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*Edit*: This is Concept art for my comic which is set in the Future, his hair is green, cause it reminds me of the old cyberpunk films like robocop from the 80's
so stop complaining about the damn hair.
Thank you :)
It's been a long time since I've submitted anything,
so here's my latest one, this one actually started as a little doodle then I started experimenting then i got this as the finished product.
This is also the 1st drawing I've ever completely done on my tablet.
Please Comment. :D
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars Feb 20, 2010
love the zombie!
me? i like the hair it could be mold growing in it, ether way i like it, the only way ya could get a 10 star is if ya spent more time on his jacket, it looks stiff&fake, aside from the jacket i love it keep up the good work!!!!
Rated 5 / 5 stars Jan 12, 2010
I liked it. Fuck them.
Fuck these tools, I could bet most of them have no understanding of cyberpunk. I see where you're coming from with this.
10, and the rest of you that are whining can stick it.
Finally Someone Understands, me!
Thanks for the support dude! :D
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars Dec 31, 2009
the hair kills it change the color and add more effect on the eyes
Rated 0 / 5 stars Dec 30, 2009
i'm sorry pal, green hair tottaly sucks
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars Dec 30, 2009
Basically what others have said. The green hair kills it.


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I'm a parent with 2 children studying at WCH's,1 in 4th grade and another one in KG. I've found the teachers n staff at school very friendly n approachable...till now my kids 've enjoyed the school environment. I wish them to keep up the good work.
Both my children attended WCH and there is good and bad. I was greatly impressed with Principal Fry, but McDonald left much to be desired. She definitely had her favorites and ignored the rest, for example, the same children had their average artwork featured in the newsletter monthly. It was a running joke to see "Suzy's" artwork in all 9 newsletters of the school year. And McD loved her photo ops. East Penn is a blue collar/ former rural school with new professionals moving in, but the cliques from years past are very much in place. Most teachers are former students or related to someone at the school. Very odd to those coming from other suburban areas. A big problem started when the school board president wanted to cut taxes since his kids didn't need higher education to make it as successful businessmen and he was proud to admit that they were cutting as much fluff as possible (foreign languages, art, music) & meeting the state's "minimum" standards. My kids are in high school now and EPASD is very good with special ed and speech difficulties, but just average with overall education. Not a school for those that thrive on academic thrills, but ok if staying local.
My son has experienced bullying since he started in this school and there are a lot of clichs. My son has been in this school for 21/2 years now. For the first 2 years he had teachers that were willing to work with him but this year the teacher does not appear to work well with the students. If your child does not need any extra help, this school is great. But if your child is struggling, this school is not very helpful. It is a shame that a couple teachers can give the school a bad name.
We started in WCH this year after homeschooling for 4 years. We have a kindergartener and a 4th grader. This school is a great school. The teachers are very involved with the students and are able to tailor lessons to meet the needs of the child. Both of our children are big readers and they have been provided many opportunities to grow. The staff is warm and friendly and are always helping the kids. It is a very wonderful environment.
Poor Management. Have a No Bullying Policy that never gets enforced. Lots of 'Home Cooked' Favoritism and even Clicks at such a young age! Shows administrators Lack management skills and leadership ability!
No better principal than Mrs. McDonald who cares for each and every child. Teachers are outstanding from Mrs. Yohn to Mr. Baldwin...fantastic teachers who know what they are doing.
Mr. Richard Fry had this school on a course for success. He has accepted a position at Big Spring, And the Leadership has suffered a significant blow. This school is average when it has the potential to be a top elementary program. Poor Guidance services and poor admin services result in an unstable/usatisfactory rating.
We have two children in the school now and we feel so fortunate for them to be in such a wonderful environment for learning! I am often in the school and always find new and interesting things displayed in the hallways. The teachers always welcome parental involvement and have been excellent motivators for our little minds. We feel our children are experiencing a great start in their education.
What a wonderful environment for children! Our family has lived in several different states and this school system is by far the best we've been in. 4 of my children have attended West Creek and we have truly enjoyed it. I am very pleased with both the quality of curriculum and administration as well. If you are looking for an elementary school that has the children's best interest at heart, you've found it!
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Anyone know of, or had a problem with the latest Clog Super 10 screwgates?
I have been using them for a few years with no bother, my friend bought one a while ago which has a different knurled screw as per the link above. Mine have a straight knurled barrel.
