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A FAMILY council was in course of holding in the lofty white‐and‐gold boudoir, overlooking the Park, in Albert Gate. Lady Louisa Barking had summoned it. She had also exercised a measure of selection among intending members. For instance Lady Margaret and Lady Emily—the former having a disposition, in the opinion of her elder sister, to put herself forward and support the good cause with more zeal than discretion, the latter being but a weak‐kneed supporter of the cause at best—were summarily dismissed.
"It was really perfectly unnecessary to discuss this sort of thing before the younger girls," she said. "It put them out of their place and rather rubbed the freshness off their minds. And then they would chatter among themselves. And it all became a little foolish and missy. They never knew when to stop."page: 305
One member of the Quayle family, and that a leading one, had taken his dismissal before it was given and, with a nice mixture of defective moral‐courage and good common‐sense, had removed himself bodily from the neighbourhood of the scene of action. Lord Shotover was still in London. Along with the payment of his debts had come a remarkable increase of cheerfulness. He made no more allusions to the unpleasant subject of cutting his throat, while the proposed foreign tour had been relegated to a vague future. It seemed a pity not to see the season out. It would be little short of a crime to miss Goodwood. He might go out with Decies to India in the autumn, when that young soldier's leave had expired, and look Guy up a bit. He would rather like a turn at pig‐sticking—and there were plenty of pig, he understood, in the neighbourhood of Agra, where his brother was now stationed. On the morning in question, Lord Shotover, in excellent spirits, had walked down Piccadilly with his father, from his rooms in Jermyn Street to Albert Gate. The elder gentleman, arriving from Westchurch by an early train, had solaced himself with a share of the by no means ascetic breakfast of which his eldest son was partaking at a little after half‐past ten. It was very much too good a breakfast for a person in Lord Shotover's existing financial position—so indeed were the rooms—so, in respect of locality, was Jermyn Street itself. Lord Fallowfeild knew this, no man better. Yet he was genuinely pleased, impressed even, by the luxury with which his erring son was surrounded, and proceeded to praise his cook, praise his valet's waiting at table, praise some fine, old, sporting prints upon the wall. He went so far, indeed, as to chuckle discreetly—immaculately faithful husband though he was—over certain photographs of ladies, more fair and kind than wise, which were stuck in the frame of the looking‐glass over the chimney‐piece. In return for which acts of good‐fellowship Lord Shotover accompanied him as far as the steps of the mansion in Albert Gate. There he paused, remarking with the most disarming frankness:—
"I would come in. I want to awfully, I assure you. I quite agree with you about all this affair, you know, and I should uncommonly like to let the others know it. But, between ourselves, Louisa's been so short with me lately, so infernally short—if you'll pardon my saying so—that it's become downright disagreeable to me to run across her. So I'm afraid I might only make matters worse all round, don't you know, if I put in an appearance this morning."
"Has she, though?" ejaculated Lord Fallowfeild, in reference page: 306 presumably to his eldest daughter's reported shortness. "My dear boy, don't think of it. I wouldn't have you exposed to unnecessary unpleasantness on any account."
Then, as he followed the groom‐of‐the‐chambers up the bare, white, marble staircase—which struck almost vault‐like in its chill and silence, after the heat and glare and turmoil of the great thoroughfare without—he added to himself:—
"Good fellow, Shotover. Has his faults, but upon my word, when you come to think of it, so have all of us. Very good‐hearted, sensible fellow at bottom, Shotover. Always responds when you talk rationally to him. No nonsense about him."—His lordship sighed as he climbed the marble stair. "Great comfort to me at times Shotover. Shows very proper feeling on the present occasion, but naturally feels a diffidence about expressing it."
Thus, in the end, it happened that the family council consisted only of the lady of the house, her sister Lady Alicia Winterbotham, Mr. Ludovic Quayle, and the parent whom all three of them were, each in their several ways, so perfectly willing to instruct in his duty towards his children.
Ludovic, perhaps, displayed less alacrity than usual in offering good advice to his father. His policy was rather that of masterly inactivity. Indeed, as the discussion waxed hot—his sisters' voices rising slightly in tone, while Lord Fallowfeild's replies disclosed a vein of dogged obstinacy—he withdrew from the field of battle and moved slowly round the room staring abstractedly at the pictures. There was a seductive, female head by Greuze, a couple of reposeful landscapes by Morland, a little Constable—waterways, trees, and distant woodland, swept by wind and weather. But upon these the young man bestowed scant attention. That which fascinated his gaze was a series of half‐length portraits, in oval frames, representing his parents, himself, his sisters, and brothers. These portraits were the work of a lady whose artistic gifts, and whose prices, were alike modest. They were in coloured chalks, and had, after adorning her own sitting‐room for a number of years, been given, as a wedding present, by Lady Fallowfeild to her eldest daughter. Mr. Quayle reviewed them leisurely now, looking over his shoulder now and again to note how the tide of battle rolled, and raising his eyebrows in mute protest when the voices of the two ladies became more than usually elevated.
"You see, papa, you have not been here"—Lady Louisa was saying.
"No, I haven't," interrupted Lord Fallowfeild. "And very page: 307 much I regret that I haven't. Should have done my best to put a stop to this engagement at the outset—before there was any engagement at all, in fact."
"And so you cannot possibly know how the whole thing—any breaking off I mean—would be regarded."
"Can't I, though?" said Lord Fallowfeild. "I know perfectly well how I should regard it myself."
"You do not take the advantages sufficiently into consideration, papa. Of course with their enormous wealth they can afford to do anything."—Mr. Winterbotham's income was far from princely at this period, and Lady Alicia was liable to be at once envious of, and injured by, the riches of others. Her wardrobe was limited. She was, this morning, vexatiously conscious of a warmer hue in the back pleats than in the front breadth of her mauve, cashmere dress, sparsely decorated with bows of but indifferently white ribbon.—"It has enabled them to make an immense success. One really gets rather tired of hearing about them. But everybody goes to their house, you know, and says that he is perfectly charming."
"Half the parents in London would jump at the chance of one of their girls making such a marriage,"—this from Lady Louisa.
Mr. Quayle looked over his shoulder and registered a conviction that his father did not belong to that active, parental moiety. He sat stubbornly on a straight‐backed, white‐and‐gold chair, his hands clasped on the top of his favourite, gold‐headed walking‐stick. He had refused to part with this weapon on entering the house. It gave him a sense of authority, of security. Meanwhile his habitually placid and infantile countenance wore an expression of the acutest worry.
"Would they, though?" he said, in response to his daughter's information regarding the jumping moiety.—"Well, I shouldn't. In point of fact, I don't. All that you and Alicia tell me may be perfectly true, my dear Louisa. I would not, for a moment, attempt to discredit your statements. And I don't wish to be intemperate.—Stupid thing intemperance, sign of weakness, intemperance.—Still I must repeat, and I do repeat, I repeat clearly, that I do not approve of this engagement."
"Did I not prophesy long, long ago what my father's attitude would be, Louisa?" Mr. Quayle murmured gently, over his shoulder.
Then he fell to contemplating the portrait of his brother Guy, aged seven, who was represented arrayed in a brown‐holland blouse of singular formlessness confined at the waist by page: 308 a black leather belt, and carrying, cupid‐like, in his hands a bow and arrows decorated with sky‐blue ribbons.—"Were my brothers and I actually such appallingly insipid‐looking little idiots?" he asked himself. "In that case the years do bring compensations. We really bear fewer outward traces of utter imbecility now."
"I don't wish to be harsh with you, my dears—never have been harsh, to my knowledge, with any one of my children. Believe in kindness. Always have been lenient with my children"—
"And, as indirect consequence thereof, note my eldest brother's frequent epistles to the Hebrews!" commented Mr. Quayle softly. "The sweet simplicity of this counterfeit presentment of him, armed with a pea‐green bait‐tin and jointless fishing‐rod, hardly shadows forth the copious insolvencies of recent times!"
