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Part 6 out of 6
his hands, he sprang up, and fled away.
All this time, the attendant, George, had been sitting, very much
at his ease, on horseback, looking after Sir Norman's charger and
admiring the beauties of sunrise. He had seen Sir Norman in
conversation with a strange female, and not much liking his near
proximity to the plague-pit, was rather impatient for it to come
to an end; but when he saw the tragic manner in which it did end,
his consternation was beyond all bounds. Sir Norman, in his
horrified flight, would have fairly passed him unnoticed, had not
George arrested him by a loud shout.
"I beg your pardon, Sir Norman," he exclaimed, as that gentleman
turned his distracted face; "but, it seems to me, you are running
away. Here is your horse; and allow me to say, unless we hurry
we will scarcely reach the count by sunrise."
Sir Norman leaned against his horse, and shaded his eyes with his
hand, shuddering like one in an ague.
"Why did that woman leap into the plague-pit?" inquired George,
looking at him curiously. "Was it not the sorceress, La Masque?"
"Yes, yes. Do not ask me any questions now," replied Sir Norman,
in a smothered voice, and with an impatient wave of his hand.
"Whatever you please, sir," said George, with the flippancy of
his class; "but still I must repeat, if you do not mount
instantly, we will be late; and my master, the count, is not one
who brooks delay."
The young knight vaulted into the saddle without a word, and
started off at a break-neck pace into the city. George, almost
unable to keep up with him, followed instead of leading, rather
skeptical in his own mind whether he were not riding after a
moon-struck lunatic. Once or twice he shouted out a sharp-toned
inquiry as to whether he knew where he was going, and that they
were taking the wrong way altogether; to all of which Sir Norman
deigned not the slightest reply, but rode more and more
recklessly on. There were but few people abroad at that hour;
indeed, for that matter, the streets of London, in the dismal
summer of 1665, were, comparatively speaking, always deserted;
and the few now wending their way homeward were tired physicians
and plague-nurses from the hospitals, and several hardy country
folks, with more love of lucre than fear of death bending their
steps with produce to the market-place. These people, sleepy and
pallid in the gray haze of daylight, stared in astonishment after
the two furious riders; and windows were thrown open, and heads
thrust out to see what the unusual thunder of horses' hoofs at
that early hour meant. George followed dauntlessly on,
determined to do it or die in the attempt; and if he had ever
heard of the Flying Dutchman, would undoubtedly have come to the
conclusion that he was just then following his track on dry land.
But, unlike the hapless Vanderdecken, Sir Norman came to a halt
at last, and that so suddenly that his horse stood on his beam
ends, and flourished his two fore limbs in the atmosphere. It
was before La Masque's door; and Sir Norman was out of the saddle
in a flash, and knocking like a postman with the handle of his
whip on the door. The thundering reveille rang through the
house, making it shake to its centre, and hurriedly brought to
the door, the anatomy who acted as guardian-angel of the
"La Masque is not at home, and I cannot admit you," was his sharp
"Then I shall just take the trouble of admitting myself," said
Sir Norman, shortly.
And without further ceremony, he pushed aside the skeleton and
entered. But that outraged servitor sprang in his path,
indignant and amazed.
"No, sir; I cannot permit it. I do not know you; and it is
against all orders to admit strangers in La Masque's absence."
"Bah! you old simpleton!" remarked Sir Norman, losing his
customary respect for old age in his impatience, "I have La
Masque's order for what I am about to do. Get along with you
directly, will you? Show me to her private room, and no
He tapped his sword-hilt significantly as he spoke, and that
argument proved irresistible. Grumbling, in low tones, the
anatomy stalked up-stairs; and the other followed, with very
different feelings from those with which he had mounted that
staircase last. His guide paused in the hall above, with his
hand on the latch of a door.
"This is her private room, is it!" demanded Sir Norman.
"Just stand aside, then, and let me pass."
The room he entered was small, simply furnished, and seemed to
answer as bed-chamber and study, all in one. There was a
writing-table under a window, covered with books, and he glanced
at them with some curiosity. They were classics, Greek and
Latin, and other little known tongues - perhaps Sanscrit and
Chaldaic, French belles lettres, novels, and poetry, and a few
rare old English books. There were no papers, however, and those
were what he was in search of; so spying a drawer in the table,
he pulled it hastily open. The eight that met his eyes fairly
dazzled him. It was full of jewels of incomparable beauty and
value, strewn as carelessly about as if they were valueless. The
blaze of gems at the midnight court seemed to him as nothing
compared with the Golconda, the Valley of Diamonds shooting forth
sparks of rainbow-fire before him now. Around one magnificent
diamond necklace was entwined a scrap of paper, on which was
"The family jewels of the Montmorencis. To be given to my
sisters when I am dead."
That settled their destiny. All this blaze of diamonds, rubies,
and opals were Leoline's; and with the energetic rapidity
characteristic of our young friend that morning, he swept them
out on the table, and resumed his search for papers. No document
was there to reward his search, but the brief one twined round
the necklace; and he was about giving up in despair, when a small
brass slide in one corner caught his eye. Instantly he was at
it, trying it every way, shoving it out and in, and up and down,
until at last it yielded to his touch, disclosing an inner
drawer, full of papers and parchments. One glance showed them to
be what he was in search of - proofs of Leoline and Hubert's
identity, with the will of the marquis, their father, and
numerous other documents relative to his wealth and estates.
These precious manuscripts he rolled together in a bundle, and
placed carefully in his doublet, and then seizing a
beautifully-wrought brass casket, that stood beneath the table,
he swept the jewels in, secured it, and strapped it to his belt.
This brisk and important little affair being over, he arose to
go, and in turning, saw the skeleton porter standing in the
door-way, looking on in speechless dismay.
"It's all right my ancient friend!" observed Sir Norman, gravely.
"These papers must go before the king, and these jewels to their
proper owner."
"Their proper owner!" repeated the old man, shrilly; "that is La
Masque. Thief-robber-housebreaker - stop!"
"My good old friend, you will do yourself a mischief if you bawl
like that. Undoubtedly these things were La Masque's, but they
are so no longer, since La Masque herself is among the things
that were!"
"You shall not go!" yelled the old man, trembling with rage and
anger. "Help! help! help!"
"You noisy old idiot!" cried Sir Norman, losing all patience, "I
will throw you out of the window if you keep up such a clamor as
this. I tell you La Masque is dead!"
At this ominous announcement, the ghastly porter fell back, and
became, if possible, a shade more ghastly than was his wont.
"Dead and buried!" repeated Sir Norman, with gloomy
sternness, "and there will be somebody else coming to take
possession shortly. How many more servants are there here beside
"Only one, sir - my wife Joanna. In mercy's name, sir, do not
turn us out in the streets at this dreadful time!"
"Not I! You and your wife Joanna may stagnate here till you
blue-mold, for me. But keep the door fast, my good old friend,
and admit no strangers, but those who can tell you La Masque is
With which parting piece of advice Sir Norman left the house, and
joined George, who sat like an effigy before the door, in a state
of great mental wrath, and who accosted him rather suddenly the
moment be made his appearance.
"I tell you what, Sir Norman Kingsley, if you have many more
morning calls to make, I shall beg leave to take my departure.
As it is, I know we are behind time, and his ma - the count, I
mean, is not one who it accustomed or inclined to be kept
"I am quite at your service now," said Sir Norman, springing on
horseback; "so away with you, quick as you like."
George wanted no second order. Before the words were well out of
his companion's mouth, he was dashing away like a bolt from a
bow, as furiously as if on a steeple-chase, with Sir Norman close
at his heels; and they rode, flushed and breathless, with their
steeds all a foaming, into the court-yard of the royal palace at
Whitehall, just as the early rising sun was showing his florid
and burning visage above the horizon.
The court-yard, unlike the city streets, swarmed with busy life.
Pages, and attendants, and soldiers, moving hither and thither,
or lounging about, preparing for the morning's journey to Oxford.
Among the rest Sir Norman observed Hubert, lying very much at his
ease wrapped in his cloak, on the ground, and chatting languidly
with a pert and pretty attendant of the fair Mistress Stuart. He
cut short his flirtation, however, abruptly enough, and sprang to
his feet as he saw Sir Norman, while George immediately darted
off and disappeared from the palace.
"Am I late Hubert?" said his hurried questioner, as he drew the
lad's arm within his own, and led him off out of hearing.