He bought two more last week and used them today and we couldn't undo them. Thankfully they had been on a larksfooted sling on this occassion and so we could retrive the sling until we got home and got the pliers out. Even then they were really, really tight.
It seems that they don't stop like the old ones do, and you can easily (I mean no effort/one handed) tighten them to a point where you can't undo them again.
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"I received the official communication appointing me as the [Chairperson] of the Karnataka Health Systems Commission on October 10. Today I met the Governor and submitted a letter indicating my willingness to accept the chairmanship and relinquish the post of Vice-Chancellor of Bangalore University. I await further instructions," he said in a press release.
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Dear Pete,
I doubt you'll ever get this message but I felt that I had to at least try to clue you into what's gone down with the new stadium in Brooklyn. The mayor, borough president and Jay-Z will tell a story of Brooklyn pride but the people of Brooklyn, especially those that lost their homes and businesses due to unlawful eminent domain, will tell another story. This article explains it much more eloquently than I. I'm embarrassed to say that I'll be at your show there in November along with a few other friends who protested the project. We figure that we have to live with this monstrosity, we may as well enjoy some of it's benefits, but it's with a heavy heart. I just don't think I could bear to hear you say from the stage how wonderful it is for Brooklyn to have a new stadium, at least without knowing the facts.
I look forward to your show, I've been a fan for more years than I care to say.
All the best,
Dear Pete,
I just read a review of your "memoir", is that cool to call it that, don't want to make you sound like a politician, but memoir sounds better than autobigriophy, a bit classier perhaps? Again your humble side and brilliant wit seem to have risen to the surface. Rolling Stone's review says you included a lot of your rock star antics in the book, and were brutally honest. And it just confirms, to me anyway, you have soldiered through the riggers of fame as well as anyone. You could of easily acted "above" telling the old stories, but you didn't. Like it or not, we all love a bit of gossip, it's human nature to want to hear about another person being silly-I'm sure that's just one of many adjectives and moods covered but we are talkin your best buddy was keith Moon :<). Your amazing achievements obviously speak for themselves, so for you to allow us to read what I imagine must be both wonderful and a bit sad at times, well that is life isn't it?
OK I am getting way too heavy, and ironically that goes against most of why I am writing. Don't know if it's true, but the story of you being a bit sad and hanging out one night with Jerry Garcia is inspiring-doubt it made your book-, as the story goes through a night of laughter and joking around mixed with some serious contemplation, at the end of the night you said "Mother nature, it's out there isn't it," as you brightened up. Yup, even without a night/nights of Quadrophenia and your one liners and guitar genius, life is full of treasures as simple as a dog's grin or a sunset/sunrise, the good stuff is always waiting for all of us.
Thanks man.
Looking forward to your story, Pete. See you in Georgia this November.
Cheers, Danny
Hi Pete,
Right, able to write this at last, my cat fell asleep and stopped trying to play with my hands. The poor thing doesn't know how to be careful with her claws. She's an adoptee and never had other cats to show her. She has wrapped me around her white, silky paw, naturally.
Damn and blasted. I would've gladly taken the 1000 page version! Oh well, many congratulations on finishing the work. Even if only half of that 1000 pages, I'm fairly certain it'll be a brilliant read, as you are one of the rare people who both have something (a lot) to say and the means to say it. So, if only October came sooner. Oh, and I am very very happy to hear that you are going to appear on the Daily Show, with His Brilliance, Jon Stewart.
All the very best.
Hi Pete, Looking forward to your book eagerly-a longtime admirer and fan. Loved your John Peel lecture last year, you struggling artist. Please keep it up for a long time yet.


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This current round of H1N1 (swine) flu is hitting kids hard. While local physicians have been working diligently to help children with flu symptoms, Children's Flu Fighters have been out in our communities teaching kids how to prevent flu bugs from striking.
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Before launching Children's Flu Fighters, we did our homework. We learned that the Centers for Disease Control and other notable experts offer a lot of information on the flu. However, very little is targeted toward kids. That's where our Flu Fighters come in.
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Mary Tamm Dies at 62
Kasterborous is sad to relay the passing of former Doctor Who companion Mary Tamm, who has died from a cancer related illness aged 62.
The stunning actress played the first incarnation of the Time Lady Romanadvoratrelundar ("Fred" for short) during the 1978 Key to Time season, appearing in the serials The Ribos Operation, The Pirate Planet, The Stones of Blood, The Androids of Tara, The Power of Kroll and The Armageddon Factor, before moving on and being replaced by Lalla Ward the following season.