"Never have approved of harshness," continued Lord Fallowfeild. "Still I do feel I should have been given an opportunity of speaking my mind sooner. I ought to have been referred to in the first place. It was my right. It was due to me. I don't wish to assert my authority in a tyrannical manner. Hate tyranny, always have hated parental tyranny. Still I feel that it was due to me. And Shotover quite agrees with me. Talked in a very nice, gentlemanly, high‐minded way about it all this morning, did Shotover."
The two ladies exchanged glances, drawing themselves up with an assumption of reticence and severity.
"Really!" exclaimed Lady Alicia. "It seems a pity, papa, that Shotover's actions are not a little more in keeping with his conversation, then."
But Lord Fallowfeild only grasped the head of his walking‐stick the tighter, congratulating himself the while on the unshakable firmness both of his mental and physical attitude.
"Oh! ah! yes," he said, rising to heights of quite reckless defiance. "I know there is a great deal of prejudice against Shotover, just now, among you. He alluded to it this morning with a great deal of feeling. He was not bitter, but he is very much hurt, is Shotover. You are hard on him, Alicia. It is a painful thing to observe upon, but you are hard, and so is Winterbotham. I regret to be obliged to put it so plainly, but I was displeased by Winterbotham's tone about your brother, last time you and he were down at Whitney from Saturday to Monday."
"At all events, papa, George has never cost his parents a single penny since he left Balliol," Lady Alicia replied, with some spirit and a very high colour.page: 309
But Lord Fallowfeild was not to be beguiled into discussion of side issues, though his amiable face was crumpled and puckered by the effort to present an uncompromising front to the enemy.
"Some of you ought to have written and informed me as soon as you had any suspicion of what was likely to happen. Not to do so was underhand. I do not wish to employ strong language, but I do consider it underhand. Shotover tells me he would have written if he had only known. But, of course, in the present state of feeling, he was shut out from it all. Ludovic did know, I presume. And, I am sorry to say it, but I consider it very unhandsome of Ludovic not to have communicated with me."
At this juncture Mr. Quayle desisted from contemplation of the family portraits and approached the belligerents, threading his way carefully between the many tables and chairs. There was much furniture, yet but few ornaments, in Lady Louisa's boudoir. The young man's long neck was directed slightly forward and his expression was one of polite inquiry.
"It is very warm this morning," he remarked parenthetically, "and, as a family, we appear to feel it. You did me the honour to refer to me just now, I believe, my dear father? Since my two younger sisters have been banished, it has happily become possible to hear both you, and myself, speak. You were saying?"
"That you might very properly have written and told me about this business, and given me an opportunity of expressing my opinion before things reached a head."
Mr. Quayle drew forward a chair and seated himself with mild deliberation. Lord Fallowfeild began to fidget.—"Very clever fellow, Ludovic," he said to himself. "Wonderfully cool head"—and he became suspicious of his own wisdom in having made direct appeal to a person thus distinguished.
"I might have written, my dear father. I admit that I might. But there were difficulties. To begin with, I—in this particular—shared Shotover's position. Louisa had not seen fit to honour me with her confidence.—I beg your pardon, Louisa, you were saying?—And so, you see, I really hadn't anything to write about."
"But—but—this young man"—Lord Fallowfeild was sensible of a singular reluctance to mention the name of his proposed son‐in‐law—"this young Calmady, you know, he's an intimate friend of yours"—
"Difficulty number two. For I doubted how you would take the matter"—page: 310
"Did you, though?" said Lord Fallowfeild, with an appreciable smoothing of crumples and puckers.
"I'm extremely attached to Dickie Calmady. And I did not want to put a spoke in his wheel."
"Of course not, my dear boy, of course not. Nasty unpleasant business putting spokes in other men's wheels, specially when they're your friends. I acknowledge that."
"I am sure you do," Mr. Quayle replied, indulgently. "You are always on the side of doing the generous thing, my dear father,—when you see it."
Here his lordship's grasp upon the head of his walking‐stick relaxed sensibly.
"Thank you, Ludovic. Very pleasant thing to have one's son say to one, I must say, uncommonly pleasant."—Alas! he felt himself to be slipping, slipping. "Deucèd shrewd, diplomatic fellow, Ludovic," he remarked to himself somewhat ruefully. All the same, the little compliment warmed him through. He knew it made for defeat, yet for the life of him he could not but relish it.—"Very pleasant," he repeated. "But that's not the point, my dear boy. Now, about this young fellow Calmady's proposal for your sister Constance?"
Mr. Quayle looked full at the speaker, and for once his expression held no hint of impertinence or raillery.
"Dickie Calmady is as fine a fellow as ever fought, or won, an almost hopeless battle," he said. "He is somewhat heroic, in my opinion. And he is very lovable."
"Is he, though?" Lord Fallowfeild commented, quite gently.
"A woman who understood him, and had some idea of all he must have gone through, could not well help being very proud of him."
Yet, even while speaking, the young man knew his advocacy to be but half‐hearted. He praised his friend rather than his friend's contemplated marriage.—"But his dear, old lordship's not very quick. He'll never spot that," he added mentally. And then he reflected that little Lady Constance was not very quick either. She might marry obediently, even gladly. But was it probable she would develop sufficient imagination ever to understand, and therefore be proud of, Richard Calmady?
"He is brilliant too," Ludovic continued. "He is as well read as any man of his standing whom I know, and he can think for himself. And, when he is in the vein, he is unusually good company."
"Everybody says he is extraordinarily agreeable," broke in page: 311 Lady Alicia. "Old Lady Combmartin was saying only yesterday—George and I met her at the Aldhams', Louisa, you know, at dinner—that she had not heard better conversation for years. And she was brought up among Macaulay, and Rogers, and all the Holland House set, so her opinion really is worth having."
But Lord Fallowfeild's grasp had tightened again upon his walking‐stick.
"Was she, though?" he said rather incoherently.
"Pray, from all this, don't run away with the notion Calmady is a prig," Ludovic interposed. "He is as keen a sportsman as you are—in as far, of course, as sport is possible for him."
Here Lord Fallowfeild, finding himself somewhat hard pressed, sought relief in movement. He turned sideways, throwing one shapely leg across the other, grasping the supporting walking‐stick in his right hand, while with the left he laid hold of the back of the white‐and‐gold chair.
"Oh! ah! yes," he said valiantly, directing his gaze upon the tree‐tops in the Park. "I quite accept all you tell me. I don't want to detract from your friend's merits—poor, mean sort of thing to detract from any man's friend's merits. Gentlemanlike young fellow Calmady, the little I have seen of him—reminds me of my poor friend his father. I liked his father. But, you see, my dear boy, there is—well, there's no denying it, there is—and Shotover quite"—
"Of course, papa, we all know what you mean," Lady Louisa interposed, with a certain loftiness and, it must be owned, asperity. "I have never pretended there was not something one had to get accustomed to. But really you forget all about it almost immediately—everyone does—one can see that —don't they, Alicia? If you had met Sir Richard everywhere, as we have, this season, you would realise how very very soon that is quite forgotten."
"Is it, though?" said Lord Fallowfeild somewhat incredulously. His face had returned to a sadly puckered condition.
"Yes, I assure you, nobody thinks of it, after just the first little shock, don't you know,"—this from Lady Louisa.
"I think one feels it is not quite nice to dwell on a thing of that kind," her sister chimed in, reddening again. "It ought to be ignored."—From a girl, the speaker had enjoyed a reputation for great refinement of mind.
"I think it amounts to being more than not nice," echoed Lady Louisa. "I think it is positively wrong, for nobody can page: 312 tell what accident may not happen to any of us at any moment. And so I am not at all sure that it is not actually unchristian to make a thing like that into a serious objection."
