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Last week we attended the the 5th annual APEX World event in Zeist. As every year it was very nice to meet the growing APEX community in the Benelux, combined with some excellent APEX international and dutch presentations.
The keynote was given by Joel Kallman about APEX 5.0 followed by 18 very interesting sessions about customer business cases, technical developments and international presentations by APEX specialist from all over the world.
The key focus in the new APEX 5.0 is improved developer productivity.
The page builder is completely new. Through this interface developers will be able to do more in less time and most important, in fewer clicks. With a properties sidebar on the right side of the screen it will be possible to quickly change elements and regions on a page, even multiple elements at the same time! Regions and items can be created through drag and drop which increases the development speed.
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Improved tab navigation. The current tab system isn't user friendly enough, so it's better to use lists. Now you can create new pages and define their hierarchy in the application. When this is done, an automatic tab will be created with dropdown submenus to display the hierarchy.
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a) only display the most important columns on a small screen, or
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Modal popup
Instead of using a plugin to let your pages open in a modal window, users can now set this feature as a property of the page. Whenever the user navigates to this page, it will open in a modal window.
Be sure to take a look at the APEX early adaptor: apexea.oracle.com
After the APEX 5.0 demonstration, there were 3 parallel tracks, all with very different and interesting sessions. Read our impressions …
Going public with your APEX application
FOEX brought this presentation very well. Their problem scenario was the following one: If you want to make a public APEX application, you are always stuck with the typical APEX URL like "apex/f?p=100:1:5039230103::::". During the demo they showed how to create a nice and readable URL like "apex/demo/customers". To accomplish this they used aliases, REST services, PL/SQL and a few lines of javascript.
The best of both worlds: going hybrid with your mobile APEX application
Roel Hartman gave a presentation about Phonegap in combination with APEX. He showed a nice demo on how to sync the contacts from a database with the ones from his cell phone through a Phonegap App. It was surprising how easily this could be setup without too much code and in-depth knowledge. He used REST services to sync the data between APEX and his cellphone.
Using AngularJS in oracle applications express
Dan McGhan of Enkitec (USA) brought a technical session about combining AngularJS and APEX. He showed us a single page application containing a to do list with advanced calendar features. The end result was very nice and the demo illustrated the power of AngularJS, but it certainly requires some time to understand this framework. Maybe an interesting idea is to include AngularJS natively in APEX 6.0?
A B2B webshop with APEX!
iAdvise did two presentations. The first one dealt with a B2B webshop we developed in APEX for Billiet. Justine Ghekiere gave a brief introduction about the core business of her company, Biliet. Our colleague Tuur Hendrickx showed a lot of features he implemented in the webshop with APEX. Topics he show-cased were: special advertisements, restricted products for different customers, the use of a shopping cart and a stunning layout were demonstrated.
We also attended a nice presentation of Martin Giffy D'Souza about APEX and HTML5. He showed the advantages of HTML5 and the typical use cases in APEX. During a live demo he showed how to record a video within APEX and stream the feed to another frame in the same screen. Really impressive! Also nice to see was how easily it is to implement voice recognition by using HTML5.
Dutch immigration services (IND) monitor xml messages with oracle apex
A department of the Dutch government has built an application which provides residence permits to immigrants or refugees. Before they could start building the APEX application there was a lot of effort necessary in the Oracle database for dealing with all the XML files. It was not just a problem with the size of the XML files, but there were also issues with differences between Oracle 10.2 and 11.2 in the way the database handles XML files.
Reporting solutions for oracle APEX – choose your weapons
During this session Dietmar Aust gave us an overview of possible reporting solutions for APEX applications. Many solutions were covered in an objective way: BI Publisher, Jasper Reports, Apache FOP, APEX PDF printing, PL/PDF, … Dietmar even demonstrated our own tool Doxxy (www.doxxy.eu). Nice to hear that he likes Doxxy! He also showed us his own solution for typical problems related to exporting data from interactive report to MS Excel, especially regarding the proper data types: OPAL:XP (for eXPorting to MS Excel).
Single-click deployment in APEX development
One of the last tracks we visited was about single-click deployment of APEX applications in OTAP areas. They talked about the use of bamboo, in combination with GIT and APEX. It was nice to see how they solved the problem of continuous integration with APEX.
A logistic data portal with APEX!
In the second iAdvise customer case Robert Esseling explained why Bas Logistics needed a data portal. Those requirements where then demonstrated by Menno Hoogendijk.
The portal has an admin module to manage the data import and mapping settings. In the very straight-forward front-end, users drill down from dashboards to detailed data.
Thanks to the organization for hosting this great event, really one of the best conferences in the benelux!
See you at APEX World 2015!


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7/4- Monomoy Island, flats, fly, wade, saltwater, Chatham, Cape Cod, fis
Exaggerated tides have started. This normally brings in fresh fish. It will last until July 9. Look for fishing to be pretty good.
Walked a ½ mile out in knee-deep water in pea soup fog this A.M. using a compass to find the honey hole. It produced 5-6 fish in the 20-inch range. One fish that was lost had to be big as it bit the hook in half?
With increasing strong winds and storms forecast for mid-day we decided to just fish for ½ day. Hit several spots that had been producing on the same tides earlier this season. Today in these same spots it was slow. Looks like its mostly resident fish from here on out.
Fishing was slow for us today. Lil sun, in and out made it tuff to only sight fish. We positioned ourselves in an area where we could blind cast when there was no sun and sight fish when there was. It was an area where they transition in and out of the deeper water and also swim in and out of a cove.
Id like to thank AlanT for his crab pattern! My client's cast to several big fish on the flats today and landed a 40 incher (approx.25 lbs.) on his crab fly. He was most gracious to throw me one this A.M. at the dock at Outermost Harbor and Marina.
Noticed something for the first time this year on the flats. A good # of fish were not in a hurry on the flats. They would swim slower and hang around, grubbing for food. This is something you will normally see amongst the residents this time of year.
Moving slowly around and not wading out to far provided us with something not many people ever experience. Tailing Bass on the flats. You could see their tails flopping back and forth for balance.
A friend of mine saw, and landed a 30 incher under the same situation. A slow and stealth like approach is what is needed.
A dozen 20 lb'ers were sighted.
Congrats go out to Tom Brightman, first time flats fishing with a 25 lb. bass released!
Another very slow day. Worked transitional funnels on the flats while blind casting. Then to look for tailers. Worked several other feeding areas and came up empty. O-well. Today what we did was not called fishing, it was called tuff!
Decided to try someplace different than Monomoy today. With no sun we found fish in a foot of water cruising back and forth along a sand bar looking for a bite to eat. Very fussy, went through 20 different flies of all shapes and sizes. Finally lowered myself to throwing a white and chartreuse clouser. If I had had a kitchen sink I would have tried it. Good # of fish sighted w/ no sun! On the drop we decided to hit a flat that had a grass filled bowl next to it. They tend to hang a little longer on the flats if they have a safe exit. Good # of big fish sighted with the help of the afternoon sun and a couple caught. We walked one mile from the boat drop off and were exiled to an area void of boats and other anglers. How sweet it is!
Saw half dozen of those 20+lb'ers!
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Sun made for some fabulous sight fishing on the flats! Lots of big fish spotted and cast to. Few keepers caught and released for future generations.
