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IT had been agreed that the marriage should take place, in the country, one day in the first week of August. This at Richard's request. Then the young man asked a further favour, namely that the ceremony might be performed in the private chapel at Brockhurst, rather than in the Whitney parish church. This last proposal, it must be owned, when made to him by Lady Calmady caused Lord Fallowfeild great searchings of heart.
"I give you my word, my dear boy, I never felt more awkward in my life," he said, subsequently, to his chosen confidant, Shotover. "Can quite understand Calmady doesn't care to court publicity. Told his mother I quite understood. page: 328 Shouldn't care to court it myself if I had the misfortune to share his—well, personal peculiarities, don't you know, poor young fellow. Still this seems to me an uncomfortable, hole and corner sort of way of behaving to one's daughter—marrying her at his house instead of from my own. I don't half approve of it. Looks a little as if we were rather ashamed of the whole business."
"Well, perhaps we are," Lord Shotover remarked.
"For God's sake, then, don't mention it!" the elder man broke out, with unprecedented asperity. "Don't approve of strong language," he added hastily. "Never did approve of it, and very rarely employ it myself. An educated man ought to be able to express himself quite sufficiently clearly without having recourse to it. Still, I must own this engagement of Constance's has upset me more than almost any event of my life. Nasty, anxious work marrying your daughters. Heavy responsibility marrying your daughters. And, as to this particular marriage, there's so very much to be said on both sides. And I admit to you, Shotover, if there's anything I hate it's a case where there's very much to be said on both sides. It trips you up, you see, at every turn. Then I feel I was not fairly treated. I don't wish to be hard on your brother Ludovic and your sisters, but they sprung it upon me, and I am not quick in argument, never was quick, if I am hurried. Never can be certain of my own mind when I am hurried—was not certain of it when Lady Calmady proposed that the marriage should be at Brockhurst. And so I gave way. Must be accommodating to a woman, you know. Always have been accommodating to women—got myself into uncommonly tight places by being so more than once when I was younger"—
Here the speaker cheered up visibly, contemplating his favourite son with an air at once humorous and contrite.
"You're well out of it, you know, Shotover, with no ties," he continued, "at least, I mean, with no wife and family. Not that I don't consider every man owning property should marry sooner or later. More respectable if you've got property to marry, roots you in the soil, gives you a stake, you know, in the future of the country. But I'd let it be later—yes, thinking of marriageable daughters, certainly I'd let it be later."
From which it may be gathered that Richard's demands were conceded at all points. And this last concession involved many preparations at Brockhurst, to effect which Lady Calmady left London with the bulk of the household page: 329 about the middle of July, while Richard remained in Lowndes Square and the neighbourhood of his little fiancée—in company with a few servants and many brown holland covers—till such time as that young lady should also depart to the country. It was just now that Lady Louisa Barking gave her annual ball, always one of the latest, and this year one of the smartest, festivities of the season.
"I mean it to be exceedingly well done," she said to her sister Alicia. "And Mr. Barking entirely agrees with me. I feel I owe it not only to myself, but to the rest of the family to show that none of us see anything extraordinary in Connie's marriage, and that whatever Shotover's debts may have been, or may be, they are really no concern at all of ours."
In obedience to which laudable determination the handsome mansion in Albert Gate opened wide its portals, and all London—a far from despicable company in numbers, since Parliament was still sitting and the session promised to be rather indefinitely prolonged—crowded its fine stairways and suites of lofty rooms, resplendent in silks and satins, jewels and laces, in orders and titles, and manifold personal distinctions of wealth, or office, or beauty, while strains of music and scent of flowers pervaded the length and breadth of it, and the feet of the dancers sped over its shining floors.
It chanced that Honoria St. Quentin found herself, on this occasion, in a meditative, rather than an active, mood. True, the scene was remarkably brilliant. But she had witnessed too many parallel scenes to be very much affected by that. So it pleased her fancy to moralise, to discriminate—not without a delicate sarcasm—between actualities and appearances, between the sentiments which might be divined really to animate many of the guests, and those conventional presentments of sentiment which the manner and bearing of the said guests indicated. She assured Lord Shotover she would rather not dance, that she preferred the attitude of spectator, whereupon that gentleman proposed to her to take sanctuary in a certain ante‐chamber, opening off Lady Louisa Barking's boudoir, which was cool, dimly lighted, and agreeably remote from the turmoil of the entertainment now at its height.
The acquaintance of these two persons was, in as far as time and the number of their meetings went, but slight, and, at first sight, their tastes and temperaments would seem wide asunder as the poles. But contrast can form a strong bond of union. And the young man, when his fancy was engaged, was among those who do not waste time over preliminaries. If pleased, he page: 330 bundled, neck and crop, into intimacy. And Miss St. Quentin, her fearless speech, her amusingly detached attitude of mind, and her gallant bearing, pleased him mightily from a certain point of view. He pronounced her to be a "first‐rate sort," and entertained a shrewd suspicion that, as he put it, Ludovic "was after her." He commended his brother's good taste. He considered she would make a tip‐top sister‐in‐law. While the young lady, on her part, accepted his advances in a friendly spirit. His fraternal attitude and unfailing good‐temper diverted her. His rather doubtful reputation piqued her curiosity. She accepted the general verdict, declaring him to be good‐for‐nothing, while she enjoyed the conviction that, rake or no rake, he was incapable of causing her the smallest annoyance, or being guilty—as far as she herself was concerned—of the smallest indiscretion.
"You know, Miss St. Quentin," he remarked, as he established himself comfortably, not to say cosily, on a sofa beside her,—"over and above the pleasure of a peaceful little talk with you, I am not altogether sorry to seek retirement. You see, between ourselves, I'm not, unfortunately, in exactly good odour with some members of the family just now. I don't think I'm shy"—
Honoria smiled at him through the dimness.