"You know, papa, there must be deformed people in some families, just as there is consumption or insanity."
"Or under‐breeding, or attenuated salaries," Mr. Quayle softly murmured. "It becomes evident, my dear father, you must not expect too much of sons, or I of brothers, in‐law."
"Think of old Lord Sokeington—I mean the great uncle of the present man, of course—of his temper," Lady Louisa proceeded, regardless of ironical comment. "It amounted almost to mania. And yet Lady Dorothy Hellard would certainly have married him. There never was any question about it."
"Would she, though? Bad, old man, Sokeington. Never did approve of Sokeington."
"Of course she would. Mrs. Crookenden, who always has been devoted to her, told me so."
"Did she, though?" said Lord Fallowfeild. "But the marriage was broken off, my dear."
He made this remark triumphantly, feeling it showed great acuteness.
"Oh, dear no! indeed it wasn't," his daughter replied. "Lord Sokeington behaved in the most outrageous manner. At the last moment he never proposed to her at all. And then it came out that for years he had been living with one of the still‐room maids."
"Louisa!" cried Lady Alicia, turning scarlet.
"Had he, though? The old scoundrel!"
"Papa," cried Lady Alicia.
"So he was, my dear. Very bad old man, Sokeington. Very amusing old man too, though."
And, overcome by certain reminiscences, Lord Fallowfeild chuckled a little, shamefacedly. His second daughter thereupon arranged the folds of her mauve cashmere, with bent head.—"It is very clear papa and Shotover have been together to‐day," she thought. "Shotover's influence over papa is always demoralising. It's too extraordinary the subjects men joke about and call amusing when they get together."
A pause followed, a brief cessation of hostilities, during which Mr. Quayle looked inquiringly at his three companions.
"Alicia fancies herself shocked," he said to himself, "and my father fancies himself wicked, and Louisa fancies herself a chosen vessel. Strong delusion is upon them all. The only page: 313 question is whose delusion is the strongest, and who, consequently, will first renew the fray? Ah! the chosen vessel! I thought as much."
"You see, papa, one really must be practical," Lady Louisa began in clear, emphatic tones. "We all know how you have spoiled Constance. She and Shotover have always been your favourites. But even you must admit that Shotover's wretched extravagance has impoverished you, and helped to impoverish all your other children. And you must also admit, notwithstanding your partiality for Constance, that"—
"I want to see Connie. I want to hear from herself that she"—broke out Lord Fallowfeild. His kindly heart yearned over this ewe‐lamb of his large flock. But the eldest of the said flock interposed sternly.
"No, no," she cried, "pray, papa, not yet. Connie is quite contented and reasonable—I believe she is out shopping just now, too. And while you are in this state of indecision yourself, it would be the greatest mistake for you to see her. It would only disturb and upset her—wouldn't it, Alicia?"
And the lady thus appealed to assented. It is true that when she arrived at the great house in Albert Gate that morning she had found little Lady Constance with her pretty, baby face sadly marred by tears. But she had put that down to the exigencies of the situation. All young ladies of refined mind cried under kindred circumstances. Had she not herself wept copiously, for the better part of a week, before finally deciding to accept George Winterbotham? Moreover, a point of jealousy undoubtedly pricked Lady Alicia in this connection. She was far from being a cruel woman, but, comparing her own modest material advantages in marriage with the surprisingly handsome ones offered to her little sister, she could not be wholly sorry that the latter's rose was not entirely without thorns. That the flower in question should have been thornless, as well as so very fine and large, would surely have trenched on injustice to herself. This thought had, perhaps unconsciously, influenced her when enlarging on the becomingness of a refined indifference to Sir Richard Calmady's deformity. In her heart of hearts she was disposed, perhaps unconsciously, to hail rather than deplore the fact of that same deformity. For did it not tend subjectively to equalise her lot and that of her little sister, and modify the otherwise humiliating disparity of their respective fortunes? Therefore she capped Lady Louisa's speech, by saying immediately:—
"Yes, indeed, papa, it would only be an unkindness to run page: 314 any risk of upsetting Connie. No really nice girl ever really quite likes the idea of marriage."—
"Doesn't she, though?" commented Lord Fallowfeild, with an air of receiving curious, scientific information.
"Oh, of course not! How could she? And then, papa, you know how you have always indulged Connie"—Lady Alicia's voice was slightly peevish in tone. She was not in very good health at the present time, with the consequence that her face showed thin and bird‐like. While, notwithstanding the genial heat of the summer's day, she presented a starved and chilly appearance.—"Always indulged Connie," she repeated, "and that has inclined her to be rather selfish and fanciful."
The above statements, both regarding his own conduct and the effect of that conduct upon his little ewe‐lamb, nettled the amiable nobleman considerably. He faced round upon the speaker with an intention of reprimand, but in so doing his eyes were arrested by his daughter's faded dress and disorganised complexion. He relented.—"Poor thing looks ill," he thought. "A man's an unworthy brute who ever says a sharp word to a woman in her condition."—And, before he had time to find a word other than sharp, Lady Louisa Barking returned to the charge.
"Exactly," she asserted. "Alicia is perfectly right. At present Connie is quite reasonable. And all we entreat, papa, is that you will let her remain so, until you have made up your own mind. Do pray let us be dignified. One knows how the servants get hold of anything of this kind and discuss it, if there is any want of dignity or any indecision. That is too odious. And I must really think just a little of Mr. Barking and myself in the matter. It has all gone on in our house, you see. One must consider appearances, and with all the recent gossip about Shotover, we do not want another esclandre—the servants knowing all about it too. And then, with all your partiality for Constance, you cannot suppose she will have many opportunities of marrying men with forty or fifty thousand a year."
"No, papa, as Louisa says, in your partiality for Connie you must not entirely forget the claims of your other children. She must not be encouraged to think exclusively of herself, and it is not fair that you should think exclusively of her. I know that George and I are poor, but it is through no fault of our own. He most honourably refuses to take anything from his mother, and you know how small my private income is. Yet no one can accuse George of lack of generosity. When any of my family want to come to us he always makes them welcome. Maggie page: 315 only left us last Thursday, and Emily comes to‐morrow. I know we can't do much. It is not possible with our small means and establishment. But what little we can do, George is most willing should be done."
"Excellent fellow Winterbotham," Lord Fallowfeild put in soothingly. "Very steady, painstaking man Winterbotham."
His second daughter looked at him reproachfully.
"Thank you, papa," she said. "I own I was a little hurt just now by the tone in which you alluded to George."
"Were you, though? I'm sure I'm very sorry, my dear Alicia. Hate to hurt anybody, specially one of my own children. Unnatural thing to hurt one of your own children. But you see this feeling of all of you about Shotover has been very painful to me. I never have liked divisions in families. Never know where they may lead to. Nasty, uncomfortable things divisions in families."
"Well, papa, I can only say that divisions are almost invariably caused by a want of the sense of duty."—Lady Louisa's voice was stern. "And if people are over‐indulged they become selfish, and then, of course, they lose their sense of duty."
"My sister is a notable logician," Mr. Quayle murmured, under his breath. "If logic ruled life, how clear, how simple our course! But then, unfortunately, it doesn't."
"Shotover has really no one but himself to thank for any bitterness that his brothers and sisters may feel towards him. He has thrown away his chances, has got the whole family talked about in a most objectionable manner, and has been a serious encumbrance to you, and indirectly to all of us. We have all suffered quite enough trouble and annoyance already. And so I must protest, papa, I must very strongly and definitely protest, against Connie being permitted, still more encouraged, to do exactly the same thing."
Lord Fallowfeild, still grasping his walking‐stick,—though he could not but fear that trusted weapon had proved faithless and sadly failed in its duty of support,—gazed distractedly at the speaker. Visions of Jewish money‐lenders, of ladies more fair and kind than wise, of guinea points at whist, of the prize ring, of Baden‐Baden, of Newmarket and Doncaster, arose confusedly before him. What the deuce,—he did not like bad language, but really,—what the dickens, had all these to do with his ewe‐lamb, innocent, little Constance, her virgin‐white body and soul, and her sweet, wide‐eyed prettiness?
