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Retro Racing: Consolation races offered one last chance to make Daytona 500
February 17, 2012, Mark Aumann, NASCAR.com
Now that owners' points, a championship provisional or even an under-the-table arrangement guarantees you a starting spot in the Daytona 500, it's impossible for someone like Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Carl Edwards to miss the show. But in the early years of the race, there were no guarantees. And some of the sport's biggest stars -- including Fireball Roberts, Ned Jarrett, Junior Johnson and Curtis Turner -- were forced to run what were called "consolation races" to earn entry into the 500-miler. Greenville, S.C., native Johnny Allen, now 77, remembers the consolation races at Daytona. He was involved in two of the four that were held between 1959 and 1962: 10-lap sprint races that gave drivers one last chance to make the 500 field. "After they qualified so many cars, the rest of you had to run them," Allen said via cell phone Thursday while traveling from Indiana to Daytona Beach for this year's race. "In '59, there were two qualifying races -- one for the hardtops and one for the convertibles." Twenty cars ran the inaugural consolation race as Jack Smith beat Tim Flock by a car-length, with Turner third and Roberts sixth. Meanwhile, Allen's No. 8 Chevrolet refused to start, placing him in the 59th -- and last -- starting position on the 500 grid. While Lee Petty and Johnny Beauchamp battled to a photo finish for the victory, Allen felt like the real winner after driving all the way up to 11th, good enough for a $400 payday. The 48 positions he made up on the track remains a 500 record. "There were no cautions so a lot of it was a survival thing," Allen said. "We stayed out of trouble and I don't recall if we even changed any tires." Allen didn't need the consolation race to make the field in 1960. In fact, if not for losing a lap after a slow late-race pit stop, he might have been able to improve on his fifth-place finish. Turner edged Jarrett to win the consolation race that year -- and both carried that momentum into the 500. Turner raced from 53rd starting position to finish seventh. And Jarrett was even better, starting 54th and finishing sixth -- tying Allen's year-old record. When his car had mechanical issues in the 1961 Twin qualifer, Allen wound up back in the consolation race, finishing fifth behind Johnson. Again, it didn't seem to hinder Allen in the slightest once the green dropped for the 500. He moved from 47th to eighth, finishing four laps behind winner Marvin Panch. "Daytona was always good to me," Allen said. "I had some good luck there. I was only involved in one wreck, and that was a sportsman modified race." The final "last chance" Daytona consolation was held in 1962, with Florida native Bobby Johns edging Buck Baker in a side-by-side duel to the flag. Since then, NASCAR has used qualifying speeds to complete the field after the conclusion of the dual qualifying races. However, consolation races returned to Daytona for a five-year span in the 1980s, consisting of cars which didn't make the 500 field. Lake Speed, Tim Richmond, Blackie Wangerin, Connie Saylor and Randy LaJoie received the checkered flag but the races were considered exhibitions and the victories didn't count in the standings. Allen's favorite NASCAR memory came courtesy of another consolation race -- this one at Atlanta in October 1960. The engine blew in Allen's Chevrolet no more than a handful of laps into practice, and the team didn't have a spare. On top of that, Allen was broke. "Rex White said he had one in his shop in Spartanburg, so me and one of his crewmen got in a pickup and drove up there and got it," Allen said. They worked all night to put the engine in Allen's car. On Saturday morning, Allen ran well enough in the consolation to earn a 37th-place starting spot in the 500-mile race. But not knowing how much wear and tear the engine had on it, Allen decided to go for broke. He passed everybody but winner Bobby Johns -- beating Jim Paschal to the start/finish line by 2 feet for second place. And the $7,475 he won "bailed us out for the year." Allen earned the nickname "Crash" for a number of spectacular accidents. He cleared the guardrail and crashed into the scoring tower at Darlington in 1960. Two years later at Darlington, he flipped over after hitting oil on the track and wound up upside-down with the car on fire. At Atlanta, Allen suffered a broken nose and several broken bones when his car went airborne after leaving the track. "Those don't do much for your reputation," Allen said. "Some of my teammates laid that on me after the crew got tired of fixing the cars. "Back then, your cars were stock cars, and all of the car owners I drove for except one -- Holly Farms -- pretty much had one car and a low budget. When you wrecked them as bad as I did, you pretty much put them out of business." Allen even crashed in his one Cup victory, at Winston-Salem in 1962. He and White had been dueling for the lead all day on the narrow, flat quarter-mile at Bowman Gray Stadium. Coming into the last turn, Allen had the lead and only had to pass a lapped car to get the victory. Or so he thought. "I dropped down under him and thought, 'There's no way Rex can beat me,' " Allen said. "I thought I had it made, as long as I was careful. I knew Rex wouldn't spin me out. "All of the sudden, I hear this engine revving higher than normal out of my left ear and can kind of see his fender. He's got two wheels on the grass and two wheels on the race track." It was at that point Allen realized he only had one option: Stand on the gas and hope for the best. "At Winston-Salem, the start/finish line is down toward the first turn," Allen said. "And as flat as it is, you have to back off before then to make the corner. But he had me in a position to where if I had backed off, he would have beaten me because he could lean on me going into the corner. So he wasn't worried about it. "It didn't take me long to sum up the situation. I said, 'there ain't no way he's going to beat me.' So I didn't lift until I crossed the line. And it took me up into the guardrail and ripped the right front of it." Definitely more than a small consolation for Allen, who remained in racing after his final Cup start in 1967. He won a late-model track championship at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in 1971 and eventually opened up a tire and wheel shop, catering to the racing industry, before retiring.
Johnny Allen, circa 1961, after subbing for Jack Smith in the Volunteer 500 at Bristol. Allen took over for Smith on Lap 292 and led the rest of the way. Smith gave up the seat after heat from the floorboard burned his right foot.


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Chemical Brothers: Surrender (Virgin)
Tom Rowland's long hair and yellow tinted specs should have tipped us off: the Chemical Brothers are hippies at heart. On their third album - sure to be renowned as one of the year's best - the DJ duo move beyond big-beat and on to swirling, spiralling psychedelia. "Music: Response" and "Got Glint?" are influenced by the French retro-futurist disco of Daft Punk and Air; and a couple of tracks are built on familiar block-rockin' beats. But for the rest of the album, the Brothers pour out waves of sitars, spacey bleeps, backwards cymbals and hazy vocals from a typically impressive roster of guests. With "Let Forever Be", Noel Gallagher tops his collaboration on the last Chemical Brothers album. Mercury Rev's Jonathan Donahue adds his frail tones to "Dream On". "Asleep From Day", sung by Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star, recalls the Velvet Underground. And on "Out of Control", the presence of New Order's Bernard Sumner and Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie sees three generations of dance-rock pioneers unite. A historic moment.
Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer (World Circuit) The septuagenarian singer from the Afro-Cuban All-Stars gets the opportunity to repeat the Grammy-winning success of Buena Vista, on which he featured. Recorded at Havana's Egrem Studios, with Ry Cooder once again acting as producer, the album is a delight, especially in the numerous boleros which show off the deep Latin soul of Ferrer's tremulous and rather ragged vocal style to greatest effect. A considerable bonus comes from the guitar-playing, which features not only Cooder himself, but also the incredible twang of Manuel Galban, whose Latin-inflected Duane Eddy-isms once decorated the doo-wop trills of Sixties vocal group Los Zafiros, as can be heard on their own World Circuit album available now.
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Written by Chris Muir, Day By Day is an editorial cartoon series done from a conservative point of view.
The recent story arc involving taking the resident liberal to a gun range is absolutely hysterical, but the series really should be read from Day One for maximum enjoyment.
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May, 2007 in Palos Heights"I want to do it ALL over again!"