"I don't think you're shy," she said.
"Well, you know, when you come to consider it from an unprejudiced standpoint, what the dickens is the use of being shy? It's only an inverted kind of conceit at best, and half the time it makes you stand in your own light."
"Clearly it's a mistake every way," the young lady asserted. "And, happily, it's one of which I can entirely acquit you of being guilty."
Lord Shotover threw back his head and looked sideways at his companion.—Wonderfully graceful woman she was certainly! Gave you the feeling she'd all the time there was or ever would be. Delightful thing to see a woman who was never in a hurry.
"No, honestly I don't believe I'm weak in the way of shyness," he continued. "If I had been, I shouldn't be here to‐night. My sister Louisa didn't press me to come. Strange as it may appear to you, Miss St. Quentin, I give you my word she didn't. Nor has she regarded me with an exactly favourable eye since my arrival. I am not abashed, not a bit. But I can't disguise from myself that again I have gone, and been, and jolly well put my foot in it."
He whistled very softly under his breath.—"Oh! I have, I promise you, even on the most modest computation, very extensively and comprehensively put my foot in it!"page: 331
"How?" inquired Honoria.
Lord Shotover's confidences invariably amused her, and just now she welcomed amusement. For, crossing her hostess' boudoir, she had momentarily caught sight of that which changed the speculative sarcasm of her meditations to something approaching pain—namely a pretty, wide‐eyed, childish face rising from out a cloud of white tulle, white roses, and diamonds, the expression of which had seemed to her distressingly remote from all the surrounding gaiety and splendour. Actualities and appearances here were surely radically at variance? And, now, she smilingly turned on her elbow and made brief inquiry of her companion, promising herself good measure of superficial entertainment which should serve to banish that pathetic countenance, and allay her suspicion of a sorrowful happening which she was powerless alike to hinder or to help.
Lord Shotover pushed his hands into his trousers pockets, leaned far back on the sofa, turning his head so that he could look at her comfortably without exertion and chuckling, a little, as he spoke.
"Well, you see," he said, "I brought Decies. No, you're right, I'm not shy, for to do that was a bit of the most barefaced cheek. My sister Louisa hadn't asked him. Of course she hadn't. At bottom she's awfully afraid he may still upset the apple‐cart. But I told her I knew, of course, she had intended to ask him, and that the letter must have got lost somehow in the post, and that I knew how glad she'd be to have me rectify the little mistake. My manner was not jaunty, Miss St. Quentin, or defiant—not a bit of it. It was frank, manly, I should call it manly and pleasing. But Louisa didn't seem to see it that way somehow. She withered me, she scorched me, reduced me to a cinder, though she never uttered one blessed syllable. The hottest corner of the infernal regions resided in my sister's eye at that moment, and I resided in that hottest corner, I tell you. Of course I knew I risked losing the last rag of her regard when I brought Decies. But you see, poor chap, it is awfully rough on him. He was making the running all through the winter. I could not help feeling for him, so I chucked discretion"—
"For the first and only time in your life," put in Honoria gently. "And pray who and what is this disturber of domestic peace, Decies?"
"Oh! you know the whole affair grows out of this engagement of my little sister Connie's. By the way, though, the Calmadys are great friends of yours, aren't they, Miss St. Quentin?"
The young man regarded her anxiously, fearful lest he should page: 332 have endangered the agreeable intimacy of their present relation by the introduction of an unpalatable subject of conversation. Even in this semi‐obscurity he perceived that her fine smile had vanished, while the lines of her sensitive face took on a certain rigidity and effect of sternness. Lord Shotover regretted that. For some reason, he knew not what, she was displeased. He, like an ass, evidently had blundered.
"I'm awfully sorry," he began, "perhaps—perhaps"—
"Perhaps it is very impertinent for a mere looker‐on like myself to have any views at all about this marriage," Honoria put in quickly.
"Bless you, no, it's not," he answered. "I don't see how anybody can very well be off having views about it—that's just the nuisance. The whole thing shouts, confound it. So you might just as well let me hear your views, Miss St. Quentin. I should be awfully interested. They might help to straighten my own out a bit."
Honoria paused a moment, doubting how much of her thought it would be justifiable to confide to her companion. A certain vein of knight‐errantry in her character inclined her to set lance in rest and ride forth, rather recklessly, to redress human wrongs. But in redressing one wrong it too often happens that another wrong—or something perilously approaching one—must be inflicted. To save pain in one direction is, unhappily, to inflict pain in the opposite one. Honoria was aware how warmly Lady Calmady desired this marriage. She loved Lady Calmady. Therefore her loyalty was engaged, and yet—
"I am no match‐maker," she said at last, "and so probably my view is unnecessarily pessimistic. But I happened to see Lady Constance just now, and I cannot pretend that she struck me as looking conspicuously happy."
Lord Shotover flattened his shoulders against the back of the sofa, expanding his chest and thrusting his hands still farther into his pockets with a movement at once of anxiety and satisfaction.
"I don't believe she is," he asserted. "Upon my word you're right. I don't believe she is. I doubted it from the first, and now I'm pretty certain. Of course I know I'm a bad lot, Miss St. Quentin. I've been very little but a confounded nuisance to my people ever since I was born. They're all ten thousand times better than I am, and they're doing what they honestly think right. All the same I believe they're making a ghastly mistake. They're selling the poor, little girl against her will, that's about the long and short of it."
He bowed himself together, looking at his companion from page: 333 under his eyebrows, and speaking with more seriousness than she had ever heard him yet speak.
