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50 local gas stations found shorting customers
Inspectors inspect Wisconsin gas pumps
MADISON, Wis. - Inspectors found a few dozen local gas stations shortchanging their customers at the pump, as a new proposal could add to the team of people making sure drivers get what they pay for, a WISC-TV investigation revealed.
About 50 stations throughout southern and southwestern Wisconsin didn't deliver enough fuel since the start of 2011, mostly because of mechanical errors, inspectors said.
"You never know what you're going to get, which is why we're out here doing this," said Jared Williams, a state inspector who covers all of Dane and Iowa counties, except Madison.
No stations were shorting customers in Madison, records indicate. The city, like other metropolitan areas in Wisconsin, has its own inspectors who are able to check every pump yearly.
"I take it really seriously because I'm a consumer too, and I have to fill up my tank," said Cindy Lease, one of three city inspectors. "The cost of fuel has gone up so much, I think people are more aware of making sure everything's right."
The state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection has just 14 inspectors that perform quantity checks in outstate areas, including all of Madison's suburbs, Janesville and Beloit. Stations in cities with more than 5,000 people get tested every year, but not so in rural areas.
"I try to get out to as many pumps as I can in a year's time," Williams said.
Department officials have asked Gov. Scott Walker to triple the number of inspectors in his biennial budget. A separate agency does quality tests, meaning many stations get two inspections per year.
That's inefficient, and training all of them to perform one complete test would allow them to check more stations every year, department leaders said.
About 97.9 percent of pumps in 2011 were within the error rate that's allowed, state data indicate. Only 0.4 percent shortchange customers.
"They're not the evil that everybody thinks they are," Williams said.
Of those that failed tests and had pumps "red-tagged," or shut down until they're fixed, a station in Monona was off by 5 cents a gallon. Another pump in Sun Prairie was off by 29 cents a gallon.
Just as many, if not more, stations give customers more fuel that what they paid for. One pump in Beloit was giving drivers an extra 52 cents a gallon.
All of those errors were fixed, managers told WISC-TV.
State and local inspectors check for errors by pumping five gallons into their proving devices, which have a level to indicate the actual amount pumped. Errors are within the allowed range if they're only a few tablespoons under- or over-delivering.50 local gas stations found shorting customers
It's impossible to check the mechanics of a pump without the expensive devices the inspectors have, but consumers can still look out for two kinds of errors -- meter creep and meter jump.
Meter creep happens when cents continue to add up even after the consumer stops the pump, while meter jump takes place when the price calculates before the consumer begins pumping.
"Since I've been doing this job, I've told my family and my friends to always make sure the pump starts on zero," Williams said. If it doesn't, don't pump and tell the cashier immediately, he said.
No matter whether the station is in a populated area or a rural one, inspectors respond to consumer complaints within two weeks, Williams said.
To report a complaint, call the state hotline, 1-800-422-7128.
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On a recent trip to Sacramento, California, after conducting a seminar, I visited Old Sacramento. Just west of the downtown area, this is a wonderful rendition of what an Old West town must have looked like a long time ago.
There is a statue in Old Sacramento that depicts the beginning point of the Pony Express – a cowboy on a horse with pouches of mail.
It was at 2:45 in the morning on April 4, 1860, when a rider named Sam Hamilton took off to the east in a blinding rainstorm for the 1,966 mile trek to St. Joseph, Missouri.
Now I don't know about you, but I thought that the Pony Express was around for a long time. But it only existed for 19 months, until October of 1861. And, during that time, they carried 35,000 pieces of mail as it connected the western part of the U.S. with the eastern part.
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Creating a peaceful prayer garden
Patty Bonicatto, of Pequot Lakes, has a flower garden to rival the pictures in magazines. Surrounding her house are bursts of color texture from a variety of plants.
For Patty, creating her garden meant creating a place to pray.
"This is sort of my prayer garden," she said. "I needed a place to sit and relax and pray."
Patty began gardening in 1993, but didn't really take to it until she moved to the area in 1999 and began a transformation of her yard.
"I didn't have any sun, it was all shade," Patty said.
She and her husband, Damian, proceeded to remove around 30 trees from their property.
"Then I kind of went to town," Patty said.
Since then, her garden has been an ever-changing space.
"Nothing ever stays the same," Patty said, adding that her husband jokes that when a wheelbarrow goes by, plants jump in.
"I just love designing; the creative end of it," Patty said.
Flower gardens run the length of her driveway, line the outside of the grassy yard, surround the Bonicattos' sun room and sauna, and break up the back yard. Fountains and statues peek out from the plants, and chipmunks dart to small feeders and back out of sight.
Before moving to the area, Patty spent her winters in her Sauk Rapids home, paging through books and learning plant arrangement and design.
Today her garden is in its late summer bloom. Hydrangeas, black-eyed Susans and roses are blooming; mums are on the way and some summer blooms are finishing up.
The hydrangeas are some of Patty's favorite flowers, and she said she has nearly every variety.
She said the work continues as she tweaks the placement of flowers and how she likes them to be arranged.
When fall comes around, as it is now, she finds it to be a relief after gardening for six to seven months. It's a time for her to get refreshed and gather new ideas, she said. In the winter, she likes to cut trails through the woods in her property.
While she loves to garden flowers, Patty claims she's not much of a vegetable gardener.
"I do flowers. If anything happens, we'll be eating flowers," she said.
Patty also helps friends and neighbors with their gardens, including her priest's garden.
"It's fun for me," she said. "It's good therapy when you dig in the dirt. All your troubles just kind of melt away."
It's a space that she enjoys, and she believes that others enjoy it, too.
"I see the beauty of it, it gives me so much peace looking at them," she said. "I think a lot of people find a lot of peace when they're here."
The spiritual aspect of the garden is also important to Patty.