Ceremony: Incarnation Church
Reception: Doubletree Hotel Chicago/Alsip
- DJ: Tone Productions
- Invitations Vendor: A Fine Letter
- Favors Vendor: Give a Caricature
- Invitations Vendor: Costco
- Favors Vendor: My DaVinci
- Limo Company: Mirage/All-Pro Limousine
- Florist: Heights Heritage Flower Shop
- Photographer: Modern Image Studios
- Honeymoon Vendor: Lake Zurich Travel & Cruise
- Rentals Vendor: Chair Covers by Sylwia
- Ceremony: Incarnation Church
- Reception: Doubletree Hotel Chicago/Alsip
Tone Productions
2009 Graystone DrJoliet, IL, United States
"Very easy to work with. They have an online tool that allows you to pick your music. If a song you want played is not on the list, they will get it for you. The only disappointment was that they did not play every song on our list. They do tell you upfront that the DJ's know the crowds and will play what will keep people dancing, and that's exactly what they did!"
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Portland, OR, USA866-291-9918
"Awesome! Everything is done online and so easy. You have many options to choose from. All our groomsman loved them. It's more personnal than a flask."
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My DaVinci
48 S Old Rand Rd # 105Lake Zurich, IL, United States
"We did framed pencil sketches for our parents as gifts. They loved them!"
Heights Heritage Flower Shop
6511 1/2 W 127th StPalos Heights, IL, United States
"The woman who runs this shop was very helpful and reasonably priced. All the flowers were beautiful and stayed fresh throughout the day. My only suggestion is to request the guys flowers that get dropped at the church or ceremony site get labeled. It was very difficult to figure out who should get what."
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Lake Zurich Travel & Cruise
461 S. Rand RoadLake Zurich, Illinois 60047, USA
"We worked with Jill on our Maui honeymoon. She was great. We told her what we wanted and how much we wanted to spend and she came back to us with tons of options. We did everything through e-mail which worked best for me and was very convienent. We would use them again when planning another trip."
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Palos Heights, IL, US"By far the easiest and nicest people. I worked with Melanie and she made my life so much easier. Not as expensive as people may think either. For about 100 invites it was under $150."
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Palos Heights, IL, USA"So easy and cheap! You can order samples so you can see the quality etc. prior to ordering. Then you design online and order. It was great."
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Mirage/All-Pro Limousine
4200 W 124th PlAlsip, IL, United States
"We had a 47 person passenger bus. Loved it! It had a bathroom, plenty of room for everyone...wedding party, family, friends. We had a really great bus driver who went to the store for during the ceremony when we discovered we were running low on beverages. Paid for it out of his own pocket too. I recommend this over a limo anyday. If you have a large wedding party and need more than one limo, this cost about the same as two limos."
Modern Image Studios
2777 Finley RoadDowners Grove, IL, United States
"What's nice about Modern Images is you get to review the work of several photographers and then chose who you want. You then get to meet with them prior to the wedding to make sure you will be able to work well together. We loved our photogrpaher, he really worked for us on our special day."
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Chair Covers by Sylwia
8200 Archer AveWillow Springs, IL, United States
"I loved this vendor! They have a wonderful little showroom with tables set up with different colors, styles, etc. You have many choices and they are very reasonable. I looked around and they pretty much had the best prices. They came and set up and tore down and made our reception so beautiful. The chaircovers and overlays we had were all spotless. Highly recommend them."
Incarnation Church
5757 W 127th StPalos Heights, IL, United States
(708) 597-3180
"A lovely experience. Father Mass made it a truly special day."
Doubletree Hotel Chicago/Alsip
5000 West 127th StreetAlsip, IL, United States
(708) 371-7300
"I don't know if there is enough space for me to write all the great things we experienced having our reception here. I think what made it so perfect was the wedding coordinator Noelle. She was just the best ever! Every single detail was covered and covered well. I had no worries about the reception knowing it was in her hands. So about the Doubletree itself...very nice. Great food, great atmosphere. Clean (that's a big one for me). Prices were great. After looking at other places it was a hands down winner. Recommend a million times over to anyone for any type of function."


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Until 1971 married women were only allowed to leave their husbands' homes if they had the appropriate documentation. The so-called 'Wife Pass' also restricted married ladies to selected shops: supermarkets, hairdressers, bingo halls, etc.
However, once a year, ladies could enter a bookshop (if accompanied by a man), but only to buy recipe books, cheap romance novels, or calenders containing photographs of kittens frolicking in wool.
The 'Pass' listed a wife's government-allocated prettiness rating, her most accomplished household skills (bed making, cooking, dog worming, etc), as well as her preferred brands of washing powder and other cleaning products.
The author of "Catheters, Kisses & Colostomies," Gigi Feague, was actually a violent schizophrenic called Trevor 'Terror' Chlidge who, when not smearing himself with his own faeces and screaming in his Scarfolk Prison cell, wrote dozens of romance books, as well as guides for parents about childcare and child development in general.
Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight fever. "Visit Scarfolk today. Our number one priority is keeping rabies at bay." For more information please reread.
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"They are so much better when enjoyed outdoors on a street corner."
Julie Sahni
"It was a very simple concept that evolved into something wonderful."
"You put the whole thing in your mouth in one bite. You're cheeks puff up, and you look like a trumpet player."
"If a stranger comes up, he joins the group and you begin to talk among yourselves. It's a very social experience."
"But the spice mix will be a secret that is almost impossible to duplicate. Put it in your mouth and you have salty, sweet, hot, crunchy, soft, juicy, crisp, savory and tangy."
"You have to move very fast and apply just the right pressure. There's an art to it."


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The Men in Black (comics)
The Men in Black | |
The Men in Black #1 (Jan. 1990). Cover art by Max S. Fellwalker
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Publisher | Aircel Comics Malibu Comics (now owned by Marvel Comics) |
Schedule | Monthly |
Format | Mini-series One-shots |
Publication date | Jan.-March 1990 May–July 1991 1997 |
Number of issues | 3 3 4 |
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Writer(s) | Lowell Cunningham |
Artist(s) | Sandy Carruthers |
Creator(s) | Lowell Cunningham |
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The Men in Black | ISBN 0944735606 |
The Men in Black is an American comic book created and written by Lowell Cunningham, illustrated by Sandy Carruthers, and originally published by Aircel Comics. Aircel would later be bought out by Malibu Comics, which itself was bought out by Marvel Comics. Three issues were published in 1990, with another three the following year. It was adapted into the film Men in Black, which was a critical and commercial success, leading to two sequels and various spin-offs, as well as a number of tie-in one-shot comics from Marvel. Cunningham had the idea for the comic once a friend of his introduced him to the concept of government "Men in Black" upon seeing a black van riding the streets.[1]
Publication history[edit]
The first series consisted of three issues and was published in 1990 by Aircel Comics, cover-dated January to March 1990.[2] After Aircel was acquired by Malibu Comics, a second series appeared, The Men in Black Book II #1-3 (May–July 1991)[3]
Malibu was purchased by Marvel Comics in 1994, and when the feature film Men in Black was released, Marvel published a number of one-shots in 1997, including a prequel,[4] a sequel,[5] a movie adaptation,[6] and a reprint of the first issue of the original Aircel miniseries.[7]
The first series was collected into a trade paperback (June 1990, ISBN 0944735606).[8]
The Men in Black is an international espionage organization which monitors and investigates both good and evil paranormal activity on Earth. Their remit includes alien life, demons, mutants, zombies, werewolves, legendary creatures and other paranormal beings. In order to keep their investigations secret, much of the global population are unaware of their activities, and are liable to be neuralyzed to blank their memory of any interaction with the agents.
Notable members include Zed, Jay, Kay and Ecks. Ecks later becomes a rogue agent after learning the truth behind the MiB: That they seek to manipulate and reshape the world in their own image by keeping the supernatural hidden.
An agent may use any means necessary, including death and destruction, to accomplish a mission. Agents sever all ties with their former lives, and (thanks to the neuralyzer) as far as the world is concerned, they do not exist.