Fluorocarbon leaders vs Mono:
Fluorocarbon leaders have been getting a lot of attention in the last couple of years. The company tech reports usually claim that their line is superior to all others! With all of the different brands out there, I thought I'd give you my 2 cents.
I try to get away with as heavy a leader as the fish will let me so I can get the fish in a reasonable amount of time. Typically this means 8-12 lb. for the salmon, 4-8 lb. for the steelies and 8-20 lb. for Striped Bass and Blues. Bottom line is lighter leader=lower visibility leader=more strikes. Buyer beware though, there is some real CRAP fluorocarbon out there. About the best I've found is Orvis Mirage. It is low diameter, more flexible/durable than the others I've fished. Be sure to compare line diameters when buying any leader material, but especially with the Fluorocarbon. You'll see that the CRAP out there is quite a bit thicker than the good stuff. Some of the junk fluoro. will also delaminate as you fish it, not good.
This whole discussion really depends on what you're fishing for. From experience I can tell you that the steelhead have the best eyesight of all the trout and salmon. The lighter your leader the better . . . even better still if you fish fluorocarbon. Two big advantages to fishing fluoro. is that it is much more abrasion resistant than standard mono and because of it's reduced visibility you can often go a little heavier than you could with the mono. For example, fishing steelie's under normal water levels I usually fish 6-8 lb. leader. I can fish 8-10 lb. fluoro. with the same results. Yes, the Mirage fluoro. is very expensive, but I figure if it catches me a few more fish than it is worth every penny.
I have used several different kinds of Fluorocarbon leader material (Stren, Berkley,P-Line, International Angler, Bass Pro, Orvis). I feel that the Orvis Mirage or Orvis Mirage IGFA fluorocarbon is the best out there. It is quite abrasion resistant, has a low diameter to test ratio and disappears underwater. The downside is that it is expensive at $9.95/25 yards. However, I know it helps me to catch more fish, so it's worth the cost. I have been told that Yozuri and Triple Fish also make high quality fluorocarbon, but I have not had a chance to fish with it. Just remember something. The different brands that are rated at the same test will break over a wide range. The Orvis Mirage IGFA is guaranteed to break at the labeled test. If you compare that line in 8 lb. to Berkleys Vanish in 8 lb. you will find a big difference. The Berkley will break at as high as 12 lb. I have had guys complain that the Orvis breaks too easy. It breaks at what is labeled, and most lines out there over test by quite a bit.
Since Fluorocarbon does not absorb water such lines are both stronger and more durable than ordinary mono. 30% stronger in freshwater. 40% stronger in saltwater. Twice the shock resistance of nylon minimizes break-off at the strike. Reflects very little light - almost invisible in the water. The high density of fluorocarbon makes the line sink rapidly. Fluorocarbon Line is an ideal line for most fishing purposes!
We should all try to remember that we are stewards of our environment. If it were not for conservative minded people 20 years ago, we would not be enjoying the fruits of their labor today. Please remember that a fish is too valuable a resource to only be caught once. (Lee Wulff)
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As many have mentioned, it is the junk food and processed food that you think a little bit of this won't hurt. Innocent looking stuff that over time causes the pancreas to work overtime in a nonproductive way. Pretty soon the pancreas can not handle the load anymore. Bad carbs, bad fats, processed chemical flavorings are probably the culprit. So bread, burrito, pizza, potato chip, pretzel, those bones with all the flavorings on them are no no's. An occaisional trip to Mc Donald's is not going to do it. It is the everyday piece of bread or pizza crust or cheetos etc. that will eventually kill the pancreas.
Agree with Marc & Lainee, our dogs have always gotten table scraps with no ill effects, although greasy stuff like extra fat/turkey skin is divided up and doled out sparingly. I think some dogs just may be more susceptible to digestive upsets from greasy stuff; I have a friend who nearly lost her retriever to pancreatitis they figured out was from eating pig ears. We had a scare with my old girl Puffin last year when she had bloodwork done for minor surgery. She had a really high level of one of the enzymes associated with pancreatitits, to the point the vet even asked if she'd been sick, or had gotten in the garbage recently (she hadn't). We decided to postpone the surgery and when retested later, the level was much closer to normal. Since then we've been very careful of what she eats because even though she's never been sick, she's almost 13 now. The rest, get scraps regularly and in fact we do give Puffin the occasional treat, just watered down and in very small amounts.
Gotta lotta zoom, very sorry for your loss. From what I hear pancreatitis is bad news and, it's one of those things you just don't think about til your own dog gets stricken. Hard enough to try and do the right things for our animals, so I just can't imagine the pain of losing one because of some clueless moron.


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...Also, double on the Arduino is going to be a 32 bit standard float, so there is not much point in using it.It is the same as the regular float, not double precision.
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It is that time of year again! Hurricane Season starts June 1st and ends November 30th. Get ready and be prepared. As the saying goes, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
Q: What can you do to prepare yourself and your family?
A: Here are 3 important steps to get ready for a hurricane:
A: Here are 3 important steps to get ready for a hurricane:
- Be informed.
- Make a plan.
- Build a Family Emergency/Evacuation Kit.
The first step is "Be informed." Learn about municipal and county plans regarding Hurricane Season. Here in Beaufort County we do not have a lot of roads that connect our islands with mainland transportation routes. What evacuation route do you have to use? What should you take with you?
- Please visit the Beaufort County Emergency Management website at http://www.bcgov.net/departments/Public-Safety/emergency-management/hurricane-outlook.php to acquaint yourself with prescribed evacuation routes, what to do, and suggestions about what to take with you. Any questions about County Emergency plans should be asked of the County Emergency Management Department. Call 843-255-4000 to get in touch with Director Todd Ferguson or Deputy Director David Zeoli.
- The Town of Hilton Head Island, S.C. "Evacuation Kits & Tips" guide is found at http://www.hiltonheadislandsc.gov/publicsafety/hurricane/evackits.cfm?menuheader=4. Any questions or concerns regarding hurricane evacuations or reentry procedures for Hilton Head Island should go to please Emergency Management Coordinator Thomas Dunn at 843-682-5156.
- City of Beaufort "Emergency Preparedness" page http://cityofbeaufort.preview.vc3.com/emergency-preparedness.aspx contains PDFs that you can download about flooding, often a key factor of destruction and property loss during and after a hurricane event including a recently revised "Citizens Guide to Flood Awareness" pamphlet.
Be sure to review your insurance coverage and limitations before your need them! Property insurance provides protection against risks to property, such as fire and weather damage. There are different types of property insurance available to homeowners for disasters such as flood insurance, fire insurance, earthquake insurance, and natural disasters. Each type of insurance may require additional coverage and is separate from the normal homeowner's insurance policy. Be pro-active and ask your insurance provider questions about what's covered, what's not, deductibles and caps on your policies before you have to make a claim.
Step two is "Make a Plan." Authorities agree that families need to have an emergency plan and that they should have supplies and food to take care of themselves for several days. For guidance about disaster mitigation and recovery for individuals and family groups, we recommend:
- "Prepare Your Home and Family" http://www.redcross.org/prepare/location/home-family
- "Be Red Cross Ready" is a series of videos narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis shows families how to assemble an emergency kit at http://arcbrcr.org/.
