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Police nab Banker for allegedly hiring assassins to kill ex-husband
The Ogun State Police Command has nabbed a woman suspected for hiring assassins to kill her ex-husband, a week after similar crime was reported in Lagos.
The suspect, Oluchi Tochukwu, a banker, allegedly hired assassins to slay her ex-husband identified as Tochukwu Onyebuchi.
Luck, however, ran out of the suspected assassins – Kingsley Ikechukwu, 36, and Chigozie Smart, 32, when the police in Ogun state intercepted and arrested them on October 19 at Ijebu-Ode while attempting to escape to Onitsha with the victim’s Range Rover Jeep.
The suspects were paraded before newsmen on Wednesday at the state police command headquarters in Abeokuta.
Oluchi, however, denied contracting the suspects and one other at large to assassinate her husband.
She stated that her 3-year-old marriage to her husband had crashed, so she had no reason to kill him.
On his part, Chigozie said it was Oluchi who hired them to kill her husband with a promise to purchase “Tokunbo” cars for each of them after a successful operation.
The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu who paraded the suspects, said the banker hired the suspected criminals to assassinate her husband in his residence at Ayobo area of Lagos State.
He said Oluchi was arrested at Ayobo area of Lagos State.
According to him, “One Oluchi, a 32-year-old banker, who is married to one Tochukwu Onyebuchi years ago, got separated from her husband following some matrimonial problems.
“The custody of their only child is currently being contested in the court but Oluchi has another plan. She connived with the trio of Chigozie Smart, Kingsley Ikechukwu and one other who is now at large to eliminate her husband.
“She arranged for the weapons which includes cutlass, iron rods and acid which she kept in her husband’s compound at Ayobo area of Lagos State and described where she kept it to the assailants.
“The suspects went there on Wednesday as planned and matcheted the man severally on his head and poured the acid on him.
“The suspects thereafter abandoned the victim and took away his range Rover Jeep which Oluchi instructed them to drop at her brother’s place in Onitsha, Anambra State.
“Luck ran against them when a patrol team of the Ogun State command on Wednesday sighted the vehicle along the Ijebu-Ode/Benin expressway and stopped it for search.
“While searching the vehicle, blood stain was seen and the two occupants were unable to give satisfactory account of the blood stain, hence, they were arrested.
“It was during interrogation that the suspects revealed all that transpired to the police,” the CP added, noting that the victim, who had been treated at an undisclosed hospital, was in the custody of the police helping them in the process of investigation.
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STOCKTON - CALIFORNIA'S GREECE
Michael Jackson in Stockton, California, after a school shooting. Website for this image
At the end of June 2012, the city of Stockton, in California, filed for bankruptcy.
"The biggest municipal insolvency in American history will hit bondholders as well as former public workers whose health-care costs the city had covered."
Stockton's bankruptcy: California's Greece | The Economist
"The city accumulated obligations to its workers and made rash spending pledges. When the market went sour in 2007-08 Stockton was left more exposed than most. Revenues dried up. As unemployment climbed above 20%, its foreclosure rate became one of the highest in the nation, where it remains."
Michael Jackson in "Stockton - All America City" after a school shooting.
Stockton is the 65th largest city in the USA and was once the third largest city in California..
Stockton, California, from Robert N. Dennis collection 1870
In the February 2, 2011 issue of Forbes, Stockton was described as being the "most miserable" city in the USA.
Central Connecticut State University surveys from 2005 and 2006 ranked the city as the least literate of all U.S. cities with a population of more than 250,000.[15][16][17]
According to a Gallup poll, Stockton was tied with Montgomery, Alabama for the most obese metro area in the United States of America with an obesity rate of 34.6 percent.[18]
www.menglau.com...Stockton has a Khmer temple and lots of Khmers.
According to the city’s most recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the city reported a significant deficit with US$443.9 million in revenue and US$485.4 million in expenditures.
As of March, 2012, Stockton's unemployment rate is among the highest in the nation, at 20.1%.
On June 28, 2012, Stockton finally filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy after 'years of fiscal mismanagement and a housing market crash' left it unable to pay its workers, pensioners and bondholders.
Stockton has a Khmer temple and lots of Khmers.
Stockton was rated by Forbes in 2009 as America's fifth most dangerous city because of its crime rate.[28]
According to the San Joaquin County district attorney, the city of Stockton has the "second most violent crime rate in the state," while San Joaquin County is the fifth-most dangerous metropolitan area in the United States, which could be due to Stockton's proximity to Interstate 5 in the center of California, making it "a hub for the drug cartel between Mexico, Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia."[41]
Stockton - Website for this image
On January 17, 1989, the Stockton Police Department received a threat against Cleveland Elementary School from an unknown person. Later that day, Patrick Purdy, who was later determined to be mentally ill, opened fire on the school's playground with a semi-automatic rifle, killing five children, all Cambodian or Vietnamese refugees, and wounding 29 others, and a teacher, before taking his own life. The event received national news coverage and is sometimes referred to as the Cleveland School massacre.[42]
Popular singer and song writer Michael Jackson paid a visit to Cleveland Elementary School to see the children and families affected by this tragedy on February 7, 1989.[43]
A number of motion pictures have been filmed in Stockton.[54] including:
All the King's Men (1949)[57]
Atlanta Child Murders (1985)
The Big Country (1958)[58]
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)[81]
Posted by Anon at 2:28 PM
Labels: bankruptcy, California, Economy, Khmer, Mexican drugs gangs, Michael Jackson, Stockton
Vallejo also in California, declared bankruptcy. It is a multi ethnic hell hole. Most of the cities and towns in CA are merging their fire and police departments. Many people are loosing their jobs. Things will only get worse.
I guess Arnie really knew what he was doin' when he resigned from 'governing' California.
These'elites' seem to always be that one step ahead, when all they really are, are devious thugs.
Don't know that we will change anything soon Ang.
Just keep on keeping on, with hope.
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BATMAN AND THE CIA
BURGAS BOMBER UNLIKELY TO BE GHEZALI
GETTING AWAY WITH PRINTING MONEY
ISRAEL AND SYRIA
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THE REAL HITLER
HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING
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Springvale Retirement Community
G.A. Fleet
AERCO Product Installed
WHAT THE CLIENT NEEDED
The owners of the Springvale Retirement Community in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., always try to stay ahead of the curve. That philosophy began when Springvale opened in 1959 as the first adult residential community catering to people 55 years of age and older in Westchester County, N.Y. The owners have continued to stay ahead of the curve through carefully planned maintenance and renovations, including replacing the original boilers with high-efficiency condensing equipment to reduce heating costs.
Breakdowns and poor performance of the existing equipment were becoming frequent. A large-scale replacement project was required. Management had done many renovations to improve heating efficiency; however, skyrocketing fuel costs continued to put a crimp in Springvale’s bottom line. Rather than pass along the higher costs to tenants by raising rent, management decided to upgrade the boilers to make them more efficient.
While Robert Kogan, partner in Springvale, and his team knew they wanted a high-efficiency boiler, they were not experts in the field. So they turned to Robert Braun, P.E., a principal in Genesys Engineering P.C. After reviewing three different condensing boilers from various manufacturers, Braun recommended a test installation of the AERCO Modulex MLX-606.
AERCO’S SOLUTION
The AERCO Modulex boiler had better turndown than other condensing boilers. With 13:1 turndown, the MLX-606 supports 45,000 to 600,000 Btu/hr. heating loads without cycling. Braun also looked at equipment that would minimize the upfront cost of the project and offer long-term operating reliability.
Unlike competitive equipment, the AERCO Modulex line features built-in redundancy. It employs four independent, 151,500 Btu/hr., preassembled thermal modules housed in a common enclosure. This allows on entire boiler plant to be replaced with a single unit. If one module requires maintenance or repair, the remaining three continue to deliver heat to the building. “To meet the load requirements using another brand of condensing equipment, we would have had to install and pipe multiple units compared to one AERCO Modulex boiler,” explains Braun. “That meant additional piping and pumping equipment, and it would have doubled the number of control points, which significantly increases installation cost.”
The Modulex unit reduced upfront costs by more than 40 percent. Installation was $6,900 for the MLX-606, compared to $12,000 each for the competitive units trialed in another building. These numbers don’t reflect approximately $700 in additional materials for the other brand’s installation.
Braun also realized that the Modulex boiler could support the building’s direct hot water needs. Springvale owners replaced the building’s stand-alone direct-fired hot water heater with an indirect water heater powered by the Modulex unit in a combination application. The approach allowed the owners to double the number of washers in the building’s laundry room while also using the boiler in its originally designed heating application.
“Basically, it’s been completely trouble-free,” says Kogan. “And it runs very quietly, which is important because it’s in a residential building.”
Together, Kogan and Braun are working on a timetable to replace all the boilers in the 31-building complex with high-efficiency equipment. They are also looking for other ways to keep providing Springvale residents with a quality lifestyle.
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A Joyful Spiritual Community Of Friends
One of the most frequent comments by visitors is, “I feel so much joy here!” The smiles you’ll meet are genuine. Ananda is a place of music, laughter, deep spiritual fellowship, and a refreshing sense of humor.
The basis of this teaching is universal. People of all faiths are welcome; all faiths are honored. Ananda exists to support your search for greater meaning and understanding, whether it be called wisdom, truth, joy, or God.
Truths Shared By The Great Religions
The emphasis is on the underlying truths shared by the great religions, rather than differences. The teachings at Ananda were brought to the West by Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi. His direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda, founded Ananda in 1968 and continues his work today.
Ananda is about supporting your quest for inner peace and happiness. Feel cared about by a dynamic, non-judgmental and supportive network of friends as you meet the challenges and victories of your own spiritual journey.
Ananda is a vibrant spiritual community. We offer Meditation, Yoga philosophy and Self-understanding classes. We’re here to give you support for your spiritual life.
Why I Love Ananda
“I have felt welcomed and included at Ananda from the very first day I attended a meditation four to five years ago. That same heartfelt welcome was extended to me when I visited Ananda World Brotherhood Village in Nevada City. Although I knew no-one there on my fist visit (I have now been there three times), I was made most welcome and included by everyone I met. The Divine love of Yogananda and, by extension, of Swami Kriyananda, is made manifest everywhere. It is also made manifest in the spiritual leadership of Kristy Fassler-Hecht at the Ananda-York Center. Everyone who comes in contact with Kristy knows and feels this love by the way she relates to people. She is a great teacher and an inspired and loving leader. I think I am not exaggerating when I say that all of us at Ananda York want to be as devoted to our guru and as radiating in her love for him as she is.
We often gather for pot-luck lunches or stay for some socializing after lessons or Sunday services. It is because of these occasions (and the retreats, of course) that we have gotten to know each other personally and have been able to bond in real friendships. My connection to Ananda-York is very important to me.”
Chris Davies
“After reading Autobiography of a Yogi in 2001, it was not long before I was guided to Ananda. I immediately joined Ananda Maine. It was like having an instant new family! Being part of Ananda is all about joy; finding our own joy and then sharing our joy with others. Giving back by helping to lead meditation continues to be one of the most expansive and fulfilling parts of my journey. We are all learning and we all have much to share with others. Having the support and freedom to do this amongst other like minded truth seekers is one of life’s great blessings.”
“I never realized what true joy really meant until I tuned into the Ananda community. I always thought it was to be sought outside of myself. Within the loving kindness of my spiritual family at Ananda along with the powerful and uplifting yoga/meditation practices I now know that joy is always within me to be realized at any moment in time. It is a blessing and a privilege to be part of this empowering journey together!”
“I love coming to the center to dive deep into the teachings and to spend time in fellowship with like-minded souls. Sharing this inspiring and devotional music with others brings me great joy. Chanting, meditating, and studying together energizes my personal practice, and I always find wisdom relevant to my life’s journey. Ananda helps me to remember who I am and what is truly important in life.”
“I’ve found that being at college with a wide variety of stresses, things to do, people to deal with, I end up forgetting about the more important things in life. I love the Daily Inspirations…they bring me back to center and most of the time brighten my day. So thank you for sharing them!”
“I lived at Ananda Village in California twenty years ago and received great blessings as a result. A couple of years ago I wanted to reconnect and have been participating in Ananda’s New England events. I love visiting the group in Maine and always feel uplifted when I return home afterwards.”
“Before Ananda I was directionless. Now I am pointed toward God.”
Joy to you,
“In this world of so much doing it is so refreshing to be in a place with others who uplift the spirit and sooth the soul. I always leave feeling better than when I arrived. I can also say that I feel we are a family, a part of a greater whole.”
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MY DYING BRIDE – Your Broken Shore
By Shan Siva January 14, 2020 January 12, 2020 News
British doom legends MY DYING BRIDE release the official video for ‘Your Broken Shore’ today. The track is taken from the upcoming album The Ghost Of Orion, which will be out on 6th March. Watch and listen to ‘Your Broken Shore’ here Singer Aaron Stainthorpe comments: “The first song from MY DYING BRIDE for five years comes laced with passion, power and their unyielding desire to create the most thoughtful and heavy music possible. ‘Your Broken Shore’ is recognisably theirs despite an evolution spanning 30 years, it’s new and fresh but with unmistakable provenance and production surpassing anything they have previously released. This… Continue reading
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Nothing will kick off your day better than Vredehammer’s brand-new single. Spooky darkwave / horror-synthies combine with elements of gritty black and death metal. The “Winds Of Dysphoria” offer heavy blast beats and aggressive guitar riffing, vitalizing your mind like an energy drink. Per Valla’s dark voice creates an atmosphere in the likes of Satyricon and Dimmu Borgir, while totally adding a frostbitten Nordic feeling to the great melodic instrumentals. “Winds Of Dysphoria” is the second single off the band’s highly anticipated new album “Viperous”, out on March 6th. Per Valla confirms his intention: «This is one of the faster Vredehammer songs ever written, made with… Continue reading
SHAKRA – Too Much Is Not Enough
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Blaze of Perdition “With Madman’s Faith”
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RASPBERRY BULBS – Doggerel
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NOVENA – debut album by UK prog metal/rockers
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Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts – What Kinda Love
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OCEANS – Hope
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Drone brood
Lighting the smoker
Capped honey
Brood nest
Comb honey
Different types of honey
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UVA Bee School is an informal seminar at the University of Virginia on the mathematics of honeybee behavior and the practice of beekeeping. It's part academic pursuit and part social activity, honoring the University's unique tradition of close student-faculty friendship. It's led by Associate Professor of Mathematics Christian Gromoll, and generously supported by the Mead Endowment.
Hive intelligence Honeybees survive by acquisition, defense, and efficient allocation of various resources, to enable successful overwintering and reproduction. This requires sophisticated decision making, akin to that needed by manufacturing firms, and beyond the capability of a single bee's brain. But when each bee follows simple sets of rules, the aggregate effect creates an emergent intelligence for the colony as a whole, able to react to a dynamic environment and achieve complex optimizations.
Seminar We're interested in understanding some of the mathematical principles underlying the colony intelligence of honeybees. We meet roughly every other week from October through April to discuss articles from the scientific literature on honeybees. We also do some mathematical modeling of specific honeybee optimization behaviors. Along the way, we learn some aspects of honeybee biology and ecology, as well as the history and practice of beekeeping.
Activities We're also interested in getting to know each other, and getting to know the bees. In the Fall and Spring, we meet regularly at Professor Gromoll's home for hands-on activities in the apiary. This includes an opening breakfast in the Fall, and a dinner in the Spring. We'll also start a new honeybee colony for the group, and take a field trip to a larger apiary in the area.
Yesterday evening we had our final official bee school event, a closing dinner featuring as much honey as possible — or as much as reasonable, really. There was a leg of lamb with polenta and honey in the jus, field greens with honey vinaigrette, and for dessert a classic Bienenstich, or "bee sting" cake. We all enjoyed a lovely evening out on the back porch.
But somehow it's not the end. The bee schoolers all have plans to stop by and inspect the observation hive later this summer. Rowan has received a grant to run an experiment on the Small Hive Beetle, a recent honeybee pest, and I'll be helping her with that. She's already set up six hives for the experiment at UVA's Morven Farm. And there's also talk of running another bee school in the near future, or maybe one of the new Pavilion seminars along similar lines.
Lots of excitement to come. For now, I'm going to go check the observation hive...
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Observation hive
At the beginning of May we finally installed the observation hive. This hive is well ventilated and can hold eight deep frames, in four pairs (only three pairs are currently installed in the photo). So it's big enough to exist as a permanent hive. That is, the frames are permanently behind glass (and also wooden panels when not being observed), as opposed to being placed there temporarily as is done with smaller observation hives. This way we can pop off the panels any time we want, year round, for a glimpse into the status of this honey bee colony. Of course, you can't see in between the pairs of parallel frames. But the two outer sides give a view of half of the entire hive. That's more than enough to see all activities going on inside, and asses the state of things.
The colony that we installed had some trouble initially, but they've been rebounding well over the last few weeks. The colony should be nice and strong by the end of the summer, in time for visits by returning beeschoolers!
Cut out in Kerchof Hall
Back in the Fall, Ryan Taylor of UVA Facilities Management contacted me to see if the bee school could help remove a bee hive that had taken up residence in a cornice high up on Kerchof Hall. I couldn't resist the serendipity. Here we were learning about the mechanism honey bee swarms use to select a new cavity to dwell in, and learn that a swarm had picked a spot right in our own math building, above Professor Kuhn's office! Now that's project-based learning.
Actually, this particular colony must have moved in several seasons ago, as it turned out to be huge. In the photo above, it extended more than five feet from the end of the cornice that abuts the brick wall to the left over Kuhn's office window.
Since this is UVA, we had access to some high-tech tools, including a thermographic camera. However, since most of the bees are in the broodnest, that's where the heat is generated. The honey combs that extend back from the broodnest are not much above ambient temperature, so the infra red images only hinted at the size of this hive. Notice the end of the dark blue component of the color streak showing the colony. That's actually where the last combs ended up being.
The first step was to get some advice as this was my first cut out and the location was tricky, being 80 feet up off the ground. Brian Gallagher, president of the Central Virginia Beekeepers Association, was very generous explaining all the details of such an operation. You need a lot: a bee vacuum for pulling bees off of combs, 20 or so five gallon buckets for holding all the honey comb, wooden frames pre-strung with twine to place brood combs into, and a variety of tools.
It's a two-man job. One person vacuums bees off of a comb, cuts it out with a knife, then turns to allow the second person to vacuum bees off of the other side. Then it gets dumped into a bucket (honey) or trimmed to fit a Langstroth frame and strung into place (brood). Essentially, the entire hive is transported away in three separate parts: bees, honey, and brood combs. Then you put it back together at home and have an instant full-strength hive.
UVA rented a hydraulic lift to get us up there. Chris Herndon, one of UVA's carpenters, went up with me first to open up the cornice. We first drilled a series of holes to see how far back the hive went We were amazed how far back we had to go before no more bees would exit the holes. We confirmed with a bore scope and then sawed open the cornice with a recip saw. Here's what we saw:
Next, Chris sent Rowan and me up in the basket to start the extraction. We started in the back and spent over two hours going through the honey, comb by comb.
Then Rowan was relieved by Jonathan, and we spent another two hours cutting out the brood nest and finishing up. We even spotted the queen and caught her in a queen clip. She spent the rest of the time in Jonathan's pocket.
In the end, we took about 4 lbs of bees, a large broodnest, and 145 lbs of honey comb out of the building. The colony is now working for me in my bee yard. They've already filled more than a medium super with honey comb (40 lbs of honey).
Here's the sampling of fresh honey comb we put out in the Mathematics lobby. Everyone seemed to appreciate the hard work of their former office mates!
This is Chris after he got stung in the head down on the ground by an exasperated bee, and decided to put his veil back on. A few more photos are here.
Swarm 2
We got a call from neighbor Mark Reed to come retrieve a swarm that had settled in the tree at the end of his driveway. As luck would have it, his call came right before our regularly scheduled Friday afternoon bee school meeting, so the "squad" was already on its way over.
We made it over to the Reed's in Forest Lakes about 40 minutes later. The swarm had completely settled and was quietly going about its business sending out nesting site scouts.
This swarm was only about 10-15 feet up, easily reached with the ladder. But it was awkwardly located on two crossing branches, and was also surrounded by branches, one of which we had to prune. After wetting down the swarm, we shook the branches until most of the bees had fallen into our swarm box. It wasn't a particularly clean operation though, and we put a lot of bees in the air. Our onlookers commented at one point that it looked like we were taking a shower with bees.
We could only hope we got the queen in the box. We placed it at the base of the tree and watched for a bit. The general flow of bees was into the box. The remains of the cluster of bees up on the branch grew a little at first, but then began to dwindle. So we were pretty sure we had the queen in the swarm box. We decided to leave it there for the rest of the afternoon and let all the bees find their way in.
I returned after dark to retrieve the box. The kids, being excellent guardians, had put this sign up next to the swarm box. The rest of the photos are here.
Swarm!
There's been so much action I haven't had time to keep up with the blog. I got home in the afternoon on the last day of March to find one of the colonies in my bee yard had just swarmed. They were still in the process of alighting on this branch of our large tulip tree when I saw them, or rather heard them. A swarm at home is very convenient to catch, and I had them in a box a short while later. Unfortunately, their mind was made up. Although they spent several days in the new hive I set up for them, and even began drawing out two pretty big combs, they decided to move out anyway. I found the hive empty the fourth morning after they swarmed.
We've been studying how swarms vote on the best cavity to serve as their new home. An interesting question is what happens when a beekeeper intervenes by hiving the swarm. Usually the bees take up residence in the hive they are given; so either their voting process is interrupted or the man made hive is voted the best. Why did this swarm leave? Did another cavity out-campaign the lovely Langstroth hive I provided, or did the swarm process somehow restart?
Monticello bees
On Friday we took a little field trip to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, to see the new apiary there. Our host was Paul Legrand, the volunteer beekeeper at Monticello. Paul met us at the visitor center and then we got to drive up to the house in our car, under the watchful eye of Monticello security - they're pretty serious over there.
Paul currently keeps four hives near the house and is working on establishing a second apiary a mile or so away. The setting is quite picturesque, surrounded by blossoming redbuds and fruit trees. And of course, there's also the electric fence to keep out the bears.
After donning veils and lighting the smoker, we opened up the hives to take a look. All colonies are already very strong, with plenty of nectar coming in. The honey flow seems to be almost a month early this year. One colony had already swarmed, as evidenced by several empty queen cells on the combs (see photo below).
Paul uses styrofoam hive bodies for his bottom two brood boxes. He says the added insulation keeps the bees warmer in winter and cooler in summer. You might think Thomas Jefferson had no access to styrofoam, but a little known fact turns out to be that...just kidding. Actually, Jefferson predated even the modern Langstroth hive. In his time bees would have been kept in skeps - those inverted dome-like baskets. We asked Paul if Management gave him a hard time about that. He said there were some raised eyebrows initially, but he convinced them his way was healthier for the bees.
You can see the empty queen cell on the right side of the above photo. Just after the old queen left the hive with a swarm of bees to establish a new colony, a new queen emerged from this cell and fought to the death with other emerging queens. The winner is busy laying eggs and building the population of this colony.
Before we left, Paul handed us a jar of honey made by Monticello's very own honey bees. We'll open it up for our dinner event in May. Thanks for hosting us Paul! Some more photos of our visit are here.
Spring check
Checked the bees. All hives still have lots of honey stores and are getting active again. I cleaned out the collapsed combs from the bottom of the TBH. The bees had used up the honey from them, so it was easy. Our observation hives have arrived; we need to paint them and get the glass. Nucs and queens have been ordered.
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RECEP ERDOGAN BLAMES THE OUTSIDE WORLD FOR HIS CORRUPTION SCANDALS
The Turkish overlord goes cavorting around again, looking for nickel-and-dime excuses for corruption in his government:
The political crisis shaking Turkey spilled over into the country’s ties with the rest of the world on Saturday, as Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed outside forces for the country’s worst corruption scandal for years and appeared to threaten the US ambassador.
Speaking at a rally at the Black Sea town of Samsun, the prime minister attributed the investigation into the scandal – which involves allegations of millions of dollars of bribes, smuggling, the fixing of tenders and illegal construction – to a plot “with international dimensions” against his government.
Oh, do tell us about it. To be sure, it's nothing of the sort, but even if it were, he'd be asking for it with his track record of bigotry against infidels.
Any hostility he may have voiced against the American ambassador in Turkey should be cause for concern too, and just shows that even a leftist government in the USA won't make him cooperative.
Turkey’s relations with the US hit a peak in 2009, when President Barack Obama praised the “model partnership” between the two countries.
But ties have become tense with differences over Egypt, where Mr Erdogan called for the West to denounce the coup against former President Mohamed Morsi, Syria, where the Turkish prime minister wanted a Kosovo-style campaign against President Bashar al-Assad and Washington’s concerns about the Turkish government’s crackdown on mass protests.
I suppose the reason he's against Assad is because the Syrian overlord isn't Islamist enough for his tastes.
“I presume this will work with Erdogan’s core constituency,” said Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations of the prime minister’s latest remarks. “There’s a reservoir of anti Americanism in Turkey and this is going back to the well.” He added, however, that despite frustration with Mr Erdogan Washington still sought co-operation with Turkey because of the country’s strategic importance.
Too bad. They could save themselves a lot of money and other hassles by not wasting their time maintaining ties with such an awful politician. And honestly, what importance does Turkey really have at this point anyway?
THIS IS WHAT FASCISM SOUNDS LIKE
PIERS MORGAN:
Piers Morgan @piersmorgan
Just as the 2nd Amendment shouldn't protect assault rifle devotees, so the 1st Amendment shouldn't protect vile bigots. #PhilRobertson
FASCISTS LIKE PIERS MORGAN BELIEVE ONLY PEOPLE THEY LIKE DESERVE THEIR INNATE AND UNALIENABLE RIGHTS.
AS IF "FREE SPEECH" ONLY APPLIED TO SPEECH YOU LIKED.
THE CODIFIED PROTECTION OF SPEECH IS IMPORTANT PRECISELY TO PROTECT SPEECH SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE - AND WANT SQUELCHED.
WHAT'S INSANE ABOUT THIS IS THAT PIERS MORGAN IS NOMINALLY A MEMBER OF THE PRESS AND SO YOU WOULD THINK HE'D SUPPORT FREE SPEECH.
BUT HE IS MORE WEDDED TO LEFTISM THAN HE IS TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT, OR THE SECOND - OR ANY AMENDMENT OR HUMANS RIGHTS THEMSELVES.
THIS IS PRECISELY WHY THE MEDIA IS SO DANGEROUS NOW, AND WHY THE MEDIA HAS MORPHED INTO WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY A STATE-RUN MEDIA.
IF WE WANT TO PRESERVE LIBERTY, THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO END THE STRANGLEHOLD THE LEFT HAS ON THE MEDIA.
PIGS FLY: NYTIMES REPORTING OBAMACARE SCREWS THE MIDDLE CLASS!
FRONT PAGE / NYTIMES:
"New Health Law Frustrates Many in Middle Class
Many Americans who don't quality for health care subsidies are facing steep premium prices."
OBAMACARE HAS DONE MORE HARM TO MORE AMERICANS THAN ANYTHING IN HISTORY EXCEPT FOR ACTS OF WAR.
WE'RE IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS?
MEN VERSUS BOYS
ALPHA MALES VERSUS BETA MALES.
WILL REGGIE FLY TO HAWAII?
I THINK SOMEONE IN THE PRESS OUGHT TO ASK OBAMA HOW HE FEELS ABOUT MSNBC'S ENDORSEMENT OF GAY ANAL INTERCOURSE.
"MR. PRESIDENT, DO YOU LIKE TO GIVE IT OR GET IT?"
OBAMA CHECKS IN WITH HIS BOSS
IT'S GETTING NASTY OUT THERE....
THERE'S ONLY ONE REASON WHY THE NSA SNOOPS ON EVERYONE: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
IF THE NSA AND CIA AND FBI WEREN'T HOBBLED BY POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, THEN THEY COULD FOCUS ON THE ENEMY AND LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE.
INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON ISLAMISTS AND MUSLIMS FROM WELL KNOWN ISLAMIST STRONGHOLDS OR WHO HAVE VISITED KNOWN ISLAMIST MOSQUES, THEY SNOOP ON EVERYONE.
THIS HURTS EVERYONE BECAUSE IT REDUCES EVERYONE'S PRIVACY AND BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF SNOOPING ON EVERYONE THEY GET TOO DAMN MUCH INFO.
IF THEY FOCUSED ON THE ENEMY, THEN THEY'D END UP WTH MORE ACTIONABLE INTEL AND THEY WOULDN'T BE VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF INNOCENT AMERICANS.
REPEAT: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS THE REASON WE HAVE LESS PRIVACY AND AT THE SAME TIME, IT'S THE REASON WE ARE LESS SAFE.
IF WE WANT TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY AND REMAIN FREE, THEN WE HAVE TO DEFEAT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
PC IS AN ALLY OF THE ISLAMISTS AND THE ENEMY OF LIBERTY.
Isaiah 5:20: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that change darkness into light, and light into darkness; that change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter!"
Isaiah 5:20 -
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that change darkness into light, and light into darkness; that change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter!"
AND THEN THERE ARE THESE LIES DURING THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST ROMNEY - LIES THAT GOT HIM RE-ELECTED:
NEVER BEFORE HAS A PRESIDENT LIED SO BLATANTLY, SO FREQUENTLY OR WITH SUCH HORRIBLE RESULTS.
LIES ARE NOT CAUSED BY INEPTNESS.
DECEIT IS NOT THE RESULT OF INCOMPETENCE.
FALSEHOODS DO NOT ARISE SPONTANEOUSLY.
OBAMA IS A LIAR, WRAPPED IN A DECEIVER, INSIDE A PERJURER.
HMMM: IN THE FINAL WEEK OF CHRISTMAS SHOPPING, THE STATE-RUN MEDIA IS SPINNING THE ECONOMIC NEWS AND TELLING US THE ECONOMY IS DOING JUST GREAT
THEY FAILED TO ADEQUATELY REPORT THE SURGE IN UNEMPLOYMENT, OR THE SLOWDOWN IN SALES OF HOMES, OR THE SUDDEN SURGE IN INVENTORIES, OR THE WEAK BRICKS'N MORTARS RETAIL SALES, OR THE SLOWDOWN IN CONSUMER SPENDING.
BUT THEY SPIN EVERYTHING AS IF THE ECONOMY WAS HUNKY-DORY:
Revision Shows U.S. Growing at Fastest Rate Since 2011
The Commerce Department on Friday revised up its estimate of 3.6 percent to 4.1 percent, saying business spending was stronger than it originally thought.
WHERE AND WHY AND HOW HAS THE INCREASE TAKE PLACE?
ZERO HEDGE GETS TO THE BOTTOM OF THE MATTER:
Earlier today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis surprised everyone by announcing a final Q3 GDP growth of 4.1% compared to 3.6% in the first revision (and 2.8% originally), driven almost entirely by the bounce in Personal Consumption which rose 2.0% compared to estimates of 1.4%.
As a result many are wondering just where this "revised" consumption came from. The answer is below: of the $15 billion revised increase in annualized spending, 60% was for healthcare, and another 27% was due to purchases of gasoline. The third largest upward revision: recreation services. On the flip side, the biggest revision detractors: transportation services and housing and utilities.
In other words, the BEA thought long and hard what it could revise and decided on the following: in Q3 the US economy was revised to the strongest since 2011 because Americans, it would appear, were gassing up more to visit (and pay) their doctor, and then going to the movies.
IT'S A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH PEOPLE WILL FEEL LIKE SPENDING MORE MONEY.
I DON'T THINK IT WILL WORK.
BURIED IN THE ABOVE/LINKED-TO ARTICLE:
Economists expect growth to slow in the fourth quarter, in part because some of the upswing has resulted from businesses building up their inventories.
SOME?!?! BS. NEARLY ALL: BBC: But the upward revision was mainly driven by a big jump in businesses restocking their inventories, the Commerce Department said...
PEOPLE KNOW THEIR OWN ECONOMIC SITUATION IS REAL NO MATTER WHAT THEY ARE BEING TOLD ABOUT THE GENERAL ECONOMY.
PEOPLE KNOW THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION SUCKS - NO MATTER WHAT THE DOL/BLS TELLS THE STATE-RUN MEDIA AND NO MATTER HOW LITTLE BAD NEWS THE STATE-RUN MEDIA TELLS THEM.
LIKE THE FACT THAT THE NYTIMES AND THE REST OF THE STATE-RUN MEDIA STILL HASN'T RUN AN AP NEWS-ITEM FROM YESTERDAY ABOUT THE SURGE IN UNEMPLOYMENT.
WHEN THE RETAIL NUMBERS ARE REPORTED IN JANUARY, WE WILL FIND OUT IF 2014 WILL BRING US ANOTHER CONTRACTION OR NOT.
I THINK WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER RECESSION AND THAT OBAMACARE WILL MAKE IT WORSE.
THE LEFT'S ANTI-ZIONISM
Caroline Glick wrote about the beliefs embraced by leftists, such as anti-war sentiments, which lately includes hostility to Zionism, and how sensible people could/should deal with it.
SWEDISH PARLIAMENT TAKES DOWN NUDE JUNO PICTURE TO AVOID OFFENDING BOTH MUSLIMS AND FEMINISTS
I don't know about the feminists, but when it's the Religion of Peace they decide to appease, you know something's wrong:
A nude painting named Juno, which was painted by baroque artist G E Schröder and has hung in the dining room of the Swedish Parliament for 30 years has been taken down for fear of offending the sensitivities of feminists and Muslim visitors, Swedish newspaper, The Local reported on Thursday.
Explaining the ban on the baroque breasts, a source from the parliament said: "You have to think of the foreign guests, especially those from Muslim countries."
Yeah, you just simply have to. Again Sweden has made a joke out of itself in their pointless quest for political relevancy.
STATE-RUN MEDIA FAIL TO REPORT TODAY'S AWFUL UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS REPORTED BY THE DOL/BLS
THE NEWS AS RELEASED AT 8:30AM TODAY BY THE DOL/BLS:
In the week ending December 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 379,000, an increase of 10,000 from the previous week's figure of 369,000. The 4-week moving average was 343,500, an increase of 13,250 from the previous week's revised average of 330,250.
GOOGLE NEWS RESULTS THIS EVENING - [NOTE: NOT ONE SINGLE MAJOR MSM NEWS OUTLET REPORTED THE NEWS]:
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THE STATE-RUN MEDIA DO NOT REPORT NEWS THAT HURTS OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES.
THEY ARE NOT NEWS AGENCIES; THEY ARE MERELY A PART OF THE POSTMODERN LEFTIST MACHINE.
AS PART OF THE MACHINE, THEIR TRUE PURPOSE IS NOT AN INFORMED ELECTORATE, BUT A BRAINWASHED ELECTORATE.
AND IT'S WORKING.
I LIVE AND WORK IN NYC, AND NOT A SINGLE LIBERAL ACQUAINTANCE I KNOW HAD HEARD ABOUT ANY UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBER, LET A LONE A BAD ONE.
YET THEY ALL THINK THEY ARE WELL-INFORMED.
THEY ARE NOT WELL-INFORMED.
THEY ARE BRAINWASHED DUPES.
THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THE LEFT CAN GAIN AND HOLD ON TO POWER - THE POWER THEY NEED TO INFLICT THEIR DYSTOPIAN TYRANNY UPON US ALL.
IT IS PART-AND-PARCEL WITH HARRY REID'S ANTICS IN THE US SENATE - HAVING "GONE NUCLEAR" AND DONE AWAY WITH THE FILIBUSTER ON NOMINATIONS IN ORDER TO ADVANCE THEIR LEFTIST AGENDA.
THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO ADVANCE THEIR AGENDA:
USE THE IRS TO HARASS THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS.
REWRITE THE LAWS BY EXECUTIVE FIAT.
LIE TO CONGRESS.
INSTRUCT US ATTORNEY'S NOT TO ENFORCE THE LAW.
LIE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OVER AND OVER ABOUT KEEPING THEIR INSURANCE.
OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES ARE LAWLESS FASCISTS.
WE MUST END THEIR REIGN OF TYRANNY ASAP.
IT'S 2014, OR NEVER.
BJ CLINTON ARGUES WE NEED AMNESTY TO KEEP OUR POPULATION GROWING...
CNS VIA WZ:
Former President Bill Clinton says if U.S. lawmakers realized the economic impact of having the country’s population growth coming to a halt, it would energize immigration reform, “because it’s the only way to keep our country growing.” Clinton made the comments while discussing immigration reform earlier this month on the America with Jorge Ramos program. “I think that we're trying to pass immigration reform. The country needs it. If – I wish that all these members of Congress who oppose immigration reform, and who feel threatened by it, had been with me on my recent trip to Asia,” Clinton said.
“And they – and Japan and China where they're worried about the population growth just coming to a halt. And what it's going to do to them economically,” Clinton continued. “And I think it would give a lot more energy to immigration reform in America. The – we're going to have to do it, because it's the only way to keep our country growing. And the sooner we do it, the better.”
THIS IS TAUTOLOGICAL BULLSHIT.
IF WE DIDN'T HAVE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TAKING AWAY JOBS AND DRIVING WAGES DOWN, THEN WAGES WOULD BE HIGHER AND MARRIED COUPLES WOULD HAVE MORE KIDS BECAUSE THEY COULD AFFORD TO HAVE MORE KIDS.
BY ACCEPTING THE 11 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HERE, THE LEFT HAS LOWERED OUR WAGES AND OUR BIRTH RATES.
ONE REASON THE LEFT FAVORS LOWE WAGES AND AN INFLUX OF NON-WESTERN IMMIGRANTS IS THAT THE LEFT WANTS TO TURN THE USA FROM "THE EXCEPTIONAL NATION" AND "THE INDISPENSABLE NATION" - ( AT LEAST TO THE FREE WORLD!) - INTO A THIRD WORLD NATION.
WE NEED TO STOP THIS AND WE NEED TO STOP IT ASAP.
FALK SHOULD BE FIRED, BUT WE CAN'T BE OPTIMISTIC IT'LL HAPPEN
Elliot Abrams has written about why the UN HRC member Richard Falk should be thrown out of that already corrupt organization:
The special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories of the United Nations Human Rights Council is an extremist named Richard Falk. Falk is an embarrassment to the council and the U.N. whose only activity is to use violent and extreme language to denounce Israel -- most recently for "a criminal intention that is genocidal."
Canada has denounced Falk for these remarks and Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said this: "Canada completely rejects and condemns the appalling remarks made by Richard Falk, United Nations special rapporteur to the Palestinian territories, in which he accused Israel of 'genocidal' intentions.
"Canada has previously called for Falk to be fired for his numerous outrageous and anti-Semitic statements, and these comments underscore once more the complete and total absurdity of his service as a U.N. special rapporteur.
"I call on the United Nations Human Rights Council -- once again -- to remove Falk from his position immediately.
"Not only do these comments undermine the fundamental values of the United Nations, they also belittle the terrible genocides that have tragically taken place throughout history and around the world."
Baird's comments are commendable, but unlikely to do much good. The UN is still bound to keep Falk - who's also a 9-11 truther - in place, probably for life. The UN has long been otherwise useless, and proved that in the long run.
IDF KILLS 2 JIHADISTS IN JENIN
Some success in dealing with local jihadists in Jenin:
Two Palestinians were killed in Israeli military operations in Judea and Samaria overnight.
In the first incident, Israeli troops were fired upon during an arrest operation in the Jenin refugee camp on Wednesday night. The troops returned fire, killing one Palestinian.
The incident began around 10 p.m. on Wednesday night when Israeli counter-terror forces entered the Jenin refugee camp to arrest an Islamic Jihad operative who had planned attacks on transportation arteries in Judea and Samaria. A disturbance broke out and Palestinians opened fire on the Israeli soldiers. The soldiers then responded with return fire, wounding several Palestinians.
In addition to gunfire, the soldiers were also attacked with improvised explosive devices, an Israeli military spokesperson said.
The wanted Islamic Jihad operative was not captured in the operation. No Israeli soldiers were wounded.
Two of the wounded Palestinians were transported to Haemek Medical Center in Afula. One died of his wounds en route to the hospital.
And he can now appear before the highest court.
EVERY VERSION OF ISLAM IS BAD
The UK Spectator wrote about the trial of the two jihadists who murdered Lee Rigby in Woolwich. But while they do have some good points to raise, it becomes problematic when the writer says that:
...the murder of Drummer Rigby had everything to do with Islam: a nasty, bigoted, backward version of Islam to be sure, but a version of Islam nonetheless.
That's basically implying that "true" Islam isn't backwards, when in fact it is, and the two savages proved it themselves when they quoted from the Koran during the trial. But, this head-in-the-sand act is something we've come to expect from most mainstream news companies.
The jihadists deserve to get a death penalty, but this being a European country, I doubt they'll ever get what they really need to be given.
THE 10 TRUTHS MAINSTREAM COMICS AVOID ABOUT ISLAM
Cartoonist Bosch Fawstin writes on Pajamas Media about ten truths mainstream comic publishers refuse to acknowledge about Islam, which he used to adhere to himself before he woke up and understood what it was really like.
WHAT IF THE SHOE WERE ON THE OTHER FOOT?
Mr. Phil Robertson has been "suspended" from the "Duck Dynasty" television program that he created, because his "personal views in no way reflect those of A+E Networks, who have always been strong supporters and champions of the LGBT community. The network has placed Phil under hiatus from filming indefinitely." What exactly did he say to the GQ interviewers?
It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man’s anus. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying?
What if the shoe were on the other foot? What if Ian McKellen, George Takei, or any other openly gay media star had said the opposite:
It seems like, to me, a man's anus—as a man—would be more desirable than a vagina. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! He’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying?
Would there have been any repercussions? Wouldn't every pundit and commentator in the mainstream media have applauded his courage, and noted that he was merely expressing his own preferences and desires, which should be fully respected and valued as much as anybody's? Mr. Robertson situated his own preference in the framework of his belief in Christianity and the teachings of the Bible. That also offended the mainstream media.
Now if he had quoted from the Noble Holy Qu'ran of course, whose adherents hang homosexuals in the streets of Teheran, that would have been just fine . . . to contradict him would have been Islamophobia . . . .
BREAKING NEWS: OBAMA HAS DISSOLVED CONGRESS!
BREAKING NEWS: OBAMA HAS DISSOLVED CONGRESS
In a de facto sense this is simply true.
The chief powers of Congress are the power of the purse and the power of oversight.
Congress no longer has either.
Congress doesn't even pass a budget anymore - (and we seem to be stuck spending 35% more now than in 2008 even though neither our nation's population or our economy has grown by 35% and we can't afford to spend this much each year and go into this much more debt each year).
And - because Congress allows Obama's executive branch members to lie with impunity when appearing for testimony - Congress no longer has any real oversight.
In addition, the president now picks and chooses which laws he wants to enforce and even rewrites them by executive fiat.
And all the while the NSA, and CIA and FBI spy on us.
WE NO LONGER LIVE IN A REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY.
WE LIVE IN A FASCIST STATE.
I agree with Rand Paul, Clapper's perjury to Congress is a more serious crime than Snowden's treachery and treason.
THE FED IS STILL PUMPING
It appears the markets and most economists welcome the fact that the FED is reducing QE3 from $85 billion per month to $75 billion. It is good news, and long overdue.
Had the elected leaders of the world been more responsible it could have happened sooner. BUT let's not forget the fact that $75B/month is still almost a trillion $ per year!
I would be surprised if QE will be entirely off the table in less than 6 months to a year. Is the economy really that strong? or is this move really a PR stunt on by the FED? Remember, this is more like the Captain of a ship who just told the passengers that things are improving - we are only pumping 75000 gallons instead of 85000 gallons to stay afloat...
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DON'T BELIEVE THE SPIN-MEISTERS: THE ECONOMY IS NOT DOING WELL
THE BBC SPITS OUT THE STATE-RUN MEDIA'S SPIN IN THE HEADLINE: US economy grows faster than thought
The US economy grew at an annual pace of 3.6% in the third quarter of the year, up from an initial estimate of 2.8%, revised figures have shown.
The growth rate was the fastest since the first quarter of 2012.
EVERYTHING IS GETTING BETTER, RIGHT?
THEY BURY THE REAL TRUTH WAY DOWN IN THE ARTICLE:
But the upward revision was mainly driven by a big jump in businesses restocking their inventories, the Commerce Department said....
The pace of growth in consumer spending - which accounts for about two-thirds of US economic activity - slowed from the previous quarter.
Consumer spending grew at a revised annual pace of 1.4%, down from 1.8% in the April-to-June period and the slowest rate since late 2009.
THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IS HEADED FOR A MAJOR CORRECTION NEXT YEAR - IT'S ALL BAKED IN THE CAKE:
ENERGY IS STILL VERY EXPENSIVE.
THE US CONSUMER WILL HAVE EVEN LESS DISPOSABLE INCOME DUE TO OBAMACARE.
EUROPE IS BACK IN RECESSION.
WHEN CHRISTMAS RETAIL NUMBERS COME IN - AND IF THEY ARE AS BAD AS I THINK THEY WILL BE...
AND WHEN INSURANCE COMPANIES ANNOUNCE NEW RATES DUE TO THE COLOSSAL OBAMACARE DISASTER....
WELL, THAT WILL TRIGGER A CORRECTION AND A STAMPEDE FOR THE EXITS.
BETTER BRACE YOURSELF NOW.
HOT AIR: In October, the level of new claims went below the 300K barrier, at least momentarily. Today, however, it’s back up to 379,000, about where it was eight months ago:
In the week ending December 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 379,000, an increase of 10,000 from the previous week’s figure of 369,000. The 4-week moving average was 343,500, an increase of 13,250 from the previous week’s revised average of 330,250.
WE ARE HEADED FOR A RECKONING AND IT AIN'T GONNA BE PRETTY.
SORRY MR. PODESTA, OBAMA IS MORE LIKE THE REV. JIM JONES THAN ANYONE ELSE IN ALL USA POLITICS...
... AND OBAMA'S FOLLOWERS HAVE LONG BEEN CALLED "KOOL-AID DRINKERS" FOR JUST THAT VERY SAME REASON.
WE'VE MADE THAT EXACT COMPARISON MANY TIMES HERE AT TAB.
MORE HERE AT POWER LINE.
PC POLICE AT A&E CENSOR CHRISTIAN VIEWS
IT'S NOT JUST CHRISTMAS THAT'S UNDER ATTACK; IT'S CHRISTIANITY ITSELF.
IOW: PC & LGBT OVERRULE INRI.