"I think not. The count," said Hubert, with laughing emphasis,
"has not been visible since he entered yonder doorway, and there
has been no message that I have heard of. Doubtless, now that
George has arrived, the message will soon be here, for the royal
procession starts within half an hour."
"Are you sure there is no trick, Hubert? Even now he may be with
Hubert shrugged his shoulders.
"He maybe; we must take our chance for that; but we have his
royal word to the contrary. Not that I have much faith in that!"
said Hubert.
"If he were king of the world instead of only England," cried Sir
Norman, with flashing eyes, "he shall not have Leoline while I
wear a sword to defend her!"
"Regicide!" exclaimed Hubert, holding up both hands in affected
horror. "Do my ears deceive me Is this the loyal and
chivalrous Sir Norman Kingsley, ready to die for king and country - "
"Stuff and nonsense!" interrupted Sir Norman, impatiently. "I
tell you any one, be he whom he may, that attempts to take
Leoline from me, must reach her over my dead body!"
"Bravo! You ought to be a Frenchman, Sir Norman! And what if
the lady herself, finding her dazzling suitor drop his barnyard
feathers, and soar over her head in his own eagle plumes, may not
give you your dismissal, and usurp the place of pretty Madame
"You cold-blooded young villain! if you insinuate such a thing
again, I'll throttle you! Leoline loves me, and me alone!"
"Doubtless she thinks so; but she has yet to learn she has a king
for a suitor!"
"Bah! You are nothing but a heartless cynic," said Sir Norman,
yet with an anxious and irritated flush on his face, too: "What
do you know of love?"
"More than you think, as pretty Mariette yonder could depose, if
put upon oath. But seriously, Sir Norman, I am afraid your case
is of the most desperate; royal rivals are dangerous things!"
"Yet Charles has kind impulses, and has been known to do generous
"Has he? You expect him, beyond doubt, to do precisely as he
said; and if Leoline, different from all the rest of her sex,
prefers the knight to the king, he will yield her unresistingly
to you."
"I have nothing but his word for it!" said Sir Norman, in a
distracted tone, "and, at present, can do nothing but bide my
"I have been thinking of that, too! I promised, you know, when I
left her, last night, that we would return before day-dawn, and
rescue her. The unhappy little beauty will doubtless think I
have fallen into the tiger's jaws myself, and has half wept her
bright eyes out by this time!"
"My poor Leoline! And O Hubert, if you only knew what she is to
"I do know! She told me she was my sister!"
Sir Norman looked at him in amazement.
"She told you, and you take it like this?"
"Certainly, I take it like this. How would you have me take it?
It is nothing to go into hysterics about, after all!"
"Of all the cold-blooded young reptiles I ever saw," exclaimed
Sir Norman, with infinite disgust, "you are the worst! If you
were told you were to receive the crown of France to-morrow, you
would probably open your eyes a trifle, and take it as you would
a new cap!"
"Of course I would. I haven't lived in courts half my life to
get up a scene for a small matter! Besides, I had an idea from
the first moment I saw Leoline that she must be my sister, or
something of that sort."
"And so you felt no emotion whatever on hearing it?"
"I don't know as I properly understand what you mean by emotion,"
said Herbert, reflectively. "But ye-e-s, I did feel somewhat
pleased - she is so like me, and so uncommonly handsome!"
"Humph! there's a reason! Did she tell you how she discovered it
"Let me see -no - I think not - she simply mentioned the fact."
"She did not tell you either, I suppose, that you had more
sisters than herself?"
"More than herself! No. That would be a little too much of a
good thing! One sister is quite enough for any reasonable
"But there were two more, my good young friend!"
"Is it possible?" said Hubert, in a tone that betrayed not the
slightest symptom of emotion. "Who are they?"
Sir Norman paused one instant, combating a strong temptation to
seize the phlegmatic page by the collar, and give him such
another shaking as he would not get over for a week to come; but
suddenly recollecting he was Leoline's brother, and by the same
token a marquis or thereabouts, he merely paused to cast a
withering look upon him, and walked on.
"Well," said Hubert, "I am waiting to be told."
"You may wait, then!" said Sir Norman, with a smothered growl;
"and I give you joy when I tell you. Such extra
communicativeness to one so stolid could do no good!"
"But I am not stolid! I am in a perfect agony of anxiety," said
"You young jackanapes!" said Sir Norman, half-laughing, half-
incensed. "It were a wise deed and a godly one to take you by
the hind-leg and nape of the neck, and pitch you over yonder
wall; but for your mister's sake I will desist."
"Which of them?" inquired Hubert, with provoking gravity.
"It would be more to the point if you asked me who the others
were, I think."
"So I have, and you merely abused me for it. But I think I know
one of them without being told. It is that other fac-simile of
Leoline and myself who died in the robber's ruin!"
"Exactly. You and she, and Leoline, were triplets!"
"And who is the other?"
"Her name is La Masque. Have you ever heard it?"
"La Masque! Nonsense!" exclaimed Hubert, with some energy in his
voice at last. "You but jest, Sir Norman Kingsley!"
"No such thing! It is a positive fact! She told me the whole
story herself!"
"And what is the whole story; and why did she not tell it to me
instead of you."
"She told it to Leoline, thinking, probably, she had the most
sense; and she told it to me, as Leoline's future husband. It is
somewhat long to relate, but it will help to beguile the time
while we are waiting for the royal summons."
And hereupon Sir Norman, without farther preface, launched into a
rapid resume of La Masque's story, feeling the cold chill with
which he had witnessed it creep over him as he narrated her
fearful end.
"It struck me," concluded Sir Norman, "that it would be better to
procure any papers she might possess at once, lest, by accident,
they should fall into other hands; so I rode there directly, and,
in spite of the cantankerous old porter, searched diligently,
until I found them. Here they are," said Sir Norman, drawing
forth the roll.
"And what do you intend doing with them?" inquired Hubert,
glancing at the papers with an unmoved countenance.
"Show them to the king, and, though his mediation with Louis,
obtain for you the restoration of your rights."
"And do you think his majesty will give himself so much trouble
for the Earl of Rochester's page?"
"I think he will take the trouble to see justice done, or at
least he ought to. If he declines, we will take the matter in
our own hands, my Hubert; and you and I will seek Louis
ourselves. Please God, the Earl of Rochester's page will yet
wear the coronet of the De Montmorencis!"
"And the sister of a marquis will be no unworthy mate even for a
Kingsley," said Hubert. "Has La Masque left nothing for her?"
"Do you see this casket?" tapping the one of cared brass dangling
from his belt; "well, it is full of jewels worth a king's ransom.
I found them in a drawer of La Masque's house, with directions
that they were to be given to her sisters at her death. Miranda
being dead, I presume they are all Leoline's now."
"This is a queer business altogether!" said Hubert, musingly;
"and I am greatly mistaken if King Louie will not regard it as a
very pretty little work of fiction."
"But I have proofs, lad! The authenticity of these papers cannot
be doubted."
"With all my heart. I have no objections to be made a marquis
of, and go back to la belle France, out of this land of plague
and fog. Won't some of my friends here be astonished when they
hear it, particularly the Earl of Rochester, when he finds out
that he has had a marquis for a page? Ah, here comes George, and
bearing a summons from Count L'Estrange at last."
George approached, and intimated that Sir Norman was to follow
him to the presence of his master.
"Au revoir, then," said Hubert. "You will find me here when you
come back."
Sir Norman, with a slight tremor of the nerves at what was to
come, followed the king's page through halls and anterooms, full
of loiterers, courtiers, and their attendants. Once a hand was
laid on his shoulder, a laughing voice met his ear, and the Earl
of Rochester stood beside him!
"Good-morning, Sir Norman; you are abroad betimes. How have you
left your friend, the Count L'Estrange?"
"Your lordship has probably seen him since I have, and should be
able to answer that question best."
"And how does his suit progress with the pretty Leoline?" went on
the gay earl. "In faith, Kingsley, I never saw such a charming
little beauty; and I shall do combat with you yet - with both the
count and yourself, and outwit the pair of you!"
"Permit me to differ from your lordship. Leoline would not touch
you with a pair of tongs!"
"Ah! she has better taste than you give her credit for; but if I
should fail, I know what to do to console myself."
"May I ask what?"
"Yes! there is Hubert, as like her an two peas in a pod. I shall
dress him up in lace and silks, and gewgaws, and have a Leoline
of my own already made its order."