- "Ready: Prepare, Plan, Stay Informed" http://www.ready.gov/ is designed to educate individuals how to prepare for and respond to natural disasters and emergencies. If you have questions about how to get ready, call 1-800-BE-Ready.
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) offers a host of resources on their website at http://www.fema.gov including suggestions about insurance.
- Visit the National Hurricane Center http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ for live and latest weather updates in real time.
A corollary: Think ahead about how you will protect your own family's cultural heritage. It's on you to protect your family treasures from loss. Follow the LOCKSS principle: "Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe" whenever possible. Spreading copies of key photographs and documents among family members, particularly those who live outside the geographical area in which you reside, minimizes the risk of losing the treasure forever. And, you are likely going to have to choose what to take as there won't be room for everything you treasure to go in your exit vehicle. Is it really practical to take "52 photo albums" in your car as you evacuate Beaufort County along with 150,000+ people? (A real statement made by a participant during our "Taking Care of Family Treasures Workshop" in April).
- See "Personal Archiving" at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/ for more information about how to create a personal LOCKSS program.
- The "Resources for Emergency Planning and Preparedness" http://www.heritagepreservation.org/PROGRAMS/TFPlanPrepare.html by the Heritage Emergency National Task Force includes a section "Protect Family Treasures from Disasters." Read it. Apply what you learn to your own situation and circumstances.
Once you have assembled your emergency kit and selected your family treasures, act on your plan. A plan is only as good as its execution. In the midst of planning make sure everyone knows about the evacuation plan, where to meet and what to do when we are required to evacuate the area. Thoughtful decisions before an emergency event tend to result in better outcomes during and after an emergency event. In other words, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
Although it's been awhile since the Beaufort area received a hard direct hit, hurricanes do happen here. We may sit in the pocket of South Carolina (look at a map) and other parts of our coast tend to get more hurricane strikes than we have, it only takes one storm to wreak havoc. The Great Sea Island Storm of 1893, Hurricane Gracie (1959), Hurricane Hugo, and the evacuation for Hurricane Floyd (1999) had a socio-economic impact on our county. This just might be the year that we get another "Big One."
The BDC has loads of materials to share about local hurricanes – online and in our special collections and archives Research Room:
- There are another 10 posts in this blog on the topic of hurricanes. Go to http://beaufortdistrictcollectionconnections.blogspot.com/search/label/hurricanes to read them.
- We posted a partial list of the known Beaufort County casualties of the Great Sea Island Hurricane at http://bdcbcl.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/storm-of-1893-death-list/ drawn from Beaufort County Coroner's Inquisition Records in 1893.
- On our local history and nature pages we have an article about hurricanes at http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/htdocs-sirsi/hurricanes.htm.
- To learn more about hurricanes and their impact in the past please feel free to stop by the Beaufort District Collection and dig a little deeper in our hurricanes and tropical storm related vertical files, books, and other materials about hurricanes and tropical storms.We are customarily open Mondays through Fridays, 10 am until 5 pm.
Don't let the 2013 hurricane season catch you unprepared.
(This entry was written with the help of Charmaine Concepcion.)
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Alternate name: Eastern Yellow Bat
Family: Vespertilionidae, Vespertilionid Bats view all from this family
Description Distinguished by yellowish-gray or yellowish-brown pelage, which extends only onto the basal half of the tail membrane. The ears are pointed. Forearm 46-50mm.
Dimensions 121-164mm, 51-77mm, 14-20g
Warning Bats are susceptible to rabies, a serious viral disease that results in death if untreated. Rabid bats rarely attack humans or other animals, but bats found lying on the ground may be rabid. Never touch or pick up any bat. Stay away from any animal that seems to be acting strangely and report it to animal-control officers. If you are bitten by a possibly rabid animal, you must immediately consult a doctor for a series of injections; there is no cure once symptoms emerge.
Similar Species A much larger bat than its relative, the Southern Yellow Bat.
Habitat Forests & woodlands, Scrub, shrub & brushlands
Range Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Florida, Texas


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This is not about just reducing spending. It's about breaking the union.
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Everyone's friend is No One's friend
Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
Rasmussen Poll: American Voters Support Wisconsin GOP Gov. Walker Over Unions by a 48% to 38% Margin
Americans siding with Governor Walker over unions in Wisconsin
According to a recent Rasmussen poll, likely voters are siding with Governor Scott Walker over the Unions in Wisconsin by a 48% to 38% margin. Only 38% sided with the unions, which is a far cry from the image that the MSM is trying to show protesting in Madison, WI. Obviously Democrats are going to support the unions and did so in this survey with 68% of the vote, while Republicans, while 68% of Republicans sided with the governor. More importantly and telling, 58% of individuals not affiliated with either parity sided with Governor Walker. The winds of change are occuring in Wisconsin.
A sizable number of voters are following new Wisconsin Governor Scott Walkers showdown with unionized public employees in his state, and nearly half side with the governor.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters agree more with the Republican governor in his dispute with union workers. Thirty-eight percent (38%) agree more with the unionized public employees, while 14% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
As stated by Hot Air, the unions appear to be losing the national battle for the hearts and minds of the American people. We the People seem to be growing weary of union entitlements while private citizens must make sacrifices every day.
The bigger questions is how will what is going on in Wisconsin and the peoples reaction to unions affect other cash strapped states like Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and others? There is an even greater questions posed by Red State, did Barack Obama just make a mistake in Wisconsin that he will never be able to recover from? Because once again, Obama is on the wrong side of the people and the private sector is sick and tired of the public sector and political class.
The Silvered, Fork-tongued One skates through electoral mayhem with the grace of Johnny Weir, but this time, he falls and fails badly. It will come back to haunt him.
I refer to President Obama siding with the public sector unions across the country while the Governors, both Republican and Democrat, try to balance state budgets and ask the unions to make less-aggressive concessions than private sector employees have been making for years.
All the talk of tough choices and shared sacrifice sounds incredibly empty and hollow.
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Dentists being for the most part quite conservative and independant practice solo or in a relatively small group, 5 being a quite large group. Physicians on the contrary, especially specialists are in large groups for the most part and sadly are in groups with cross specialities. Most doctors in these groups really have little to say a to the fee they charge but relagete this to the manager of the group. I suspect most of them like it this way. I would not be surprised if dnf777 had little to do with the fees that were charged for the services he rendered. Don't know for a fact but would not be surprised.
Having broken my foot a year ago, I was referred to an orthopedic surgeon. The bill wal almost $1000.00. The reimbursement was a little over $200.00. There are reasons that fees and reimbursement have come to this and those reasons in my opinion are due mainly due to the government.
Dentists for the most part have told the Gov. not only no but HELL NO. I wish physicians had done the same and maybe we would not be in quite the mess we are in.
If you have any questions that I can answer, I'll be glad to.
I don't charge anything. My employer does. And its so damn complicated, I have no idea what they charge. All I know is at our monthly financial meetings, they show total billables, total reimbursements, and we usually hit around 28 cents collected for every dollar billed.
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ean Little's most recent book, The Sweetest one of all, is a picture book for very young children and their parents. In it, barnyard animal babies ask their mothers who they are and each of them is told that he or she is the sweetest one of all. The book ends with a human mother telling her little one the same thing. And getting a loving hug in response. The playful text should continue to delight both children and adults even after many readings.