Beyond Doctor Who, Tamm was a recognisable face on TV, appearing in a regular role in soap opera Brookside in the 1990s as well as having key roles in movies The Odessa File (1973) and The Likely Lads (1976).
The news was confirmed by Barry Langford, Mary's agent for 22 years.
"She was a fantastic actress… she played stage parts of such range, parts that would take your breath away. She could play any role, and do so wonderfully."
Born 22nd March 1950 in Bradford to a family of Estonian immigrants, Tamm trained at RADA and began acting on the stage with the Birmingham Repertory Company in 1971 alongside Derek Jacobi, Joan Sims and Ronnie Barker. She is survived by husband Marcus Ringrose, daughter Lauren and seven-year-old grandson Max.
Mr Ringrose made a touching tribute to his wife.
"Mary was truly beautiful in every way. On set and offstage, her earthy northern humour and self-deprecating wit brightened every occasion."
"We will miss her every day."
In 2009 Mary Tamm published her autobiography, First Generation, which described her upbringing in considerable poverty in 1950s Bradford.
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Further tributes have been made, notably from Tamm's former leading man Tom Baker, who said
"She was a darling companion and wonderfully witty and kind. I'm so sorry to hear of her death."
Meanwhile Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant who both knew Tamm through the convention circuit and their join association with Big Finish, have also voiced their sadness through Twitter.
Shellshocked to hear Mary Tamm is gone. A funny, caring, talented, lovely and down to earth lady. My heart goes out to Marcus and Lauren
— Colin Baker (@SawbonesHex) July 26, 2012
Just heard the terrible news that Mary Tamm has died. Completely shocked. Very sad. Thoughts go to Marcus & Lauren. RIP Mary.
— Nicola Bryant (@thenicolabryant) July 26, 2012
Since the beginning of 2011 Doctor Who fans have lost four companions, famous faces that have been constants since the show's classic era and throughout its wilderness years. Perhaps former DWM editor Gary Gillatt summed it up best:
Mary Tamm now. Another tragedy. What an awful year it's been to be a Doctor Who fan. This terrible silence, slowly rolling over it all.
— Gary Gillatt (@Gary_Gillatt) July 26, 2012
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What sad news. My prayers are with Mary's family.
Another companion goes to the TARDIS in the sky. Sad news. I've just recently finished watching the entire Key to Time season and was struck at just how good she worked alongside Tom Baker.
Such sad news and my condolences to her family.
This is the sort of Doctor Who news I wish I didn't have to read.
Terribly sad….
So young. And so soon after Caroline John. Rest in peace and condolences to her family. She was the noblest Romana of them all.
Absolutely Shocked at this news. A stunner of a woman too.
So sad to hear this news. We are losing some of our best and brightest in our world of Who. My prayers for her family, and Godspeed, Mary, to a better place……….
The powers-that-be need to realize that there should be a DW reunion episode as SOON as possible! We've lost The Brigadier, Sarah Jane, Liz, and now Romana in the space of a year! Get as many of the classic series stars together and put them in front of the cameras for the 50th anniverary!!!
Unbelievably sad news about Mary Tamm. 62 is no age these day, is it? A lovely lady and a great companion to the Doctor. Not a good time to be a fan this last year or so… My deepest condolences to her family and friends.
She was due to be at a local convention last year, but she couldn't come due to illness. Such a shame, as I was really excited about meeting such a wonderful actress.
This last year or so has been so sad. Such terrible losses to the world.
Rest in Peace, Mary.


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Video Surveillance: Meeting the Massive Growth and Scalability Challenge [ Source: Affigent/EMC ]
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Affigent, in partnership with EMC Isilon, recognizes the growing need for video surveillance within the federal government.
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On Common Ground: Where Compliance And Data Protection Overlap [ Source: Tripwire ]
July 2013- Today's CISOs face more challenges than ever, including increased and more sophisticated threats, complex IT environments, decreased budgets, and greater compliance pressures. But these challenges present opportunity. Learn how CISOs can play these challenges to their advantage to meet both data protection and compliance demands.
Real-Time Application-Centric Operations Visibility with NetScout's Approach to Service Delivery Management [ Source: NetScout Systems, Inc. ]
July 2013- Real-Time Application-Centric Operations Visibility with NetScout's Approach to Service Delivery Management.