Beginning with the release of the 1997 film Men in Black, the series has been adapted across a wide variety of media, spawning an entire franchise. Starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, the film proved a huge box office success for Columbia Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, resulting in two sequels: Men in Black II and Men in Black 3. The popularity of the films has subsequently led to many tie-ins and spin-offs, including a cartoon titled Men in Black: The Series, novelizations, soundtracks of each film, video games and an amusement park ride.
Despite sharing the same basic premise, the various adaptations differ greatly from the original comic series. Some of these differences include: The secret organization exclusively policing extraterrestrial activity on Earth while omitting the other paranormal elements, using memory erasure rather than killing witnesses, and the agency's main goal being to maintain order on Earth rather than to direct it. The tone of the series was lightened, exchanging the comics' dark and bleak approach for comedy.
- ^ "Metamorphosis of 'Men in Black'", Men in Black Blu-Ray
- ^ The Men in Black at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ The Men In Black Book II at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ Men in Black: Far Cry at Comic Book DB
- ^ Men in Black: Retribution (Marvel, 1997 Series) at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ Men in Black: The Movie at the Grand Comics Database
- ^ Men in Black: American Entertainment Exclusive at Comic Book DB
- ^ The Men in Black (trade paperback) at the Grand Comics Database
External links[edit]
- Men in Black at the Comic Book DB
- Men in Black II at the Comic Book DB
- The Men in Black at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on February 17, 2016.


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"Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls."
"A man who says that he knows everything, does not know how to be meek."
Brandittes Chua
"It was good to see us able to get Wes in the game. He has filthy stuff, but got a fastball in the wrong spot (Wednesday). We couldn't get him in a game fast enough. I give him a lot of credit. He allowed that hit when he came in where they tied the game, and it could have played some head games with him. But, he settled down in the sixth and did a good job."
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"The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers."
William Penn
"I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory."
Julia Roberts
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair:Hover through the fog and filthy air."
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We had lunch here a few months ago. We liked it a lot. They serve traditional food with a taste of simplicity and happiness. We really want to suggest a visit here.
Have been here before and last time we enjoyed it. The homemade pasta is such awesome. Really good. Give it a try if you are around. We did had the chance to eat outside on the porch.
We visited parmaggiano producer and she recommend us antica trattoria cacciatori. When we arive we saw 11old lady's who maked tortellini by hands. It's amazing to see how they maked pasta... We had tortellini in zuppa and selection of salami with crispy sides. This restaurant make me happy. I will recomended to everyone.
Stayed in the area and went on the recommendation of the host. This was a truly unique experience - very warm service, and without a menu ( owner rattled a list of dishes in Italian), we managed to pick a very memorable meal. Do not miss homemade tortellini in brodo! If you are not intimidated by a winding road, this... More
I have been lucky enough to visit this place twice and intend to do so again when I'm there next month. The location is amazing, we went on a warm summer night when the sun was just setting and the colour of the sky with the castle looming over the square is magical. The welcome we received was warm and... More
Took my niece & nephew (teenagers) there on a tour. Food was amazing. I thought the 16 yr old nephew would never stop eating. Love the local food. The chef was very sweet. Reminder me of mi nonna.
i suppose i shouldn't really big up Antica Trattoria Cacciatori or Pompeano, as it will mean that other people around the world will discover my favorite place to be & eat. The food is out of this world, don't get me started on the Tortellini, which is handmade in the restaurant, my mouth is watering as i write. it even... More
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Keep Covington/Newton Beautiful (KCNB) needs volunteers to clean up roadside litter during the Great American Cleanup, the nation's largest annual community improvement program ...
Newton County will welcome home one of its heroes Friday morning.
Early voting for the March 21 SPLOST vote begins Monday.
Replacing the Yellow River bridge on State Route (SR) 36 requires a one-year detour beginning Tuesday, March 7. Traffic will use SR 162 and SR ...
Michael Camp, of Covington, recently came forward as the winner of the $9.6 million jackpot prize from the Feb. 6 Jumbo Bucks Lotto drawing.
The Newton County Sheriff's Office (NCSO) honored its own and remembered a fallen brother Friday night as the department held its Eighth Annual Awards ...
Velinda Hardy, Covington Main Street director, has resigned effective immediately, according to an email to merchants from Newton County Chamber of Commerce President Ralph Staffins ...
Feb. 21 is the last day to register to vote on next month's SPLOST referendum. The election is March 21.
The Newton County Sheriff's Office (NCSO) Explorers received second place at the Boy Scouts of America "Winterfest" competition held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee Feb. 11.
The Newton County Sheriff's Office (NCSO) recently promoted two employees; Deputy Jacob Rice and Deputy Steve Walden were both promoted to the rank of ...
A Covington convenience store has sold the largest Jumbo Bucks Lotto jackpot ticket in Georgia Lottery history. A winning ticket worth a record $9.6 ...
Georgia State Trooper SFC Tony Henry succumbed to injuries Tuesday in an Atlanta hospital from a Dec. 3, 2016 motorcycle accident in Florida. The husband ...
Newton County Sheriff's Office (NCSO) announced last month the dates for an upcoming Citizen's Firearm Safety Course.
A historic bed, originally from 10050 Cielo Drive, in Los Angeles, California, will be up for auction Feb. 10 at Ole Hound Auction House. The ...
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Like a cyclone of humor and downright dirty wit, Stephen Lynch took the stage at The Varity Playhouse Thursday evening to promote his newest album "Lion." And while I wasn't quite a blushing fan girl this time, I was, as ever, impressed by both his live show and his new album.
I was asked to 'pick out' a few favorite stories for Veterans Day. Folks, that is a difficult task. I've had the privilege of interviewing more than 200 veterans and I favor all of them. I have a soft spot in my heart for The Greatest Generation. Resilient, patriotic, and frugal, they saved democracy. Their casualties proved horrific, yet they marched into battle time and time again. We, their offspring, had our own war - Vietnam. For 10 years, we did our duty in dung-filled rice paddies and thick jungles owned by the enemy. I relate to my brothers; we ...
Legend has it that Santa's reindeer just couldn't hack it in Australia.
The Sunday edition of The Covington News will feature a special Veterans Day section in celebration of our local servicemen.
Several new policy changes for the city of Covington's utilities services offered to residential and commercial customers were approved at a council meeting on Monday.
The council unanimously approved the first reading of an ordinance which made changes to the deposit guidelines required by residential and commercial customers for utility services; approved a new policy that forms an agreement that will be offered by the city to assist customers with past due balances; and approved a new policy that formed an optional landlord agreement for continuous service.
After World War I, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote a poem, "In Flanders Fields," and spoke of red poppies that grew around the white crosses which were planted into fields of only dirt and mud where soldiers were buried. It wasn't long before the poppies became a symbol of the blood shed by those soldiers, and by 1920, the American Legion named the poppy the official flower for veterans.
A Woodlee Christian Academy teacher and student are being hailed as heroes after saving a student's life after he started to choke on a snack.
History teacher Ashley Tamasi and eight grader DeAngelo Gibbs credit quick response and teamwork to saving eight-grade student Eric Goodman's life.
Covington City Council approved changing zoning conditions for Gwinnett Industries on two parcels of land located in the Lochridge Industrial Park in an effort to land prospect Project Dove.
The Newton County Board of Commissioners approved a bid for the resurfacing of Lake Varner's entrance road and park at their meeting on Tuesday.
President Barack Obama once again made history Tuesday, winning his re-election bid in sweeping fashion, and he captured an even higher percentage of Newton County's votes than four years ago, despite a still sluggish economy and Georgia's staunchly Republican tendencies.
Called a visionary, a gentleman and a kind and generous man, Covington suffered a blow with the death of Pierce Cline on Nov. 3. None can feel the loss like his widow Margie. What started as a blind date in 1958, turned into the love of a lifetime.