NO WONDER OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES DON'T CARE ABOUT THE GENOCIDE THAT MUSLIMS ARE PERPETRATING AGAINST CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE:
Genocide warning as Christian-majority Central African Republic overrun by Islamists
Russian church warns of "genocide against Christians" in Syria conflict
AT LEAST 205 CHRISTIANS KILLED BY MUSLIM IN BENUE STATE, NIGERIA
IRAQ: 'CHRISTIANS ARE FINISHED HERE'
Islamic Terror Attacks on Christians [just the last 4 months]:
Barkin Ladi
Ashigashia
Ashrafieh
Sadad
Rantis
Haffar
Warraq
Jaramana
Bangassou
Zangang
Dorawa
Sahel Selim
Maalula
Kunte-Kuru
Gura Dabwam
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PREDICTION: OBAMA'S NEXT MOVE: GIVING COP-KILLER MUMIA A PARDON!
JUST SAYING....
THE ANTI-COP BS GOING DOWN NOW ALL OVER THE USA AIN'T NEW; IT'S AN OLD FAV' FROM THE LEFT.
"OFF THE PIG!"
"FREE MUMIA!"
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE CURRENT PRESIDENT AND HIS AG SUPPORT THEM!
WE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE ELECTED AN ACOLYTE OF SAUL ALINSKY AND BILL AYERS AND JEREMIAH WRIGHT AND FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS.
OH. WAIT. WE. DID.
LESBIAN RABBI IN NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPPORTS SHARIA
A bizarre story comes from New England:
A story from New Hampshire reminds us once again that liberals are often willing to commit suicide to prove how liberal they are.
It would be hard to imagine a more ridiculous scenario than a lesbian rabbi making a public stand in favor of adopting Sharia Law as the new ruling principles of any American state, but Rabbi Robin Nafshi of New Hampshire has done just that.
With the type of smug ”I’m a liberal, so I’m smarter than you” hubris only the sickest of liberals can muster, Rabbi Nafshi scolds her fellow Granite Staters in a piece she has curiously titled “The Misguided push to ban Sharia Law.”
Of course, the Rabbi takes an obligatory shot at Republicans as she whines that the final point in their statement of Party principles says, “Take any and all actions possible to protect against the implementation of any part of Sharia Law in New Hampshire, including legislation outlawing Sharia law.”
Her hollow argument makes a comparison between Sharia Law as the Muslim way of life and Halakhah, the Jewish way of life. This idiot must think that Jews cut the heads off homosexuals and blow up non-Jews in belief that doing so will ensure their place in paradise. Sure thing rabbi–not a dime’s with of difference, right?
If she's a Reform, she's one of the dumbest and most revolting in the business, shaming the religion she has no business being part of and shilling for one that would suppress her too. No wonder the Reform movement's collapsing today.
JOSHUA DYSART GOING TO KURDISTAN, BUT UNDER UN SPONSORSHIP
The comics writer Joshua Dysart has announced on his site he's traveling to Iraq's Kurdish region for goals of research. While it would seem like he's taking up a noble mission to help Kurds suppressed by Iraq's Islamofascists, his choice of whom to travel and work with isn't great:
For over a year now I’ve been in contact with some people at the United Nations World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian organization concerned with hunger and food security. We’ve been plotting to tell some stories about the complexity and necessity of feeding the world’s displaced people in an engaging way. Now we’re finally getting started and soon I’ll be leaving for northern Iraq. There, I’ll begin researching the current situation facing Kurdish refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict and the violent push of the Islamic State. The situation is incredibly dire, especially with winter coming. In the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq the temperatures can range from 40 degrees Fahrenheit down to near 0 this time of year.
He's right that ISIS are the evil entity, and that nobody innocent should have to starve, but why does he think a political organization that's been Islamofascism's worst enabler - with some of the worst violators of human rights sitting on their own security councils - are the kind of people he should be associating himself with? The UN was also guilty of involvement in the Oil-for-Food scandal, and one of their worst members of recent was Richard Falk, an anti-Israelist and 9-11 Truther. Falk's offenses even include blaming America after the terrorist attack at Boston's marathon. Why associate himself with an organization that's not what some used to think it was, if it ever was at all?
Dysart's mission may be for a good cause, but he shouldn't be working with members of the UN to fulfill it, since they're some of the most dishonest people you can find, and willfully employed some pure scum on their payroll. If he were smart, he'd look for a better relief organization to travel to Kurdistan with.
WOW: NASA CO2 MAP SHOWS BIOMASS BURNING IN SOUTH AMERICA AND AFRICA RELEASES MORE CO2 THAN US AND EU INDUSTRIES!
Nasa's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) has returned its first global maps of the greenhouse gas CO2.
The satellite was sent up in July to help pinpoint the key locations on the Earth's surface where carbon dioxide is being emitted and absorbed.
This should help scientists better understand how human activities are influencing the climate.
The new maps contain only a few weeks of data in October and November, but demonstrate the promise of the mission.
Clearly evident within the charts is the banding effect that describes how emitted gases are mixed by winds along latitudes rather than across them.
Also apparent are the higher concentrations over South America and southern Africa. These are likely the result of biomass burning in these regions.
THE REGIONS THAT ARE RED HAVE MUCH MORE CO2 THAN THE OTHER REGIONS.
THE RED REGIONS ARE HIGH CO2 PRODUCING REGIONS BECAUSE THEY HAVE FOREST FIRES, AND BECAUSE THEY BURN A LOT OF WOOD AND DRIED MANURE AS FUEL: WIKI:
Dry animal dung is used as a fuel in many countries around the world. It is a source of Green fuel used by more than two billion people.[1][2] However, it might have some disadvantages, such as air pollution.[3] As a cheap bioenergy source, it has gained growing interest.[4]
Burning issues: tackling indoor air pollution, 7 May 2011 by The Lancet: "According to WHO, 2 million people die as a result of the smoke generated by open fires or crude stoves within their homes every year. Indoor air pollution has been definitively linked to lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and pneumonia, the risk of which is doubled by exposure to indoor smoke. More than 900 000 people die from pneumonia caused by indoor air pollution every year. 500 million households worldwide—roughly 3 billion people—rely on solid fuels, such as wood, animal dung, or coal, for cooking and heating. These fuels are usually burned in a rudimentary stove, or in a traditional open fire. It need not be a problem, at least in terms of health. But only assuming the fuel is completely combusted—wood must be dry, and the stove must work efficiently—and there is plenty of ventilation, a spacious chimney, or a sizeable window. In those places where the use of solid fuels prevails, however, these conditions rarely apply, and the consequences can be severe."
"Yet, 'despite the magnitude of this growing problem' notes WHO 'the health impacts of exposure to indoor air pollution have yet to become a central focus of research, development aid, and policy making'....But the past year has had some encouraging advances."
"In September, 2010, the UN Foundation launched the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves....The Alliance—a public-private initiative—brings together partners from the range of specialties across which the issue of indoor air pollution sprawls. There is public health, of course, but also energy, international development, female empowerment, climate change, technology, and business."
"The real benefits will be seen by switching to cleaner fuels and cleaner stoves. Improved stoves—those fitted with fans, for example—combust fuel more efficiently, have lower emissions, and require shorter cooking times."[1]
IF THESE REGIONS HAD MORE INDUSTRIAL POWER PLANTS AND ELECTRICITY THEN THE PEOPLE BURNING MANURE AT HOME FOR COOKING AND HEATING FUEL COULD USE ELECTRICITY INSTEAD,
TO REDUCE CO2 THE WORLD NEEDS MORE INDUSTRIALIZATION, NOT LESS.
EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF THE LEFTIST AGENDA.
IF CLIMATE CHANGE HYSTERIA WERE NOT REALLY AN ATTACK ON THE WEST'S INDUSTRIALIZATION - AND AN ATTEMPT OF THE LEFT TO GAIN CONTROL OVER IT, THEN THEY'D BE SUPPORTING MORE INDUSTRIALIZATION IN SOUTH AMERICA AND AFRICA.
THE FACT THAT THEY AREN'T PROVES THEY ARE NOT REALLY AGAINST MAN-MADE CO2, AND THAT THEIR CO2PHOBIA IS MERELY A STRATEGY TO GAIN POWER OVER THE ECONOMY.
HERE'S THE REAL REASON OIL HAS CRASHED: SAUDI'S AND GULF STATES PREPARING FOR IAF STRIKE ON IRAN
1 - THE HOUSE OF SAUD IS VERY UNHAPPY WITH OBAMA'S APPEASEMENT OF IRAN AND HANDLING OF SYRIA:
THE WSJ - 9/26/13:
The Obama administration's handling of overtures on Syria and Iran have outraged regional ally Saudi Arabia, which is signaling it wants to do more to boost the power of armed Sunni rebel groups on the ground in Syria as the U.S. pursues diplomacy.
Saudis fear that Syrian President Basher al-Assad will use the time afforded by U.S.- and U.N.-backed diplomacy on Syria "to impose more killing and to torture its people," Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said Thursday night in New York, in a warning that was overshadowed by the attention paid to the weekend's first public contacts in three decades between the presidents of Iran and the U.S.
Accordingly, Saudi Arabia wants "intensification of political, economic and military support to the Syrian opposition…. to change the balance of powers on the ground" in Syria, Prince Saud said in his remarks to the Friends of Syria group, a coalition of Western and Gulf Arab countries and Turkey that supports the Syria opposition against Mr. Assad. The state-run Saudi Press Agency carried a transcript of his remarks.
The Saudi government has had no public comment so far on the groundbreaking phone call Friday between U.S. President Barack Obama, whose country Saudi Arabia sees as the main military protector of its interests, and new Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, whose country Saudi Arabia sees as its main threat.
Asharq al Awsat, one of Saudi Arabia's leading newspapers, led its front page the morning after the phone call with a photo of Mr. Rouhani, bowed over with laughter.
1A - REUTERS - 18/22/13:
In unusually blunt public remarks, Prince Turki al-Faisal called Obama's policies in Syria "lamentable" and ridiculed a U.S.-Russian deal to eliminate Assad's chemical weapons. He suggested it was a ruse to let Obama avoid military action in Syria.
"The current charade of international control over Bashar's chemical arsenal would be funny if it were not so blatantly perfidious. And designed not only to give Mr. Obama an opportunity to back down (from military strikes), but also to help Assad to butcher his people," said Prince Turki, a member of the Saudi royal family and former director of Saudi intelligence.
1B - HAARETZ - 3/27/14:
“Why are you abandoning your allies?” fumed Faisal Abbas, editor of Al Arabiya News’ English website, in an op-ed published in Arabic. “You” referred to the United States – and, more specifically, President Barack Obama, who arrives in Saudi Arabia on Friday for a state visit. Abbas, who reflects the prevailing opinions of the Saudi royal court, lists a large number of missteps that he believes characterize the Obama administration. The most important one is the interim deal signed last November with Iran regarding its nuclear program, as well as the present negotiations over a final agreement.
“Has Washington forgotten the long-standing cooperation between Saudi Arabia and the United States in the war on terror?” Abbas asks. “Has it forgotten that it was Iran that destabilized Iraq after the toppling of Saddam Hussein? That it’s rocking Lebanon and Bahrain, that it supports Hezbollah and has captured three islands in the Persian Gulf that belong to the United Arab Emirates? An American strategy that ignores all these to placate Iran, while negotiating over its nuclear ambitions, raises grave concerns.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu couldn’t have written a more scathing article.
1C - THE GUARDIAN - 3/28/14
The US President's flying visit – no more than an evening in the Saudi king's palace – is his first since the ousting of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, which drove an initial wedge between Washington and Riyadh.
Ever since, relations have tangibly soured on every front, with the US outreach to Iran and ambivalence on Syria particularly irking Saudi leaders who believe arch foe Tehran has been empowered at their expense. So bothered has Riyadh become by what it sees as naive appeasement of Iran, that it now seems ready to project itself regionally without US cover.
"The US has underwritten the regional security order for the past 70 years and it sees now as a good time to disengage?," one senior figure put to the Guardian recently. "We will have to do it all ourselves."
2 - RALPH PETERS, TODAY:
This week, oil fell through the price floor of $60 a barrel and gas at my local filling station was $2.26 a gallon.
That’s great news for commuters and almost every business, but wonderfully bad news for our ugliest enemies.
If oil prices remain low through next year, the effect on rogue governments, from the Russian Federation to Venezuela, will go from damaging to devastating.
But Western economies (and China’s) stand to benefit, with cheap oil possibly tickling Europe’s snoozing markets awake. Even most underdeveloped states will get a welcome break.
This price plunge has been driven by Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s dominant power. While it’s true that part of Riyadh’s actions respond to the energy renaissance in North America, the greater motivation is breaking Iran’s will.The Saudis believe they can no longer rely on the US to contain Tehran’s imminent nuclear threat, so they’re out to do what our lukewarm sanctions couldn’t.
IN MY OPINION, IT'S NOT THAT THE SAUDIS THINK THEY CAN BREAK IRAN ECONOMICALLY WITH A SERIOUS DROP IN OIL RICES.
IN MY OPINION, THE SAUDIS AND THE GULF STATES, UNDERSTAND THAT IN THE ABSENCE OF A RELIABLE AND COURAGEOUS ALLY IN THE USA, (WHICH IS THE CASE SINCE OBAMA HAS BEEN IN OFFICE) - ONLY ISRAEL CAN DESTROY THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR INDUSTRY.
THEIR GREATEST FEAR OF SUCH AN ATTACK WAS WHAT IT WOULD DO TO OIL PRICES AND TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY:
PRICES WOULD TRIPLE FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER AN ATTACK - IN PART JUST BECAUSE OF FEAR, AND ALSO BECAUSE IRAN WOULD MOST LIKELY BE ABLE TO LAUNCH A COUNTER-ATTACK THAT WOULD DEMOLISH A GREAT DEAL OF THE GULF STATES' OIL INFRASTRUCTURE.
THOUGH SOME MIGHT THINK THAT THE HOUSE OF SAUD LIKES ANY HIGH PRICE, THE FACT IS THEY REALLY JUST LIKE THE HIGHEST PRICE THEIR CUSTOMERS CAN AFFORD.
A $300/BARREL PRICE WOULD DESTROY THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.
SO THEY HAVE BEEN STEADILY BRINGING THE RICE DOWN SO THAT AFTER THE IAF ATTACKS - AND AFTER OIL TRIPLES - IT WILL ON;Y REACH $130-150/BARREL FOR A FEW/SEVERAL MONTHS, A PRICE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY CAN LIVE WITH.
SO... IF I WAS IRAN, THEN I'D BE VERY VERY WORRIED. SCARED EVEN THAT AN IAF ATTACK WAS IMMINENT.
MORE SCARED THEN SONY.
PREDICTION: THE IAF WILL ATTACK ON A NEW MOON - PERHAPS THE ONE IN MARCH - 3/20/15...
HERE'S WHY LEFTISTS DON'T CARE THAT OBAMA VIOLATED THE LAW TO BAILOUT THE CASTRO REGIME
OBAMA HAS BROKEN THE LAW... AGAIN, AND THE LEFT DOESN'T SEEM TO MIND.
THEY LIKE THE NEW PRO-CASTRO POLICY.
WE CAN DEBATE THE VALUE OF AN EMBARGO.
BUT THEY SHOULD WANT ANY CHANGE IN POLICY TO BE DONE LAWFULLY.
THE BI-PARTISAN CUBAN DEMOCRACY ACT OF 1992 - PASSED BY CONGRESS AND SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE PRESIDENT - PROHIBITED ANY CHANGE IN CUBA'S DIPLOMATIC AND TRADE STATUS UNLESS AND UNTIL THE PRESIDENT REPORTS TO CONGRESS CERTIFYING THAT CUBA HAS MADE DEMOCRATIC REFORMS AND THAT CUBANS HAVE THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS.
OBAMA CLEARLY VIOLATED THIS LAW.
OBAMA'S MOVE IS LAWLESS.
IT VIOLATES THE PRINCIPLE OF THE RULE OF LAW.
BY DOING IT IN SPITE OF THE LAW - AND IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH THE LAW, OBAMA IS ACTING LIKE A DICTATOR AND NOT THE PRESIDENT OF A DEMOCRATIC, CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
OBAMUNISTS SHOULDN'T SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE IT SETS A BAD PRECEDENT.
IT COULD ALLOW A PRESIDENT NAMED CRUZ OR PALIN OR WALKER ACT BY FIAT AND CANCEL LAWS THEY LIKE - SUCH AS GUN CONTROL, OBAMACARE OR THE EPA OR THE INCOME TAX, FOR EXAMPLE.
WHY ARE THEY SO BLIND TO THE DANGER F THESE LAWLESS, DICTATORIAL PRECEDENTS?
SIMPLE;
LEFTISTS ARE SO CONSUMED WITH POWER...
AND SO UPSET THAT THEY'RE LOSING IT -
BY LOSING THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE ...
AND SO MANY GOVERNORSHIPS AND STATE HOUSES,
THAT THEY RE WILLING TO ACCEPT ANYTHING OBAMA DOES...
THAT EITHER TRANSFORMS US INTO A MORE SOCIALIST NATION...
OR BRINGS US CLOSER TO A CLOWARD-PIVEN COLLAPSE ...
THAT DESTROYS ALL OUR INSTITUTIONS AND CLEARS THE DECK ...
FOR AN ENTIRELY COMMUNIST STATE.
CONGRESS MUST NOT LET OBAMA'S LAWLESS CUBAN GAMBIT STAND.
TWO ARTICLES ON TODAY'S BBC NEWS SUMMARIZE WHY WE ARE LOSING THE WAR AGAINST JIHADISM
TODAY'S BBC NEWS::
1 - Boko Haram unrest: Nigerian militants 'kidnap 100 villagers' - 33 dead
THIS ARTICLE USES THE WORD "ISLAMIC" ONCE, AND NEVER USES THE WORD MUSLIM.
2 - Geert Wilders faces charges over 'anti-Moroccan' speech:
Mr Wilders, who leads the Party for Freedom (PVV), has often expressed his distaste for Islam and mass immigration.
In response to the prosecution, Mr Wilders described the charges in a statement as "a travesty".
"The public prosecutor would do better to devote his time to prosecuting jihadis instead of me," he said.
Mr Wilders made his comments during a political meeting in The Hague.
Asking supporters in a cafe if they wanted fewer Moroccans in the country, some responded by chanting "Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!"
The politician then replied: "I will fix it for you."
AS JIHADISTS SLAUGHTER AND ENSLAVE THOUSANDS EACH WEEK ALL OVER THE GLOBA, THE AUTHORITIES IN THE WEST USE THEIR COERCIVE POWER TO ENFORCE SHARIA.
WE CANNOT DEFEAT THE ENEMY IF OUR POLITICIANS ATTACK OUR PATRIOTS INSTEAD OF OUR ENEMIES.
MOST OF OUR POLITICIANS HAVE AS MUCH COURAGE AS THE WHINING, PHONY, MENDACIOUS TWO-FACED EXECUTIVES AT SONY WHO JUST CAVED INTO NORTH KOREA.
WE NEED TO EMPOWER MORE POLITICIANS LIKE GEERT WILDERS AND NIGEL FARAGE AND MARINE LE PEN IF WE ARE GOING TO DEFEAT THE LIKES OF BOKO HARAM AND ISIS, AND AL QAEDA AND THE TALIBAN AND THE FILIPINO MLF.
EU REMOVES HAMAS FROM BLACKLIST
A court for the EU has given its support for Hamas' barbarism by excising the jihadist gang from their blacklistings:
The European Union's second-highest court on Wednesday annulled the bloc's decision to keep Hamas on a list of terrorist organizations, but temporarily maintained the measures for a period of three months or until an appeal is closed.
The General Court of the European Union said the contested measures were not based on an examination of Hamas' acts but on imputations derived from the media and the Internet.
The court said it was nevertheless maintaining the effects of the measures in order to ensure that any possible future freezing of funds would be effective.
Uh uh, I don't buy their defense here. How do we know they haven't been giving Hamas some money and kickbacks under the table? This is nothing more than a show of weakness.
Israel is concerned Hamas may use the opportunity to renew its activities in Europe.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for Hamas to be immediately returned to the terrorist blacklist, saying Israel was not satisfied with the EU's explanation that the removal of Hamas from the list was merely a "technical matter."
"The burden of proof is on the European Union," Netanyahu said. "Hamas is a murderous terrorist organization, with the stated goal, in its charter, of destroying Israel. We will continue to fight against it with determination and strength, so that it will never achieve this aim."
Again, their defense for this pathetic cave-in does not work at all, and if they're really serious, they should return them to the blacklist immediately.
THIS CUBAN RESET WILL BE AS GOOD FOR US THE RUSSIAN RESET - in other words, it will suck
WHY DID OBAMA PRESS THE CUBA RESET BUTTON NOW!?!?
Simple: The Castro Regime was more likely to fall now than ever.
Obama is rescuing them.
He's not for peace; he's on the other side.
TED EXPLAINS IT ALL HERE:
SONY APPEASES GENOCIDAL NORTH KOREAN TYRANNY
TGWP: Sony Bows to North Korea: Cancels Release of ‘The Interview’
Appeasement always just encourages more bad behavior.
ROB LOWE GETS' IT:
In a tweet on Wednesday, actor Rob Lowe compared Sony's decision to cancel the scheduled Dec. 25 release of "The Interview" to the strategic mistake that is widely blamed for emboldening Nazi Germany just before World War II. Lowe said the cancellation of the movie, which followed a massive hack on Sony studios, would have made former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain "proud."
I cannot wait to see what's next.
If we had a patriot in the WH, then he'd have a screening of the movie this weekend!
UPDATE: The WH doesn't have a clue as to what's next. TYPICAL.
AMERICAN LEFTISTS LIE AS FREELY AS ISLAMISTS
The Apostle said:
“Who will rid me of Ibnul-Ashraf?” Muhammad bin Maslama, brother of the Bani Abdu’l-Ashhal, said, “I will deal with him for you, O Apostle of God, I will kill him.” He said, “Do so if you can.” “All that is incumbent upon you is that you should try” {said the Prophet to Muhammad bin Maslama}. He said, “O Apostle of God, we shall have to tell lies.” He {the Prophet} answered, “Say what you like, for you are free in the matter.”
AND SO THE RIGHT TO LIE - TAQQIYA - WAS ESTABLISHED BY MUSLIMS.
RATHERGATE, DUKE LACROSSE, UVA RAPE, CLIMATE CHANGE; HANDS UP IN FERGUSON, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEALTHCARE PLAN... (THE RECENT LIST IS ENDLESS) ... ALL HAVE THIS IN COMMON WITH THE TAQQIYA.
LEFTISTS - LIKE ISLAMISTS - ARE FREE TO TELL LIES IF THEY THINK IT WILL HELP THEIR CAUSE.
AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DO.
THEY HAVE TO:
THE TRUTH IS NOT ON THEIR SIDE.
UNBELIEVABLE: ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER 1200 YEAR OLD SUV IN CALIFORNIA!
SUCH A FIND IS UNBELIEVABLE BECAUSE IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
RECENT ARGUMENTS THAT THE CURRENT DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA IS THE RESULT OF MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE ARE JUST AS UNBELIEVABLE:
A new paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters by Griffin & Anchukaitis concludes that the 2012–2014 drought in California was its most intense in at least 1,200 years.
The study used drought reconstructions from tree-ring cores, from the North American Drought Atlas (NADA) and from cores Griffin & Anchukaitis collected from blue oak trees in southern and central California. Blue oak tree ring widths are particularly sensitive to moisture changes. ...
... The study compared today’s drought conditions in California to those reconstructed over the past 1,200 years using the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), an estimate of available soil moisture. The data showed that California is experiencing its most intense drought in over a millennium, the current event is the most severe drought in the last 1200 years, with single year (2014) and accumulated moisture deficits worse than any previous continuous span of dry years … In terms of cumulative severity, it is the worst drought on record (-14.55 cumulative PDSI), more extreme than longer (4- to 9-year) droughts.
WHAT CAUSED THIS HORRIFIC DROUGHT 1200 YEARS AGO? SUV'S? MAN-MADE CO2?
OR COULD IT HAVE BEEN NATURAL EVENT? YA THINK?!?!?!!?
UNLESS ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND A WHOLE BUNCHA 1200 YR OLD SUV'S, I'M GONNA HAVE TO SAY THAT IT WAS NATURAL.
AND I'M GONNA SAY THIS ONCE AGAIN, TOO ALL THE CLIMATE ALARMISTS:
STFU.
THE NLG CONNECTION TO OWS, FERGUSON AND THE NATIONAL POGROM ON COPS
An adjunct prof of poetry at CUNY was arrested for assaulting a cop after the anti-cop march in NYC - his name is ERIC LINSKER.
Linsker's lawyer is big time NATIONAL LAWYERS' GUILD operative- Martin Stolar. The NLG is an old time, bigtime communist lawyers' group which is pro islamo-terror; Lynn Stewart was another big-time NLG lawyer and she was convicted of helping al Qaeda.
Linsker's lawyer - Stolar - was the NLG's point man against the NYPD's mosque surveillance program which NYC Mayor deBlasio shutdown as one of his first acts.
Holder - [whose law-firm (prior to being selected by Obama to be his AG) aided Gitmo detainees, just as the NLG did] - and Sharpton and deBlasio must all know each other via the WORKING FAMILIES PARTY - the party that propelled deBlasio's career and which is the creation of the SEIU and ACORN and which is the successor party to the explicitly socialist party "The New Party" which fwas also founded by comrades of race-hustler Jesse Jackson, was the first party line Barry Obama ever ran on.
The NLG and Stolar also were central to OWS movement which tried to shut down ur nation's financial system and painted all capitalists as evil - much like the anti-cop movement is trying to paint all cops as evil.
IOW: MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: the nation-wide and NYC anti-COP movement is a coordinated left-wing attack - a left-wing which has actively sought to defend islamo-terrorists and which is pro-CAIR, who returns the favor - a front for the Muslim Brotherhood operation.
Also note that LINSKER IS A BDS/ ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVIST; he signed up here: http://www.usacbi.org/endorser...
So are they all anti-Israel.
Leftist groups like REVCOM, OWS, CODE PINK do NOT SPONTANEOUSLY protest; they plan and coordinate their agitprop and their protests and their lawfare.
And they are working hand-in-glove with people in the Working Families Prty including Mayor deBlasio and USAG Holder and Al "Tawana" Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Obama/Jarrett has defended them and attacked the cops. And Soros finances some of them.
All this is aimed to advance socialism and Islam.
REPEAT: neither the Trayvon Martin tumult or the Ferguson riots or the current pogrom against our cops were spontaneous.
They are part of a concerted effort by leftist politicians and their comrades to undermine our ability to defend our civilization in order to replace it with a pro-islamic socialist one.
UPDATE: MUCH MORE HERE.
UPDATE2: SEIU IS DEEPLY INVOLVED - AND ONE OF ITS ACTIVISTS ASSAULTED A COP DURING A PROTEST.
MARZ TURNS AUSTRALIAN TERROR SIEGE INTO GUN CONTROL MISHMASH
Ron Marz puts on his know-it-all acts again, addressing the terrible hostage crisis caused by an Iranian jihadist that went on for 16 hours at a chocolate store in Sydney:
People saying "If Australia hadn't banned guns, maybe #sydneysiege wouldn't be happening" are really too stupid to even be on the internet.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 15, 2014
Curious how Marz can't at least argue that, if less Islamofacists were allowed into countries that value civility, there'd be less situations of the sort that plagued Sydney today. The jihadist, who can now rot in hell, was arrested earlier this year for sexual assault, was also arrested as an accessory to his ex-wife's murder, and faced punishment for sending obscene letters to the widows of soldiers who died in Afghanistan. And the authorities let him walk around free. Why doesn't Marz rail against an incompetent, kowtowing justice system?
Once again, Marz misses the chance to make arguments with more sense.
JIHADIST HELD HOSTAGES IN AUSTRALIAN STORE
The crisis has been stopped, and the jihadist, who came from Iran, is now dead, but tragically, so are at least 2 other people. From ABC (via Jihad Watch):
The gunman who had been holding people hostage inside a chocolate store in downtown Sydney has been killed, Australian police confirmed to ABC News.
And two other people have been killed, a highly place Australian source told ABC News.
The suspect had previously been identified as Man Monis by local news reports, and the manner in which he died still remains unclear but New South Wales police have confirmed his death. The identities of the two others killed were not immediately revealed.
Police stormed the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in the early hours of Tuesday morning, local time, and three injuries have been reported, including one policeman.
Explosions of what were believed to be flash bang grenades were heard when police stormed the shop and while there were many loud noises, it is not clear if or how many shots were fired by either police or Monis during the face off.
At 10:19 a.m. ET, a group of at least seven heavily armed police officers went into the Lindt cafe under the cover of loud bangs of what local news Channel 9 is calling stun grenades. Shortly after the police stormed the café, at least two hostages emerged, looking visibly shaken.
A few minutes later, a few paramedics were seen entering the café behind police officers with medical packs — followed by at least two stretchers. The explosive police action came shortly after a new wave of hostages emerged from the shop.
Monis was believed to be a self-proclaimed Islamic “sheikh” who is known to Australian police because he was allegedly involved in dozens of counts of sexual assault, according to Australia’s 9News.
He was born in Iran as Manteghi Bourjerdi and migrated to Australia in 1996, according to the station.
This just confirms further why immigration from Islamic countries has to be curtailed according to religious ideological background.
PIGS FLY: BBC ADMITS ARCTIC ICE IS NOT DISAPPEARING, AND THAT THERE IS NO SIGN IT EVER WILL
BBC: Arctic sea ice volume holds up in 2014
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News, San Francisco
Arctic sea ice may be more resilient than many observers recognise.
While global warming seems to have set the polar north on a path to floe-free summers, the latest data from Europe's Cryosat mission suggests it may take a while yet to reach those conditions.
The spacecraft observed 7,500 cu km of ice cover in October when the Arctic traditionally starts its post-summer freeze-up.
This was only slightly down on 2013 when 8,800 cu km were recorded.
Two cool summers in a row have now allowed the pack to increase and then hold on to a good deal of its volume.
And while the ice is still much reduced compared with the 20,000 cu km that used to stick around in the Octobers of the early 1980s, there is no evidence to indicate a collapse is imminent.
IOW: ALL THE HYSTERICAL PROCLAMATIONS THAT THE ARCTIC WAS ABOUT TO DISAPPEAR WERE TOTALLY WRONG.
AS IS ALL CO2PHOBIC, CLIMATE ALARMISM.
MEANWHILE, LAST WEEK THE UN'S CLIMATE ALARMISTS HAD MANY NATIONS SIGN CO2PHOBIC PROMISSORY NOTES TO REDUCE CO2.
A TOTALLY IDIOTIC ACT THAT WILL - IF EVER CARRIED OUT - DO NOTHING FOR THE GLOBAL CLIMATE.
BUT IT WILL RETARD ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE THIRD WORLD AND THEREBY HARM A BILLION POOR PEOPLE.
MAN-MADE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IS THE THIRD BIGGEST AND MOT HARMFUL HOAX EVER PERPETRATED UPON THE HUMAN RACE - AFTER SOCIALISM AND ISLAMISM.
Erdogan's brownshirts make mass arrests of opposition media
MORE PROOF THAT TURKEY DOESN'T BELONG IN NATO, LET ALONE THE EU.
VIDEO: THIS BLACK WOMAN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS!
She uses some mildly offensive language.
Telling the truth does these days...
CROSS-DRESSING JIHADISTS SHOT IN YEMEN.
BEHEADING. CROSS-DRESSING.
IS THERE ANYTHING THE JIHADISTS WON'T DO?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30465535
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN IS WILLING TO JOIN A LABOR COALITION
The Likud's attacked him for willing to sit in a coalition with Labor:
The Likud attacked Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Saturday, after he made comments saying that he is not ruling out sitting in a future coalition – whether with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Labor leader Isaac Herzog.
The Likud, in a press release, said that this proves that voting for Liberman takes votes away from the right and contributes to the left.
The prime minister's party stressed that "it is clear that anyone who wants a broad, strong government headed by Netanyahu, based on the right and center-right, should vote Likud under Netanyahu this time."
Lieberman's already demonstrated his ties to corrupt businessmen like Martin Schlaff, and that's one more reason why he's ultimately bad news, not unlike Aryeh Deri from the Shas party.
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BARBARY LIONS
Territoriality, Humans, and Anger
Written June 28, 2010.
Solitary. Territorial. Bad combination in the human world, where one can barely be one of the two effectively, let alone both.
It's hard to describe the feeling of violent claustrophobia I get when my space is compromised. Hackles rise like extra whiskers, feeling every inch of lost ground like being slowly shrink-wrapped, the air tightening against my skin. An injection of incredulous indignance - someone is in my space? what? are they mad? are they blind? this is mine and they are invading it! do they know what that means?
An immediate assessment of food, not-threat, or threat. Food can be ignored unless it's really irritating. Non-threats can be frightened off by a display (body language, expression, tone of voice, standoffish or unwelcoming words). Some few people are in my comfort zone, non-threats that don't get chased off (or, occasionally, threats that go un-dealt-with); I actively seek to spend time with and share space with them. Threats - threats are either fled from or challenged. I am only now perceiving myself as old enough, adult enough, experienced and skilled enough, to stand my ground against some threats.
But sometimes it's not okay to be territorial. Sometimes it's alien to human culture to be so zealously possessive of one's space. Public transport, restaurants, parks, schools, offices - we share them all. We have to share them all. And the one who wants its own space, alone, has to swallow its instincts and suffer through repeated intrusions without letting itself react.
And people? Man, people. The ones who don't interact on any level that makes sense, not to animal, not to conscious mind. Animal concepts of strength and eye contact and body language and physical contest are all ignored; my civilized ideas of honor, courtesy, kindness, generosity, mutual respect are all dismissed. It's trying to make sense out of jumbled birdsong* - I know it makes sense to somebody, but I have no beak and no feathers, and I don't speak that language. The plastic faces, the political maneuvering and manipulation, the social protocol, the media and the pop culture, the celebrities, the deliberate malice, it all glosses over my deepwater reality like skaters on ice overhead. I don't understand. I don't get it. And I don't particularly want to get it, to speak that language. I don't find personal value in it.
Being an animal-person has as many awkwardnesses as advantages, as many challenges as joys. But I'm happy being who and what I am. Despite the difficult parts.
Despite being occasionally unable to pass as human.
(*No offense meant to any birds.)
Cat anger. Or just animal anger.
First, there is some threat, some danger, some inflicted hurt. Low levels can be ignored, tolerated, suffered through. But when the pain threshold is breached, reflexes kick in. Cat wants to display: bare fangs, bristle, make noise. Let this threat know that there is a business end of the lion and it will be dealt with. As the spectrum climbs in intensity, so the display gets fiercer and louder to match it.
But if the pain, the danger, does not cease, action must be taken. The line between the loudest display and violence is thin, crossed in a heartbeat, an eye-blink. Too much, too much, and the claws are used. A few swipes, bat-bat-bat to the head, will damage and scare. It could stop there, but the eyes are wild and white-rimmed, and there is increasingly less space between poised to defend and kill.
If pushed, the final line is crossed. It's no longer bat-bat-bat with a paw and snarl a last warning; it's a roar and a flurry, a frenzy, talons and fangs and bunching muscles and flying fur. If the threat tries to escape, it is chased - maybe not too far, but it takes a moment for cat to register that the danger has been removed.
It takes a little while to calm down after that, especially if there's any possibility of the danger returning to initiate another confrontation.
And if circumstance or human protocol dictates that no display is allowed, the urge to react physically happens that much more quickly, even when it has to be suppressed at all costs.
Content © Being Lion, 2005-2014. Header photo © Jonathan Danker. Design courtesy of Selfwright Designs.
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Pompous Shill/Professor Disses Angel!
A Presumptuous Professor commented on my last substantive posting. After I read it, I pondered the many ways that I could counter this "argument." First off, I'm not a failed adult. I didn't even do badly in law school. I go out of my way to say that TTT grads are not failed adults as well. We're all among the most intelligent of Americans with a college education and graduate degree. Also, he accused me of being hungry for power, but came off as self-proclaimed royalty. My professor was in need of a lay--a common colloquialism thrown around by all of my classmates. I tossed my arguments around and around in my mind and I decided that my readers will speak up on my behalf... and they certainly did. Thank you!
Here's what the Professor wrote:
You chose law to get power.
Yet you revile those with power over you. You vibrate with resentment that your professors had the power to ignore you. You deserved their attention and regard--after all, you are so much better/Deeper than they!
You make up sexual fantasies about them when they thwarted your expectations, which brought your ego weaknesses to the fore--and the best you can come up with is calling them women's body parts.
Hm, your failures and resentments and "disenchantment" (as though life is supposed to be enchanting) couldn't have anything to do with YOU, now, could it?
Well, it will be interesting to read your blog, and find out what happens when an obviously failed adult fails at the admittedly failed institutions of law school and law. I'm afraid there are all too many such people, blaming the world for their own failures and seething in resentment and anger. Particularly in your generation, which was told by its parents that it farted rainbows and would save the world.
Maybe you could try trade school. Though I do realize that someone as Deep as you, and as Gifted, and Special, would have a hard time with the humbling experience of fixing what's broken rather than complaining about it and expecting a reward.
THEN....Manatee Joe found this article wherein Obama's feelings about law school were covered in an interview of David Remnick, the author of The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama:
Then of course, you quote Obama as saying that he found the study of law “disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power!”
DR: At law school, some courses were dull; some had a sense of adventure that he appreciated. He studied with Roberto Unger who is a real radical. Obama took two courses with Unger, not one. This is a guy who is in the current Brazilian government and very much to the left. That’s not Obama’s politics, but he was certainly taken up with and fascinated by anything that was out of ordinary contracts and all the rest. Obviously constitutional law was where he lived.
FUNNY how our Nation's Leader was disappointed in law school as well. It's not that interesting, it's not that intellectually challenging, it's not that impressive. I stick by what I said. Going to law school won't make your feel more enlightened, it will make you feel like you served prison time.
Labels: don't go to law school, no morality in a for-profit industry like higher education
Law school was the saddest, most wasteful and depressing experience anyone can ever have. Prison would have been better. Obama's photo says it all. And he was someone who could take advantage of it.
...so that jerk was a professor...I knew it! Ha! He's the one who's stuck and messed up in a profession he hates but won't leave because he's too busy powertripping.
...or maybe it was a woman...
Angel October 12, 2010 at 7:14 PM
No proof, but no denial. I say he's an academic fo sho!
Nando October 13, 2010 at 1:00 PM
Apparently, "the law" is so rewarding and refreshing...that this "law professor" has chosen to remain in academia. (I also laugh my ass off when these social retards/"law profs" claim: "I could make a lot more money in private practice, but I choose to teach instead.")
Yeah, sure you did - and I chose to marry at age 25 rather than sleep with Salma Hayek and Lauren Graham. Perhaps, these idiots could make more money - but they would also need to work MUCH more than 6 hours per week. They would also need to learn how to deal with people and clients.
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16th International Education Show to host The Education Growth Summit ‘TEGS’
Expo Centre Sharjah has announced it will be hosting, the 2nd edition of ‘The Education Growth Summit (TEGS) in Sharjah from January 22 to 23, 2020, following a cooperation agreement recently signed in Bangalore, India.
During a press conference held in Bangalore, the agreement was signed between Expo Centre Sharjah represented by Sultan Shattaf, Director, Sales and Marketing, and K2 Learning, Bangalore’s most preferred institute for commerce education, represented by Sripall D Jain, CEO and Founder of Career Uttsav and Chairman of group company K2 LEARNING.
Expo Centre Sharjah will also be hosting a special platform that will bring together some of the top companies operating in the educational technology sector, under the theme “Education Technologies”. The full-fledge platform will showcase the latest innovations in the smart education technology sector, according to the agreement.
A number of representatives from K2 Learning, media and various educational sectors in India attended the signing ceremony.
The TEGS and the “Education Technologies” platform will be organized by K2 LEARNING at the 16th International Education Show, scheduled to take place from January 22 to 24, 2020.
Quality Addition
HE Saif Mohammed Al Midfa, CEO of Expo Centre Sharjah, said: “The TEGS will surely be a quality addition to the 16th International Education Show, which enjoys the support of Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), Ministry of Education and Sharjah Private Education Authority.
“To meet the growing aspirations of students and investors in the educational sector, Expo Centre Sharjah is always keen to follow a policy of innovation and creativity and spares no efforts to stage unique events that focus on technological innovation. This year, we will be hosting a select group of companies operating in the educational technology and we are going to see a distinguished participation by Indian academic institutions with a special pavilion, the largest of the participating countries”, Al Midfa added.
Largest Expansion Ever
For his part, Sultan Shattaf stressed that the agreement comes in line with a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between Expo Centre Sharjah and K2 Learning last July, with a view of exchanging expertise and knowledge and learn about the best practices in the field of educational and professional exhibitions.
“The Education Growth Summit “TEGS” will be a significant addition to the International Education Show, especially as it will provide a platform for edupreneurs, bringing together an elite of decision makers, experts and practitioners involved in the education sector”, Shattaf said.
He added that the summit, through “Education Technologies” platform, will shed light on the latest innovations and possible ways and mechanisms to ensure a qualitative transition in the education sector across the region. The event will also discuss the most prominent challenges facing the educational sector as well as potential solutions. Shattaf further said.
Shattaf highlighted that 16th International Education Show will see the largest expansion ever since its inception. New hall will be added, bringing the total number of halls to three, due to the increasing number of participating universities, academic institutions and educational service companies. The event will also see new countries taking part besides a strong presence by Emirati universities, as well as the most prestigious British and German universities.
Offering educational services to more than 225,000 students
Sripall D Jain said: “We are very happy to have this exclusive collaboration with the Expo Centre Sharjah and to represent the Indian Pavilion at the International Education Show, by organizing the Career Uttsav exhibition, besides the 2nd edition of TEGS. Such important events will surely help take advantage of educational opportunities available in both countries, with more than 225,000 aspiring students from around the world expected to benefit from Career Uttsav services”.
“There is a significant gap in what students want to do and what their parents want them to do, which arises due to lack of awareness on several factors which can have a profound impact on the lives of students and their academic journey. Over the last 6 years through Career Uttsav, we have been bridging these gaps and help students and their parents make wise choices aligned to the strengths of every distinctively capable student. Our educational fair is designed to deliver this impact with over 100 universities, educational experts and edupreneurs participating and interacting with students during the fair”, CEO and Founder of Career Uttsav added.
The International Education Show is one of the most important educational exhibitions that hosts academic institutions from all over the region and the world. It helps identify talents and unlock human potentials wishing to pursue education in a variety of disciplines in the most prestigious educational institutions from around the world, including the UAE.
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Hard working weavers and lazy journalists
One of my friends (Dom Cram) has just had a paper come out in Functional Ecology. It's a really well designed experimental study looking at the effects of dominance and effort on oxidative stress in white-browed sparrow-weavers. His research found that dominant females, who work the hardest to provision young during the breeding season, suffered a large decline in antioxidant protection over the course of the breeding season. Antioxidants are the compounds that health professionals keep going gaga over in various 'super-foods', as they help to reduce free radicals which build up due to the cells natural processes and can damage DNA and thus potentially make individuals vulnerable to ageing and lots of other nasty things. So the study hints that individuals that work hard could be at risk of increased ageing and a variety of other future problems. The abstract and link are pasted at the end of the blog.
Dom has rightly received a fair amount of media attention for this piece of work, and rightly so. This is important, as the public need to know what their taxes are funding and how this work fits into our broader understanding of the world. He was even interviewed on BBC radio:
https://soundcloud.com/dom-cram/dom-bbc-radio-interview-sept2014
This coverage though has been very varied, even within the ams newspaper. The Telegraph, link pasted below, covered it well but for some unknown reason decided to lead with a picture of elephant seals.... even though the work was done on a small desert dwelling bird. They also lead with "Alpha males..", even though the abstract clearly states that males showed a decline but it wasn't related to rank, the main result was for females. Well it was a good attempt. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/11070219/Alpha-males-and-females-at-risk-of-ill-health-and-premature-ageing.html
Above is the reporting from the Times, and this again is pretty good, even has the correct species pictured (and a lovely comic). But if you read the scanned image below you'll see that some one else at the same news paper decided not only to get the species wrong but to link it massively to humans, a gross overstatement, but then also to Bertrand Russell, Francois Hollande and John Maynard Keynes. This is a prime example of awful reporting and exaggeration from what is a well respected newspaper, this is what lay people read and where the get their information. We need better reporting by people who actually understand science, so that the public is better educated and so able to help the government make better science and environmental policy decisions.
Here is the abstract:
Cram et al (2014) Oxidative status and social dominance in a wild cooperative breeder. Functional Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12317http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.12317/abstract
Oxidative stress has been proposed as a key mediator of life-history trade-offs, yet the social factors that affect patterns of oxidative status amongst individuals in animal societies remain virtually unexplored.
This is important, as rank-related differences in reproductive effort in many social species have the potential to generate, or indeed arise from, differences in oxidative status across dominance classes.
Here, we examine rank-related variation in oxidative status before and after a lengthy breeding season in a wild cooperatively breeding bird with high reproductive skew, in the semi-arid zone of Southern Africa; the white-browed sparrow weaver (Plocepasser mahali).
Our findings reveal that prior to breeding, neither sex showed rank-related differences in markers of oxidative damage or antioxidant protection, suggesting that dominants' reproductive monopolies do not arise from superior pre-breeding oxidative status.
After breeding, however, females (who provision young at higher rates than males) suffered elevated oxidative damage, and dominant females (the only birds to lay and incubate eggs, and the primary nestling provisioners) experienced differential declines in antioxidant protection.
While males also showed reduced antioxidant capacity after breeding, this decline was not dependent on rank and not associated with elevated oxidative damage.
Our findings suggest that divisions of labour in animal societies can leave the hardest-working classes differentially exposed to oxidative stress, raising the possibility of hitherto unexplored impacts on health and ageing in social species.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.12317/abstract
New paper....
So after finishing my PhD I went back the kalahari to help Tom Flower out with some cool work investigating deception tactics and learning in fork-tailed drongos. While I was there I also had a chance to help his honours student, Bruce, out with his research investigating the relationship between drongos and sociable weavers. The kalahari is full of cool inter-species interactions (I'll put a couple of papers below). Bruce's work has just been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, I have put the abstract and a link to the paper below. The work was really fun to do and highlights how conflict and cooperation have to coexist in both and ecological and evolutionary setting, and that this can lead to cool things evolving.
Baigrie, Thompson & Flower (2014) Interspecific signalling between mutualists: food-thieving drongos use a cooperative sentinel call to manipulate foraging partners. Proc R Soc, 281:20141232
Interspecific communication is common in nature, particularly between mutualists. However, whether signals evolved for communication with other species, or are in fact conspecific signals eavesdropped upon by partners, is often unclear. Fork-tailed drongos (Dicrurus adsimilis) associate with mixed-species groups and often produce true alarms at predators, whereupon associating species flee to cover, but also false alarms to steal associating species' food (kleptoparasitism). Despite such deception, associating species respond to drongo non-alarm calls by increasing their foraging and decreasing vigilance. Yet, whether these calls represent interspecific sentinel signals remains unknown. We show that drongos produced a specific sentinel call when foraging with a common associate, the sociable weaver (Philetairus socius), but not when alone. Weavers increased their foraging and decreased vigilance when naturally associating with drongos, and in response to sentinel call playback. Further, drongos sentinel-called more often when weavers were moving, and weavers approached sentinel calls, suggesting a recruitment function. Finally, drongos sentinel-called when weavers fled following false alarms, thereby reducing disruption to weaver foraging time. Results therefore provide evidence of an ‘all clear’ signal that mitigates the cost of inaccurate communication. Our results suggest that drongos enhance exploitation of a foraging mutualist through coevolution of interspecific sentinel signals.