"I tell you it makes me a little sick sometimes to see what excellent, well‐meaning people will do with girls in respect of marriage. Oh, good Lord! it just does! But then a high moral tone doesn't come quite gracefully from me. I know that. I'm jolly well out of it. It's not for me to preach. And so I thought for once I'd act—defy authority, risk landing myself in a worse mess than ever, and give Decies his chance. And I tell you he really is a charming chap, a gentleman, you know, and a nice, clean‐minded, decent fellow—not like me, not a bit. He's awfully hard hit too, and would be as steady as old time for poor, little Con's sake if"—
"Ah! now I begin to comprehend," Honoria said.
"Yes, don't you see, it's a perfectly genuine, for‐ever‐and‐ever‐amen sort of business."
Lord Shotover leaned back once more, and turned a wonderfully pleasant, if not pre‐eminently responsible, countenance upon his companion.
"I never went in for that kind of racket myself, Miss St. Quentin," he continued. "Not being conspicuously faithful, I should only have made a fiasco of it. But I give you my word it touches me all the same when I do run across it. I think it's awfully lucky for a man to be made that way. And Decies is. So there seemed no help for it. I had to chuck discretion, as I told you, and give him his chance."
He paused, and then asked with a somewhat humorous air of self‐depreciation:—"What do you think now, have I done more harm than good, made confusion worse confounded, and played the fool generally?"
But again Honoria vouchsafed him no immediate reply. The meditative mood still held her, and the present conversation offered much food for meditation. Her companion's confession of faith in true love, if you had the good fortune to be born that way, had startled her. That the speaker enjoyed the reputation of being something of a profligate lent singular point to that confession. She had not expected it from Lord Shotover, of all men. Ands as coming from him, the sentiment was in a high degree arresting and interesting. Her own ideals, so far, had a decidedly anti‐matrimonial tendency; while being in love appeared to her a much overrated, if not actively objectionable, condition. Personally she hoped to escape all experience of it. Then her thought travelled back to Lady Calmady—the charm of her personality, her sorrows, her splendid self‐devotion, and to page: 334 the object of that devotion—namely Richard Calmady, a being of strange contrasts, at once maimed and beautiful, a being from whom she—Honoria—shrank in instinctive repulsion while unwillingly acknowledging that he exercised a permanent and intimate fascination over her imagination. She dwelt, in quick pity, too, upon the frightened, wide‐eyed, childish face recently seen rising from out its diaphanous cloud of tulle, the prettiness of it heightened by fair wealth of summer roses and flash of costly diamonds, and upon Mr. Decies, the whole‐hearted, young, soldier lover, whose existence threatened such dangerous complications in respect of the rest of this strangely assorted company. Finally her meditative survey returned to its point of departure. In thought she surveyed her present companion—his undeniable excellence of sentiment and clear‐seeing, his admittedly defective conduct in matters ethical and financial. Never before had she been at such close quarters with living and immediate human drama, and, notwithstanding her detachment, her lofty indifference and high‐spirited theories, she found it profoundly agitating. She was sensible of being in collision with unknown and incalculable forces. Instinctively she rose from her place on the sofa, and, moving to the open window, looked out into the night.
Below, the Park, now silent and deserted, slept peacefully, as any expanse of remote country pasture and woodland, in the mildly radiant moonlight. Here and there were blottings of dark shadow cast by the clumps or avenues of trees. Here and there the timid, yellow flame of gas lamps struggled to assert itself against the all‐embracing silver brightness. Here and there windows glowed warm, set in the pale, glistering facades of the adjacent houses. A cool, light wind, hailing from the direction of the unseen Serpentine, stirred the hanging clusters of the pink geraniums that fell over the curved lip of the stone vases, standing along the broad coping of the balcony, and gently caressed the girl's bare arms and shoulders.
Seen under these unaccustomed conditions familiar objects assumed a fantastic aspect. For the night is a mighty magician, with power to render even the weighty brick and stone, even the hard, uncompromising outlines, of a monster, modern city, delicately elusive, mockingly tentative and unsubstantial. Meanwhile, within, from all along the vista of crowded and brilliantly illuminated rooms, came the subdued, yet confused and insistent, sound of musical instruments, of many voices, many footsteps, the hush of women's trailing garments, the rise and fall of unceasing conversation. And to Honoria, standing in this quiet, dimly‐seen place, the sense of that moonlit world without, and page: 335 this gas and candle‐lit world within, increased the nameless agitation which infected her. A haunting persuasion of the phantasmagoric character of all sounds that saluted her ears, all sights that met her eyes, possessed her. A vast uncertainty surrounded and pressed in on her; while those questionings of appearances and actualities, of truth and falsehood, right and wrong, justice and injustice, with which she had played idly earlier in the evening, took on new and almost terrible proportions, causing her intelligence, nay, her heart itself, to reach out, as never before, in search of some sure rock and house of defence against the disintegrating apprehension of universal instability and illusion.
"Ah! it is all very difficult, difficult to the point of alarm!" she exclaimed suddenly, turning to Lord Shotover and looking him straight in the face, with an unself‐consciousness and desire of support so transparent that that gentleman found himself at once delighted and slightly abashed.
"Bless my soul, but Ludovic is a lucky devil!" he said to himself.—"What's—what's so beastly difficult, Miss St. Quentin?" he asked aloud. And the sound of his cheery voice recalled Honoria to the normal aspects of existence with almost humorous velocity. She smiled upon him.
"I really believe I don't quite know," she said. "Perhaps that the two people, of whom we were speaking, really care for each other, and that this engagement has come between them, and that you have chucked discretion and given him his chance. Tell me, what sort of man is he—strong enough to make the most of his chance when he's got it?"
But at that moment Lord Shotover stepped forward, adroitly planting himself right in front of her and thus screening her from observation.
"By George!" he said under his breath, in tones of mingled amusement and consternation, "he's making the most of his chance now, Miss St. Quentin, and that most uncommonly comprehensively, unless I'm very much mistaken."