Margie came to Covington to teach in 1957 and met her husband in March of 1958. The two spent summer vacations, enjoying time with family and having dinners with family and friends. They were married in Brookhaven on Nov. 2, 1958 - 54 years and one day before Pierce died of Amyotrophic lateral ...
Several parents have complained about Barack Obama cookies being served at Alcovy High School following the presidential election Tuesday. Although cookies were served, they were not exclusively Obama cookies.
Deputies rushed to Ga. Highway 162 Wednesday, after a prison guard in charge of inmate workers called about a woman screaming that someone was going to kill her and a man with a shotgun.
This story can be told from two different perspectives, but in either case, it's about love and passion. It's a story about a woman whose passion is rescuing dogs and cats founded abandoned, neglected, abused or hurt, then giving them a safe and secure life. It's a story about how she turned the hunter she married into a passionate advocate for abused and neglected pets, as well. And it's a story about the unique gift he commissioned to commemorate the passion they share. "...Just because I love her," he said.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Its place assured alongside Medicare and Medicaid, President Barack Obama's health care law is now in a sprint to the finish line, with just 11 months to go before millions of uninsured people can start signing up for coverage.
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Determinants of neighborhood activity of adults age 70 and over:A mixed-methods study
Stathi, A., Gilbert, H., Fox, K. R., Coulson, J., Davis, M. and Thompson, J. L., 2012. Determinants of neighborhood activity of adults age 70 and over:A mixed-methods study. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 20 (2), pp. 148-170.
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Background: This mixed-methods study investigated personal, interpersonal, and environmental factors salient to decisions about being active in neighborhoods of different levels of deprivation. Methods: Twenty-five participants age 70 years and older (10 women) with diverse physical activity levels provided data on their weekly activity patterns (using accelerometry) and their perceived barriers to exercise (questionnaire). They also participated in semistructured individual interviews exploring the barriers and facilitators influencing neighborhood activity. Results: Functional limitations, lack of intrinsic motivation, and not having an activity companion were the highest impact barriers. Walkable access to amenities, positive physical activity perceptions, and existing habit of being active were the highest impact facilitators. Conclusions: The perceived quality and accessibility of the built and natural environments influence neighborhood activity in older adults. However, this relationship might be altered through the influence of personal and interpersonal determinants such as maintenance of good health and functional ability and supportive social networks.
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It was one of the secret opinions, such as we all have, of Peter
Brench that his main success in life would have consisted in his never
having committed himself about the work, as it was called, of his
friend Morgan Mallow. This was a subject on which it was, to the
best of his belief, impossible with veracity to quote him, and it was
nowhere on record that he had, in the connexion, on any occasion and
in any embarrassment, either lied or spoken the truth. Such a triumph
had its honour even for a man of other triumphs--a man who had reached
fifty, who had escaped marriage, who had lived within his means, who
had been in love with Mrs Mallow for years without breathing it, and
who, last but not least, had judged himself once for all. He had so
judged himself in fact that he felt an extreme and general humility
to be his proper portion; yet there was nothing that made him think
so well of his parts as the course he had steered so often through the
shallows just mentioned. It became thus a real wonder that the friends
in whom he had most confidence were just those with whom he had
most reserves. He couldn't tell Mrs Mallow--or at least he supposed,
excellent man, he couldn't--that she was the one beautiful reason he
had never married; any more than he could tell her husband that the
sight of the multiplied marbles in that gentleman's studio was an
affliction of which even time had never blunted the edge. His victory,
however, as I have intimated, in regard to these productions, was not
simply in his not having let it out that he deplored them; it was,
remarkably, in his not having kept it in by anything else.
The whole situation, among these good people, was verily a marvel, and
there was probably not such another for a long way from the spot that
engages us--the point at which the soft declivity of Hampstead began
at that time to confess in broken accents to Saint John's Wood.
He despised Mallow's statues and adored Mallow's wife, and yet was
distinctly fond of Mallow, to whom, in turn, he was equally dear. Mrs
Mallow rejoiced in the statues--though she preferred, when pressed,
the busts; and if she was visibly attached to Peter Brench it was
because of his affection for Morgan. Each loved the other moreover for
the love borne in each case to Lancelot, whom the Mallows respectively
cherished as their only child and whom the friend of their fireside
identified as the third--but decidedly the handsomest--of his godsons.
Already in the old years it had come to that--that no one, for such
a relation, could possibly have occurred to any of them, even to the
baby itself, but Peter. There was luckily a certain independence, of
the pecuniary sort, all round: the Master could never otherwise have
spent his solemn _Wanderjahre_ in Florence and Rome, and continued
by the Thames as well as by the Arno and the Tiber to add unpurchased
group to group and model, for what was too apt to prove in the
event mere love, fancy-heads of celebrities either too busy or too
buried--too much of the age or too little of it--to sit. Neither could
Peter, lounging in almost daily, have found time to keep the whole
complicated tradition so alive by his presence. He was massive but
mild, the depositary of these mysteries--large and loose and ruddy and
curly, with deep tones, deep eyes, deep pockets, to say nothing of
the habit of long pipes, soft hats and brownish greyish weather-faded
clothes, apparently always the same.
He had 'written', it was known, but had never spoken, never spoken
in particular of that; and he had the air (since, as was believed,
he continued to write) of keeping it up in order to have something
more--as if he hadn't at the worst enough--to be silent about.
Whatever his air, at any rate, Peter's occasional unmentioned prose
and verse were quite truly the result of an impulse to maintain
the purity of his taste by establishing still more firmly the right
relation of fame to feebleness. The little green door of his domain
was in a garden-wall on which the discoloured stucco made patches,
and in the small detached villa behind it everything was old, the
furniture, the servants, the books, the prints, the immemorial habits
and the new improvements. The Mallows, at Carrara Lodge, were within
ten minutes, and the studio there was on their little land, to which
they had added, in their happy faith, for building it. This was the
good fortune, if it was not the ill, of her having brought him in
marriage a portion that put them in a manner at their ease and enabled
them thus, on their side, to keep it up. And they did keep it up--they
always had--the infatuated sculptor and his wife, for whom nature
had refined on the impossible by relieving them of the sense of the
difficult. Morgan had at all events everything of the sculptor but
the spirit of Phidias--the brown velvet, the becoming _beretto_, the
'plastic' presence, the fine fingers, the beautiful accent in Italian
and the old Italian factotum. He seemed to make up for everything when
he addressed Egidio with the 'tu' and waved him to turn one of the
rotary pedestals of which the place was full. They were tremendous
Italians at Carrara Lodge, and the secret of the part played by this
fact in Peter's life was in a large degree that it gave him, sturdy
Briton as he was, just the amount of 'going abroad' he could bear. The
Mallows were all his Italy, but it was in a measure for Italy he liked
them. His one worry was that Lance--to which they had shortened his
godson--was, in spite of a public school, perhaps a shade too Italian.
Morgan meanwhile looked like somebody's flattering idea of somebody's
own person as expressed in the great room provided at the Uffizi
Museum for the general illustration of that idea by eminent hands. The
Master's sole regret that he hadn't been born rather to the brush than
to the chisel sprang from his wish that he might have contributed to
that collection.
It appeared with time at any rate to be to the brush that Lance had
been born; for Mrs Mallow, one day when the boy was turning twenty,
broke it to their friend, who shared, to the last delicate morsel,
their problems and pains, that it seemed as if nothing would really do
but that he should embrace the career. It had been impossible longer
to remain blind to the fact that he was gaining no glory at Cambridge,
where Brench's own college had for a year tempered its tone to him as
for Brench's own sake. Therefore why renew the vain form of preparing
him for the impossible? The impossible--it had become clear--was that
he should be anything but an artist.
'Oh dear, dear!' said poor Peter.