Develop Your Service Delivery Monitoring Strategy [ Source: NetScout Systems, Inc. ]
July 2013- Service delivery monitoring is a critical enabler that IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders must invest in to foster the transition from IT to business technology (BT). In this report, Jean-Pierre Garbani at Forrester Research provides insights into this and other major trends in monitoring solutions and answer several key questions that IT leaders are asking: What should we monitor? What monitoring techniques can we apply? How should we select a solution, given where ...
Solution Guide: Application Performance Management [ Source: NetScout Systems, Inc. ]
July 2013- Application performance management today sits at a juncture that crosses many disciplines and domains: software dev, applications in production, IT services, desktops, mainframes, web, mobile, cloud services, virtualization, app testing, network infrastructure, databases, and storage. This report aims to clarify the definition of an APM solution, and how vendors (new and established) are taking them forward. Also OVUM provides a SWOT analysis for the solutions along with features assessment; the results are summarized in the ...
Why Leading Marketers Outperform [ Source: IBM ]
July 2013-
Put personalized marketing to work.
Evolving technology and social trends offer many avenues for improving customer engagements. Forward-thinking organizations can now interact with individuals, while using insights from hard data to improve how they invest in marketing resources. Read the IBM? white paper for more information on how to launch a system of engagement that fuels growth and innovation.
Scaling the Customer Conversation [ Source: IBM ]
July 2013- IBM recently underwent a major transformation, reorienting their entire business to focus more on customer needs. A fundamental element of this shift to Smarter Commerce was the implementation of marketing automation software. This not only allowed for cross-channel communication, it also let IBM engage with individuals directly. Read the white paper to learn how adopting this strategic approach helped improve customer experiences and response rates, while saving energy and costs.
The Business Of Social Business [ Source: IBM ]
July 2013-
The value in social acquaintances
Today, social approaches have become the norm for creating meaningful business value. In an IBM IBV executive study however, nearly three-quarters of respondents admitted that they were unprepared to embrace this shift in customer engagement. This white paper reveals how business leaders can successfully leverage social business, internally and externally, to deliver valued customer experiences, increase productivity and accelerate innovation.
Agile Software Development and the Factors That Drive Success [ Source: HP ]
July 2013-
The need for business agility is driving the Agile movement in software development-and continuous improvement is the key. But what does it mean to be better? Forrester Consulting surveyed IT professionals about their Agile and traditional application habits and practices, and their findings challenge some of the myths.
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Winning Over the Empowered Consumer: Why Trust Matters [ Source: IBM ]
July 2013- A new IBM Institute for Business Value survey of more than 28,000 consumers from around the world confirms that while consumers actively discuss, critique, promote, and even dismiss your brand, they will give their loyalty only to a few select retailers. How well retailers and product brands identify the arbiters that determine what's hot and what's not and build trust with both individuals and communities of like-minded consumers will determine whether they benefit from a base ...
Four Reasons Why "Facebook for the Enterprise" Isn't Good Enough [ Source: tibbr ]
June 2013-
The concept of using social networking in the office has evolved from simply connecting people and conversations to taking action and getting real work done. But in order for enterprise social networking to be successful it must incorporate the applications and relevant conversations employees use everyday to get drive business outcomes.
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Leverage Your SharePoint Investment with Enterprise Social Networking [ Source: tibbr ]
June 2013- Organizations have spent time and resources on Microsoft SharePoint. Learn how they're using enterprise social networking to enhance the value of their investment. In this whitepaper, discover how tibbr connects your organization's content with relevant people, groups and systems to drive real business outcomes.
How to Get More Out of Your Integration Systems [ Source: tibbr ]
June 2013- Enterprise social networking must intelligently incorporate business applications with conversations so employees can execute on key business outcomes. In this report, discover how tibbr empowers IT to integrate your existing systems and data to increase efficiency. This report includes an overview of the tibbr Architecture, REST API, bi-directional functionality, activity streams and other key methods for integrating all applications.
Metzler: The 2013 Application and Service Delivery Handbook [ Source: Silver Peak ]
June 2013- The goal of the 2013 Application and Service Delivery Handbook is to help IT organizations ensure acceptable application and/or service delivery when faced with both the first generation, as well as the emerging second generation of application and service delivery challenges.
De belangrijkste componenten van Unified Communications in de cloud [ Source: Mitel ]
May 2013- Door slimmer te communiceren en samen te werken benut u kansen die anderen laten liggen. Oplossingen voor Unified Communications (UC) zorgen ervoor dat u beter bereikbaar bent, sneller handelt en de productiviteit en klantenservice naar een hoger niveau tilt. Bied uw medewerkers nieuwe, effectieve manieren om in contact te blijven, ongeacht hun locatie of het type device dat zij gebruiken (smartphone, tablet, bureautoestel). Cloud computing is een van de meest efficiënte leveringsmodellen voor UC. ...