The colourful illustrations by Marisol Sarrazin are endearing and filled with lively detail. Each will hold small readers spellbound.
Novel, Penguin, 1986, 123 Pages
Ben is apprehensive about staying over at his aunt roses house while his parents are away. but with the promise of a big surprise, ben reluctantly agrees to at least give it a try. only, when the surprise arrives, it is not what ben expects at all. At the door is a labrador retriever named gully. the only problem is that ben is afraid of dogs. Dogs jump at people, bite people, and even kill people! And even though gully seems friendly, ben decides he will never be friends with a dog. but when ben finds himself alone with gully in a scary situation, he starts to rethink his fear. perhaps he will be able to survive the whole weekend at Aunt roses with gully running around after all.
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So, the first working version of my "structural plain-text" parser is just working and I'm already dissatisfied with it. Well, the reasons are simple:
It doesn't work correctly in all cases.
The code is a mess, even though it was already the third or so iteration internally ("plan to throw...", you know).
PS. Oh yeah, after all, I've included "strong emphasis" in this version, because there are uses for it, specifically in technical documentation (which I intend to write). It carries a Fat Warning (TM) in the docs, so I'm happy and people can do whatever they want. ;-)


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Description & Highlights
Mr. Beer Root Beer Kit
Enjoy the fun and flavor of making your own delicious homemade root beer with the Mr. Beer Root Beer Kit (20041). This incredibly fun kit includes everything that you will need to produce amazing home brewed root beer as it comes with a funnel, root beer extract, flavor crystals, root beer yeast, no rinse cleanser, and even four (4) bottles to drink the root beer out of.
The kit makes a total of two (2) gallons of root beer, so it is a great for making with and sharing with kids, grandkids, friends and family. The bottles, funnel and cleanser are entirely reusable so once you have finished all two gallons of your root beer, simply purchase more extract, yeast, and flavor crystals and enjoy more ice cold root beer. Add your own favorite ingredients, tweak the recipe, create your own take on the age old favorite, or use the included instructions to achieve the beloved taste of traditional root beer. So grab some friends, and family and get ready to enjoy the amazing taste and fun of creating root beet in your very home.
Brews Two (2) Gallons:This amazing kit will help you brew two (2) full gallons of root beer
Instruction Sheet:An included instruction sheet helps guide you through the root beer making process
Includes Everything You Will Need:This kit includes a funnel, root beer extract, flavor crystals, root beer yeast, no rinse cleanser, and even four (4) bottles to put it in
- Model: 20041Mr. Beer Root Beer Kit
- Brand: Mr. BeerFour (4) root beer bottle labels
- Makes two (2) gallonsOne (1) packet root beer yeast
- One (1) bottle of root-beer extractOne (1) packet no-rinse cleanser
- One (1) plastic funnelFour (4) plastic 1-liter bottles (PET)
- Two (2) packets flavor crystalsFour (4) bottle caps and gaskets
- One (1) easy to follow instructions/fun guideWeight: 2 lbs
- Old fashioned root beerDimensions: 7" H x 12" W x 7" D
- Warranty: 5 days
- Height: 7"
- Width: 12"
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Danielle Criona '99 Brings Alumni (and Pistachios!) to the Table
As the senior intellectual property counsel at Roll Global, alumna Danielle Criona '99 is charged with protecting some of the world's most iconic brands, including Wonderful Pistachios, FIJI Water and Teleflora. And now, as president of the Alumni Board of Governors, she is bringing the same level of stewardship to the Law School.
Criona manages international enforcement of all trademark and copyright issues for the Roll Global brands, which also include JUSTIN Wines and POM Wonderful juices. Now, she is adapting her passion for collaboration and making connections to her work leading the Alumni Association. With deep roots at the Law School, her strategic vision includes extending the reach of the Alumni Association with a focus on current students and recent alumni.
"We're trying to involve both alumni and students so that they can get to know each other," said Criona. "I want students to graduate with a sense of belonging to an alumni network, instead of trying to join up after they graduate."
A firm believer in networking, she helped launch Connecting Points, a regular series of small events for recent alumni centered on a common point of interest such as area of law practice or location. For her, the focus is on bringing new lawyers and seasoned practitioners to the table. And as a host of one of the first Connecting Points events, it gave her a chance to foster the relationships she finds most important.
"It feels like an extended family," said Criona. "I love Loyola and always have."
The veteran litigator has practiced IP law for 13 years. She is accustomed to arguing patent, trademark and copyright infringement claims in court and advising clients on how to maximize their IP portfolios. She says her people skills have helped ease her transition into her new position on the Board of Governors.
"You have to respect that these board members are giving their time outside of their jobs," she said. "We all have to rally around the common effort."
The board is branching out, recruiting non-board members to serve on subcommittees like the Online Presence Committee. Criona is also focusing on the Alumni Association's public service programs like Attorneys for Others, which she views as a way to connect current students with alumni.
The California native received her bachelor's degree in biochemistry and biology from Loyola Marymount University. She received her master's in biology from California State University, Northridge.
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Re: Please Don't Learn to Program
This morning Hacker News looked like this:
Jeff Atwood apparently thinks programming isn't worth learning about, for most people. I think he's probably right, in the sense that "robots aren't worth learning about, for most people". I can think of more examples. "Physics is not worth learning about, for most people". But that's rather obvious isn't it? Why blog about it? Why blog about blogging about it?
Atwood is bashing CodeYear, an initiative to get everyone to learn a little bit about programming. Here's a retort written by CodeYear's designer, Sacha Greif. Here's another retort on Github.
I don't understand why any of this stuff is worth arguing about. Why does Atwood care what people do with their free time? It seems there are a lot of assumptions being made about the motivations of these aspiring programmers. I see nothing wrong with CodeYear. I see nothing wrong with everyone knowing something about programming (hell, it'll give me more to talk about at parties), just as I see nothing wrong with everyone knowing a little something about singing. Singing isn't an essential skill for everybody's daily life, but neither is math, really, though they both make life more interesting and are worth knowing about. These topics have the potential to enrich our lives, so why not learn about them?
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Dordt College Men Win GPAC Basketball Title
Date posted - February 27, 2013
The Dordt College Defender men's basketball team won its first ever Great Plains Athletic Conference Post-Season Tournament Championship with a 75-63 win over the Morningside Mustangs in front of a capacity crowd at the De Witt Gym in Sioux Center, Iowa. The Defenders jumped in front from the start and never trailed in winning their 26th game of the season and seventh game in a row.
Back to back buckets by Kyle Lindbergh started the scoring for Dordt and at teh 14:39 mark the Defenders were up 17-3 when Cliff Warner hit his second three-point basket of the contest. Morningside whittled teh difference down to 11 but Dordt had an answer as they roared to a 37-17 advantage with a pair of Chris Sievers free throws at the 6:23 mark.
"Our fans got behind us and made it really loud at the start of the game and we built momentum," said Dordt College coach Ross Douma.
Morningside mounted another charge, this time getting the lead down to 42-30 on baskets by Tanner Ferguson and Tyler Johnson but Dordt netted two baskets in a row to close the half up 46-30.
"It was a great start but we had to stay focused. A good team like Morningside is going to make several runs at you," said Douma.