"Permit me to doubt that, too! Hubert is as much lost to you as
Leaving the volatile earl to put what construction pleased him
best on this last sententious remark, he resumed his march after
George, and was ushered, at last, into an ante-room near the
audience-chamber. Count L'Estrange, still attired as Count
L'Estrange, stood near a window overlooking the court-yard, and
as the page salaamed and withdrew, he turned round, and greeted
Sir Norman with his suavest air.
"The appointed hour is passed, Sir Norman Kingsley, but that is
partly your own fault. Your guide hither tells me that you
stopped for some time at the house of a fortune-teller, known as
La Masque. Why was this!"
"I was forced to stop on most important business," answered the
knight, still resolved to treat him as the count, until it should
please him to doff his incognito, "of which you shall hear anon.
Just now, our business is with Leoline."
"True! And as in a short time I start with yonder cavalcade,
there is but little time to lose. Apropos, Kingsley, who is that
mysterious woman, La Masque?"
"She is, or was (for she is dead sow) a French lady, of noble
birth, and the sister of Leoline!"
"Her sister! And have you discovered Leoline's history?"
"I have."
"And her name!"
"And her name. She is Leoline De Montmorenci! And with the
proudest blood of France in her veins, living obscure and unknown
- a stranger in a strange land since childhood; but, with God's
grace and your help, I hope to see her restored to all she has
lost, before long."
"You know me, then?" said his companion, half-smiling.
"Yes, your majesty," answered Sir Norman, bowing low before the
As the last glimpse of moonlight and of Hubert's bright face
vanished, Leoline took to pacing up and down the room in a most
conflicting and excited state of mind. So many things had
happened during the past night; so rapid and unprecedented had
been the course of events; so changed had her whole life become
within the last twelve hours, that when she came to think it all
over, it fairly made her giddy. Dressing for her bridal; the
terrible announcement of Prudence; the death-like swoon; the
awakening at the plague-pit; the maniac flight through the
streets; the cold plunge in the river; her rescue; her interview
with Sir Norman, and her promise; the visit of La Masque; the
appearance of the count; her abduction; her journey here; the
coming of Hubert, and their suddenly-discovered relationship. It
was enough to stun any one; and the end was not yet. Would
Hubert effect his escape? Would they be able to free her? What
place was this, and who was Count L'Estrange? It was a great
deal easier to propound this catechism to herself than to find
answers to her own questions; and so she walked up and down,
worrying her pretty little head with all sorts of anxieties,
until it was a perfect miracle that softening of the brain did
not ensue.
Her feet gave out sooner than her brain, though; and she got so
tired before long, that she dropped into a seat, with a
long-drawn, anxious sigh; and, worn out with fatigue and
watching, she, at last, fell asleep.
And sleeping, she dreamed. It seemed to her that the count and
Sir Norman were before her, in her chamber in the old house on
London Bridge, tossing her heart between them like a sort of
shuttlecock. By-and-by, with two things like two drumsticks,
they began hammering away at the poor, little, fluttering heart,
as if it were an anvil and they were a pair of blacksmiths, while
the loud knocks upon it resounded through the room. For a time,
she was so bewildered that she could not comprehend what it
meant; but, at last, she became conscious that some one was
rapping at the door. Pressing one hand over her startled heart,
she called "Come in!" and the door opened and George entered.
"Count L'Estrange commands me to inform you, fair lady, that he
will do himself the pleasure of visiting you immediately, with
Sir Norman Kingsley, if you are prepared to receive them."
"With Sir Norman Kingsley!" repeated Leoline, faintly. "I-I am
afraid I do not quite understand."
"Then you will not be much longer in that deplorable state," said
George, backing out, "for here they are."
"Pardon this intrusion, fairest Leoline," began the count, "but
Sir Norman and I are about to start on a journey, and before we
go, there is a little difference of opinion between us that you
are to settle."
Leoline looked first at one, and then at the other, utterly
"What is it?" she asked.
"A simple matter enough. Last evening, if you recollect, you
were my promised bride."
"It was against my will," said Leoline, boldly, though her voice
shook, "You and Prudence made me."
"Nay, Leoline, you wrong me. I, at least, need no compulsion."
"You know better. You haunted me continually; you gave me no
peace at all; and I world just have married you to get rid of
"And you never loved me?"
"I never did."
"A frank confession! Did you, then, love any one else?"
The dark eyes fell, and the roseate glow again tinged the pearly
"Mute!" said the count, with an almost imperceptible smile.
"Look up, Leoline, and speak."
But Leoline would do neither. With all her momentary daring
gone, she stood startled as a wild gazelle.
"Shall I answer for her, Sir Count?" exclaimed Sir Norman, his
own cheek dashed. "Leoline! Leoline! you love me!"
Leoline was silent;
"You are to decide between us, Leoline. Though the count
forcibly brought you here, he has been generous enough to grant
this. Say, then, which of as you love best."
"I do not love him at all," said Leoline, with a little disdain,
"and he knows it."
"Then it is I!" said Sir Norman, him whole lace beaming with
"It is you!"
Leoline held out both hands to the loved one, and nestled close
to his side, like a child would to its protector.
"Fairly rejected!" said the count, with a pacing shade of
mortification on his brow; "and, my word being pledged, I most
submit. But, beautiful Leoline, you have yet to learn whom you
have discarded."
Clinging to her lover's arm, the girl grew white with undefined
apprehension. Leisurely, the count removed false wig, false
eyebrows, false heard; and a face well known to Leoline, from
pictures and description, turned full upon her.
"Sire!" she cried, in terror, calling on her knees with clasped
"Nay; rise, fair Leoline," said the king, holding out his hand to
assist her. "It is my place to kneel to one so lovely instead of
having her kneel to me. Think again. Will you reject the king
as you did the count?"
"Pardon, your majesty!", said Leoline, scarcely daring to look
up; "but I must!"
"So be it! You are a perfect miracle of troth and constancy, and
I think I can afford to be generous for once. In fifteen
minutes, we start for Oxford, and you must accompany us as Lady
Kingsley. A tiring woman will wait upon you to robe you for your
bridal. We will leave you now, and let me enjoin expedition."
And while she still stood too much astonished by the sudden
proposal to answer, both were gone, and in their place stood a
smiling lady's maid, with a cloud of gossamer white in her arms.
"Are those for me?" inquired Leoline, looking at them, and trying
to comprehend that it was all real.
"They are for you - sent by Mistress Stuart, herself. Please sit
down, and all will be ready in a trice."
And in a trice all was ready. The shining, jetty curls were
smoothed, and fell in a glossy shower, trained with jewels - the
pearls Leoline herself still wore. The rose satin was discarded
for another of bridal white, perfect of fit, and splendid of
feature. A great gossamer veil like a cloud of silver mist over
all, from head to foot; and Leoline was shown herself in a
mirror, and in the sudden transformation, could have exclaimed,
with the unfortunate lady in bother Goose, shorn of her tresses
when in balmy slumber: "As sure as I'm a little woman, this is
none of it!" But she it was, nevertheless, who stood listening
like one in a trance, to the enthusiastic praises of her
Again there was a tap at the door. This time the attendant
opened it, and George reappeared. Even he stood for a moment
looking at the silver-shining vision, and so lost in admiration,
that he almost forgot his message. But when Leoline turned the
light of her beautiful eyes inquiringly upon him, he managed to
remember it, and announced that he had been sent by the king to
usher her to the royal presence.
With a feet-throbbing heart, flushed cheeks, and brilliant eyes,
the dazzling bride followed him, unconscious that she had never
looked so incomparably before in her life. It was but a few
hours since she had dressed for another bridal; and what
wonderful things had occurred since then - her whole destiny had
changed in a night. Not quite sure yet but that she was still
dreaming, she followed on - saw George throw open the great doors
of the audience-chamber, and found herself suddenly in what
seemed to her a vast concourse of people. At the upper end of
the apartment was a brilliant group of ladies, with the king's
beautiful favorite in their midst, gossiping with knots of
gentlemen. The king himself stood in the recess of a window,
with his brother, the Duke of York, the Earl of Rochester, and
Sir Norman Kingsley, and was laughing and relating animatedly to
the two peers the whole story. Leoline noticed this, and
noticed, too, that all wore traveling dresses - most of the
ladies, indeed, being attired in riding-habits.
The king himself advanced to her rescue, and drawing her arm
within his, he led her up and presented her to the fair Mistress
Stuart, who received her with smiling graciousness though
Leoline, all unused to court ways, and aware of the lovely lady's
questionable position, returned it almost with cold hauteur.