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Due to a deflated air mattress and a terrible night of sleep, please enjoy the beautiful sunrise picture I was awake to take. Haha
Charlie and I went biking riding around the park on some short trails and did a circuit workout before packing up.
We are off to littleton, co (suburb outside Denver) to see my aunt Linda and uncle ken for dinner and cocktails.
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Girls Night Out
A professional planner creates customized bachelorette parties.
by HCTG Staff Writer Patrick Totty, Most photos by Studio Wonderland
In the old days, say, five years ago, here's how a bride-to-be might have gotten together with her best friends for a last fling: A few nights before her wedding day, they'd put on their high-heel sneakers and head out to party into the wee hours. Maybe they'd hit a hot bar, then shift over to a dance club, and then wind up at an all-night diner to gorge on chocolate sundaes.
If the bride was lucky, a friend might take care of some of the arrangements beforehand, and even throw in a nice set of wheels, like a limousine. But all in all, she and her buds were on their own in terms of figuring out where to go and what to do.
These days, thanks to a one-time debutante who's been planning parties since her stint at Sarah Lawrence College, brides all over the U.S. can sit back and relax while a professional planner creates their customized bachelorette party.
The former deb, Pamela Yager, is a stand-up comedian who might as well have an advanced degree in event planning. Her Los Angeles-based company, Arc Entertainment, has been pioneering "pre-wedding party planning" for several years. "There's no real category yet for what we do," she explains. "The industry is so young the Yellow Pages haven't figured out where to put us."
Yager's parties are soup-to-nuts affairs. She organizes the theme, food, venues, personalized gifts and transportation, as well as an entertainer to serve as the host. Usually the entertainers are comedians, but other options are available, including a fabulous graphologist (handwriting analyst). "First I find out what the bride and her guests are like, and then I match them up with the perfect entertainer," Yager says. "Comedians make great party hosts because they create a relaxed atmosphere in which everyone feels free to have fun and be silly."
Her most popular party is "Bride's Night Out," which typically involves whisking a bride-to-be and her friends off in a limo to one or more party sites. Riding along with them is the professional host, who puts everybody in a party mood. At the destination, the festivities involve not only themed food, drinks and games, but a roast or monologue by the host. "We can also provide a party boutique that's a lot like a bridal expo," says Yager. "Much of the stuff we offer isn't available to 'nice' girls—at least not in places they'd want to go looking for it."
While some of Yager's clients don't fancy a glitzy Hollywood-type party, she's confident she can create the right atmosphere for any bride. "We planned an event for one conservative group from Minnesota, and held it in Long Beach rather than Hollywood. Our comedian warmed everybody up so well that even the bride's mom wound up helping dress a male blow-up doll." Some bachelorettes prefer the "Bride's Night In" bash, where the party is held at a private residence. In the comfort of your (or someone else's) home, you can get your guests into the swing of things with Flamenco or belly dance instruction, or pamper them with a manicure and massage. Whether you want a Victorian Hat Party or a private chartered jet to fly you and your girlfriends to Las Vegas, Yager is game to plan a customized fling for you. She's also up on one of the newest trends: brides and their engaged friends combining bachelorette parties and bridal showers.
Although her home base is in L.A., Yager's take-care-of-everything approach works long distance. Last year, Natalie Phillips, who lives in Northern California's Lake County, wanted to throw a bachelorette party for her soon-to-be sister-in-law in Woodland Hills, 500 miles away. She found Yager's website and made a query. "I needed somebody who could make all the arrangements for me and come up with a theme," she explains. "Pamela suggested a Sizzling Salsa Night, which was perfect for us, and we all had a great time partying at a dance club on Universal City Walk in Hollywood.
Would-be clients are often surprised that Yager doesn't do traditional wedding planning, but has instead developed her own specialty services. Besides pre-wedding party planning, she interviews brides and comes up with gift suggestions for their friends. "It takes a lot of the work out of the whole gift-giving process," she says. She also does bridal showers, but is quick to distinguish between them and bachelorette parties. "A bridal shower celebrates the new union, so I approach it differently. There are more relatives involved, and though you play games and make jokes, they're not as sexy or risqué as those of a "Bride's Night Out" party. A bachelorette bash, on the other hand, is the bride's 'last night' to be single, and an opportunity to go a little wild. By spending time with her friends and laughing about old romances, she can purge the past and re-confirm for herself that she's making the right choice."
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"HER ladyship's inquired for you more than once, sir."—This from Winter meeting the pony‐carriage and the returning prodigal at the bottom of the steps.
The sun was low. Across the square lawn—whereon the Clown had found death some thirteen years before—peacocks led home their hens and chicks to roost within the two sexagonal, pepper‐pot summer‐houses that fill in the angles of the red‐walled enclosure. The pea‐fowl stepped mincingly, high‐shouldered, their heads carried low, their long necks undulating with a self‐conscious grace. Dickie's imagination was aglow like that rose‐red, sunset sky. The virile sentiment of all just heard and seen, and the exultation of admitted ownership were upon him. He felt older, stronger, more secure of himself, than ever before. He proposed to go straight to his mother and confess. In his present mood he entertained no fear but that she would understand.
"Is Lady Calmady alone?" he asked.
"Mr. and Mrs. Cathcart are with her, Sir Richard."—Winter leant down, loosening the rug. His usual undemonstrative speech took on a loftiness of tone. "Mrs. William Ormiston and her daughter have driven over with Mrs. Cathcart."—The butler was not without remembrance of that dinner on the day following Dickie's birth. Socially he had never considered Lady Calmady's sister‐in‐law quite up to the Brockhurst level.