Other cool interspecies interactions:
Pied babblers and scimitarbills:
Ridley, Wiley & Thompson (2014) The ecological benefits of interceptive eavesdropping. Functional Ecology, 28: 197-205
Drongos and pied babblers:Flower (2011) Fork-tailed drongos use deceptive mimicked alarm calls to steal food. Proc R Soc, 278:1548-1555
It's conference season, and as of this morning most of the Large Animal Research Group (where I am currently doing some work) is somewhere between Heathrow and Iceland, the country not the shop. I have recently found out that flying to the US via Iceland is a very cost-effective/good way to get an extra holiday in. They are all heading to ISBE 2014, in New York city, hosted by the unfortunately named Hunter College City University of New York Hunter (or Hunter CUNY - someone really dropped the ball on that naming). This is the big conference for behavioural ecologists and biologist, and is held biennially with the last one being in Lund 2012. I am of course very jealous, as there will be loads of amazing talks and chances to meet world experts and do some much needed networking. I am also sad to not be going as many of my friends from different universities all over the world will be attending and so it would be a great place to catch up with people. But this isn't supposed to be me feeling sorry for myself, I am going to put up a list below of some talks that would be great to see if you yourself are attending.
Here is a link to the conference website http://www.isbe2014.com, it isn't the best laid out in the world. It looks like it is going to be a really great conference and New York seems like a great place to host it. Good luck to everyone taking part, and hopefully loads of great collaborations come out of it.
So the list of talks that should be good:
BJ Ashton
Saturday session 3, HW615:
Group size drives cognitive differences in a cooperative breeder
DL Cram
Friday session 2, HN C-002:
The oxidative stress costs of reproduction are mitigated by helpers in a cooperatively breeding bird
JE York
Saturday session 1,Lang HN 4th floor:
‘Dear-enemy’ of the collective: cooperative contributions to territorial defence under experimentally manipulated levels of threat
MJ Nelson-Flower
Tuesday session 1, Assembly Hall:
Male and females use different mechanisms to maintain high reproductive skew in a cooperative bird
T Flower
Friday session 3, HW 511:
The coevolution of an interspecific sentry signal between foraging mutualists
D Lukas
The evolution of male infanticide in mammals
S Cunningham
Saturday session 1, HW 615:
It's cool to be dominant*: social status and thermoregulation in birds
M Zöttl
Tuesday session 1, Kaye Playhouse
Queen succession, female-female competition and forcible eviction in Damaraland mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis) colonies
SW Townsend
Friday session 1, HW 511
The meerkat ‘animal moving’ call: functional reference in highly variable situations
most interesting most read papers
Biology letters have just released a list of their most read papers from June of this year, not papers published in June but just those that were read the most in that month. I thought that it might be a good idea to skim these and pick out the ones that I thought sounded the most interesting/weird and just share the paper and a link to it. I was going to post the abstracts but then I got carried away and chose a fair few, and if you are like me then you get bored when reading long blog posts on the internet. I've also just put a little clarifier as to why I think the paper is cool.
So, in no particular order, my top top read papers (from Biology letter, in June 2014). In addition, by chance and not design, it's also a top 10!
1. I like signal theory and any research that shows deception is pretty cool:
Brown et al (2012) It pays to cheat: tactical deception in a cephalopod social signalling system, Biol. Lett. 8:729-732
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/8/5/729.full
2. Research on cooperation and conflict extends from intracellular to ecosystem levels, this is just a very unexpected area to find cooperation:
Pearcy et al (2014) Team swimming in ant spermatozoa. Biol. Lett. 10:20140308
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/6/20140308.full
3. Hugging trees makes you cool, enough said:
Briscoe et al (2014) Tree-hugging koalas demonstrate a novel thermoregulatory mechanism for arboreal mammals. Biol. Lett. 10:20140235http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/6/20140235.full
4. Work on mate choice in humans usually focuses on things like facial symmetry, height or smell, this work just seems to be very different (and again it looks at honesty in signalling):
Neave et al (2011) Male dance moves that catch a woman's eye. Biol. Lett. 7:221-224
5. Just an amazing title, but also interesting work:
Levy (2013) Monsters are people too. Biol. Lett. 9:20120850
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/9/1/20120850.full
6. An interesting study on how environmental factors can strongly shape behavioural and physiological traits that are associated with sexual selection and mate choice:
Zuk et al (2006) Silent night: adaptive disappearance of a sexual signal in a parasitized population of field crickets. Biol. Lett. 2:521-524
7. The results are not really a surprise, but it shows how easy it is to manipulate our emotions:
Blumstein et al (2010) Do film soundtracks contain nonlinear analogues to influence emotion? Biol. Lett. 751-754
8. I always like research that can span disciplines, and this work spans psychology, behavioural biology and conservation. The work helps to justify, not that it's really needed, conservation of green spaces:
Fuller et al (2007) Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity. Biol. Lett. 3: 390-394
9. An evolutionary explanation for why your hands go wrinkly, who would not love this??
Kareklas et al (2013) Water-induced finger wrinkles improve handling of wet objects. Biol. Lett. 9:20120999
10. Preferential aggression towards kin, goes against most things I was taught as an undergrad and looks like a fruitful area of future research:
Dunn et al (2014) Higher aggression towards closer relatives by soldier larvae in a polyembryonic wasp. Biol. Lett. 10: 20140229
Here is the link to the full list: http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/reports/most-read
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Recent Posts by Jason Del Rey
Emotionless E-Commerce and the Death of the Joy of Gift-Giving
December 2, 2013 at 5:00 am PT
I was sitting on my couch the other evening, my wife seated across from me, when I decided it was as good a time as any to start Christmas shopping for her. She had given me some ideas to use as a sort of inspiration set, but I thought that instead I would just buy a few of the exact items on the list to get some gifts under my belt before the calendar turned to December.
A visit to H&M’s website: Click, click, click. Done.
Then, a visit to Amazon.com: Click, click, click. Done.
Hardly a thought involved. No stress. Christmas in a neat brown box for the most important woman in my life, delivered to my doorstep in just two days.
This is not a new thing to anyone anymore, as we have all increasingly turned to buying gifts online, in part to avoid going out into the jam-packed real world. Instead, by letting our fingers do the shopping, we tell ourselves that we are freeing up precious time in our busy, busy lives. Oh, the things we’ll do with the time we save!
Except, at least in my experience, that’s totally a farce. The time saved? We end up allotting it to some other digital exercise. And along the way, we sacrifice almost all of the serendipity that emerges when picking out a gift in a shop in the real world.
I take the blame for part of that, because buying someone exactly what they asked for extinguishes some of the suspense that makes for the best type of gift.
But e-commerce sites in their current state should also shoulder some of the blame. By and large, they are too easy, too impersonal, and — really — too convenient. That impersonality is perhaps part of the reason why so many young, digital commerce companies seem intent on opening pop-up shops or permanent outposts in the brick-and-mortar world.
I firmly admit that I’m painting with a really broad stroke here, but that’s okay. Because right now, with few exceptions, that’s what the e-commerce world feels like — all ease-of-use, but no emotion.
I acknowledge that there are exceptions (or at least there used to be), e-commerce sites that made you feel something, mostly through the kind of wares they sold. Etsy, for example. In its early days, when it had a much smaller community of sellers focused on handmade goods, Etsy was a delight. So was Fab, when its unusual design aesthetic seemed a lot more focused, and before it tried being a lot of things to a lot of people.
No longer. In fact, it was Jason Goldberg, the embattled CEO of Fab, who wrote about a similar idea in a blog post this past spring titled “The 3rd Wave of E-Commerce Disruption: Emotional Commerce.”
“Commodity Commerce was/is all about getting in and out as quickly as possible,” Goldberg wrote. “One-click shopping. Emotional Commerce is all about getting lost in the moment. Emotional Commerce is all about taking the best offline shopping experiences — of being lured in by storefronts, of browsing through assortments and colors, of the joy of the hunt of finding something fabulous, or having fun while shopping — and making them even more amazing online.”
When I wrote about that essay in June, as Fab was raising a $150 million investment, I translated it as such: “To me, that means impulse buying — more specifically, the buying of things that you want, but don’t necessarily need.”
But now I would broaden the definition quite a bit to include e-commerce sites that are able to both establish a connection with their visitors and sell things that help the buyer connect with others, rather than just please themselves.
As I said on Twitter the other day in response to a tweet by Braintree exec Mike Dudas, I’m not sure if Fab can reignite and sustain that emotional connection, considering the scale at which Goldberg wants to operate.
But Fab’s Goldberg has his own opinion:
@DelRey @mdudas Let's get to 2018 and then revisit that question. A lot of work between here and there and too early to write the book.
— Jason Goldberg (@betashop) November 27, 2013
Perhaps it’s not a book yet, but there are some encouraging signs in a young crop of e-commerce startups that are going out of their way to convey the story behind the products to their site visitors, in an effort to establish a connection. Those sites include Grand St., Zady, Cuyana, Everlane and the new Domino.com, which has its roots in media, but is integrating shopping into the site pretty seamlessly.
I haven’t found one that nails it through and through, but, in this increasingly digital world, they make me hopeful, because there’s a whole lot of room to inject some emotion back into commerce.
And — especially at this time of year — to help make gift-giving a lot less about the 30 percent-off Black Friday deal, and a whole lot more about helping you ensure that when the woman sitting across from you unties the bow, what she finds within the box truly feels like a gift.
Tagged with: Amazon, cuyana, Domino, Domino.com, emotional commerce, Etsy, Everlane, fab, Grand St., Jason Goldberg, Zady
That Giant Bitcoin Crash in the Wake of China Restrictions? It Never Happened.
This Is What It Looks Like Inside an Amazon Warehouse (Photos)
A New Perk for Google Employees? It Could Be Low-Interest Personal Loans.
December 22, 2013 at 12:03 pm PT
By Setting Debit Limits Following Target Breach, Chase Looking Out for Itself, Too
As Amazon’s Stock Hits All-Time High, Warehouse Issues Under Scrutiny
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Policing ‘Baghdad on the Potomac’
RACHEL MENDLESON June 30 2008
Policing ‘Baghdad on the Potomac’ RACHEL MENDLESON June 30 2008
RACHEL MENDLESON
The police roadblocks set up this month in a crime-riddled neighbourhood on Washington’s northeast side looked every bit like military checkpoints. For six evenings Trinidad was in lockdown, with yellow police tape, traffic cones and metal barriers choking off access to alleys and streets leading into the area. Traffic backed up along Montello Avenue, where drivers and passengers were required to produce ID and a “legitimate purpose” for entering, including phone numbers and addresses to verify their stories. Residents were not exempt from the lines that formed in the 40° C heat—a necessary measure, says police chief Cathy L. Lanier, for a “neighbourhood in crisis” that has seen a recent spike in homicides, culminating with a triple murder the weekend before the roadblocks were set up on June 7.
“Baghdad on the Potomac,” as Arthur Spitzer, legal director of the Washington branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called it, was the most recent in a series of drastic measures D.C. is exploring to curb violent crime—all of which have come under intense scrutiny. In the spring, city officials launched a project to network more
than 5,000 security cameras in 10 D.C. agencies, including schools and public housing. Charged with creating a Big Brother society, the administration defended it as a means to better coordinate emergency response. D.C. city council has since imposed restrictions on the monitoring, specifically on the realtime element, until a new plan is approved. Meanwhile, another proposal, this one to get guns off the streets (implemented in St. Louis in the 1990s and currently under review in
Boston), drew similar fire from residents and civil liberties advocates. When it was first announced in March, the Safe Homes Initiative envisioned officers knocking on doors in the District’s hard-pressed neighbourhoods, offering residents amnesty in exchange for a warrantless home search. A significantly scaled back version was introduced mid-month, with searches by request only.
The administration’s apparent backing off, and the end of the roadblocks on June 12, has done little to allay the concerns of critics who continue to question the legality of the tactics—a pattern, they say, of overlooking civil liberties. And council member Phil Mendelson says announcing a “very dramatic action,” and then retreating, creates ill will among residents and raises doubts about how the strategy for fighting crime in the District is being conceived. “In a way, it makes it even worse,” says Mendelson, who chaired a public safety committee hearing on June 16 to examine the effect of the initiatives on civil liberties. At that hearing, the ACLU argued the Trinidad checkpoints violated the Fourth Amendment (unreasonable search and seizure), and infringed on freedom of travel—a position it has made known since the tactic was announced. Mayor Adrian Fenty did not return calls for this story. But based on previous cases, interim attorney general Peter Nickles maintains the neighbourhood safety zone was legal, despite the opinion of the ACLU and some residents who felt their rights were violated. In an interview with Maclean’s, Nickles said “the courts are open” to anyone who wants to mount a challenge—an invitation Spitzer says the ACLU is “strongly considering” taking him up on, especially if the roadblocks return.
After six quiet evenings in Trinidad, officials hailed the checkpoints a success. So far this year, northeast D.C. has seen 22 murders—one more than it did in all of2007Lanier says much of the violence in Trinidad involved people in cars who did not live in the area. Of the 700 vehicles that arrived at the checkpoints, she says less than 50 were turned away. When asked if she would implement the roadblocks again, the chief told Maclean’s, “I don’t know how I wouldn’t.” After the barriers were lifted, long-time resident Rosetta Davis said she had mixed feelings. Davis recalled an era when community policing meant walking the beat and instilling trust. “The police officers now ride right past your house, never once stopping to wave or slow down,” she said. M
GUESS WHO’S WATCHING PORN
JUNE 30th 2008 2008 By MONIQUE POLAK
MAIL BAG
We don’t choose to be in nursing homes with our children paying forus, overstaying our welcome’
JUNE 30th 2008 2008
STÉPHANE DION’S HAIL MARY GAMBLE
JUNE 30th 2008 2008 By JOHN GEDDES
NOT JUST 'McBUSH’
JUNE 30th 2008 2008 By LUIZA CH. SAVAGE
THE PUZZLE OF FROZEN GAS
JUNE 30th 2008 2008 By NICHOLAS KÖHLER
'Bernardo and I talk about what’s in the news, or he makes some scatological remark about what's happened to Karla’
Hawaii to birthers: enough!
MAY 31st 2010 By MICHAEL BARCLAY
Is Galilee running out of fish?
MAY 31st 2010 By JEN CUTTS
Feeling the bite of a cannibal joke
MAY 31st 2010 By RACHEL MENDLESON
JUST PLUG IT INIF YOU CAN
July 5th 2010 By RACHEL MENDLESON
New website touts the criminal life
JUNE 15th 2009 2009 By RACHEL MENDLESON
Return of a troubling nativist
NOV. 2nd 2009 2009 By RACHEL MENDLESON
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Exciting things are afoot at Supernormal, and it’s time to fill you in on a little of what will be transpiring in Braziers Park in August.
First off, we’re ecstatic to announce that Supernormal 2015 will be hosting the first UK show in over twenty years from the maverick and mercurial force that is #A.R.Kane.
The new name adds the ‘#’ symbol, Rudy Tambala explains “We needed a new name that contemporises the band, was a tad ironic, and flatly stated that this line-up is sans Alex. Should Alex come out-to-play, we can easily drop the ‘#’, so to speak”
Rudy has assembled a line-up featuring ” … a couple original A.R.Kane players … and two millennial upstarts of extreme beauty and talent …” to grace us with a repertoire that remains akin to nothing else any dreamer has ever heard, before or since.
For the uninitiated, A.R.Kane was formed by Rudy Tambala and Alex Ayuli, from Stratford in East London. Between 1986 and 1994 A.R.Kane made genre-defying records that radiate with an otherworldly intensity. Early singles like ‘When You’re Sad’ and ‘Lollita’, and later albums like 1988’s ’69’ and 1989’s ‘i’ occupy a unique headspace – by turns hallucinatory, surreal, melodious and darkly erotic, this band’s music traverses into dubbed-out experimentation as seamlessly as groove-based euphoria, celestial expanses of sound and unforgiving noise-based dystopia. Rarely has a band been more haunting, harrowing and heavenly – often all at once – than this one.
Meanwhile, the visual arts programme will be announced later in the month and will include exhibits, happenings, performances and interventions around the grounds and in Braziers House.
We are also excited to announce the Supernormal team will be visiting Glasgow next week with support from an A-N research bursary, to meet new artists and initiatives who could contribute to this year’s programme and our future activity.
And as always, there is still plenty more to come, including a selection of activities, workshops and performances proposed by you, new exciting partnership projects, DJs, music, karaoke sessions and general good times.
Supernormal 2015 takes place from August 7th-9th at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire. Now as ever, it remains the alternative’s alternative.
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Product Recommendation System Project Github
This method scores each item by using cosine similarity: the score for an item is the cosine between that item's tag vector and the user's profile vector. At this moment I am trying to deploy the Dionaea HoneyPot on a seperate server with Ubuntu 16. easyrec is an open source project hosted at sourceforge. Understand what users need, prioritize what to build next and rally everyone around your roadmap. Netflix is committed to open source. And on top of that, users that click on recommendations convert at a 5. What about the e-commerce websites which advocates you through options such as 'people who bought this also bought this'. The Inventory Management System (IMS) refers to the system and processes to manage the stock of. Also note that you will be able to use Project Professional 2016 and the Project Online Desktop Client, as well as Project Professional 2013, to connect to Project Server 2013. Basic recommendation engine using R In our day to day life, we come across a large number of Recommendation engines like Facebook Recommendation Engine for Friends' suggestions, and suggestions of similar Like Pages, Youtube recommendation engine suggesting videos similar to our previous searches/preferences. 10th Oct, 2019 Md. How is GitHub Enterprise different from GitHub. It seems that almost every company is building such systems. com homepage. The jester dataset is not about Movie Recommendations. I collaborated with a team of 5 members as a part of global hackathon to build “Incident Recommendation System for Production Management” using Python, Flask and Matplotlib, that uses TFIDF cosine similarity to recommend similar incidents based on searched job string. Santander Product Recommendation. GitHub Pages is available in public repositories with GitHub Free, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. Users can filter products in different ways. Building a recommendation system in Python - as easy as 1-2-3! Are you interested in learning how to build your own recommendation system in Python? If so, you've come to the right place!. View Chia Pei Tan PMI-ACP® ,PMP® , ITIL,COMIT’S profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. He is capable of handling the whole team, There were around 10-15 developers, and he was able to help each one of them whenever required. Much is made of what the likes of Facebook, Google and Apple know about users. recommender system of amazon product ( for final project of CSE544 ) An Optimized Recommender System from Integrating Multiple Algorithms. A recommender system or a recommendation system (sometimes replacing 'system' with a synonym such as platform or engine) is a subclass of information filtering system that seeks to predict the "rating" or "preference" a user would give to an item. For this the recommendations given to the customer by this system is exact and fast. Unsure which solution is best for your company? Find out which tool is better with a detailed comparison of iccube & periscope-data. NET is a system for capturing, validation and processing SWIFT messages within an organization’s information systems infrastructure. Bill has 6 jobs listed on their profile. Cho-Jui Hsieh New low-rank approximation method using for the recommendation system. Guy Ernest is a Solutions Architect with AWS Many developers want to implement the famous Amazon model that was used to power the “People who bought this also bought these items” feature on Amazon. Explicit feedback is especially important in the entertainment and ecommerce industry where all customer engagements are impacted by these ratings. Online shopping is all over the internet. Manage and contribute to projects from all your devices. The purpose of this project is to provide the complete information about the vehicles available for a tour. Best Data Science Projects in Python for Beginners. The objective of a tag recommendation system is to propose a set of tags for a resource to ease the tagging process done manually by a user. its take less time during the execution and works smoothly. Such a facility is called a recommendation system. Generally speaking, collaborative filtering is what you are looking for for this kind of task. The Top 11 Hottest GitHub Projects Right Now. This article is the first part of a multi-part tutorial series that shows you how to implement a machine-learning (ML) recommendation system with TensorFlow and AI Platform in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This project aims to build an integrated recommender system with versatile features based on the Amazon reviews dataset. Windows can't find 'C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\GitHub'. I guess I. A product recommendation is basically a filtering system that seeks to predict and show the items that a user would like to purchase. Santander Product Recommendation Competition, 2nd Place Winner's Solution Write-Up Tom Van de Wiele | 01. We are going to implement a parallel collaborative filtering recommmendation engine on a single machine, and explore different optimization algorithms addressing memory access problems, and model parallelism using multiple GPUs. I have also tried a one branch per project system (where each project is in a new branch). The Open Compute Project (OCP) is reimagining hardware, making it more efficient, flexible, and scalable. In a content-based recommendation system, keywords are used to describe the items; besides, a user profile is built to state the type of item this user likes. You can vote up the examples you like and your votes will be used in our system to product more good examples. My Lords, I shall speak about regulation relating to data privacy in medical research. Developing Replicable and Reusable Data Analytics Projects This page provides an example process of how to develop data analytics projects so that the analytics methods and processes developed can be easily replicated or reused for other datasets and (as a starting point) in different contexts. Working with GitHub Pages You can create a website directly from a GitHub repository. • Built a functioning application to test the exported model for mobile devices. Bill has 6 jobs listed on their profile. ARRIS Medios Merchandiser is a component of the Medios solution that enables personalized infinite catalog marketing — including video, music, games and applications — across multiple screens, with an intelligent recommendation engine based on user preferences and prior transaction history. Download Python Projects with source code, report, synopsis and documentation. Box 2 briefly explains how version control systems work. 0 system using HTTP, the mechanics of server-to-server authentication interactions require applications to create and cryptographically sign JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), and it's easy to make serious errors that can have a severe impact on the. Developed the official website of Cyr3con from scratch using Angular 6 and Bootstrap. Hulu is using recommendation system to suggest other popular shows or episodes. The project was a part of MSDS692 course and the goal of this project was to learn how to make a simple article recommendation engine using a semi-recent advance in natural language processing called word2vec (or just word vectors). Chia Pei has 5 jobs listed on their profile. The main aim of CI is to prevent integration problems for different parts of a project. And personalization is the key to building a Recommendation Engine(RE), we see it on Netflix, Amazon, LinkedIn and it even exists in the online black market. The design system should have a demoable style guide using tools like Storybook , Styleguidist, docz; The projects comply with ES6 coding standards; As a starting point the react-atomic-lib could be used as a reference. The plugin, I am using is free trial, so its functionalities are limited. productboard is the product management system that helps you get the right products to market, faster. Basic Steps. Project Idea | Recommendation System based on Graph Database The main objective of this project is to build an efficient recommendation engine based on graph database(Neo4j). GitHub recommendations. There are several: * Apache Mahout: Scalable machine learning and data mining * LensKit: LensKit Recommender Toolkit * Prediction. Every software project on sourceLair is backed up by the Source Control Manager of your choice; Git or Mercurial. Every single bit of work I do ends up in Github for my collegues to review or incorporate immediately in their own projects, which at the same time, are hosted in Github. View Chia Pei Tan PMI-ACP® ,PMP® , ITIL,COMIT’S profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. The top 10 machine learning projects on Github include a number of libraries, frameworks, and education resources. 21, I’ve added the ability to easily use deep neural networks in your recommender system. Scionics Computer Innovation seeks to recruit a highly motivated individual who will be integrated into an existing team dedicated to scientific computing and bioinformatics data analysis. Movie recommendation systems based on collaborative filtering. After my earlier success in the Facebook recruiting competition I decided to have another go at competitive machine learning by competing with over 2,000 particip. The biggest online shopping website is Amazon. 2 Location of the restaurant is an important factor to be consided when building a restaurant recommendation system. However, while solving it, it is easy. A simple recommendation algorithm is included which simply returns the items associated or referenced from the selected item in the graph. When you talk about a movie recommendation system, you can’t help but think about Netflix. Use a version control system (5h), to manage changes to a project. Which is has the same “Recommender” object as engine. A New Feedback System Is Coming to docs. The only difference is, quick_reco_engine. OpenFace is a Python and Torch implementation of face recognition with deep neural networks and is based on the CVPR 2015 paper FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering by Florian Schroff, Dmitry Kalenichenko, and James Philbin at Google. 12/12/2018; 6 minutes to read +3; In this article. This week, a sub-variant of the original, Google Project (GPZ) variant 1 / Spectre security vulnerability was disclosed by MIT. Harmful Mail Scanning a Java Project. Under their current system, a small number of Santander's customers receive many recommendations while many others rarely see any resulting in an uneven customer experience. NYC Data Science Academy teaches data science, trains companies and their employees to better profit from data, excels at big data project consulting, and connects trained Data Scientists to our industry. What do you mean by a "recommendation system"? If you mean that people could get others to post testimonials to the skills of others, then the first thing you would need to do is create a database with a table for people , which could be used fo. Migrated the internal portal for customers from Angular 4 to Angular 5. Also note that you will be able to use Project Professional 2016 and the Project Online Desktop Client, as well as Project Professional 2013, to connect to Project Server 2013. Building Recommender System for GitHub. However, while solving it, it is easy. To design an online book recommendation system that will recommend collection of books that the. A May 17 research report indicated the Deep A zone at Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. • As a reciprocation for the work, was awarded with an ’On Spot Award’ by the Principal Data Scientist. Source Code. My application is not about purchasing but still user recommendations functionality applies here. If you had never thought about recommendation systems before, and someone put a gun to your head, Swordfish-style, and forced you to describe one out loud in 30 seconds, you would probably describe a content-based system. Find latest android project topics for your final year students with source code for learning. Allow for arbitrary TensorFlow graphs to be used as representation functions and loss functions. edu December 10, 2012 1 Introduction In this paper, we are going to study about recommendation systems. He understands complicated matters even when outside of his direct area of expertise. I have developed this mini project Cab Booking System on PHP and MySQL. Netflix both leverages and provides open source technology focused on providing the leading Internet television network. product perspective, product functions, constraints, assumptions and dependencies. Hear what's next for the GitHub platform, find inspiration for your next project, and connect with developers who are changing the world. A simple recommendation algorithm is included which simply returns the items associated or referenced from the selected item in the graph. Product Purchases Recommendation System. Which is has the same “Recommender” object as engine. Netflix is an American entertainment company that uses a model-based collaborative filtering approach. Cover Letter. GitHub is where people build software. These projects on artificial intelligence have been developed to help engineers, researchers and students in their research and studies in AI based systems. Over the past year, we've worked out an internal tagging system that keeps engineering and product efforts organized across repositories on Github. NYC Data Science Academy. The talk will answer these questions and showcase effectiveness of such a recommender system. Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for big data processing, with built-in modules for streaming, SQL, machine learning and graph processing. We perform network analysis on a constructed graph based on GitHub data and present a recommendation system that uses link prediction. Applying Reinforcement Learning to Competitive Tetris. It’s Ctl+B shortcut lets you run the python file you’re working on straight away. A recommender system or a recommendation system (sometimes replacing 'system' with a synonym such as platform or engine) is a subclass of information filtering system that seeks to predict the "rating" or "preference" a user would give to an item. Open source software is an important piece of the data science puzzle. Josifovski, A. ) Houping Jia, Xiaojiang Huang, Tengfei Ma, Xiaojun Wan, Jianguo Xiao. Join us at GitHub Universe Our largest product and community conference is returning to the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, November 13-14. At this moment I am trying to deploy the Dionaea HoneyPot on a seperate server with Ubuntu 16. How did Devvela perform from a project management standpoint? Devvela has maintained a contact person for our project. The Maps SDK for Android is distributed as part of the Google Play services SDK. I have developed this mini project Cab Booking System on PHP and MySQL. The Search box is connected with two crawlers (one for Amazon and another for Flipkart). The project hierarchy is intended to model your organizational structure (how product teams and delivery teams are organized in your company). Manage and contribute to projects from all your devices. This often makes perfect. GitHub is the best way to build software together. On GitHub it's available with an example of learning the binary search algorithm. Food Recommendation System Project Report Ipek TATLI 1395557 June,2009 Abstract— This document discusses content-based recommendation systems, i. This project aims to build an integrated recommender system with versatile features based on the Amazon reviews dataset. A recommendation system is an algorithm that can be trained to make future recommendations based on a list of users, a list of items, and a list of ratings given to items by users. View developer profile of Megha K (megha563) on HackerEarth. The jester dataset is not about Movie Recommendations. All repository data is stored on machines that you control, and access is integrated with your organization's authentication system (LDAP, SAML, or CAS). The CC2531 is a USB enabled true system-on-chip (SoC) solution for IEEE 802. All our needs are just a click away. But that is just one part of what Recommenders do. It would be nice to have an arg to re-order the batches every epoch while fitting. Featured Skills: Recommendation Systems, Item-Based Collaborative Filtering, Cosine Similarity This project's goal is to increase sales by recommending products that users are likely to purchase, based on previous purchases. Jordan Conference on Learning Theory (COLT'14) Taxonomy Discovery for Personalized Recommendation Y. I’ll leave the user based collaborative filtering recommender for another post. com, 2014 "Already, 35% of what consumers purchase on Amazon and 75% of what they watch on Netflix come from product recommendations based on such algorithms" - McKinsey. Improved user experience. Recommendation system. You can fork the project if you want to use this project as a starting point. In this developer code pattern, we will develop a hybrid mobile application using IBM MobileFirst® Platform Foundation integrated with a recommendation system, which takes age and gender as input and, based on this, returns a personalized recommendation of jewelry products. In the field of image recommendation, [5] tends to recommend images using Tuned perceptual retrieval(PR), complementary nearest neighbor consensus. Most of the libraries are good for quick prototyping. As a leitmotif we want to build a web-based wine reviews and recommendations website using Python technologies such as Django and Pandas. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system; User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful) Who is going to use it? How are they going to use it? Constraints. Bill has 6 jobs listed on their profile. Oh look I found Ubuntu Books with Unity Shopping Lens! Must Buy! In light of the FUD over the Unity Shopping Lens package that has landed in Quantal there were also some legitimate security and privacy concerns surrounding this new innovative feature that I think will be very useful to many Ubuntu Users. LensKit is an open source toolkit for building, researching, and studying recommender systems. Step-by-step guides for organizational administrators, system administrators, and security specialists who are deploying, configuring, and managing a GitHub Enterprise instance. It's a good idea to at least have a README on your project, because it's the first thing many people will read when they first find your work. Latest version. For starters, you can tag repos now in GitHub, in the form of topics. Netflix is an American entertainment company that uses a model-based collaborative filtering approach. Micronaut Data is a database access toolkit that uses Ahead of Time (AoT) compilation to pre-compute queries for repository interfaces that are then executed by a thin, lightweight runtime layer. Open solution explorer. From the dataset website: "Million continuous ratings (-10. In our project we are taking into consideration the amazon review dataset. Recommender systems (or recommendation engines) are useful and interesting pieces of software. You can use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to build a scalable, efficient, and effective service for delivering relevant product recommendations to users in an online store. This is done by verifying each code push by an automated build, allowing developers to detect problems quickly and easily. During the two-week project experience, I got to realize there’s so much I can do with recommendation systems, and how powerful they can be. This project explores mathematical models to simulate tenant flows, and clustering techniques to represent the different patterns of support and care provided for segmented tenant groups. Featured Skills: Recommendation Systems, Item-Based Collaborative Filtering, Cosine Similarity This project's goal is to increase sales by recommending products that users are likely to purchase, based on previous purchases. One's choice for perfume is affected by his/her gender, age, nationality, climate, mood, the season of the year, time of a day, etc. In this article, we'll be dealing with extracting some data from a large data set, and building a Recommender using our extracted data. I've seen several similar questions (here, here and here) in SO, but none of them explains what is a GitHub project, what is a GitHub repository and when to use each one of them. It happens that MAP is also useful for user recommendation systems, like when Amazon shows you a short list of products it thinks you might also want to purchase after you've added something to your cart. Future improvements to the recommending algorithm were alluded to in the previous section. All functionalities are tested under Windows, Mac, and Linux. Project Thoth is an artificial intelligence (AI) R&D Red Hat research project as part of the Office of the CTO and the AI Center of Excellence (CoE). Improved user experience. the original m × n matrix to a product. Revenues can be increased using simple strategies such as: Adding matching product recommendations to your purchase confirmation. List of Recommender Systems. 10th Oct, 2019 Md. There is quick_reco_engine. While developing a recommendation system, especially for content based recommendation, it is important to remember NOT to optimize only for a single metric. These projects on artificial intelligence have been developed to help engineers, researchers and students in their research and studies in AI based systems. Matrix Factorization for Movie Recommendations in Python. This deep recommendation model has achieved 2~3 times of improvement against traditional shallow models for top-N recommendation (N=10), in terms of NDCG, Precision, Recall, and Hit-Ratio, on several product domains of a standard Amazon dataset. Recommendation: Although your application can complete these tasks by directly interacting with the OAuth 2. 2 Location of the restaurant is an important factor to be consided when building a restaurant recommendation system. Recommendations are used for making the work of the customer easier and faster. •Reduced 50% of execution time of automated regression test through performance optimizations based on product logs. Summary: Use these hardware recommendations regarding performance and capacity for Project Server 2013 to identify a suitable starting topology for your requirements. We ranked 1st in both the opinionated and holder subtasks for Simplified Chinese. Mehrdad Gharib Shirangi. Explicit feedback is especially important in the entertainment and ecommerce industry where all customer engagements are impacted by these ratings. The system aims to be a one stop destination for recommendations such as Movies, Books, Blog. I found some spare time to proceed with the MHN project. I believe that Amazon recommendation is currently the best in the market, but how do they provide us with such relevant recommendations? Recently, we have been involved with similar recommendation kind of project, but would surely like to know about the in and outs of the Amazon recommendation technology from a technical standpoint. Flexible Data Ingestion. This post was written by Rob Eisenberg, Senior Program Manager on the docs. There are several: * Apache Mahout: Scalable machine learning and data mining * LensKit: LensKit Recommender Toolkit * Prediction. A team of developers and designers building beautiful and meaningful software everyday. to users based off their previous choices and taste. birthDate field. On behalf of the Committee for Justice, I firmly welcome the introduction of the regulations to bring the Department of Justice's victim charter into operation on a statutory footing. Excellent and result driven. I am working on a personal project. I wanted at the time to test different recommendation…. Php projects, Mysql for Students. As an open source project, we prefer that all improvements be “shared alike,” however, some developers were hindered by the need to “share alike” their added innovations. Test Drive. Bill has 6 jobs listed on their profile. It may not be entirely accurate, but if it shows you what you like then it is doing its job right. Improved user experience. Sérgio Saraiva is a motivated, forward-thinking as well as intelligent system analyst with lots of knowledge in his field. For Sérgio Saraiva the job is obviously the most important thing to do. ) This is one of several ways to keep the application distinct from its logging. Changing or improving the system becomes more difficult over time. In case the Recommendation system depends on system cookies, then the data is available only till the time the user is using the same terminal. In another case, the target product is a music album by Michael Jackson. It’s an open-source project developed by GitHub and is very easy to add functionality for, with its packages system. , churn, recommendation, credit default). First the customer visits the site and enters the place from where to where he wishes to travel. com, 2014 "Already, 35% of what consumers purchase on Amazon and 75% of what they watch on Netflix come from product recommendations based on such algorithms" - McKinsey. Sublime Text: A great all around editor that’s easy to use. It's provide REST API so that client can query product recommendation based on product ID/SKU, The service will be charge based on how many query client does (fee based model). com is the go-to resource for open source professionals to learn about the latest in Linux and open source technology, careers, best practices, and industry trends. A list of R libraries for Recommender systems. LinkedIn is the world's largest business network, helping professionals like Sal Arora discover inside connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts, and business partners. Sign up 💻 An Amazon Office Products Recommendation Engine using Item-Item collaborative filtering and Matrix Factorization. Full disclaimer, I am a bit of a data science beer geek. io * Seldon. We’ll start by explaining why GitHub (and version control systems in general) are actually the perfect place to manage software projects. System Design Cheatsheet. The following scenarios are supported by the SAR algorithm: Item-to-Item Recommendations. For more details on recommendation systems, read my introductory post on Recommendation Systems and a few illustrations using Python. What is a recommendation system? There are two main types of recommendation systems: collaborative filtering and content-based filtering. Future improvements to the recommending algorithm were alluded to in the previous section. Php projects, Mysql for Students. Quick Start; DASE; Evaluation Explained; How-To; Read Custom Events; Customize Data Preparator; Customize Serving; Train with Implicit Preference; Filter Recommended Items by Blacklist in Query; Batch Persistable. A recommendation system performs extensive data analysis in order to generate suggestions to its users about what might interest them. Peter Occil. Its application to a video game recommendation system is available on the internet as a demo of the. How is GitHub Enterprise different from GitHub. Create a business rule or business recommendation. It recommend video based on user comments in that video, and show videos in order of usefulness of the video. Using angular, git, accessibility, for project planning and development using a Scrum methodology with realizations of daily, plans, retro and groomings. Build a real-time recommendation API on Azure. Have a look at the tools others are using, and the resources they are learning from. Josifovski, A. Netflix is committed to open source. Much is made of what the likes of Facebook, Google and Apple know about users. Future improvements to the recommending algorithm were alluded to in the previous section. Project_Search. (System Report. Product: System documentation. In this project, we have designed, implemented and analyzed a song recommendation system. 5% of users have more than 1k reviews. Hi! We are Monterail. GitHub, however, has a built-in Kanban solution in the Projects tab. I collaborated with a team of 5 members as a part of global hackathon to build “Incident Recommendation System for Production Management” using Python, Flask and Matplotlib, that uses TFIDF cosine similarity to recommend similar incidents based on searched job string. We recognized that there are developers that end up with a product idea that they want to productize, and we wanted to allow and support that avenue as well. A recommendation system broadly recommends products to customers best suited to their tastes and traits. Amazon is known not only for its variety of products but also for its strong recommendation system. By Seminar Information Systems (WS17/18) in Course projects March 15, 2018 Exploring and applying current trends in machine learning to a large scale product recommendation based on implicit feedback. If you want to share your code on GitHub, Microsoft and GitHub teamed up to provide an add-in. Building Recommender System for GitHub. PKUTM Participation at TAC 2010 RTE and Summarization Tracks. But that is just one part of what Recommenders do. 2 = 1 1 * 0. This is correct so far. A similar thing happened with Redhat Linux: The CentOS Linux distribution is a totally free fork of Redhat's commercial product. Project Thoth is an artificial intelligence (AI) R&D Red Hat research project as part of the Office of the CTO and the AI Center of Excellence (CoE). Find latest android project topics for your final year students with source code for learning. At this moment I am trying to deploy the Dionaea HoneyPot on a seperate server with Ubuntu 16. Recommendation Brian McFee, Student Member, IEEE, Luke Barrington, and Gert Lanckriet, Member, IEEE Abstract—Many tasks in music information retrieval, such as recommendation, and playlist generation for online radio, fall naturally into the query-by-example setting, wherein a user queries the system by providing a song, and the system responds. Explore Popular Topics Like Government, Sports, Medicine, Fintech, Food, More. For some recommender problems, such as cold-start recommendation problems, deep learning can be an elegant solution for learning from user and item metadata. Download Open Datasets on 1000s of Projects + Share Projects on One Platform. This book provides you with the Scala knowledge you need to build a recommendation engine. Competition in online-selling sites has never been as fierce as it is now. GitHub's tracker is called Issues, and has its own section in every repository. You can think of the weights as measures of influence the input nodes have on the output. Step-by-step guides for organizational administrators, system administrators, and security specialists who are deploying, configuring, and managing a GitHub Enterprise instance. (WDO:TSX) Kiena complex "continues to impress," based on just released assays from five drill holes there, wrote analyst Craig Stanley with Eight Capital. A product recommendation is basically a filtering system that seeks to predict and show the items that a user would like to purchase. Following GitHub repositories is one such way to do so. This Specialization covers all the fundamental techniques in recommender systems, from non-personalized and project-association recommenders through content-based and collaborative filtering techniques, as well as advanced topics like matrix factorization, hybrid machine learning methods for recommender systems, and. Get news, information, and tutorials to help advance your next project or career – or just to simply stay informed. These data science projects will help you integrate all the data science skills that you have learned in DeZyre's comprehensive data science training with python. Predicting Likes: Inside A Simple Recommendation Engine's Algorithms Mahmud Ridwan Mahmud is a software developer with many years of experience and a knack for efficiency, scalability, and stable solutions. Customers spend more money across all their providers, but they spend less per retailer. Only GitLab enables Concurrent DevOps to make the software lifecycle 200% faster. Projects MachineLearning-Projects [ link ] Owner A collection of my ML projects, including : Music Recommendation System / CTR Prediction / Document Topic Model and Classifier / Financial Antifraud Model / Machine Translation / AutoEncoder etc. You can use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to build a scalable, efficient, and effective service for delivering relevant product recommendations to users in an online store. The target product is a kids related product, our model gave 4 kids related products while Amazon gave 2 kids related products and 3 cellphones. Apache Spark ML implements alternating least squares (ALS) for collaborative filtering, a very popular algorithm for making recommendations. He is capable of handling the whole team, There were around 10-15 developers, and he was able to help each one of them whenever required. A simple recommendation algorithm is included which simply returns the items associated or referenced from the selected item in the graph. View Pâris MEULEMAN’S profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. System Design Cheatsheet. Download Python Projects with source code, report, synopsis and documentation. This movie recommendation application include web app and Alexa. an online book recommender system using machine learning (collaborative filtering) algorithm | 1. (WDO:TSX) Kiena complex "continues to impress," based on just released assays from five drill holes there, wrote analyst Craig Stanley with Eight Capital. ers such as Amazon, Walmart etc. Let's learn more about them here. In this article, we'll explore one popular implementation of a recommendation system, how it works, and how to incorporate it into your project. On Our PHP Tutorial Some Projects are given. One of the most famous and powerful recommendation approaches is called collaborative filtering (CF). View Chia Pei Tan PMI-ACP® ,PMP® , ITIL,COMIT’S profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Most apps that use random numbers care about either unpredictability, high quality, or repeatability. It’s Ctl+B shortcut lets you run the python file you’re working on straight away. fossa-cli on Github; Vulnerability scanning in Beta. Sérgio Saraiva is a motivated, forward-thinking as well as intelligent system analyst with lots of knowledge in his field. Scionics Computer Innovation seeks to recruit a highly motivated individual who will be integrated into an existing team dedicated to scientific computing and bioinformatics data analysis. If you haven't yet created an Android application, you can follow the guide to creating a 'hello world' app. The most widely used CI services allow for integration with third party code hosts, such as GitHub or BitBucket. - We also do not point to the license or the disclaimer of warranty in the individual source files, but we need this in every file. Add shuffle_batches arg to fit() and fit_partial() that shuffles the batch order every epoch if True. We have not included the tutorial projects and have only restricted this list to projects and frameworks. According to the most recent. A recommendation system is an algorithm that can be trained to make future recommendations based on a list of users, a list of items, and a list of ratings given to items by users. Learn Java Programming: Build a Recommendation System from Duke University. My task was to build a backend app to fetch recommendation for a requested user. The UK should have a vision to make an internationally competitive legal framework to support the use of personal data in health research—fully connected law and governance that is easy to navigate, pragmatic and risk proportionate, and regulation that ensures public confidence and trust in the use of. For instance, Amazon is using recommendation system to provide goods that customers might also like. Download Open Datasets on 1000s of Projects + Share Projects on One Platform. 12/12/2018; 6 minutes to read +3; In this article. After checking this question I still have no idea how to get a project uploaded to my Git Hub repository. Excellent and result driven. He understands complicated matters even when outside of his direct area of expertise. Highlights of the Project.