Charles being in an unusually gracious mood, only smiled as he
noticed it, and introduced her next to his brother of York, and
her former short acquaintance, Rochester.
"There's no need, I presume, to make you acquainted with this
other gentleman," said Charles, with a laughing glance at Sir
Norman. "Kingsley, stand forward and receive your bride. My
Lord of Canterbury, we await your good offices."
The bland bishop, in surplice and stole, and book in hand,
stepped from a distant group, and advanced. Sir Norman, with a
flush on his cheek, and an exultant light in his eyes, took the
hand of his beautiful bride who stood lovely, and blushing, and
downcast, the envy and admiration of all. And
"Before the bishop now they stand,
The bridegroom and the bride;
And who shall paint what lovers feel
In this, their hour of pride?"
Who indeed? Like many other pleasant things is this world, it
requires to be felt to be appreciated; and, for that reason, it
is a subject on which the unworthy chronicler is altogether
incompetent to speak. The first words of the ceremony dropped
from the prelate's urbane lips, and Sir Norman's heart danced a
tarantella within him. "Wilt thou?" inquired the bishop,
blandly, and slipped a plain gold ring on one pretty finger of
Leoline's hand and all heard the old, old formula: "What God
hath joined together, let no man put asunder!" And the whole
mystic rite was over.
Leoline gave one earnest glance at the ring on her finger. Long
ago, slaves wore rings as the sign of their bondage - is it for
the same reason married women wear them now? While she yet
looked half-doubtfully at it, she was surrounded, congratulated,
and stunned with a sadden clamor of voices; and then, through it
all, she heard the well-remembered voice of Count L'Estrange,
"My lords and ladies, time is on the wing, and the sun is already
half an hour high! Off with you all to the courtyard, and mount,
while Lady Kingsley changes her wedding-gear for robes more
befitting travel, and joins us there."
With a low obeisance to the king, the lovely bride hastened away
after one of the favorite's attendants, to do as he directed, and
don a riding-suit. In ten minutes after, when the royal
cavalcade started, she turned from the pest-stricken city, too
and fairest, where all was fair, by Sir Norman's side rode
Sitting one winter night by a glorious winter fire, while the
snow and hail lashed the windows, and the wind without roared
like Bottom, the weaver, a pleasant voice whispered the foregoing
tale. Here, as it paused abruptly, and seemed to have done with
the whole thing, I naturally began to ask questions. What
happened the dwarf and his companions? What became of Hubert?
Did Sir Norman and Lady Kingsley go to Devonshire, and did either
of them die of the plague? I felt, myself, when I said it, that
the last suggestion was beneath contempt, and so a withering look
from the face opposite proved; but the voice was obliging enough
to answer the rest of my queries. The dwarf and his cronies
being put into his majesty's jail of Newgate, where the plague
was raging fearfully, they all died in a week, and so managed to
cheat the executioner. Hubert went to France, and laid his
claims before the royal Louis, who, not being able to do
otherwise, was graciously pleased to acknowledge them; and Hubert
became the Marquis de Montmorenci, and in the fullness of time
took unto himself a wife, even of the daughters of the land, and
lived happy for ever after.
And Sir Norman and Lady Kingsley did go to the old manor in
Devonshire, where - with tradition and my informant - there is to
be seen to this day, an old family-picture, painted some twelve
years after, representing the knight and his lady sitting
serenely in their "ain ingle nook" with their family around them.
Sir Norman,- a little portlier, a little graver, in the serious
dignity of pater familias; and Leoline, with the dark, beautiful
eyes, the falling, shining hair, the sweet smiling lips, and
lovely, placid face of old. Between them, on three hassocks, sit
three little boys; while the fourth, and youngest, a miniature
little Sir Norman, leans against his mother's shoulder, and looks
thoughtfully in her sweet, calm face. Of the fate of those four,
the same ancient lore affirms: "That the eldest afterward bore
the title of Earl of Kingsley; that the second became a lord high
admiral, or chancellor, or something equally highfalutin; and
that the third became an archbishop. But the highest honor of
all was reserved for the fourth, and youngest," continued the
narrating voice, "who, after many days, sailed for America, and,
in the course of time, became President of the United States ."
Determined to be fully satisfied on this point, at least, the
author invested all her spare change in a catalogue of all the
said Presidents, from George Washington to Chester A. Arthur,
and, after a diligent and absorbing perusal of that piece of
literature, could find no such name as Kingsley whatever; and has
been forced to come to the conclusion that he most have applied
to Congress to change his name on arriving in the New World, or
else that her informant was laboring reader a falsehood when she
told her so. As for the rest,
"I know not how the truth may be;
I say it as 'twas said to me."


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- About
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Tel Aviv University, Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry
"The Influence of Evolutionary Changes in Gene Structure and Epigenetic Modifications on the Alternative Splicing Mechanism"
January 2017
My PhD was concluded in 2014, and was followed by a short, 1 year post-doc at Duke University, NC, where I focused on human genetics and variation. Currently I am a research associate at Columbia University Medical Center, NY; I lead the group's analysis team focusing on neuropsychiatric disorders modelling and drug screening using multi electrode arrays. My role includes strategic planning, development of analysis tools and writing results for publications. My role as a computational geneticist at IGM includes developing tools for identification of damaging variants, such as the TraP tool for annotating pathogenic non-coding variants (http://trap-score.org/) as well as genomic interpretations of exomes and whole genomes of patients with undiagnosed disorders.
My updated publication list:
McSweeney, K.M., A.B. Gussow, S. Bradrick, S. Petrovski, W. N. Frankel, S. Gelfman, Q. Wang and D. B. Goldstein. 2016. Inhibition of microRNA-128 promotes excitability of cultured neuronal networks. Genome Research, 26: 1411-1416.
Bell, R.E., T. Golan, D. Sheinboim, H. Malcov, D. Amar, A. Salamon, T. Liron, S. Gelfman, Y. Gabet, R. Shamir and C. Levy. 2016. Enhancer methylation dynamics contribute to cancer plasticity and patient mortality. Genome Research, 26: 601-611.
Gelfman, S*, A. Yearim*, R. Shayevitch, S. Melcer, O. Glaich, J.P. Mallm, … E. Meshorer and G. Ast. 2015. HP1 is involved in regulating the global impact of DNA methylation on alternative splicing. Cell Reports, 10.7: 1122-1134. *Both authors contributed equally.
Gelfman, S. and G. Ast. 2013. When epigenetics meets alternative splicing: the roles of DNA methylation and GC architecture. Epigenomics, 5.4: 351-353. Editorial.
Gelfman, S., N. Cohen, A. Yearim and G. Ast. 2013. DNA-methylation patterns on exon-intron structure and their effect on co-transcriptional splicing. Genome Research, 23:c789-99.
Ramalho, R. F., S. Gelfman, J. E.S. De Souza, G. Ast, S.J. De Souza and D. Meyer. 2013. Testing for natural selection in human exonic splicing regulators associated with evolutionary rate shifts. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 76: 228-39.
Gelfman, S., D. Burstein, O. Penn, A. Savchenko, M. Amit, S. Schwartz, T. Pupko and G. Ast. 2012. Changes in exon-intron structure during vertebrate evolution affect the splicing pattern of exons. Genome Research 22: 35-50.
Amit, M., M. Donyo, D. Hollander, A. Goren, E. Kim, S. Gelfman, G. Lev-Maor, D. Burstein, S. Schwartz, and B. Postolsky, T. Pupko and G. Ast. 2012. Differential GC content between exons and introns establishes distinct strategies of splice-site recognition. Cell Reports, 1: 543-56.

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Pictures from my Advanced Game Design class of us battling our 1,500 point armies!
The Chaos Fellblade Super Heavy Tank I added into our army was a BEAST!
It was a great learning experience considering I have never played Warhammer before. I definitely can see why this is what we are learning for Advanced Game Design. Warhammer is very mechanic heavy and requires a ton of knowledge of rules, math, strategy, and knowing design mechanics.
I can't wait to get started on working on our very own race with it's very own Codex!
Friday, September 11, 2015
Warhammer: Crimson Sqaud VS Tryanids!
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I want to be your legs.
I'm going to be strong, I promise.
I will carry you and help you stand on my feet.
I'm going to be strong, I promise.
I will carry you and help you stand on my feet.
Attach me to the stumps of your knees.
Let me lift you up so you can find the perfect spot, gain a better aim.
Allow me the honor to be your peg on this patch of dirt, the piece of earth you once stood on, the land you so bravely defend, your home, my homeland, our identity.