Secure the Enterprise with Confidence [ Source: IBM ]
May 2013- The explosive increase in cyberthreats poses an increasingly daunting challenge to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of intellectual property and other sensitive information. Conflicting opinions about operational risk, myriad point solutions for security technology, and dissimilar computing infrastructures create a puzzling landscape for security and risk professionals. To assess the market, Forrester Consulting interviewed 225 IT security leaders across North America and Western Europe about their firm?s information security investments. Roughly 60% of respondents reported revenues ...
Application Testing Strategies in the IBM z/OS Environment [ Source: IBM ]
May 2013- The IBM z/OS mainframe environment has earned a reputation for superior application performance, availability and data security while managing extremely large volumes of application data. To maintain a competitive advantage, organizations that manage their mission-critical operations on the IBM System z platform must continually look for improvements in technology, processes and best practices.
How to test and launch a world-class application [ Source: uTest ]
May 2013- Testing and launching a web application isn't getting any easier. In fact, with the assortment of new browsers, plugins, third party apps and programming languages, this process has never been more complicated. Unfortunately, it's also never been more critical for success.
Ensuring Your Apps Work in the Real World [ Source: uTest ]
May 2013-
The mobile and web matrix has grown to such epic dimensions that it is nearly impossible and extremely cost-prohibitive to cover entirely in-house. There are thousands of device, carrier and platform combinations for mobile alone. Add web browsers, anti-virus software, plug-ins and PC specs into the mix and your testing lab would need to be the size of an aircraft hangar. But somewhere in the world there are potential users for every matrix combination.
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Trekking is a favorite pastime of the tourists who visit Portofino. The lush Mediterranean vegetation, full of olive trees, vines, myrtle, heather oak and pine make for wonderful walks, and the trekking paths offer spectacular views of the sea. Mountain tracks link Portofino with Santa Margherita, Nozarego, San Fruttuoso, Ruta, San Rocco, Camogli and Pietre Strette.
Portofino is a protected marine area. The submerged cliffs of the Promontory of Portofino are home to a rich diversity of flora and fauna, including beds of Posidonia, a sea plant of great ecological importance.
Sporting events like swimming, fishing and yachting are popular, though these are prohibited in some areas and restricted in others. That's one of the ways in which the Municipality of Portofino preserves the town's attractions.
The highly-popular swimming cover of Paraggi is only a few minutes drive from the center of town.
Scuba diving is also a tourist favorite, in view of the many exotic underwater species in the area as well as the submerged statue of Christ, placed in memory of those who have lost their lives at sea.
The Little Theatre here is a place where artists, writers, and actors from across the globe meet to promote their work and exchange ideas.
The Regional Nature Park has one of the greatest concentrations of flora in the Mediterranean region, and is also home to a great variety of birds and invertebrates. The Park of Portofino also affords a wonderful view of the Ligurian coast and is a favorite with all types of visitors, ranging from the softly romantic to the fanatical lover of nature, and from the artist to the anthropologist.
And visitors to Portofino do not go away without taking with them some sample of the exquisite lace work which women of the town still painstakingly create.


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DELE had not had a good night. She had finally gone to sleep around midnight, but had waked up again at two-fifteen. This was not a surprise: she always had trouble sleeping at her parents' house.
Adele was forty-eight years old, and lived alone. She had been divorced for twelve years, and her son, Philip, was at college in California. She lived on the top floor of a brick house on West Fourth Street, in Greenwich Village, overlooking other people's gardens. Her apartment was small but sunny, and in the mornings she watched the neighborhood cats parade slowly along the walls dividing the gardens. Her life was quiet, and she worked at home, translating novels from the French.
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Adele liked all of this. She liked her solitary life, with her view over the back gardens, and she liked the silence and rigor of translating. She liked the notion that she was effecting a linguistic transition, making something possible that was otherwise impossible, creating a useful channel of understanding between two vast and powerful oceans.
Adele had driven down to Chestertown, on the Eastern Shore, where her parents lived. Her father, Sam Bolton, had been a hand surgeon at Johns Hopkins for nearly forty years. He was now ninety, and her mother, Bess, was eighty-seven. They were both still mentally vigorous, but physically they were becoming rather frail. Sam had had his second hip-replacement operation two months earlier, and Bess's trouble with her knees was getting worse. Since Sam's operation Adele had been coming down every few weeks to help out.