Her companion's tall person and the folds of a heavy curtain, while screening Honoria from observation, also, in great measure, obscured her view of the room. Yet not so completely but that she saw two figures cross it, one black, one white, those of a man and a girl. They were both speaking, the man apparently pleading, the girl protesting and moving hurriedly the while, as though in actual flight. She must have been moving blindly, at random, for she stumbled against the outstanding, gilded leg of a consol table, set against the farther wall, page: 336 causing the ornaments on it to rattle. And so doing, she gave a plaintive exclamation of alarm, perhaps even of physical pain. Hearing which, that nameless agitation, that sense of collision with unknown and incalculable forces, seized hold on Honoria again, while Lord Shotover's features contracted and he turned his head sharply.
"By George!" he repeated under his breath.
But the girl recovered herself, and, followed by her companion,—he still pleading, she still protesting,—passed by the farther window on to the balcony and out of sight. There followed a period of embarrassed silence on the part of the usually voluble Shotover, while his pleasant countenance expressed a certain half‐humorous concern.
"Really,. I'm awfully sorry," he said. "I'd not the slightest intention of landing you in the thick of the brown like this."
"Or yourself either," she replied, smiling; though, with that sense of nameless agitation still upon her, her heart beat rather quick.
"Well, perhaps not. Between ourselves, moral courage isn't my strong point. There's nothing I funk like a row. I say, what shall we do? Don't you think we'd better quietly clear out?"
But, just then, a sound caught Honoria's ear before which all vague questions of ultimate truth and falsehood, right and wrong fled away. Whatever might savour of illusion, here was something real and actual, something pitiful, moreover, arousing the spirit of knight‐errantry in her, pushing her to lay lance in rest and go forth, reckless of conventionalities, reckless even of considerations of justice, to the succour of oppressed womanhood. What words the man on the balcony, without, was saying, she could not distinguish—whether cruel or kind; but that the young girl was weeping, with the abandonment of long‐resisted tears, she could not doubt.
"No, no, listen, Lord Shotover," she exclaimed authoritatively. "Don't you hear? She is crying as if her poor heart would break. You must stay. If I understand you rightly your sister has only got you to depend on. Whatever happens you must stand by her and see her through."
"Oh! but, my dear Miss St. Quentin"— The young man's aspect was entertaining. He looked at the floor, he looked at Honoria, he rubbed the back of his neck with one hand as though there might be placed the seat of fortitude. "You're inviting me to put my head into the liveliest hornet's nest. What the deuce—excuse me—am I to say to her and all the page: 337 rest of them? Decies, even, mayn't quite understand my interference and may resent it. I think it is very much safer, all round, to let them—him and her—thrash it out between them, don't you know. I say though, what a beastly thing it is to hear a woman cry! I wish to goodness we'd never come into this confounded place and let ourselves in for it."
As he spoke, Lord Shotover turned towards the door, meditating escape in the direction of that brilliant vista of crowded rooms. But Honoria St. Quentin, her enthusiasm once aroused, became inexorable. With her long, swinging stride she outdistanced his hesitating steps, and stood, in the doorway, her arms extended—as to stop a runaway horse—her clear eyes aglow as though a lamp burned behind them, her pale, delicately cut face eloquent of very militant charity. A spice of contempt, moreover, for his display of pusillanimity was quite perceptible to Shotover in the expression of this charming, modern angel, clad in a ball‐dress, bearing a fan instead of the traditional fiery‐sword, who, so determinedly, barred the entrance of that comfortably conventional, worldly paradise to which he, just now, so warmly desired to regain admittance.
"No, no," she said, with a certain vibration in her quiet voice, "you are not to go! You are not to desert her. It would be unworthy, Lord Shotover. You brought Mr. Decies here and so you are mainly responsible for the present situation. And think, just think what it means. All the course of her life will be affected by that which takes place in the next half‐hour. You would never cease to reproach yourself if things went wrong."
"Shouldn't I?" the young man said dubiously.
"Of course you wouldn't," Honoria asserted, "having it in your power to help, and then shirking the responsibility! I won't believe that of you. You are better than that. For think how young she is, and pretty and dependent. She may be driven to do some fatally, foolish thing if she's left unsupported. You must at least know what is going on. You are bound to do so. Moreover, as a mere matter of courtesy, you can't desert me and I intend to stay."
"Do you, though?" faltered Lord Shotover, in tones curiously resembling his father's.
Honoria drew herself up proudly, almost scornfully.
"Yes, I shall stay," she continued. "I am no match‐maker. I have no particular faith in or admiration for marriage"—
"Haven't you, though?" said Lord Shotover. He was slightly surprised, slightly amused, but to his credit be it stated page: 338 that he put no equivocal construction upon the young lady's frank avowal. He felt a little sorry for Ludovic, that was all, fearing the latter's good fortune was less fully established than he had supposed.
"No, I don't believe very much in marriage—modern, upper‐class marriage," she repeated. "And, just precisely on that account, it seems to me all the more degrading and shameful that a girl should risk marrying the wrong man. People talk about a broken engagement as though it was a disgrace. I can't see that. An unwilling, a—a—loveless marriage is the disgrace. And so at the very church door I would urge and encourage a woman to turn back, if she doubted, and have done with the whole thing."
"Upon my word!" murmured Lord Shotover—The infinite variety of the feminine outlook, the unqualified audacity of feminine action, struck him as bewildering. Talk of women's want of logic! It was their relentless application of logic—as they apprehended it—which staggered him.
Honoria had come close to him. In her excitement she laid her fan on his arm.
"Listen," she said, "listen how Lady Constance is crying. Come—you must know what is happening. You must comfort her."
The young man thrust his hands into his pockets with an air of good‐humoured and despairing resignation.
"All right," he replied, "only I tell you what it is, Miss St. Quentin, you've got to come too. I refuse to be deserted."