"My dear Louisa, no doubt you know what you mean, but I give you my word I don't," he began.page: 316
"Hear, hear, my dear father," put in Mr. Quayle. "There I am with you. Louisa's wing is strong, her range is great. I myself, on this occasion, find it not a little difficult to follow her."
"Nonsense, Ludovic," almost snapped the lady. "You follow me perfectly, or can do so if you use your common sense. Papa must face the fact, that Constance cannot afford—that we cannot afford to have her—throw away her chances, as Shotover has thrown away his. We all have a duty, not only to ourselves, but to each other. Inclination must give way to duty—though I do not say Constance exhibits any real disinclination to this marriage. She is a little flurried. As Alicia said just now, every really nice‐minded girl is flurried at the idea of marriage. She ought to be. I consider it only delicate that she should be. But she understands—I have pointed it out to her—that her money, her position, and those two big houses—Brockhurst and the one in Lowndes Square—will be of the greatest advantage to the girls and to her brothers. It is not as if she was nobody. The scullery‐maid can marry whom she likes, of course. But in our rank of life it is different. A girl is bound to think of her family, as well as of herself. She is bound to consider"—
The groom‐of‐the‐chambers opened the door and advanced solemnly across the boudoir to Lord Fallowfeild.
"Sir Richard Calmady is in the smoking‐room, my lord," he said, "to see you."


text: Food truck drivers, janitors, mail truck driver, and a slew of other people in the green bay school system tell me there makeing in the 50,000 range( wage only) not bennys. I know i can do there job as good if not better. But im paying there wage and for there bennys and getting taxed more to show for it . it has to get under control so if they have to pony up so be it. I just wish there pony would even be bigger.

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I think it interesting that every so many thousands of years the vast amount of the United States is underneath a glacier. The earth basically freezes over with ice every 20,000 years or so.
I think it interesting that every so many thousands of years the vast amount of the United States is underneath a glacier. The earth basically freezes over with ice every 20,000 years or so.
I also have a Bachelor of Science degree in earth sciences with about 36 semester hours in geology, including graduate hours. I also have about the same in geography with most of it in physical geography, which deals with surficial processes, as you may know.
As for my brother, you don't know him and you don't know me. So, you are hardly in a position to make remarks concerning our relative credibility.
As for the issue itself, it is a legitimate discussion, pro and con , based on empirical evidence--not on political ideology.
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I don't want to feed an ugly dog!
Well, I graduated from the sixth grade. Hardest twelve years of my life!
And even I have enough sense to know that the entire Global Warming (cooling), Climate change movement is just a ruse to redistribute money from those who make it to those who take it.
Al Gore may be the best at playing that game of selling the snake oil to the willing patients.
Bill Davis
It seems that when the conservative community is confronted with an issue that runs against their belief structure, there is a knee jerk reaction to allege some ulterior motive or to discount the person's worth rather than contribute substantially to the debate.
I don't want to feed an ugly dog!
Henry V. 1.. Looking at data from 2009 proves nothing try 100 or 200 years. 2. The source you quote is a Governmental Org. Which means the data is "suspect" ! Another " low information voter" Time to wake up and do your own fact gathering instead of using CNN for information!
1) Look at post 17. That better?
2) Good to know that you do not trust science. The right wing entertainment complex is doing it's job well just as the tobacco companies did 40 years ago. Perhaps you can present some data or studies that support your point of view?
3) The holy grail excuse ... blame the media. Again, since you presented no facts in this post, just ring wing talking point, perhaps you can present some facts to support your point of view next time?
Henry V ...you know as well as I do that much of the base data gathered on Global Warming and Carbon Dioxide was shall we say manipulated to support the original hypothesis. This is fact...Junk science has been the trademark of the Democratic Party for many years. In the 70's it was Global cooling, then came Global warming.....now that theses aren't working out Gore and the boys are talking Global Climate Change....the way we all tell when a Democrat is telling a lie is when he is talking!
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Perhaps someone can clarify for me ... why would so much emphasis be placed on the Mauna Loa readings, an active volcano. Might not changes in CO2 levels there be related to other things besides global warming.
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Wibbs wrote:Overall I think the session was a success, but I am regretting not making the group's infiltration of the base a little tougher. I console myself with the fact that all hell is going to break loose when they attempt to make their escape
Hey, you can ALWAYS make up for it next time if things are too "easy" now. Things getting harder is pretty natural; the tougher thing to pull off is when you find that things are TOO HARD and you want to ramp back the difficulty, because then it's more likely to stand out. (At least, in my experience.)
Sounds like quite the session, in a good way. I'm sorry if I missed it earlier, but what was the justification for keeping Samantha's immunity a secret?


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I don't speak html particularly well, so I'll keep this brief.
WSO has provided alumni websites and mail forwarding for a long time - I don't know how far back it goes. But this winter, we were faced with the prospect of continuing to provide public-facing ssh accounts for thousands of alumni, almost none of whom we knew, in an era where university networks are sought after by attackers. So we decided that this was a service that had to be cut. Given that the server hosting these ssh accounts is also known to have the personal records of former students scattered all over the file system, we have decided that further access to the machine is out of the question. WSO has never guaranteed the reliability of its services, and the data on that machine has long been one hard drive crash away from disappearing. As for mail forwarding, we can hold onto those for a little while - we'll map all the .forward files to their contents. But in the fall, we will begin backward notification to sites that email our alumni accounts, passing the last record we have for the account instead of letting the mail through.
I joined WSO last fall, and quickly became aware that WSO had a lot of technical problems. Much of the software was outdated, and had not been updated in several years. This left the site open to a variety of known vulnerabilities. Encryption was not being applied for mail or web services. The personal information of current and former students was not being responsibly handled or stored. Mail was (and still is, but that will change in a few weeks) being bounced between three different postfix installations. Worst of all, almost no clear documentation existed for the configuration or reasoning behind any of the services running. I spent hours in the server room, just trying to figure out where anything was. Even the cabling in the back of the rack was ridiculously tangled - most of it ended up being loose cables nobody had bothered to free when they were disconnected. Running anything cooperatively is always hard, but WSO was a computer wasteland. It became clear that trying to fix the services in place would not work - everything was too messy. So we decided to start over on a clean machine, and only move things over when we understood how they worked and were able to replace it with an organized system.
We've made a lot of progress on these issues. The site is running on a clean linux installation, with an organized code repository and real security mechanisms. We are working on a unified body of documentation for future students. Mail and listservs are slated to be moved over soon, and old data will be securely wiped or destroyed before the old machines are repurposed. We're shoring up our security mechanisms, with some help from OIT. We have a young and energetic staff that is eager to expand the site in new ways. We may even get an office space on campus next year. Things look good.
If you have any questions or concerns, I can be reached at wso-sys.
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I've not done much lately, as I've been absorbed by real life. I even completely failed to deliver mod_virgule patches I promised to lkcl (sorry about that).
I'll be able to actually code a little in the next few weeks, and I've decided to work on implementing unlimited undo/redo for the geometric engine of Dr. Genius. And of course I'll try to finish my patches for mod_virgule.
Food for thought for all the "Advogatos": Requirements Elicitation in Open-Source Programs.


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This story was originally published in the May 20, 1988, issue of the Boston Phoenix.
Ah, growing up in Cambridge.