'Don't you believe in it?' asked Mrs Mallow, who still, at more than
forty, had her violet velvet eyes, her creamy satin skin and her
silken chestnut hair.
'Believe in what?'
'Why in Lance's passion.'
'I don't know what you mean by "believing in it". I've never been
unaware, certainly, of his disposition, from his earliest time, to
daub and draw; but I confess I've hoped it would burn out.'
'But why should it,' she sweetly smiled, 'with his wonderful heredity?
Passion is passion--though of course indeed _you_, dear Peter, know
nothing of that. Has the Master's ever burned out?'
Peter looked off a little and, in his familiar formless way, kept up
for a moment, a sound between a smothered whistle and a subdued hum.
'Do you think he's going to be another Master?'
She seemed scarce prepared to go that length, yet she had on the whole
a marvellous trust. 'I know what you mean by that. Will it be a career
to incur the jealousies and provoke the machinations that have been
at times almost too much for his father? Well--say it may be, since
nothing but clap-trap, in these dreadful days, _can_, it would seem,
make its way, and since, with the curse of refinement and distinction,
one may easily find one's self begging one's bread. Put it at the
worst--say he _has_ the misfortune to wing his flight further than the
vulgar taste of his stupid countrymen can follow. Think, all the same,
of the happiness--the same the Master has had. He'll _know_.'
Peter looked rueful. 'Ah but _what_ will he know?'
'Quiet joy!' cried Mrs Mallow, quite impatient and turning away.
He had of course before long to meet the boy himself on it and to hear
that practically everything was settled. Lance was not to go up again,
but to go instead to Paris where, since the die was cast, he would
find the best advantages. Peter had always felt he must be taken as
he was, but had never perhaps found him so much of that pattern as on
this occasion. 'You chuck Cambridge then altogether? Doesn't that seem
rather a pity?'
Lance would have been like his father, to his friend's sense, had he
had less humour, and like his mother had he had more beauty. Yet it
was a good middle way for Peter that, in the modern manner, he was,
to the eye, rather the young stock-broker than the young artist. The
youth reasoned that it was a question of time--there was such a mill
to go through, such an awful lot to learn. He had talked with fellows
and had judged. 'One has got, today,' he said, 'don't you see? to
His interlocutor, at this, gave a groan. 'Oh hang it, _don't_ know!'
Lance wondered. '"Don't"? Then what's the use--?'
'The use of what?'
'Why of anything. Don't you think I've talent?'
Peter smoked away for a little in silence; then went on: 'It isn't
knowledge, it's ignorance that--as we've been beautifully told--is
'Don't you think I've talent?' Lance repeated.
Peter, with his trick of queer kind demonstrations, passed his arm
round his godson and held him a moment. 'How do I know?'
'Oh,' said the boy, 'if it's your own ignorance you're defending--!'
Again, for a pause, on the sofa, his godfather smoked. 'It isn't. I've
the misfortune to be omniscient.'
'Oh well,' Lance laughed again, 'if you know _too_ much--!'
'That's what I do, and it's why I'm so wretched.'
Lance's gaiety grew. 'Wretched? Come, I say!'
'But I forgot,' his companion went on--'you're not to know about that.
It would indeed for you too make the too much. Only I'll tell you what
I'll do.' And Peter got up from the sofa. 'If you'll go up again I'll
pay your way at Cambridge.'
Lance stared, a little rueful in spite of being still more amused. 'Oh
Peter! You disapprove so of Paris?'
'Well, I'm afraid of it.'
'Ah I see!'
'No, you don't see--yet. But you will--that is you would. And you
The young man thought more gravely. 'But one's innocence, already--!'
'Is considerably damaged? Ah that won't matter,' Peter
persisted--'we'll patch it up here.'
'Here? Then you want me to stay at home?'
Peter almost confessed to it. 'Well, we're so right--we four
together--just as we are. We're so safe. Come, don't spoil it.'
The boy, who had turned to gravity, turned from this, on the real
pressure of his friend's tone, to consternation. 'Then what's a fellow
to be?'
'My particular care. Come, old man'--and Peter now fairly
pleaded--'_I'll_ look out for you.'
Lance, who had remained on the sofa with his legs out and his hands in
his pockets, watched him with eyes that showed suspicion. Then he got
up. 'You think there's something the matter with me--that I can't make
a success.'
'Well, what do you call a success?'
Lance thought again. 'Why the best sort, I suppose, is to please one's
self. Isn't that the sort that, in spite of cabals and things, is--in
his own peculiar line--the Master's?'
There were so much too many things in this question to be answered
at once that they practically checked the discussion, which became
particularly difficult in the light of such renewed proof that, though
the young man's innocence might, in the course of his studies, as
he contended, somewhat have shrunken, the finer essence of it still
remained. That was indeed exactly what Peter had assumed and what
above all he desired; yet perversely enough it gave him a chill. The
boy believed in the cabals and things, believed in the peculiar line,
believed, to be brief, in the Master. What happened a month or two
later wasn't that he went up again at the expense of his godfather,
but that a fortnight after he had got settled in Paris this personage
sent him fifty pounds.
He had meanwhile at home, this personage, made up his mind to the
worst; and what that might be had never yet grown quite so vivid to
him as when, on his presenting himself one Sunday night, as he never
failed to do, for supper, the mistress of Carrara Lodge met him
with an appeal as to--of all things in the world--the wealth of the
Canadians. She was earnest, she was even excited. 'Are many of them
_really_ rich?'
He had to confess he knew nothing about them, but he often thought
afterwards of that evening. The room in which they sat was adorned
with sundry specimens of the Master's genius, which had the merit of
being, as Mrs Mallow herself frequently suggested, of an unusually
convenient size. They were indeed of dimensions not customary in the
products of the chisel, and they had the singularity that, if the
objects and features intended to be small looked too large, the
objects and features intended to be large looked too small. The
Master's idea, either in respect to this matter or to any other, had
in almost any case, even after years, remained undiscoverable to
Peter Brench. The creations that so failed to reveal it stood about on
pedestals and brackets, on tables and shelves, a little staring white
population, heroic, idyllic, allegoric, mythic, symbolic, in which
'scale' had so strayed and lost itself that the public square and the
chimney-piece seemed to have changed places, the monumental being all
diminutive and the diminutive all monumental; branches at any rate,
markedly, of a family in which stature was rather oddly irrespective
of function, age and sex. They formed, like the Mallows themselves,
poor Brench's own family--having at least to such a degree the note of
familiarity. The occasion was one of those he had long ago learnt to
know and to name--short flickers of the faint flame, soft gusts of a
kinder air. Twice a year regularly the Master believed in his fortune,
in addition to believing all the year round in his genius. This time
it was to be made by a bereaved couple from Toronto, who had given him
the handsomest order for a tomb to three lost children, each of
whom they desired to see, in the composition, emblematically and
characteristically represented.
Such was naturally the moral of Mrs Mallow's question: if their wealth
was to be assumed, it was clear, from the nature of their admiration,
as well as from mysterious hints thrown out (they were a little
odd!) as to other possibilities of the same mortuary sort, what their
further patronage might be; and not less evident that should the
Master become at all known in those climes nothing would be more
inevitable than a run of Canadian custom. Peter had been present
before at runs of custom, colonial and domestic--present at each of
those of which the aggregation had left so few gaps in the marble
company round him; but it was his habit never at these junctures to
prick the bubble in advance. The fond illusion, while it lasted, eased
the wound of elections never won, the long ache of medals and diplomas
carried off, on every chance, by everyone but the Master; it moreover
lighted the lamp that would glimmer through the next eclipse. They
lived, however, after all--as it was always beautiful to see--at a
height scarce susceptible of ups and downs. They strained a point at
times charmingly, strained it to admit that the public was here and
there not too bad to buy; but they would have been nowhere without
their attitude that the Master was always too good to sell. They were
at all events deliciously formed, Peter often said to himself, for
their fate; the Master had a vanity, his wife had a loyalty, of which
success, depriving these things of innocence, would have diminished
the merit and the grace. Anyone could be charming under a charm,
and as he looked about him at a world of prosperity more void of
proportion even than the Master's museum he wondered if he knew
another pair that so completely escaped vulgarity.