"I have not the smallest intention of deserting you," Honoria said. "Even yet discretion, though so lately chucked, might return to you. And then you might cut and run, don't you know."


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California in-hospital infant feeding practices are monitored using data collected by the Newborn Screening (NBS) Program. All non-military hospitals providing maternity services are required to complete the Newborn Screening Test Form. In addition to tracking genetic diseases and metabolic disorders, the NBS program gathers data on all infant feedings from birth to time of specimen collection, usually 24 to 48 hours since birth. The Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program staff analyze these data and publish breastfeeding rates by hospital, county and the State.
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Description ADULT MALE Has black head and neck, former appears shiny purple in good light (green in male Greater). Belly and flanks are white and back is gray, palest towards front. Vent is black; note beady yellow eye. Eclipse plumage pattern recalls adult male, but pale elements are buffy. ADULT FEMALE Mainly brown, palest and grayest on back and flanks. White belly is seen in flight. JUVENILE Similar to adult female.
Dimensions Length: 15-18" (38-46 cm)
Habitat Abundant and widespread, nesting beside marshes and prairie potholes and wintering on pools and lakes further south.
Observation Tips Easiest to observe in winter.
Range California, New England, Rocky Mountains, Florida, Northwest, Southwest, Eastern Canada, Alaska, Texas, Southeast, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Plains, Western Canada
Voice Mostly silent.
Discussion Familiar diving duck. Similar to Greater Scaup counterparts-see that species' account for details, but peaked crown is reliable diagnostic feature as is upper wing pattern in flight-only inner flight feathers are whitish.


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L'Avant-Scène (formerly L'Atelier) performs 'Britannicus'
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L'Avant-Scène, Princeton's French theater workshop, will perform Jean Racine's "Britannicus" at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Feb. 26-27, in the Sterling Morton Gallery of the Princeton University Art Museum.
The group, formerly known as L'Atelier, was founded in 2001 by Florent Masse, a senior lecturer in the Department of French and Italian, who will direct the performance. This is the workshop's 14th full-length production in French, and the third of a complete set of plays by Racine. The show will feature advanced students.
The play tells the story of Britannicus, whose fiancée Junia is desired by his adoptive brother Nero. Nero has seized control over the Roman Empire, yet driven by competition in love and fear of being overthrown, he plots to assassinate Britannicus. Racine's play presents a meticulous examination of Nero's transition from a virtuous emperor to a monster driven by paranoia, corruption and depravity.
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It's Showtime Champ Sahak Parparyan Fights This Weekend
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Sahak Parparyan last fought on May 12 in Kortrijk, Belgium where he defended his It's Showtime 85MAX World Title with a unanimous decision victory over Andrew Tate in a hard fought contest. That was Sahak's fourth fight of the year and understandably, he took some time off. His return is set, and it's this weekend.
On this Saturday, September 15 in Alkmaar, Netherlands, Sahak Parparyan returns to the ring and he's taking on another It's Showtime veteran, Jason Wilnis. Wilnis fought on the same card as Sahak in May, dropping a decision to Cheick Sidibe. He last fought on September 2 at the Muay Thai Mania V card in The Hague, getting a decision win over Louis Tavares. Wilnis is only 21 and still has a lot ahead of him in his career.
For Sahak, he's considered the best 85kg fighter in the world at the moment. He's also ventured up in weight on more than one occasion, beating Mourad Bouzidi at 95kg on short notice and beating Toni Milanovic at 91kg. Wilnis has also fought up in weight, as his last fight was at 93kg.
Also on the card is one of the brightest up and comers on the Dutch scene, Steve Poort. He's still in the B Class and is fighting Regian Eersel there.


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Paul Broks trained as a clinical psychologist at Oxford University and went on to specialize in neuropsychology. He has pursued a career combining both clinical practice and basic research. He lives in Cornwall with his wife and two sons and is currently a senior clinical lecturer at Plymouth University. He writes a regular column for Prospect, the British magazine of current affairs and cultural debates.
Broks's Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology (Atlantic Monthly Press) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2003. A mix of neurological case stories, speculative fiction and memoir, it is currently being adapted for the London stage.
What books are you currently reading (or have you just finished reading) for your work or for pleasure?
For pleasure I am reading Arnold Weinstein's A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us about Life, and I've just finished Dan Brown's church-and-secret-societies thriller, The Da Vinci Code.
Workwise, I'm dipping into various things, as ever, including return visits to Antonio Damasio's The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness.
Why did you choose them, and what do you think of them?
Weinstein's beautifully written explorations of life, literature and art reflect some of my own preoccupations with embodiment and the fragile self. The aging and diseased body undermines our pretensions to selfhood; the "It" inevitably subsumes the "I."
Damasio is a reliable source of information and inspiration.
I picked up The Da Vinci Code on a whim at the airport on a recent trip to Dublin. It's cliché-ridden, formulaic, ridiculously overplotted, strewn with factual errors—including, in passing, a quirky misrepresentation of left-brain function—and the characterization is sub-comic book. But gorblimey, guv'nor (as Mr. Brown might have an Englishman say), I found it hard to put down.
When and where do you usually read (specific location, time of day, etc.)?
I read mostly at home. Anywhere and anytime will do. When the weather's fine I love to read out of doors and there's nothing better than a long train journey for settling into a good book. My wife says I spend a disturbing amount of time reading in the bathroom.
Who are your favorite writers (fiction, nonfiction or poetry)? Why?
Favorite books spring to mind more readily than favorite authors. I've been blown into other dimensions by certain novels—Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and Melville's Moby Dick among them—but I confess I haven't managed to finish another book by either of those authors.
Kurt Vonnegut is a unique voice, and Slaughterhouse-Five, his mixed-genre, time-slip story of the bombing of Dresden, is a minor masterpiece. The unlikely blend of war story, science fiction and personal reflection leaves a lasting mark on the imagination.