A New Yorker subscription to go along with your birth certificate. A special set of bumper stickers for your first red wagon: BORN TO BE IN THERAPY and I BRAKE FOR LIBERALS. And, along the privileged path that eases you from one higher-than-average student/teacher ration to the next (private kindergarten, private elementary school, private prep school, and thank God-Dad-paid-for-this private college), a procession of strange contradictions. You eat tofu with your turkey at Christmas, which explains the tendency among some of your childhood friends to rebel by becoming Republicans. You are introduced to pâté and public television before you learn about Coke or cartoons, which explains your affection in later life for things junky (Dynasty, Cheeze Curls). And, like people from hometowns everywhere, you end up, oh, a little screwed-up.
But frankly, no more so than anyone else. It just has a Cambridge spin on it. And, depending on which neighborhood you hail from, a particular spin. If you're from Brattle Street, you can pretty much forget it. You're from Ultra Cambridge. You're too rich, too privileged, too aware of it. Tourists drive past your house pointing, and you either feel freakish (if you're nice) or terminally superior (if you're not). You can also forget it if you grow up beyond the one-mile radius around Harvard Square that constitutes Real Cambridge. You're from Just-Barely Cambridge. You don't exist. Other Cambridge natives sneer at you in thinly veiled ways. "You have to take a bus to the Square? How brave."
I grew up in the Avon Hill section of Cambridge — less snooty than Brattle Street but pretty hard-core. An 02140 zip code. An eight-minute walk to Harvard Square. A lot of expensive-but-not-ostentatious homes inhabited by a lot of wealthy-but-not-showy families, most of them well-educated liberal Democrats who dressed their kids in natural fibers and adorned their cars with the usual correct messages about nukes and whales and such.
The primary neighborhood gripe on Avon Hill? Poor water pressure in the showers.
It was Deep Cambridge.
My family was pretty Deep Cambridge, too, which intensified things. Mom: a Vassar girl from Brookline, now a painter (oils and collages, highly abstract). Dad: originally from Syracuse, later Harvard College and Medical School, now a psychoanalyst (also highly abstract). Evidence of their success as Cambridge parents: my older brother is now a postdoctoral fellow in neurobiology at Harvard; my sister is a medical student leaning toward child psychiatry. Heavy Cambridge, very deep. Thick with ivy and introspection.
But that all came later.
Growing up in Cambridge is in fact pretty benign, although it can be hard to convince people of that later in life. It's when you leave Cambridge and tell people where you're from that the trouble starts. It sounds much more exotic than it really is and you find yourself embarrassed by it. And a little paranoid. Will people think you've picked up all kinds of things — highly developed cultural sensibilities? A passion for crimson clothing? If you're shy, will they assume you're a snob? You become evasive about your origins. You're from Boston. A town outside of Boston. It begins with a "C."
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MP Grimlock is not actually in stock. I tried adding it to the cart but then I get "The following item: has limited inventory. We've adjusted the quantity below to reflect the number we have available"
It seems they may be using HTS's allocating method for the SDCC Sgt. Slaughters?


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Test event centered around Thunderbird 10 and Lightning 1.0
It's been a while since we had a testing event. Some of it was probably my fault as I needed to adjust myself to the new release process we adopted since Thunderbird 5.0. Since then I've been lonely testing releases and new features as they came out. It's time to spend a good amount of time testing Thunderbird more thoroughly. We will use litmus as our main testing tool. In litmus you will find groups of test (eg one for address book, one for imap, one for news). Each group is made of one or more tests that needs to be run. As I want to distribute the workload and not only have a few areas tested, I would like you to sign up and tell me that you want to participate to this event.
What is required to participate :
- An email account that can be used for testing
- a litmus account
- an account on bugzilla.mozilla.org
- some time in the week of 13Th November to 20th November 2011
- You read this
- you reply to it - telling me you want to participate
- On the day the event starts (times will be Central European time) You'll receive an email with:
- what to test (eg groups of test I've assigned to you)
- a link to the test in litmus
- a bugzilla bug number which we will use to track bug found during this event
- more detailed instructions on how to use litmus and bugzilla
- You organize yourself to run the tests when you have time
- You do the tests and give us reports and file bugs if the tests aren't successful
That's it. I will Post results in the middle and at the end of the event.
At the same time we would also like to run the same kind of event for lightning as it's the most used extension with Thunderbird. The workflow will look exactly the same. Just make sure that you tell me you want to test Thunderbird, Thunderbird/Lightning or just Lightning.
Right now the number of people who signed up is below 10 and it would be nice if I could get a few more volunteers in order to be able to have a large coverage of our tests. The best way to reply to this is to send me an email.
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|Craig Shackleton Contributor
I bought 2 boxes of these at GenCon and they are awesome! We also have a small chest (like 3x6 inches or so) that we got from a craft store, and with the coins in there for the players to count, it's way better than saying, "You find 2,438 copper, 438 silver". They are amazingly high quality, and I will probably buy more.
Huh, guess I should do a review of them.
Any chance of getting some pictures of the actual coins?
|Jim Seymour
Last year, I went on a quest to find a product like this and failed.
I was lucky enough to find a bag (1,200 coins) of 1967 British pennies on eBay - and these serve me as gold pieces. I then got about 100 old-style Mexican pesos which serve as platinum pieces.
For larger quantities, I use paper money - specifically devalued Peruvian Intis from the late 1980's.
My players love them - especially when combined with Paizo's Item Cards.
I don't use copper or platinum much in my campaign. I'd sure like to see them sell the coins a la carte, so you could just buy a bunch of gold coins if that's all you need.
|Gary Teter Senior Software Developer
Odd that this headline item from their ad is "Out of stock" and "Discontinued."
That's what the product status was earlier today. Our main distributor hasn't updated their database to reflect its current availability, but it is available, so this afternoon I made a special trip into the office to set this product to "backorder" because we can get it from another distributor.
(And I believe our main distributor will probably update their database on Monday, which means it will switch from "backorder" to "usually ships from our warehouse in x days," where x depends on which warehouse it's in stock.)
Oh, and the "discontinued" status is probably wrong as well. We get that data from our main distributor.
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|Chris Shadowens
I've been collecting electrical slugs from construction sites to use as coins.
What's an electrical slug? Google images only sent back a LOT of pics of slugs...which would work nicely should I ever run a giant slug encounter. :P
As for the coins, I agree that's kinda pricey but still cheaper than, from what I understand, having them shipped from Australia to the US. I might pick up a box just to have a set, they are really nice looking.
- Chris Shadowens
63 bucks! I hope that's a misprint. At an average cost of over 50 cents per coin, why not just use actual money? Or better yet, a bag of plastic "pirate coins" are only $5 for a gross. I'm a DM own loves me some fun props, but not at that price.
Yup- I draw the line at playing Franklin Mint prices for play money.
Varl wrote:I've been collecting electrical slugs from construction sites to use as coins.What's an electrical slug? Google images only sent back a LOT of pics of slugs...which would work nicely should I ever run a giant slug encounter. :P
Electrical outlet boxes have punchouts that, once the electrician knocks out the punchout for where the wiring goes through, you end up with a round slug that they typically throw away.
|Morrie Lewin
These were on my "must buy" list for GenCon as I really wanted the tactile feel and feedback of coinage in my game so I picked up two boxes to see if I would like them. I do, and the GenCon special coin (5,000 gp dragon) is very nice. I will admit; a lower price would make this item a more desired commodity for game play. The individual wrapping of each coin was a bit excessive, but it may have been the best tradeoff in packaging for shipping without scratching the coins. I will be watching to see how the coins hold up in actual use, as far as scratching/denting goes.
I enjoy the reaction when a stash is uncovered and the counting that ensues. Some of the "live" pocketing of the coins is interesting to observe with actual props to work with. Yes, they do clink and at the most inopportune moments!