'What a pity Lance isn't with us to rejoice!' Mrs Mallow on this
occasion sighed at supper.
'We'll drink to the health of the absent,' her husband replied,
filling his friend's glass and his own and giving a drop to their
companion; 'but we must hope he's preparing himself for a happiness
much less like this of ours this evening--excusable as I grant it to
be!--than like the comfort we have always (whatever has happened or
has not happened) been able to trust ourselves to enjoy. The comfort,'
the Master explained, leaning back in the pleasant lamplight and
firelight, holding up his glass and looking round at his marble
family, quartered more or less, a monstrous brood, in every room--'the
comfort of art in itself!'
Peter looked a little shyly at his wine. 'Well--I don't care what you
may call it when a fellow doesn't--but Lance must learn to _sell_, you
know. I drink to his acquisition of the secret of a base popularity!'
'Oh yes, _he_ must sell,' the boy's mother, who was still more,
however, this seemed to give out, the Master's wife, rather artlessly
'Ah,' the sculptor after a moment confidently pronounced, 'Lance
_will_. Don't be afraid. He'll have learnt.'
'Which is exactly what Peter,' Mrs Mallow gaily returned--'why in the
world were you so perverse, Peter?--wouldn't, when he told him, hear
Peter, when this lady looked at him with accusatory affection--a grace
on her part not infrequent--could never find a word; but the Master,
who was always all amenity and tact, helped him out now as he had
often helped him before. 'That's his old idea, you know--on which
we've so often differed: his theory that the artist should be all
impulse and instinct. _I_ go in of course for a certain amount of
school. Not too much--but a due proportion. There's where his protest
came in,' he continued to explain to his wife, 'as against what
_might_, don't you see? be in question for Lance.'
'Ah well'--and Mrs Mallow turned the violet eyes across the table
at the subject of this discourse--'he's sure to have meant of course
nothing but good. Only that wouldn't have prevented him, if Lance
_had_ taken his advice, from being in effect horribly cruel.'
They had a sociable way of talking of him to his face as if he had
been in the clay or--at most--in the plaster, and the Master was
unfailingly generous. He might have been waving Egidio to make him
revolve. 'Ah but poor Peter wasn't so wrong as to what it may after
all come to that he _will_ learn.'
'Oh but nothing artistically bad,' she urged--still, for poor Peter,
arch and dewy.
'Why just the little French tricks,' said the Master: on which their
friend had to pretend to admit, when pressed by Mrs Mallow, that these
æsthetic vices had been the objects of his dread.
'I know now,' Lance said to him the next year, 'why you were so much
against it.' He had come back supposedly for a mere interval and was
looking about him at Carrara Lodge, where indeed he had already on two
or three occasions since his expatriation briefly reappeared. This had
the air of a longer holiday. 'Something rather awful has happened to
me. It _isn't_ so very good to know.'
'I'm bound to say high spirits don't show in your face,' Peter was
rather ruefully forced to confess. 'Still, are you very sure you do
'Well, I at least know about as much as I can bear.' These remarks
were exchanged in Peter's den, and the young man, smoking cigarettes,
stood before the fire with his back against the mantel. Something of
his bloom seemed really to have left him.
Poor Peter wondered. 'You're clear then as to what in particular I
wanted you not to go for?'
'In particular?' Lance thought. 'It seems to me that in particular
there can have been only one thing.'
They stood for a little sounding each other. 'Are you quite sure?'
'Quite sure I'm a beastly duffer? Quite--by this time.'
'Oh!'--and Peter turned away as if almost with relief.
'It's _that_ that isn't pleasant to find out.'
'Oh I don't care for "that",' said Peter, presently coming round
again. 'I mean I personally don't.'
'Yet I hope you can understand a little that I myself should!'
'Well, what do you mean by it?' Peter sceptically asked.
And on this Lance had to explain--how the upshot of his studies in
Paris had inexorably proved a mere deep doubt of his means. These
studies had so waked him up that a new light was in his eyes; but what
the new light did was really to show him too much. 'Do you know what's
the matter with me? I'm too horribly intelligent. Paris was really the
last place for me. I've learnt what I can't do.'
Poor Peter stared--it was a staggerer; but even after they had had, on
the subject, a longish talk in which the boy brought out to the full
the hard truth of his lesson, his friend betrayed less pleasure than
usually breaks into a face to the happy tune of 'I told you so!' Poor
Peter himself made now indeed so little a point of having told him so
that Lance broke ground in a different place a day or two after. 'What
was it then that--before I went--you were afraid I should find out?'
This, however, Peter refused to tell him--on the ground that if
he hadn't yet guessed perhaps he never would, and that in any case
nothing at all for either of them was to be gained by giving the thing
a name. Lance eyed him on this an instant with the bold curiosity of
youth--with the air indeed of having in his mind two or three names,
of which one or other would be right. Peter nevertheless, turning his
back again, offered no encouragement, and when they parted afresh it
was with some show of impatience on the side of the boy. Accordingly
on their next encounter Peter saw at a glance that he had now, in the
interval, divined and that, to sound his note, he was only waiting
till they should find themselves alone. This he had soon arranged
and he then broke straight out. 'Do you know your conundrum has been
keeping me awake? But in the watches of the night the answer came
over me--so that, upon my honour, I quite laughed out. Had you been
supposing I had to go to Paris to learn _that_? Even now, to see him
still so sublimely on his guard, Peter's young friend had to laugh
afresh. 'You won't give a sign till you're sure? Beautiful old Peter!'
But Lance at last produced it. 'Why, hang it, the truth about the
It made between them for some minutes a lively passage, full of
wonder for each at the wonder of the other. 'Then how long have you
'The true value of his work? I understood it,' Lance recalled, 'as
soon as I began to understand anything. But I didn't begin fully to do
that, I admit, till I got _là-bas_.'
'Dear, dear!'--Peter gasped with retrospective dread.
'But for what have you taken me? I'm a hopeless muff--that I _had_
to have rubbed in. But I'm not such a muff as the Master!' Lance
'Then why did you never tell me--?'
'That I hadn't, after all'--the boy took him up--'remained such an
idiot? Just because I never dreamed _you_ knew. But I beg your pardon.
I only wanted to spare you. And what I don't now understand is how the
deuce then for so long you've managed to keep bottled.'
Peter produced his explanation, but only after some delay and with a
gravity not void of embarrassment. 'It was for your mother.'
'Oh!' said Lance.
'And that's the great thing now--since the murder _is_ out. I want
a promise from you. I mean'--and Peter almost feverishly followed it
up--'a vow from you, solemn and such as you owe me here on the spot,
that you'll sacrifice anything rather than let her ever guess--'
'That _I've_ guessed?'--Lance took it in. 'I see.' He evidently after
a moment had taken in much. 'But what is it you've in mind that I may
have a chance to sacrifice?'
'Oh one has always something.'
Lance looked at him hard. 'Do you mean that _you've_ had--?' The look
he received back, however, so put the question by that he found soon
enough another. 'Are you really sure my mother doesn't know?'
Peter, after renewed reflexion, was really sure. 'If she does she's
too wonderful.'
'But aren't we all too wonderful?'
'Yes,' Peter granted--'but in different ways. The thing's so
desperately important because your father's little public consists
only, as you know then,' Peter developed--'well, of how many?'
'First of all,' the Master's son risked, 'of himself. And last of all
too. I don't quite see of whom else.'
Peter had an approach to impatience. 'Of your mother, I
Lance cast it all up. 'You absolutely feel that?'