I admire and enjoy the novels of Ian McEwan for the crystal clarity of the prose, the seamlessness of the storytelling, and the exploration of grand themes through the lives of ordinary people. For those unfamiliar with McEwan's work, The Child in Time would be a good place to start.
Recently I've become a fan of the Australian novelist Richard Flanagan, a linguistic swashbuckler and true fabulist—see Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish.
As for nonfiction, we are living through a golden age of science writing. The "Darwin Wars" in particular have thrown up a brilliant constellation of writers: Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Daniel C. Dennett, Stephen Jay Gould, Matt Ridley, Steven Rose, Michael R. Rose, among others.
I sometimes read popular books on physics and cosmology as a way of winding down. It's curiously relaxing to see oneself as an infinitesimally tiny speck of stardust in a vast, indifferent cosmos. Paul Davies and Timothy Ferris have the desired effect.
Literary disappointment: Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. Get a life, Raskolnikov!
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Impossible to say.
What book has influenced you most? Explain how.
I read René Descartes' A Discourse on Method and Meditations in my student days. The experience has never left me. It was the Penguin Classics edition with Frans Hals's portrait of the great 17th-century philosopher staring out from the front cover. Reading the Meditations felt like dissolving into those heavy-lidded eyes and into his thought processes. Descartes' erroneous but fatally beguiling division of mind and matter has become ingrained in our way of thinking, and the apparent irreconcilability of subjective and objective points of view remains one of the great conundrums in the science of mind.
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Cervantes's Don Quixote, Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Joyce's Ulysses, . . . Ah, the shame: to have reached middle age and not to have read these wonders of the Western canon! But do I really want to read them? How badly? Why do other books I want to read (and some I don't) keep getting in the way? Why is life so short?
V.S. Ramachandran's The Emerging Mind, based on his recent BBC Reith Lectures, is a lucid and engaging tour of some of the most enticing territories of cognitive neuroscience. [Note: The Emerging Mind is only available in the United Kingdom.]
Melvyn Bragg's On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA—the title of this highly accessible little book says it all.
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Lecture on mental health of children, March 13
Posted March 12, 2001; 03:49 p.m.
Steven E. Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, will speak on "The Mental Health of Children: Illness, Medication, and the Developing Brain," on Tuesday, March 13 at 8 p.m. in 302 Frist Campus Center.
Hyman will explain what is known about the basis of mental illness, focusing on the brain and gene-environment interactions. He will discuss the difficulty in diagnosing mental disorders in children and describe controversies in treatment, especially involving the use of psychotropic drugs in children.
Hyman has been professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of psychiatry research at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also taught neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and was the first faculty director of Harvard University's Interfaculty Initiative in Mind, Brain, and Behavior.
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Honestly, the score is secondary to me. While a win would be nice I would be happier if I saw tanny looking like he did during most of the cards game. If I had a choice between us losing in a shoot out with tany looking like an all pro or us winning while tanny looked like a deer in headlights, ill take the former. We aren't making the Super Bowl this year so to me the most important aspect this season is seeing if we finally have our franchise qb.
While a win would be great, it's much more important for this franchise if tanny evolves into something we can build around. So if we lose let's look at the bigger picture. This still can be memorable season independent of our record. Panther fans had a pretty good time last year and they had reason to celebrate record nonwithstanding. I'm rooting more for tanny this game than a win.


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Today is a red letter day.
My Macromolecules paper has FINALLY been submitted.
Also, decided to play with some blogging software. Yes, I never thought I'd fall to those depths, but I have. If anyone cares, it is located here. Should spruce up the pages a bit...it's kinda fugly.
However, the "toy" to note is the "FishySidebar" link. That baby is the bomb (IMHO) if you have Mozilla. It converts the index.rdf into a Mozilla sidebar on the fly using libxslt. I have XSLT for rss 1.0, and 0.91. Should write one up for 0.90. The tough part was trying to get to XHTML 1.0 Strict compliance.
See, the problem is the following. The target attribute is not valid for XHTML 1.0 Strict. So, my current XSLT stylesheet has an ugly JS hack I found somewhere that pokes the DOM to add the target attribute. I don't like it. Anyone have a better suggestion?


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I actually remember seeing PP Baroness (hee hee!) around the time the figures first dropped. Wish I'd known then that she'd be what seems to be the toughest of all to find.
A bit surprised to say this, but I picked up a third (!!!) Helix (I need the parts, like the one intact, and am not stealing from my daughter), unmasked Storm Shadow (who looks more like a young Larry Hama than the actor who plays Storm Shadow... I might have to do something about that), and the Senior Ranking Officers 3-pack with Destro (wanted the body, and figured getting two other figures for the price of two total was a better deal, and I actually sort of don't dislike the standard Viper with this particular paint scheme). Add to that a DVD Set #2 (on clearance for $9), a second Arctic Cobra set (at Rite Aid for $19.99... go figure!), a whatsherface female Imperial Officer from Force Unleashed on clearance (to mix up the looks of the female Cobras I have in the works), and the entire Legacy Collection TPM wave, and this was probably the most expensive toy day (or week) I've had in a while.


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Posted November 12, 2004; 03:18 p.m.
The scientific journal Naval Research Logistics has established an annual "best paper" award in honor of Princeton mathematician Harold Kuhn and has given the first of the awards to Kuhn for a paper published in 1955.
The award was announced Oct. 25 at the annual meeting of the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences in Denver.
In creating the award, the publishers and editors of the journal sought the paper best representing the journal since its founding in 1954. Kuhn, professor of mathematical economics emeritus, was selected for his classic paper "The Hungarian Method for the Assignment Problem."