The first storage cases I used were not exactly easy to use to get the coins in and out of, but I found a storage case at Home Depot with 16 tip out storage boxes (they all tip out in tandem, making all coins accessible immediately) which is very convenient, but with a slight drawback; I think it will take another 8 or so boxes of Coins to fill it up! {sigh}
Now that they are available from Paizo, I think I know what to put on my Christmas list. Much cheaper than paying shipping from Down Under!
|Lisa Stevens CEO
Hey y'all:
We just got a shipment of Campaign Coins from our friends at King of the Castle Games in Australia. The original shipment that we placed with our distributor never made it to us, so I went directly to the source and Andre was kind enough to get us some stock for the holidays. These are in the warehouse and ready to ship, so get your order in now if you are interested!
A good friend of mine picked these up at GenCon. I absolutely love the feel and look of the pieces. The only thing that bugs us about them is that they don't have a "5" denomination. Kind of hard to count out a bunch of 1cps rather than just grab a five to make change and what not.
If they decide to do these over, they should add a 5 denomination for cp, sp, gp, and pp.
|Lisa Stevens CEO
|Lisa Stevens CEO
I was able to get a whole bag full of fake 'Spanish Dubloons' from a craft store for a couple of bucks, and I like to use them as props. I don't know if I'd want to do it all the time though, and I'm not sure if I'd want my 'toys' out of my sight (do players get to take them home?)
Still... a very well-made and good looking product.
|David Witanowski
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|Kohl McClash
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|Lisa Stevens CEO
Andre (the owner of King of the Castle Games) and I have been trying to get in contact with each other about this. Unfortunately, since he is down under and I am up here in the Pacific Northwest, there is quite a time difference. Still, we are trying to work out a time to talk about things and how we can get his products onto paizo.com. Hopefully, I will have some good news soon.
|Kohl McClash
|Lisa Stevens CEO
Just wanted to let everyone know that we got 16 copies of this product in yesterday. 7 of them were already spoken for, but that means we have around 9 copies for those who have been waiting for Campaign Coins to come back in stock. We hope to have a more consistent supply in the future, but for now, this should tide you guys over! ;)
|Charles Scholz
Just returned from Origins. They had plenty in stock. They may be at GenCon (I did not ask). They have expanded the line. There are now 2, 5, 20 and 50 pieces for each set.
My girlfriend has been trying to figure out what to get me for my birthday, and I mentioned these to her. Last night I apparently ordered them. I'm guessing she didn't notice that I was still logged into the paizo site from her computer, so she ordered them through my account.
Which sucks, because my birthday is MONTHS from now. And I have to pretend I don't know she ordered them. POOP!
|Vic Wertz Chief Technical Officer
My girlfriend has been trying to figure out what to get me for my birthday, and I mentioned these to her. Last night I apparently ordered them. I'm guessing she didn't notice that I was still logged into the paizo site from her computer, so she ordered them through my account.
Which sucks, because my birthday is MONTHS from now. And I have to pretend I don't know she ordered them. POOP!
Hopefully she at least used her own credit card....
|Pete Apple
Hopefully she at least used her own credit card....
Yep, and the site remembers it, and she's lucky I love her, or I'd max it out on Warmachine miniatures. :)
Though I must admit, hardcore gamer that I am, "maintain steady relationship" vs "complete Cryx army" was a toss-up. Could've went either way.
|Daniel Moyer
Those are pretty cool, a tad pricey though. Spray painted poker chips would work well enough if you didnt mind putting the work into props.
Our group currently uses Pirate Party Treasure coins for "Action (Hero/Fate) Points" which are easy enough to find at the Dollar Store or Walmart.
When I was looking for the above party coins I found these, which I thought were kinda nice...
|David Witanowski
|Jens Alfke
I know roleplaying isn't about realism, and the coins are very pretty, but for some reason it bugs me that they come in denominations of the same metal. Doodz, there is no such thing as a "20gp" coin. Money wasn't backed by government guarantees, it was backed by the intrinsic value of the metal. To have a value of 20gp, the coin would have to contain 20 times as much gold as a gp, and have 20 times the volume, which would make it absurdly large. So 20gp was represented by, yes, 20 pieces of gold.
(Yes, you might be able to make, say, a normal-sized 20cp coin out of silver, if silver were 20 times as valuable as copper. But in that case it would just be a silver piece. And the values of metals fluctuate depending on supply, so if nearby miners struck a vein of silver, the value of your 20cp coin might go down to 15cp. Way too confusing.)
Face it, using "20gp coins" is about as silly as claiming your fighter can wear two sets of plate armor on top of each other...
But yeah, the coins are pretty, so don't make fun of me if I end up buying some anyway. :-)
IMHO, those 10/100/1000 denominations are necessary.
Here's how I use them: I combine them with item cards in small pouches, and give them to my players when they search a room or monster. With denominations, I can easily produce treasures that have very big amounts of some coins, without having to buy a truckload of coins of each metal. With the 120 coins provided in this product and a couple item cards packs, I can prepare a whole dungeon's treasures. And since I let my players count the money, they actualy count for a minute or two, not for an hour, if there are 1387 gp and 3253 cp in the box they open...
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|John Dewees
John Dewees wrote:I don't suppose there is any idea when these will be stocked in your warehouse again is there?
I just got an email from Andre in Australia and will be following up with him after Thanksgiving.
Thanks for the quick reply. I think these might make a good Christmas gift for myself and my gaming group :-)


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Since work is so slow, I've had Trap out at least 5 times a week since September.
How many here have their dog for hunting as the main reason?
Ive had lots of time to hunt this season, and Trap has made at least 250 retrieves.
Mostly marks, with just a few blinds.
I train to make him a better hunting dog, but thru the training, have been able to get him going into the senior level of hunt tests.
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It's the longest game I've ever played (every shooter I always beat in one sitting...this game took TWO sittings). The puzzles are frustrating and I got stuck in every level, but it's a nice break from the standard FIND THE CHERRY KEY-type puzzles and it keeps the combat from getting old or boring.
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Installing a ceiling fan is a fantastic way to cut energy costs all year round. It helps circulate cool air in the warm summer months, but can also help push heated air back down in the winter, making the temperature feel warmer and allow you to dial down the thermostat. It's also the perfect weekend project for a homeowner, since you can accomplish the task in a few hours and enjoy the investment immediately.
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Carefully pull the wires through the knockout hole in the receptacle box, and attach the fan's mounting bracket with the hardware included. Attach the fan's down rod with the ball end towards the ceiling, and secure (usually with an included cotter pin). Next, connect the fan's wires to the circuit wires: white to white, black to black, and the grounding wire to the green lead wire of the fan or a grounding screw. Secure all connections with wire connectors, and tuck into the ceiling box.
Attach the canopy or medallion using the screws included. Install the blades using the supplied hardware. Make sure all screws are tightened securely to the blade irons to prevent wobbling.
Lastly, if necessary follow the instructions for wiring the lighting kit: white to white, and blue to black. Secure the wires with connectors or electrical tape and tuck the wires into the switch housing. Attach the lighting kit to the fan using the screw supplied. Install any shades and bulbs.
Do a final check to make certain everything is secure and turn the power back on at the breaker. Test out the fan. Good job!
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If roseberry and claimsadj will let me train with them this summer, I may have a couple to play in the fall. Need some help, boys!
If roseberry and claimsadj will let me train with them this summer, I may have a couple to play in the fall. Need some help, boys!
Allen Dillard
HRCH Play It Again, Sam MH MNH QA2 "Sam"
Scout's High Calibre "Colt"
I have one who will age out 4/17 looking foreward to the spring derby's.