A Tanner Miller bucket at the 14:26 mark of the game made the score 54-44 but Dordt went on a 6-0 run with Lindbergh again supplying a pair of baskets around a Jordan Vogel bucket. Morningside got the difference to nine at the 9:05 mark when Danny Rudeen converted one of the Mustangs' three, three-point baskets of the game to make it 62-53. Dordt stretched the lead out to 14 on a pair of baskets by Trevor Wolterstorff and a Vogel field goal with a free throw. The Mustangs had one more charge in them to get it down to eight but Dordt took care of the ball, converting six of eight free throws in the final 2:34 to seal the 75-63 win.
Dordt 27-49 from the floor for 55.1 percent and made 24-31 two-point shots. The Defenders also converted 18-22 free throws. Morningside was limited to 28-68 shooting for 41.2 percent and she was 4-7 on free throws. Dordt held a commanding rebounding edge of 40-25 but turned the ball over 19 times to nine for the visitors.
"I thought we got out and defended the perimeter very well," said Douma.
Trevor Wolterstorff and Jordan Vogel had 16 each to pace the Defenders and both had eight rebounds with Vogel going 7-7 from the floor. Kyle Lindbergh added 13 points while going 6-6 from the field and had five rebounds, four assists and two blocked shots. Cliff Warner scored ten, had seven rebounds and five assists against one turnover and Austin Katje scored eight. Shawn Keizer was good for seven points and eight rebounds off the bench.
Morningside was topped by Danny Rudeen with 17 points and Kyle Nikkel scored 14 with seven rebounds. Trent Miller and Tanner Miller had 13 and 11 respectively.
Dordt earns the automatic berth that goes with the post-season title while Morningside's run through the tournament ends with an 18-15 mark.
The NAIA Division II Men's National Basketball Tournament field will be announced by 4:00 Wednesday afternoon, February 27 and the 32-team bracket will be released at 7:15 pm. Northwestern secured the GPAC's first automatic bid by way of the regular season championship.
This was the third straight year Dordt was in the title game, losing on the road to Sioux Falls in 2011 and at home to Northwestern in 2012. Dordt also had title game appearances in 2002 and 2006, losing to Concordia in overtime in 2002 and Morningside in 2006. This will be Dordt's third trip to the NAIA Division II National Tournament with the previous appearances coming in 2006 and 2012. Dordt also qualified for the single-class NAIA Tournament in 1988.
Story from Mike Byker, Dordt College Sports Information Director
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well, we treated him for the liver flukes, which I mentioned further back in this thread, it was a gamble but worth trying. They put him on phenbezdinal and biltricide for a week. Since then , he has had diarrhea and vomited once, both on the same day.
he started the treatment on Wednesday 10/3.
No more blood in his stool
Solid stool
no vomitting
he is now eating again - 4 cups a day since approximately 10/9.
he runs to his food bowl and devours his food. and has put some noticeable weight back on. his ribs are starting to fill out again.
his attitude is much much better.
I spoke with my vet again yesterday, and although we are by no means out of the woods on this, as he could still have cancer, but also had a parasite on top of that. My vet is going to check with the specialist, and see if we should treat again at the three week mark, and then again at three months, if we are still progressing.
This has been an up and down roller coaster the past few weeks, but it has had some good outcomes so far, and i'm going to hang onto that while I can.
This is a follow up to a couple threads i started over the past year. This is the most recent one:
Well, he has continued to drop weight, and then had some spouts of diarrhea with blood in it sunday and yesterday. so I talked to my vet and got referred to an internal medicine specialist in the Metro.
I went there today, they did another battery of tests and an ultrasound, and on the ultrasound they found lymphoma all over and attacking his liver and intestines (which is what caused the bloody stool).
basically, he told me my only option is to give him chemo, or put him down soon (he recommended less then a week) due to the fact that his organs could shut down overnight, or his intestine could tear open due to the inflammation and disease.
I am very torn here, part of me is relieved to know what is actually wrong with him, but he is only 6 years old, and he "is not supposed to get cancer this young"...
when i left the vet I was convinced that I was going to take him hunting this weekend, so he can enjoy the field one last time and then have him put down early next week.
But......here is what is killing me right now. He actually ate today, has not had diarrhea since yesterday afternoon, and myself, my wife and daughter went on a long walk in the woods with him today. He is not slowing down, and acts happy and normal when outside.
It is killing me inside now to put him down, because i feel guilty that i'm possibly taking 2 weeks, 2 months, time unknown, from him, before he truly needs to go down. But on the other hand, I do not want him suffering at all, and would rather him go out happy.
They gave me a prescription of prednisone for him, which they said could make him better in the short term.
Any members out there that have dealt with Lymphoma in their dog, can you please give me some insight here, and your experiences, so I can make this decision easier. I do not want to take any good days from him, but at the same time, I do not want him to experience even one "bad day".
I'm really at a loss right now..... i'm looking at my best friend laying at my feet right now, and I want nothing but the best for him, whichever option that is.
and for those of you that see these symptoms in your dog, see an internal medicine specialist ASAP, do not wait a year like I did. I could have helped him, and I didn't.


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Perl 6 Design Minutes for 31 March 2010
The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 31 March 2010. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Will, and chromatic attended.
- in SpecLand, made it clear that the brackets in pairs are not related to subscripts, but follow the corresponding fatarrow semantics
- in particular, name extenders are just strings or list of strings, properly indicated by : or
:() in most cases (this includes all operator names).
- we now forbid name extension using the
:{}keyless adverbial syntax
- we don't need that because name extensions are really only supposed to use values, not closures
- if we really, really, need to supply a closure as part of a name extension, we can put it in parens, as in
- we can use that notation for supplying a closure as a first argument to a method without requiring a space between the colon and the curly, as in
- people keep writing that and expecting it to work, so I thought it would be good to make it work
- the colon is still require before the curlies, or it's a hash subscript
- we now capitalize the
Junctiontype again because I couldn't get people to stop capitalizing it
- also, the native aspect of junctions is not their most salient difference from normal types
- conjectured an
Eachtype that autothreads lists like junctions, but is serial and lazy, and is used for its values in list context, not boolean context
- in S05, did much cleanup of cursor semantics to reflect what STD and Rakudo actually do these days
- retargeted the
<&foo>regex assertion form to explicitly call a routine, just like always calls a method
- a bare
<foo>assertion now prefers to call a lexical function if visible, or calls as a method in current grammar if not
- this is a compile-time distinction, not a fallback at run time
- in code hacking, continued debugging of the backtracking transactions I added last week
gimme5now sets the correct xact on
- deleted more of the transactions that are no longer needed when building match results that are no longer hypothetical
- a
LazyMapnow always passes through the first result regardless of its associated commit transaction state
- that's because the first cursor in a lazy list always represents the current match hypothesis, not a future hypothesis that needs pruning
- STD now parses to the new specs regarding name extensions not including
- now allow colon form of method arguments to omit the space if the next char is a left curly, which is what people seem to expect anyway
- note that this makes the closure the first argument, not the only argument
- STD now gives more useful error messages when user says things like 'if' as a function call (
if(...) {...}), or a statement control like 'given' where one isn't expected (
$x = given {...})
- STD now properly objects to unrecognized internal regex modifiers such as
- improved the message on adverbs with empty angles (
:foo<>) to list some better options
- the problem arises when people think that the angles produce a null string, when in fact they produce a
- other malformed pairs are also better diagnosed, such as
:!not followed by an identifier, or pairs with duplicate arguments
- added a new rule that traps all warnings and errors
- STD now uses
supposein place of custom try blocks in diagnosing such things as two terms in a row, or unexpected infixes
- also uses
supposeto soften the warning about backtick-less embedded comments by not complaining if the supposed comment eats the whole line anyway
- put in some code to de-dup identical warnings
- STD now includes the signature's return type (after
-->) in the check for redundant '
of' types
- did various tiny speed tweaks, fossil removals
- started playing with how to mark sink context and pure operations
- split out
vivso that it can be used by other STD-based AST builders
- this is in preparation for propagating attributes up and down the AST such as sink context and purity
- eventually this will result in "Useless use of" messages where appropriate, not to mention the ability to do constant folding
- worked on the
- split it into a series of smaller functions
- it could use more work, but it's an improvement
- found one possible bug
- worked on some documentation, especially for PMC attributes
- reviewed some patches to add variable handling in regexes
- they need some changes, but the overall concept is good
- reviewed a few other messages
- most of my time is going toward my family
- hope to get more time to be more active in the next couple of days, but I can't promise that yet
- talked to Jonathan about Rakudo Star priorities
- he's very pleased with the memory fixes
- the next thing on his list is getting good line numbers in reported errors
- closing tickets
- working to get rid of the last recursive Makefile
- may wait until after the new release, when we remove a lot of deprecated things
- practicing my NQP skills by working on Tcl again
- worked on the Rakudo memory problems
- Vasily and I fixed the big memory use problem
- still some performance tuning to do there
- wrote up tasklists for two other important performance pieces
- will work on line numbers after we get performance back


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I'm pretty sure all of RTF is rooting all 9!