Richard leaned back, watching the mincing peacocks. It was so fair here out of doors. The scent of the may hung in the air. The flame of the sunset bathed the façade of the stately house. No doubt it would be interesting to see new people, new relations; but he really cared to see no one, just now, except his mother. From her he wanted to receive absolution, so that, his conscience relieved of the burden of his disobedience, he might revel to the full in the thought of the inheritance upon page: 129 which—so it seemed to him—he had to‐day entered. Still, in his present humour, Dickie's sense of noblesse oblige was strong.
"I suppose I've got to go in and help entertain everybody," he remarked.
"Her ladyship'll think something's wrong, Sir Richard, and be anxious if you stay away."
The boy held out his arms. "All right then, Winter," he said.
Here Chaplin again gave that admonitory cough. Richard, his face hardening to slight scorn, looked at him over the butler's shoulder.
"Oh! You need not be uneasy, Chaplin. When I say I'll do a thing, I don't forget."
Which brief speech caused the butler to reflect, as he bore the boy across the hall and upstairs, that Sir Richard was coming to have an uncommonly high manner about him, at times, considering his age.
An unwonted loudness of conversation filled the Chapel‐Room. It was filled also by the rose‐red light of the sunset streaming in through the curve of the oriel‐window. This confused and dazzled Richard slightly, entering upon it from the silence and sober clearness of the stair‐head. A shrill note of laughter.—Mr. Cathcart's voice saying—"I felt it incumbent upon me to object, Lady Calmady. I spoke very plainly to Fallowfeild."—Julius March's delicately refined tones—"I am afraid spirituality is somewhat deficient in that case."—Then the high, flute‐like notes of a child, rising dearly above the general murmur‐"Ah! enfin—le voilà, Maman. C'est bien lui, n'est‐ce pas?" And with that, Richard was aware of a sudden hush falling upon the assembled company. He was sensible everyone watched him as Winter carried him across the room and set him down in the long, low arm‐chair near the fireplace. Poor Dickie's self‐consciousness, which had been so agreeably in abeyance, returned upon him, and a red, not of the sunset, dyed his face. But he carried his head proudly. He thought of Chifney and the horses. He refused to be abashed.
And Ormiston, breaking the silence, called to him cheerily:—
"Hello, old chap, what have you been up to? You gave Mary and me the slip."
"I know I did," the boy answered bravely. "How d'ye do, Mrs. Cathcart?" as the latter nodded and smiled to him—a large, gentle, comfortable lady, uncertain in outline, thanks to voluminous draperies of black silk and black lace. "How d'ye do, sir?" this to Mr. Cathcart—a tall, neatly‐made man, but for a page: 130 slight roundness of the shoulders. Seeing him, there remained no doubt as to whence Mary inherited her large mouth; but matter for thankfulness that she had avoided further inheritance. For Mr. Cathcart was notably plain. Small eyes and snub nose, long, lower jaw, and grey, forward‐curled whiskers rendered his appearance unfortunately simian. He suggested a caricature; but one, let it be added, of a person undeniably well‐bred.
"My darling, you are very late," Katherine said. Her back was towards her guests as she stooped down arranging the embroidered rug across Dickie's feet and legs. Laying his hand on her wrist he squeezed it closely for a moment.
"I—I'll tell you all about that presently, mummy, when they're gone. I've been enjoying myself awfully—you won't mind?"
Katherine smiled. But, looking up at her, it appeared to Richard that her face was very white, her eyes very large and dark, and that she was very tall and, somehow, very splendid just then. And this fed his fearlessness, fed his young pride, even as, though in a more subtle and exquisite manner, his late experience of the racing‐stable had fed them. His mother moved away and took up her interrupted conversation with Mr. Cathcart regarding the delinquencies of Lord Fallowfeild. Richard looked coolly round the room.
Everyone was there—Julius, Mary, Mademoiselle de Mirancourt, while away in the oriel‐window Roger Ormiston stood talking to a pretty, plump, very much dressed lady, who chattered, laughed, stared, with surprising vivacity. As Dickie looked at her she stared back at him through a pair of gold eye‐glasses. Against her knee, that rosy light bathing her graceful, little figure, leant a girl about Dickie's own age. She wore a pale pink and blue frock, short and outstanding in the skirts. She also wore a broad‐brimmed, white hat, with a garland of blush‐roses around the crown of it. The little girl did not stare. She contemplated Richard languidly, yet with sustained attention. Her attitude and bearing were attractive. Richard wanted to see her close, to talk to her. But to call and ask her to come to him was awkward. And to go to her—the boy grew a little hot again—was more awkward still.
Mrs. Ormiston dropped her gold eye‐glasses into her lap.
"It really is ten thousand pities when these things happen in the wrong rank of life," she said. "Rightly placed they might be so profitable."
"For goodness sake, be careful, Charlotte," Ormiston put in quickly.page: 131
"Oh! my dear creature, don't be nervous. Everybody's attending to everybody else, and if they did hear they wouldn't understand. I'm one of the fortunate persons who are supposed never to talk sense and so I can say what I like." Mrs. Ormiston gave her shrill little laugh. "Oh! there are consolations, depend upon it, in a well‐sustained reputation for folly!"
The laugh jarred on Richard. He decided that he did not quite like his aunt Charlotte Ormiston. All the same he wished the charming, little girl would come to him.
"But to return.—It's a waste. To some poor family it might have been a perfect fortune. And I hate waste. Perhaps you have never discovered that?"
Ormiston let his glance rest on the somewhat showy figure.
"I doubt if William has discovered it either," he remarked.
"Oh! as to your poor brother William, Heaven only knows what he has or has not discovered!—Now, Helen, this conversation becomes undesirable. You've asked innumerable questions about your cousin. Go and make acquaintance with him. I'm the best of mothers of course, but, at times, I really can do quite well without you."