Home To
HRCH Bluesky's Rollin Thunder MH
Bluesky's Hot Bunn's Ellie
SHR Saddiehawkins of Summer Bird 1998-2011
SHR Bluesky's Some like em Hot 2009-2010 Left too soon
i am only running my dog in two derbies. next fall at snowbird and tallokas he will be 23 months.
after reading the other thread i don't want kip and ted to say, "we told you so!"
john mccallie
Gregg Leonard
FC Tremblin Earth's Touch Of Chocolate Reese FC/AFC Land Ahoy X Baypoints Dream QA2
Red Squads Blue on Black Jesse MH QA2 NAFC FC/AFC Grady X FC/AFC Dance Hall Gal
Red Squads Fifty Caliber Sniper QA2 NAFC FC/AFC Grady X FC/AFC Maple Creeks Mattie Mae
Red Squads Bad Girlfriend Tinker NDL QAA FC/AFC Ranger X Good Ideas Windy Retreezer QA2
Red Squads Loverboy Reno NFC AFC Windy Citys Mighty Mouse X FC Reese
I'm looking forward to the spring trials; my pup was about the youngest at 2 trials a couple of months ago but we're hopeful for what's ahead between now and October.


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If anyone else comes up from out of the woodworks to give me some unsolicited advice on tattoos, I'll introduce his or her backside to the end of my boot, I swear.
After posting that small piece on tattoo art after 9/11, some (none of which had the chutzpah to actually write a comment) felt compelled to inform me about the dangers and problems associated with tattoo art. Personally, I don't give a flying radish wether you think tattoos depicting the heroes and site of the 9/11 tragedy are appropriate. Heck, I'm not even sure what I think. But body art and tattoos in particular are a part of life ever since the first henna smears adorned the skins of our prehistoric predecessors.
I usually overlook such folly, but there's more. My latest piece of body art is in a more than visible place. And while some may think, that public displays of ink should be a no-no in academia and professional environments, I happen to disagree and have said as much. Which is, by the way, the reason I am wearing short sleeve shirts for interviews. You get the whole bundle, and you might as well inspect it before you buy.
But back to the depravity, evilness, and social stigma that is body art to some.
I'll have you know, that I am not even remotely convinced tattoos or piercings are addictive in any way, shape, or form. Sure, if you're an adrenaline or pain junkie, getting a needle wedged under your skin may have some kind of greatly satisfying effect on you, but there are cheaper and less permanent ways to get that, and there's only so much skin to have fun with. For the rest of us, body art is a part of what we think ourselves to be. Born into this body, I strive to complement it. Just like my puritan (or conservative Jewish) critics, I dress in a way that highlights my strengths and hides my weaknesses. Just like them, I decide on facial hair, haircut, how often to go to the gym, how to brush my teeth, and much more.
I do this to create an outer representation of my inner self. My clothing, my boots (if you know me, you might have noticed that I possess a large number of boots, but no footwear without shafts), my beard, my tattoos - an attempt to project my perceived inner self, in an idealized way, onto my environment.
The latest, and so far most memorable, attack concerning the ink on my body happened today (and is incidentally the reason for this rant, being that I use this site as a means of venting and coping every once in a while :). The lady whose lectures on satanism, the irrelevance of the UN, bad parenting, homelessness, and unemployment seem to have been triggered by the few milliliters of black particles under my skin, just wouldn't stop.
Now, keep in mind, this happened in Los Gatos, the Silicon Valley's third finest (after Los Altos and Woodside) location. Said lady ogled me from behind a set of shaved eyebrows, eyelinered to perfection, smelling worse than a perfume dump, the botox injected and lifted forehead reciding behind a definitely fixed nose and a lifted chin to match.
This is who she is. Like me, she uses artificial means and modifications to enhance and change her physical appearance to match the transrealism of her conscious and sub-sconscious self. She might not realize it, but her body modifications, like mine, serve no other purpose than personal wellbeing, knowing that peers and passersby see her for what she feels she is.
Some go to extraordinary lengths to ensure this. Full-body tattoos, enhanced breasts and augmented chins, designer clothing, a snazzy car, or that "I HEART DICK" T-Shirt. And some, like me, are a little more comfortable with their self, amending and augmenting where they feel it'll help, but generally abstaining from drastic measures.
And yes, despite the diuturnal nature of tattoos, to me their effect is much less drastic than a boob enhancement. Not that I'd get one, anyways. If I ever want a longer penis or bigger breasts, I'll check my inbox - I am sure somewhere there, next to stunning business proposals from my friend the former Nigerian minister of health, I will find an offer that I can not refuse.
Until then, I'll wait for the next rant about my chances as a homeless satanist without a job, just so I can demonstrate why exactly I am wearing boots, and nothing but boots.
The question of presentation and reality transcends more than just the world of body art. Lots has been written about weblogging (and online presences in general) and ones image as reflected by Google, Yahoo, and other search engine / information gathering places.
Between the infrequent but nevertheless dramatic stories of bloggers having been fired from jobs for expressing views or writing pieces on their respective sites we find others failing job interviews or VC negotiations on account of a semblance of reality conveyed to the deciding party by Google.
And then there are those who would not date anyone without at least three pages of Google results to dig in and explore. Or employers whose decision is made in part after an interview and in part after a search for "Candidate Field_of_Work" on one prominent search engine or another.
All those examples show one thing more or less clearly - the circumference of our actions has increased, the distance between actors and observers is drastically reduced. The effect of actions and affiliations has grown to include those not usually in our direct circle of influence. Not unlike the promise of <abbr="Yet Another Social Network Fad">YASNF</abbr> (Yet Another Social Networking Fad), separation has lost in influence, while reliance on a proper self-display has been amplified by technology.
The idea isn't new. During my studies with a Bulgarian Sinti Family, I met a young girl, age 19 or 20. Her skills (a MBA), looks, and heritage would have demanded a high dowry and a groom of equal standing and skills. When I carefully poked into the mystery of her relatively disgraceful marriage, the patriarch told me how she'd been caught age six stealing eggs from her patriarch's hens. Once marked as a thief, her only recourse was to marry outside the family at age 14, accept a low dowry, and live her live in the lower ranks of the Sinti family system. The collective memory of Sinti never forgot.
For the Global Village, Google, mailing list archives, WiKis and Weblogs are the collective memory of a commonwealth, rich in tales and memories of deeds done well and not so well. YASNF applications, like the résumé handed to a prospective employer, are reflections not of the person in question, but an idealized view in but a narrow accord of the applicant's relevant skills and mindset. Employment laws and professional courtesy forbids the giving of negative testimonial in regards to prospective employees, and just like the references given during pre-employment confabs, testimonials in YASNF are carefully screened and rarely indicative of the recipients actual values.
The danger in online research, however, lies not in its width and breadth. It lies anchored within the differences in social norms, folkways, means, and goals associated with either social circumference. Offline activities are adjusted to remain largely within the mores and laws of this world. Actions and reactions are measured through a sieve of knowledge and compared to those folkways and criteria concurrent with the social settings one hopes to enter or lives in.
Online, aside from the at-large setting of basic benchmarks, smaller groups exist by standards, means, and goals different from the unwired world. The acquisition of capital, the achievement of goals, is possible only through those means or through deviant acts unrelated to acts that might be perceived as deviant in other social settings. In fact, perfectly acceptable and normal behavior online might appear deviant to outside, offline, observers.
The conundrum of online and offline convergence is not easily solved. Responses to this all-too-visible issue range from attempts at an almost complete online anonymity to an adoption of ones online persona in offline settings.
And then there are those who endeavor to merge the personae found on- and offline into one holistic representation of ones skills, values, id, and appearance. Darren Barefoot puts it well, when he writes:
``For example, if you Google me in the near-term, you're probably going to read out about Flowers for Al and Don, this strange flower-buying campaign that I'm running at the moment. A potential employer might conclude from that that I'm queer as a three dollar bill. If they did, and didn't hire me as a result, then fair enough (well, not really, but that's not the point here). Even though I'm straight, I probably don't want to work for somebody who makes judgments like that.''
in which he accepts the convergence of his online and offline personality.
Betsy Devine, a well versed and much-read weblogger, however, cautions:
Don't blog your drinking habits, pet peeves, relationship issues, etc. in a personal blog that's on the first page of Google when Mr/Ms Beta types in your name.