Beforehand Adele envisioned each of these visits as orderly and productive. She saw herself as helping to translate her parents' old life into a new, still unlearned one. But that was not the way the visits turned out. Going back to her parents' small house was like entering a foreign force field, where the normal rules of transaction -- logic and reason and predictability -- seemed suspended. It was a strange, disorienting, gravity-free realm where the air sang and jangled with dysfunction, where her own competence somehow evaporated, and giddy chaos threatened.
From two-fifteen until four-thirty Adele lay awake, reading, in the blond-wood contemporary bed her uncle had given her mother when he got rid of all his Swedish modern, in the 1970s. The austere bed looked out of place: the room had lavender walls and white ruffled curtains, and was full of dark Victorian furniture from Adele's grandparents. The mahogany sleigh bed had gone to Adele's older sister, in San Diego, when the Swedish bed arrived. Adele's mother had draped a length of thin lavender cloth over the wooden headboard in an effort to make the new bed blend with the room. Her effort was unsuccessful. The angular bed, with its loose lavender hood, looked merely bizarre, as though it had been set there among the ruffles and mahogany according to some alternate-universe theory of decoration inaccessible to ordinary mortals.
At four-thirty Adele gave up and took a sleeping pill, so when she woke again, past nine, she was groggy. She could hear her parents, who had been up since eight, keeping their voices down for her sake but already started in on the day's arguments. Sam was downstairs in the kitchen, and Bess was about to follow him down again. The guest-room door was next to the stairs. Adele heard her mother carefully maneuvering herself into the electric chair that shuttled majestically up and down the staircase.
"I've already called him," Bess said in a low, strained voice, trying to make her words carry to the floor below without waking Adele in the next room. "I just think we should see if there's too much in it."
"What do you want me to do?" Sam called from the kitchen. His voice was loud and antagonistic. At the hospital he had been the head of his department for nearly twenty years, and he did not take direction well. Adele could hear the stair-chair arms thudding into place as Bess settled herself in the seat.
"What do you want me to do?" Sam shouted again, still louder and now impatient. Adele heard the click of the switch and then the low hum of the stair-chair as her mother began to descend.
"What do you want me to do?" Sam called for the third time, his voice raised and irritable.
There was another click as the stair-chair stopped at the bottom, and the heavy arms clunked up and then thudded down again as Bess climbed out. Bess began walking toward the kitchen. She spoke when she got so close that she didn't have to yell, but her voice registered her exasperation. She spoke to Sam so slowly as to be almost insulting.
"I told you," Bess said. "I think there's too much food in the refrigerator, and that's why it's making that noise. I've called the repair man, but before he makes a special trip, I want to take some of the things out to see if that's what's causing it."
Adele sat up in bed. Since her father had come home after his operation, friends and neighbors had taken turns bringing dinners to her parents. A list was stuck up on the refrigerator door, with names and dates, so that Sam and Bess would know who was bringing the meal that night. The friends took considerable trouble with the meals, fixing things that were interesting and often exotic, but neither Sam nor Bess ate very much, and they didn't like fancy food. By now the refrigerator was crammed with half-full plastic containers half-covered with foil, bowls of limp vegetables in pale sauces, pans with small, hard tracts of curried chicken or baked lasagna, their surfaces darkened and desiccated in the bleak interior chill of the refrigerator.
When Adele came downstairs, her mother was sitting by the telephone in an ankle-length pink bathrobe. Her salt-and-pepper gray hair stood out around her head in a fine, pale mist. Sam was standing at the refrigerator. Six cartons of milk stood on the table. He was holding up a jar of mayonnaise and frowning.
"Let's just see what happens," Bess said to him.
Already annoyed, Adele said as she came into the room, "Mother, the refrigerator doesn't get overstrained because you have a lot of leftover food in it." Neither of her parents answered. "The refrigerator just keeps a particular space cold," she went on. "A certain cubic area." She was proud of coming up with "cubic." "It doesn't matter how much stuff is in it." She said this with certainty, wondering as she spoke if she was right. But surely she was. "The refrigerator doesn't care. Well -- unless you put hot things in it, a casserole right from the oven or something."
"Putting things in the refrigerator from the oven?" Sam turned around and stared challengingly at Adele. His white hair stood straight up at the crown of his head. He wore wrinkled cotton pajamas and a handsome Black Watch plaid bathrobe that Adele had given him for Christmas.