Now surely this was a day of good fortune, for again Dickie had his desire. And a most surprisingly pretty, little desire it proved—seductive even, deliciously finished in person and in manner. The boy gazed at the girl's small hands and small, daintily shod feet, at the small, lovely, pink and white face set in a cloud of golden‐brown hair, at the innocent, blue eyes, at the mouth with upturned corners to it. Richard was not of age to remark the eyes were rather light in colour, the lips rather thin. The exquisite refinement of the girl's whole person delighted him. She was delicate as a miniature, as a figure carved in ivory. She was like his uncle Roger, when she was silent and still. She was like—oh, poor Dick!—some bright glancing, small, saucy bird when she spoke and her voice had those clear, flute tones in it.
"Since you did not come to me, I had to come to you," she said. "I have wanted so much to see you. I had heard about you at home, in Paris."
"Heard about me?" Dickie repeated, flattered and surprised. "But won't you sit down? Look—that little chair. I can reach."
And leaning sideways he stretched out his hand. But his finger‐tips barely touched the top rail. Richard flushed.—"I'm awfully sorry," he said, "but I am afraid—it isn't heavy—I must let you get it yourself."page: 132
The girl, who had watched him intently, her hands clasped, gave a little sigh. Then the corners of her mouth turned up as she smiled. A delightful dimple showed in her right cheek.
"But, of course," she replied, "I will get it."
She settled herself beside him, folded her hands, crossed her feet, exposing a long length of fine, open‐work, silk stocking.
"I desired enormously to see you," she continued. "But when you came in I grew shy. It is so with one sometimes."
"You should use your influence, Lady Calmady," Mr. Cathcart was saying. "Unquestionably the condition of the workhouse is far from satisfactory. And Fallowfeild is too lenient. That laisser‐aller policy of his threatens to land us in serious difficulties. The place is insanitary, and the food is unnecessarily poor. I am not an advocate for extravagance, but I cannot bear to see discomfort which might be avoided. Fallowfeild is the most kind‐hearted of men, but he has a fatal habit of believing what people tell him. And those workhouse officials have got round him. The whole matter ought to be subjected to the strictest investigation."
"It is very nice of you to have wanted so much to see me," Dickie said. His eyes were softly bright.
"Oh! but one always wants to see those who are talked about. It is a privilege to have them for one's relations."
"But—but—I'm not talked about?" the boy put in, somewhat startled.
"But certainly. You are so rich. You have this superb château. You are"—she put her head on one side with a pretty, saucy, birdlike movement—"enfin," she said, "I had the greatest curiosity to make your acquaintance. I shall tell all my young friends at the convent about this visit. I promised them that, as soon as mama said we should probably come here. The good sisters also are interested. I shall recount a whole history of this beautiful castle, and of you, and your"—
She paused, clasped her hands, looking away at her mother, then sideways at Richard, bowing her little person backwards and forwards, laughing softly all the while. And her laughing face was extraordinarily pretty under the shade of her broad‐brimmed hat.
"It is a great misfortune we stay so short a time," she continued. "I shall not see the half of all that I wish to see."
Then an heroic plan of action occurred to Richard. The daring engendered by his recent act of disobedience was still active in him. He was in the humour to attempt the impossible. He longed, moreover, to give this delectable little person pleasure. page: 133 He was willing even to sacrifice a measure of personal dignity in her service.
"Oh! but if you care so much, I—I will show you the house," he said.
"Will you?" she cried, "You and I alone together? But that is precisely what I want. It would be ravishing."
Poor Dickie's heart misgave him slightly; but he summoned all his resolution. He threw off the concealing rug.
"I—I walk very slowly, I'm afraid," he said rather huskily, looking up at her, while in his expression appeal mingled pathetically with defiant pride.
"But, so much the better," she replied. "We shall be the longer together. I shall have the more to observe, to recount."
She was on her feet. She hovered round him, birdlike, intent on his every movement.
Meanwhile the sound of conversation rose continuous. Lady Calmady, calling to Julius, had moved away to the great writing‐table in the farther window. Together they searched among a pile of papers for a letter of Dr. Knott's, embodying his scheme of the new hospital at Westchurch. Mr. Cathcart stood by, expounding his views on the subject.
"Of course a considerable income can be derived from letters of recommendation," he was saying, "in‐patient and out‐patient tickets. The clergy come in there. They cannot be expected to give large donations. It would be unreasonable to expect that of them."
Mademoiselle de Mirancourt, Mrs. Cathcart, and Mary, had drawn their chairs together. The two elder ladies spoke with a subdued enthusiasm, discussing pleasant details of the approaching wedding, which promised the younger lady so glad a future. Mrs. Ormiston chattered; while Ormiston, listening to her, gazed away down the green length of the elm avenue, beyond the square lawn and pepper‐pot summer‐houses, and pitied men who made such mistakes in the matter of matrimony as his brother William obviously had. The rose of the sunset faded in the west. Bats began to flit forth, hawking against the still‐warm house‐walls for flies.
And so, unobserved, Dickie slipped out of the security of his arm‐chair, and rose to that sadly deficient full height of his. He was nervous, and this rendered his balance more than ever uncertain. He shuffled forward, steadying himself by a piece of furniture here and there in passing, until he reached the wide open space before the door on to the stair‐head. And it page: 134 required some fortitude to cross this space, for here was nothing to lay hold of for support.
Little Helen Ormiston had kept close beside him so far. Now she drew back, leaving him alone. Leaning against a table, she watched his laborious progress. Then a fit of uncontrollable laughter took her. She flew half‐way across to the oriel‐window, her voice ringing out clear and gay, though broken by bursts of irrepressible merriment.
"Regardez, regardez donc, Maman! Ma bonne m'avait dit qu'il était un avorton, et que ce serait très amusant de le voir. Elle m'a conseiller de lui faire marcher."
She darted back, and clapping her hands upon the bosom of her charming frock, danced, literally danced and pirouetted around poor Dickie.