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Japan Seeks Tech Revival With Artificial Intelligence
By Takashi Mochizuki TOKYO—Waiting for his mother to finish grocery shopping one day in 1994, 12-year-old Daisuke Okanohara passed the time with a little reading—of a research paper describing a new method to speed up data compression. He says he felt his body shake with excitement.“It was a breathtaking method,” recalls Mr. Okanohara, now 33. He spent months testing it to see how it worked.Today, as the co-founder of Tokyo-based artificial-intelligence company Preferred Networks Inc., Mr. Okanohara is aiming for breakthroughs of his own—with the weight of a nation’s beleaguered technology industry on his shoulders.Over the past quarter century, Japan lost its technology leadership to rivals in the West in large part because of software shortcomings. Apple Inc. pushed Japanese consumer-electronics makers out of the market with more elegant interfaces and better systems for software developers.Japan is still at the forefront in hardware such as robots, tiny smartphone parts and automobiles. But even that stronghold is in danger of being breached, because software is increasingly critical to making those products work.Enter Mr. Okanohara and “deep-learning” software—programs that, like the human brain, can learn on their own, without human hand-holding each step of the way. “Deep” refers to the networks of artificial neurons: They have more layers and so can tackle trickier problems.Deep learning is already big in Silicon Valley. Alphabet Inc.’s Google last year acquired London-based startup DeepMind Technologies for an estimated $500 million, while Apple, Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc. and Tesla Motors Inc. also have invested in the field. Chinese Internet-search provider Baidu Inc. set up a deep-learning research center in Silicon Valley in 2014.U.S. market-research firm Tractica forecasts that annual software revenue for enterprise applications of deep learning will reach $10.4 billion in 2024, up from $109 million this year.To Silicon Valley, deep learning is mainly a way to make software better—so that, for example, voice-recognition programs such as Apple’s Siri respond more naturally to human questions. The Japanese companies beating a path to Mr. Okanohara’s door tend to look at deep learning differently, as a way to improve hardware. They believe a deep-learning machine could improve itself much faster than humans could improve it, because it could share what it learns with its fellow machines and would never get tired.Japanese industrial-robot maker and Apple supplier Fanuc Corp. recently took a small stake in Preferred Networks, with hopes of developing machines that can figure out on their own how best to assemble devices and even repair other robots.“PFN has the most advanced expertise in the world,” says Chief Executive Yoshiharu Inaba, referring to Preferred Networks by its nickname. Also working with the startup are Toyota Motor Corp., developing autonomous-driving technology, and Panasonic Corp., hoping to leverage Preferred Networks’ knowledge for surveillance cameras and consumer electronics.Preferred Networks’ hope for itself is to have a place at the center of companies’ deep-learning applications, much as Microsoft Corp. put itself at the center of the corporate personal-computer revolution in the early 1980s with its operating system. Preferred Networks recently introduced an operating system for deep-learning technology; called Chainer, it helps third-party engineers write artificial-intelligence-enabled programs. Founded last year, the 30-employee startup was valued in August at $120 million, and has insisted on remaining independent. That is a gamble given Google’s virtually unlimited resources, which allow it to snap up some of the best talent and potentially set global standards. The startup’s executives say they have had to turn down some partnership offerings because of a shortage of workers. Experts also say that the Japanese government’s slow adaptation to new technologies might pose problems as well.“Preferred Networks has great skill sets, but they also need to learn how to deal with capital markets,” says Yutaka Matsuo, an associate professor at the University of Tokyo.Mr. Okanohara says he started using computers when he was in kindergarten, growing up in Fukushima prefecture north of Tokyo. In grade school, he was already programming flight-simulator software.“I was not good at mathematics. I guess coding was his natural instinct,” says his father, Hisashi Okanohara, 67, a retired official at a car-audio maker.Logging on via a pre-Internet dial-up communications service, the boy downloaded computer-science papers such as “A Block-Sorting Lossless Data Compression Algorithm”—the one that gave him those grocery-store shakes back in 1994.He went on to the University of Tokyo, where he met Toru Nishikawa. The classmates hit it off immediately and eventually co-founded Preferred Networks.“I knew I wouldn’t have the luck to work with such a genius if I missed the chance,” says Mr. Nishikawa, the company’s chief executive.Mr. Okanohara, who serves as executive vice president, says he believes his expertise will become useful as items as diverse as cars and toasters go online. For he sees a problem with this so-called Internet of Things: A connected device can access an amount of data so astronomical that no conceivable computing power could analyze or transmit it. A car’s sensor, for example, could record every pixel on a neon advertising sign, information that is useless for the car’s safe operation.Human brains face the same problem of overload, but learn to discard what is irrelevant. Computers, likewise, must grow able to judge on their own what data is relevant and what should be shared with peers, says Mr. Okanohara.Artificial intelligence has disappointed some users in the past, in part because of lack of computing power. Deep learning needs a few more breakthroughs to shake up the world, but the arrival of the artificial-intelligence age is inevitable, says Junichi Tsujii, head of artificial intelligence at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. “Japan has many top-notch firms in many industries, and PFN is an ideal hub to tie them together as a team,” Mr. Tsujii says. Write to Takashi Mochizuki at takashi.mochizuki@wsj.com
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No Credit History? Your Smartphone Usage Will Do
By Elizabeth Dwoskin A handful of Silicon Valley-backed startups are looking to revolutionize lending in the developing world, where banks are scarce and many would-be borrowers have no credit history.Their strategy: Show me your smartphone, and my app will find out how creditworthy you are.Smartphones can dramatically reduce the cost of lending, experts say, because the apps they run generate huge amounts of data—texts, emails, GPS coordinates, social-media posts, retail receipts, and so on—indicating thousands of subtle patterns of behavior that correlate with repayment or default.Even obscure variables such as how frequently a user recharges the phone’s battery, how many incoming text messages they receive, how many miles they travel in a given day or how they enter contacts into their phone—the decision to add last name correlates with creditworthiness—can bear on a decision to extend credit.In Kenya, Branch.co offers an Android app that lets users apply for a loan and get immediate approval and access to funds. The loans average $30, enough for a taxi driver to pay for gas or a fruit seller to stock up on produce. Branch charges between 6% and 12% interest—based on the borrower’s creditworthiness—and loans are usually repaid between three weeks and six months later.Traditional microlending tends to be far more expensive—interest rates often exceed 25%—partly because lenders must visit borrowers in the field to assess their ability to repay. Banks have steered clear due to the high cost of building physical branches.These app-based lending startups are backed by some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names. Branch, which was founded by microlending pioneer Matt Flannery, has received funding from Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of data miner Palantir Technologies. InVenture, based in Los Angeles, is headed by a former United Nations officer and funded by venture investors Chris Sacca and Zachary Bogue. Saida is funded by startup incubator Y Combinator. Omidyar Network—an investment firm and foundation established by eBay Inc. founder Pierre Omidyar—holds a stake in Lenddo, a lender that determines creditworthiness by analyzing social networks like Facebook.By installing these apps on their smartphones, users grant them access to any information that may help assess the borrower’s creditworthiness—from the content of their texts and emails to the duration and volume of their calls.InVenture’s algorithms, for instance, found that users who wait until after 10 p.m. to make calls—when rates are lower—are lower-risk borrowers. Somewhat counterintuitively, Branch found that users who are known gamblers—something the app would find out by scanning messages or payments to a gambling company—are more likely to repay a loan than nongamblers.“You’re able to get in and really understand the daily life of these customers,” said InVenture CEO Shivani Siroya. Her company’s scoring formula, or algorithm, analyzes 10,000 so-called signals per customer.These lending startups build on the popularity of mobile banking in many developing countries and the rapid rise of smartphone use. A Pew Research Center report from April shows that 34% of South Africans, 27% of Nigerians and 15% of Kenyans already own a smartphone.Customers of Branch and InVenture in Nairobi, Kenya, said they used the loans to pay for running or improving small businesses. Some had access to banks but felt the smartphone interest rates were better; others had been borrowing informally from neighbors at high interest rates.The owner of a beauty and weight management center said small loans covered items such as skin cleansers when her bank account ran low.Samuel Njuguna, a chef, said he bought plates, cutlery, and pots. “I’ve had to turn down a few business opportunities because of lack of equipment,” Mr. Njuguna said. Now, he says he is plowing most of the money back into his business.“These are people that don’t have a credit score,” said Branch’s Mr. Flannery, whose earlier venture, Kiva.org, helped expand microlending. “Your digital trail can establish your financial track record.”Lending startups like Branch could bring formal credit for the first time to between 325 million and 580 million people in emerging economies, according to a recent report by Omidyar Network.While the smartphone lenders focus on emerging markets, their efforts to assess risk based on nontraditional data sources is part of a wider trend in Silicon Valley. Affirm, LendUp, ZestFinance and others use data from sources such as social media, online behavior and data brokers to determine the creditworthiness of tens of thousands of U.S. consumers who don’t have access to loans.And competitors with deeper pockets are entering the field. Visa Inc. has built mobile payment applications in Rwanda and is working with International Business Machines Corp. to use records of retail transactions or remittances to create a surrogate credit score. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. recently launched a credit-scoring program that uses the company’s own trove of transaction data to assess risk.Privacy advocates have complained that borrowers might be denied a loan because of a Twitter post such as “my car has broken down.” U.S. companies have wide discretion to offer loans as long as they don’t sell credit scores or discriminate against minorities, women, or people with disabilities.The Omidyar Network surveyed dozens of individuals in developing countries about the privacy trade-offs, and most said they had no problem sharing personal details in exchange for much-needed funds. As a former official at the U.N. Population Fund, Ms. Siroya—InVenture’s CEO—has conducted more than 3,000 in-depth interviews with small businesses in developing countries. She said borrowers in these countries are far less risky than mainstream financial institutions think they are.Soon, she said, she will have the data to prove it. Write to Elizabeth Dwoskin at elizabeth.dwoskin@wsj.com
A Break for California Franchise Owners? New Law Gives Them More Control
Franchises allow individuals to go into business knowing they have the backing of the franchisor. This has its advantages and disadvantages. Those positives ad negatives were recently highlighted in California as Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the strongest franchisee protection rules in the U.S.
One of the benefits of owning a franchise is that it comes with a lot of support from the franchisor. The downside is that, depending on the company, this support comes with some strict rules that franchisees have been claiming greatly favor the franchisor.
The new law, Assembly Bill No. 525 or AB525, gives new rights and protection to franchisees. The law passed with a large majority in the Assembly (56-12) and by 37 to 0 in the Senate. And it also received support from industry players after long negotiations.
Sometimes informally called the “Franchise Bill of Rights,” the new legislation has some revisions regarding the responsibilities of franchisors and franchisees, as specified in the California Franchise Relations Act (CFRA). The main points apply to the termination of a franchise agreement, compensation to the franchisee when an agreement is terminated or renewed, and the sale and transfer of the franchise by the franchisee.
Some of the finer points of the law are:
Franchisors can no longer terminate a franchise before the expiration of its term except for good cause. It is important to note the language. More specifically “good cause” has been a point of contention, and many see this as a gateway for litigation between franchisees and franchisors. But the law goes on to specify and limit good cause to the failure of the franchisee to substantially comply with the lawful requirements imposed upon the franchisee by the franchise agreement.
When a franchise is terminated or not renewed lawfully, the franchisor must purchase all inventory, supplies, equipment, fixtures and furnishings that were purchased under the terms of the franchise agreement. This purchase is to be made at the value of the price that was paid by the franchisee minus depreciation.
Franchisors cannot prevent a franchisee from selling or transferring the franchise whether it is in part, total or a controlling or non-controlling interest, if the person is qualified under the standards for the approval of new or renewing franchisees.
This law is supposed to curb the power franchisors exercise over franchisees. Earlier this year the law’s author, California’s Assembly Majority Leader Chris Holden stated in an official release, “Franchise corporations should not be able to use their dominance to rob franchisees of their livelihood. They should not be able to destroy someone’s future by hiding behind an unjust contract and weak state laws.”
The International Franchise Association was against the legislation for obvious reasons, but in the end Gov. Brown did sign a bill into law after such overwhelming support by the legislature.
California Gov. Jerry Brown Photo via Shutterstock
This article, "A Break for California Franchise Owners? New Law Gives Them More Control" was first published on Small Business Trends
It's Here! The MozCon Local 2016 Agenda
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*drumroll* The MozCon Local 2016 agenda is here! For all your local marketing and SEO needs, we're pleased to present a fabulous lineup of speakers and topics for your enjoyment. MozCon Local is Thursday and Friday, February 18–19 2016 in Seattle. On Thursday, our friends LocalU will present a half-day of intensive workshops, and on Friday we'll be having an entire day of keynote-style conference fun. (You do need to purchase the workshop ticket separately from the conference ticket.)
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Otherwise, let's dig into that agenda!
MozCon Local 2016
12:00–12:30pm
Introduction and Housekeeping
The State of Local Search with David Mihm
Already one of the most complex areas in all of search marketing, local has never been more fragmented than it is today. Following a brief summary of the Local Search Ranking Factors, David will give you his perspective on which strategies and tactics are worth paying attention to, and which ones are simply "nice to have."
David Mihm is one of the world’s leading practitioners of local search engine marketing. He has created and promoted search-friendly websites for clients of all sizes since the early 2000s. David co-founded GetListed.org, which he sold to Moz in November 2012.
12:55–1:35pm
Local Search Processes with Aaron Weiche, Darren Shaw, Mike Ramsey, and Paula Keller
Panel discussion and Q&A on the best processes to use in marketing local businesses online.
1:35–2:35pm
How to do Competitive Analysis for Local Search with Aaron Weiche, Darren Shaw, David Mihm, Ed Reese, Mary Bowling, Mike Ramsey
Each panelist will demonstrate their methods and the tools they use to audit a specific area of the online presence of a single local business. The end result will be a complete picture of how a thorough competitive analysis for a local business can be done.
During this time period, each attendee will choose any three 30-minute workshops to attend. Some workshops are offered in all time slots, while others are only offered at specific times. Present your challenges, discuss solutions, and get your burning questions answered in these small groups.
Tracking and Conversions with Ed Reese
Solving Problems at Google My Business with Willys DeVoll and Mary Bowling
Ask Me Anything About Local Search with David Mihm
Local Targeting of Paid Advertising with Paula Keller
Using Reviews to Build Your Business with Aaron Weiche
Local Links with Mike Ramsey
Citations: Everything You Need to Know with Darren Shaw
Agency Issues with Mike Ramsey
Local Links with Darren Shaw
Live Site Reviews
The group will come back together for live site reviews!
Friday conference
8:00–9:00am
Welcome to MozCon Local 2016! with David Mihm
Feeding the Beast: Local Content for RankBrain with Mary Bowling
We now know searcher behavior and continual testing via machine learning indeed affects Google rankings and algorithm refinements. Learn how to create local content to satisfy both Google and our human visitors.
Mary Bowling's been in SEO since 2003 and has specialized in local SEO since 2006. When she's not writing about, teaching, consulting, and doing internet marketing, you'll find her rafting, biking, and skiing/snowboarding in the mountains and deserts of Colorado and Utah.
9:35–10:05am
Local Links: Tests, Tools, and Tactics with Mike Ramsey
Going beyond the map pack, links can bring you qualified traffic, organic rankings, penalties, or filters. Mike will walk through lessons, examples, and ideas for you to utilize to your heart's content.
Mike Ramsey is the president of Nifty Marketing and a founding faculty member of Local University. He is a lover of search and social with a heavy focus in local marketing and enjoys the chess game of entrepreneurship and business management. Mike loves to travel and loves his home state of Idaho.
10:05–10:35am
Citation Investigation! with Darren Shaw
Darren investigates how citations travel across the web and shares new insights into how to better utilize the local search ecosystem for your brands.
Darren Shaw is the president and founder of Whitespark, a company that builds software and provides services to help businesses with local search. He's widely regarded in the local SEO community as an innovator, one whose years of experience working with massive local data sets have given him uncommon insights into the inner workings of the world of citation-building and local search marketing. Darren has been working on the web for over 16 years and loves everything about local SEO.
AM Break
Technical Site Audits for Local SEO with Lindsay Wassell
Onsite SEO success lies in the technical details, but extensive SEO audits can be too expensive and impractical. Lindsay shows you the most important onsite elements for local search optimization and outlines an efficient path for improved performance.
Lindsay Wassell's been herding bots and wrangling SERPs since 2001. She has a zeal for helping small businesses grow with improved digital presence. Lindsay is the CEO and founder of Keyphraseology.
Optimizing and Hacking Email for Mobile with Justine Jordan
Email may be an old dog, but it has learned some new mobile tricks. From device-a-palooza and preview text to tables and triggers, Justine will break down the subscriber experience so you (and your audience) get the most from your next campaign.
In addition to being an email critic, cat lover, and explain-a-holic, Justine Jordan also heads up marketing for Litmus, an email testing and analytics platform. She’s strangely passionate about email, hates being called a spammer, and still codes like it's 1999.
Understanding App-Web Convergence and the Impending App Tsunami with Emily Grossman
People no longer distinguish between app and web content; both compete for the same space in local search results. Learn how to keep your local brand presence afloat as apps and deep links flood into the top of search results.
Emily Grossman is a Mobile Marketing Specialist at MobileMoxie, and she has been working with mobile apps since the early days of the app stores in 2010. She specializes in app search marketing, with a focus on strategic deep linking, app indexing, app launch strategy, and app store optimization (ASO).
Building Customer Love and Loyalty in a Mobile World with Robi Ganguly
How the best companies in the world relate to customers, create a personal touch, and foster customer loyalty at scale.
Robi Ganguly is the co-founder and CEO of Apptentive, the easiest way for every company to communicate with their mobile app customers. A native Seattleite, Robi enjoys building relationships, running, reading, and cooking.
The Past, Present, and Future of Local Listings with Luther Lowe and Willys Devol
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Explore real-world examples of how your local business can establish a brand that both customers and Google will recognize and reward.
As Director of Account Management at Search Influence, Paula Keller strategizes with businesses on improving their search, social, and online ads results, and she works to scale those tactics for her team's 800+ local business clients. Paula views online marketing the same way she views cooking (her favorite way to spend her free time): trends come and go, but classic tactics are always the foundation of success!
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Learn how the person responsible for local visibility across a portfolio of nearly 1,000 locations tackles this space on a daily basis. Matthew from Sears Home Services shares his experiences and advice in this Q&A moderated by David Mihm.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, Snapchat, Periscope...the seemingly never-ending world of social media can leave even the most seasoned marketer flailing among too many tasks and not enough results. Adria will help you cut through the noise and share actionable secrets that big brands use to succeed with social media.
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Analytics for Local Marketers: The Big Picture and the Right Details with Rand Fishkin
Are your marketing efforts taking your organization where it needs to go, or are they just boosting your vanity metrics? Rand explains how to avoid being misled by the wrong metrics and how to focus on the ones that will keep you moving forward. Learn how to determine what to measure, as well as how to tie it to objectives with clear, concise, and useful data points.
Rand Fishkin uses the ludicrous title "Wizard of Moz." He’s the founder and former CEO of Moz, co-author of a pair of books on SEO, and co-founder of Inbound.org.
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Web.com Introduces Safe Email with Encryption for Business
Do you ever get the sneaking suspicion your email isn’t as secure as it could be? For the everyday, you probably don’t give email security much thought. But when sending confidential information and business files extra protection may be a good idea.
What this boils down to is sometimes you just need a little more security.
That’s the idea behind Web.com’s new email encryption service. Called Secure Mail with Guard Encryption, the new service is provided through Web.com’s affiliated brand Network Solutions.
This video shows more about how the process works:
“While regular email is secure enough for everyday communications, small business owners often need the added security of email encryption,” stated Jason Teichman, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Web.com in a company release. “Guard Encryption provides an added layer of security that will let our customers send and/or store their private or confidential communications and files with confidence.”
Web.com is known for its online tools designed for small business owners. The company offers Internet services such as online marketing, build-it-yourself websites, eCommerce, and hosting. But this new service will add online security to the list.
Web.com’s tools and services are all aimed at saving time and frustration for small business owners.
According to the company, Secure Mail works by using PGP technology. PGP is a data encryption program that uses various “keys” to safely send emails and ensure only the intended recipients can read them. There are keys for the sender to secure the email, and keys for the recipient to unlock and read the email.
But Web.com claims all the complexity of PGP is completely transparent. This means that to use it neither sender nor recipient actually needs to know which key to use. Instead when you want to send an encrypted email all you have to do is click the “send secure” button that located in the upper right corner.
Once the send secure button is turned on, Secure Mail automatically selects the right key to encrypt the email. Once sent all the recipient must do is open the email. Send Secure will again select the appropriate key to unlock the message without the recipient needing to do anything different.
It’s simple security without the need for any tech knowledge or complicated extra steps.
With a Secure Mail plan you get PGP email encryption and a number of other features. Features include tamper proof Encryption Guard that lets user “sign” an email and notifies a recipient if the email is altered in anyway. You also get 10GB email storage and 15GB files storage, an online productivity calendar, and mobile access to email, files, and calendar.
You can sign up for a Secure Mail plan through Network Solutions. Pricing starts at $7.74 a month.
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This article, "Web.com Introduces Safe Email with Encryption for Business" was first published on Small Business Trends
5 Alternative Ways To Share Content Other Than Social Media
When you want to get your content in front of new readers, tapping into the dozens of targeted platforms on social media is an obvious choice. Whether you share a blog post on Facebook or an infographic on Twitter, social media outlets boast millions of users. These established, engaged audiences give you a chance to not only get your content read, but also shared frequently.
However, there are times when you’ll need to go beyond normal social media sharing. Maybe you’ve found that your target market isn’t as active on traditional social sites as they are elsewhere. Or maybe you feel you’ve gained as much as you can from posting content to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and similar services. If you want to grow your audience further, you’ll need to think outside of the box when it comes time to share content.
Fortunately, there are plenty of options to share content besides the major social media sites. When you’re ready to take this step, pay particular attention to sites where you can share content that other people will then curate from, allowing you to get even more bang for your social buck. Here are five alternative ways to share content other than social media platforms to consider.
On Scoop.it, you can share content on specific boards that are centered around the niche topics and keywords that are relevant to your business, your industry and your audience. People start to follow your content boards – similar to Pinterest – which can drive a lot of relevant traffic to your website as a result.
Add your own unique perspective to each article that you “scoop”, and share it not only to your content category but also on your website, blog and more. Many professionals rely on Scoop.it for their own content curation efforts, so posting your work here will increase your chances of having it be shared by others.
Dubbing itself “A community of talented Bloggers and Influencers come together to read and share great content,” Triberr is another targeted place to share content other than social media.
To use Triberr, join specific tribes or groups of people sharing a specific category. By joining tribes that are related to your industry and interests, you can share content with a group of people eager to both read and share it with others. You can locate tribes exploring everything from SEO to women’s issues – there’s never a shortage of niches for you to tap into and grow your tribe.
Email marketing has proven to have a consistently high conversion rate, and sharing your content to your email list is a sure-fire way to have your content reach those who are interested in what you have to say.
You can email your list a digest of content on a regular basis, including your own fresh content and interesting pieces you’ve curated from reading others’ work. Or, send your blog posts out as an email, and include the entire text of the blog in the email message itself. Before you launch, make sure that your email service provider is setup to handle the format, graphics, and links that you want to include. If your service provider has an RSS option, use it to translate your already-published content into your email.
Not everyone enjoys reading and translating text and copy. Instead, sharing your content via video can be a great way to expand your reach. In fact, HubSpot shows that 40 percent of people respond better to visual information than written, making videos a relevant and useful option.
Videos can quickly be uploaded to a variety of sharing sites, as well as embedded in your website and sent to email subscribers. As with all content, simply creating a video or audio clip isn’t enough – you need to share and promote it. By adding it to your landing pages, email signature, and sharing sites such as Vimeo and even Google Hangouts, you’ll be able to send your content to thousands of new people without using social media.
Creating guests posts on popular business news sites such as Inc., Forbes, and Entrepreneur can be a great way to share your thoughts without using social media. When you guest post, you not only reach the audience of a much larger website, you also get the credibility of the larger site as a tacit endorsement when people read your content.
When executed correctly, guest posting can bring tremendous additional traffic to your website and landing pages, while also creating buzz around your ideas, visibility and the ability to position yourself as a thought leader in your field. The secret to successful guest posting? Being selective about where you publish. Consider all of your content sharing options and select only those that will position you and/or your brand in the best possible light.
Sharing your content doesn’t have to end with the main players of social media like Facebook and Twitter. By adopting these five alternative ways to share content other than social media, you’ll find and reach a new audience of engaged readers, viewers, and listeners every time you produce new content.
Where else do you share content outside of social media?
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This article, "5 Alternative Ways To Share Content Other Than Social Media" was first published on Small Business Trends
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Selected Impromptu Comments at the Inauguration of the Buddhist Temple of Moeung Ja Likhetaram monastery [Unofficial Translation]
A Trip of Two Destinations
I am so happy today to be able to join with Samdech Chief Monk and all of you, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, our compatriots, Buddhist monastery parishioners for the ceremony to inaugurate the Buddhist temple in the pagoda of Moeung Ja Likhetaram, in the village of Moeung Ja, Jiang Torng commune, Tramkak district, Takeo province. It is indeed a great honor for me to have been blessed by chief monk inspector and the committee of the monastery with an honor to preside over the inauguration of the temple.
I am so happy to be able to be with our people here again in this joyful Buddhist ceremony. It is an appropriate time for me to travel 77 Kilometers here from Phnom Penh and I still have another 180 Kilometers more to travel ahead. It is very fortunate that we are starting our meeting quite early in the morning and will not take much of your time. I will travel to another destination, during which I am not sure where we would have our lunch – at the designated place or along the road. However, the main event here today is to put into official use the Buddhist temple and again I thank our Buddhist monks and people for honoring me with this inauguration procedure.
Religions Uprooted under Genocide
I would like to take this opportune moment to express on behalf of the Royal Government and my own behalf my sincere appreciation for the efforts made by chief monk inspector, committee of the monastery, and parishioners in rebuilding this pagoda from damages caused by regime of Pol Pot’s genocide. According to the report of Takeo governor Lay Vannak, first built in 1770, the pagoda is now 246 years old. Due to war and the genocide, Buddhism, Islamism, and Christianity suffered heavy destruction. Since 1979, after the regime of Pol Pot fell down, with correct policy of the Cambodian People’s Party and the National United Front for Salvation of Kampuchea, Buddhism and other religions have revived and progressed.
It is true that pattern of progress of religions could not be separated from that of the whole society. Buddhism and other religions are parts of the journey of our nation. After the liberation from the regime of Pol Pot, Cambodia still had to pass through a stage of civil war for a certain period. We had to make huge efforts to stand up again and rebuild the country to today’s progress. Some of you here, looking back a bit, who are no in your 65s, 70s and 80s, were then in your 30s or so at the time of the liberation. We could think back a bit what had happened after the liberation in 1979 and now. Though age dictates, we would remember still the time when we had to pass through and how we survive the killing by Pol Pot cliques.
With progress made in every household, as a Buddhist nation, Cambodia has gone on direction in which people are contributing to build up pagoda and restore ragged monasteries destroyed under the regime of Pol Pot. The regime for instance converted the monastery into a hospital and local medicine production shop. Some monasteries in the country became places where they kept and executed prisoners. It was a tragedy. Pol Pot destroyed the country to its root – not only materials but also life of millions of people.
National Progress Ends War, Win-Win Policy Achieves Peace
We try to stand up from ashes at the time that the country was under embargo from a number of countries, while blaming us for human rights and democracy records, they ignored what Pol Pot did to the country. They punished us instead. After liberating the country from Pol Pot, some did not make know their remorse and/or how wrong they were when they removed Samdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk from power. In fact, they continue to support the regime of Pol Pot and punish the people of Cambodia. It was unity that with our two hands, we have been able to rebuild our country.
Governor of Takeo, Lay Vannak, just reported about progress made in the province. It is one aspect among many of progress achieved in the country after we ended war and genocide, and achieve peace thanks to win-win policy. Our country currently is no longer in a situation of 1979. Take for instance this monastery in 1983, what did we have? Elderly people living here may have remembered. There would be this many monks and people’s living condition was also meager. People would not be able to contribute to rebuilding infrastructure of the pagoda to a respectable state. Now we have achieved this thanks to the efforts of our people and correct leadership of the ruling Party – Cambodian People’s Party.
Peace Brings Investments
I started my journey here at six in the morning and traveled by the Phnom Penh International Airport to get to the National Road 3. I saw many trucks loaded with workers to work. Should the country have no peace, no country would have made any progress and where would the workers be? No investors would come in. It is true that some of you have someone in the families to go work in factory or enterprises. Without progress made, there would not be new jobs for our people. It was because of our joint efforts, peace and stability that investors come.
Last week I was in Malaysia working with leaders from other countries, investors, economists on discussions about development in ASEAN countries. They have noted progress achieved in Cambodia. Organizer of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN posed a question to me on how Cambodia managed to achieve 7.7% growth in a period of 20 years consecutively. They wished to understand the progress we made. In some countries, economic progress has up and down. We did too. However, on an average rate, in a period of 20 years, we still have 7.7% growth rate. It is a difficult target to maintain.
This fact has shown clearly that peace that we hardly won has a value that is precious for the people’s living condition, because we are able to achieve development in every front. Our farmers also benefit largely from it. I understand though that they suffered from subjective price factor. I may have their attention that it is not a case of Cambodia suffering it alone. Many countries in the world had their parts in it too. Governor had his report about number of roads, schools, and water canals built. As a comparison, considering what we had when we started, and what we have achieved now, there is a vast difference.
Secular and Buddhist Worlds Exist Together
Talking about this monastery, I am so happy to see that in adjacent to it is a school. In the past, we have not many schools that were outside of the pagoda compounds. That had created some misunderstandings among foreigners. During my visit in 1980s to foreign countries, there was a general understanding that young boy in Cambodia had to be monks. I explained to them that in older days, to get their boys educated, people had to either send their boys into monkhood or live and serve Buddhist monks in exchange for education.
Now that secular world and Buddhist world make progress altogether, there are more schools built on locations not within the monastery compound anymore. I sure hope that being adjacent to the pagoda, schooling activities would not disturb the serenity of the Buddhist world. There have been problem concerning land separation between schools and monasteries. I am calling for the fact that people do not infringe upon each other – schools and monasteries. Some people claimed land from monasteries to build homes. While in deep disagreement, they asked for Prime Minister’s intervention. I would send in the Ministry of Cult and Religious Affairs to intervene. I hope we all agree that we have property of the monastery to take care of […]
Buddhist Monks to Educate People to Stay Away from Drug
I am calling for help from Samdech Chief Monk on issue of drug, which is rampant in the country. Many foreign countries have complained of this problem. We have now problems of drug, lottery number, cock fight, etc. When they lost their deals, some may resort to thefts and robberies. We must stand united on this issue. Everyone must act on individual basis. If everyone performs, we may not need police for crimes, except to take care of traffic.
There have been wrongdoings also in the sphere of Buddhist monks. Some monks misbehaved and only that monk should be brought for punishment and not the whole pagoda. We have seen that Buddhist leaders have always taken appropriate actions against misconducts of Buddhist monks. They would not let the individual monk misbehave and take no notice of Buddhist disciplines. I also believe that in every political and/or humanitarian organization, a person in it should be responsible for his/her own action […]
Some people have committed mistakes and have taken organizations or group of people to shield him-herself. Some organizations have defended him/her. I am calling for a clear thought. Take for instance during the Khmer New Year this year, (a Buddhist monk) sang karaoke. It was speechless. There was nothing to say. I am sure the Buddhist Chief Monk also had nothing to say. However, I appreciate that the individual monk did not protest taking Buddhism and/or Buddhist Monks Directors as shields.
End Ramadan with Islam, Have a Gathering with Christianity
Today is the first day of Ramadan or fast day of Islam. Though we are in the Buddhist monastery, please allow me to send a message on behalf of the Royal Government and my own to Muslims in the whole Kingdom of Cambodia and others to be blessed by Allah with protection and benefit. On 14 June, besides my engagement with Buddhist programs, I will join Cambodian Muslims to celebrate a ceremony to end Ramadan or break the fast. I will then follow to joining a get together with people who follow Christianity. I am a Buddhist, but we have this harmonization of religious policy and there is no such thing as discrimination against religions. I hope Buddhist followers understand this and will not criticize me for doing what I have said […]
Loan Interest
It has now become a true story. I told you not to get involved. A company has promised people 10% interest every month to invest in their project. Nine families of handicap soldiers in Ta Ken Koh Sla faced with problems of losing their homes. To get an easy profit, they borrow from one moneylender at 7% interest rate per month to invest in the project, which doing so would leave them 3% every month. Now they brought this issue into my Facebook and asked for help. I could not. If building a temple here and the chief monk owed money, I could raise money to help pay it [..]
Thanks for People’s Supports
I thank HE Chan Sarun and Lok Chumteav for paying the debt of the Buddhist head monk here but I urge carefulness as it would be risky be-known to thieves or robbers. I thank people for voting the Cambodian People’s Party and my leadership. I hope to enjoy further support. We have shared hardship and happiness together for 37 years now and no one helps you build temples, schools, water canals, wells, and reservoirs. Only some scolded us … I am so happy to see that while there is sufficient rain, people started working and I see green crops growing all the way here. Look, in France, they have severe flooding from Seine because of heavy rain. It is unprecedented in 30 years.
We have had not enough rain but we also have to be careful that it may come in abundance once. I came here wearing white shirt today as a wise man. I posed a selfied photo and there are over 20,000 likes. I wrote in my Facebook informing people that I am coming to inaugurate a Buddhist temple in Moueng Ja village, Jiang Torng commune, Tramkak district, Takeo province. I also advised that secular and Buddhist worlds make progress together and complement each other. I also share people the merit from this Buddhist activity […]./.
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It’s important that you levelling in certain areas around your characters level to gain the full XP reward for slaying monsters. Below is a list of all the best location for grinding XP from level 1 to 60, these locations are good for AOE spells and should have plenty of mobs. The Level you should be before you enter that specific location will be indicated to left in a Blue Color for Alliance [Lvl 35-39] and Orange Color for Horde [Lvl 35-39] the Mobs you are looking for Bolded [Mob Name].
Nov 14 social questions, and a few others Hello! so i played wow 7 years ago, and remember it being really social. People would chat or answer questions. But after restarting a few days ago I've gone from lvl 1 to lvl 23 without getting a single reply to the odd question i've had. i'm not overdoing it or anything.. Do people not use the general chat at all? Is the game more group oriented now? Have i missed some setting? other than that - what does the well rested thing mean, and should I be using 2 pets for my hunter. Thanks for the help! OxfordEichi5 Nov 14
Now that you know to loot everything (see tip #1), you’ll have a lot of items in your bags. Any item that is white quality or greater may sell on the Auction House. How do you know what will sell well on the auction house? Trade goods and green quality (or better) items will almost always sell on the Auction House. See our Auction House guide (coming soon!) for more information.
However, after a while the novelty of it wears off and you do start getting a little bored of all the eating and drinking (and wondering why your character isn't getting to Kul Tiran levels of fat), especially if you hop on to BfA for a bit in between. The difference is huge and once you're used to just slamming into 5 mobs and downing them quickly it can get a bit boring to just pull 1 mob at a time and then wait and wait. The really low levels aren't that different between live and Classic in terms of gameplay however, as the small amount of abilities means combat isn't exactly the most exciting thing in either. On live you get past that pretty quickly, but it takes a while longer in Classic (especially if you're playing solo).
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Logging in for the first time, being welcomed by THAT login screen and THAT music... You can't not be taken back if you've played Vanilla, and especially if you've played 2 years of it non-stop all day every day. I probably stayed 10 minutes in character creation just because of the music alone (and trying to get my character looking exactly as it did back then - although I wasn't a shaman then). The whole intro experience was especially amazing for me since the Tauren starting zone was my first encounter with WoW in the EU beta, and a little bit of that spark did return. But is that all Classic has to offer? A trip back in time when we were wowed by the game for the very first time?
To celebrate World of Warcraft’s 15th anniversary, Blizzard is planning to release an authentic recreation of its early days with WoW Classic. Players will be able to explore Azeroth as it originally was before the release of WoW’s many expansion sets. Initially it’ll feature encounters like Molten Core, Onyxia and Maraudon at launch and will see more content rolled out as the game goes on (such as Alterac Valley, the Ahn’Qiraj War Effort and Naxxramas). It’s not just the world that’s reverting to its classic form either – the combat mechanics, skill trees and character models will be as they were in the original too.
Oct 24 A Return to World of Warcraft: Player Guide So you’ve decided to return to World of Warcraft. Welcome back! There’s just one thing you’ll need before jumping back into the fray—knowledge. To aid you in making your glorious comeback, we’ve compiled some handy information every returning hero should know. Once armed with knowledge, nothing (and no one) will stand in your way. http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/8876440/Nethaera214 Oct 24
Most profitable professions are considered to be Herbalism and Enchanting in pair. You can have Enchanting only for Disenchanting skill, it will bring decent gold. Consider the fact of disenchanting all soulbound armor, not just selling them to a vendor, but I do not recommend to disenchant any kind of weapons, it is more profitable to sell it to a merchant if it is a soulbound item, or sell it on auction house if it is BoE (bind on equip).
Because the thing is, that sentence applies to both sides and it drives me crazy. Most comments about either Classic or Battle for Azeroth end up in mud-slinging matches for no real reason other then one side is being negative about the other side's favorite version of WoW. And the funny thing is, there are way, WAY more commonalities than differences in there, after you remove the ego of "my WoW is/was better yours sucks". In the end, no matter what anyone says, they are talking and arguing and fighting about it because they care about WoW.
Good question. Me personally, when I use a new strat from somebody else, I always read thru the strat, and in the case I really need to level some pet, I then (likely) exclude strats that are mentioning things like “RNG”, “risk”, etc. But: I’m always happy (when using a new strat) when I see some detailed infos, so that I can estimate what is going to happen. But YMMV.
Nov 7 Game buying guide for confused ppl like me For those of you who were confused as i was, this is about buying the game and what you get so for 15$ subscription - you get all past expansion and 1 month of game time for battle for azeroth (49.99$) - you get the newest expansion for WoW complete collection (59.99) - Newest expansion / 1 month of game time / 110 boost(1x only) I was confused for awhile but now i know that the 49.99$ is the Worst deal ever. I am going to buy some game time for now, and jump up to the 60$ bundle later. The boost is a 60$ value / 1 month of wow 15$ value / and the expansion is a 50$. TOTAL is : 125$ value for 60$. Great deal. So the complete collection is really sweet :) Hope this helps other people. I am buying the game time today and working on this monk. Cheers.Promonk11 Nov 7
1. Vue d'ensemble de la classe Voleur 2. La meilleure race pour Voleur 3. Astuces leveling pour le Voleur 4. Les poison du Voleur 5. Addons pour Voleur 6. La meilleure spé pour le leveling 7. La spé alternative : « Frontstabbing » 8. Rotation optimisée pour le leveling 9. Stats conseillées pour le leveling 10. Liste des meilleures épées 11. Liste des meilleures dagues
This is the first faction exclusive class available only for the Alliance players. Paladins in World of Warcraft: Classic end-game were considered as one of the best single target healers around. However, other Paladin specs were not that popular. While Protection Paladins found their spot with tanking groups of mobs across the dungeons, Retribution Paladins weren’t very popular in the end-game. However, Paladins were amazing levelers and World PvP participants due to their amazing utility skills and ‘oh shit’ buttons such as Lay on Hands or Bubble.
When hovering over an ability, the tooltip will tell you whether or not that attack is weak or strong against certain pet types. Additionally, you can hover over the opposing team's pets and view their attacks during combat. This will be important since it’s a good idea to pit a pet that's strong against the opponent's pet who's vulnerable to that type.
This is definitely why we do a beta test. We can also do things like reset the realm at a busy time like 4:30pm PDT to try and find the source of a certain issue where a crocolisk is losing it’s brain due to how multiple processes are interacting and mirroring code to form a cohesive world. There were similar types of issues like this back in 2004 but we wanted to try and resolve this one before the weekend for the folks who are testing.
FYI: If you’re returning to WoW after an extended absence prior to patch 5.0.1, it’s possible that you’ll have more than the maximum pet limit and/or more than 3 of a kind. However, this will be the only time that you’re allowed to surpass these limits. You will have to pare down your collection, eliminating your duplicates, in order to add new pets.
The Horde levels 50-60 guide has been rewritten and revamped. My 1-60 Horde leveling guide is now completely updated for the 1.12 Drums of War patch. As you can see it is about 15% larger than the 40-50 guide (single largest guide page yet). There is also a lot of route changes. I moved the entire Silithus section from level 55 to level 58, which allowed me to include a lot more quests for that zone. There is also a lot of other improvement to the route, including adding a lot more quests into the guide, mostly from Moonglade, Silithus and Eastern Plaguelands. This will make the final level 59 grind much shorter.
The main topic for Classic at the moment would be whether the game is actually harder or just has more redundant activities you have to do before doing the stuff that's really fun. This is actually a good discussion to have, and not just for WoW, but gaming in general. The main sticking point for now, as most people are on (relatively) low levels is the breaks between killing mobs, especially for mana users. In the beginning it's actually refreshing having to think about what you can and can't pull, not just running into a bunch of mobs and killing them in *insert current optimal time to kill Blizzard determined is the most fun*. The food/drink breaks after a few (or even one) mobs provide time to actually look around the scenery and the mobs you're facing, and while there isn't much strategy involved at these levels, you still at least pretend to plan out how you're going to get to that quest mob without being killed by the 4 random ones surrounding them. Not being able to pull whatever mob you want, and actually having to check what mobs are there when you don't have interrupts yet (casters tend to be a nightmare) is definitely more difficult in a real way than what we have today. As a caster, having to actually think about which spells to use based on mana cost (and perhaps even using lower ranked ones) is definitely more difficult and requires more engagement with your character than we have in modern WoW.
Analogy: think back on riding the swings in kindergarten. Was it fun? Now, imagine going back to those swings exactly as they were, and sitting in them now, as an adult. They're too small. They don't fit. Your feet drag on the ground because they're so low to the ground. The bar over your head is low enough that you can reach out and touch it, and even at the highest the swing will go, it's only about chest high when you're standing up. It's exactly the same swing, but riding on it now is a very different experience, yes?
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The Scarlet Empress
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Arriving on the almost impossibly ancient planet of Hyspero, a world where magic and danger walk hand in hand, The Doctor and Sam are caught up in a bizarre struggle for survival.
Hyspero has been ruled for thousands of years by the Scarlet Empresses, creatures of dangerous powers — powers that a member of The Doctor’s own race is keen to possess herself: the eccentric time traveller and philanderer known only as Iris Wildthyme.
As the real reasons for Iris’s obsession become clear, The Doctor and Sam must embark on a perilous journey across deserts, mountains, forests and oceans. Both friends and foes are found among spirits, djinns, alligator men and golden bears — but in a land where the magical is possible, is anything really as it seems?
The Scarlet Empress is the fifteenth BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel. It was written by Paul Magrs. It features the Eighth Doctor and Samantha Jones. It is also the first full length novel to feature Iris Wildthyme, a Time Lady
The Doctor describes himself as an ethnomethodologist and his job as being keeping everyone out of the trap of genre-death.
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Sam suggests to The Doctor the TARDIS should have a white and luminous control room and look a bit more futuristic, than the gothicness that it currently looks like.
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NREL scientists are developing windows that can generate electricity and provide their own shade
Glass that darkens when exposed to sunlight is nothing new, but scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden have developed a product that not only darkens but can generate electricity.
Scientist Lance Wheeler was experimenting using gas molecules that move through an absorbent layer of glass that acts as a solar power cell when he placed the glass on a hot plate to dry after treating it with methylamine gas.
As the glass heated, it turned brown. When he removed it from the heat source, it became transparent.
“He was just making a solar cell, but he didn’t expect it to act the way it did. That was really a ‘What was that?’ moment,” said Robert Tenent, NREL senior scientist for window technology who worked with Wheeler. He played with it for a bit and came to us and said,
How Corporations ‘Bypassed the Politics’ to Lead on Clean Energy in 2017
When President Trump announced plans to withdraw from the Paris climate accord attention quickly turned to corporate America. Would business leaders forge ahead in the fight against climate change in the absence of federal backing?
In 2017, at least, the answer is yes.
As of December 12, when heads of state joined to commemorate the second anniversary of the Paris Agreement, 327 major corporations, worth a cumulative $6.5 trillion, had committed to matching their emission reduction plans with the Paris goals through the Science Based Targets initiative. Another 864 companies have stated their intention to adopt a science-based target within two years.
Social Security Administration announces small increase in 2018 wage base
The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced Friday that the maximum amount of wages in 2018 subject to the 6.2% Social Security tax (old age, survivor, and disability insurance) will rise from $127,200 to $128,400, an increase of a little more than 1%. By comparison, the 2017 wage base increased more than 7% over the 2016 wage base.
The maximum amount of Social Security tax a taxpayer could pay will therefore increase from $7,886.40 in 2017 to $7,960.80 in 2018, an increase of $74.40.
The SSA also announced that Social Security beneficiaries will get a 2% increase in benefits in 2018, after receiving a 0.3% increase in benefits in 2017 and no increase in 2016. The average retiree will receive an increase of $27 a month.
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How Does Solar Energy Actually Work?
Solar panels house groups of photovoltaic (PV) cells, which turn the sun’s UV rays directly into electricity. Several panels together are called a solar array.
The electricity your solar panels generate is DC, not the AC electricity needed by all the energy-consumers at your nonprofit, like computers, printers, and heating or air conditioning.
So you’ll install an inverter to convert the DC electricity into usable AC electricity.
Your solar-generated electricity will flow to your electrical box and then straight into your office, building, warehouse, etc.
Powering your devices and everything else will work exactly the same — flip on a switch or plug something in and no one will ever never know the difference
Solar: Your Production Won’t Lose Value
People often approach us with the question, “I work during the day, and I’m at home at night. What happens to the energy my system produces if I’m not at home?” Here’s our answer: You’re never going to lose the value of the power your solar system produces. The entire solar industry hinges on the ability for the consumer to get full retail credit for their solar production. What makes solar viable in the state of California is the fact that utility companies are mandated to compensate you for that power you produce.
The truth is, your next door neighbor is probably the one using the power your system produced while you’re at work. Electricity occurs in real-time; it is consumed as it is produced. The only case in which this isn’t true is if you aren’t tied to the grid.
Spin Your Meter Backwards
Your electric meter is “bidirectional”. Your electric meter runs backward as it measures the energy you produce from your solar system, crediting you for production. But, it also will run forward each time you need to pull electricity from the grid. PG&E will take your “net” energy difference and it will be reflected on your monthly utility bill. You will be credited the same value per watt for energy produced as you’re being charged when you consume.
Build Up Credit
The great thing about this system is that in the sunshine months of the year that you aren’t using a whole lot of power (April, May, October), but are producing tons of energy – your meter is running backwards. You should see a credit each month on your PG&E statement, which carries over to the next month. So when the summer or winter months do hit, you are able to live more comfortably without breaking the bank, using up some of those accumulated credits from prior months.
What’s Changed with NEM
Net Energy Metering (NEM) has been an important component in the rise of solar system installations in the past decade, and for good reason. It allows owners of residential and commercial solar systems to facilitate and monitor their energy production. PG&E made some changes last year concerning their net metering program, and implemented NEM 2.0.
Most of the program’s changes are comprised of what are called “non-bypassable charges”. PG&E will now charge you 2 cents per watt whenever you pull from the grid. Homeowners with solar were exempt from this charge prior to 2016. However this should only amount to 200-600 kw from the grid, $8-12 per month. Compared to other states, California’s changes were pretty user-friendly and we’re optimistic about our state’s future policies when it comes to solar.
Wild Horse Wind Facility reached a NEW Energy Milestone!
On Monday, the Wild Horse Wind Facility reached an energy milestone, surpassing 7,000,000 megawatt hours of production. This includes production from Wild Horse Phase 1, which came online in November 2006, and Wild Horse Phase 2 (Whiskey Ridge) which came online in the fall of 2009. October has been a wild month for weather at Wild Horse, with thunderstorms, two days of snow, and a gust on Oct. 17 that reached 90 mph. (Photo by Andrea Nesbitt)
Fire at the Meter — Tioga Road
On Friday, 10/20/17, an alert resident of Tioga Road noticed a fire occurring at the electric meter of a nearby home. The resident called 911 to request the fire department and then began to spray water on the fire. Hayward Firefighters in an effort to ensure the fire was fully extinguished made contact with an occupant of the home to check the home to ensure there were no fires in the walls or attic. Firefighters discovered the home was being used to grow a large amount of marijuana prompting for a police investigation. Patrol officers suspected this was an illegal grow and called in the Narcotics Unit. A search warrant resulted in the seizure of more than 400 mature plants weighing more than 300 pounds with a street value of more than $500,000.
The conversion of a home to an illegal marijuana grow can be a dangerous operation creating significant fire and ecological hazards to a neighborhood. Why? Electrical circuits can be overloaded causing a fire which if not noticed could cause catastrophic damage to life and property. Often these grows use large quantities of chemical fertilizers that can be a health hazard and the plants require a lot of water exceeding the normal household use.
This grow operation grossly exceeded the recently passed personal use and possession laws and created unreasonable and unnecessary dangers to the innocent neighbors.
Thank you to the neighbor who spotted this fire and prevented a serious catastrophe!