Keep up the great work.
What I did with the litter I had to bottle feed is I started adding a little bit of dog food (run it through the blender) around day 5. I did a 2 liter bottle of goat's milk (leave a little room), add a heaping serving spoon of yogurt (for probiotics), a squirt of Karo syrup (to ease constipation), a heaping tablespoon of puppy/dog food (I feed an all life stages), after 2-3 days, add 2 tablespoons of food, then 3, etc. I started that and by the 2nd week, I was able to reduce to 1 feeding at night. You'll have to cut a little cross in the nipples for the food to go through, it doesn't have to be big...I'll take a picture and upload in a bit. If you have a health food store, get Fenugreek, it helps lactation production since I'm assuming the beagle either just weaned a litter or didn't have pups and just "took over" like a bitch (that was actually spayed) I had a few years ago...it's also used in artificial maple syrup and that's what it smells like.
Noremac's Fat Boy MH QA2
Cedar Swamp's Linden JH
Cedar Swamp's Cuttin a Rug
Cedar Swamp's Holy Terror SH
Cedar Swamp's Angel in Disguise
Cedar Swamp's Test Pilot
Cedar Swamp's Bonanza
Cedar Swamp's Twisted Sister
Others have also graced our hearts...gone not forgotten.
RC Buckshot of Seven Hickories MH
Ceader Swamp's Deuces Wild SH
Fallen Timber's Second Chance MH
Ceader Swamp's Mac Millett SH
High Tess JH
and several others...
Keep up the great work. These puppies will be the most socialized litter ever produced. This is a great example of how much "fun" having a litter of puppies can be.
It is too bad that more puppy buyers do not have a clue about the efforts put forth by your female that passed and you personally. But most importantly is you have done the very best that you could for the 9 puppies. Congratulations for having the fortitude to stay strong!
KARMA - The return on your entries will increase the sooner you decide to contribute one of your weekends to be in the judge's chair and judge others who have done the same for you.
Jut got hit with reality!!!! Lost a male last night. Beat myself up trying o know why. Was eating good till 1130 lat night. Went for 230 feeding and he was dead. Maybe aspiration from bottle or who knows.... Hope this trend doesn't continue. Sux putting in so much fighting for each and every one. Just frustrating and sad. Thought after the 2 week mark I was in the clear.
I'm so sorry about your Momma dog and your little male puppy. Have you tried letting them lap up the goat's milk? I usually give my puppies a little puppy formula between 2 and 3 weeks just to get the used to the idea that they can eat without momma. They may be able to drink at least part of their meal without the bottle. Just a suggestion. you have my deepest admiration. I know you have had a tough road with more to go. Here's hoping everyone of your remaining puppies have a smooth road from now on and you get some much deserved rest!
Jeannie Greenlee
Blazinlakes Legally Blonde CDX JH NAJ RA WC OD - Miss you so much, You will always be loved
HRCH Smokingold Guns Up CCA WCX CD MH
Surefire Smokingold Hit the Jackpot
Almost to 3 weeks and got 8 going strong!!!!!!
"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold
"The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery is not Ignorance -- It is the Illusion of Knowledge" ~ Daniel Boorstin
Eight is awesome! So sorry about your loss of mother and one pup. It's always hard when one doesn't make it, and remember that can happen even with mom still in the picture. Can't wait to see another picture, although don't know how you'll find time to take it!


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CHAPTER IX.page: 133
BEING editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like they used to be.
I am sure we had tried our best to restore our fallen fortunes. We felt their fall very much, because we knew the Bastables had been rich once. Dora and Oswald can remember when Father was always bringing nice things home from London, and there used to be turkeys and geese and wine and cigars come by the carrier at Christmas‐time, and boxes of candied fruit and French plums in ornamental boxes with silk and velvet and gilding on them. They were called prunes, but the prunes you buy at the grocers are quite different. But now there is seldom anything nice brought from London, and the turkey page: 134 and the prune people have forgotten Father's address.
"How can we restore those beastly fallen fortunes?" said Oswald. "We've tried digging and writing and princesses and being editors."
"And being bandits," said H.O.
"When did you try that?" asked Dora quickly. "You know I told you it was wrong."
"It wasn't wrong the way we did it," said Alice, quicker still, before Oswald could say, "Who asked you to tell us anything about it?" which would have been rude, and he is glad he didn't. "We only caught Albert‐next‐door."
"Oh, Albert‐next‐door!" said Dora contemptuously, and I felt more comfortable; for even after I didn't say, "Who asked you, and cetera," I was afraid Dora was going to come the good elder sister over us. She does that a jolly sight too often.
Dicky looked up from the paper he was reading and said, "This sounds likely," and he read out—
£100 secures partnership in lucrative business for sale of useful patent. £10 weekly. No personal attendance necessary. Jobbins, 300, Old Street Road.page: 135
"I wish we could secure that partnership," said Oswald. He is twelve, and a very thoughtful boy for his age.
Alice looked up from her painting. She was trying to paint a fairy queen's frock with green bice, and it wouldn't rub. There is something funny about green bice. It never will rub off; no matter how expensive your paint‐box is—and even boiling water is very little use.
She said, "Bother the bice! And, Oswald, it's no use thinking about that. Where are we to get a hundred pounds?"
"Ten pounds a week is five pounds to us," Oswald went on—he had done the sum in his head while Alice was talking—"because partnership means halves. It would be A1."
Noël sat sucking his pencil—he had been writing poetry as usual. I saw the first two lines—
I wonder why Green Bice Is never very nice.