"Moi, je ne comprenais pas ce que c'était qu'un avorton," she continued rapidly. "Mais je comprends parfaitement maintenant. C'est un monstre, n'est‐ce pas, Maman?"
She threw back her head, her white throat convulsed by laughter.
"Ah! Mon Dieu, qu'il est drôle!" she cried.
Silence fell on the whole room, for sight and words alike were paralysing in their grotesque cruelty. Ormiston was the first to speak. He laid his hand somewhat roughly on his sister‐in‐law's shoulder.
"For God's sake, stop this, Charlotte," he said. "Take the girl away. Little brute," he added, under his breath, as he went hastily across to poor Dick.
But Lady Calmady had been beforehand with him. She swept across the room, flinging aside the dainty, dancing figure as she passed. All the primitive fierceness, the savage tenderness, of her motherhood surged up within her. Katherine was in the humour to kill just then, had killing been possible. She was magnificently regardless of consequences, regardless of conventionalities, regardless of every obligation save that of sheltering her child. She cowered down over Richard, putting her arms about him, knew—without question or answer—that he had heard and understood. Then gathering him up against her, she stood upright, facing them all, brother, sister, old and tried friends, a terrible expression in her eyes, the boy's face pressed down upon her shoulder. For the moment she appeared alienated from, and at war with, even Julius, even Marie de Mirancourt. No love, however faithful, could reach her. She was alone, unapproachable, in her immense anger and immense sense of outrage.page: 135
"I will ask you to go," she said to her sister‐in‐law,—"to go and take your daughter with you, and to enter this house no more."
Mrs. Ormiston did not reply. Even her chatter was for the moment stilled. She pressed a handkerchief against the little dancer's forehead, and it was stained with blood.
"Ah! she is a wicked woman!" wailed the child. "She has hurt me. She threw me against the table. Maman quel malheur ça se verra. Il y aura certainement une cicatrice!"
"Nonsense," Ormiston said harshly. "It's nothing, Kitty, the merest scratch."
"Yes, my dear, we will have the carriage at once,"—this from Mr. Cathcart to his wife. The incident, from all points of view, shocked his sense of propriety. Immediate retirement became his sole object.
Lady Calmady moved away, carrying the boy. She trembled a little. He was heavy. Moreover, she sickened at the sight of blood. But little Helen Ormiston caught at her dress, and looked up at her.
"I hate you," she said, hissing the words out with concentrated passion between her pretty even teeth. "You have spoilt me. I will hate you always, when I grow up. I will never forget."
Alone in the great state‐bedroom next door, a long time elapsed before either Richard or Katherine spoke. The boy leaned back against the sofa cushions, holding his mother's hand. The casements stood wide open, and little winds laden with the scent of the hawthorns in the park wandered in, gently stirring the curtains of the ebony bed, so that the Trees of the Forest of This Life, thereon embroidered, appeared somewhat mournfully to wave their branches, while the Hart fled forward and the Leopard, relentless in perpetual pursuit, followed close behind. There was a crunching of wheels on the gravel, a sound of hurried farewells. Then in a minute or two more the evening quiet held its own again.
Suddenly Dickie flung himself down across Katherine's lap, his poor body shaken by a tempest of weeping.
"Mother, I can't bear it—I can't bear it," he sobbed. "Tell me, does everybody do that?"
"Do what, my own precious?" she said, calm from very excess of sorrow. Later she would weep too, in the dark, lying lonely in the cold comfort of that stately bed.
"Laugh at me, mother, mock at me?" and his voice, for all that he tried to control it, tore at his throat and rose almost to a shriek.


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Alternate name: Allegheny Dusky Salamander
Family: Plethodontidae, Lungless Salamanders view all from this family
Description Medium sized, brownish in color with smooth skin and varying patterns, usually with a stripe down the back with dark spots in the centre and flanking either side.
Dimensions 7-11cm. (2 3/4-4 3/8")
Breeding Breeds in Fall. Up to 2 dozen eggs laid, attached to moss near water. female guards nest. Larvae hatch following summer. Sexually mature after 3 years.
Habitat Under stones, logs, and bark near springs, streams and other areas where the ground is saturated with water.
Range Found in Canada and the USA. From the Hudson River to Georgia and Alabama.
Discussion Needs to keep its skin wet to breathe since it is 'lungless'. Somewhat terrestrial. Congregates in groups around springheads during winter. This is also for breeding and serves as a good place to lay larvae. Diest consists of small invertebrates and insects.


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gotta a question that i don't know the answer to.
yesterday while sewing in a food-plot, i ran over part of a hen's nest, damaging 1 egg. she had a total of 10 eggs in the nest. i took the damaged one and discarded it and did not disturb the rest.will she return to the nest or will it be abandoned? i am really not sure why she had a nest in this area to begin with. open pasture, low lying grass, in between 2 cedar trees. not much cover at all.


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The school and Boys State officials made the announcement this past week.
The program brings high school seniors-to-be together to teach them about government.
Boys State will begin on campus this year.
Boy State has been held at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg the last couple of years.


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COOL! I just tried it.
It let's you arrange them in the order you like as well.
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Cool efficient way to browse the boards
Being that the FFF now has over 30 boards I wanted to go over a great way to make it browsing quick and painless (besides, a guy who loves RPLXIs suggested I do it too).
When I come to the FFF I see only 7 boards. Beside each board is a little icon (either the fish or the fly)that tells whether or not there are any new posts since my last visit. The whole process is cooked down to a short ammount of time.
How? It's the "User CP" button. It's at the top/middle of every page. It looks like this:
But before you go there you have to fill it up with only the boards you want to see. So pop into any board like: Stripers and Coastal Gamefish for instance. Over to the right you will see a button:
Now just below it there's a link that says:
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Click on that and bang it's in your User CP (btw cp stands for "Control Panel"). That's all there is to it. Now go to you User CP and see that board will be in there. You will also notice any subscribed threads and your mail messages there as well.