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Syrians Prep ‘Day of Defiance’
Updated Apr. 24, 2017 3:45PM ET / Published May. 06, 2011 2:08AM ET
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After a 10-day massacre, the Syrian government has withdrawn tanks from Daraa—and Syrian activists are already preparing to head back onto the streets Friday for a “day of defiance.” The withdrawal of the tanks does not mean the day will not be violent: Security forces are reported to be gathering in other cities, including Baniyas, which has been the site of previous demonstrations. Armored personnel carriers and tanks have been seen near Baniyas, causing some residents to fear a siege like the one in Daraa. More than 500 Syrians have died during the crackdown over the last seven weeks.
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WATCH: Jeremy Guthrie jostles with ballboy for foul balls
By Joe Nguyen
Kansas City Royals pitcher Jeremy Guthrie (11) poses with Star Wars characters on Star Wars Day prior to the game against the Chicago White Sox at Kauffman Stadium on Aug. 9, 2015 in Kansas City, Mo. (Jamie Squire, Getty Images)
Kansas City starter Jeremy Guthrie had some fun from the bullpen this weekend, battling a Tampa Bay ballboy for foul balls this weekend.
Guthrie, who played with the Rockies in 2012, outhustled the kid, cutting in front of him twice to field a pair of ground balls that went foul.
According to the announces, the final score was Guthrie 3, Ballboy 2.
Watch the video from Saturday’s game:
Categories: American League, Former Rockies
April 11, 2013, 12:03 pm
Aaron Harang headed to Seattle Mariners for minor leaguer Steven Hensley
By Troy E. Renck
The Rockies never intended to keep pitcher Aaron Harang. He was viewed as a pawn to move Ramon Hernandez, while recouping some of the $3.2 million remaining on the catcher’s contract. In sending Hernandez to the Dodgers, the Rockies saved $500,000, which covers Jon Garland’s base salary.
The Rockies sent Harang and cash to Mariners for Triple-A right-hander Steven Hensley.
Fox Sports and CBSSportsline first reported the trade. The Post named Hensley as the player involved in the deal.
According to scouts, Hensley is a fastball-slider-changeup pitcher who is considered a fringe prospect. He will add depth to the minor league system. Hensley, 26, made two relief appearances in Triple-A this season without receiving a decision (2.2 ip, 2 h, 1 r/er). He owns a 30-30 career record with a 4.48 ERA (466.0 innings pitched, 232 earned runs), 178 walks and 374 strikeouts in 121 career minor league games. It has not been determined whether he will go to AA or Triple-A. He is not on the 40-man roster.
The deal is odd on a few levels. The Mariners would not have needed Harang had they just kept Garland in spring training. But they decided he was throwing too many breaking balls and not enough sinkers in his last few outings, so they let him opt out of his contract last month instead of adding him to their roster.
The Rockies scooped him up, and he starts Friday in San Diego trying to snap Colorado’s three-game losing streak. He won his Rockies debut last Saturday, beating the Padres. Hernandez became expendable with the signing of Yorvit Torrealba last winter. Torrealba was viewed as a better mentor for Wilin Rosario — unlike Hernandez, Torrealba has been a backup throughout his career. Hernandez, a pro and popular in the clubhouse, did not hit well in spring and with no trade partners emerging was designated for assignment before the team headed to Salt Lake City for its final exhibition game.
It was frankly surprising that the Rockies were able to trade Hernandez. But the Dodgers stepped in and provided Colorado with cash offset and Harang, a chip the Rockies felt they could use to acquire a young player, something that was not possible with Hernandez. As for why the Rockies didn’t keep Harang, they said they preferred their current staff and clearly did not want to use a 40-man spot on a flyball pitcher.
There’s no question that Harang pitched better than any of the Rockies’ starters last year, but he wasn’t calling Coors Field home. After the failed experiment with Jeremy Guthrie and Guillermo Moscoso, the Rockies have moved away from flyball pitchers in free agency and trades.
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Jeff Francis spells success for Rockies; Chris Nelson cleared to work out
PHOENIX — There was a nostalgic feel to the Rockies’ clubhouse. Music played loudly, Flo Rida’s “Whistle” leaving a few players smiling. Vinny Castilla made the trip. And he’s straight old school. Over near the corner was Jeff Francis, the ace of the 2007 World Series team.
He’s pitching as well now as he did that season. His terrific six-inning performance, amplified by the restraints of the four-man rotation, shoved the Rockies to a 4-2 victory over the Diamondbacks.
Since Francis rejoined the team on June 9, the Rockies are 8-2 in his games and 5-25 when anyone else starts.
“It’s very gratifying. Regardless of whether I get a win, the fact that we are winning some of the games. It’s good that I can help give us a boost,” Francis said. “Hopefully it turns out well in the long run.”
Francis would like to return to the Rockies as a free agent, but knows he has to continue to perform over the next two months. He represents a veteran, stabilizing force. Frankly, he’s the pitcher that Jeremy Guthrie was supposed to be. Francis signed for a pro-rated $750,000. Guthrie was making $8.2 million, $1.1 million of which Rockies saved by shipping him to the the Royals.
In six weeks, Francis has established himself as the staff ace.
“It was a pitching exhibition,” manager Jim Tracy said. “We pitched, played good defense and had some good situational at-bats. I hope the other (starters) are paying attention to what Francis is doing.”
Tracy also praised Wilin Rosario for his game-calling and overall defense, calling him into his office afterward to tell him it was his best game. Despite a tight left ankle, Rosario blocked several pitches and remained in sync with his staff all night.
“He said he was proud of me. It makes me feel good that my hard work is paying off,” said Rosario, who has been putting in extra time with catching instructor Jerry Weinstein in an effort to improve.
Chris Nelson, who was hospitalized before the road trip with an irregular heartbeat, was cleared by a cardiologist to begin activity. He will do light work for five days before beginning baseball activity. … The plan remains to activate first baseman Todd Helton (right hip) Friday for the opening of the Cardinals series. … The Rockies snapped a four-game losing streak against the Diamondbacks. … Francis is the second Rockies’ starter to work into the seventh inning since June 4, a streak spanning 43 games.
July 7, 2012, 12:02 pm
Rockies set second-half rotation; hot-hitting Tyler Colvin starts in right
By Patrick Saunders
WASHINGTON — Manager Jim Tracy has mapped out the Rockies’ starting rotation for the second half of the season.
Lefty Christian Friedrich will start the first game after the all-star break against the Phillies on Friday, July 13, followed by right-hander Jeremy Guthrie, lefty Drew Pomeranz and lefty Jeff Francis. Tracy set up the rotation so that Pomeranz will get an extra day between his starts as he adjusts to the Rockies’ four-man rotation. The Rockies have an off day on July 19, meaning Pomeranz will get the traditional four days off between starts.
The Rockies are operating on a four-starter system, but Pomeranz was throwing in a five-man rotation at Triple-A Colorado Springs and has yet to throw with just three days between starts. His first turn on three days’ rest will be July 24.
Entering the season, the Rockies gameplan was to carefully monitor Pomeranz’s workload. He’s in just his second year of professional baseball and the Rockies don’t want to over-burden the left-hander.
Pomeranz entered 2012 with 119 1/3 innings pitched in pro ball. He sits at 82 innings at the all-star break this season, including 31 1/3 in the Majors.
As for Saturday afternoon’s game, sizzling Tyler Colvin gets another start, this time in right field, as the Rockies take on the Nationals. Temperatures in the nation’s capital are expected to hit 105 degrees with a heat index of 110 degrees.
Michael Cuddyer starts at first base as Todd Helton continues to rest his sore hip.
How hot is Colvin? He has five homers and 10 RBIs in the first five games of the current road trip. Since June 9, he’s batting .372 (29-for-78) with seven doubles, two triples, 10 homers, 27 RBIs and a 1.307 OPS (.410 OBP, .897 slugging).
Here are today’s lineups:
Rockies 32-51
2B Marco Scutaro
1B Michael Cuddyer
RF Tyler Colvin
3B Jordan Pacheco
C Wilin Rosario
SS Jonathan Herrera
LHP Jeff Francis
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2B Danny Espinosa
CF Bryce Harper
3B Ryan Zimmerman
RF Michael Morse
1B Adam LaRoche
SS Ian Desmond
LF Tyler Moore
C Jesus Flores
LHP Gio Gonzalez
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Juan Nicasio scratched from simulated game because of knee problem
ST. LOUIS — Juan Nicasio walked around in a good mood Wednesday afternoon, joking with teammates, including Drew Pomeranz. It was hard to find a reason to smile Wednesday night as he was scratched from Thursday’s simulated game because of fluid buildup in his left knee.
He was supposed to throw four innings against hitters at Busch Stadium, fielding bunts and covering first base on a groundball. Had he passed, he would have likely headed out on a rehab assignment. This setback leaves his return uncertain and comes after he did agility drills Tuesday. He’s been out since June 2, hurting his knee as he twisted to a field a groundball against the Dodgers.
Nicasio has been one of baseball’s best stories, returning from a fractured C-1 vertebrae suffered last August. He went 2-3 with a 5.28 ERA in 11 starts before the injury. The good news is that he has continued playing catch since he landing on the disabled list, prevent a loss of arm strength.
Nicasio’s setback is the latest to a rotation that has been hit hard by injuries. Jhoulys Chacin has not pitched since May 1 because of a nerve injury in his right pectoral muscle. If all goes as planned, he could return in early August. Jorge De La Rosa figured to be back by now after undergoing elbow ligament surgery last May, but was shut down with fluid in his left elbow. An exam revealed no structural damage, but De La Rosa is not cleared to throw yet. He might not pitch in the big leagues this season.
In other notes
–In the first game of his Triple-A rehab assignment, catcher Ramon Hernandez caught five innings. He’s expected to return soon after the all-star break.
–The Rockies’ Carlos Gonzalez posted his 31st multi-hit game, tying him for second with the Cardinals’ Matt Holliday.
–Jeremy Guthrie delivered his first career RBI with a fifth-inning single.
–The official game temperature of 103 degrees was the highest for a first pitch temperature in St. Louis since it was recorded as an official statistic in 1988, according to Elias.
Josh Outman still in rotation, but likely to lose spot to Guthrie
ST. LOUIS — The Rockies are sticking with the four-man rotation. They currently have five starters. Josh Outman figures to be the man without a chair when the music stops this weekend. Manager Jim Tracy said Tuesday that it’s fair to speculate on Outman losing his spot to Jeremy Guthrie, who starts Wednesday.
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Josh Outman could be out of Rockies’ rotation after latest outing
ST. LOUIS — It was a rude homecoming for Josh Outman. The left-hander’s return to St. Louis might be marked by a return to the bullpen. His spot in the rotation is in jeopardy after he tied a career-high with five walks in three innings, throwing more balls (36) than strikes (34) in the Rockies’ 9-3 loss to the Cardinals on Monday.
“It was a comedy of mistakes,” Outman said. “My mindset is the same — to attack the zone. I really think it’s physical. I haven’t been able to command my pitches. I am falling behind hitters. It was one thing after another. Most of it was mechanical.”
Outman has a 10.17 ERA over his last six starts. Manager Jim Tracy said he would “look at” Outman’s status in the rotation given his string of poor performances. Tyler Chatwood, a potential replacement, was hit hard again Monday, so he’s unlikely to start. The Rockies could use Jeremy Guthrie in that spot if they juggled some assignments. Guthrie is pitching Wednesday, making his first start since June 17. He was added to the rotation to give Christian Friedrich’s sore and swollen right calf an extra day to heal.
“It should be fine. But they don’t want me out there altering my mechanics,” said Friedrich, who rode the bike Monday, but did not throw a side session.
Center fielder Dexter Fowler said his sore left lat muscle felt better after treatment. He entered late in Monday’s game and is expected to start Tuesday. … All-star Carlos Gonzalez extended his hitting streak to 10 games (15-for-39) with a first-inning single. … Catcher Wilin Rosario, the Baby Bull, is scalding. He has hit safely in 11 of 13 games, batting .333 (17-for-51, five home runs, 11 RBIs). Rosario is on pace to break Todd Helton’s Rockies’ rookie record of 25 home runs. … The Rockies have lost 18 of their last 24 games. … The Rockies’ starters own a 6.27 ERA for the season. … Tyler Colvin has five home runs against the Cardinals in his career.
Dexter Fowler’s sore left lat keeps him out of lineup; Jeremy Guthrie starts again
ST. LOUIS — Dexter Fowler’s absence from the lineup creates attention given his recent homestand. The center fielder went 12-for-27 with six extra-base hits, but is not starting tonight in St. Louis because of sore left lat muscle.
It’s not considered serious, but manager Jim Tracy didn’t want to risk an injury. Eric Young Jr. is in center field with Tyler Colvin in right. Michael Cuddyer shifts to first base with Todd Helton resting because of a sore right hip.
The Rockies’ also tweaked their rotation as Jeremy Guthrie is starting again. He will go on Wednesday. With Christian Friedrich dealing with a slight right calf issue after getting hit by a batted ball, he was pushed back to Thursday, with Drew Pomeranz going on Friday in Washington. So the rotation is as follows: Monday: Josh Outman; Tuesday: Jeff Francis; Wednesday: Guthrie; Thursday: Friedrich; Friday: Pomeranz.
Guthrie isn’t necessarily on the 75-pitch count. If he throws well the rotation could be tweaked to include him with Outman going to the bullpen. There was no talk of keeping a five-man rotation.
Outman faces the Cardinals tonight. He has allowed five runs in four of his last five starts, and owns a 12.15 ERA on the road. The piggyback relievers for tonight’s game, if needed, are Tyler Chatwood and Josh Roenicke.
Guthrie, who has made four relief appearances since being bumped from the rotation on June 19, posting a 2.61 ERA, has been a much better pitcher on the road this season than at Coors Field.
In other notes, right-hander Juan Nicasio will throw a simulated game on Thursday as he approaches a rehab assignment. Jhoulys Chacin feels stronger than he has any point this season. He’s added curveballs to his side sessions and believes he will return sometime in August.
Rockies lineup:
CF Young Jr.
SS Scutaro
1B Cuddyer
RF Colvin
3B Pacheco
2B Nelson
C Rosario
LHP Outman
SS Furcal
CF Jay
LF Holliday
RF Beltran
1B Craig
C Molina
3B Freese
2B Descalso
RHP Lohse
John Smoltz likes Rockies’ four-man rotation experiment
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John Smoltz in 2007.
During a TBS conference call today to discuss the All-Star game, former Atlanta Braves great John Smoltz told The Denver Post that he likes the Rockies’ four-man rotation experiment. The 75-pitch count, he admitted, needs to be increased. But given Colorado’s struggles — the starters own a 6.38 ERA entering Wednesday’s game against the Nationals — he said it’s time to think outside the box.
“It’s something I have always said that Colorado needs to do. It’s hard to develop homegrown pitchers and hard to get guys to eat innings,” Smoltz said.
“You don’t have the depth, so why not? You treat it like it’s spring training where you have three-to-four pitchers. I think it’s a really good idea. It could keep them fresh. Personally, I like it.”
Marco Scutaro talks about base-running mistake in Rockies’ loss
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Marco Scutaro sat at his locker, staring ahead in disbelief.
“I bet you have seen (stuff) on this trip that you have never seen before,” Scutaro said.
He was corrrect. What happened in the ninth inning, was an “Only the Rockies” moment in a forgettable season. Eric Young Jr. was at second base (he should have tagged and moved to third on Carlos Gonzalez’s flyball, but that’s another story). Scutaro stood at first base after a previous RBI single. It was 4-2 with Jason Giambi hitting. Joe Nathan’s string of 16 straight scoreless appearances had been snapped. The right-hander was knee-deep in quicksand.
He fired a slider to Giambi that bounced in the dirt. Young broke a few steps toward third and stopped. Scutaro saw Young take off, so he headed to second. Scutaro was immediately trapped in a rundown, which wasn’t the worst thing that happened on this play, hinting at just how weird and demoralizing it was. Scutaro stayed in the rundown then broke toward second.
Scutaro slid hard into the base. Umpire D.J. Reyburn signaled safe. And Scutaro fell off the bag and was quickly tagged out by Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus.
“I am not sure why I bounced back the way I did. To say something clearly, I would be lying. I need to see the video. It happened so fast,” Scutaro said. “It was like (snap of fingers). When you make a mistake like that in that situation, it’s hard. I was mad. The whole game we had a lot of opportunities. To be in a situation like this, it’s tough. Really tough.”
After Scutaro was retired, Giambi struck out, extinguishing the rally and cementing one of the more bizarre endings in this awful season. The Rockies lost for the 14th time in 17 games and finished a baseball-worst 2-13 in interleague play.
Carlos Gonzalez nearly put the Rockies ahead in the ninth, rocketing a Nathan fastball into the left-center gap. Josh Hamilton made a running grab at the 390-foot marker, ramming into the wall. Moments later, the rally and game were over.
“I just said that to myself after that play (with Scutaro). What else can happen to us?” Gonzalez said. “It’s been a rough year so far, and everytime that we create something, something weird happens.”
Manager Jim Tracy would not address whether right-hander Alex White would remain in the rotation. He has regressed in his last three starts and recorded only eight outs in Sunday’s loss. Jeremy Guthrie has emerged as a candidate to replace him. He has strung together 6 1/3 scoreless innings in relief. Said Guthrie, “I am just trying to take the ball when they give it to me. They said I forced their hand when they put me where I am at. I didn’t try to force their hand that way. I am just trying to get people out. I am grateful for the opportunity to pitch. It’s a small sample. I told you the last 3-4 weeks that I was making progress. (Pitching coach Bob Apodaca) Dac and I have come up with some really good things to work on. I want to continue seeing more consistent pitch quality.” … The Rockies’ 2-13 mark ties the 2010 Pirates for the lowest single-season winning percentage in interleague play. … Young Jr. is the first Rockie to be hit multiple times since Matt Holliday was plunked twice Sept. 19, 2006 against San Francisco.
Categories: Rockies Recap
June 20, 2012, 12:41 pm
Rockies Minor League Report: Drew Pomeranz stars in Sky Sox win
Drew Pomeranz continues to inch closer to a return to the big leagues, throwing six no-hit innings last night in the Sky Sox’s 8-2 victory. Pomeranz lost his command briefly in the fifth, but those in attendance said he was regularly topping 91 mph with his velocity. He was sent to Triple-A Colorado Springs to find his old, higher arm slot, while getting more speed on his fastball. Pomeranz walked three and struck out eight, lowering his ERA to 2.61. He threw 103 pitches, 62 strikes.
He had been relying much more on a cutter while in the big leagues this season. The Rockies have talked internally about Pomeranz’s progress, which should at some point lead to him rejoining the Colorado rotation.
As it stands, the Rockies have gone to a four-man rotation because of their youth and ineffectiveness. The starters will be limited to 75 pitches, though that could vary slightly once the team finishes the current 20 games in 20 days stretch.
Categories: Minor league report
Are Rockies prospects Pomeranz or Chatwood ready to replace Guthrie?
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Rockies pitcher Drew Pomeranz.
If the Rockies trade Jeremy Guthrie — and if they don’t believe Guillermo Moscoso can fill a spot in the rotation — they might be forced to look south down I-25 to Triple-A Colorado Springs for Guthrie’s replacement.
Lefty Drew Pomeranz’s raw numbers are solid: 3.06 ERA over seven starts with 34 strikeouts vs. only 13 walks. But reports are that Pomeranz has not been particularly sharp and his mechanics are still not where the Rockies want them to be. Also, Pomeranz has thrown just 35 innings in seven starts, and the Rockies desperately need more innings from their starters.
Categories: Minor league report, Minor Leagues
Jeremy Guthrie trade scenarios begin to percolate, starting with Toronto
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Rockies starting pitcher Jeremy Guthrie looks to the booing crowd as he heads to the dugout after giving up six runs to the Oakland Athletics during the third inning last week.
The possibility exists that Jeremy Guthrie has thrown his last pitch for the Rockies. Colorado is aggressively trying to trade the veteran right-hander and has talked with the Toronto Blue Jays, according to two major-league sources.
In that scenario, the Rockies would receive a minor-league prospect with Toronto absorbing the roughly $4.9 million on Guthrie’s one-year, $8.2-million arbitration contract.
The Rockies have been looking to move Guthrie since his odd behavior and poor performance during his last Coors Field start against Oakland, when he tipped his cap twice to the crowd in the first and third innings, the latter after allowing six runs.
Categories: Rockies on Deck, Trade rumors
Eric Young Jr. starts in center for Rockies, no plans for second base
Eric Young Jr., the Rockies’ instant energy off the bench, gets a rare start in center field today. It will be just his fifth start in center this season, to go with one start in left.
But what are the chances that Young will get a chance to return to play second base?
“Maybe we revisit that at some point,” manager Jim Tracy said this morning. “But this is as good as I have seen him in center field. This is as good as we have seen him in the outfield.”
Carlos Gonzalez gets rest as Rockies try to snap six-game skid
Carlos Gonzalez wanted to be proactive. He’s sore and mentally exhausted. The Rockies have been looking for a day to rest him, so after watching his best player strike out three times, manager Jim Tracy elected to sit the slugger.
“He’s been grinding. He needs a day,” Tracy said.
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Jeremy Guthrie says frustration led to odd cap-tipping
Rockies’ opening day starter Jeremy Guthrie said that his cap-tipping to the crowd Tuesday was traced to his poor performance not boos or the umpire’s strike zone.
Following a 29-pitch first inning, Guthrie walked slowly off the mound and tipped his cap toward the Rockies’ dugout. The gesture seem more connected to umpire Brian Knight’s strike zone. Guthrie walked off the mound during Brandon Moss’ at-bat, believing he had struck the hitter out before eventually retiring the first baseman to end the inning.
“I was executing pitches. Making it tough for anyone to call strikes and balls. There were a couple of close pitches,” Guthrie said.
The right-hander was more animated after a six-run third inning, doffing his cap to the crowd as boos rained down on him. Why?
“Frustration. I understand where the boos come from. Like anybody else I am frustrated,” said Guthrie, who is 3-5 with a 6.91 ERA. “I was frustrated with myself. The fans didn’t give up two home runs and six runs.”
Tyler Colvin earns start vs. Oakland in Rockies’ series opener
A week ago, Tyler Colvin was a spare part, a pinch-hitter with power as Dexter Fowler caught fire. But with Fowler in a mini-slump, Colvin earned his third consecutive start and second straight in center field after his strong weekend performance.
Rockies wait for Jeff Francis, work to fix Jeremy Guthrie
As the Rockies wait for the official arrival of lefty starter Jeff Francis, the club is trying to fix right-hander Jeremy Guthrie.
And, FYI, Albert Pujols is starting at third base for Angels tonight.
Francis, returning to the fold after stints with the Royals last year and the Red’s Triple-A team this season, has not officially signed a contract. Sources say he will be signed and ready to start Saturday’s game against the Angels.
Categories: General Rockies, Rockies on Deck
Rockies’ Guthrie: ‘I wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t make another start’
PHOENIX — Jeremy Guthrie was standing next to his locker in the visitor’s clubhouse at Chase Field late Tuesday night. He was clearly upset with himself after getting rocked by the Diamondbacks in the Rockies’ 10-0 loss.
A few minutes before, manager Jim Tracy had said the Rockies still needed Guthrie in their rotation.
But now Guthrie was talking as if his job was in jeopardy after giving up seven runs on 11 hits, including a pair of two-run homers, in 3 1/3 innings.
So I asked Guthrie if someone had been told him that he had to start pitching better to stay in the rotation.
Rockies demote Torres to make room Guthrie; Tulo in lineup
SAN FRANCISCO — Prior to tonight’s game against the Giants, the Rockies activated starter Jeremy Guthrie and optioned right-hander Carlos Torres to Triple-A Colorado Springs.
Torres has been working in long relief since he was called up during the last homestand. The right-hander posted a 2.25 ERA in four games.
Esmil Rogers has been the Rockies’ worst reliever, but continues to benefit from having no minor-league options. The Rockies are reluctant to expose him to waivers, fearing they will lose him just as they did Felipe Paulino a year ago. Rogers throws as hard as anyone on the staff, but even with a 95-mph fastball and decent slider has been unable to be effective consistently.
However, if he doesn’t find a role soon, his days are numbered, regardless.
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Gbenro Ajibade Calls Bobby Brown "Correct Guy"
I guess any publicity is good publicity, if he doesn't mind my ask! Why is he a correct guy!!!!!!!!!
Woman Holds Boobs Party To Celebrate Her Breasts Before Double Mastectomy.
Bridgid Nzekwu.
A newsreader from ITV who underwent a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with cancer has revealed how she held a 'boobs party' to say goodbye to her breasts before going under the knife.
Bridgid Nzekwu, who suffered from cancer as a teenager, was shocked to learn the disease had returned when she developed a tumour in one of her breasts.
Chinese Universities Ban Bras To Checkmate Cheating.
A Student Been Checked.
Chinese students have been banned from wearing bras in a move to stop cheating in one of the world's toughest exams. Students will have to go through a metal detector before the university entrance exams, known as gaokao, as authorities crack down on the use of hidden gadgets like wireless listening devices.
S-T-R-A-N-G-E :Turkish Man Wears Cage On His Face To Prevent Himself From Smoking.
A lifelong smoker keen to quit has taken drastic measures to kick the habit - he has locked his head in a cage which prevents him from putting a cigarette in his mouth. Ibrahim Yücel is so unsure of his own willpower that he entrusts the keys to the bizarre contraption to his family so he is not tempted to release himself. The Turkish man was inspired by another successful health campaign - the safety helmets worn by motorbike riders. He wears the mask to work and leaves the keys with his wife at home.
DailyMail.
Former Apprentice Star Says She Can Tell If A Child Has Done His Homework By The Name He/She Bares.
She was interviewed on a popular morning TV show and she made such disgusting remarks, that her daughter can not be friends with someone named after a wine. How snobbish, narrow minded, rude and unkind is that. She also said she hates the name Tyler. Children dont name themselves why judge an innocent child by his/her name. How Sad.
Ellen Degeneres Without Makeup On.
What a big difference makeup can make.
Occupy Nigeria Activist Adams Unaji Dead.
Adams Kennedy Unaji, a Nigerian activist whose life touched many and who was instrumental in mobilizing participants in the 2012 “Occupy Nigeria” protests, has died. Mr. Unaji died on Wednesday, July 3, 2013 while waiting to go on a radio talk show at Vision FM in Abuja. Sources at the station said he died of an apparent heart attack, but there is no medical corroboration of the source of death as this report was filed.
The radio sources told SaharaReporters that Mr. Unaji complained of feeling uncomfortable as he waited to go on air. “He said he needed to visit the loo,” said one source, who added, “Once he returned, he asked to be taken to the hospital. He was drenched in his own sweat.”
Pastor Kumuyi Offers To Resign As Deeper LIfe General Superintendent
The Wedding That Started It All.
Pastor William Kumuyi offered to resign as General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church following the controversy that trailed the wedding of his second son, John. John Kumuyi and his wife, Love had engaged in acts, which negated the church’s tradition during their wedding held in Jamaica on June 15, 2013. Love, who is a daughter of the National Overseer of Deeper Life Bible Church, Jamaica, Pastor Augustine Odih, was dressed in a fitted stylish wedding gown with transparent short sleeves. She also wore makeup, jewelry and carried a bouquet of flowers. The couple cruised in a limousine and had a huge wedding cake. Find pictures from the wedding HERE. The misdemeanor, which attracted widespread criticisms, had earned the newlyweds suspension from church activities despite showing remorse and tendering an apology to the church, blaming their misconduct on the fact that both of them had resided abroad for so long.
Discovery!!!!!!!!!
Do you agree with this statement i know Jesus was Jew.
Would You Rock This?
He was spotted at a wedding and my oh my did he turn heads. Would you rock this?????
Andre Murray Wins Wimbledon.
Murray WINS 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 TO BECOME THE FIRST BRITISH MEN'S WIMBLEDON CHAMPION SINCE 1936. Well done a good one for Britain and for himself.
Islamists Shoot Dead 29 Students And 1 Teacher In Secondary School.
At least 29 students and a teacher have been killed after Islamic extremists attacked on a boarding school in northeast Nigeria. Survivors, who are being treated for burns and gunshots wounds, say some students were burned alive in the pre-dawn attack today on the Government Secondary School in Mamudo town in Yobe state. Farmer Malam Abdullahi wept over the bodies of his two sons, aged ten and 12. 'That’s it, I’m taking my other boys out of school,' he told The Associated Press. He said he had three younger children in a nearby school. Dozens of schools have been torched and unknown scores of students killed among more than 1,600 victims murdered by extremists since 2010. The attackers set fire to buildings and shot pupils as they tried to flee, according to Reuters. Several of the students were being treated for burns.
DailyMail / Reuters.
Tragedy Averted On Dana Air This Yesterday.
What would have been another air disaster involving Dana air was averted yesterday when an Abuja bound plane belonging to the airline made a return back to Lagos..This was the message sent to us by one of the passengers in that flight..This picture also showed the scene and panic inside the plane during the period. "“God has just spared my life and dat of over a 100 people on Dana air. The plane made a mid air return to lag mm2 wen it suddenly developed problem mid air. We are a back at d airport waitng for another flight. But very scary. A word is enough for the wise, me sha forget Dana ever seeing my 10kobo. They can keep their plane. I would rather walk to wherever they use them.
CKN Nigeria
BBA Nigeria Rep, Beverly Osu Playing Love on International TV.
After what was a rocking Channel O Party, the Housemates left the Party Zone and were supposed to go to their respective Houses except the Diamonds didn’t leave, instead they hung around the Ruby House and made noise. After having fun hugging in the garden with Angelo, Beverly went upstairs the Ruby House and the two started kissing very passionately on one of the beds. Beverly pushed Angelo away after a few seconds of lip locking, Angelo had already gotten on top of the Nigerian model and was ready for the next move but Beverly got back to her senses and pushed him away. He said she's the 1st person hes kissing in the house, like she needs to feel special or a medal. Abeg she had better not waste her time with Angelo, he says he cant be faithful to one woman ever.
Pastor Tunde Bakare Condemns Suspension Of John And Love Kumuyi Over Wedding Dress.
The Couple John And Love Kumuyi
Pastor Tunde Bakare.
Outspoken Pastor and the General Overseer of Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare who was once a member of the church condemned the punishment meted out by the church, describing it as wicked. Said Pastor Bakare: “I personally did not see what they have done wrong. A man is entitled to his own authority in his own home.1st Peter Chapter 3. A wife should dress to please the husband and not the members of the church or public. It’s sheer wickedness to the couple, they should leave them to enjoy their honeymoon. They should not squeeze them to the modus operandi of a particular organization. I did not see anything wrong in the wedding. The bride was not naked or dressed inappropriately and the groom didn’t. Esther the queen was beautifully dressed in the bible to gain the king’s attention. They should not make mountain out of a molehill. I was in the Deeper Life Bible Church for five years and nobody compelled me to dress the way I dressed. My wife was with me in the church though we weren’t married then. She wears earrings and dresses nicely. All this talk about this couple should stop.”
Inside Nigeria's Snake Market.
BattaBox heads down to the Nigeria Snake Market! While most people are rightly scared of snakes and their poisonous venom – for Nigerians and African Food – they can make a tasty dish. “They sell snakes here!” explains Odunayo, our BattaBox presenter.
P.Diddy Alleges Jay.Z Was Sleeping With Aliyah While She Was Dating Damon Dash.
The day that Jay Z launched his most successful album in years (it's PLATINUM alreday) - Diddy had to throw some SLANDER at Jigga. He "innocently" posted the above pic of Jay lookign awful friendly with Aaliyah. This pic has been used to suggest that Jay was MESSING around with Aaliyah while she was dating Jay's partner at the time, Dame Dash. This pic has been bouncing around Twitter for YEARS - along with the slander. Diddy HAD to know what he was doing .
Beyonce's Dad Matthew Knowles Remarries.
Matthew And New Wife Avery.
Mathew Knowles got hitched last Sunday, but TMZ has learned neither of his daughter ... Beyonce nor Solange ... was in attendance for the big day. Knowles tied the knot to Gena Avery in Houston, TX following a year and a half engagement. But the newly-hitched Knowles tells TMZ his famous kids couldn't make it to the ceremony, saying, "Unfortunately, Beyonce and Solange had previous engagements which made it impossible for them to attend." Mathew officially divorced Tina Knowles back in 2011, though Tina originally filed in 2009 due to infidelity charge brought against Matthew by Tina.
TMZ.
Canadian Construction Company Insults Kim Kardashian.
A Canadian company erected the large poster which reads: ‘Construction set to finish faster than a Kim Kardashian marriage. How ironic considering the face that they are not far from the truth.
Breaking News Two People Feared Dead In Plane Crash.
According to Fox News
San Francisco General Hospital said in a statement that it was treating 10 victims of the airline crash. The hospital said six patients are female, four male, and of the 10 admitted, eight are adults and two are children. All of the patients are in critical condition. St. Francis Medical Center said it was treating six victims, while St. Mary's Medical Center reported treating five additional patients, neither hospital would release details on the condition of the patients. Two more patients are being treated at UCSF and are listed in stable condition.
The plane was carrying 292 passengers and 16 crew members. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown says Flight 214 was coming from Seoul, South Korea and was supposed to land on runway 28 left at San Francisco International Airport at 11:26 PDT.
Laff Out Loud.....Do You Agree!
The Height Of Madness, Woman Marries Ancient Bridge In France.
Jodi Rose and her new husband Le Pont du Diable Bridge
An Australian woman has taken her desire for the ‘strong and silent’-type to a new extreme when she married a bridge. Jodi Rose married Le Pont du Diable Bridge (the devils bridge) in Céret, southern France after falling head over heels for the ‘sensual’ 14th century stone structure. Ms Rose, or Mrs Le Pont du Diable, has spent the past decade travelling the world recording the vibrations in bridge cables with contact microphones and using them to create experimental music. She ws joined in Holy Matrimony infront of 14 guests. She says the bridhe makes her feel safe , close to earth and grounded. She actually made a ring for IT. Wonders they say shall never end.
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David Bruce - Composer
Fragile Light Premiere
Jahja Ling, Gil Shaham and David Bruce
Just back from a thrilling world premiere of my Violin Concerto Fragile Violin with Gil Shaham and San Diego Symphony under Jahja Ling. What can I say about Gil, he is everything everyone says he is - the most charming, humble and sweet man, combined with the most extraordinary musicianship and tone. I was shocked when I spoke with him on FaceTime (v.21st Century) a few weeks beforehand to realise that he basically had the whole piece off by memory. In the end, he did take the music on stage for the performances, but several times I saw him turn several pages in a row as he'd clearly not been looking at it. That kind of committment from somebody as in-demand as him really tells you something about the man.
As with the previous performances of Night Parade and Cymbeline, the orchestra showed a genuine excitement and enthusiasm to tackle a new work, with a great readiness to take on board suggestions, and a willingness to accept my endless 'tweaks' up to and even beyond the premiere. They gave a tremendous performance, and I'm really happy with the finished piece, which I think may be one of my best yet.
The 'white noise' which I mentioned in my previous post forms the very end of the piece, and although it seems to have a certain 'shock factor' at first (Gil himself asked if he could play it on harmonics until I insisted this was the effect I was after), it really is quite gripping in the closing stages of the piece to hear the music drift higher and higher, higher than you think can be humanly possible. In all three performance I literally felt myself stop breathing at this point as it gets so quiet and so high you daren't move a muscle. Note to self to take more 'risks' like this in future pieces.
There were some great responses in the press, and I particularly enjoyed this wonderfully eccentric reviewer who seemed to have some kind of life-changing experience during the piece, which is very gratifying.
Now back to opera work, of which, more very soon....
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Have all the good melodies already been used up?
Ligeti's Sippal, dobbal, nadihegedűvel text and translation
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What does the Halloween pageant symbolize in To Kill a Mockingbird?
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"Halloween in Maycomb was a completely unorganized affair.
The master of ceremonies for the Halloween pageant is Mrs.
Merriweather who had decided to call it "Maycomb County: Ad Astra Per Aspera" (252).
Therefore, children were dressed up as agricultural products that represent the county and Scout has to be a ham.
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What does Halloween symbolize?
The history of Halloween goes all the way back to a pagan festival called Samhain. The word "Halloween" comes from"All Hallows' Eve" and means "hallowed evening." Hundreds of years ago, people dressed up as saints and went door to door, which is the origin of Halloween costumes and trick-or-treating.
What are the discomforts of Scout's ham costume she is to wear in the Halloween pageant?
What are the discomforts of Scout's ham costume she is to wear in the Halloween pageant? The discomforts Scout had with the costume was that it has hot, a close fit, she couldn't itch herself, and she could not get out of the costume alone.
How does Scout ruin the Halloween pageant?
The narrative starts innocuously enough; Jem accompanies Scout to her Halloween pageant. While backstage, Scout falls asleep in her costume, so she misses her cue to come on stage and arrives late. The director of the pageant is very angry at Scout for her error, and she accuses her of ruining the entire play.
What does a traditional orange color of Halloween symbolize?
The colors of Halloween - black and orange - symbolize this fun yet frightful celebration. Try to picture Halloween without orange pumpkins, black witches, and black cats. In the past and present, orange represents the changing colors of leaves and the end of summer.
Who tried to kill aria on the Halloween train?
One is Melissa Hastings, who drugged Aria and was working for "A", while the other is Darren Wilden, who murdered Garrett and attempted to kill Spencer.
What is Scout's role in the Halloween pageant?
Scout wears a ham costume in the pageant. It was made for her by Mrs. Crenshaw, a seamstress, who shaped chicken wire into the form of a cured ham, covered it with brown cloth, and then painted it to look like the real thing. Jem told Scout she looked like "a ham with legs" in her costume.
What does the orange color of Halloween symbolize?
It is a lively color that celebrates life and the bounty of the Autumn harvest. Orange is the color of fire cutting through the darkness of night. Orange is warm and positive. Many leaves turn orange during Fall and pumpkins and jack o'lanterns, popular Halloween symbols, are also orange.
What bone found in the head is often used as a symbol of Halloween?
A skull and crossbones or death's head is a symbol consisting of a human skull and two long bones crossed together under or behind the skull. The design originates in the Late Middle Ages as a symbol of death and especially as a memento mori on tombstones.
Who is in charge of the Halloween pageant and what will scout's part in it be?
Scout's Halloween costume is a ham. The choice of costume is dictated by Mrs. Grace Merriweather, who has written a Halloween pageant called Maycomb County: Ad Astra Per Aspera.
Why is the pumpkin a symbol for Halloween?
Why Carved Pumpkins are a Symbol of Halloween. As part of their autumnal celebration, they wanted to light the way to their homes for the good spirits, so they carved faces into vegetables such as turnips and squash. A light was placed within the hollowed out vegetable.
Why do Atticus and Aunt Alexandra not intend to go to the Halloween pageant?
Atticus and Aunt Alexandra don't go to the pageant because they're tired, so Jem agrees to take Scout and bring her home. On the way to the pageant, Cecil Jacobs frightens Jem and Scout.
What happens on the way home from the Halloween pageant?
Scout and Jem are attacked on their way home from the Halloween pageant. In Chapter 28, Jem and Scout are going to the Halloween pageant. Jem is carrying Scout's ham costume, and it is dark. Atticus is not with them.
Why is the pumpkin a symbol of Halloween?
Why Carved Pumpkins are a Symbol of Halloween. The tradition of carving faces into vegetables dates to the Celts. As part of their autumnal celebration, they wanted to light the way to their homes for the good spirits, so they carved faces into vegetables such as turnips and squash.
Why are pumpkins used to symbolize Halloween?
What is the most widely recognized symbol of Halloween?
Jack-O-Lantern: The Halloween Jack-o-Lantern has long been one of the most popular, traditional and abiding symbols used in annual Halloween decorating.
How many kills are in Halloween 2018?
2018 Timeline (Original Halloween, Halloween) = 21 Kills.
Why did the little girl kill in Halloween 4?
The character was created after Jamie Lee Curtis declined to return as Laurie Strode for the fourth film due to not wanting to continue her participation in the film. As a result, her character was written out and died in a car accident, which is briefly explained in the film.
What is the purpose of the Halloween pageant?
What was the purpose of the Halloween pageant? What practical joke had persuaded the grown ups to have an organized event? The purpose of the pageant (play) was to keep all of the kids together in one place. This would make it so they couldn't pull pranks.
What does it mean to have a Halloween birthday?
The idea behind babies born on Halloween being immune to evil spirits is that Halloween is when the "line" between the living world and deathly world is the thinnest, meaning that those born on that day likely have some sort of special association or connection with spirits.
What is the symbolism of Halloween?
Skeletons and ghosts have roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, from which the modern-day Halloween is derived. The festival took place on the night of October 31, marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the cold, dark winter. It was, in essence, a festival of the dead.
What is the symbol of Halloween?
While souling, Christians would carry with them "lanterns made of hollowed-out turnips". It has been suggested that the carved jack-o'-lantern, a popular symbol of Halloween, originally represented the souls of the dead.
Who did Jamie kill in Halloween 4?
Michael kills Rachel, four of Rachel's friends, two cops, and the Carruthers' new dog, a Doberman Pinscher named Max, while in pursuit of Jamie. Towards the end, Loomis takes Jamie to the old Myers house and successfully lures Michael into the house by having Jamie reenact her aunt Judith's final moments.
Why are skeletons a symbol of Halloween?
All in all, skulls and skeletons are associated with Halloween because they represent the end of the physical part of life, something that is connected to Halloween both because of the death of the “light” seasons and because of the perceived connection to the spirit realm.
How do you kill a Halloween bug?
To get rid of outdoor boxelder bugs, fill a spray bottle with water and liquid dish soap and spray the bugs to kill them. You can also sprinkle borax or food-grade diatomaceous earth around the perimeter of your home and plants to keep boxelder bugs away.
What does Hollow mean in relation to Halloween?
It is the evening before All Saints' Day or All Hallows Day—November 1—in the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. All Hallows Eve on October 31 is the vigil to All Saints' Day. The name Halloween is derived from hallow and evening, and there is nothing hollow about that.
What does Halloween mean in the Bible?
Christian influence. Halloween is the evening before the Christian holy days of All Hallows' Day (also known as All Saints' or Hallowmas) on 1 November and All Souls' Day on 2 November, thus giving the holiday on 31 October the full name of All Hallows' Eve (meaning the evening before All Hallows' Day).
Why are pumpkins a symbol of Halloween?
Why are Black Cats a symbol of Halloween?
Most of Europe considers the black cat a symbol of bad luck, particularly if one walks across the path in front of a person, which is believed to be an omen of misfortune and death.
Why did Michael Myers kill his sister in the original Halloween?
The sister angle was an insertion for Halloween II which Carpenter and Hill did write, but I don't think it still holds as canon. Answer One: Michael Myers killed his sister because, as a child, for whatever reason he got it into his mind that stabbing his sister to death was something he wanted to do.
How much does it cost to rent a Halloween costume?
What does it cost to rent a costume? Most costume rentals range from $35 to $135. The average costume rental is between $60 and $70.
Why did they kill Rachel in Halloween 5?
Originally Michael was to shove the scissors down Rachel's throat but the actress, Ellie Cornell, felt it was too gruesome an end for her character, so it was changed. Moustapha Akkad has said that one of his biggest regrets about Halloween 5 was killing off Rachel Carruthers.
Why was Scout embarrassed at the Halloween pageant?
Scout is upset after the Halloween pageant because she messed up her performance! She was dressed as pork during the pageant, and her costume is nice and snug. Scout only has one job - to walk on the stage when Miss Merriweather calls her name, but when she's backstage, she falls asleep.
What order does the Halloween movies go in?
This order is as follows: Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), Halloween V: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989), Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), Halloween: H20 (1998), Halloween: Resurrection (2002), Halloween (
What does Halloween mean to me?
Halloween actually means Hallow Even or the Eve of All Hallows. Since all saints are considered hallowed people, the eve of the feast in their behalf came to be called Eve of All Hallows, or, for short, Halloween. In the United States October 31 is Halloween night, a time for fun, boisterousness and playing pranks.
What does Halloween mean to pagans?
Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated each year on October 31, and Halloween 2019 occurs on Thursday, October 31. It originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. The evening before was known as All Hallows Eve, and later Halloween.
What does night vision do in the Google Halloween game?
Night Vision is the second Powerup in the game and is attained by collecting and depositing a total of 45 or more spirits to the Base. This Powerup brightens the edges of the screen and allows the player to see their surroundings more easily.
What does the color black signify in Halloween?
The colors of Halloween - black and orange - symbolize this fun yet frightful celebration. Black represents the elongating hours of darkness that occurs during the fall marking the end of the productive crop growing season, which was the reason for the Celtic Samhain celebration.
What time does Halloween parade starts in the village?
Marchers line up on Sixth Avenue between Canal and Spring Streets. The parade gets rolling at 7pm and heads north up Sixth Avenue to 16th Street.
What happened to Sophie in Halloweentown?
Sophie was able to control her powers better than Marnie in Halloweentown and, while her character didn't appear in the final film, Return to Halloweentown, it was implied that Sophie was continuing her witches' studies with Grandma Aggie. While being motivated by cookies, no doubt.
What does All Saints Day have to do with Halloween?
All Saints' Day, also called All Hallows' Day, Hallowmas, or Feast of All Saints, in the Christian church, a day commemorating all the saints of the church, both known and unknown, who have attained heaven.
What does Halloween III have to do with Michael Myers?
John Carpenter and Debra Hill, the creators of Halloween, returned as producers. The film tells the story of Dr. Dan Challis (Tom Atkins) as he tries to solve the mysterious murder of a patient in his hospital. Halloween III is the only entry in the series that does not feature the series antagonist, Michael Myers.
What does a vampire wear on Halloween?
For a female Dracula, pair a formfitting white dress shirt (or a corset, if you can find one) with a black skirt—long or short. Then, make a long hooded cape out of black fabric and style your hair with a straitening iron.
What sign should you hang over the entrance to a Harry Potter Halloween party?
Edgar Allen wrote the raven. 14. What sign should hang over the entrance to a Harry Potter Halloween party? The Hogwarts motto, "Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandius", which is Latin for "Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon", may be appropriate for the occasion.
Why is pumpkin symbol of Halloween?
What happened to Ellie in Halloween 3?
Ellie Grimbridge is the deuteragonist of Halloween III: Season of the Witch. She is the daughter of Harry Grimbridge and the love interest of Dan Challis. The Ellie that is seen in the final act of the film is revealed to be an android.
Is the new Halloween a sequel to the original?
Universal Pictures has unveiled back-to-back “Halloween” sequel movies that will open in 2020 and 2021. Green will direct both films and Curtis will star. Last year's “Halloween” was the 11th installment in the franchise, five of which included Curtis, and a direct sequel to John Carpenter's original 1978 movie.
What does a pumpkin mean on Halloween?
What order does Halloween go in?
What does hallow in Halloween mean?
Hallow, as a noun, is a synonym of the word saint. Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is a shortened form of "All Hallow Even," meaning "All Hallows' Eve" or "All Saints' Eve." Hallowmas, the day after Halloween, is shortened from "Hallows' Mass," and is also known as "All Hallows' Day" or "All Saints' Day."