Suddenly he said, "I wish a fairy would come down the chimney and drop a jewel on the table—a jewel worth just a hundred pounds."
"She might as well give you the hundred pounds while she was about it," said Dora.page: 136
"Or while she was about it she might as well give us five pounds a week," said Alice.
"Or fifty," said I.
"Or five hundred," said Dicky.
I saw H.O. open his mouth, and I knew he was going to say, "Or five thousand," so I said—
"Well, she won't give us fivepence, but if you'd only do as I am always saying, and rescue a wealthy old gentleman from deadly peril he would give us a pot of money, and we could have the partnership and five pounds a week. Five pounds a week would buy a great many things."
Then Dicky said, "Why shouldn't we borrow it?"
So we said, "Who from?" and then he read this out of the paper—
MONEY PRIVATELY WITHOUT FEES. THE BOND STREET BANK. Manager, Z. Rosenbaum.
Advances cash from £20 to £10,000 on ladies" or gentlemen's note of hand alone, without security. No fees. No inquiries. Absolute privacy guaranteed.
"What does it all mean?" asked H.O.
"It means that there is a kind gentleman who has a lot of money, and he doesn't know page: 137 enough poor people to help, so he puts it in the paper that he will help them, by lending them his money—that's it, isn't it, Dicky?"
Dora explained this and Dicky said, "Yes." And H.O. said he was a Generous Benefactor, like in Miss Edgeworth. Then Noël wanted to know what a note of hand was, and Dicky knew that, because he had read it in a book, and it was just a letter saying you will pay the money when you can, and signed with your name.
"No inquiries!" said Alice. "Oh—Dicky—do you think he would?"
"Yes, I think so," said Dicky. "I wonder Father doesn't go to this kind gentleman. I've seen his name before on a circular in Father's study."
"Perhaps he has." said Dora.
But the rest of us were sure he hadn't, because, of course, if he had, there would have been more money to buy nice things. Just then Pincher jumped up and knocked over the painting‐water. He is a very careless dog. I wonder why painting‐water is always such an ugly colour? Dora ran for a duster to wipe it up, and H.O. dropped drops of the water on his hands and said he had got the plague. So we played at the plague for a page: 138 bit, and I was an Arab physician with a bath‐towel turban, and cured the plague with magic acid‐drops. After that it was time for dinner, and after dinner we talked it all over and settled that we would go and see the Generous Benefactor the very next day. But we thought perhaps the G.B.—it is short for Generous Benefactor—would not like it if there were so many of us. I have often noticed that it is the worst of our being six—people think six a great many, when it's children. That sentence looks wrong somehow. I mean they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think you ought not to have five brothers and sisters. Of course Dicky was to go, because it was his idea. Dora had to go to Blackheath to see an old lady, a friend of Father's, so she couldn't go. Alice said she ought to go, because it said, "Ladies and gentlemen," and perhaps the G.B. wouldn't let us have the money unless there were both kinds of us.
H.O. said Alice wasn't a lady; and she said he wasn't going, anyway. Then he called her a disagreeable cat, and she began to cry.
But Oswald always tries to make up quarrels, so he said—page: 139
"You're little sillies, both of you!"
And Dora said, "Don't cry, Alice; he only meant you weren't a grown‐up lady."
Then H.O. said, "What else did you think I meant, Disagreeable?"
So Dicky said, "Don't be disagreeable yourself, H.O. Let her alone and say you're sorry, or I'll jolly well make you!"
So H.O. said he was sorry. Then Alice kissed him and said she was sorry too; and after that H.O. gave her a hug, and said, "Now I'm really and truly sorry," so it was all right.
Noël went the last time any of us went to London, so he was out of it, and Dora said she would take him to Blackheath if we'd take H.O. So as there'd been a little disagreeableness we thought it was better to take him, and we did. At first we thought we'd tear our oldest things a bit more, and put some patches of different colours on them, to show the G.B. how much we wanted money. But Dora said that would be a sort of cheating, pretending we were poorer than we are. And Dora is right sometimes, though she is our elder sister. Then we thought we'd better wear our best things, so that the G.B. might see we weren't so very poor that he couldn't page: 140 trust us to pay his money back when we had it. But Dora said that would be wrong too. So it came to our being quite honest, as Dora said, and going just as we were, without even washing our faces and hands; but when I looked at H.O. in the train I wished we had not been quite so particularly honest.
Every one who reads this knows what it is like to go in the train, so I shall not tell about it—though it was rather fun, especially the part where the guard came for the tickets at Waterloo, and H.O. was under the seat and pretended to be a dog without a ticket. We went to Charing Cross, and we just went round to Whitehall to see the soldiers and then by St. James's for the same reason—and when we'd looked in the shops a bit we got to Brook Street, Bond Street. It was a brass plate on a door next to a shop—a very grand place, where they sold bonnets and hats—all very bright and smart, and no tickets on them to tell you the price. We rang a bell and a boy opened the door and we asked for Mr. Rosenbaum. The boy was not polite; he did not ask us in. So then Dicky gave him his visiting card; it was one of Father's really, but the name is the same, Mr. Richard Bastable, and we others wrote our names underneath. I happened to page: 141 have a piece of pink chalk in my pocket and we wrote them with that.
Then the boy shut the door in our faces and we waited on the step. But presently he came down and asked our business. So Dicky said—
"Money advanced, young shaver! and don't be all day about it!"
And then he made us wait again, till I was quite stiff in my legs, but Alice liked it because of looking at the hats and bonnets, and at last the door opened, and the boy said—
"Mr. Rosenbaum will see you," so we wiped our feet on the mat, which said so, and we went up stairs with soft carpets and into a room. It was a beautiful room. I wished then we had put on our best things, or at least washed a little. But it was too late now.
The room had velvet curtains and a soft, soft carpet, and it was full of the most splendid things. Black and gold cabinets, and china, and statues, and pictures. There was a picture of a cabbage and a pheasant and a dead hare that was just like life, and I would have given worlds to have it for my own. The fur was so natural I should never have been tired of looking at it; but Alice liked the one of the girl with the broken jug best. Then besides page: 142 the pictures there were clocks and candlesticks and vases, and gilt looking‐glasses, and boxes of cigars and scent and things littered all over the chairs and tables. It was a wonderful place, and in the middle of all the splendour was a little old gentleman with a very long black coat and a very long white beard and a hooky nose—like a falcon. And he put on a pair of gold spectacles and looked at us as if he knew exactly how much our clothes were worth. And then, while we elder ones were thinking how to begin, for we had all said "Good morning" as we came in, of course, H.O. began before we could stop him. He said:
"Are you the G.B.?"
"The what?" said the little old gentleman.
"The G.B.," said H.O., and I winked at him to shut up, but he didn't see me, and the G.B. did. He waved his hand at me to shut up, so I had to, and H.O. went on—
"It stands for Generous Benefactor."
The old gentleman frowned. Then he said, "Your Father sent you here, I suppose?"
"No he didn't," said Dicky. "Why did you think so?"
The old gentleman held out the card, and I explained that we took that because Father's name happens to be the same as Dicky's.page: 143
"Doesn't he know you've come?"
"No," said Alice, "we shan't tell him till we've got the partnership, because his own business worries him a good deal and we don't want to bother him with ours till it's its settled, and then we shall give him half our share."