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While fantasizing about training animals to start a band, Jon Singer decided to launch a human ragtime band that parades around as other species (like the Banana Splits)—so, a year ago, Xylopholks was born. Singer appears as xylophone player "Skunky," alongside his sidekick "Pink Gorilla" on upright bass, plus percussionist/composer "Baboon," "Chicken" on the banjo, and "Dog," who plays the piano (like Rowlf from The Muppet Show) when there's one available. Special guests who sometimes jam with the group include a panda and a banana. Singer and his friends love playing at subway stations: "We enjoy the completely New York experience of folks (casually) walking by as if pink gorillas and skunks are always playing on the platforms." Though they're leaving for India in November to study percussion and perform, Singer vows that they're returning to Gotham in the spring to play again: "Xylopholks must live forever!" he insists.
In New York theater, actors and directors are important, of course—playwrights and designers, too. But in this city, the biggest role in theater is played by real estate—the cost of renting a decent theater can be a killer. So it's with constant awe that we contemplate 59E59 Theaters, which provides one of the greatest rental deals in town. Take their Theater B, for example—the kind of 99-seater very much in demand for productions operating under Equity's showcase code. Theater B rents for $3,500 per week—not nothing, but cheaper than most rooms of its size and quality. But that's just the start. 59E59 Theaters also tosses in—for free!—full front-of-house staff, ticketing and box-offices services, a weekly Time Out ad (and sometimes a Times ABC), program design and printing, and, maybe most remarkably, a press agent. (A good press agent would normally cost your show between $2,000 and $3,500.) All of this with no box-office rake—companies keep 100 percent of their ticket sales. So a collective bravo to artistic director Elysabeth Kleinhans and executive producer Peter Tear for creating such an affordable venue for all our aspiring Belascos.
The theatrical hotbed that New York happily is, we're blessed with any number of highly talented stage directors. But the one most catching our eye these days—whose name attached to a show most warms us with optimism—is the quietly intrepid Ken Rus Schmoll. This past season, the Village Voice Obie Committee agreed, awarding Schmoll his first Obie—and likely not his last—for his production of Ariana Reines's Telephone, directed for the Foundry Theatre at the Cherry Lane. Schmoll brought a steady hand and hypnotic vision to this tricky triptych, which ended up being one of the most curious shows of the season. Indeed, oddness and calmness combine noticeably in his work—such as in his staging of Rob Handel's eerie-suburban Millicent Scowlworthy at the Summer Play Festival a few years ago, or, more recently, in his production of Kristin Newbom's amusing-sad Telethon at Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks. As much as we love him downtown, here's hoping he also finds some uptown success, perhaps with Ann Marie Healy's What Once We Felt, starting October 26 for Lincoln Center's LCT3 series.
Someone—and I'm glad it won't be me—will write a book about the Brooklyn indie-rock scene in the next five years. (Prospective titles: Brooklyn (We Go Soft), A Tweet Grows in Brooklyn, My Friend Flickr, I Don't Mean to Seem Like I Care About Material Things, Bleed American Apparel, or something involving the word "hipster," in which case you have my permission to steal all the copies you can find and throw them off the nearest bridge.) This tome will exhaustively discuss the genesis, ascendance, and far-reaching influence of such borough big shots as TV on the Radio, the Fiery Furnaces, M.I.A., Grizzly Bear, Santigold, Animal Collective, MGMT, Matt and Kim, Sufjan Stevens, Todd P, the Dirty Projectors, and on and on. If we're lucky, this author will be a rational, knowledgeable, thoroughly embedded BK native who won't resort to wackadoo stereotypes and clueless blog-baiting. If we're even luckier, though, this author will be, and do, the exact opposite. The best thing about living in Brooklyn is reading hilarious, oblivious accounts of what living in Brooklyn is like. Wayward journalistic attempts at infiltrating youth culture are a time-honored tradition, geography notwithstanding: The winsomely confused recent Santa Barbara Independent treatise that began, "There's only one viable avant-garde art form nowadays, and it's called indie rock" and declared Devendra Banhart "the Bob Dylan heir apparent of this age" sure was a hoot. But they're infinitely better when they focus on Brooklyn generally—and Williamsburg, specifically—conjuring in the befuddled reader's mind's eye a toxic utopia of snooty, self-obsessed coolness fueled by retro fetishism, mindless elitism, and paralyzing narcissism.
Time birthed a genre classic in July. Category: "Brief History." Headline: "Hipsters." Photo caption: "New York hipsters participate in a water-balloon toss at McCarren Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn." Alleged fashion traits: cowboy hats, berets, jean shorts, Converse All-Stars, and "T-shirts silk-screened with quotes from movies you've never heard of." (Berets?) Not delving into musical matters much (beyond opening the piece with "Hipsters are the friends who sneer when you cop to liking Coldplay") showed some restraint, I suppose; wrapping things up by alluding to the imminent, recession-aided demise of "Williamsburg's hipster playland" did not.
Sure, newsweeklies have trafficked in this nonsense for decades. (Either Time or Newsweek filed an epic early-'90s report on "alternative rock," suggesting that if I liked They Might Be Giants, I would love the Butthole Surfers, which is probably the single worst piece of advice I have ever received.) And nowadays, you don't even need a hapless print journalist to indulge such stereotypes, what with a glut of acidly satirical blogs (Hipster Runoff and the book-deal-adorned Look at This Fucking Hipster chief among them) to peruse. Or, for the reading-averse, you could just check out photo slideshows from Jelly's summer-long series of weekly Pool Parties, which migrated this year from an actual pool (at McCarren Park, of course) to the slightly more picturesque East River State Park, but retained the event's star attraction: unbeatable people-watching.