What does pumpkin mean in Halloween?
This meant that All Hallows' Eve (or Halloween) fell on October 31. Traditions from Samhain remained, such as wearing disguises to hide yourself from the souls wandering around your home. The folklore about Stingy Jack was quickly incorporated into Halloween, and we've been carving pumpkins—or turnips—ever since.
What do you need to be a nerd for Halloween?
To be a nerd for Halloween, try wearing high-waisted trousers, suspenders, glasses, and a bow tie. You can also wear oversized, clunky shoes or some sandals with socks on underneath. For your hair, go with a bowl cut wig or pigtails.
What do you need to throw a Halloween party?
7 Ways to Throw an Eerily Great Halloween Party Stock candy bowls in every room strategically. This one's so obvious it almost doesn't need to be said. Give your punch some punch. Summon the Great Pumpkin. Use a fly swapper. Send messages from beyond the looking-glass. Scheme a theme. Remember to award the best costume.
What can I bring to a Halloween party?
8 Easy Treats You Can Bring to Halloween Parties Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats. Candy Corn Cookies. Candy Bark. Worms In Dirt. Monster Apple Bites. Halloween Popcorn Balls. Ghost Cupcakes. Halloween Trail Mix.
What day does Disneyland change from Halloween to Christmas?
Our Christmas guide offers tips & tricks for doing Disney California Adventure and Disneyland during the holiday season to make the most of the festivities. Holiday Time at Disneyland is likely to run November 8, 2019 until January 5, 2020 with entertainment, decorations, and attractions.
What does Halloween 3 have to do with Michael Myers?
What is a good Halloween movie to watch?
The 40 Best Halloween Movies for the Ultimate Fright Night 1 of 40. House on Haunted Hill (1958) amazon.com. 2 of 40. Goosebumps (2015) 3 of 40. Amazon. 4 of 40. The Ring (2002) 5 of 40. Coraline (2009) 6 of 40. Paranormal Activity (2007) 7 of 40. Little Shop of Horrors (1986) 8 of 40. Double Double Toil and Trouble (1993)
What do you bring to a Halloween party?
What should I wear to a Spirit Halloween interview?
Spirit Halloween is a laidback company, and applicants applying for sales associate jobs may dress in casual clothing for interviews. Management applicants should wear more professional business attire.
What does Halloween mean in America?
The word "Halloween" comes from"All Hallows' Eve" and means "hallowed evening." Hundreds of years ago, people dressed up as saints and went door to door, which is the origin of Halloween costumes and trick-or-treating.
What does een mean in Halloween?
Though this celebration does not bear a close resemblance to the festivities of Halloween, it did give the holiday its name. The word. Halloween. is a direct derivation of All Saints' Day. All Hallows in Old English means “the feast of the saints.”
What does it mean to be born on Halloween?
Why does Michael Myers wear a mask in Halloween?
This would be a callback to how Michael killed his sister, Judith, in a clown costume. Kirk mask and the crew decided that it was much more creepy because it was emotionless, much like Michael himself. This became the Michael Myers mask. Since then, every mask used in the films have been modeled after this design.
Is Halloween a holiday in the USA?
Halloween, the Eve of All Satins' Day is not a federal or state holiday. Here is a list of federal holidays. When a federal holiday falls on a Saturday, it is celebrated the prior day; when a federal holiday falls on a Sunday, it is celebrated the following day.
Is Halloween a holiday in the US?
Halloween, the Eve of All Satins' Day is not a federal or state holiday. Federal holidays are spelled out in the 1968 Uniform Holidays Bill, which grants federal employees a three-day weekend on Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Veterans Day and Columbus Day.
What does Michael Myers say in Halloween?
“In the original ('Halloween'), he'll grab you by the throat, throw you against a wall, throw a knife into you and then study your death. He is interested,” Green says of Michael. “It is hard, because so much of the movie, we're trying to not explain (his choices)
What does Halloween mean in Latin?
Halloween. is a direct derivation of All Saints' Day. All Hallows in Old English means “the feast of the saints.” Halloween, first recorded in the 18th century, is a Scottish variant of All-Hallows-Even. The Even meant evening.
What does Ween in Halloween mean?
The word Halloween is a direct derivation of All Saints' Day. All Hallows in Old English means “the feast of the saints.” Halloween, first recorded in the 18th century, is a Scottish variant of All-Hallows-Even. The Even meant evening. The spelling of the word was once Hallowe'en, in which the “v” was elided.
What does Hallow mean in Halloween?
To hallow is to bless, consecrate, or render holy by means of religious rites, especially significant religious places or the relics of saints. As a noun, hallow means "saint." The word for our popular holiday Halloween is a shortened form of "All Hallows' Eve," or "All Saints' Eve," which precedes All Saints' Day.
Is it OK to go to a Halloween party without a costume?
Wearing a costume to a Halloween party is a right, not an expectation. You are allowed to not wear a costume just as much as you are allowed to wear one.
What time does the Halloween parade end?
The Parade starts at 7:00 pm and ends around 11:00 pm.
What is there to do in Salem on Halloween weekend?
10+ Things to Do in Salem Massachusetts for Halloween – October Haunted Happenings 2019 Salem Witch Museum. House of Seven Gables. Peabody Essex Museum. Halloween Cruises. Bewitched After Dark Salem Walking Tours. The People vs Bridget Bishop. Gallows Hill. Haunted Footsteps Ghost Tour.
What does Halloween mean in Ireland?
Halloween came from the ancient Celtic festival Samhain. Samhain (pronounced sow-in) comes from old Irish and means 'end of summer'. The Celts believed that during the festival of Samhaim the veil between this world and the next world was particularly thin, allowing spirits to pass between the two worlds on this night.
What is there to do on Halloween in Atlanta?
26 things to do for Halloween in metro Atlanta Boo at the Zoo. When: October 20, 21, 27, 28, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Haunted Hall of Fame. When: October 27 and 28. Haunted Halloween at Atlanta History Center. Little 5 Points Halloween Parade. Pumpkin Festival at Stone Mountain. Lawrenceville Ghost Tours. Roswell Ghost Tour. Netherworld Haunted House.
What happened to Laurie Strode in Halloween Resurrection?
Curtis returned as Laurie Strode in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), the seventh film in the series. In this timeline, Laurie has faked her death in a car accident as a way of escaping her murderous brother, whose body was not found after Halloween II.
What is Laurie Strode to Michael Myers in Halloween?
Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) confronts her evil brother Michael Myers in "Halloween Resurrection." Three years after the events of the previous film, Strode has been confined to a psychiatric facility after finding out that she had mistakenly killed a man she only thought was her brother Michael Myers.
What is there to do in Dublin on Halloween?
7 Weird And Wonderful Things To Do In Dublin This Halloween Creature Features at the Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. The Macnas Parade. The Haunted Gaff Back Page Halloween Party. Scary movie nights at the Stella Cinema. Go pick your very own pumpkin. Bella's Halloween Cabaret and Burlesque Extravaganza.
Is Halloween 2018 a sequel to the original?
John Carpenter Halloween (2018) is Direct Sequel to Original. There is a new Halloween movie that is expected to come out in 2018. For those who are unfamiliar with that particular franchise, the movies are centered around a serial killer named Michael Myers who chooses to commit his crimes on Halloween, thus the name.
What does a child typically say on Halloween?
In Ireland before the phrase "trick or treat" became common, children would say "Help the Halloween Party". Very often, the phrase "trick or treat" is simply said and the revellers are given sweets, with the choice of a trick or a treat having been discarded.
What does a teal pumpkin mean on Halloween?
Lots of you have been telling us that you are excited to go trick or treating this Halloween. A teal pumpkin is a sign that a house will offer treats that are suitable for any trick-or-treaters who have any food allergies or intolerances.
What should I bring to a Halloween party?
What does the name Halloween mean?
The word Halloween or Hallowe'en dates to about 1745 and is of Christian origin. The word "Hallowe'en" means "Saints' evening". It comes from a Scottish term for All Hallows' Eve (the evening before All Hallows' Day).
What does the word Halloween itself mean?
How much does it cost to open a Spirit Halloween store?
The company collects a $10,000 franchise fee and keeps 5 percent of the store's gross sales. Store managers can expect to pay $180,000 in inventory, plus the cost of fixtures and other incidentals — a small price to pay compared to the hundreds of thousands a single store can make in a season.
What did Michael Myers say to Allyson in Halloween?
What is there to do on Halloween in Florida?
Halloween Hotspots for Families in Florida Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party. SeaWorld's Orlando Halloween Spooktacular. Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights. LEGOLAND Florida Brick or Treat. Busch Gardens Tampa Howl-O-Scream. The Pumpkin Patch at Little Farm, Redland. Jacksonville Zoo Spooktacular. Central Florida Zoo Boo Bash.
Is there going to be a new Halloween movie in 2019?
In June 2019, it was announced that a sequel will be filmed in September 2019, with Gordon Green returning to write the script and direct and Curtis, Greer and Matichak reprising their roles from the first film. The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on October 16, 2020 by Universal Pictures.
Can I go to a Halloween party without a costume?
What does a blue pumpkin mean on Halloween?
Blue pumpkins, whether they are used to hold candy or for decoration, are often used as an indication that a house is food-allergen-friendly - and that non-food treats such as glow-sticks or stickers will be given out to trick-or-treaters.
What is there to do in Paris on Halloween?
Things to do in Paris for Halloween Visit Disneyland Paris or Parc Asterix. Le Manoir de Paris. Visit the Catacombs of Paris. Musée Grevin – Halloween Visit. Visit the Père Lachaise Cemetery. Night Theater Spectacle: Crime of the Latin Quarter.
Is there a secret ending to Halloween?
In fact, the 2018 Halloween isn't even the first one to end with Michael Myers burning alive, as 1981's Halloween II ends with Michael and Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) apparently dying in a fire. 1982's Halloween III followed a complete different storyline from the original two of the series.
What does a blue pumpkin mean at Halloween?
What is the scariest thing to be for Halloween?
35 scary Halloween costumes to frighten everyone you know "Purge" horror madness. Re-create the chaotic madness from this summer's hottest horror flick with these simple, yet hair-raising face masks. Snow Fright. Not all princesses have a happy ending. Attack of the gremlins. Scary skeletal pair. The bride from below. Ghoulish scarecrow. Scream for ice cream. Ax-ellent idea.
What are the most frightful places to spend Halloween?
10 of the Creepiest Places in America, to spend Halloween. Salem, Massachusetts – festival of the dead. Salem, a coastal city in Massachusetts, is probably most well-known as the location of the Salem witch trials of 1692. Let it shine pumpkin festival, Laconia. For those who want to get into the Halloween spirit, but scare easily, this one is for you! New Orleans. Las Vegas.
What is the best white makeup to use for Halloween?
Good quality Halloween face paint doesn't have to be expensive. Snazaroo is a very popular and inexpensive brand that's used by many professional special fx makeup artists. It's water-based and comes in a cake so it's easy to apply – you just use a damp sponge and dab it onto your skin.
What is the best candy to give out for Halloween?
The 30 Best Halloween Candies Ever Baby Ruth. Hershey's Bars. Reese's Pieces. Butterfinger. KitKat. Snickers. Twix. The cookie crunch. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Not only is it the greatest candy out there, it's also one of the greatest snacks, period, the perfect alchemy of peanut butter and chocolate.
What is the best makeup to use for Halloween?
The best products for Halloween makeup on a budget 1) Splurge on a really good primer, like Smashbox. 2) The right makeup brushes will make your job easier. 3) NYX matte lip gloss gives a pop of color that's smooth as butter. 4) Maybelline color tattoo cream eyeshadow is great for vibrant and lasting color.
What was the first city to celebrate Halloween?
The History of Anoka Halloween. Anoka, Minnesota is believed to be the first city in the United States to put on a Halloween celebration to divert its youngsters from Halloween pranks.
What happened to the little girl from Halloween 4?
What does the Halloween color orange represent?
What years does Halloween fall on a Saturday?
Halloween 2020: Saturday, October 31, 2020. Halloween 2021: Sunday, October 31, 2021. Halloween 2022: Monday, October 31, 2022. Halloween 2023: Tuesday, October 31, 2023.
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Hologram of Roy Orbison to go on tour
Thread: Hologram of Roy Orbison to go on tour
CAinOH
Border Troubadour
http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/the-r...oud-think.html
Any thoughts? Contrary to the title, I think it's rather creepy, myself. I know there's been other places where holograms were to be used, and the families stepped in and said no.
On a side note: I also think it's creepy that the music from the new Capital One campaign is all from deceased artist (Prince, Whitney Houston, and Michael Jackson).
Stuck on the Border
Re: Hologram of Roy Orbison to go on tour
I saw this on the National News the other night. It reminded me of when we had a topic about this for the Eagles/Glenn. It is kind of creepy. No, I would not pay to see something like that regarding anyone.
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Ive always been a dreamer
Cruising down the center of a two-way street in VA
It seems kind of creepy to me as well. I think there may be some circumstances where hologram's may be appropriate, but, without experiencing one firsthand, my initial reaction is 'no thanks'.
"People don't run out of dreams: People just run out of time ..."
Glenn Frey 11/06/1948 - 01/18/2016
And now there will be a tour of a hologram of Amy Winehouse.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/12/enter...ram/index.html
Apparently, her father thinks this is great.
No... just... no.
sodascouts
Where Faulkner collides with Elvis
Oh my gosh. Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't understand the appeal.
Always in our hearts, Never forgotten
NightMistBlue
Randyland
Originally Posted by CAinOH
Oh geez, I didn't even catch that. I just cringe b/c it's 80s music. Those three had such squeaky-clean images back in their prime. No one could have guessed they would all die prematurely in drug-related circumstances.
Whitney Houston joins the hologram tour:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...rks/ar-AABCSlt
And, there is a tour of a Frank Zappa hologram? Surprising, but not as surprising as finding out he wanted it!
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...review-827195/
Sorry... still creepy to me... No, thanks.
EagleLady
In The Hotel California
Im sorry but these are very creepy,
FreyFollower
Border Rebel
Northern Louisiana
I could see some "Celebration" type events, with giant screen unseen concert footage, guest artists and their band in concert. But the whole hologram thing....no. No way.
"Be part of something good--
Leave something good behind."
I think the whole thing is a rip off. People would be better watching you tube videos of them. I saw at one time they were going to charge something like $200.00 for the Roy Orbison Tour.
Soda, I must be missing something too, because I don't get the appeal of it either.
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The New Blood Libel: Israel Kidnaps Syrians, Harvests Their Organs
Since the outbreak of war in 2012, 6.5 million people have been displaced within Syria and another 4.8 million have become refugees forced to flee to neighboring countries like Turkey and Lebanon or 10% have migrated to Europe. With another 386,000 estimated dead, that’s 11.7 million humans in Syria who have violently lost their lives or homes – stunningly over half the total prewar population of 22 million Syrians.
All this tragic human horror only occurs because of an overly aggressive, imperialistic US-Israeli foreign policy creating a path of chaos and destruction across the Middle East and North Africa secretly supporting the terrorists to fight US-Israeli proxy wars to illegally overthrow sovereign national governments like Assad’s.
A 2001 BBC report disclosed that Israel per capita stands as the world’s largest recipient nation for organ transplants yet is the country with the fewest organ donors. The problem is additionally compounded by the fact that the Tel Aviv government including the Minister of Defense has historically encouraged the practice, only making organ harvesting and trafficking illegal in 2008. For years the Israeli healthcare system subsidized transplant holidays up to $80,000 in reimbursement for organ recipients to travel abroad for transplants. Insurance carriers customarily paid the tab on all remaining costs. Hughes has described Israel’s leading role in the international crime syndicate that is “organized through a local business corporation in conjunction with a leading transplant surgeon, operating out of a major medical center not far from Tel Aviv.” Additional connections include transplant surgeons in Turkey, Russia, Moldova, Estonia, Georgia, Romania, Brazil and New York City.
A 1984 law made human organ trafficking illegal in America. But the first case in the US occurred in July 2009 when an Israeli citizen living in New York who paid donors in Israel $10,000 was arrested trying to sell them for $120,000 each to three Americans in need of kidney transplants. After making millions trafficking in kidneys, he was not deported because his crime was not deemed “of moral turpitude” and after the organ peddler served a brief two and a half year prison sentence, he was released in December 2014. The convicted Israeli trafficker carried a gun on him and if he encountered misgivings by a potential donor, the kidney smuggler would allegedly point his finger at the donor’s head simulating he was pulling the trigger.
The Khazar GHOULS can no longer kidnap and remove organs from their Palestinian POWs since they have been so deprived of food, meds, water and electricity that their bodies can no longer support healthy growth, so the Khazar VAMPIRES go out in search for other victims, like the ones their GOY lackeys, the US, Saudi Arabia, England and Germany have been chasing out of Syria.
Jews seem to have a fondness for the ORGANS of other people, just ask this Rabbi, as soon as he gets done slurping on that baby boy's penis...
Posted by Greg Bacon at 9:12 AM
how freaking graphic....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv_Sourasky_Medical_Center
https://www.google.com/search?q=blood+donors,+denver&npsic=0&rflfq=1&rlha=0&rllag=39735869,-105022025,11420&tbm=lcl&ved=0ahUKEwjTk4H85LPVAhVIy1QKHZ-RAe8QtgMIOA&tbs=lrf:!2m1!1e2!2m1!1e3!3sIAE,lf:1,lf_ui:2&rldoc=1
looking across the street from the Vampire Plasma collection site...
is a "Jewish" hospital...in Denver.
in Las Vegas, the {{{POLICE DEPT}}} sits right next to the
{{{Masonic Lodge}}}....on CHARLESTON ST.
https://www.biblebelievers.org.au/edomites.htm
what are the freaking odds.
http://israelect.com/reference/WillieMartin/JewishRitualMurders.htm
29 standing ovations...!!!
ariadnatheo July 31, 2017 at 11:30 AM
I understand Jews robbing and stealing everything they have an appetite for, even whole countries, as well as committing massacres against non-Jews, because it is in perfect conformity with what both the Torah and the Talmud enjoins them to do. In this light such acts, no matter how reprehensible to Goyim, when committed by Jews, can actually be seen as pious acts of religious devotion. Logic says so.
What I cannot understand at all is their wrenching organs from Goyim and having them transplanted into Jews when their religion leaves no doubt at all that the Goyim are "beasts," inferior forms of life created by an inferior god. How do they reconcile such an unforgivable tainting of the sacred body of a superior being chosen by Yahweh himself with ... animal parts?!
the "deity" of the synagogue of Satan so-called "JEWS" is not
YHWH....see John 8:44.
There are no "Jews" in the Old Testament.
the overwhelming majority of so-called "Jews" are merely
"Proselytes" to Talmudic Judaism....twice more or double
depraved as the actual "synagogue of Satan" Money Changers
& Pharisees..."2 fold the child of hell"...Jesus.
the real issue for the braindeadgoy is where exactly do the braindeadgoy
go to collect their reward for "JEW" worshipping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna
Northerntruthseeker July 31, 2017 at 11:44 AM
I may be on vacation right now, Greg.. But I have a few minutes to go online and look at what has been happening in our sick world... And I came across your article...
ariadnatheo.... The need for these freaks to get organs from other "races" is simple.. Due to the horrendous amount of diseases these freaks carry that destroy their own body's organs, they need to have organs transplanted into their bodies from other non Ashkenazi sources..
Yes, these inbred freaks are in dire straits as their bodies have been horrifically and permanently damaged by their want to breed with fellow sick and demented "chosen ones", so they need the organs of the Gentiles to survive...
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Household Food Security and Nutrition Assessment 2009
Bangladesh, 2008 - 2009
Institute of Public Health Nutrition, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, United Nations Children's Fund, United Nations World Food Programme
Created on March 29, 2019 Last modified March 29, 2019 Page views 14709 Download 1922 Study website Metadata DDI/XML JSON
BGD_2008_CFSVA_v01_M
Bangladesh BGD
Comprehensive Food Security & Vulnerability Analysis [hh/cfsva]
The CFSVA process generates a document that describes the food security status of various segments of a population over various parts of a country or region, analyses the underlying causes of vulnerability, and recommends appropriate interventions to deal with the problems. CFSVAs are undertaken in all crisis-prone food-insecure countries. The shelf life of CFSVAs is determined by the indicators being collected and reported. In most situations, CFSVA findings are valid for three to five years, unless there are drastic food security changes in the meantime.
Multiple factors contributed to high and volatile food prices in Bangladesh during the 2007/2008 period. A “perfect storm” of international, regional, and national conditions delivered a powerful economic shock to the country's food security. Rising global food and fuel prices, regional trade barriers for food exports from South and Southeast Asia, and efforts to ensure macro-economic stability within Bangladesh, all played important roles as the shock of high food prices reverberated throughout the economy.
These important information and knowledge gaps were the major impetus for UNICEF, WFP and the Institute of Public Health Nutrition to jointly undertake a national Household Food Security and Nutrition Assessment of the Situation. The assessment aimed to analyse the current impact of the food price hikes on food security and nutrition and health status through the capture of changes in household food and nutrition security over time in order to suggest response options and recommendations for the short and medium term. More specific objectives pertained to understanding in greater detail, aspects of food security and nutrition, including food markets, household food access and food utilization, nutrition and health, and water and sanitation. The food security component and market analysis were led by WFP and the nutritional component by UNICEF and IPHN.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- Nutrition
- Trader
MACROECONOMIC: Events and developments pertaining to public food stocks, imports, procurement (both domestic and international), and production were examined. Regional trade, including barriers to trade, price trends, and macroeconomic stability.
MARKET: availability of food on local markets, food flows (including volumes and quantities sold), prices (both actual and expected trends), and perceived reasons for price increases. Other topics analyse were profit margins, access to credit, constraints to trade, and the capacity of food markets to respond to increased demand.
HOUSEHOLD: changes in livelihoods and income sources, the effects of inflation on income, changes in wages, salaries and purchasing power, and changes in the “net seller or net buyer status” of agricultural households. The impact of higher food prices on food and non-food expenditures was also examine, as was the impact of other “shocks” and the seasonality and timing of such “shocks”. Extensive analysis was undertaken on household coping strategies and food consumption, using a food consumption score. The score was based on both dietary diversity and the frequency of various foods consumed.
NUTRITION: micronutrient supplementation with Vitamin A post-partum and iron and folate supplementation during pregnancy. Vitamin A capsules and iron and folate tables were shown to the women in order to avoid any misunderstanding.
INFANT and YOUNG CHILD FEEDING PRACTICES: breastfeeding practices and the introduction of complementary food in time, quantity, and quality (diet diversity). Exclusive breastfeeding, continued breastfeeding at one year and two years, proportion of infants 6 to 8 months of age who received solid, semi-solid, or soft foods, minimum meal frequency, minimum diet diversity and minimum acceptable diet.
HEALTH of CHILDREN: Caregivers were asked if the child had been ill during the two weeks prior to the assessment, what illness the child presented with, and if the child had been taken to a health facility. The coverage of Vitamin A supplementation in children from 9 to 59 months was also assessed.
HEALTH: Households were asked if any household member had been ill in the two weeks prior to the assessment, the main cause of illness, and if treatment had been sought outside the house.
MORTALITY: Mortality was assessed using the retrospective household census method. Respondents were asked the following information: number of deaths in the family in the six months prior to the assessment, and how many were children under five years of age; and presumed cause of death.
WATER and SANITATION: Access to safe water sources, types of toilet facilities, treatment of drinking water, use of toilet facility and sharing latrine at household level
The survey covered household heads, women between 15-49 years plus their pre-school children (0-59 months) resident of that household. A household was defined as persons routinely sharing food from the same cooking pot and living in the same compound or physical location or dependent family member living home or abroad.
Institute of Public Health Nutrition Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
United Nations Children's Fund United Nations
United Nations World Food Programme United Nations
United Nations World Food Programme WFP Financial support
Sampling size estimates were made to ensure that key indicators would be statistically representative at the national, urban, rural, and divisional levels. Sample sizes were calculated with a 0.05 statistical significance (95% confidence interval) for the key indicators. Based on previous surveys, assumptions were made that each household would have an average of one child aged 6 to 59 months of age, a household size of six members and one mother. Prevalence estimates were based on the BDHS 2007 survey, which estimated acute malnutrition at 16 %, stunting at 50%, and an underweight prevalence of 48%.
A two-stage cluster sampling was used, the sample size was increased by a factor that would allow for the design effect; thus, design effects of 1.5% for acute malnutrition and 2% for stunting and underweight were used, and the 5% desired precision was based on the estimated prevalence of the BDHS 2007.
Sample clusters were used as the first-stage sample, and 361 EAs were selected with probability proportional to the EA size. Some of the selected EAs were of a large size. Therefore, EAs having more than 300 households were further segmented and only one segment was selected for the assessment, with probability proportional to the segment size. Thus, a cluster was either an EA or a segment of an EA.
In Barisal and Sylhet response rates were 76.5% and 74% respectively.
A household weighting factor was used to correct the weight of each household for the division and urban and area assessments. The factor was also used to estimate the national prevalence, proportional to the weight of each division.
Face-to-face [f2f]
Prior to actual data collection, a two-day training session was held, including both classroom training and real life pre-testing with actual traders in the field. This allowed for clarification of questions and procedures and led to some modifications in the finalization of the questionnaire. An interviewer's manual was created that was used as a key reference for the training. The manual covered all aspects of the interviewing and data collection processes, with guidance and tips tailored for specific modules and sections of the questionnaire. Sufficient time was dedicated to reviewing each of the questions on the questionnaire format. Trainers explained to enumerators the importance of completing all questions, and were instructed on how to manage the “no” answer or “no response” situations. The team leader and analyst presented trainees with survey plan. A discussion session followed with questions and answers for clarification. The method, steps, and procedures for selecting traders to be interviewed were thoroughly explained. During the survey field work, supervisors reviewed the completed questionnaires on a regular basis, providing guidance and feedback to the enumerators and ensuring data quality control. Responses that indicated a need for clarification were flagged and then clarified in a timely manner.
Training for assessment team members included five days of classroom instruction and practice and one day of pre-testing of all assessment procedures, including conducting interviews and anthropometric measurement. Emphasis was placed on sampling procedures, understanding of the questionnaire, and for the team leader/supervisor, accuracy of recording as they were given responsibility for this activity. Training of the enumerators included a general presentation on food security and nutrition and their linkages. The individual questions were reviewed through a classroom-based activity on the household questionnaires, the purpose of which was to assess understanding of the questions' rationale and potential possible answers. Anthropometric measurements were reviewed during a one-half day training session. Additionally, training included discussion of each assessment question, practice reading, and role playing. As a part of their training, interviewers assisted in the pre-testing and revision of questionnaire questions in order to ensure clarity and cultural appropriateness.
Mitra and Associates MA
MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ANALYSES: Events and developments pertaining to public food stocks, imports, procurement (both domestic and international), and production were examined. Regional trade, including barriers to trade, price trends, and macroeconomic stability.
MARKET ANALYSES: An analysis of market performance was conducted using a combination of primary data from the trader's survey and secondary price data. The analysis of the traders survey data focused on numerous topics including the availability of food on local markets, food flows (including volumes and quantities sold), prices (both actual and expected trends), and perceived reasons for price increases. Other topics analyse were profit margins, access to credit, constraints to trade, and the capacity of food markets to respond to increased demand.
HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY: The analysis of the household food security survey data focused on numerous topics including changes in livelihoods and income sources, the effects of inflation on income, changes in wages, salaries and purchasing power, and changes in the “net seller or net buyer status” of agricultural households. The impact of higher food prices on food and non-food expenditures was also examine, as was the impact of other “shocks” and the seasonality and timing of such “shocks”. Extensive analysis was undertaken on household coping strategies and food consumption, using a food consumption score. The score was based on both dietary diversity and the frequency of various foods consumed.
NUTRITION and HEALTH STATUS of WOMEN: Mid-upper arm circumferences were taken from the mothers of children aged from birth to 59 months of age or from pregnant women to measure their nutritional status. Information was also collected regarding micronutrient supplementation with Vitamin A post-partum and iron and folate supplementation during pregnancy. Vitamin A capsules and iron and folate tables were shown to the women in order to avoid any misunderstanding.
INFANT and YOUNG CHILD FEEDING PRACTICES: Enumerators asked questions regarding infant and young-child feeding practices to all mothers with a child aged from birth to 23 months in the surveyed household. The indicators were related to breastfeeding practices and the introduction of complementary food in time, quantity, and quality (diet diversity). Exclusive breastfeeding, continued breastfeeding at one year and two years, proportion of infants 6 to 8 months of age who received solid, semi-solid, or soft foods, minimum meal frequency, minimum diet diversity and minimum acceptable diet.
HEALTH of GENERAL POPULATION: Households were asked if any household member had been ill in the two weeks prior to the assessment, the main cause of illness, and if treatment had been sought outside the house.
WATER and SANITATION: Access to safe water sources, types of toilet facilities, treatment of drinking water, use of toilet facility and sharing latrine at household level.
All interviews were conducted in Bangla or in a local dialect and data was recorded onto paper questionnaire
All questionnaires and modules are provided as external resources.
Following the field data collection period from November 2008 to January 2009, Mitra and Associates carried out data entry in February 2009.
Other Processing
Data analysis was undertaken by WFP and UNICEF utilizing two separate software systems: ANTHRO 2005 for the anthropometric data and SPSS 16 for the food security, market, health, additional nutrition variables, and water and sanitation data.
Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping World Food Programme wfp.vaminfo@wfp.org http://www.wfp.org/food-security
- the title of the survey (including acronym and year of implementation)
World Food Programme. Bangladesh Household Food Security and Nutrition Assessment 2009. Ref. BGD_2008_CFSVA_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from http://nada.vam.wfp.org/index.php/catalog on [date].
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
DDI_BGD_2008_CFSVA_v01_M
Souleika Abdillahi SA WFP Data Archivist
World Bank, Development Data Group DECDG The World Bank Reviewed the DDI
Version 02 (February 2014). Edited version, the initial version (Version 01 - July 2012, DDI-BGD-WFP-CFSVA-2008-v1.0) DDI was done by Souleika Abdillahi (WFP).
Following DDI elements are edited, DDI ID, Study ID, Title, Abbreviation, Data Processing and Data Collectors. External resources (questionnaires and report) are attached to the DDI.
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Return of Love to Planet Earth: Memoir of a Reluctant Visionary
by Nina Brown
With foreward by James Tyberonn
Nina Brown’s illuminating narrative, Return of Love to Planet Earth: Memoir of a Reluctant Visionary, describes her voyage as she ascends to the highest frequencies of love using allow, and receive. Her ten-year alchemical journey illustrates for each one of us the simple yet challenging path to our own spiritual ascent.
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Terminator: Salvation (2009, McG)
The most inerrant feature of the Terminator franchise, once seemingly dead yet revived six whole years ago after twelve years before the last installment, has been John Connor. In addition to changing the actors who play him, his will and purpose in the two non-Cameron sequels has been refashioned each time to suit the shortsighted needs of each film.
In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Nick Stahl's portrayal of a John Connor turned haggard druggie (since Judgement Day was prevented) was at least plausible. Seeing T2's Edward Furlong play an older version of the character he immortalized as a child would've been unsettling anyway. Whoever was playing Connor still didn't matter much since Mostow had the benefit of Schwarzenegger, even in his aging twilight and on the cusp of fulfilling the Terminator series' vision of running California into the ground. Mostow's indistinguished career prepared him perfectly to fashion a PG-13 facsimile of Terminator 2, which was boring on arrival since every sci-fi action movie had been emulating T2 up until The Matrix in 1999. Terminator 3's adaption to the lameness of Matrix knock-off style was having a acrobatic hot chick Terminator in tight leather effectively taking the place of the T-1000.
Salvation continues T3's aimless slouch towards trendiness while not even attempting faint resemblance to the series from where it came. Like T3 the rating is PG-13, although in retrospect even T2 could qualify with a little less blood. The series most brazenly copied is now Michael Bay's Transformers via frequent scenes of humans running from giant robots that dwarf the landscapes, which are also mostly deserts. The premise of a Terminator set in the future war shown briefly by Cameron in his two films was kicking around as the possible third movie for a long time, yet even T3's brief view of that future bears closer resemblance to Cameron's blue-lit nighttime palette than McG's arid grey and yellow post-apocalypse. Being set in the future also precludes the need for time travel, another radical anomaly from the original formula.
Terminator: Salvation's biggest anomaly and biggest problem is the absence of Schwarzenegger. As in, THE Terminator. Without him, the producers doubled down on the new casting of John Connor as the number two reason people would come to see Terminator flicks. Poor John Connor now has to be played by Christian Bale, whose stock hero performance so resembles a chunk of wood that he would've made a fine Terminator. Unfortunately this is just another in his continuing line of post-Batman roles in which he's a human action figure all geeks can project their asexual power fantasies upon. If the same actor can play Batman and John Conner in potentially multiple movies, why not have him play the next James Bond? At least he could use his real accent. As a star to hang a whole movie around, I wasn't expecting much from Bale and given the box office performance perhaps Hollywood also will be less inclined to regard him as an ace in the hole.
There are barely even any of the iconic Terminator skeletons in this movie. Instead, there's a focal Terminator played by a side of beef named Sam Worthington, who undergoes the something almost resembling time travel, being frozen and waking up in the future as a Terminator who doesn't know he's a Terminator! He barely raises an eyebrow upon discovering that fact or even when being told he's woken up in the future. There's no logical sense of progression to the robots introduced in the series and Worthington functions mainly as a mcguffin to be sought out by everyone, ultimately giving him more screen time than Bale's monotone histrionics or fresh faced Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese.
Yelchin provides a weird conduit to the tactics of JJ Abrams, the only director with a faker name than McG. Both shamelessly exploited fan nostalgia and the casual knowledge of non-franchise fans by casting young lookalikes or just good looking young people as the younger versions of beloved characters with decades of memories behind them. Granted, Kyle from the original movie was never a character known by name to anyone but fans of the the first movie the way non-Trek fans know the name "Mr Spock." Although his inclusion here is gratuitous pandering, Yelchin does bear an uncanny resemblance to Michael Biehn's appearance and performance. There should have been more of him than Bale or Worthington but even if there had been, Michael Ferris and John Brancato's script still would have had him doing idiotic things. When first introduced, he's not only living by the skin of his teeth with the help of a mute little girl in the ruins of LA, they're hiding at night atop the highest point possible, the Griffith Observatory. I'd be tempted to think this was a reference to the location of Arnold's arrival in the original Terminator if the stupidity weren't so self-discrediting.
On the matter of the war-torn post apocalypse: George Miller's The Road Warrior doesn't logically spell out how people are logically able to survive day by day, yet the world of Mad Max feels real unto itself because of the desperate savagery of its inhabitants. Terminator: Salvation's post-apocalypse is lazily cribbed from The Road Warrior, throwing handfuls of armed survivors into remote desert locations, but they're not mobile or threatening and nothing about the future world feels particularly dangerous until a giant robot appears from nowhere. Cameron's vision of the future wars (and T3's for that matter) were of a constant ground war of attrition. Brancato and Ferris actually blew their chance to show Bale commanding a battle on land, something teased since Terminator 2's prologue. They aren't even sure how he ultimately became the leader against the machines. He's not yet in charge at the start of the film despite being the only person who had Terminators sent back in time to kill him; he's so important! He still has to get chewed out by gruff Michael Ironside about how he's too reckless a soldier and doesn't play by the rules and other stuff that would get him canned immediately. Amongst other new absurdities, Ironside lives in a nuclear submarine with the other military commanders and the human resistance also has fighter jets. Did they run out of those by the time the future-events of T1 and 2 took place, and all they had left were jeeps with mounted machine guns? This is a really dumb movie. I wonder if they even noticed that the title is displayed twice during the opening credits or if some dumb person just thought that was necessary.
As a generic boilerplate science fiction action movie, this one is at least technically competent. As a Terminator film - whatever that is without Cameron - the contradictory attempts at reinvention and series fidelity only compound the lack of wit or inspiration. Near the end of the movie, an Arnold lookalike shows up playing one of the first Terminators hot off the press. His face gets melted off in seconds so you don't notice it's not him, then the rest of him gets melted in minutes so the movie can end. That's all McG did here - grudgingly reuse someone else's icon as a stepping stone to create something boldly unoriginal.
Labels: anton yelchin, arnold schwarzenegger, christian bale, james cameron, jj abrams, jonathan mostow, michael biehn, nick stahl, sam worthington, star trek, terminator 2
Once Upon A Girl (1976, Don Jurwich)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965, Otto Preminger)
Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)
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ASK ROTOMAN: More categories please.
May 14, 2019 May 15, 2019 by peter
Our three-player keeper/yahoo standard roster /10 team league/ daily moves. wants to modernize our standard 5×5 categories for next season, but we can’t come to an agreement.
Either 6×6 adding OPS, QS and replacing S with S+H.
Or 7×7 adding OBP, SLG, QS, Holds separate.
We are expanding the rosters slightly next season as well, and we also don’t want to drop the win category all together.
We don’t know what potential issues we will have with these potential set ups, thanks for your help.
Dear Cats:
I’m in favor of modernizing, for sure, but you were right to ask, because there are implications worth considering in all your potential moves.
The big one: Do more categories make for a better game? The obvious answer is with more categories you have more verisimilitude. More different players have value doing different things and that’s good, right?
Maybe not. Or rather, more categories means you run into a math problem. Back in ancient times we played 4×4 (no Runs or Strikeouts), but sometime around 2000 it became obvious that more and more people were playing 5×5 (with Runs and Strikeouts). In Tout Wars we switched over and those of us who do player pricing discovered something that makes total sense but wasn’t at all intuitive: More cats mean the most expensive players earn less.
The reason is math. Each category siphons off some value from the players at the top, and gives it to the players in the middle. Last year the game’s premiere strikeout pitcher, Max Scherzer, earned $40 in 5×5 (with strikeouts) and $41 in 4×4 (without strikeouts). Crazy, eh? Be prepared for that.
In other instances, you’re adding redundant categories. For instance, if you add OPS to a league that counts batting average, too, you’re counting batting average twice. And counting home runs twice, too, since they’re a big part of the SLG slice of OPS. I would recommend replacing BA with OBP, so that you count walks on the hitting side as well as the pitching side, and be done with it.
Similarly, adding QS as an extra category in addition to Wins, means starting pitchers games started are counted twice in counting stats (plus strikeouts! That’s three times) and they loom larger in ERA and WHIP as well. This will make good starting pitchers much more valuable, and much more pricey I would think.
Plus, adding Holds to the Saves category makes relievers much less valuable. The reason is supply and demand. Saves have value because there is only one fellow on a team getting a save in any given game. Holds can be spread between two or three pitchers, which expands the pool significantly. With more supply comes less demand, and lower prices. Is that what you want?
In The Fantasy Baseball Guide 2012, I think, Tim McLeod pitched the idea of using Saves + Half Holds as a category, to give recognition to middle relievers, but to continue to venerate those who are able to close games without getting hurt or becoming ineffective. I think this is much better way to go.
And while we’re at that, Wins + Half QS as a single cat recognizes that bad luck can hurt starters who are pitching effectively without destroying the notion that getting a win is something pitchers are trying to do and should be rewarded for.
Okay, so right now I’m on: OBP, Runs, HR, RBI, SB for hitters. ERA, WHIP, W+Half QS, Sv + Half Holds, and Strikeouts for pitchers. Hmm. 5×5.
I guess if you wanted to go to 6×6 I’d suggest adding SLG to the hitting side (count doubles as well as homers) and Innings Pitched to the pitching side, though I fear that doubling up on IP and Ks is going to push too much value to the pitchers again. Tristan Cockcroft has long suggested adding IP and changing Ks to K/9, making it a third pitching rate stat. That does restore some balance to the starter/reliever mix.
Might there be unintended consequences having half the pitching cats be rate stats? There might be, but Tristan swears by this and so it is surely worth a shot.
One other idea: Fielding stats. I know, they’re all flawed, but in fantasy baseball the goal isn’t a perfect reflection of a player’s contribution on a baseball field, but a given valuation based on the stats you choose to count.
Inside Edge has published fielding stats in recent years that track plays based on difficulty. So they have plays rated Impossible (no one can make them), Remote (a 1-10 percent chance), Unlikely (11-40 percent chance), Even (40-60), Likely (60-90), and Routine (91-100). My idea is to add Remote plays as a counting stat.
Last year, Nolan Arenado made 39 Remote plays, two more than Brandon Crawford, who made one more than Manny Machado. This would be a little like Home Runs, events that some players do regularly, but far from every day. Giving value to Brandon Crawford for his defense seems like a worthwhile idea.
The other category would be to count Routine as a rate stat, so every error or misplay on a play everyone should make would hurt your team in that one. Many outfielders and catchers top this list, having not made a mistake on a routine play last year, but there is Rougned Odor in 19th place, the highest ranked middle infielder by far. Let’s give him a hand.
The only problem is that this data is not available from Inside Edge in game, and FanGraphs is not even showing it for 2019. If no stats services have it, it doesn’t exist, so for now this is a pipe dream. But in the future, I’m all in.
Good luck with your decision. I hope you and your leaguemates have a fun discussion.
Categories Ask Rotoman, Prices, Rules
How to Use The Guide’s Big Price in Shallow Mixed Leagues
A reader writes: “How would you equate or gauge the Big Price to a 12 man 5X5 mixed league auction with $260. We play keepers too but that’s really not my issue. The Big Number seems to be about right as most other magazines I’ve seen will list auction prices using that format.”
I’ve answered this question before, and published an article showing how to do the math in 2014. Click here to read that.
But before you do that, you may want to read this.
The prices in The Guide are for a 24-team mixed league, and are intended to emulate the pricing of a deep AL and NL only leagues. The reason I don’t publish AL and NL only prices—the leagues are a little different, which makes the values of their stats a little different—is because when we put together the Guide in December there are usually hundreds of free agents out there. We don’t know who is going to be in which league.
The important thing to remember about deep prices is that the value of the stats, be they homers, RBIs, runs, hits, steals, are linear. That means that every home run a batter hits has the same value. Every stolen base has the same value. Et cetera. The reason for this is because the vast majority of stats that are produced in the whichever league one is playing in are counted in your roto standings. The replacement level is pretty close to nil for any stat category.
In a 12-team mixed league, you’re playing with just 12 of baseball’s 30 teams. You’re only using the half the available stats overall, roughly (this varies by category). This means that a player has to hit a bunch of homers before those homers have any value. And if he doesn’t hit them, there will someone available for free who will.
What this means, practically, is that in a AL or NL only league, the last player taken costs $1. And in a 12 team mixed league the last player taken cost $1. But the last player taken in the mixed league would have cost about $13 in the only league. The chart below shows the prices for players taken in a 15-team mixed auction, likely Tout Wars in 2016, from most expensive to least.
The thing to notice is that the graph goes pretty straight at about the 50th player taken, which supports the observation that after the third round in a mixed draft the players in each round are pretty interchangeable. No matter who someone takes, there’s another player like him still available. But this isn’t so among the best players. They are not interchangeable, and their value drops quickly, as the left side of the graph shows.
When someone takes Mike Trout, there isn’t another Mike Trout out there. There is Jose Altuve, but when he’s gone there isn’t someone similar. By the time you get to the sixth or seventh player the options are not nearly as appealing as the early choices were. In a draft, the compensation is the earlier pick in the next round. In an auction there is no compensation. Those irreplaceable players can only go to the person who pays for them, and that drives their prices up. Hence the steep curve in the graph showing the prices of the best players.
This situation is even more extreme in a 12-team league than a 15-team league. The bottom line is that if you convert the magazine prices to your mixed league size, it is important that you then reallocate money from the least expensive end of the list to the most expensive end, so that you have realistic prices for the Trouts, Turners, and Scherzers in your game.
Your draft day goal is to have a list that shows the prices you’re willing to pay for each available player, and have that add up to the amount of money available in your auction.
You don’t have to buy those most expensive players. In this year’s Guide, Tout Mixed Auction 2017 winner Jeff Zimmerman talks about how the prices for the top guys in that auction were overinflated. He complains that people always inflate the prices of the top guys in mixed auctions, as if that’s a mistake. I think Jeff is such a numbers guy that he only looks at what people earned to determine their price, and from his success you can see that his price list can work. But I think his list worked in spite of his error, rather than because of it.
What makes me think so? The graph above.
Categories Auctions, Guide, Link, Prices, Rotoman $ Values
Big Profits, Big Losses: The Midseason Spreadsheets – Pitchers Edition
July 10, 2017 by peter
The bottom line in fantasy baseball is where are you in the standings. Absolutely.
But the bottom line is a moving target as the season goes along. The top performers in the first half don’t usually perform as well in the second half, and some folks we’ve left for dead in the first half reemerge in the second half full of life. All of which aligns with what we know about regression to the mean. If you’re the best (or worst) at something for a little while, you’re likely to do worse (or better) for the next little while.
You can see the first half fantasy profit/loss spreadsheet here. Use this information to help target players for the second half.
Top 20 Pitching Profiteers in the First Half of 2017:
Mike Leake
Gio Gonzalez
Ivan Nova
Max Scherzer
Felipe Rivero
Scott Feldman
Corey Knebel
Ariel Miranda
Jordan Montgomery
Greg Holland
Kyle Freeland
Of course, everyone wants to know who is killing their team, as if they didn’t already know.
The Bottom Ten Biggest Losers in the First Half of 2017:
Tyler Glasnow
Zach Britton
Chris Tillman
No. 11 is Jason Verlander, BTW. You have to decide whether to bail on bad first halfs by historically good pitchers. I would bet on a better second half for Tanaka and Verlander, and worry more about Tillman and Glasnow.
But Tillman and Glasnow are talented, and history says that if they stay healthy they will have their moments.
Categories Prices, Projections
Big Profits, Big Losses: The Midseason Spreadsheets – Hitters Edition
July 6, 2017 by peter
Yesterday I posted lists of the Top 20 hitters and pitchers in 2017, sorted by the Most Costly (with 2017 earnings), and the Most Earned (with 2017 prices).
Today I’m dumping the whole spreadsheets, sorted right now by Biggest Profit to Biggest Loss.
The most profitable hitters so far this year are:
Justin Smoak
Corey Dickerson
Avisail Garcia
Logan Morrison
Marwin Gonzalez
Ben Gamel
Trey Mancini
Andrelton Simmons
Tim Beckham
Whit Merrifield
The Top Losers? From worst to less worst…
Starling Marte
Leonys Martin
Ryan Braun
Marcus Semien
Greg Bird
That’s enough, right? These are guys someone paid real money for, and the results have not been good.
If you want the whole hitter list, download it here.
Categories data, Prices, Projections
Halfway Hitters: The first half’s big earners
Looking at hitters the other way, from the top of the list of big earners, is a very reciprocal view than looking at them ranked by preseason expectations.
In fact, the Top 20 big earners so far cost $491, the exact same amount the Top 20 most costly hitters earned. That’s weird.
And the Top 20 big earners have earned $665, just $30 less than the Top 20 most costly hitters cost!