'Well then with yourself that makes three.'
'Oh _me_!'--and Peter, with a wag of his kind old head, modestly
excused himself. The number's at any rate small enough for any
individual dropping out to be too dreadfully missed. Therefore, to put
it in a nutshell, take care, my boy--that's all--that _you're_ not!'
'_I've_ got to keep on humbugging?' Lance wailed.
'It's just to warn you of the danger of your failing of that that I've
seized this opportunity.'
'And what do you regard in particular,' the young man asked, 'as the
'Why this certainty: that the moment your mother, who feels so
strongly, should suspect your secret--well,' said Peter desperately,
'the fat would be on the fire.'
Lance for a moment seemed to stare at the blaze. 'She'd throw me
'She'd throw _him_ over.'
'And come round to us?'
Peter, before he answered, turned away. 'Come round to _you_.' But
he had said enough to indicate--and, as he evidently trusted, to
avert--the horrid contingency.
Within six months again, none the less, his fear was on more occasions
than one all before him. Lance had returned to Paris for another
trial; then had reappeared at home and had had, with his father, for
the first time in his life, one of the scenes that strike sparks. He
described it with much expression to Peter, touching whom (since they
had never done so before) it was the sign of a new reserve on the part
of the pair at Carrara Lodge that they at present failed, on a matter
of intimate interest, to open themselves--if not in joy then in
sorrow--to their good friend. This produced perhaps practically
between the parties a shade of alienation and a slight intermission
of commerce--marked mainly indeed by the fact that to talk at his ease
with his old playmate Lance had in general to come to see him. The
closest if not quite the gayest relation they had yet known together
was thus ushered in. The difficulty for poor Lance was a tension at
home--begotten by the fact that his father wished him to be at
least the sort of success he himself had been. He hadn't 'chucked'
Paris--though nothing appeared more vivid to him than that Paris had
chucked him: he would go back again because of the fascination in
trying, in seeing, in sounding the depths--in learning one's lesson,
briefly, even if the lesson were simply that of one's impotence in the
presence of one's larger vision. But what did the Master, all aloft
in his senseless fluency, know of impotence, and what vision--to be
called such--had he in all his blind life ever had? Lance, heated and
indignant, frankly appealed to his godparent on this score.
His father, it appeared, had come down on him for having, after
so long, nothing to show, and hoped that on his next return this
deficiency would be repaired. _The_ thing, the Master complacently set
forth was--for any artist, however inferior to himself--at least
to 'do' something. 'What can you do? That's all I ask!' _He_ had
certainly done enough, and there was no mistake about what he had to
show. Lance had tears in his eyes when it came thus to letting his old
friend know how great the strain might be on the 'sacrifice' asked
of him. It wasn't so easy to continue humbugging--as from son to
parent--after feeling one's self despised for not grovelling in
mediocrity. Yet a noble duplicity was what, as they intimately faced
the situation, Peter went on requiring; and it was still for a time
what his young friend, bitter and sore, managed loyally to comfort him
with. Fifty pounds more than once again, it was true, rewarded both
in London and in Paris the young friend's loyalty; none the less
sensibly, doubtless, at the moment, that the money was a direct
advance on a decent sum for which Peter had long since privately
prearranged an ultimate function. Whether by these arts or others, at
all events, Lance's just resentment was kept for a season--but only
for a season--at bay. The day arrived when he warned his companion
that he could hold out--or hold in--no longer. Carrara Lodge had
had to listen to another lecture delivered from a great height--an
infliction really heavier at last than, without striking back or in
some way letting the Master have the truth, flesh and blood could
'And what I don't see is,' Lance observed with a certain irritated
eye for what was after all, if it came to that, owing to himself too;
'what I don't see is, upon my honour, how _you_, as things are going,
can keep the game up.'
'Oh the game for me is only to hold my tongue,' said placid Peter.
'And I have my reason.'
'Still my mother?'
Peter showed a queer face as he had often shown it before--that is
by turning it straight away. 'What will you have? I haven't ceased to
like her.'
'She's beautiful--she's a dear of course,' Lance allowed; 'but what
is she to you, after all, and what is it to you that, as to anything
whatever, she should or she shouldn't?'
Peter, who had turned red, hung fire a little. 'Well--it's all simply
what I make of it.'
There was now, however, in his young friend a strange, an adopted
insistence. 'What are you after all to _her_?'
'Oh nothing. But that's another matter.'
'She cares only for my father,' said Lance the Parisian.
'Naturally--and that's just why.'
'Why you've wished to spare her?'
'Because she cares so tremendously much.'
Lance took a turn about the room, but with his eyes still on his host.
'How awfully--always--you must have liked her!'
'Awfully. Always,' said Peter Brench.
The young man continued for a moment to muse--then stopped again in
front of him. 'Do you know how much she cares?' Their eyes met on it,
but Peter, as if his own found something new in Lance's, appeared to
hesitate, for the first time in an age, to say he did know. '_I've_
only just found out,' said Lance. 'She came to my room last night,
after being present, in silence and only with her eyes on me, at
what I had had to take from him: she came--and she was with me an
extraordinary hour.'
He had paused again and they had again for a while sounded each other.
Then something--and it made him suddenly turn pale--came to Peter.
'She _does_ know?'
'She does know. She let it all out to me--so as to demand of me no
more than "that", as she said, of which she herself had been capable.
She has always, always known,' said Lance without pity.
Peter was silent a long time; during which his companion might have
heard him gently breathe, and on touching him might have felt within
him the vibration of a long low sound suppressed. By the time he spoke
at last he had taken everything in. 'Then I do see how tremendously
'Isn't it wonderful?' Lance asked.
'Wonderful,' Peter mused.
'So that if your original effort to keep me from Paris was to keep me
from knowledge--!' Lance exclaimed as if with a sufficient indication
of this futility.
It might have been at the futility Peter appeared for a little to
gaze. 'I think it must have been--without my quite at the time knowing
it--to keep _me_!' he replied at last as he turned away.


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It is without a shadow of a doubt that Project Shield was one of the biggest announcements of CES 2013. It was one of the few pieces of hardware that wasn't leaked ahead of time, which really made it's announcement a giant surprise.
On top of being what will undoubtedly be a top console for Android games this year, Project Shield is also capable of playing PC games by streaming them from the PC to the Project Shield screen or to a TV screen. This makes it a truly all-in-one device for putting everything you ever wanted on your TV.
So how did Project Shield get started? What were the motivations? Well, NVIDIA has decided to reveal all of that and more. In a recent post on their official blog, NVIDIA broke down the experience of creating Project Shield and why it was made. As it turns out, it sounds like something out of Area 51 than a well respected hardware company.
The post paints a picture that sounds like the beginnings of an alien autopsy. Men walking in and out of unmarked doors, surrendering their smartphones to the security guard, and walking around in blue lab coats. The only difference is that these guys had copious amounts of KFC and worked 14 hour days.
Their motivation is something every gamer wants to hear. They wanted to build something for gamers, by gamers. That meant playing every game, playing it well, and just being generally awesome. So that's what they went out and built.
How much of the Project Shield process does NVIDIA talk about?
Pretty much all of it. From conception to building it down to the announcement at CES 2013. If you want to see how it was done from the people who did it, this is what you're looking for. It's also really cool for a company to detail their process like this. It gives Project Shield some personality and since it's aiming to be in the living room of every casual gamer, it can never have enough personality.
If you want to read all of it, check out the NVIDIA Blog post detailing everything. If you want more details on it, don't forget to sign up for their email list. If you want to relive the magic of the announcement, well we've posted our live coverage video above for nostalgic purposes. Now, just shut up and take our money, NVIDIA!


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When my parents lived in Washington, D.C. during the racial unrest of the sixties, my mother studied American history to understand what was happening.