According to the journal's citation, "This pioneering paper set a style for both the content and exposition of many other algorithms in combinatorial optimization and also directly inspired the primal-dual algorithm for more general linear optimization problems."
"Professor Kuhn's enduring contributions to optimization, discrete and continuous, linear and nonlinear, from its earliest days in the 1950s, are legendary," the citation continues. "He is a man who was in the right place at the right time, with the right stuff."
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OSCP - advice and grasp
I have passed the CEH and took the PWB version 2.0 course last year. I failed the final cert test (so I have a great idea of what is on it so don't worry about spoiling anything for me) but did not schedule a retake as many of life's hurdles got in the way.
I recently purchased the upgrade to the 3.0 version as well as extra lab time and a cert test retake. I have around 30 days left in the labs, completed all of the modules and started penetrating some of the machines in the first student network.
I have two grand questions and I understand the first one is rather subjective because it can have many variables:
1. How far do you personally think one should be able to penetrate the thinc.local network before being comfortable with the cert test? Like I said, I understand it's a very subjective question but your take on information in the labs and exploits performed in the thinc.local network versus the cert test would help great.
2. What outside resources have you used to further develop your learning of the content? Specifically do you have any great links to sites that you found particularly informative or helpful on the different topics? I have done TONS of Google searching and found some useful sites but a LOT of outdated ones as well.
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Just a friendly reminder/heads up for those of you struggling with the issue.
Just trying to help!!
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Road kill, I'm just pointing out the double standard that exists out there.
Although I know many conservatives were unhappy with Bush in immigration, I'm just trying to figure out what's changed. I have no love for illegals. My brother pretty much got driven out of the drywall business because he could not get a bid on a job that would make money for him. The business in his area was literally overtaken by a bunch of folks who could not speak a word of english. All the contractors around that area gleefully put the illegals to work on their new houses. The vast majority of those contractors were, you guessed it, conservatives.
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Reagan did the amnesty thing, and it was a band-aid. And it encouraged more to come here illegally, figuring eventually they, too, would get amnesty. Guess what?
I don't think we have to become NK or Iran to protect our borders.
My guess is that NK and Iran have to assume that anyone trying to get INto their countries are NOT doing so for a better-paying job. They assume it is for some ulterior motive of spying, etc. since there don't seem to be a lot of glossy brochures extolling "the good life" in those two countries.
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Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) was up 0.5% in afternoon trading, following this morning's announcement that it would buy privately held Aragon Pharmaceuticals for $1 billion.
Aragon focuses on hormonally driven cancers, but its most valuable asset is its ARN-509 treatment for prostate cancer, which is in Phase 2 development now. Like its peers, J&J have looked to acquisitions to beef up their drug pipeline, and the firm already owns Zytiga, a market leader for prostate cancer that is facing patent expiration.
However, it's been a much more difficult day for shareholders of Medivation (MDVN), recently down more than 8%. The firm makes Xtandi, a competing prostate cancer treatment, and is in the midst of litigation with Aragon over ARN-509, which it claims to have rights to, given the similar make-up of the two drugs.
While some had previously worried that Medivation's legal claim on ARN-509 is weak, J&J's heft behind the treatment is of course also a concern. "This transaction transforms MDVN's most direct competitor from a cash-strapped start-up to cash rich global pharmaceutical company," notes Bernstein analyst Geoffrey Porges. "At face value, such a transformation may be hard to view positively. However, while it is easy to see why this acquisition was attractive for JNJ, it does not change our outlook for Medivation." He maintained his Outperform rating on the stock, given that there is still uncertainty and plenty of development ahead of ARN-509.
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Into-the-wind triple where there was equal access downwind (following a screwed up land series.)
Upland tests quartering into "blockers." (X n)
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There's several hunderd species of catfish in the hobby only a very few eat enough algae to make any impression. Even those that do need a proper diet and cannot exist on algae alone.
Ask your uncle, probably the water is from a desalination plant and therefore about neutral ph and very soft. If that's true then you can keep just about anything with only a few small adjustments.
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40-60cm wide, 30 deep, 30 high, that's about 15 gallons I think. Get a single T5 fixture onto that.
10 ember tetras for the middle water layer
7 pygmy cories for the bottom.
Use a coarse sand for the bottom, find a nice piece of driftwood and soak well so it sinks and loses the salt. Tie some java fern and anubias nanae onto it, plant around it with vallisneria, bacopa or even eloda at the back, Cryptocoryne wendtii or pogestemon helferi or Rotala rotundifolia (does require frequent pruning) in the foreground to soften up the transition to the wood a bit. Find a few pebbles that don't react when exposed to vinegar and place those where you like.
An alternative, get some wood and a few pebbles and just get amazonian frogbit.My 33 gallon/125 liter tank. My photography on flickr.
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I appreciate all the help and I can't wait to start.
I think I've made a small mistake though.
I named the fish that I really like but non of them are available at my LPS (local pet store)
I can order and ship them ofcourse but I worry that they'll die.
I'm thinking that today I'll go to the store and write the species that they have.
If p0ssible, ask the LPS clerk if they have a master 0rder list f0r the fish they are willing t0 0rder, take a c0py 0f it and g0 fr0m there.When in d0ubt read it until it makes sense, then read it again!
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A seller with a good reputation will know how to properly ship and offer a DOA (dead on arrival) policy. People on this forum order fish all the time from aquabid, from breeders who don't live near them and some fish are transported to America from overseas.
Very often people are interested in fish not found in their LFS - if you are willing to pay shipping, it's done all the time.
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Newbie with some questions
Hi everyone! I am trying to learn about setting up my new aquarium. It's approx 50 gal...acrylic tank, basically 2 cubes side by side each 25 gallons joined by 2 acrylic tubes.
My only experience with aquariums was when I was a teenager, had a 10 gallon tank with undergravel filter and the usual pet store stuff that was common at the time. Not much knowledge and it was always a struggle to keep the tank clean, etc...