None of the Top 20 big earners went for free on auction day, but Aaron Judge, Ryan Zimmerman and Corey Dickerson went for single digits and are earning big profits.
Halfway HItters: 5×5 Earnings at the midpoint
Hitters are generally considered more reliable than pitchers, in large part because they do not get hurt as catastrophically as do hurlers. But a look at the Top 20 hitters ranked by auction day 5×5 price shows disasters for owners of Mike Trout, Josh Donaldson, Freddie Freeman and Starling Marte.
Still, the Top 20 hitters cost $695 and earned $491, a better ratio than the Top 20 pitchers.
A closer look at the list shows that most of the attrition is due to injury, and a slight overvaluing of the best players, who also happen to put up big stats even when they’re not having a great season.
Pitchers at Midseason: This year’s top earners (so far)
Another way to look at the pitching pool is to see what the top earners are earning, and just how much they cost on auction day.
The ratio of cost to earnings in this group reverses. The Top 20 players cost $313 and earn $596.
The biggest earner, Max Scherzer, was the third most costly pitcher, while Clayton Kershaw, also on this list was the most costly by a lot, but the big differences are the guys nobody expected so see here. Jason Vargas, Ervin Santana, Alex Wood, Ivan Nova!?!?!? No bigger surprise comes in at No. 20 on the list, Chase Anderson, who was not even bought by the experts on draft day.
Here’s the whole list of biggest 2017 earners so far (click to enlarge):
Pitchers At the Halfway Point: The 20 Most Expensive 5×5 Pitchers
July 5, 2017 July 5, 2017 by peter
Through June second, the Top 20 most expensive pitchers are a mixed bag. Some, like Max Scherzer, shook off preseason injury worries, and is dominating right now, the best pitcher in either league in the first half.
Some, like Clayton Kershaw, who was bid up to $43 in the expert leagues because of his dominance and reliability, has reliably earned exactly that in the first half of play this year. So there.
But overall, this top group cost $521 in salary in the preseason and has thus far earned only $357, thanks to injuries and busts. Madison Bumgarner was the second priciest pitcher on auction day, and was effective in the few starts he made before he was shut down with a sprained shoulder following a dirt bike accident in mid April.
Ouch! Here’s a look at the Top 20 highest paid pitchers this year, and how they’re faring. You can click for a larger view.
Categories Prices, Projections, Uncategorized
The Fantasy Baseball Guide 2017 Projections Update Is Here.
March 22, 2017 March 22, 2017 by peter
Actually, it was here a week ago, but a screwup on my part made it very hard to find.
If you would like the FBG projections and prices update, it is here. The password is the last name of the first player profiled on page 90 of the 2017 Fantasy Baseball Guide. It is case sensitive.
You do not have to sign up for Dropbox, or even sign in, to download the file.
You can track what changes I’ve made to the projections since March 15 here.
Categories Guide, Prices, Projections, The Guide
Maas No Maas: The Trouble With Trea Turner
March 5, 2017 by peter
Standup guy Howard Bender sitting down in Half Moon Bay.
Everybody’s buddy and fine fantasy baseball analyst, Howard Bender, had a piece in the NY Post this week warning about overestimating Turner this year, the way Carlos Correa was overestimated last year.
That’s good advice in general, and probably as it applies to Turner, but it raises the question of how do you draw the line on a young player with a spectacularly good partial season under his belt.
I looked at hitters who had an OPS+ of 130 or better in the year they lost their rookie status since 1980 (the Roto Era), who had 249 plate appearances or more. Sixty one hitters qualified.
Five of those seasons came in 2016. That would be Corey Seager, Aledmys Diaz, Trea Turner, and the Ryans Shrimpf and Healy. One player, Kyle Schwarber, had a qualifying first season and didn’t play the next. That leaves us with 55 hitters in the pool.
What can we learn from them?
If we sort them from top to bottom based on first year OPS+:
The top 11 had an an OPS+ of 157 in year 1 and an OPS+ of 137 in year 2. Two of this group improved in year two, a man named Trout and another named Greenwell. Three had less than a 130 OPS in year 2: Luke Scott, posterboy Kevin Maas, and Miguel Sano. This group averaged 499 plate appearances.
The next 11 averaged 143 in year 1, and 109 in year 2. One of this cohort, Randy Milligan, improved. Seven had less than a 130 OPS+. Five has less than a 100 OPS+. This group averaged 442 plate appearances.
The middle 11 averaged 137 in year 1, and 116 in year 2. Kris Bryant was the only one to improve. Two were better than 130 in year 2. Only two had less than a 100 OPS+, both at 99, which is why the year 2 average went up for this group. This group averaged 349 plate appearances.
The fourth 11 average 133 in year 1, and 120 in year 2. Ryan Howard and Jason Bay improved. They were also the only two to have an OPS+ the next year better than 130. None of this group has an OPS+ of less than 100. This group averaged 416 plate appearances.
The last quintile averaged 131 in year 1, and 113 in year 2. Josh Hamilton, John Kruk, Lonnie Smith, and Ryan Klesko all improved and had an OPS+ of better than 130. Four hitters had an OPS+ of less than 100. This group averaged 343 plate appearances.
Another way to split these guys into groups would be by plate appearances.
The top quintile averaged 639 plate appearances, with a 151 OPS+ in year 1, and a 137 OPS+ in year 2.
The next group averaged 463 plate appearances, with a 141 OPS+ in year 1, and a 136 in year 2.
The middle quintile averaged 388 PA, with a 138 in year 1, an 85 in year 2.
The fourth group averaged 337 PA, with a 135 in year 1, a 122 in year 2.
The last group averaged just 273 PA, with a 139 in year 1, a 116 in year 2.
All in all, 20 of the 55 players did better than 130 in OPS+ in year 2, 25 did better than 120 OPS+, 33 did better than 110, and 48 did better than 100. That leaves seven true busts, and 30 total who could be considered disappointing.
Eleven of the 20 players who topped 130 in OPS+ had more than 450 plate appearances. Only four of the next 20 players had 450 PA or more.
A final set of ranks, based on percentage of change from year 1 to year 2.
The top quintile averaged 428 plate appearances, posting a 138 OPS+ in year 1, and a 154 in year 2.
The next averaged 508 PA, with 142 in year 1, 131 in year 2.
The middle quintile averaged 415 PA, with a 141 OPS+ in year 1, a 116 in year 2.
The fourth quintile averaged 352 PA, with a 137 OPS+ in year 1, and a 103 in year 2.
The bottom quintile averaged 388 PA, with a 153 OPS+ in year 1, and an 85 in year 2.
Comparing the top half sorted by percentage of change from year 1 to year 2, the top half had 487 plate appearances while the bottom half had 384. The average age of the top half was 23.4 years old, while the bottom half was 24.5. Perhaps not surprisingly, the bottom half hit more homers and stole more bases per plate appearance.
Plate appearances and high OPS+ are the best indicators of a repeat season of top performances for these players, but players of all types do repeat and get better.
So, what happens if we look at only those players with fewer than 450 PA in year 1? There are 37 of them.
Sort them into thirds, and we see that the top two thirds are younger than the bottom third. Older is definitely worse when you’re looking at partial seasons with a high OPS+ in your rookie year. Or maybe it is better put, younger is definitely better.
So, what do we make of this year’s crop?
Corey Seager and Aledmys Diaz should be the most trusted, because they had the most at bats, but neither had a particularly high OPS+ last year, which is a bit of a warning sign. And Diaz is somewhat older, a reason to distrust.
Trea Turner had the best OPS+ last year, but only 324 plate appearances. Still he’s young, which is a positive sign.
Ryan Shrimpf just snuck onto the list at 130 OPS+. He’s 28 years old, very old, and only had six more PA than Turner. He’s neg all the way.
Finally, Ryon Healy is slightly old, with a 135 OPS+, and only 283 PA. Not as negative as Shrimpf, but not as positive as the other guys.
Bonus No. 1: Kyle Schwarber missed last year, but will be back this year after a powerful world series. He’s still young, but is coming off a 130 OPS+ in 2015. He’s a mixed bag until you see him swing.
Bonus No. 2: Gary Sanchez didn’t make the 250 PA cutoff, but in 229 PA last year he put up a monster 168 OPS+. Only Mike Trout and Jose Abreu did better in our 250+ PA cohort. On the other hand, if you look at the cohort of those who didn’t qualify, the only hitters who did better in year 1 were Frank Thomas and Phil Plantier. Both were 22 their rookie year. Thomas followed up his 177 OPS+ rookie year with a league leading 180 the next year, and then 177, 174, 212, 179, 178, 181 in the next six years. Plantier followed his 178 with a 90 and never topped the 122 he had in year 3.
Finally, what to do with all this? Although there is data here, this sort of study is really anecdotal. The sample is small, the results so various as to mock any absolute conclusions. But maybe you read the above and feel differently.
What I think it tells us is that there are players who post a super first season and then repeat. You can’t rule that out for these guys this season.
But as you would expect, extreme performance usually regresses to the mean, so you should not count on a repeat. And you should fear charging ahead taking anyone with such a small performance sample, because the possibility of sophomore slump is always there (except for Corey Seager, right?).
Which is pretty dull and which brings us to Howard’s comment about Trea Turner. He says, “Of course Turner is a great talent, but just doubling his total because he will get twice the at-bats this year is not the proper way to project.”
The trouble with Turner is that even if you regress back his stats you end up with ridiculous numbers. My projection, which doesn’t come close to doubling last year’s numbers is 18 homers, with 49 steals, a modest 93 runs and 68 RBI, with a .307 batting average. In 5×5, that’s worth $37. First-round value.
ZIPS chops more aggressively. It gives Turner 260 more plate appearances than last year and one more homer, three more steals, a .282 batting average and modest 77/66 runs and RBI split. But even that modest projection is worth $29, which is a Top 15 hitter.
Is my projection the median projection? Is ZIPS’? That’s the trouble with Turner. Right now I have him with an NL-only bid price of $27. That’s not going to get him, and paying more isn’t necessarily going to hurt the team that buys him.
So, what you do is you keep bidding. Certainly to $27, maybe to $30. This is a place to read the room. Once you’re at $30 you don’t really want him, but the risk of bidding up the guy who does really want him isn’t huge. I mean, you might end up with Trea Turner!
At that price, that could be trouble, but might not.
Here’s a link to the data, both that which I used and that which I didn’t.
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Thursday, June 22, 2017 0
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Olivia is a 17 year old Sixth form student currently studying at Darrick Wood School in Orpington. She is currently studying History, English and Photography at A Level. After school she plans to go to university.
Here Olivia talks about her challenges, issues, problems and successes she has in her life and the decisions she needs to make about going to university.
“My greatest challenge when leaving school will probably be starting university, I am unfathomably terrified and also incredibly excited about it. I am torn between moving away or staying at home and even the right course is puzzling me- eek!
In terms of university, I have just this weekend applied for my firm and insurance choices, although looking at potential universities proved to be tougher than I’d initially anticipated.
When it came to writing –the dreaded- personal statement, it took me a good few drafts to perfect it! I started off listing the basic points- my education history, interests and obviously, my reasons for interest in my chosen course.
I gradually then built that into statement form, and added flamboyant words, and rather embarrassingly ‘bigged’ myself up a bit. At first it sounded pretty bland and basic (trust me, the amazing personal statements that come up on Google aren’t written overnight) but after several timely drafts and a great deal of assistance from my subject teachers and head of years- it turned out pretty well (I think).
When it comes to selling yourself to potential universities, it’s very important to obviously highlight your talents, characteristics and skills but also hugely important to tell the truth- I heard a story about a guy that said he had a huge interest in cake baking- but when it came to the interview knew nothing really about it (as you can imagine that was probably pretty awkward)!
It’s also important to show your interest in the course you are applying to, try to summarise your interest in it – whilst also highlighting some of your experience with the subject (for e.g. if English, books you’ve read and enjoyed, your own history of the subject etc.).
With regards to getting into the university I wanted to go to, it proved quite a long and winding situation. Obviously, one of the central things universities look at when looking at personal statements are AS grades- unfortunately during my AS levels my English exam was under marked by 2 grades due to a poor exam board- leaving me with a D when now (after a resit) I should have been on an A.
This (I imagine) affected me getting into two of my top university choices of Leeds and Nottingham – especially as in all my other subjects I had received A’s. Fortunately, however two of my other crucial choices (Liverpool and Goldsmiths) offered me places- so it was not all bad!
Since applying for universities and art colleges my friends and I have been faced with various problems that, of course we did not expect in the process. For example, as well as the expected problems of funding for accommodation and finance, there is overcoming the initial problem of choosing where you want to be.
I was, and still am torn between leaving home or going away. I have now decided that my first choice is to be Liverpool University (a long long way away!) and my second choice is Goldsmiths in London a lot closer plus I would be living at home meaning the expense of accommodation would not be important.
However, saying that if I did go to Goldsmiths, would the fact I would be living at home make me less prone to the ‘university experience?’ and would I mix with as many people? The choices and decisions seem to be endless.
One of my closest friends is applying to art college and has no choice but to live at home during her foundation year, as she would be given no support for accommodation or living as her course is only foundation- limiting her to certain colleges and universities.
When it comes to funding for my university accommodation and living expenditure, a lot will come down to student loans, beneficial at the time but the fact they will of course add up into quite a sum of debt is quite scary, although I am not expected to pay them back until I am earning over a certain amount (a small relief I suppose).
This means I need to start saving now, and due to the fact university costs are going to shoot up in the next year means any hopes of a potential gap year, or year out are minimal, as in 2012 I am far less likely to be able to afford going!”
What challenges are you facing about going to university?
A levels, grants, personal statement, school, university
“My name is Lily and I am currently studying at Blackfen School for girls. At the moment I’m learning main subject’s Maths, English, Science and others. I have not picked my options yet, but I’m thinking of taking cookery, media studies and photography.
I like these subjects, photography lets me express who I am and what I do, like if I’m out with my friends I will try to take as many spontaneous snaps as possible. I also enjoy media because … it is a mix of learning, how to sell something, using adverts in magazines, television etc., and creating stories and seeing how authors buy the readers attention.
I have asked my Mum for advice but also my Dad and Grandad had a bit of input but not much. I think not knowing what I want to do when I am older set’s me back but also gives me an advantage.
As well as school I like doing things with my friends, like going out to parties and outings. Fashion also catches my eye with what comes in and out and who is wearing what. Music is a big part of my life I mainly listen to R’n’B but I’m open to any types of music and like it all, apart from really heavy metal rock as I feel like my ears are going to fall off.
There has been issue’s deciding my options. My school told us we would not be picking our options ourselves that they were choosing them for us. These were: French Geography/History and one of our choices.
It works out to be roughly 15 GCSE’s including my option. They have also included a twilight option which is basically studying another subject of our choice 2 days after school every week for 1 hour and I am considering doing this because of the subjects I am doing would not have been my choice.
This caused uproar with students and parents. So calling them my options was silly because I was not getting any option. When we were not allowed choice of our own I spoke to a lot of girls who all said the same, that they were angry and frustrated. I asked my friends their opinions and this is what they said…
Chloe said “I felt we should get more option as they were called OPTIONS!”
Molly was “Annoyed because it wasn’t fair, they are not the ones studying them for the next 2 years.”
Emily commented “I wasn’t overly bothered as I knew it would help me in the future.”
Maddy said “It wasn’t our option anymore it was the schools, or who ever made this choice.”
I think the same as most of my friends as it was not fair. From my point of view not knowing what I want to do or be when I am older doesn’t affect anything. Just doing things that I enjoy and will be doing, for mainly the rest of my life. But by others making decisions for me it’s like people choosing my life path and guiding me in ways I do not want to go.
At this stage in school our choices have changed yet again and after protesting about not having our own free choice the school caved in and gave us our rights to our GCSE choices. There are pro’s and con’s to this because picking your options is difficult because your picking the street we go down, but its nicer than having no option at all and having someone picking the street you go down for you.
When we got our options back 80% of girls chose the baccalaureate anyway which consists of French Geography or History which we were made to take originally!
Making my decision will be tough. Scary stuff picking my path in life.
What issues are you facing when deciding on your GCSE options?
career, careers, GCSE, goal setting, Life coaching, life goals, school
“Hello, my name is George I am 14 and 7 days old and I go to Darrick Wood School in Orpington, where I live. I like technology, my PS3 and have recently started karate. I really enjoy comedy and watch improvisational comedy shows such as Fast and Loose on T.V. I listen to most types of music, but my favourite genre is indie rock and some of my favourite bands are Surfer Blood, The Vaccines, Arcade Fire and The XX. I support Arsenal and have been to see them about 7 times at the amazing Emirates Stadium and once at Highbury.
I am studying all of the core subjects at present, but for my options I have chosen geography, ICT, Business Studies, and French. I am good at ICT and Geography and find them quite easy. I like ICT and business because I would eventually like to move onto accounting or something related.
I like to think that by trying hard at school and completing homework will motivate me into achieving the grades I want, which will help me into a successful future. I get at least a piece of homework daily, and aim to do it as soon as I get it to avoid it piling up, although I do have the tendency to leave it last thing on a Sunday, which I wish to work on. I feel it will help me prepare for my GCSE’s next year, and by doing my work now will help me to stay on top when I get more next year.
My family encourage me to complete my homework, and correct any errors I may make, from spelling errors to additions I could add to make my piece better. They influence me to do research and study for school, as they want me to do as well as I can do and achieve my potential.
I feel I have all the support I need from school and at home to keep me motivated with my studies. The teachers are always there for me to speak to at school, whether I have a personal problem or trouble with school work. I also have a very supportive family, and a sister in sixth form who having done her GCSE’s is able to guide me if need be.”
How do you motivate yourself to study?
Coaching, motivation, school, study
Balancing school work with out of school activities
George is 14 and goes to Darrick Wood School in Orpington. He has already chosen geography, ICT, Business Studies and French for his GCSE options. George tells about balancing school work with out of school activities.
“I think it is important to prioritise school work with outside of school activities. I think it is important to spend time with friends and family because I have fun with them and joke around and enjoy socialising.
I do however think studying is important and think there should be a school life balance so you’re not always doing one thing. I do like going on my PS3 as it means I get to play with my friends and I also enjoy the games on there because they show my interests, such as football.
The only problem with doing things such as karate and riding my bike are they do take up a lot of time and take dedication and a lot of practise, which I sometimes find hard to balance.
Studying also helps me get my good grades which means I am put in the right sets for my GCSE’s which are important as qualifications.
When I am with my friends, there are lots of places to go such as Bromley, the park, their house but there could be more places to go for people my age, such as youth clubs. Although I can go to these places, there are not that many other places within the area in which I live without having to go out of the way on buses or trains.”
How do you balance your school work with out of school activities?
business challenge, school, work experience
Young People Reviews of Firebird Training’s Winning CVs DVD – First Steps to Getting an Interview
Olivia was given a copy of Inspired Youths/Firebird Training’s DVD, ‘First steps to getting an interview’ to watch so she could create her CV. This is her review of the DVD.
“After watching the DVD on creating a CV it has helped me realise a series of different things. Being a student, from GCSE Level there is always guidance towards your future pathways, but nonetheless sometimes it can be particularly challenging making it applicable to you. It can be hard knowing where you want to go in life, and distinguishing your desires and ambitions and making them a reality whilst tackling the obstacles in the way.
I realised it’s key to focus on your key strengths as an individual, listing your hobbies, interests and achievements so far in school and out of school (such as work experience). Being a teenager, it’s easy to think of the things you’re not good at and weaknesses, as opposed to strengths, but you have to be honest with yourself as everyone has their strengths and skills, and it is important to highlight them to a potential employer.
It is also key to know what goals you have for the future, and what you are going to need to do to achieve them. Of course, no one at a young age knows EXACTLY what they want to do, but it is good to gather a clear idea of what you want to achieve based on the things you enjoy and are importantly good at.
Lastly, it is essential to focus on breaking down your obstacles in front of you. Things will not be given to you on a plate, and will not be solved without being looked at, so by writing down and identifying the challenges ahead of you it is more likely you will achieve exactly what you want.” Olivia
George will need to CV when he starts to approach employers for his work placement so Firebird Training’s Inspired Youths gave him a copy of ‘First steps to getting an interview’ to help him create his CV. This is his review of the DVD.
“After watching the DVD supplied, it helped me to figure out my strengths and weaknesses, which helped me to write my CV so it will encourage an employer to read it based on a first glance. It shows what I am good at. On my CV I have included my hobbies, interests, my previous jobs and work experience and history of my education with grades.
I have asked family to write on my mind bubble (a worksheet on the CD that I printed out) to display my strengths and talents, which helped me put together a collection of my achievements which I have displayed on my CV. For example, I am an independent learner, a good listener, and work well in teams, all of which will appeal to an employer when handing out CV’s and gaining interviews.
The DVD also helped me figure out a clear career goal for later on in life as it puts it in a simpler form. It has made me write down things that I can achieve with the knowledge I already have. For example I am good at Maths which will assist me in my path to becoming an accountant. It will also help me channel the things I am good at into a career I can enjoy and benefit from.
This also helped me to work out the obstacles in front of my future accolades, such as finishing school, GCSE’s and achieving the grades I need to help me into a successful career path. By breaking down these obstacles and successfully completing them (such as exams) I will be on my way for my desired job and future.” George
Lily did not know how to create a CV so Inspired Youths/Firebird Training gave her a copy of ‘First steps to getting an interview’ to help her create her CV. This is what she had to say about the DVD.
“After watching the DVD it is much easier for me to write my CV than it was before. Having young people speaking on the DVD was good because younger people can relate to them. The video has been put together well by allowing the students in the DVD to show qualities in themselves and you go away taking something from that. By watching the DVD and writing on the worksheets on the CD at the same time really helps. Overall I found students and adults can benefit from this DVD.” Lily
To get your copy click here.
CVs, personal statements
£50K Prize for Young Entrepreneurs in West Kent, Gatwick and Brighton & Hove
Busy Young Entrepreneur
I have just come across a fantastic opportunity for young entrepreneurs aged 16-25 in the Gatwick, Brighton & Hove and West Kent areas. A prize worth up to £50,000 is to be awarded to young entrepreneurs with a great business idea or initiative that can be launched.
This could be a great way for you to secure some funding and business help. You have to live, study or work in any of the above 3 areas to enter and there will be a Dragon’s Den-style final which will be filmed at the end.
The West Kent entries need to be in by 31st March 2013, with presentations and judging taking place in May 2013 at K College. The winners will be announced in June 2013. Gatwick entries are closing soon on the 30th December 2012 so you need to be quick. And Brighton & Hove entries need to be in soon after by the 31st January 2013.
What have you got to loose! Have a look at http://www.youngstartuptalent.co.uk/ to find out how to enter. Let me know how you get on and feel free to run your ideas past me by emailing alison@firebirdtraining.co.uk
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Home Selections from Print Collections Collection North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1915]
North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1915]
Vol. XIV JANUARY, 1915 No. 3
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NORTH Carolina Booklet
"Carolina I Carolina i Heaven's blessings attend her I
While zve live zve will cherish, protect and defend her"
THE NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY
DAUGHTERS OF TtiE REVOLUTION
The object of The Booklet is to aid in developing and preserving
North Carolina History. The proceeds arising from its publication
will be devoted to patriotic purposes. Editoe.
COMMERCIAL PRINTING COMPANY
PRINTERS AND BINDERS
ADVISORY BOARD OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET
Mrs. Hubeet Haywood. Dr. Richard Dillabd.
Mrs. E. E. Moffitt. Dr. Kemp P. Battle.
Mr. R. D. W. Connor, Mr. James Sprunt.
Dr. D. H. Hill. Mr. Marshall DeLancet Haywood
Dr. E. W. Sikes. Chief Justice Walter Clark.
Mr. W. J. Peele. Major W. A. Graham.
Miss Adelaide L. Fries. Dr. Charles Lee Smith.
Miss Martha Helen Haywood.
Miss Mary Hilliabd Hinton.
OFFICERS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY
DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION
REGENT :
Miss MARY HILLIARD HINTON.
VICE-REGENT :
Mrs. MARSHALL WILLIAMS.
HONORARY REGENT :
Mrs. E. E. MOFFITT.
RECORDING SECRETARY :
Mrs. L. E. COVINGTON,
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY :
Mrs. PAUL H. LEE.
Mrs. CHAS. LEE SMITH,
REGISTRAR :
Miss SARAH W, ASHE,
CUSTODIAN OF RELICS ,"
Mrs. JOHN E. RAY,
CHAPTER REGENTS
Bloomsbury Chapter Mrs. Hubert Haywood, Regent.
Penelope Barker Chapter Mrs. Patrick Matthew, Regent,
Sir Walter Raleigh Chapter,
Miss Catherine F. Seyton Albertson, Regent,
General Francis Nash Chapter Miss Rebecca Cameron, Regent.
Roanoke Chapter Mrs. Charles J. Sawyer, Regent,
Founder of the North Carolina Society and Regent 1896-1902
Mrs. SPIER WHITAKER.*
Regent 1902:
Mrs. D. H. HILL, SR.t
Regent 1902-1906:
Mrs. THOMAS K. BRUNER.
•Died November 25, 1911.
tDied December 12, 1904.
The North Carolina Booklet
The Creative Forces in Westward Expansion:
Henderson and Boone^
By Archibald Henderson.
As focus of the old West, Kentucky has always loomed
large in the national imagination as the habitat of the Ameri-can
border hero. Boone and Kenton, Harrod and Clark, Cal-laway
and Logan, lurk vast in the wings of the national
theatre, dramatic protagonists magnified to almost super-human
proportions in the mist of a legendary past. About
them floats the aureole of traditional romance. Wrought with
rude but masterly strength out of the hardships and vicissi-tudes
of pioneer life, the heroic conquest of the wilderness,
the mortal struggles of border warfare, this composite figure
of Indian fighter, crafty backwoodsman, and crude surveyor
has emerged as the type-figure in the romance of the evolu-tion
of American character. This model, with its invincible
fascination and predominantly heroic attributes, has over-shadowed
and obscured the less spectacular yet more fecund
instrumentalities in the colonization and civilization of the
West. To-day, in the clarifying light of contemporary re-search,
illuminating social and economic forces, the creative
and formative causes of colonization and expansion, the indi-vidual
merges into the group ; and the isolated effort assumes
its true character as merely a single factor in social evolution.
We have come to recognize that the man of genius obeys a
movement quite as much as he controls it, and even more than
he creates it. In the pitiless perspective of historic evolution,
lA paper read at the meeting of the American Historical Associa-tion
at Charleston, S. C, December 30, 1913. It is reproduced here,
with the permission of the editor, from the American Historical
Review, October, 1914.
112 THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET.
the spectacular hero at first sight seems to lessen; but the
mass, the movement, the social force which he epitomizes and
interprets, gain in impressiveness and dignity.^
The hero of the pioneer West, Daniel Boone has played
the lofty role of exemplar of the leadership of the hinterland
movement of the eighteenth century. At the hands of that
inaccurate and turgid amanuensis, John Filson, Boone has
been apotheosized, in approved Scriptural fashion, as the in-strument
of Providence, ordained by God to settle the wilder-ness.
Nor was this superstitious delusion confined to Filson.
"An over-ruling Providence," says Boone, in speaking of him-self,
"seems to have watched over his life, and preserved him
to be the humble instrument in settling one of the fairest por-tions
of the new world."^ Fancy has played erratically
about this sane and simple figure, envisaging him in countless
disguises, from the primitive man returning to nature (after
Pousseau) to the genius of modern communism (after Spen-cer).
At the hands of the earlier biographers, Boone has
taken on the hue and tone of an unsocial and primitive figiire,
as unreal as an Indian from the pages of Chateaubriand, per-petually
fleeing from civilization in response to the lure of
the forest and the irresistible call of the wild. At the hands
of later biographers, Boone is fantastically endowed with the
creative imagination of the colonizer and the civic genius of a
founder of states. In the face of such disparities of romantic
distortion, wrought upon the character and role of Boone, the
true significance of the westward expansionist movement suf-fers
obscuration and eclipse. Scientifically historic investiga-tion
must relegate to the superstitious and the gullible, to the
panegyrist and the hero-worshipper, the providential inter-pretation
of our national history.
Meantime, there remains to narrate the just and authentic
story of westward expansion, and to project the true picture
of Boone as the typical figure of the expert backwoodsman in
2 Cf. Henderson, "The Beginnings of American Expansion," North
Carolina Review, September and October, 1910.
3 Memorial to the Legislature of Kentucky, January 18, 1812.
HENDERSON AND BOONE. 113
the westward migration of the peoples. Only thus shall we
secure the correct perspective for the social, political, and
economic history of the colonization of the West. Such a
recital must unmask the forces behind Boone, the chain of
social causation, the truly creative forces in the expansionist
movement. In such recital, Boone is shorn of none of those
remarkable powers as explorer, scout, pathfinder, land-looker,
and individual Indian fighter which have given him a secure
niche in the hall of national fame. It involves the recogni-tion,
nevertheless, that his genius was essentially individual
rather than social, unique rather than communistic. In the
larger social sense, it involves the further recognition that
those of Boone's achievements which had the widest bearing
on the future and ultimately effected national results were
accomplished through his instrumentality, not in the role of
originative genius and constructive colonizer, but in the role
of pioneer and way-breaker. Boone's pioneering initiative
and his familiarity with Indian temperament found the best
field for their most effective display under the giiidance of
the constructive mind and colonizing genius of Henderson.
Boone acted as the agent of men of commercial enterprise and
far-seeing political imagination, intent upon an epochal poli-tico-
economic project of colonization, promotion, and expan-sion.
Boone may have been the instrument of Providence, as
he so piously imagined ; but it is inbubitable that he was the
agent of commercial enterprise and colonial promotion.
The exploration and colonization of the West, with the
ultimate consequence of the acquisition of the trans-Alleghany
region, was not the divinely appointed work of any single
man. In reality, this consummation flowered out of two
fundamental impulses in the life of the period, the creative
causes of territorial expansion. Intensive analysis reveals the
further cardinal fact that it was two racial streams, the one
distinguished by unit-characters, individualistic, democratic,
114 THE NOKTH CAROLINA BOOKLET.
the other corporate in interests, communistic, with aristo-cratic
attributes—their temporary co-ordination and subse-quent
sharp mutual reaction—which constituted the instru-mentalities
for the initial steps in the westward expansionist
movement. The creative forces which inaugurated the terri-torial
expansion of the American people westward found
typical embodiment, the one in a great land company intent
upon carving out a new colony, the other in the supreme pio-neer
and land-looker of his day.
The prime determinative principle of the progressive Amer-ican
civilization of the eighteenth century was the passion
for the acquisition of land. After the peace of Aix-la-Cha-pelle
(1748), which left the boundaries of France and Eng-land
in America unsettled, Celeron de Bienville was des-patched
in the spring of 1749 to sow broadcast the seeds of
empire, the leaden plates symbolic of the asserted sovereignty
of France. Throtigh a grant to the Ohio Company, organized
in 1748, and composed of a number of the most prominent
men of the day in Virginia, England proceeded to take pos-session
without the formal assertion of her claims ; and Chris-topher
Gist, summoned from his remote home on the Yadkin
in North Carolina, made a thorough reconnaissance of the
western region in 1750-1751. Almost simultaneously, the
Loyal Land Company of Virginia received a royal gi^ant of
eight hundred thousand acres, and in the spring of 1750 des-patched
Thomas Walker westward upon his now well-known
tour of exploration.^ The vast extent of uninhabited trans-montane
lands, of fabled beauty, richness, and fertility, ex-cited
dreams of grandiose possibilities in the minds of English
and colonials alike. England was said to be ^'jSTew Land
mad, and everybody there has his eye fixed on this country."^
To Franklin and Washington, to the Lees and Patrick Henry,
to Lyman and Clark, the West loomed large as the promised
land-—for settlement, for trade, for occupation—to men brave
4 J. S. Johnston, First Explorations of Kentucky (Filson Club Pub-lications
5 Jobnson MSS., XII., No. 127.
HENDEKSON AND BOONE. 115
enough to risk their all in its acquisition. The royal procla-mation
of 1763 gave a new impetus to the colonizing spirit,
dormant during the early years of the war, and marks the
true beginning of Western colonization. The feeling of the
period was succinctly interpreted by Washington, who, in
describing the "rising empire" beyond the Alleghanies, de-nominates
it "a tract of country which is unfolding to our
view the advantages of which are too great and too obvious,
I should think, to become the subject of serious debate, but
which, through ill-timed parsimony and supineness, may be
wrested from us and conducted through other channels."®
The second determinative impulse of the pioneer civiliza-tion
was Wanderlust—the passionately inquisitive instinct of
the hunter, the traveler, the explorer. A secondary object of
the proclamation of 1763, according to Edmund Burke, was
the limitation of the colonies on the West, as "the charters
of many of our old colonies give them, with few exceptions,
no bounds to the westward but the South Sea."^ The Long
Hunters, taking their lives in their hands, fared boldly forth
to a fabled hunters' paradise in the far-away wilderness, be-cause
they were driven by the irresistible desire of a Ponce de
Leon or a De Soto, a Stanley or a Peary, to discover the truth
about the undiscovered lands beyond the mountains. The
hunter was not only thrilled with the passion of the chase in
a veritable paradise of game: he was intent upon collecting
the furs and skins of wild animals for lucrative barter and
sale in the centres of trade. Quick to make "tomahawk
claims" and assert "corn rights," the pioneer spied out the
rich virgin lands for future location, there to be free from the
vexatious insistence of the tax-gatherer. "The people at the
back part of those [ISTorth Carolina and Virginia] and the
neighboring colonies," writes Dunmore to Hillsborough as
late as 1772, "finding that grants are not to be obtained, do
seat themselves without any formalities wherever they like
6 Cf. Hulbert, Washington and the West.
7 A7inual Register, 1763, p. 20.
116 THE NOETH CAROLINA BOOKLET.
best."^ To exploit the land for his individual advantage,
eventually to convert the wilderness to the inevitable uses and
purposes of civilization : such was the mission of the pioneer.
Acting-Governor ISTelson, of Virginia, referring in 1770 to the
frontier settlements, significantly remarks: "Very little if
any Quit Rents have been received for his majesty's use from
that Quarter for some time past; for they [the settlers] say,
that as His Majesty hath been pleased to withdraw his pro-tection
from them since 1763, they think themselves bound
not to pay Quit Rents."^ The axe and the surveyor's chain,
along with the rifle and the hunting-knife, constituted the
armorial bearings of the pioneer. Again, with individual as
with corporation, with explorer as with landlord, land-hunger
was the master impulse of the era.
In a little hamlet in ]^orth Carolina in the middle years
of the eighteenth century, these two determinative principles,
the acquisitive and the inquisitive instincts, found a conjunc-tion
which may justly be termed prophetic. Here occurred
the meeting of two streams of racial tendency. The explora-tory
passion of the pioneer, given directive force in the in-terest
of commercial enterprise, prepared the way for the
westward migration of the peoples. That irresistible South-ern
migration, which preceded and presaged the greater wan-dering
of the peoples across the Alleghanies a quarter of a
century later, brought a horde of pioneer settlers from the
more thickly populated sections of Pennsylvania, and a group
of gentlemen planters from the Old Dominion of Virginia, to
the frontier colony of I^orth Carolina—famed afar for her
fertile farm lands, alluvial river bottoms, and rich hunting
grounds. The migratory horde from Pennsylvania found
ultimate lodgment for certain of its number in the frontier
county of Rowan; the stream of gentlemen planters from
S "State Paper Office, America, Vol. 192, No. 7," is tlie reference
attached to ttie transcript in ttie A^irgiuia State Library, Aspinwall
Collection, pp. 77-81. Presumably the modern reference to the origi-nal
is, Public Record Office, C. O. 5 : 989.
9 Nelson to Hillsborough, October 18, 1770. Bancroft Transcripts,
Library of Congress.
Virginia came to rest in the more settled regions of Orange
and Granville. From these two racial and social elements
stem the fecund creative forces in westward expansion.^*^
In the first half of the eighteenth century, Pennsylvania
felt the impetus of civilization from the throngs of immi-grants
who flocked into the ISTeshaminy Valley, the Cumber-land
Valley, eastward to the Delaware, up the river to the
Lehigh, and into the twilight zone of uncertain title towards
Maryland. ''These bold and indigent strangers," says Logan,
Penn's agent, in 1721, "gave as their excuse when challenged
for titles that we had solicited for colonists and they had come
accordingly."^^ Aside from these bold squatters, who asserted
that "it was against the laws of God and nature that so much
land should be idle while so many christians wanted it to work
on and to raise their bread," came innumerable bona fide pur-chasers
of land, fleeing from the traditional bonds of caste
and aristocracy in England and Europe, from religious per-secution
and favoritism, to a haven of refuge, where they
received guarantees of full tolerance in religious faith and
the beneflts of representative self-government. From East
Devonshire in England came George, the grandfather of
Daniel Boone, and from Wales came Edward Morgan, whose
daughter Sarah married Squire, Daniel Boone's father—con-spicuous
representatives of the Society of Friends, drawn
thither by the representations of the great Quaker, William
10 In the history of this epochal movement there is one of the most
singular of lacunae—a gap almost unprecedented in a period of Ameri-can
life so industriously studied. Close scrutiny of the Draper Collec-tion,
generally presmned to be the court of last resort for the career
of Boone, as well as of Draper's correspondence, reveals the signifi-cant
fact that the voluminous records of Rowan, where Boone lived
for a quarter of a century prior to his removal to Kentucky, eluded
the watchful eye, if not the curiosity, of the indefatigable Draper.
An intensive study of these county records, the Draper MSS., the
Henderson, Burton, Hogg, Hart, and Benton papers, taken In con-junction
with a wider research into the careers of Daniel Boone and
Richard Henderson, made by the writer, effects a new distribution of
perspective and affords a rational expose of the early expansionist
movement.
11 Hanna, Scotch-Irish, II. 60, 63.
Penn, with his advanced views on popular government and
religions toleration. ^^ Hither, too, came Morgan Bryan from
Ireland, where he had gone from Denmark, settling in Ches-ter
County prior to 1719 ; and his children, William, James,
and Morgan, the brothers-in-law of Daniel Boone, were inti-mately
concerned in the subsequent westward migration. -"^^
In 1720 the vanguard of that gTeat army of Ulster Scots,
with their stern, rugged qualities of aggressive self-reliance,
appeared in Pennsylvania. In September, 1734, Michael
Finley, from County Armagh, Ireland, presumably accom-panied
by his brother Archibald, landed in Philadelphia ; and
this Archibald Finley, a settler in Bucks Coimty, according
to the best authorities, was the father of John Finley or Find-ley
or Findlay, Boone's guide and companion in his famous
exploration of Kentucky in 1769-1771.-^^ Hither, too, came
Mordecai Lincoln, great-gTandson of Samuel Lincoln, who
had emigTated fronl England to Hingham, Massachusetts, as
early as 1637; and this Mordecai, who in 1720 settled in
Chester County, Pennsylvania, was the father of Sarah Lin-coln,
who married William Boone, and of Abraham Lincoln,
who married Anne Boone, William's first cousin. ^° Early
12 George Boone, with his wife, emigrated to Pennsylvania in
1717 ; and his son George, on his arrival, produced a certificate from
Bradnich meeting in Devonshire. Edward Morgan was a member of
Gwynedd monthly meeting. Cf. Original Minutes of Abington and
Gwynedd Monthly Meetings, Pa.
13 Cf. Bryan's Station (Filson Club Publications. No. 12) ; also
W. S. Ely, The American Ararat (Publications of the Bucks County,
Pa., Historical Society) ; MS. History of the Bryan Family, owned
by Col. W. L. Bryan, Boone, N. C.
14 Ely, The Fiiilei/s of Bucks (Publications of the Bucks County,
Pa., Historical Society) ; also Ely, "Historic Associations of Nesha-miny
Valley," Daily InteUigencer (Reading, Pa.), July 29, 1913.
While Archibald, the father, spelled the surname Finley, it appears
from an autograph in the possession of the Wisconsin State Histori-cal
Society (Draper MSS., 2 B 161). that the explorer spelled it
Findlay.
15 Mordecai Lincoln was the great-great-grandfather of President
Lincoln. There was another connection between the Boone and Lin-coln
families: Mary Lincoln, daughter of Abraham Lincoln (1736-
1806) and Anne Boone Lincoln, married a Joseph Boone. For data
concerning the Boone and Lincoln families. I am indebted to Mr. An-drew
Shaaber, the librarian of the Histoi'ical Society of Berks County,
Pa. Cf., also, The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln, by Tarbell and
Davis.
HENDEESON A^'D BOOIS^E. 119
settlers in Pennsylvania were members of the Hanks family,
one of the descendants being Abraham Hanks, grandfather
of the Abraham Hanks of Prince William County, Virginia,
who accompanied William Calk on his journey with Richard
Henderson over Boone's trail in 1775.^^
The rising scale of prices for Pennsylvania lands, changing
from ten pounds per hundred acres and two shillings quit-rents
in 1719 to fifteen and a half pounds per hundred acres
with a quit-rent of a half-penny per acre in 1732, soon turned
the eyes of the settlers southward in the direction of new and
cheaper lands, the prices for which decreased in inverse ratio
to their distance from Pennsylvania. In Maryland, in 1738,
lands were offered at five pounds sterling per hundred acres.
Simultaneously, in the valley of Virginia, free gTants of a
thousand acres per family were being made ; and in the Pied-mont
region of North Carolina, the proprietary of Lord
Granville through his agents was disposing of the most desir-able
lands to settlers at the rate of three shillings proclama-tion
money for six hundred and forty acres, the unit of land
division, and was also making large free grants on the condi-tion
of seating a certain proportion of settlers. The rich lure
of these cheap and even free lands set up a vast migration
southward from Pennsylvania in the second quarter of the
eighteenth century. In 1734 the Bryans migrated to Vir-ginia,
obtaining a gTant near Winchester, whence they re-moved
to the Forks of the Yadkin in ISTorth Carolina about
1750.^''^ In 1750 the Boones, soon followed by the Hanks and
Lincoln families, migrated southward to Virginia ; and
shortly afterwards. Squire Boone, Sr., with his family, settled
at the Forks of the Yadkin in Rowan County. From 1740
there was a ceaseless tide of immigration into the valley of
the Yadkin, of the Scotch-Irish and Quakers from Pennsyl-vania.
In a letter to the Secretary of the Board of Trade
16 The original manuscript diary of William Calk is now in the
possession of one of his descendants, who permitted me to examine
it. William Calk's companion, Abraham Hanks, was the maternal
grandfather of President Lincoln.
17 Kercheval, History of the Valley of Virginia.
from Edenton, JSTorth Carolina (Feb. 15, 1750-1), Governor
Gabriel Johnston says, "Inhabitants flock in here daily,
mostly from Pensilvania and other parts of America, who
are overstocked with people and some directly from Europe,
they commonly seat themselves towards the West and have
got near the mountains." Writing from the same town on
September 12, 1Y52, Bishop Spangenburg, of the Moravian
Church, says that a considerable number of the inhabitants
of North Carolina have settled here "as they wished to own
land and were too poor to buy in Pennsylvania or 'New Jer-sey";
and in 1753 he observes that "even in this year more
than 400 families with horse wagons and cattle have migrated
to this State. . . .
"'^ The immensity of this mobile, drift-ing
mass is demonstrated by the statement of Governor Wil-liam
Tryon that in the summer and winter of 1765 "upwards
of one thousand wagons passed thro' Salisbury with families
from the northward^ to settle in this province chiefly."
This southward-moving wave of migration, predominantly
Scotch-Irish and English, with an admixture of a AVelsh
element, starting from Pennsylvania in the first quarter of
the eighteenth century, swept through Maryland, and in the
middle years of the century inundated the valley of Virginia
and the Piedmont region of E^orth Carolina. About Salis-bury,
the county seat of Rowan, now rapidly formed a settle-ment
of people marked by strong individuality, sturdy inde-pendence,
and virile self-reliance. The immigrants, follow-ing
the course of the Great Trading Path, did not stop at
Salisbury, but radiated thence in all directions. The Morgans,
Quakers and Baptists, remained in Pennsylvania, spreading
over Philadelphia and Bucks counties; the Hanks and Lin-coln
stocks found refuge in Virginia ; but the Boones and the
Bryans founded their settlement at the Forks of the Yadkin.
A few miles distant was the tiny hamlet of Salisbury, con-sisting
of seven or eight log houses and the courthouse
18 For these several statements, cf. N. C. Col. Rec, IV. 1073, 1312;
VII. 249.
(1755).^^ The Boones and the Bryans, quickly accommo-dating
themselves to frontier conditions much ruder and more
primitive than those of their Pennsylvania home, immediately
began to take an active part in the local affairs of the
county. ^^ The Boones quickly transferred their allegiance
from the Society of Friends to the Baptist Church, worship-ping
at the Boone's Ford Church on the Davie side of the
Yadkin ; the Bryans, on the other hand, moved perhaps by the
eloquence of the gentle Asbury, who often visited them,
adopted Methodist principles.^ -"^ In this region, infested with
Cherokee and Catawba Indians, Captain Anthony Hampton
with his company of rangers actively patrolled the frontier;
and Daniel Boone won his spurs as a soldier under the saga-cious
Indian fighter, commander of Fort Dobbs, Hugh Wad-dell.
^^ Through the wilderness to the westward, across the
mountains, and into the valley of the Holston, the nomadic
Boone roamed at will, spying out the land, and hunting and
trapping to his heart's content. In such an environment was
bred the Pennsylvanian, Daniel Boone, of Quaker stock, with
Baptist proclivities. Humble in origin, but strongly marked
in his individual democracy, Boone learned the stern frontier
lessons of frugality, self-repression, and self-reliance. Here
he tasted the sweets of freedom and developed the roving in-stinct
which later marked him out as the supreme pioneer of
his time. Chafing under the hampering restrictions of com-
19 N. C. Col. Rec, V. 355 et seq.
20 Squire Boone, shortly after his arrival in the neighborhood, was
chosen justice of the peace ; and Morgan Bryan was soon appearing
as foreman of juries and director in road improvements in the county.
21 Says the Rev. Francis Asbury in his Journal, in speaking of his
frontier congregations : "In every place the congregations were large,
and received the word with all readiness of mind. I know not that I
have spent such a week since I came to America. I saw everywhere
such a simplicity in the people, with such a vehement thirst after the
word of God, that I frequently preached and continued in prayer till
I was hardly able to stand" (I. 174). Gf. also Sheets, History of
Liberty Baptist Association, and J. T. Alderman, The Baptists at the
Forks of the Yadkin (Baptist Historical Papers.)
22 Archibald D. Murphey, "Indian Nations of North Carolina,"
MSS. Collections, N. C. Historical Commission. Cf. also Alfred Moore
Waddell, A Colonial Officer and his Times; and Draper's manuscript
Life of Boone.