Dressed carefully but haphazardly, childishly but usually salaciously (i.e., "more topless women than non-topless women," as the Voice delicately chose to describe its own round-up of patrons at a Girl Talk fete), often more than 10,000 eager young'uns mashed into "the Williamsburg Waterfront" on Sunday afternoons this summer, and you only have to shuffle through 20 to 25 candid Internet portraits of beaming folks with fey tattoos and ribald undergarments and not-very-sunlight-obstructing sunglasses to get some very strange ideas about what planet they're living on, even if you're living on it as well, just down the street. In spite of yourself, you start to believe this utopia actually exists. Jay-Z got into the act, too, famously dropping by Grizzly Bear's Pool Party gig in late August, swaying along to the quartet's baroque pop with Beyonc at his side and later raving about "the indie-rock movement" and its potential to "push hip-hop even further." It all starts to indeed seem quite momentous, glamorous, revolutionary. The Brooklyn Summer of Love! It's all happening!
The best antidote to this sort of talk, of course, is to actually go to a Pool Party. They're great fun, and lousy with great distractions (dodgeball, relatively cheap food, Mission of Burma), but to your initial surprise and eventual relief, the teeming masses surrounding you carry no whiff of the Zeitgeist, do not unify into a single influential body that Time or Jay-Z or whoever can then categorize and praise (or deride) as Hipsters, Indie-Rockers, Gen-YYY'ers, etc. These are simply young, hungover, sunburned, disquietingly dressed, possibly unemployed people who showed up because everyone else was showing up, and it's free, and maybe someone will take a picture of them dancing to Dan Deacon or tossing water balloons or whatever and peg them as emblematic of an entirely new and vital social class.
Nor does Brooklyn's actual music necessarily betray a great deal of camaraderie or continuity: There are friends, partnerships, and small cliques, but no overarching, BK-centric themes connecting the interests of TVOTR, the Vivian Girls, the Drums, or MGMT. This year, we've had a run on Best Brooklyn Indie-Rock Record of All Time candidates, starting with (only somewhat affiliated) Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion and continuing on through Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest and—my personal favorite—the Dirty Projectors' Bitte Orca, a bewildering blend of West African guitar-god exuberance, choral elegance, and abrasive noise-rock that feels like nothing you've heard before and nothing you could possibly hear afterward. Neither the band nor its myriad Brooklynite fans can be so easily, blithely classified. Still, we hope people never stop trying.
New York theaters have many advantages over our London counterparts. Programs are free, seats a tad roomier, and you're more unlikely to be glared at should you express enthusiasm for the play and its stars. Nevertheless, there's one aspect of auditoria at which the Brits excel—the theater bar. At many London venues, a comfortable pub or chic café adjoins the performance space. Spectators can grab a quick bite before the show or linger over a drink after, often in the company of the play's cast and crew. Meanwhile, Gotham's vision of hospitality involves a small kiosk profferring stale coffee and a few packs of Twizzlers. But last season, a few theaters decided that while music may be the food of love, food and drinks are pretty loveable, too. Here Arts Center added the café-bar 1 Dominick, a charming space in which to sit and enjoy a pre-show Limonata. Now if only we can convince local playhouses to start selling ice cream at intermission, we'll have those Brits beat.
Of all the disciplines within New York theater, we're most loaded with acting talent. How many mediocre plays have we seen rescued by the performers, their creativity and ingenuity elevating the production well beyond its limitations? So it's perhaps unfair to single out a Best Actress or Best Actor from the city's many deserving thespians. But we're going to do it anyway, dammit! Our nod for Best Actress goes to the aptly named Elizabeth Marvel. While not an above-the-title star, the Juilliard grad consistently delivers some of the city's most riveting performances—the three-time Obie winner digs down so deep into her characters that it's frightening. Who can forget her remarkable performance as Hedda Gabler—covered in tomato juice—in Ivo van Hove's 2005 production of Ibsen's classic, or her slow, desperate, naked slide into a bathtub in Van Hove's 2000 deconstruction of A Streetcar Named Desire, both mounted at New York Theatre Workshop? NYTW is also often home to our choice for Best Actor, Bill Camp, who won a 2002 Obie for his role in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul on that East 4th Street stage. Camp specializes in slippery, tormented characters—most recently, he was the Underground Man in Notes From Underground, directed by Robert Woodruff at Yale Rep. It was a grueling portrayal, in the best possible way, and we hope it hits a New York theater soon. Camp is always a pleasure—if sometimes an anguished one—to watch. Why name our Best Actress and Best Actor in the same item? It only seems fitting—Marvel and Camp are married. —Brian Parks


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Rob Gronkowski will undergo back surgery Tuesday in Los Angeles.
The recovery time is expected to be 12 weeks; six weeks of rest and six to rebuild strength and resume conditioning. 12 weeks -- or 84 days -- from Tuesday, June 18 would be September 10. The Patriots visit the Bills on September 8, so obviously Gronkowski is going to be in a race to play the opener. Most likely, he won't make it. Gronkowski will open training camp on the active/PUP list. It's not out of the question that he'll stay there for the first six games of the season, although that decision is not imminent. We'll get a better feel for Gronkowski's likely return date in weeks 9-11 of the 12-week recovery.
Coach Jeff Fisher hinted that the Rams envision second-year RB Daryl Richardson as a space player.
Richardson is a work in progress as an inside runner, but the Rams love getting his sub-4.5 speed on the edge. "We have to get the ball to him in the passing game more," said Fisher. "We were spreading it out, but we weren't necessarily going to the backs as much as we would've liked. Any time we can get Daryl the ball in space, it's going to put added pressure on the other team." Richardson projects as a 5-12 touch-per-game back in 2013.
Packers rookie Eddie Lacy currently weighs 238 pounds, up seven pounds from his Combine weigh-in.