Permit me to do something so you can better swirl your sling and send your righteous rock to the heart of its target.
I beg you!
Give me a wisp of your dignity, a grain of your courage, a shadow of your fierceness, an atom of your determination.
Come back to life and stop the world's heart from staying dead.
Fadi Hassan Abu Salah, killed in Gaza by Israeli sniper on Monday May 14, 2018
Lilas Taha is a novelist, winner of the 2017 International Book Awards in the Multicultural Fiction category and is the author of Bitter Almonds and Shadows of Damascus. You can learn more on Taha's website lilastaha.com


text: January 8, 2014 Getting in my way, is the way. Often, I've thought that getting in my way is something that I shouldn't do in order to do the work that I need to do. But I think the process of being lost, and being me, and all that stuff is the thing that is real in my experience in the world, and then if I deny that in order to fit some sort of mold of what I think a better person than I would do, or a better screenwriter…it doesn't really acknowledge what the truth is and I guess that's what I'm looking to do. — Charlie Kaufman on Getting in Your Own Way | Redbubble Blog


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Free State Project still going strong 10 years laterBy MEGHAN PIERCE
Sunday News Correspondent
October 11. 2014 9:55PM
The Free State Project celebrated its 10th anniversary this year.
The project is a non-binding agreement among 20,000 like-minded people to move to New Hampshire in an effort to consolidate libertarian ideals in one U.S. state, and in doing so become a beacon of liberty for the nation and the world.
That's the idea, anyway.
Signatories agree to move to the Granite State within five years of the trigger point of getting 20,000 people to join the Free State movement.
At the 10-year mark, 16,086 people have signed on, still short of the magic 20,000.
But a little magic did already happen, with about 10 percent of those people having moved to New Hampshire. They didn't want to wait.
"I think some people thought there is no reason to wait. New Hampshire is already a pretty libertarian state compared to the rest of the country. And I and a lot of other people thought why not move there and take advantage of what New Hampshire has to offer," said Jason Sorens, who started the movement with an essay he wrote as a Yale graduate student in 2001.
Sorens, 37, of West Lebanon now teaches at Dartmouth College.
"I wrote the essay while I was a graduate student, and I proposed it as an idea that I thought would work, attracting libertarian activists to a single state in the country," Sorens said. "The state would become a model for the rest of the country."
After he wrote the essay, about 500 interested libertarians contacted him and the project took off.
Several states were considered. Eventually the Live Free or Die state won out as the ideal libertarian haven.
While some Free Staters have become known as activists or local politicians, most moved here quietly, buying homes, raising families and starting businesses. The movement attracted entrepreneurs as well as people who want to live off the grid and/or homeschool their children.
"There are a lot of people that move here and don't necessarily shout from the roof tops that they are Free Staters cause who wants that to be the first thing that people learn about you," Sorens said.
Bardo project
"I honestly don't ever advertise it," Jodi Underwood said. "Every Free Stater is completely different. The only thing you would know about me from it is I moved here to be near like-minded people," she said. "You don't know anything about me by knowing that. It seems like a weird label to have."
Underwood, 54, moved from a Philadelphia suburb to a 210-acre Croydon farm in 2007 with her husband Ian Underwood and another liberty-minded couple, Emily and Neil Smith.
The Smiths wanted to live off the grid, and the Underwoods wanted an adventure.
"We feel that life should be lived with principles and not by letting other people telling people what to do," Underwood said.
Underwood said she immediately knew she had found where she was meant to be.
"I always felt like a fish out of water" before she moved to New Hampshire "because I wasn't politically-correct."
Underwood works at home as a research scientist and software designer. She has also started the Bardo Project, a home and farm intern program for adults of all ages.
Bardo is a Tibetan word meaning "between lives," but on Underwood's farm it's about giving people a break between chapters in their lives so they can find new paths.
She cares about education and now heads the town school board.
She recently learned that just about everyone in Croydon was aware the couples are Free Staters. "I never knew that they knew that."
From the start, they felt welcome. It's a community where neighbors help neighbors, she said, and they fit right in.
And she isn't judged for being liberty-minded.
It's been a big learning adventure, she said.
Shire sharing
Amanda Bouldin, 29, founder of non-profit Shire Sharing, moved from Dallas to the Granite State in 2009 after becoming disenchanted with the Tea Party group she had joined.
"The reason that I moved is because I got fed up with the Tea Party in Dallas," she said, recounting the moment at a meeting, she was sitting with a group of older retired women and she voiced her support for gay marriage.
"I said something about gay marriage and they flipped their lids," Bouldin said. "I had always just assumed we had seen eye to eye about civil rights."
Libertarian minded, Bouldin also didn't fit in with Democrats either.
So she decided to join the Free State Project.
"For whatever reason I can't sit well with the Republican Party and I can't sit well with the Democratic Party, so basically, I ran for the hills," Bouldin said.
Bouldin now lives in Manchester, raising her 8-year-old daughter and working in child care.
In 2011, her father was diagnosed with cancer and within a few months he was gone. Since the time Bouldin was a child, her father would make and deliver food baskets to people in need on Thanksgiving Day.
She was saddened to think his work would not carry on in Dallas, but she decided to do what she could in her new home state.
She took on the name her father had always used, the Basket Brigade, and ended up delivering 52 baskets that first Thanksgiving.
"Every year we deliver Thanksgiving meals to people in need," she said.
A fellow Free Stater, Ian Freeman of Keene, made a comment early on that the name brigade sounded too militant, Bouldin said. Someone suggested Shire Sharing and it went from there.
Last Thanksgiving, Shire Sharing delivered 333 baskets with the help of 150 volunteers and private donations.
Organizations such as Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities connect Shire Sharing with a list of names and addresses and the baskets are tailored to the family, making considerations for family size as well as dietary or medical concerns.
Shire Sharing reflects her core beliefs, Bouldin said, and is a positive way to espouse her libertarian ideal that helping others should be voluntary and not mandated through taxation.
"I think a lot of libertarians are seen as cut-throat Darwinists, 'if you can't make it in this world too bad,'" Bouldin said.
That is not true, Bouldin said. Libertarians believe in voluntary charity - the true act of giving with no strings.
Though she doesn't support the government welfare system as it exists, she said she doesn't judge people who depend on it to survive.
"You're not going to find a libertarian that is going to support the current welfare system," Bouldin said. "Most libertarians are going to say they equate taxation with theft."
Aside from the tax issue, welfare has failed to pull people out of poverty, she said.
"Obliviously, people have a hard time getting off the welfare system once they are on it," she said.
For herself, when she hit hard times she lived on rice and beans and the charity of friends.
"I know people that are on welfare and I don't judge them for it," Bouldin said. "I would never fault anyone doing what they have to do to survive."
Free Staters are compassionate and believe in helping their neighbors, Bouldin said, but they don't think the government is the answer to problems like poverty or unemployment. Often the government has aggravated those issues by making people dependent on welfare and creating regulations that inhibit business, she said.
"A lot of people that are on welfare believe their lives will never change, will never improve," Bouldin said.
State politics
Democrat Timothy O'Flaherty, 35, of Manchester was elected a state representative in Ward 5 in 2012.
He joined the Free State Project and moved from Pennsylvania to New Hampshire in 2009, he said.
"I had a lot of frustration with national politics," O'Flaherty said. "I had no outlet. I had no way of expressing by dissent to the U.S. empire and its wars of aggression. A positive way of having an outlet was to move here."
Relator Mark Warden, 51, of Pinardville moved from Las Vegas, Nev., to New Hampshire in 2007 when the housing market in Las Vegas crashed. He is just finishing his second term as a Republican state representative.
"It was a good time to look around the country, and I thought New Hampshire with its nice climate and outdoor activities and safe environment was a good place for my new home. I checked it out and loved it here," Warden said.
From his realtor perspective, the early Free State immigrants have had a positive impact on the housing market of up to $50 million. They have been buying homes and businesses as well as building homes and businesses, he said.
Like other Free Staters, O'Flaherty and Warden said, living in New Hampshire means not being a sentinel in their beliefs.
"I think a lot of Free Staters find that they are alone, out in the wilderness in the other 49 states," Warden said.
"It has been almost therapeutic to come here. All that anger and angst I had against the U.S. I can now channel into positive action on a local level in New Hampshire," O'Flaherty said.
Both Warden and O'Flaherty are proud of sponsoring a bill that established the nano-brewery license, which allows small breweries to manufacture up to 2,000 barrels of beer or specialty beer annually.