The old gentleman took off his spectacles and rumpled his hair with his hands, then he said, "Then what did you come for?"
"We saw your advertisement," Dicky said, "and we want a hundred pounds on our note of hand, and my sister came so that there should be both kinds of us; and we want it to buy a partnership with in the lucrative business for sale of useful patent. No personal attendance necessary."
"I don't think I quite follow you," said the G.B. "But one thing I should like settled before entering more fully into the matter: why did you call me Generous Benefactor?"
"Well, you see," said Alice, smiling at him to show she wasn't frightened, though I know really she was, awfully, "we thought it was so very kind of you to try to find out the poor people who want money and to help them and lend them your money."
"Hum!" said the G.B. "Sit down."
He cleared the clocks and vases and candle‐ page: 144 sticks off some of the chairs, and we sat down. The chairs were velvety, with gilt legs. It was like a king's palace.
"Now," he said, "you ought to be at school, instead of thinking about money. Why aren't you?"
We told him that we should go to school again when Father could manage it, but meantime we wanted to do something to restore the fallen fortunes of the House of Bastable. And we said we thought the lucrative patent would be a very good thing. He asked a lot of questions, and we told him everything we didn't think Father would mind our telling, and at last he said—
"You wish to borrow money. When will you repay it?"
"As soon as we've got it, of course," Dicky said.
Then the G.B. said to Oswald, "You seem the eldest," but I explained to him that it was Dicky's idea, so my being eldest didn't matter. Then he said to Dicky—
"You are a minor, I presume?"
Dicky said he wasn't yet, but he had thought of being a mining engineer some day, and going to Klondike.
"Minor, not miner," said the G.B. "I mean you're not of age?"page: 145
"I shall be in ten years, though," said Dicky.
"Then you might repudiate the loan," said the G.B., and Dicky said "What?" Of course he ought to have said "I beg your pardon. I didn't quite catch what you said"—that is what Oswald would have said. It is more polite than "What."
"Repudiate the loan," the G.B. repeated. "I mean you might say you would not pay me back the money, and the law could not compel you to do so."
"Oh, well, if you think we're such sneaks," said Dicky, and he got up off his chair. But the G.B. said, "Sit down, sit down; I was only joking."
Then he talked some more, and at last he said—
"I don't advise you to enter into that partnership. It's a swindle. Many advertisements are. And I have not a hundred pounds by me to‐day to lend you. But I will lend you a pound, and you can spend it as you like. And when you are twenty‐one you shall pay me back."
"I shall pay you back long before that," said Dicky. "Thanks, awfully! And what about the note of hand?"
"Oh," said the G.B., "I'll trust to your page: 146 honour. Between gentlemen, you know—and ladies"—he made a beautiful bow to Alice—"a word is as good as a bond."
Then he took out a sovereign, and held it in his hand while he talked to us. He gave us a lot of good advice about not going into business too young, and about doing our lessons—just swatting a bit, on our own hook, so as not to be put in a low form when we went back to school. And all the time he was stroking the sovereign and looking at it as if he thought it very beautiful. And so it was, for it was a new one. Then at last he held it out to Dicky, and when Dicky put out his hand for it the G.B. suddenly put the sovereign back in his pocket.
"No," he said, "I won't give you the sovereign. I'll give you fifteen shillings, and this nice bottle of scent. It's worth far more than the five shillings I'm charging you for it. And, when you can, you shall pay me back the pound, and sixty per cent. interest—sixty per cent., sixty per cent—"
"What's that?" said H.O.
The G.B. said he'd tell us that when we paid back the sovereign, but sixty per cent. was nothing to be afraid of. He gave Dicky the money. And the boy was made to call a page: 147 cab, and the G.B. put us in and shook hands with us all, and asked Alice to give him a kiss, so she did, and H.O. would do it too, though his face was dirtier than ever. The G.B. paid the cabman and told him what station to go to, and so we went home.
That evening Father had a letter by the seven‐o'clock post. And when he had read it he came up into the nursery. He did not look quite so unhappy as usual, but he looked grave.
"You've been to Mr. Rosenbaum's," he said.
So we told him all about it. It took a long time, and Father sat in the armchair. It was jolly. He doesn't often come and talk to us now. He has to spend all his time thinking about his business. And when we'd told him all about it he said—
"You haven't done any harm this time, children; rather good than harm, indeed. Mr. Rosenbaum has written me a very kind letter."
"Is he a friend of yours, Father?" Oswald asked.
"He is an acquaintance," said my Father, frowning a little, "we have done some business together. And this letter—" he stopped and then said: "No; you didn't do any harm to‐day; but I want you for the future not to do anything so serious as to try to buy a page: 148 partnership without consulting me, that's all. I don't want to interfere with your plays and pleasures; but you will consult me about business matters, won't you?"
Of course we said we should be delighted, but then Alice, who was sitting on his knee, said, "We didn't like to bother you."
Father said, "I haven't much time to be with you, for my business takes most of my time. It is an anxious business—but I can't bear to think of your being left all alone like this."
He looked so sad we all said we liked being alone. And then he looked sadder than ever.
Then Alice said, "We don't mean that exactly, Father. It is rather lonely sometimes, since Mother died."
Then we were all quiet a little while.
Father stayed with us till we went to bed, and when he said good night he looked quite cheerful. So we told him so, and he said—
"Well, the fact is, that letter took a weight off my mind." I can't think what he meant—but I am sure the G.B. would be pleased if he could know he had taken a weight off somebody's mind. He is that sort of man, I think.page: 149
We gave the scent to Dora. It is not quite such good scent as we thought it would be, but we had fifteen shillings—and they were all good, so is the G.B.
And until those fifteen shillings were spent we felt almost as jolly as though our fortunes had been properly restored. You do not notice your general fortune so much, as long as you have money in your pocket. This is why so many children with regular pocket‐money have never felt it their duty to seek for treasure. So, perhaps, our not having pocket‐money was a blessing in disguise. But the disguise was quite impenetrable, like the villains" in the books; and it seemed still more so when the fifteen shillings were all spent. Then at last the others agreed to let Oswald try his way of seeking for treasure, but they were not at all keen about it, and many a boy less firm than Oswald would have chucked the whole thing. But Oswald knew that a hero must rely on himself alone. So he stuck to it, and presently the others saw their duty, and backed him up.


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Bruce McCombs, professor of art at Hope College, has recently had work included in museums' permanent collections and in group exhibitions.
He has had paintings included in the permanent
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New Orleans and other major cities.
McCombs has been a member of the Hope faculty
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Barbara Kellum, a scholar in the visual culture of the ancient Roman world, will deliver this year's Mario and Antoinette Romano Lecture at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 23, in the President's Reception Room in the Anderson Center on the Binghamton University campus. A reception will follow her lecture, "The Stuff of Which Dreams are Made: The Phantasmagoric Imagery of the House of Vettii, Pompeii."
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will focus on one of the most sumptuously decorated houses in Pompeii and present an interpretation of its myriad of imagery as a celebration of its owners' transformation from slave to wealthy free man.
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A recipient of an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship, Kellum is currently completing a book on the visually complex monuments commissioned by wealthy, upwardly mobile former slaves in the Roman world.
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