"If you did," Adele said, aware that she had allowed a dangerous digression into her argument.
"Why would we put things into the refrigerator straight from the oven?" Sam asked. He sounded disgusted and cross, as though Adele had accused him of doing it. "What would be the point of that?"
"I mean," Adele said doggedly, "that your refrigerator isn't making a noise because of what's in it." She paused. The refrigerator was not, so far as she could tell, making any unusual noise at all. It was humming innocuously. They all listened.
"Just put them on the table," Bess said to Sam.
Sam put the mayonnaise jar next to the milk cartons. Adele leaned over and looked at the dates on the milk cartons, which were in varying states of fullness.
"Mother, half of these are already outdated," she said. "Do you want me to throw them out for you? That way -- "
"Now, you just let me take care of the milk cartons," Sam said in a patronizing way. He was the one who drank milk. "I keep pretty close track of these things."
Adele looked at Bess, who rocked slightly in her chair and said nothing. "So the repairman is coming?" Adele asked.
Bess nodded uncertainly. "I called him. I don't know when he's coming, but I called him. But the problem may be all those milk cartons, you see."
"But what's the noise?" Adele asked. "I don't hear any noise."
"Well, it was making a loud noise earlier," Bess said defensively. "That's when I called the repairman, to see if he'd come and take a look at it. He's the one who fixed the heater in your father's study."
"Wasn't broken," Sam said in a triumphant undertone. He lifted out a casserole.
"Well, made it work again," Bess said.
The kitchen was small and square, with yellow walls and white metal cabinets over the sink and counters. Most of the room was taken up by a long pine table. The end near the sink and the door to the dining room was where they ate. Three dark-blue woven place mats were always on it. The other end of the table was near the telephone and the back door, and it was covered with piles of mail. Now the end with the place mats was crowded with half-full milk cartons. In the middle of Adele's place mat was a large mayonnaise jar.
"Well, I'm going to have some breakfast," Adele said. "Can I fix anything for either of you?"
"I've already made my breakfast," Sam said. "Your mother's not hungry. Like some toast?"
"Don't you want anything, Mother?" Adele asked. Bess shook her head. She had always been thin, and lately she seemed to have begun to slip deliberately toward insubstantiality, her skin paler and paler, now almost translucent.
"I'd love some toast, thanks, Daddy," Adele said. "Do you have any decaf coffee, Mother?"
"I think so," Bess said. "I try to keep everything my children want. I think it's in there."
They stored their food in a narrow standing metal cupboard, painted pale yellow to match the walls. On the top shelf of this cupboard Adele found a small, ancient jar with several spoonfuls of instant decaffeinated coffee inside. The grains had begun to liquefy into a deep-brown sludge, and she had to scrape to get them out.
Adele moved the mayonnaise jar and set her place at the table, putting a flowered plate, an orange-juice glass, a napkin, and silverware next to the giant stand of milk cartons. The toaster gave a resentful whir and smartly popped up two slices of toast that were nearly black. The toaster always did this, no matter where the control lever was set. Sam took them out and put them, unbuttered, on Adele's plate.
"There you are," he said. Sam's place was unthreatened by the cartons, and he sat down to his boiled egg. He cracked the shell with a knife.
"Don't you want a piece, Mother?" Adele asked. "I'll butter it for you."
"Well, maybe I'll have a half," Bess said.
She made her way cautiously from the rocking chair by the telephone to the table and sat down with the others. Adele buttered a piece of toast and handed it to her.
"If you want me to," Adele said, "I'll go through all those things in the refrigerator with you. I'm sure we'll find stuff we can throw out."
"The trouble with those meals is they had too much seasoning," Sam said. He scooped the soft innards of the egg into a bowl, where they collapsed, loosing a dense orange tide. "Too spicy. Kept me awake."
"Couldn't you ask the people not to use spices?" Adele asked reasonably.
"They don't listen," Sam said with a thin, intolerant smile.
"There," Bess said loudly. They looked at her. She held her index finger up, her head high and tilted. "Listen. There it is again."
All three of them looked at the refrigerator. Its door was covered with yellowed and fraying newspaper clippings about various family members. "LOCAL RESIDENT FINDS GIANT MUSHROOM" was the biggest headline. They sat and listened. The refrigerator was definitely making a loud noise. Things had changed internally, and it had moved into some new and interfering gear. A hostile rattling sound came from the motor.