O'Flaherty said he also sponsored a bill that passed decriminalizing adultery.
"I'm proud to say New Hampshire has one less crime on the books," he said.
O'Flaherty feels he is doing well given the dictates of government. "To a large degree I want to work within the system as much as possible to preserve liberty," he said.
Warden is a small l libertarian, meaning that while he believes in reducing the size and scope of government and expanding personal freedom and responsibility, he is not a member of the Libertarian Party.
"I think government has become too big and too unaffordable and too controlling of people lives," Warden said.
O'Flaherty said his voting record is moderate, voting with Republicans and Democrats about 50 percent of the time.
"I'm voting with Republicans mostly on bills that are fiscal related, bills that would expand taxes and then on social issues with the Democrats voting against restrictions on abortions related bills," O'Flaherty said.
"In the State House, for whatever reason, I've heard, 'uh it's the Free Stater,' mumbled under the breath. I think I am a little bit despised, especially because of my irreverence of the state government," he said.
New Hampshire is unique in how representative its state government is to its people, he said, but added, "I think it's foolish to think we couldn't do better."
O'Flaherty said he supports alternatives to governance. "We need to look toward building alternative institutions. We need to develop institutions based on volunteer cooperative means."
Right now, though, working within the system is the best way to support and expand liberty, he said.
Bitcoin brothers
Brothers and entrepreneurs Zach and Josh Harvey of Manchester founded Lamassu, Inc. after moving to New Hampshire because of the Free State Project.
Lamassu makes and sells bitcoin ATMS around the world. Bitcoin is an online currency.
"In the same way the Internet enables free access to information no matter where you are as long as you have a connection, bitcoin does that with currency," Zach Harvey said.
Harvey, 35, was born in Washington D.C., but had lived in Tel Aviv, Israel, from the age of seven on.
The Harveys were frustrated entrepreneurs in Israel, he said. There was always some fee or fine that prevented them from getting their ideas off the ground.
He and his brother moved to Manchester in 2011.
"We were looking for places that were less restrictive in terms of taxes and bureaucracies are concerned," Harvey said. "It's a breath of fresh air to arrive somewhere where there are a lot lower taxes and the government is not always in your face."
After moving they became part of a bitcoin meeting group and through discussions with other groups and other Free Staters came up with the idea for bitcoin ATMS.
"We definitely have the Free State Project to thank for kind of getting this started," Harvey said. "Being around people that support your ideas, that are kind of shooting for the same things, is extremely helpful."
Free Keene
Ian Freeman, 34, moved from his hometown of Sarasota, Fla., to Keene in 2006 because he felt the libertarian group he was a part of in Florida wasn't having enough of an impact.
He chose Keene because it already had a reputation for activism and street theater that he wanted to be a part of, he said.
"It was one of the best decisions I have made in my life," he said.
After moving to Keene he founded the blog Free Keene to create a news outlet for news about activism in Keene. He also hosts a talk show "Free Talk Live", an internationally syndicated talk show on 160-plus radio stations and the Internet.
Freeman does not object to working within the system. He has testified in Concord on the issue of legalization of marijuana and run for Keene City Council, most recently he ran as a Democratic candidate for governor in the primary against incumbent Maggie Hassan, but it is his activism in Keene that gets the news coverage, he said.
He is named with five other Keene activists in in the city lawsuit against Robin Hood and his Merry Men. The activists are accused by the city of harassing city parking enforcing officers. Robin Hooders say they try to fill empty parking meters before tickets can be issued and videotape and talk to the parking enforcers while doing so.
Freeman was also recently convicted on the charges of unsworn falsifications and prohibitions. Keene police arrested Freeman after he applied for a driver's license under his given name Ian Bernard last November. Freeman refers to the incident on Free Keene as a "paperwork snafu," for which he is facing up to two years in jail.
Freeman said he is not surprised he is being targeted by police because of his work as an activist.
"They didn't even offer me a plea deal on that," he said. "It does seem like they are trying to nail me to the wall for this one. . When you are disobedient to the state they really like to go after you with gusto."
In 2011 he served 58 days in jail for a 90-day sentence for civil disobedience. He stood in front of a police cruiser during a protest, he said. While in jail he met inmates serving less than a month for drunk driving offenses.
"The real crime in America is committing civil disobedience. They punished me harder than someone that really could have hurt someone," Freeman said. "I'd like to know what somebody who really is charged with fraud really gets and what I get next week when I'm sentenced."
In another court case, as a minister of the Shire Free Church: Monadnock, Freeman and three other ministers say they are being discriminated against because of their activism.
"I expect the targeting to happen because that's just what they do. I consider the government to be a criminal enterprise," Freeman said. "If you are an activist and you stick you head above the water they target you. Comes with the territory."
Freeman said he has his critics, but also many supporters. Robin Hooding continues to this day because of the community support, he said.
"We get people thanking the Robin Hood people. Giving us money, giving us hugs, sending us cards, sending donations, cutting checks, the response overall is very positive," Freeman said.
Not in lockstep
Not all Free Staters agree on everything.
What brings them together is the belief that the government should be limited to protecting citizens' rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, Freeman said.
Freeman said he wouldn't have a problem with police if they only focused on actual criminals and not victimless crimes, such as drug use or open container violations.
"Leave peaceful people alone and go after the bad guys and then we'll have a pretty nice society," Freeman said.
Other Free Staters say it's incorrect to tie them to another Free Stater's actions.
"We all want the same thing even though we don't have the same idea of how to go about it," Bouldin said when asked about Free Keene.
"I would say Free Keene represents about one percent of the Free State Project and I disagree with some of the things they do, but I'm not going to fight with them," Sorens said. "That's Keene and that's a different kettle of fish."
Free Staters are a diverse bunch, from all walks of life, Sorens said.
From anarchists to moderate libertarians "We get the whole gamut of the people," Sorens said.
Life in the Shire
The Shire is the name of a fictional place in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" books. The Shire is an idyllic, peaceful village where the hobbits live. Bouldin had never read or seen any of "The Lord of the Rings" books so she does not fully understand the reference, she said. But said Tolkien's work does reflect something true about Free Staters, which is that most of them are nerds, more specifically computer nerds, she said.
Harvey said from what he understands, the Shire is simply short for New Hampshire. Regardless, it's what many Free Staters call their new home.
"New Hampshire was chosen because it's so great. It really is a wonderful place and the people here are a special and hearty bunch," Freeman said.
Walk down the street and people smile and say hello or strike up a conversation, Freeman said.
Lifelong New Hampshire residents might take the state for granted, Freeman said. "Considering how cold it can get here, it's awfully warm, how people treat each other."
"I really enjoy having four seasons," Bouldin said. "The colors here just blow my mind, it's just a beautiful place to live and I think living in a really beautiful place makes you happier."
The biggest blessing that came from moving to New Hampshire have been the friends she's made, Bouldin said.
New Hampshire has a small-town feel, Bouldin said. "It just seems that everybody knows everybody."
Warden said he came for the economy, but loves the outdoors.
"I looked at it as an economic opportunity. I did like the idea of the Live Free or Die spirit out here and thought it was a good place for me. I read that taxes were relatively low here and that it was a safe, healthy place to live."
He enjoys hiking and skiing so it was a natural fit.
"The quality of life is extremely high. People are very courteous and friendly and one of the things that has surprised me are the local politics and how accessible they are," Harvey said.
Citizen concerns
When the Concord Police Department applied for a Homeland Security Grant in 2012 for a Lenco BEARCAT the application said, "Groups such as the Sovereign Citizens, Free Staters and Occupy New Hampshire" as active and present daily challenges. In addition to organized groups, it cited "several homegrown clusters that are anti-government and pose problems for law enforcement agencies."
Free Staters say there are misconceptions about them, that they are violent or dangerous. But they say they espouse peace.
"Really what we do, we're good neighbors, we start businesses and participate in our communities and we aren't a danger to anyone," O'Flaherty said. "We're just ordinary people that are committed to our ideas."
Every group has their nut jobs, Bouldin said, "I don't know why people focus on the libertarian nut jobs."
People in the Free State Project are often pegged as gun nuts, Bouldin said, "In reality they are all just nerds."
Free Staters are educated and enterprising people, Warden said.
"Most people I speak to don't even know about the Free State Project," Warden said. "It's mainly the political class that knows about it. Those on the side of liberty are thrilled with people moving in and those who believe in centralized authority are not so thrilled."
"The Free State Project is just an extremely ambitious and intelligent group of people who are fun to be around," Harvey said.
