles which had such a charm for me. It was much that I was happy for a whole month; but I also obtained many new ideas, and much development;—the last chiefly, I think, in a religious direction.
In the preceding year another instance had occurred,—a most mortifying one to me,—of that strange inability to see what one is looking for (no doubt because one looks wrongly) of which the Tynemouth sea‐gazing was a strong illustration.† When the great comet of 1811 was attracting all eyes, my star‐gazing was just as ineffectual. Night after night, the whole family of us went up to the long windows at the top of my father's warehouse; and the exclamations on all hands about the comet perfectly exasperated me,—because I could not see it! "Why,
* Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development, p. 161.page: 46 there it is!" "It is as big as a saucer." "It is as big as a cheese‐plate." "Nonsense; you might as well pretend not to see the moon." Such were the mortifying comments on my grudging admission that I could not see the comet. And I never did see it. Such is the fact; and philosophers may make of it what they may,—remembering that I was then nine years old, and with remarkably good eyes.


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The more things "change," the more they remain the same.
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My question - Don't we have someone besides people with Law degrees capable of doing these jobs? Lawyers provide few value added solutions to any issue. They are not, by profession, capable of establishing a principled stand & sticking with it.
TBS - I recognize it is imperative that those appointed are capable administrators, government is not the easiest maze to navigate. Experience does help, but aren't there experienced individuals of other professions available?
But, we had O'Neil, Snow & Paulsen for Treasury Secretary's in the Bush Admin, with only Snow having some government experience. Look at what that bought us!!!
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Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
If the most influential people in Obama's administration will be just more of the same old career politicians, how is this change? Same old "good ole boys" group exchanging favors for each other
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
I don't use the PM feature, so just email me direct at the address shown above.
Fear Is NOT A Long Term Solution Regards,
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke


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