So, I have done some reading through the various info that's archived here and learned a fair bit about what I should need for a filter, heater, etc... but I am left with a few questions.
The tank I am using has 3 holes drilled in the bottom of each side of the tank (6 holes total) and they are equipped with hose nipples pointing down into the cabinet/stand thingy that it sits on. I am assuming these are for the filter and some other stuff.
Fish-wise I am pretty flexible. Once I get the tank set up appropriately I will choose some fish that will be suitable for the size and configuration of the tank. Not going to get into living plants or anything like that...just wanting to start basic, then grow as I learn.
Since my tank is split into 2 halves essentially....will I need more than one filter? More than one of anything?
The filter I am considering is the Fluval 304...will this meet my needs?
Will the cord for my heater have to come in from the top of the tank, or is there some way to run it through one of these hose nipples and seal it sufficiently?
That's all for now, but I'm sure more questions will pop up as I go.
Thanks in advance.
Can you upload a photo of this tank? The holes are probably for use with a filter, though I can't imagine why 3 holes and on the bottom? I wouldn't recommend trying to run the heater cord through a hose nipple then trying to seal.25 Gal - Tropical
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So, this made me wonder if 2 filters/pumps would be needed.
I could certainly plug off the other 2 holes, but I am curious why someone put them there in the first place.
I didn't expect running the heater cord through the bottom would be do-able...just wishful thinking for a cleaner looking install.
I will take some pictures of this thing when I get home.
Those holes are plumbing for a sump. A sump is a seperate tank that will house your heater, temperature probe, refugium, etc... Basically, a sump is a place to house components to keep the display tank clutter free. If your sump has a refugium area, you can house substrate, rocks, or macro algae/plants to help keep the water clean.
It is odd that your tank is equipped with so many holes. Typically, you would have 2 holes on the bottom, and 1 on the back or side. One of the 2 holes on the bottom would be the main drain into the sump, the 2nd hole would be the backup drain in case the main drained got clogged. The hole on the back or side would be the return, where water from the sump would return to the display tank.
The "nipples" that you are referring to are called bulkheads. You can get caps for them to seal them off if I am not mistaken. I'm sure Cliff will chime in here shortly. A picture of your tank would help us help you.
Look up "reef ready" aquariums to get an idea on how this whole drain/return deal works.
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Well, it seems I can't insert the image with the tool provided here, so Photobucket it is.
Never seen something like that. Definitely interesting. One of the more advanced aquarists are going to have to help you out with this one.
something tells me this was a breeder tank or grow out tank of some sorts, or even a sump itself.
it is def not ideal for a normal aquarium set up. you'd have to run a sump/seal those holes in the tank and then are left basically 2-25 gallon tanks.
I just don't see what you can really do with a design like this, unless you treat it as a sump and get a 100 gallon tank. do you have the capability to do that?
or are you set on using this somehow?
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From the reading I have been doing on sumps....I can't imagine using something of this size for that purpose.
So, the tubes in this tank are the obvious difference from a normal tank (the extra fittings can be dealt with easy enough)...so what's the major obstacle here?
Temperature balance between the 2 sides? Equal amount of filtering?
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...or should i just fill this thing with margaritas and throw a big party?
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If you really needed to you could still use this as an aquarium. I would get 2 filters one for each side if i was going to tho just to make sure there is enough water circulation. Also like the other commentators said seal the holes. I think it would look really cool with fish swimming threw the tubes.


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After 2 years and 4 seasons of unsuccessful tries, 2 birds missed and including 2011 season being one of the hardest seasons I've ever seen in Iowa to call in a bird, the 2012 youth season has paid off resulting in my 13 year old daughter bagging her first ever long beard. It was a very miserable morning in Iowa. After asking my daughter what she wanted to do, she was strong minded that we was hunting this morning regaurdless of the weather. Storms moving in misting rain then hard rain for few minutes then let off to drizzle and mist. wind started to blow shortly after daybreak which by then we was both soaking wet and cold. I had set up a jake and hen decoy about 15 yards off in front of her and to my left and we sat at the same tree so i could communicate to her easily if needed. at one point about 1-1/2 hours in had leaned over and asked her if she was ready to head out, birds had quit gobbling , weather was picking up again, and didn't figure anything was going to happen at this point. she replied, " no, i'm not ready and getting my bird today dad." reluctantly i said ok.
Another 30 minutes or so had passed as i called a little here n there, trying not to over due it, had noticed she had fallen asleep on my left shoulder. Through the wind i thought at one point i could here drumming behind me but not being able to locate it or see it wrote it off as the wind playing tricks. just a few minutes had passed and i caught something out of the corner of my left eye. slowly turning my head there he was aggresivly posturing my jake decoy, not making a sound. He had snuck in on me un noticed.
Trying not to startle my daughter i slowly nudged her and whispered don't move he's right there, but she blurts out, " HUH!" which of course alerts the tom whom now is folding up and headed out to her left behind me. I tell her to shoot him as I'm rolling over on my knees to see behind the tree. She gets her gun up as i started to putt and cut furiously trying to slow him up, which amazingly stops him dead in his tracks as she shoots with her 870 20ga and just folds him. I couldn't believe my eyes, stepped it off around 35 yards, quite a shot for a 20 ga i think, I'm here to tell ya it was a pretty dang good shot, i thought there he goes he's gone, but she had other plans!!
She's pretty dang proud of this bird, and has worked hard for it over a 3 year total period, 24lbs, 1-1/8" spur and 10" beard. I guess 3rd times a charm after all. I've also been notified by her that I need to mount her feathers and beard, and she's already talking about next season. Taking kids out is the very best!!! Definitely a hunt that my daughter and I will remember for years to come!!