Nothing new
People have been moving to New Hampshire for decades because of the level of personal liberties, the Free Staters say. This is just a more concerted effort.
Massachusetts people come for the lower taxes. A lot of New York or New Jersey residents come for the less restrictive guns laws.
"New Hampshire is a natural destination for them," Warden said.
"New Hampshire to some extent with its Live Free or Die slogan has been attracting people for decades. We're just taking that idea and doing a better job of promoting it," Freeman said. "The Free State Project exists to back-up the people in New Hampshire that love freedom."
The goal
"We are seeing more movers and I think that more people are realizing this is a sound strategy," said current Free State Project president Carla Gericke
Gericke, 42, of Manchester is originally from South Africa.
She moved from Silicon Valley to New Hampshire with her husband in 2008 after the technology bubble burst.
After living through the boom and bust, she began to study economics and learned about free market views on economics.
"More decentralization gives you more prosperity and the more centralized control, the worse off you are," she said. "I started to become curious about the business cycle and why that happened and found the Free State Project through the rabbit hole that is the Internet."
New Hampshire is a great place to raise a family, the economy is good, the taxes and unemployment are low, it has one of the lowest crime rates in the country and is considered one of the healthiest states, she said.
While Gericke said she doesn't track the reason why people sign up, she has found that most people tend to be adamantly anti-war.
"I think there is a mass disappointment, even among Democrats, now that we're in seven undeclared wars," she said.
Gericke said she is contacted regularly by groups that want the Free State Project's political support or endorsement in some way.
But the Free State Project is not a political party, group or movement. The entire point is individualism, she said.
"It's really a cultural movement, not a political movement," Warden said. "It's liberty-mind people moving into New Hampshire and keeping this state awesome."
When the goal of 20,000 signers is reached the project ends.
"My job is just to attract and find signers," Gericke said. "Once they come here, they as individuals do as they want for better or worse."
The trigger
"We're very close. The sign-up rate has increased a lot over the past two years, and we're hoping and planning to reach our 20,000 goal by the end of 2015," Soren said. "We're very happy with how things are going right now."
Does that mean all 20,000 signers will actual show up? No, Free Staters say.
"We don't expect everyone who signed up to follow through on the move, because circumstances change. I predict about 8,000 people will move, based on a program we had a few years ago called the "First 1000." One thousand people agreed to move by the end of 2008, and of those who signed up, about 400 actually did move. So I expect about 40 percent to follow-through," Sorens said.
"There's no way 20,000 will move here. Some of those folks are dead. I know that for a fact. Some of them have moved here and died and others have died before they moved," Freeman said. "Some people might have forgotten that they signed up. I would say of the 20,000, shot in the dark, 10,000 will show up."
Warden said, "I expect only a fraction of the 20,000 to move, "I think if we only had 5,000 move, it would be fabulous. It would be the best thing for New Hampshire."
The early movers have already had a huge positive impact on the state economy, Warden said.
There has been a recent influx into the movement and the demographics of the movement are shifting, attracting more women and younger people, Sorens said. "I think we are seeing a libertarian moment nationally."
This is because of the early movers, Freeman said, "It's because of the early movers having success here. We have proved that concentration of activism in one place is viable."
Maybe that wasn't the plan for the Free State Project, but it's a positive development, Harvey said.
"I do think the important part is people are actually moving now, which wasn't part of the original plan. I like the ways things are now. Things are ramping up slowly," Harvey said. "I'm personally more excited about what is happening now."
To educate people about the Free State Project and dispel misconceptions Sorens is planning a series of town hall meetings across the state.
While Free Staters hold several informal gathering throughout the year, the project has two official events, The Porcupine Freedom Festival and The Liberty Forum. The events are great ways for people interested in the project to learn more.
The Free State Project website says it is looking for "liberty-loving people" who are neighborly, productive, tolerant folks from any and all walks of life, of all ages, creeds, and colors, who agree that government exists at most to protect people's rights. "Anyone who promotes violence, racial hatred, or bigotry is not welcome."
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This is a great video from my 14yr old step daughter. Maybe it's nepitism, but I think this is just awesome. My wife and I went to Event camp 2010 in NYC during a snowstorm in Central New Jersey. Around 12noon we left 4 teenagers at home just hoping the house would still be standing when we returned home. When we returned home the house was as I expected, it was still standing 🙂 and the sink was full of dishes. But we were surprised on Sunday Morning when the kids woke up around noon and Megan showed us the video. ENJOY!!!!
Pricing Your Art
The blank canvas is the bane of artists since the number of options seems limitless, but worse is to come on completing the work. After putting the final touches to your work, you are presented with the equally open ended problem of what price to give it. For the inexperienced artist it can seem impossible to fix a price, so they ending up making wild guesses (almost always too high) and then wonder why their art is not selling.
The first thing to understand is that the price of art is simply the highest amount that someone is willing to pay for it. However, the second thing to understand is that only people who see it can pay for it. The price is circumscribed by the wallets of those who view it, hence the importance of having your work seen by as many people as possible.
Why price at all?
Many artists refuse to put fixed prices on their art, but they lose sales because of it. If you keep an open studio where people can enter and browse your work it is imperative that every piece hanging on the walls has a price tag on it.
People hate to talk about money, especially where art is concerned, so many buyers will choose to walk out rather than face the indignity of asking how much a piece costs. If they do have the courage to ask and the price is not written somewhere, they will assume you are making it up based on how rich they look.
Creating a baseline
So where do you begin in setting a price? The first step is to work out what your minimum monthly income is. Be realistic about this and always estimate high. Keep this figure in mind at all times as it will act as a deterrent for unrealistically low prices.
A preliminary price
Next, add up the cost of producing the art work you're trying to price, including all expenses. Then add up the total amount of time spent on the work and multiply it by a sensible hourly rate – 20dollars an hour should be a minimum. Simply adding these two figures together will give you a fairly sensible estimate for a price. Dividing your minimum monthly income by the price of this work will tell you how many pieces you should be aiming to produce a month to keep you going.
Better methods
The best way to price work is to base it upon previous sales, hence the importance of keeping the catalogue of your work we discussed last month. The more you sell, the more you will get a feel for what your work is worth. You should compare your prices with those of other local artists and those on the Art eXposed website, but remember to take into account their experience and reputation.
Another method is to talk to art consultants and galleries. Galleries will not display your work at unrealistic prices, but keep in mind that visiting them without any idea as to the value of your work will mark you out as an amateur.
Maintaining and raising prices
Always maintain consistent prices. Inconsistency shows you are unsure of the value of your work. If you cannot bear to part with a work for a low price then keep it hanging in your studio without a price tag, and if anyone asks about it let them make you an offer. On the whole, larger works should be valued higher than smaller ones. This may seem arbitrary, but it is the law of the market.
You should only consider raising the prices of your work: after you have achieved respectable sales in your current price range for at least six months; if a gallery tells you that your prices are too low; or if you have changed your output significantly to justify such a change.
Final tip
Make sure to keep track of your sales in your catalogue, and always keep some cheaper works on hand for any impulse buyers you happen to meet.
PR 2.0 and Social Networking for Artists
There is a tremendous amount of value that comes out of online conversations in social networking communities. Today, the concept of PR 2.0 focuses on reaching people who are like-minded individuals who share similar interests through meaningful web discussions. And, as you venture into and explore different web communities, whether it's MySpace or Facebook, you'll find opportunity to build trust and strong relationships with people. Just by setting up a profile, you open up and make information available about yourself. By taking this first step, you are welcoming the opportunity to talk to people one-on-one and to listen to them. That's the best kind of relationship building there is!
As an artist, there's tremendous potential for you to speak directly to someone online who may be interested in your style of art or perhaps they will contact you to help them answer a question pertaining to a period in art history. Either way, you use dialogue to start the interaction and to build the "friendship." In these social networking forums, you are also able to participate in groups, perhaps with other artists or with people who prefer a particular type of art. On Facebook, when you search under the word "art" about 500 different groups surface that you can peruse and join if you are interested.
Another great opportunity for you to speak with people who share you passion for art is by setting up your own blog and by blogging regularly. You can easily start your own blog through Word Press (www.wordpress.com) or Blogger (www.blogger.com) or you can choose to blog in a social networking community (whether your blog is posted as a part of your profile or within a group that you participate). Blogging is a great way to start conversations and learn about people and have them learn about you. However, whether you are blogging about your favorite artwork, your technique or your passion, it's really important to make a solid commitment to blogging and to stick with it (however often that may be). Soon you will have people who follow what you say, and look forward to reading your blog, on a regular basis.