Don't blog your drinking habits, pet peeves, relationship issues, etc. in a personal blog that's linked to from a site on the first page of Google when Mr/Ms Beta types in your name.
Hey--limit yourself to corporate/geeky stuff on any page linked to from Google results for your name.
A prospective employer of mine would find a number of things that, if taken out of context, might be construed as exactly the things, Betsy warns about. My writing at the "I Quit Drinking" weblog and my being a moderator of the "I Quit Drinking" bulletin board suggests a recent brush with alcoholism and my attempts at sobriety. Realistically, I would side with Darren here, conceding that an employer whose values are orthogonal to hiring a dry drunk would not be my choice of workplace anyways, but there is more to this. My activities on those two sites are of an advisory nature. I am not a recovering alcoholic, even though I stopped drinking alcohol about four years ago.
Likewise, my future boss may infer an unhealthy infatuation with guns and bar fights from my Google results page. He might conclude a number of things which, outside of context, as bare Google results, may prevent a hiring decision. But, to conclude, as I wrote yesterday in regards to my tattoos:
Which is, by the way, the reason I am wearing short sleeve shirts for interviews. You get the whole bundle, and you might as well inspect it before you buy.
I understand how others might feel differently about this issue. But for me, the 'net is part of who I am. It might not be "me" in the context of an unwired world, but my spending a considerable amount of time online has, of course, affected my presentation. It has cost me employment and it has created employment opportunities. The latter with companies whose understanding of the differences between the online and offline world are deeper, and therefore more conductive towards my skills and expertise.
In the end, it's anyone's decision. Netizen do well to remember that anything they say can and will be held against them at one point or another. And that is how it should be. Accountability for ones actions and convictions might just be the recipe for a more civilized society.


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I have a 8.5-month old YLF that is wrapping up walking fetch, but has not yet started doubles or pile work. However, she does successfully retrieve a freshly killed duck thrown 20 yards away-- steady at heel to a shotgun.
I decided to take her hunting last weekend with my 4-year old BLF thinking she would put 2 and 2 together. While she remained on the stand and went when I sent her on 4-5 easy marks, each time she stopped at the water's edge and turned around and looked at me. I did not apply any pressure, just called her back to heel and tried to send her again. After 4-5 separate ducks (easy marks within 25 yards), I gave up and let her watch her big sister the rest of the hunt.
Questions-- I assume I did not mess her up any (long-term)? I also assume that pile work and completing training will fix that issue?
My BLF was pretty much finished with basic training by the time she went on her first hunt at 13 months old, so I have little experience taking a younger dog hunting.
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Accommodation is available in a 5 bedroom house where the children have now flown the nest. There are 3 luxury bedrooms available for short stays and weekend breaks. Accommodation available for events at Olympics.
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Port Clinton Academic Boosters announce 2013 PCHS Alumni Hall of Fame inductee
The Port Clinton Academic Boosters will induct a new member into the Port Clinton High School Alumni Hall of Fame on Wednesday, May 1. Port Clinton High School alumnus Herbert L.Misch, PCHS Class of 1936, will be inducted posthumously. His induction will forever link the famous Ford Mustang with Port Clinton High School. Mr. Misch was the Vice President of Engineering in 1963 and had a role in developing the Mustang I.


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Korg X5D
The X5D is an entry level keyboard from Korg. It basically offers Korg's acclaimed Ai2 sound engine (from the 01/w series) packed into a small, lightweight, affordable package! Being an entry-level keyboard, the usual luxuries such as aftertouch and an internal power supply have been omitted, and it lacks an arpeggiator or a sequencer, however it more than makes up for this in sound.
In addition to its General MIDI sound set, the X5D comes loaded with two banks of preset sounds that can be loaded alternately, however you can overwrite the preset sounds and store up to one hundred program sounds and one hundred combination sounds of your own. The preset sounds vary widely, from complex pads and SFX sounds, to pianos, organs and orchestral instruments. Some of these sound dated in this day and age, the piano sound is a little on the thin side to say the least, but the string, pad and organ sounds can still hold their own against much newer keyboards! Korg have even included some classic voices from their iconic M1 workstation. The famous 'Universe' and 'M1 Piano' sounds are present in the X5D.
Editing the sounds can at first be a bit like performing keyhole surgery. The tiny two-line screen means that a lot of the words are abbreviated, and a lot of scrolling and menu diving is required to edit the sounds. However, it is a relatively short learning curve. Once you have created some program sounds, you can combine up to eight of them in combi mode. This allows you to create really thick sounds and textures, but is also useful for creating keyboard splits and velocity switched setups.
The X5D is available in module form as the X5DR.
Lookup Korg X5D Prices
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Manual - Download the complete owner's manual from Korg here.
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- Polyphony - 64 voices
- Multitimbral - 16 parts
- Oscillators - 2
- Waveforms - 430 multisounds, 215 drum sounds
- Filter - VDF low pass for every oscillator. No resonant filter.
- Effects - 2 independent digital multi-effects processors, 47 effects each.
- Arpeg/Seq - None
- Keyboard - 61 keys with velocity (no after touch)
- Memory - 8 MB: 128 General MIDI patches, 100 Program patches, 100 Combi patches
- Control - MIDI in/out/thru
- Date Produced - 1995
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'American Sniper' Review: Clint Eastwood's Aim Is Off With This Disappointing War Film
I wonder if Chris Kyle was a Clint Eastwood fan. 'American Sniper''s marketing materials describe Kyle as "the most lethal sniper in U.S. history," but before his military career, Kyle was a cowboy. He wore a hat and boots, and even carried a six-shooter. Eventually, he gave up the cowboy life and decided to serve his country. He was a gifted marksman and trained to be a Navy SEAL. But even as a soldier, Kyle never lost that cowboy swagger—or that sense that someone has to venture out into the frontier and protect the American way of life. That's what Kyle learned from his father—who raised him to be a "sheepdog," a watchful protector in a world of sheep and wolves—and from watching violent Westerns like the ones that made Eastwood a major Hollywood star.


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3M Healthcare won the QCI-DL Shah National Award under the 'Quality Control in Hospital Sterilization' category
Bangalore: 3M Healthcare, a sub group of the Indian subsidiary of 3M, has won the prestigious QCI-DL Shah National Award for Healthcare Services awarded by the Quality Council of India. The award was presented to 3M India by Mr Arun Maira, chairman, Quality Council of India and member of the Planning Commission, New Delhi. The firm has bagged the prestigious award under the 'Quality Control in Hospital Sterilization' category for its significant contribution towards infection prevention enabling speedy recovery and positive patient outcomes at reduced healthcare costs.
Infection control is one of the top most priorities in a hospital to help improve patient outcomes and reduce length of stay in hospitals. Through its customer centric and well appreciated programs, 3M Infection Prevention Division, part of the 3M Healthcare group has been training and educating healthcare professionals leading the way to upgrading practices across the country.
This recognition complements 3M's ongoing efforts to help prevent and control infection related morbidity & mortality, thus raising the standards of quality of healthcare imparted in hospitals and reduce the cost of care linked to healthcare associated infection. This is also 3M's second national award within a year after winning the prestigious Wound Management Company of the Year Award at the Frost & Sullivan Healthcare Excellence Awards.
Commenting on the achievement, Mr Gautam Khanna, executive director, Healthcare Business-3M India, said, "We are honoured to have won this recognition from a prestigious organization like QCI. It is great to be recognized for our on-going efforts towards imparting quality healthcare in India. In addition to providing innovative solutions from our exhaustive product portfolio, we believe in public private partnerships to empower healthcare professionals by providing them access to discussion forums and continuous medical education programs on best practices."
Quality Council of India is an autonomous non-profit organization set up jointly by the Government of India and the Indian Industry and is represented by the three premier Industry Associates, including ASSOCHAM, CII and FICCI.
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