"You see?" Bess said.
"It's not the milk," Adele pointed out.
"Maybe you should take some more things out," Bess said to Sam. Sam rose from his chair and shuffled to the refrigerator.
"The problem isn't the things in it," Adele said, exasperated. "If it were, taking them out would have helped."
"What?" Sam asked, turning to look at her.
"If it had been the milk, then since the milk is all on the table, the noise wouldn't be coming again now," Adele said. She was aware that she sounded unclear.
"But it is coming again now," Sam said. He was frowning.
"Right," Adele said, "but that means -- "
"Take some more things out," Bess said to Sam. Containers topped with aluminum foil, small plates of three or four shriveled carrots, pots with their lids on, began to cover the table top.
"But don't you want some of these things thrown out, Mother?" Adele asked. "I looked at them yesterday, and they're really mostly inedible."
"Oh, I don't know about that," Bess said firmly. She picked up her toast and took a small bite.
"I think your mother knows what she wants to keep and what she doesn't," Sam said. The table was now completely covered with old food. He sat down again and began to tear bits of crust from his toast, sprinkling them onto the orange-and-white sea. The three were silent while they ate.
"I think I'm going to write another letter to the town board," Sam said, frowning. He spoke loudly, over the rattling roar from the refrigerator.
"What about?" Adele asked. Her father was fond of writing letters in which he told people what to do.
"About that stop sign at the intersection of Beech Tree Lane and Route Thirty-five. I've written them before, but they still don't seem to realize how badly designed that intersection is."
"Did they answer your letter from before?" Adele asked.
"They answered it, but I don't think they gave it the serious consideration that it deserves," Sam said. "I don't think they were really paying any attention to it." His toast was now crust-free, and he began to stir the torn-off bits into his egg.
"You did write them twice," Bess pointed out.
Sam looked up at her. "But they haven't properly responded," he explained.
"But they did answer you," Bess said.
"I've told you," Sam said, "I don't think they understand the situation."
"Well, you did tell them," Bess said.
"I know that," Sam said fiercely. "You just told me that."
"I know I told you that," Bess said. "I'm just saying -- "
"I know what you're saying," Sam said.
The telephone rang, and Adele sprang up to answer it. Bess watched Adele as she talked, waiting to be handed the phone.
"Yes," Adele said, not looking at her mother, "yes, it is. This is her daughter."
"Tell him about the noise," Bess said.
"The town board meets on Tuesday," Sam said. He took a bite of his egg-and-toast mixture. "I'd like to get my letter to them before that."
"That's right," Adele said. "It's making a loud noise, that's the problem. Kind of a rattle."
"I've told him that," Bess said. Adele turned so that she was sideways to her mother.
"If I mail it today, it will be brought up on Tuesday," Sam said.
"I don't see why you're writing to them again," Bess, now distracted, said to Sam. "You've already told them what you have to say."
"Well, here -- listen to it," Adele said. She held the telephone out toward the refrigerator, which had ratcheted up again and was drumming loudly and at high speed. "Can you hear that?"
"I've told you why I'm writing to them again," Sam said irritably.
Adele put the phone back to her ear. "Could you hear it?"
"I still don't see why," Bess said.
"Well, it's very loud," Adele said. "Yes, we'll be here. We'll be here all day."
"Is he coming over?" Sam asked.
"Right away," Adele said.
"All right, I'm getting dressed," Bess said, getting up. Her toast lay on her plate, only one small bite taken from it.
"Don't you want the rest of your toast?" Adele asked. She now felt guilty about not giving the telephone to her mother.
"I'm not really hungry," Bess said.
"What about you, Daddy?" Adele asked, trying to make up. "If you want to go up and get dressed, I'll do the dishes."
"That's not the issue, is it?" Sam said, smiling dangerously at her. "What I'm doing here is eating my breakfast, not washing the dishes."
(The online version of this story appears in two parts. Click here to go to part two.)
Illustrations by Kathy Osborn.
Copyright © 1999 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved.


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On this day in 1890, the most famous Canadian of all time was born Gravenhurst ON. Henry Norman Bethune, was a graduate in medicine from the University of Toronto, and spent many years practicing in war time medical units. He is best known in his adopted country of China; where his legacy is maintained via a standard reading in the school system: "In Memory of Norman Bethune". Posthumously, he is now celebrated in his native land, even though his motivation for service and politics would not be widely held by citizens then or now. I hold this to be an admirable aspect of Canadian political life.