In the past, you may have heard that social networking is just a way to collect 'friends' rather than a PR strategy, but savvy people are realizing it's so much more. In fact, it's one of the best ways to talk to people who are like minded and who are able to share interesting insight. If you listen and listen hard, you will learn, and then you will be able to reciprocate with information that will guide someone else. That's how to make real friends and possibly gain new followers who end up someday as your best customers.
By Deirdre Breakenridge, Art eXposed President.
Her new book: PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences


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The Aims and Mission:
The association describes its aims in its mission due to its convergence:
The mission of Scouting is to contribute to the education of young people, through a value system based on the Scout Promise and Law to help build a better world where people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a constructive role in society. We wish that our students should go through this experience and become more mature persons in their lives and thus contribute their share to the growth of the society and the country at large.
A brief glimpse of its Genesis in general & Directives
I. The Genesis of Scouting in the World
The Boy Scouts Movement had a simple start in the year 1907 when a retired Army General Lord Baden Powell conducted an experimental camp in Brown Sea Island in England with 20 boys. The successful conduct of the camp and publication of the Book 'Scouting for Boys' in a fortnightly marked the start of the Boy Scout Movement.
II. The Genesis of Scouting In India
Scouting started in India in the year 1909, when Captain T.H. Baker established the first Scout Troop in Bangalore and got it registered with Imperial Headquarters, London. Subsequently, Scout Troops were formed in Kirkee (Pune), Shimla, Madras, Jabalpur, Lonavla (Mumbai) and registered with the Imperial Headquarters during 1910 and 1911. These units were open to European and Anglo Indian Children only.
The first Guide Company in India was started in Jabalpur, Central India in 1911.
As the Scout Movement was not initially open to the Indian boys, Nationalist leaders of India decided to offer Scouting activities to Indian Boys and Sewa Samiti Scout Association was formed with Headquarters in Allahabad by Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, Pandit Hriday Nath Kunzru and Pandit Sriram Bajpai. Dr. Annie Besant with the help of Shri G.S. Arundale started a separate Scout Association for Indian Boys in Madras.
Efforts were made for unification of different scout groups existing in India during the visit of Lord Baden Powell to India in 1921 and 1937 but failed. Major reason for the failure in unification was the promise clause which included the word "Duty to King". Our Patriotic sentiments of our Nationalist leaders did not approve the allegiance to the British Empire and instead it was insisted that allegiance and loyalty to the Country should be part of the Scout Promise.
But, after the independence of our country efforts were made for unification of the Scout and Guide Associations functioning in India. Serious efforts were made by our National leaders like Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India, Mauland Abul Kalam Azad, the First education Minister of India, Shri Mangal Das Pakvasa, Governor of Central Province, and Scout leaders Pandit Hriday Nath Kunzru, Pandit Sri Ram Bajpai, Justice Vivian Bose and others for the merger of the Scout/Guide Associations. Dr.Tara chand, Education Secretary, Government of India made significant contribution in finalizing the merger deed.
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2018 Roast
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Friday, November 2, 2018 | 6:30 pm
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Join us for a relaxed, fun-filled evening as community leaders roast Chancellor of Ozarks Technical Community College System and President of the OTC Springfield Campus Hal Higdon, to benefit your nonprofit community theatre.
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2017 Roast
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Friday, November 3, 2017 | 6:30 pm
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Join us for a relaxed, fun-filled evening as community leaders roast Springfield philanthropist and business man Doug Pitt – founder of Care to Learn, director of WorldServe International, and goodwill ambassador for Tanzania.
All proceeds benefit Springfield Little Theatre.
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Community leaders Brian Fogle, Brent Dunn, and Greg Burris roast Clif Smart, President of Missouri State University.
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To Miss Josephine MacLeod
[When Swami Vivekananda sailed from Calcutta, he dispatched the following cablegram.]
June 21, 1899]
To Mr. E. T. Sturdy
14th July, 1899.
I got your letter all right just now. I have one from M. Nobel of Paris too. Miss Noble has several from America.
M. Nobel writes to me to defer my visit to him at Paris to some other date, from London, as he will have to be away for a long time. As you know sure, I shall not have many friends staying now in London, and Miss MacLeod is so desirous I should come. A stay in England under these circumstances is not advisable. Moreover, I do not have much life left. At least I must go on with that supposition.Â
I mean, if anything has to be done in America, it is high time we bring our scattered influence in America to a head â if not organise regularly. Then I shall be free to return to England in a few months and work with a will till I return to India.
I think you are absolutely wanted to gather up, as it were, the American work. If you can, therefore, you ought to come over with me. Turiyananda is with me. Saradananda's brother is going to Boston. . . . In case you cannot come to America, I ought to go, ought I not?
To Sister Christine
14th July 1899.
My dear Christina,
You see this time I am really out, and hope to reach London in two weeks. I am sure to come to America this year and earnestly hope will have the opportunity of seeing you. I am so materialistic yet, you know! Want to see my friends in the gross body.
I had a beautiful letter from Baby [Stella Campbell] before I left. I am soon going to pen a reply to your care, as directed. I could not write her earlier.
I was so, so bad in health in India. My heart went wrong all the way--what with mountain climbing, bathing in glacier water and nervous prostration! I used to get terrible fits [of asthma]--the last lasting about seven days and nights. All the time I was suffocating and had to stand up.
This trip has almost made a new man of me. I feel much better and, if this continues, hope to be quite strong before I reach America. How are you? What are you doing? Write everything about yourself, c/o E. T. Sturdy Esq., 25 Holland Villas Road, London, W.
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The journey to fitness may begin with a single step, but the David Posnack Jewish Community Center is encouraging 9,999 more.
Earlier this month, the Davie center began its "10,000 Step Challenge." Participants receive a free pedometer and log the number of steps they take each weekday.
The JCC, which is open to non-Jews as well, draws visitors from Davie, Cooper City, Plantation, Pembroke Pines, Weston and other portions of southwest Broward County.
Those who log three days of at least 10,000 steps (they're on the honor system) receive one "J Dollar," which they can apply to fitness class fees, baby-sitting or other programs. Meanwhile, Health and PE Director Michele Smith devised a bonus "staff challenge," with members selecting a JCC employee to take on head-to-head.
"It's a way to connect members and our staff and build some friendly camaraderie," she said. "Plus, by offering the J Dollars, maybe people will try other programs here they haven't yet tried."
The JCC adapted the 10,000-step figure from research by Catrine Tudor-Locke at Arizona State University. She computed that a person normally walks about 6,000 steps per day; to get in the recommended 30 minutes a day of exercise, it takes about 4,000 additional steps.
"The pedometer makes it an easy, measurable thing and takes you out of the 'I have to go work on a machine,' " Smith said. "Instead, you can incorporate walking and exercise into your daily life."
And having a goal - any goal - can motivate a person to be more fit, she said.
JCC fitness room attendant Gregg Forrest has received the most head-to-head challenges, five in the first week. If members walk more than the staffer on selected days, they get more J Dollars.


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Hyderabad: The Income Tax department on Monday
approached a local court seeking copies of the documents
seized by CBI during the probe of corruption allegations
against Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and the alleged
irregularities in the Emaar Properties land deal.
I-T officials here have filed two applications before the
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The court posted the matter for hearing to November 2.
A similar application filed earlier by Bangalore I-T
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information and documents, but the latter asked them to seek
court`s permission.
In August this year, CBI registered a case against Jagan the son of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister late Y S
Rajasekhara Reddy on the instructions of High Court for
cheating, criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust and
offences under Prevention of Corruption Act.
The CBI, which has been probing investments by various
firms into Jagan`s businesses, alleges in its FIR that he
conspired with his father and others to "cheat the government
of Andhra Pradesh in the matter of granting certain favours to
many companies".
The CBI has also registered a case in connection with the
alleged irregularities in APIIC-Emaar Properties land deal
against former Chairman and MD of Andhra Pradesh Industrial
Infrastructure Corporation, B P Acharya and Emaar Group on the
direction of the High Court.
According to CBI, Acharya, currently Principal Secretary
(Home), entered into a criminal conspiracy with Emaar Group
officials and unknown public servants to cheat APIIC. One of
the allegations is that Emaar sold plots at Gachibowli here at
below-the-market prices, without the knowledge of APIIC,
causing the Corporation a loss.


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