Lacy is reportedly looking good in pre-training camp practices, but the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel suspects the Packers want Lacy to play his rookie season at a lighter weight.
The Bills' decision to release quarterback Tarvaris Jackson suggests that they feel good about going into training camp with a two-man battle between Manuel and Kevin Kolb for the starting job. And if Manuel keeps getting better every day, he'll likely be better than Kolb by the first day of the season.
Manuel said at the end of the Bills' offseason work that he believes he has improved consistently throughout the offseason.
"I thought I got better every day. That's the biggest thing for me just continue to develop and get better each day and continue to work hard," Manuel told the team's website. "I feel very comfortable around the coaches, my teammates and the guys on offense as well as defense. I love the competitive nature about the team. It's a great blueprint that I'm happy to be a part of."
The National Football Post's Dan Pompei reports the Colts "will be trying to get" Darrius Heyward-Bey more opportunities than he ever had in Oakland.
Pompei adds that the Colts are looking to develop their vertical passing attack further this season, and part of their enthusiasm has to do with DHB's acquisition. The coaching staff sees Heyward-Bey as a "potentially explosive playmaker" who can get behind coverage.
ESPN New York reports RB Mike Goodson's future with the Jets remains "up in the air."
Goodson is facing five charges after his May weapons and drugs arrest. His case is headed to a grand jury, but that process could take a few months. On the practice field, Goodson's explosiveness has reportedly been impressive. If he makes the team, expect him to be the change-of-pace to Chris Ivory.
The Cowboys reportedly believe fifth-round pick Joseph Randle can be a "full-time back" if DeMarco Murray suffers another injury.
Also injury prone in college, Murray has missed nine games through two NFL seasons.
The Denver Post considers 75 catches the ideal number for Wes Welker and Eric Decker.
Reporter Mike Klis believes the "new balance" in the Broncos' passing attack needs to be Welker and Decker each snagging around 75 balls while Demaryius Thomas gets 85. Peyton Manning has never been a part of an offense where at least three players caught 75 passes
1pt/15yds passing and 6pts per passing touchdown.
Pick 1, 24, 25. In that scoring system, the top quarterbacks will be flying off the board.
Brees/rodgers et al were hitting 60-80 pts/week
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By Carlie Kollath Wells/NEMS Daily Journal
Friday wraps up my six years at the Daily Journal. I'm moving to New Orleans to join my husband, Caleb. He got a job there in December and I'm looking forward to being in the same ZIP code with him again.
I'll be freelancing and eating my way around the Big Easy.
Follow my adventures at NewinNOLAblog.com or on Twitter: @carlie_kollath and @newinNOLA.
Dennis Seid, business editor, will continue to cover business in Northeast Mississippi. The Daily Journal is in the process of interviewing candidates to fill my position so please extend the same warm welcome to him/her that you did for me.
It's a bittersweet departure because while New Orleans has its appeal, there's still so much more to do here professionally.
My to-do list of business stories grows daily. It's my proof that Tupelo has a lot going on, whether it is a new restaurant opening or a store closing or a business celebrating an anniversary. The business sector is bustling in Tupelo and it's a good time to be a reporter here.
But, on Friday, I'll turn in my laptop and hang up my Daily Journal press pass.
Thank you, readers, business owners, shoppers, leaders and residents, for your support during my time in Tupelo. Even though I grew up in Gulfport, I didn't know much about Tupelo when I relocated from New York six years ago. You each took the time to educate me, share stories with me and give me directions. Thank you.
And thank you for your loyal following in print and online. It gives me warm fuzzies to see stories I wrote framed on the walls of your business. I love overhearing people talk about a story they read in the Journal.
And I love the calls, emails and tweets from you. Thank you for making Biz Buzz, our business blog, the most popular news blog at the Journal. You've followed along as we've been the first to break business stories in Tupelo. You've also made the blog better by sending in your tips. Thank you.
I'm going to miss Tupelo. I will miss covering Elvis events in his hometown.
I'll miss talking with farmers in their fields.
I'll miss laughing with business owners when they open their shops and commiserating with them when they close.
I'll miss getting kicked out of businesses and being directed to corporate offices for comments.
I'll miss the food and the shopping options all over the region.
I'll miss my church family.
I'll miss my first home – a historic Craftsman bungalow in Mill Village.
The city has been good to me and I'm so incredibly grateful. I've made lifelong friends in Tupelo and I met my husband here two years ago. My experience in Tupelo has exceeded my expectations and I have y'all to thank for much of that.
Thank you for sharing these past six years with me.
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One of my favorite characters from FT's of yesteryear was Mr David Crow, he was a wealthy man from Louisiana who had multiple FC AFC and also won the National with NFC AFC Happy Playboys Pearl...he would dress in either a tweed or houndstooth jacket, sometimes including a shirt and tie and wear hats ala Tom Landry..heck of a generous gentleman to me and my brother..his idea of slumming would be to wear a turtleneck under a sportcoat with leather sleeve patches
I think the only echoes may be in her head...
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"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
I hate to bring this thread back on topic but ….
UB, The latest reports from Minnesota indicate that health care spending accounts for nearly 14 percent of the state's economy at $37.7 billion. The 2011 data also indicate that health care costs slowed to the smallest increase since 1997.
Even at your reported higher costs, the cost of the exchange will be 0.01432 percent (14/1000th of one percent) of annual health care spending in the state. The exchanges are a great idea to provide consumers with access to a variety of private insurance programs in a competitive marketplace. If the private marketplace competition works, it would sure seem that this tiny fraction of annual health care costs could be easily recovered. In addition, I wonder how much savings will be recovered by small and large businesses who now spend quite a few dollars on their own negotiating and administrating insurance enrollment for employees.
I for one am glad my state took the initiative to develop our own exchange rather than depend on the federal government.


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