New Gallup polling on party favorability ratings should be useful reading for leaders of the Democratic Party who are still in denial about the meaning of the Republican sweep in the recent elections.
The percentage of Americans giving the Democratic Party a favorable rating is at an all-time low - 36 percent. It now stands below the current 42 percent favorable rating of the Republican Party.
Civil asset forfeiture is supposed to be a process in which law enforcement agencies seize property and cash they have reason to believe were involved in a crime. A spate of stories around the country, however, reveals that too often, it's a matter of "policing for profit:" seizing property and money of innocent people because agencies benefit directly from the proceeds.
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There will be a serious push in the upcoming legislative session to put a constitutional amendment on the 2016 election ballot that would make this an appointed rather than an elected position.
This is something that should have happened a long time ago.
Governing is more difficult than running a campaign. I believe it is fair to expect our elected representatives to keep their promises and get things done. The American people have spoken very clearly that they do not want the liberal policies of President Obama. Most kitchen-table discussions are people worried about their job, their families, their retirement and health care. Between now and the end of the year, Congress needs to focus on a couple of key items to get the economy moving in the right direction and create an atmosphere for job creation.
Anyone who knows anything about politics and elections will tell you that runoffs can be tricky to predict.
Many sure things and shoe-in candidates have found their fortunes reversed in runoff elections. Nothing is certain until the final vote tally comes in.
That's why those with an interest in the outcome of the runoff election between Trip Derryberry and Mack Taylor for District 3 Commissioner had better pay attention.
The mid-term elections are in the rearview mirror, but Congress still has a lot of important work to do before lawmakers go home at year's end and the newly elected are sworn in next January. At the top of the to-do list: Congress must address urgent problems with Medicare – the most costly federal program and largest driver of national debt – or there will be harsh ramifications for seniors and caregivers in Georgia.
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"Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind."
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Cameron Repeats Pledge to Fight Juncker 'to the End'
Thomas PennyU.K. Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to continue opposing the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission at a meeting of European Union leaders next week.
Other heads of governments should stick by what they say in private about Juncker and oppose the appointment at the European Council meeting in Belgium, Cameron told the House of Commons in London today to cheers from his Conservative Party lawmakers. He did not give details of who had criticized the former Luxembourg prime minister.
"I don't mind how many people on the European Council disagree with me, I will fight this to the end," Cameron said. "What I would say to my colleagues in the European Council, many of whom have expressed interesting views about this person and this principle, is: If you want reform in Europe, you've got to stand up for it. If you want change, you've got to vote for it."
The choice of the new commission president should be made, in accordance with EU treaties, by national leaders rather than the European Parliament, Cameron told lawmakers. It's this principle, rather than Juncker's personality, which has led to the U.K.'s position, he said.
The process that saw Juncker emerge as the main candidate risks undermining impartiality in areas such as competition and state aid, Cameron will tell other EU leaders, according to a U.K. government official familiar with his plans. Cameron will press for the leaders to decide on names for all the bloc's top jobs across the political spectrum and with a gender balance, the official said.
'Take the Time'
"Europe should be willing and prepared to take the time to get this right," Cameron's spokesman, Jean-Christophe Gray, told reporters today, in an indication that the U.K. may seek to prevent EU leaders from making an announcement next week. "The prime minister's view isn't that the die is cast."
The U.K. premier spoke to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi about Juncker this morning, Gray said, describing the conversation as "very constructive."
Cameron has pledged to reform the EU and put Britain's membership to a referendum by the end of 2017 if he wins next year's general election. He sees Juncker, who supports closer European integration, as an obstacle to the needed changes.


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The Global 99 Percent
The Occupy Wall Street protesters are part of a worldwide movement against inequality.
The protest movement that began in Tunisia in January, subsequently spreading to Egypt and then to Spain, has now engulfed Wall Street and cities across America. Globalization and modern technology now enable social movements to transcend borders as rapidly as ideas can. And social protest has found fertile ground everywhere: a sense that the "system" has failed, and the conviction that even in a democracy, the electoral process will not set things right—at least not without strong pressure from the street.
In May, I went to the site of the Tunisian protests. In July, I talked to Spain's indignados. From there, I went to meet the young Egyptian revolutionaries in Cairo's Tahrir Square. And last month I talked with Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York. There is a common theme, expressed by the OWS movement in a simple phrase: "We are the 99 percent."
That slogan echoes the title of my recent article "Of the 1 Percent, for the 1 Percent, and by the 1 Percent," describing the enormous increase in inequality in the United States: 1 percent of the population controls more than 40 percent of the wealth and receives more than 20 percent of the income. And those in this rarefied stratum often are rewarded so richly not because they have contributed more to society—bonuses and bailouts neatly gutted that justification for inequality—but because they are, to put it bluntly, successful (and sometimes corrupt) rent-seekers.
This is not to deny that some of the 1 percent have contributed a great deal. Indeed, the social benefits of many real innovations (as opposed to the novel financial "products" that ended up unleashing havoc on the world economy) typically far exceed what their innovators receive. But, around the world, political influence and anti-competitive practices (often sustained through politics) have been central to the increase in economic inequality. And tax systems in which a billionaire like Warren Buffett pays lower taxes (as a percentage of his income) than his secretary, or in which speculators, who helped to bring down the global economy, are taxed at lower rates than those who work for their income, have reinforced the trend.
Research in recent years has shown how important and ingrained notions of fairness are. Spain's protesters, and those in other countries, are right to be indignant: Here is a system in which the bankers got bailed out, while those whom they preyed upon have been left to fend for themselves. Worse, the bankers are now back at their desks, earning bonuses that amount to more than most workers hope to earn in a lifetime, while young people who studied hard and played by the rules see no prospects for fulfilling employment.
The rise in inequality is the product of a vicious spiral: The rich rent-seekers use their wealth to shape legislation in order to protect and increase their wealth—and their influence. The U.S. Supreme Court, in its notorious Citizens United decision, has given corporations free rein to use their money to influence politics. But, while the wealthy can use their money to amplify their views, back on the street, police wouldn't allow me to address the OWS protesters through a megaphone. The contrast between overregulated democracy and unregulated bankers did not go unnoticed. But the protesters are ingenious: They echoed what I said through the crowd, so that all could hear.
The protesters are right that something is wrong about our "system." Around the world, we have underutilized resources—people who want to work, machines that lie idle, buildings that are empty—and huge unmet needs: fighting poverty, promoting development, and retrofitting the economy for global warming, to name just a few. In America, after more than 7 million home foreclosures in recent years, we have empty homes and homeless people.
The protesters have been criticized for not having an agenda. But this misses the point of protest movements. They are an expression of frustration with the electoral process. They are an alarm. The anti-globalization protests in Seattle in 1999, at what was supposed to be the inauguration of a new round of trade talks, called attention to the failures of globalization and the international institutions and agreements that govern it. When the press looked into the protesters' allegations, they found that there was more than a grain of truth in them. The trade negotiations that followed were different—at least in principle, they were supposed to be a development round, to make up for some of the deficiencies highlighted by protesters—and the International Monetary Fund subsequently undertook significant reforms.
So, too, in the United States, the civil-rights protesters of the 1960s called attention to pervasive institutionalized racism in American society. That legacy has not yet been overcome, but the election of Barack Obama shows how far those protests moved America.
On one level, today's protesters are asking for little: a chance to use their skills, the right to decent work at decent pay, a fairer economy and society. Their hope is evolutionary, not revolutionary. But, on another level, they are asking for a great deal: a democracy where people, not dollars, matter, and a market economy that delivers on what it is supposed to do.
The two are related: As we have seen, unfettered markets lead to economic and political crises. Markets work the way they should only when they operate within a framework of appropriate government regulations, and that framework can be erected only in a democracy that reflects the general interest—not the interests of the 1 percent. The best government that money can buy is no longer good enough.
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