122 THE NOETH CAROLUSTA BOOKLET.
munity life and realizing himself to be unsuited to the mo-notonous
routine of farming, he was irresistibly impelled by
his own nomadic temperament to seek the wider liberty of the
wilderness. It is measurably more than surmise to say that
he sought wider fields in the vague hope of enjoying there a
larger degree of individual freedom under the impulse of pio-neer
democracy. Virginia and Pennsylvania contributed
liberally to the formation of the national character in the
cradle of the West. At this precise moment in history was to
emerge, out of jSTorth Carolina, after a sojourn of a quarter
of a century, the incarnation of the individual democracy
which afterwards was to exert such a profound effect upon
the development of American civilization, and to produce in
time an Andrew Jackson and an Abraham Lincoln."^
Simultaneous with the streaming of the peasant Quakers
and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians into the Piedmont region of
ISTorth Carolina,^'^ having as consequence the gradual evolu-tion
of the embryonic forms of pioneer American democracy,
was proceeding another movement into the counties of Orange
and Granville, of families of quality and superior position,
destined to exert in equally distinctive ways an ineffaceable
impress upon the development of the West. In the middle
years of the eighteenth century, attracted by the lure of rich
and cheap lands, many families of Virginia gentry, princi-pally
from Planover County, settled in the region ranging
from Williamsborough on the east to Hillsborough on the
west. Hither came the Hendersons, the Bullocks, the Wil-
23 Cf. Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American His-tory,"
Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 1893.
In this same frontier environment whicli shaped the Boones and the
Bryans, was born a few years later Andrew .Jackson ; and Mr. Wil-liam
Jennings Bryan is descended from a brother of the Bryan whose
daughter was married to Daniel Boone.
24 S. B. Weeks, Southern Quakers and Slavery; also William and
Mary College Quarterly, XII. 129-134 ; Henderson, Life and Times of
Richard Henderson; Biographical Hist, of N. C.
HENDEESON AND BOONE. 123
liamses, the Harts, the Lewises, the Taylors, the Bentons, the
Penns, the Burtons, the Hares, and the Sneeds.^^ There soon
arose in this see<"ion of the colony a society marked by intel-lectual
distinction, social graces, and the leisured dignity of
the landlord and the large planter. Here was forming a new
society, constituting the social link between the wealthy and
predominant asistocracy in the East and the rude frontier
democracy in the West. A similar type of society, that of
Piedmont Virginia, produced such champions of the new
democracy as Jefferson and Patrick Henry—a society compo-site
of independent yeomen and their leaders, the large
planters. It was sharply differentiated from the colonial
society of the coast, being inherently democratic in instinct
and aristocratic in tone. "]^ever scarcely in England have I
seen more beautiful prospects," writes James Iredell in testi-mony
of the beauty of the lands of Granville,^ ^ and its rich-ness
and productivity as agricultural and grazing land were
demonstrated by the yield of great crops of Indian corn and
other grain, and the vast droves of cattle and hogs. So con-spicuous
for means, intellect, culture, and refinement were
the people of this social group—a people with ''abundance cf
wealth and leisure for enjoyment," says the quaint old diarist,
Hugh McAden^''^—that Governor Josiah Martin, passing
through Granville and Bute counties on his way from Hills-borough
in 1772, significantly remarks : "They have great
pre-eminence, as well with respect to soil and cultivation, as
to the manners and condition of the inhabitants, in which last
respect the difference is so great that one would be led to think
25 W. H. Battle, "Memoir of Chief Justice Leonard Henderson,"
N. C. Univ. Mag., November, 1859 ; T. B. Kingsbury, "Chief Justice
Leonard Henderson," Wake Forest Student, November, 1898; R. W.
Winston, "Leonard Henderson," Frank Nash, "Hillsborough, Colonial
and Revolutionary," Nash, "History of Orange County," N. C. Book-let.
The author has also had the privilege of examining the valuable
collection of Hart-Benton MSS., kindly placed at his disposal by Miss
Lucretia Hart Clay, of Lexington, Ky.
26 McRee, Life and Correspondence of James Iredell, I, 434.
27 Foote, Sketches of N. C.
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them people of another region."^^ From this society came
such eminent democratic figures as the father-in-law and pre-ceptor
of Henry Clay, Thomas Hart; his grandson, the "Old
Bullion" and "Great Pacificator" of a later era, Thomas Hart
Benton; Richard Henderson, president of the colony of
Transylvania, known to his contemporaries as the "Patrick
Henry of !N^orth Carolina" ; John Penn, signer of the Declara-tion
of Independence; William Kennon, eloquent advocate of
the Mecklenburg Resolves of May 31, 17Y5 ; and others
almost equally distinguished. Like the society of the Virginia
Piedmont, it was, to employ the words of Turner, "a society
naturally expansive, seeing its opportunity to deal in unoccu-pied
lands along the frontier which continually moved toward
the West, and in this era of the eighteenth century dominated
by the democratic ideals of pioneers rather than by the aristo-cratic
tendencies of slave-holding planters."^^ From the
cross-fertilization of this society of gentry, of innate qualities
of leadership, democratic instincts, economic cast, and ex-pansive
tendencies, with the primitive, pioneer society of the
frontier, frugal in taste, responsive to leadership, ready and
thorough in execution, there was evolved the militant expan-sive
movement in American life. Out of the ancient breeding-ground
of ITorth Carolina, from the co-operative union of
transplanted Pennsylvania and Virginia stocks, came at the
same moment the spirit of governmental control with popu-lar
liberty, and the spirit of individual colonization, restive
under control. In the initial co-ordination of these two in-stincts,
with the subsequent triumph of the latter over the
former, is told the story of the beginning of American ex-pansion."*"
Soon after his arrival in Rowan, Squire Boone, Sr., resid-
28 iV^. 0. Col. Rec, IX. 349. Martin comments: "These advantiiges
arise I conceive from the vicinity of Virginia, from whence I under-stand
many, invited by the superior excellence of the soil, have imi-grated
to settle in these counties."
29 Turner, "The Old West," Wis. Hist. Soc. Proc, 1903.
30 See Henderson, "The Pioneer Contributions of North Carolina to
Kentucky," Charlotte Observer, November 10, 1913.
ing at the Forks of the Yadkin some twelve miles from Salis-bury,
was chosen as one of the worshipful justices of the
county court. From the earliest sessions of the court, three
years before the erection of a court-house, he acted in this
capacity, deciding the many simple questions arising under
frontier conditions : registering the branding marks for cattle
selecting constables and road-overseers, and their routes; de-termining
the scale of prices of foods and liquors for the
licensed hostelries; and the like. By the end of 1756 he was
presiding in the new courthouse—a frame-work structure,
thirty feet long and twenty feet wide, provided with an oval
bar and ''cases" for the attorneys. One of the attorneys who
occupied one of these "cases" and argued suits before Squire
Boone was a young man of G-ranville County, whose geniality
had won him many friends and whose ability had won him a
large legal practice.^-*- "Even in the superior courts where ora-tory
and eloquence are as brilliant and powerful as in West-minster-
hall," says an English acquaintance of Henderson's,,
"he soon became distinguished and eminent, and his superior
genius shone forth with great splendour, and universal ap-plause."
Wedded to the daughter of an Irish lord,^^ and
moving in the refined circle which included a Richard Benne-han,
an Alexander Martin, a John Penn, a William Hooper,
and their compeers, he was nevertheless conspicuously demo-cratic
by conviction and in practice. His law partner, who
married the widow of Lord Keeling, was John Williams—
stout exponent of the principles of democracy. Among his
intimate friends was that "aristocrat in temperament, but
democrat in politics," Thomas Hart, whom an acquaintance,
Dr. J. F. D. Smyth, described as "an accomplished and com-plete
gentleman." Henderson was well acquainted with
Squire Boone, frequently appearing on legal business before
31 The earliest court records of Granville County show that he and
his first cousin, John Williams, enjoyed the most extensive practice:
in the court.
32 Kingsbury, "Chief Justice Leonard Henderson," loc. cit.
126 THE NOETH CAEOLINA BOOKLET.
him; and likewise formed the acquaintance of his son, Daniel,
the nomadic spirit, hunter, and trapper, who occasionally
told him bizarre and startling tales of his wanderings across
the dark green mountains to the fair valleys and boundless
hunting grounds beyond. These stories of Western explora-tions
Henderson heard from the lips of Daniel Boone him-self,
who was eager to remove to the ^Yest at the first conven-ient
opportunity,^^
Daniel Boone was an explorer of remarkable individual
initiative. Prior to 1769 he had already traveled as far as
Florida on the south and as far as Kentucky on the west.
During the period from 1763 to 1769, doubtless through his
long extended absences and his enforced neglect of afi^airs at
home, he became deeply involved financially. His nomadic
instincts, with the consequent neglect of the work on his
farm, seem to have prejudiced even his father against him.
The heavy indebtedness which he incurred—indeed the en-tire
career of the simple-hearted pioneer demonstrates his
constitutional carelessness in business and financial transac-tions—
involved him in suits instituted against him by some
of the most prominent citizens of Salisbury—John Lewis
Beard, the philanthropist and devout churchman; Dr. An-thony
ISTewnan, the active Whig; Hugh Montgomery, the
wealthy landlord of Wilkes; John Mitchell, and others.^*
In this hour of his poverty and distress, Boone turned to his
friends, the law partners, Henderson and Williams. "A per-son
so just and upright" as Boone could have become in-volved
in such financial difficulties only through a certain
naive indifference to the forms of law and heedless neglect of
customary business precaution. In reference to this gloomy
period in Boone's career, Thomas Hart wi'ote his brother
]S[athaniel in 1780 : "I have known Boone in times of old,
when poverty and distress had him fast by the hand ; and in
33 Draper's MS. Life of Boone.
34 Court records.
these wretched circumstances I have ever found him of a
noble and generous soul, despising everything mean."^^
In the earlier years of Boone's residence in Rowan, at some
time prior to 1763, Richard Henderson first formed the
acquaintance of Boone. The fact of cardinal importance is
that he knew Boone in a two-fold capacity—not only as
hunter, trapper, and explorer, but also as surveyor and
road-maker. IsTot without distinct historic significance was
it that in the year 1763, and so, at the same time with
England's futile proclaimed estoppel of purchase of lands
from the Indians by individuals or corporations without
crown grants, ^^ Richard Henderson one day arose from his
"case" in the tiny courthouse of Rowan, and facing the "oval
bar" which supported the elevated bench from which Squire
Boone, as one of the "worshipful justices," had for a decade
dispensed rude justice, moved the following:
It is ordered that a Waggon Road, the best and nearest,
be built from the Shallow Ford upon the Yadkin River to the
Town of Salisbury, and the following persons are appointed
to lay off and mark the same, to wit, Daniel Boone, Morgan
Bryan, Samuel Bryan, and James Bryan , . . and accord-ingly
they appear upon ISJ'otice and be qualified before the
nearest Magistrate for their Faithful discharge of their
office, etc.
When the time was ripe for the defiance of the edict of
crown governors against purchases from the Indians without
35 Morehead's Address, at Boonesborough (1840), p. 105, note.
36 The royal proclamation of October 7, 1763, avowed it to be His
Majesty's "fixed determination to permit no grants of lands nor any
settlements to be made within certain fixed Bounds . . . leaving all
that territory within it free for the hunting grounds of those Indian
subjects of your majesty." Text in Michigan Pioneer and Historical
Collections, XXXVI. 14-19 (1908). In his elaborate papers on the
subject of British Western policy, Professor C. W. Alvord, however,
successfully maintains that the royal proclamation of 1763 did not
set permanent western limits to the colonies, and that it was the in-tention
of the Board of Trade to promote westward expansion by the
peaceful purchase from time to time, under royal authority, of land
situated in the Indian reservation. Cf. "The Genesis of the Procla-mation
of 1763," Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, Vol.
XXXVI. ; "The British Ministry and the Treaty of Fort Stanwix,"
Wisconsin Historical Society Proceedings, 1908.
royal grants, upon the basis of tke royal proclamation of
1763, it was but natural that Henderson should engage as the
man best fitted to spy out the wilderness of Kentucky and
later to cut out a passage thereto through the dense and
tangled laurel thickets—a passage far-famed in history as the
Wilderness Road—his friend ''Dan Boone/' as he famil-iarly
called him, whom he had known for many years as a
most competent scout and expert road-cutter in the frontier
county of Rowan.
The designs which Henderson and his associates cherished
for the acquisition of Western lands found early expression
in some form of organization. After the proclamation of
1763, which assured the lands at least temporarily to the
Indians, these men realized that these lands must eventually
be thrown open to colonization.^^ They accordingly organ-ized
themselves into some sort of company, for the purpose of
engaging an expert scout and surveyor to spy out the Western
lands, and later to examine into the feasibility of making a
purchase ultimately from the Indians. Their original inten-tion,
indubitably, was to colonize the territory thus to be
acquired. But when the clouds of war finally gathered and a
clash with Great Britain loomed threatening and imminent on
the horizon, their original plan of extensive colonization inevi-tably
assumed momentous political consequences; and in the
event they endeavored to found a fourteenth American colony
in the heart of the Western wilderness.
This company, so far as known, has left no documentary
record of its activities in the earlier stages of its existence.
37 The chief object of the proclamation of 1763 was to allay the
alarm of the Indians ; and in pursuance of this idea the colonists
were positively prohibited from making settlements on the Indian
lands. Nevertheless the roving bands of determined settlers along
the Indian border rendered the situation critical. In the very pre-amble
of the proclamation, the Lords of Trade describe the sovereign
as "being desirous that all Our loving subjects, as well of Our King-dom
as of Our Colonies in America, may avail themselves with all
convenient Speed, of the great Benefits and Advantages which must
accrue therefrom, etc." The veiled intent of the Board of Trade, it
would appear, was to control, not to prevent, expansion westward.
All the evidence points to the fact that it consisted of three
partners only: Richard Henderson, Thomas Hart, and John
Williams. The organization first bore the name of ''Richard
Henderson and Company." Some years later, after the plans
for colonization had passed the stage of preliminary investiga-tion,
new partners were successively added. The name of the
organization, "Richard Henderson and Company," was al-tered,
first to the "Louisa Company," and then to the "Tran-sylvania
Company."^^
The first exploration which Daniel Boone ever made on
behalf of Richard Henderson and Company was in the year
following the royal proclamation of 1763. The partners evi-dently
anticipated Washington in the realization that the
proclamation was only a temporary expedient to quiet the
minds of the Indians. Boone was vastly impressed by the
Western territory as a field for settlement, and was eager
on his own account to move his family to this new region. It
is clear that he anticipated removal to the West with his
family, as the immediate result of his first exploration in the
interest of Henderson and Company.^^ Boone's enthusiastic
descriptions of the Western wilderness retailed to Henderson
and his associates, Hart and Williams, doubtless aroused in
their minds the first suggestion of the larger opportunities
for settlement and investment afforded by the rich but tenant-less
West. Accordingly they engaged Boone, who upon all
his pioneering and hunting expeditions continued to penetrate
further and further westward, to do double duty upon his
next expedition. Boone was instructed, while hunting and
trapping on his own account, to make a wider cast than he had
ever made before, to examine the lands with respect to their
location and fertility, and to report his findings upon his
38 Kentucky MSS., I ; Draper MSS. Cf. Alden, New Governments
west of the Alleghanies before 1180 (Madison, Wis.)
39 The county records sliow that in the early part of this same
year, viz., on February 21, 1764, Daniel Boone and his wife "Re-beckah"
sold all their property in North Carolina—consisting of a
home and 640 acres of land.
The expedition must have been transacted with consider-able
circumspection. In 1767 George Washington, writing
to his agent, Crawford, with reference to threatened future
competition for the best Western lands, shrewdly counsels
'^All this may be avoided by a silent management, and the
operation carried on by you under the guise of hunting
game."^^ With a business sagacity like that of Washington,
who was later to learn of Henderson's desire to found an inde-pendent
colony in the West, Henderson fully realized that
the exploration must be conducted with circumspection, if the
lands were to be secured.*-^ Boone proved himself a thor-oughly
satisfactory agent for the examination of the country,
his trustworthiness being in no small measure due to his in-grained
taciturnity and his faculty of keeping his own
counsel. It is obvious, however, that Henderson gave to
Boone, as Washington gave to Crawford, discretion to trust
the secret of his errand to those in whom he could confide and
who might assist him in making further discoveries of land.
In one instance, at least, the circumspect Boone deemed it
prudent to communicate the purpose of his mission to some
hunters in order to secure the results of their information in
regard to the best lands they had encountered in the course of
their hunting expedition. In the autumn of 1764, during the
journey of the Blevins party of hunters, to their hunting
ground on the Rock Castle River, near the Crab Orchard in
Kentucky, Daniel Boone came among the hunters, at one of
their Tennessee station camps, in order, as expressed in the
quaint phraseology of the day, ''to be informed of the geog-
40 Washington to Crawford, September 21. 1767. Sparks. Life and
Writings of Washington, II. 346-350. In the same letter, Washington
admonishes Crawford to "keep the wliole matter a secret, or trust
it only to those in whom you may confide, and wlio can assist you in
bringing it to bear by their discoveries of land."
41 The meagreness of our information on the subject of this initial
exploration may thus be naturally explained. An acquaintance of
Henderson mentions that the latter preserved the strictest secrecy
about his earlier land ventures. Repeatedly taxed afterwards with
having acted as the agent of the land company. Boone consistently
and most honorably refused to violate Henderson's confidence.
rapliy and locography of these woods, saying that he was em-ployed
to explore them by Henderson and Company."*^ In
this tour of exploration, Boone hunted and scouted through
the valleys of the Tennessee and the Holston, but did not
penetrate to the fabled region of Kentucky. His companion
on this expedition was his relative, Samuel Callaway, and
together they accomplished a two-fold object: hunting and
trapping on their own account, and secretly prospecting and
exploring on behalf of the land company.^^
Just why Henderson and his associates did not act immed-iately
upon the report brought back by Boone and Callaway
a report doubtless highly favorable, as was the case with all
the "news of a far country" brought home by the pioneers
there is no extant explanatory evidence. Henderson and Wil-liams,
as law partners, were engaged in an extensive and
lucrative law practice ; and in the prosecution of their profes-sion
spent a large proportion of their time in traveling from
one end of the extensive colony of ISTorth Carolina to the
other.'*^ The heavy obligations of this extensive and rapidly
enlarging law business in all probability sufficed to delay the
immediate prosecution of the Western enterprise.
42 Haywood, Tennessee, p. 35(1823 Ed.) The accuracy of Haywood's
testimony in this instance must be recognized as indisputable. Judge
John Haywood was intimately associated, both personally and legally,
with Richard Henderson's two sons, Archibald and Leonard ; and his
successor to the post of reading clerk to the North Carolina House of
Commons, in 1789, was his friend. Major Pleasant Henderson, Rich-ard's
brother, and pioneer with Boone at Boonesborough, and with
Robertson at the French Lick. On his removal to Tennessee, Judge
Haywood formed the personal acquaintance of many of the pioneers,
from whom he received innumerable accounts of their personal expe-riences.
Notable figures among the pioneers in Tennessee, such as
James Robertson, John Sevier, and Timothee de Monbrun, were per-sonally
known to the Tennessee historians, Haywood and Putnam.
43 Ramsey [Annals of Tennessee) unearthed the fact that Boone,
while acting as the secret agent of the land company, was accom-panied
by Callaway—a fact which Ramsey, with his intimate knowl-edge
of the pioneers and their history, probably derived directly from
Callaway or his immediate descendants.
44 Cf. McRee, Life and Correspondence of James Iredell, I. 96-97
Henderson, Life and Times of Richard Henderson, Ch. II.
It was not, indeed, until several years later that Henderson
and Company once more actively interested themselves in the
problem of Western investment and colonization. In the
Virginia Gazette of December 1, 1768, a newspaper in which
he advertised, Henderson must have read with astonishment
not unmixed with dismay, that "the Six Nations and all their
tributaries have granted a vast extent of country to his
majesty, and the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, and settled
an advantageous boundary line between their hunting country
and this, and the other colonies to the southward as far as the
Cherokee River, for which they received the most valuable
present in goods and dollars that was ever given at any con-ference
since the settlement of America." It was now gener-ally
bruited about the colony of jSTorth Carolina that the
Cherokees were deeply resentful because the Northern In-dians
at the treaty of Fort Stanwix had been handsomely
remunerated for territory which they, the Cherokees, claimed
from time immemorial.*'^ Henderson, who had consulted
often with Boone and reflected deeply over the subject, fore-saw
that the Western lands, though ostensibly thrown open for
settlement under the aegis of Virginia, could only be legally
obtained by extinguishing the Cherokee title. His prescience
was directly confirmed by royal action, when Stuart, Superin-tendent
for Indian affairs in the Southern Department, at the
treaty of Hard Labor, October 14, 1768, acknowledged the
Cherokee title by establishing the western boundary as a line
running from the top of Tryon Mountain (now in Polk
County, North Carolina, on the South Carolina line) direct
to Colonel Chiswell's mine (now Austinville, Virginia), and
45 Cf. Ranck, Boonesborough (Filson Club Publications, No. 16) ;
also Henderson, "Forerunners of the Republic : Richard Henderson
and American Expansion," Neale's Monthly, January, 1913.
thence in a straight line to the mouth of the Great Kanawha
Eiver.46
It was at this crucial moment that the horse peddler, John
Findlay, Boone's old friend of the Braddock campaign, wan-dered
into the valley of the Yadkin. Findlay had actually
been successful in reaching Kentucky in 1752 ; and now de-lighted
Boone with his stories of the desirability of the coun-try
and the plentifulness of the game. The conjunction was
a fortunate one in many respects. Boone was heavily in debt
to his attorneys, the firm of Williams and Henderson, for
legal services, and to other prominent citizens of Rowan
County. Indeed he had been summoned to appear in Salis-bury
at the March term of court. John Findlay, John Stuart
and Daniel Boone all came to Salisbury to attend court. Judge
Henderson arriving on March 5.^^ The attested presence at
Salisbury of Boone, Findlay and Stuart, three of the six ex-plorers
of Kentucky in 1769, simultaneous with Henderson,
only a short time before the departure of Boone's party on
their tour of exploration, makes it certain that the final con-ference
to devise ways and means for the expedition was
held at this time and place. Certain it is that on May 1,
1769, Daniel Boone as the confidential agent of Richard
Henderson and Company, accompanied by five companions,
46 A^. C Col. Rec, VII, 851-855. "Should they [the Cherokees]
refuse to give it up," writes Johnson to Gage (December 16, 1768),
with reference to the action at the treaty of Fort Stanwix, "it is in
his majesty's power to prevent the colonies from availing themselves
of the late session in that quarter, till it can be done with safety and
the common consent of all who have just pretensions to it." Cf.
Stone, Life of Sir Willim Johnson, II, 307 ; Journals of the House of
Burgesses of Virginia, 1770-1772, preface, p. xix.
47 Court records. See also "Diary of Waightstill Avery." N. C.
Univ. Magazine, 1856. Judge Henderson left Salisbury for Hills-borough
on March 16.
134 THE NORTH CAEOLINA BOOKLET.
left his ''peaceable habitation" on the Yadkin for a two
years' exploration of Kentucky.*^
Boone and Findlay visited Kentucky in 1769, not only to
hunt and trap, but "for the purpose of examining the coun-try."*^
Boone himself relates that he and Stuart, after get-ting
settled in their camp, "proceeded to take a more thorough
survey of the country" ;^*^ and the entire course of Boone's
actions during this period demonstrates that some powerful
influence held him in Kentucky until his work of exploration
was completed. Had Boone desired merely to discover a
location for his own and neighboring families living at the
Forks of the Yadkin, he might easily have discovered such a
location in Madison and Garrard counties, which he first
visited, or in the neighborhood of Station Camp Creek, in
Estill County. Had he desired merely to hunt and fish and
trap, he might well have found satiety in the proximity of his
first camps. But 'there was a motive deeper than the desire
to discover a location for a few families, or to range far and
wide in search of game which was bounteous in plenty in his
immediate vicinity. This motive was, assuredly, to employ
Boone's own words, "to recruit his shattered circumstances"
and his financial obligations were to Williams and Henderson
for legal services, and to other prominent citizens of Rowan
County. The prosecution of the task of exhaustively explor-ing
the Kentucky area was indubitably undertaken by Boone
in the effort to meet these financial obligations.
48 Aside from numerous authorities, from Peck, who studied
Boone's career during Boone's own lifetime, down to the author of
The Winning of the West, there is the testimony of those historical
students who were fortified by the contemporary documents—Lossing,
who examined the Transylvania papers lent him by President D. L.
Swain, of the University of North Carolina, in 1856 (Swain's original
letter to Lossing is now in the writer's possession) ; Hall, who ex-amined
the vast mass of evidence in the Hogg Papers, chiefly letters
of the partners of the Transylvania Company ; and Putnam, authen-tically
informed through his intimate personal acquaintance with the
early pioneers as well as through his unrivalled collection of pioneer
documents. Thus, independently, from North Carolina, Kentucky,
and Tennessee, the fact is related in identical form, from dociunentary
evidence, as well as from personal record.
49 Filson.
50 "Memorial to the Legislature of Kentucky."
HENDEESON A]S[D BOONE. 135
Disheartened by his disasters, his two captures by the In-dians
and the loss of all his peltries, Boone would otherwise
have welcomed the opportunity to return to J^orth Carolina
with his brother Squire, who came out with supplies. ^-'- It
is extremely likely, in the light of subsequent events, that
Squire Boone bore a message from Henderson to Daniel
Boone, urging upon him, now that he was in the country, to
remain in it long enough to secure a more detailed knowledge
of its geographical and topogTaphical features. With Squire
Boone, John Stuart and Alexander !Neely as companions,
Daniel Boone at once began that elaborate series of explora-tions
ranging from the Kentucky River on the north to the
Green and Cumberland rivers on the south. By the first of
May, 1770, the exploration of Kentucky had only just begun
so that Boone, fixed in the resolve to accomplish the under-taking
upon which he had been despatched, preferred to re-main
alone in Kentucky while Squire returned home. From
this time forward, Daniel Boone ranges far and wide through
north-central Kentucky, visiting the Big Lick and the Blue
Lick, exploring the valleys of the Kentucky and the Licking,
and traveling as far down the Ohio as the Falls, the present
Louisville. In July and again in September, following a
second return to the settlement for supplies. Squire rejoined
Daniel in Kentucky, and from December, 1770, until March,
1771, they scouted through the southern and western portions
of Kentucky, exploring the valleys of the Green and Cumber-land
rivers, and hunting in company with the Long Hunters,
among whom were Kasper Mansker, who discovered the lick
that bears his name, and Henry Skaggs, who, because of his
knowledge of the Cumberland area, as reported by Boone to
51 Gf. Boone's Autobiography (Filson). It is problematical, but not
unlikely, that Squire Boone was sent out with these supplies for
Daniel Boone and party by the land company. It is noteworthy that
Squire Boone was accompanied on his journey by one of the Neely
family, Alexander, for whom Henderson had hitherto acted as legal
counsel.
Henderson, was subsequently engaged to act as the agent of
the land company, fixing his station at Mansker's Lick.^^
On his return to ]S[orth Carolina in 17Y1, Boone's glowing
description of Kentucky ''soon excited in others the spirit of
an enterprise which in point of magnitude and peril, as well
as constancy and heroism displayed in its execution, has never
been paralleled in the history of America."^^ In 1772, the
Watauga settlers secured from the Cherokee Indians, for a
valuable consideration, a ten years' lease of the lands upon
which they were settled. Boone, who had established friendly
relations with James Robertson, communicated to Henderson
the details of the leases and purchases which Robertson,
Brown, and Sevier had made of the rich valley lands. After
consulting with the Indians, Robertson informed Boone, act-ing
as Henderson's confidential agent, that he believed, if the
inducement were large enough, the Indians would sell. Fol-lowing
his own disastrous failure to efl^ect individual coloniza-tion
without attempting to secure by purchase the Indian title,
in 1773, Boone in 1774 advised Henderson and his associates
that the Cherokees were disposed to sell the Kentucky area.^^
Having previously assured himself of the legal validity of
the purchase, and after personally visiting the Cherokee
chiefs in their principal village to secure their consent to the
sale, Henderson proceeded to reorganize the land company,
52 An exhaustive study of Boone's itinerary has been made by the
present writer, in order to fix the exact route which he followed. In
addition to the wealth of local materials, the Draper MSS., including
Draper's Life of Boone, are rich in information on the subject.
Through the personal investigations of Mr. John P. Arthur, of Ashe-ville,
N. C, who went over Boone's route iu North Carolina, as well
as the researches of the present writer, this portion of the route has
recently been marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution
under the direction of Mrs. J. Lindsay Patterson, of Winston- Salem,
N. C. Cf. Home and Country, April, 1914 ; Sky-Land, September,
53 Morehead's Address, at Boonesborough (1840).
54 In a little newspaper. The Harbinger, published at Chapel Hill,
N. C, in 1834, the venerable Pleasant Henderson, brother of Richard
and fellow-pioneer with Boone at Boonesborough, writing from Ten-nessee,
relates that in 1774 Richard Henderson was "induced to at-tempt
a purchase of that country (the Kentucky area) from the
Cherokee Indians through the suggestions and advice of the late Col.
Daniel Boone."
first into the Louisa and then into the Transylvania Com-pany.
With the aid of his associates he carried through the
treaty of Sycamore Shoals, purchased for £10,000 sterling the
Indian title to the greater portion of the Kentucky area, and
commissioned Boone to cut out a passage to the heart of
Kentucky. Boonesborough became the focus of the great
struggles for predominance on the Western frontier. ^^ There
was the struggle of the white man against the red man, of
the colonial against the Briton. There was the struggle of
the Transylvania Company, first against Royal authority, and
then against the authority of Virginia. But deeper than all
was the struggle between the spirit of individual colonization
as embodied in the pioneers, and the spirit of commercial en-terprise
as embodied in the Transylvania Company. The
conflict between the individualistic democracy of the pioneer
and the commercial proprietorship of the Transylvania Com-pany
was settled only when George Rogers Clark, with iron
hand, forced upon Virginia his own selection as virtual mili-tary
dictator of the West. The drastic settlement of that con-flict
also made possible the most spectacular and meteoric
campaign in Western history—closing only when Clark and
his unterrified frontiersmen grounded their arms in Kaskas-kia
and Vincennes.^^
55 Cf. the writer's Life and Times of Richard Heyiderson; "The
Beginnings of American Expansion" ; and "Forerunners of the Re-public
: Richard Henderson and American Expansion," loc. cit. In a
supplementary paper, the present writer purposes to detail, in ex-tenso,
the history of this expansionist movement from 1772 onward.
All the accounts hitherto given of this momentous episode in our na-tional
history are singularly fragmentary and inaccurate. The recent
discovery by the present writer of many documents not hitherto acces-sible
to historical students clarifies the entire situation. Only now
for the first time is it possible to throw into true perspective Boone's
abortive effort to invade Kentucky in 1773, his relation to the Transyl-vania
Company in the capacity of confidential agent, Henderson's
prudent procedure in securing the highest legal sanction for the pur-chase,
the details of the "Great Treaty" of Sycamore Shoals, the
invasion of Kentucky in 1775, and the subsequent history, both gov-ernmental
and corporate, of the Transylvania Company.
56 Henderson, "Forerunners of the Republic: George Rogers Clark
and the Western Crisis," Neale's Monthly, June, 1913 ; James, George
Rogers Clark Papers, 1771-1781 (111. Hist. Soc. Publications, Vol.
VIII) ; Turner, "Western State-Making in the Revolutionary Era,"
American Historical Review, I, 70-87, 251-269.
In his appeal to the Kentucky legislature, the octogenarian
Boone says that he ''may claim, without arrogance, to have
been the author of the principal means which contributed to
the settlement of a country on the Mississippi and its waters,
which now (1812) produces the happiness of a million of his
fellow-creatures ; and of the exploring and acquisition of a
country that will make happy many millions in time to come."
The present research compels us to discount the high-flown
language of the ancient petitioner for land. Boone was the
pathfinder and way-breaker—wonderful independent explorer
and equally skilled executant of the desigTis of others. ^''^ But
to Henderson, Hart, Williams, and their associates, animated
by the spirit of constructive civilization, rather than to Boone,
with his unsocial and nomadic instincts, belongs the larger
measure of credit for the inauguration of the militant expan-sionist
movement of Western colonization. The creative
causes of the Westward movement were rooted, not in
romance, but in economic enterprise, not in Providence, but
in political vision. It was the Transylvania Company which
at its own expense successfully colonized the Kentucky area
with between two and three hundred men ; and with true revo-lutionary
ardor defying the royal authority as expressed
through the crown governors of the colonies of JSTorth Caro-lina
and Virginia, exhausted all means, through appeals to
the Continental Congress, to Patrick Henry, Jefferson, and
the Adamses, and finally to the legislature of Virginia, in
their ultimately fruitless efforts to create a fourteenth Ameri-can
colony. And yet, despite this failure, Henderson and his
associates furnished to the world "one of the most heroic dis-plays
of that typical American spirit of comprehensive ag-gTandisement
of which so much is heard to-day."^^ It is a
coincidence of historic sig-nificance that just one day after
the dropping musketry at Lexingion and Concord was heard
round the world, Henderson and his little band reached the
57 Cf. Henderson, "Forerunners of the Republic : Daniel Boone,"
Neale's Monthly, February, 1913.
58 Hulbert, Pilots of the Republic.
site of the future Boonesborougli. Here the colonists reared
a bulwark of enduring strength to resist the fierce incursions
of bands of hostile savages during the period of the American
Revolution. Unquestionably the strenuous borderers, with
their roving instincts, would in any event ultimately have
established impregnable strongholds in the Kentucky area.
But had it not been for the Transylvania Company and Daniel
Boone, no secure stronghold, to protect the whites against the
savages, might have been established and fortified in 1775.
In that event, the American colonies, convulsed in a titanic
struggle, might well have seen Kentucky overrun by savage
hordes, led by English officers, throughout the Revolution. In
consequence, the American colonies at the close of the Revolu-tion
would probably have been compelled to leave in British
hands the vast and fertile regions beyond the AUeghanies.
140 THE NORTH CABOLINA BOOKLET.
( Carolina)
By Mbs. Julia E. Cain.
Grand "Old North State," we love thee, we love thee,
From the blue skyland to the waving sea.
We love thy hills, thy streams, thy mountains grand
Thy golden, waving fields, all o'er the land.
We are proud of thy forests, towering high.
Lifting their peaks aloft to the sky
The sturdy oak, the long leaf pine.
The walnut, the maple, and the trumpet vine
Thy luscious fruits and flowers rare.
With all the world beyond compare.
Oh ! grand Old North State, we love thee, we love thee,
From the mountain top to the billowy sea
We are proud of thy sons—aye, every one.
Who fought our battle and victory won.
Who stand fo? the right, who crush the wrong.
While bursts from their hearts sweet liberty's song
Who justice and honor and truth proclaim.
Writing in history thy fair, good name.
Oh ! grand Old North State, we are proud of thee,
From Currituck to Cherokee
We are proud of thy daughters, thy women grand,
Who bless our homes, all over the land,
In peace, in war, a patriotic band.
Working, giving, with true heart and hand.
Oh ! grand Old North State, we bless thee, we crown thee,
Thy flag doth wave all o'er the State,
Our hearts beat true, to liberty great.
And I'eady are we, at our country's call.
To defend our homes—our land, aye all.
Oh! grand Old North State, we crown thee, we bless thee,
From mountain top to the waving sea
DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. 141
The Contributions of North Carolina to the
Development of American Institutions*
Commencement Address at Wake Forest College, May 21, 1914, by
Simeon E. Baldwin, M.A., LL.D., Governor of Connecticut; Professor
of Law in Yale University ; formerly President of the American His-torical
Association and of the American Political Science Association.
There is no State of the Union which has not done some-thing,
good or bad, towards the development of American
institutions; but the part thus taken by those of them who
wear the proud title of the Old Thirteen is the most con-spicuous.
It is they in whose honor were devised the thir-teen
stripes upon our flag. The older and the newer States
are alike represented by its stars : the stripes perpetuate the
memory of the Old Thirteen alone.
It is they only who have a background of ancient history.
I say ancient; for the creation of one of our newer States,
born into purely American and republican surroundings, is
separated from the first settlement of Plymouth or the Caro-linas,
under English and monarchical auspices, by a tract of
time of whose length years are no measure.
One of our American historians has said, and not untruly,
that the men of the colonial era undertook "to develop thirteen
autonomous States out of as many land companies."^ This
was a harder task for the people of the two Carolinas than
for those of any other of the colonies. Their charter scheme,
as developed by the Proprietaries, was vitally un-English and
un-American. So far as it bore the stamp of any nationality,
it was Roman.
The first Earl of Shaftesbury who, as Lord Ashley, was
one of the 2,Tantees in both the charters from Charles II.,
Published in Bulletin of Wake Forest College, October, 1914. Re-printed
by special request.
1 Chamberlain, John Adams, etc., 150.
142 THE NOKTH CAIlOLI]SrA BOOKLET.
was the author of the English Habeas Corpus Act of 1679,
which has done so much to secure the freedom of the indi-vidual
against the power of government. It is one of the
paradoxes of history that he, ten years before, with the aid
of his private secretary, the philosopher, John Locke, pre-pared
the original constitution for the government of the
Carolinas adopted by the Proprietaries, which, had the free-men
ever really accepted it, would have set up here forever
a formidable bar to the growth of republican institutions.
By its terms, you will recollect, a territorial nobility was
set up, the highest in rank bearing the German title of Land-grave.
There was to be a parliament, meeting in one chamber,
but by Article 79, ''To avoid multiplicity of laws, which by
degrees always change the right foundations of the original
government, all acts of parliament whatsoever, in whatso-ever
form passed, or enacted, shall, at the end of a hundred
years after their enacting, respectively, cease and determine
of themselves, and without any repeal become null and void,
as if no such acts or laws had ever been made."
One provision which, if in force to-day, would be unpopular
with some of this audience, was directed against lawyers. "It
shall be," reads Article 70, ''a base and vile thing to plead
for money or reward; nor shall any one (except he be a near
kinsman . . . ) be permitted to plead another man's cause
till before the judge in open court he hath taken an oath that
he doth not plead for money or reward, nor hath nor will
receive, nor directly or indirectly bargained with the party
w^hose cause he is going to plead, for money or any other
reward for pleading his cause."
By Article 95, no one could hold an estate or become a
freeman, or even reside in the province, who did not acknowl-edge
a God and that he is to be publicly and solemnly wor-shipped.
This, no doubt, is the inherited cause for the clause
in the present Constitution of North Carolina, debarring
DEVELOPMENT OF AMEKICAJST INSTITUTIONS. 143
atheists from office. But two other States now hold to that
position.^
All elections, under the Locke scheme (Article 32), were
to be by ballot. In 1760, this regulation, which had been
continued in force until that time, was repealed and viva voce
voting substituted. This brought ISTorth Carolina in line with
England and most of the Southern colonies.^ A few years
later, however, she reverted to her original plan, and it was
made the subject of a constitutional provision in 1776. Her
Constitution of that year was the first which, in any State,
required the ballot.^
In one respect, however, she differed from all these. Free
negroes, born in the State, who paid public taxes, were held
to be citizens, and entitled to vote at elections, if not before,
certainly after the Constitution of 1776.^ It was this, in
fact, more than anything else, that occasioned the calling of
the Constitutional Convention of 1835, by which their right
of suffrage was taken away.
There is little else in the "Fundamental Constitutions" of
1669 of which any substantial trace survived the Revolution.
They never went into full effect, and were substantially abro-gated
by the Lords Proprietors, in 1693. The division of the
Carolinas into two provinces, followed by the surrender of
the Proprietary title to the Crown, early in the eighteenth
century, put an end to the aristocratic government devised
by Shaftesbury and Locke. From that time on till 1776, the
problems of ISTorth Carolina were the same with which the
other English colonies had to contend.
As the tension of the bonds between them and the mother
2 Arkansas and South Carolina, Report of American Historical
Association 1899, I, 121.
3 McKinley, The Suffrage Franchise in the Thirteen Colonies, III.
4 It had been a feature of the West Jersey Concessions of 1676-7,
and of Penn's Frame of Government, promulgated in 1683.
5 Thorpe, Constitutional Hist, of the U. S., I, 176 ; State v. Manuel,
4 Dev. & Battle Law Rep., 25; Report of Am. Hist. Association for
1895, 276.
country increased, jSTorth Carolina was the first to declare
herself in favor of throwing off allegiance to the British
crown.
We may or may not take the view that the story of the
Mecklenburg County resolutions of May 20, 1775, is a myth.^
Legends are the foundations of history, and the date solemnly
placed upon the great seal of North Carolina ought not lightly
to be disregarded. But were we to accept all that has ever been
claimed for the time of that action and the words in which
it was expressed, Mecklenburg County could only speak for
itself. On April 4, 1776, the provincial congress at Halifax
spoke for the State at large. This body unanimously em-powered
the delegates from North Carolina in the Continental
Congress to concur in action by that body, should it be taken,
"in declaring independency and forming foreign alliances."
She was thus, in the words of Bancroft. '' "the first colony to
vote an explicit sa'nction to independence."
In the Convention at Hillsborough, in the latter part of
1775, a further step had been advocated by many. Dr.
Franklin's scheme for a permanent confederacy of all the
colonies was brought forward by one of the delegates, but it
was decided that such an organization ought only to be set up
in the last necessity, and then only after consultation with the
Provincial Congress.
Soon after the Declaration of Independence had created
the United States of America, North Carolina elected a Con-vention
to frame a Constitution. One of her most prominent
citizens. Governor Burke, consulted John Adams, the leading
authority in the country on the subject, in regard to the proper
form to adopt. Adams advised placing the State on the foot-ing
of an independent sovereigii ; having a bicameral legis-lature
; requiring annual elections ; but choosing judges for
6 See the paper of Messrs. Salley and Ford, Am. Hist. Keview,
7 Hist, of the U. S., V, 238.
DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAIS' INSTITUTIOjSTS. 145
life. It was a maxim of public science, he wrote, that "where
annual elections end, there slavery begins."^
In general his recommendations were followed, and with
the result that the Constitution for North Carolina outlasted
every other of the Revolutionary period except that of Mas-sachusetts,
which was also modeled largely upon Adams'
]^orth Carolina had, under the Fundamental Orders (Art.
75), biennial elections. When these were superseded by Royal
authority, annual elections were substituted, and this con-tinued
to be the scheme until 1836, when an amendment to
the Constitution reestablished the original system.
In thus abandoning annual sessions, jSTorth Carolina led
the way for the whole country. They are now retained in
only two States.
On this anniversary day of one of her collegiate institu-tions,
it is not to be forgotten that JSTorth Carolina was the
first State of the American Union to put into her Constitu-tion
a provision for public education. Article XLI of that
instrument, adopted December 18, 1776, declares ''that a
school or schools shall be established by the Legislature, for
the convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries to the
masters, paid by the public, as may enable them to instruct
at low prices, and all useful learning shall be duly encour-aged
and promoted in one or more universities." Only
three other of the constitutions of this period contain any
provisions on this subject.^
The establishment of the University of ISTorth Carolina,
towards the close of the eighteenth century, was followed, in
1822, by the appointment of one of the Professors as State
Geologist and Mineralogist. His report, as such, published
in 1824 and 1825, on the Geology of the State, presented the
first survey of such a nature made by any of the States,^^ and
8 Life and Works of John Adams, I, 209, 211 ; IV, 195.
9 Hildreth, Hist, of the U. S., Ill, 385.
10 Dexter, Yale Biographies, VI, 593.
146 THE WORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET.
thus became the beginning of a long series of studies which
have revealed to the country its natural sources of wealth.
The Constitution of 1776 required the chief officers of the
State to be Protestants, or, at least, not to deny the truth of
the Protestant religion. It also declared that all officers must
acknowledge the inspiration of the Old and 'New Testaments.
Only one other State did that. As time went on and the
Roman Catholic church became stronger, some of its mem-bers
were appointed to high office. They took the ground that
a Roman Catholic, simply by being such, did not deny the
truth of the Potestant religion : on the contrary, they said, he
believed most of its doctrines, though adding more. William
Gaston, when appointed to the bench, took this ground, and
it was approved by Chief Justice Marshall and Chief Justice
Ruffin, whom he consulted. To put the matter beyond the
limits of question, the Constitutional Convention of 1835,
after full debate, siibstituted for Protestant the broader term,
ChHstian.'^^
Few now seriously dispute that under our system of gov-ernment
the courts have implied power to test the validity
of every statute by the touchstone of the Constitution. We
inherited this doctrine from the era of the Confederation, and
the courts of North Carolina early came to its support. Her
Constitution of 1776 guaranteed the right of trial by jury
in all controversies at law respecting property. The General
Assembly passed a statute requiring suits against purchasers
of confiscated estates to be dismissed on motion. Such a
motion was made in such a suit in 1786, and the court, a
year later, denied it, on the ground that the law violated this
constitutional guaranty, and was therefore void. The de-cision
thus rendered was the second ever rendered in the
English-speaking world to the point that if a written statute
11 Great American Lawyers, III, 72, 76, 111.
conflicts with a written constitution, the statute must give
waj.-^^
ISTorth Carolina Avas the first State to affirm the principle
of freedom of incorporation for the promotion of a business
enterprise. By an Act passed in 1795, she allowed any per-sons,
who desired, to incorporate themselves for the purpose
of building and maintaining canals. ^^ This was the first
legislation of the kind since the beginnings of the Roman
empire. •'^^ Other of the American States had before allowed
individuals to incorporate themselves for certain charitable
purposes. It was the far-sighted policy of North Carolina,
which extended this principle to organizations for business
purposes. They builded better than they knew. Soon fol-lowed
elsewhere, in and out of the United States, it was
destined, during the next century, to work a world-wide eco-nomic
In one respect ]!^orth Carolina, in my opinion, has exer-cised
an unfortunate influence on our judicial institutions.
The English-speaking nations stand alone in the world in
their division of the functions of a decider of civil causes
between one man, whom we call a judge, and a dozen others
whom we call a jury. By the common law of England, from
whom we derived this practice, the judge had a double duty
to decide any points of law that might be raised, and to guide
the jury on the path to a right conclusion on the facts. Legal
questions on which counsel seriously diftered seldom occurred
but disputes as to the facts of the case were incident to every
jury trial. The English judge was accustomed to express his
12 Bayard v. Singleton, Martin's Reports, 48 ; Baldwin on The
American Judiciary, 100, 110 ; Coxe on Judicial Power and Unconsti-tutional
Legislation, 248. Tlie court also relied on tlie supremacy of
the Articles of Confederation. The next Legislature (November,
1787) enacted that the treaty with Great Britain was part of the
law of the land, and to be enforced in all courts accordingly. Stat.,
Rev. of 1819, I, 559. See the history of the first decision (given in
New Jersey in 1780, in the case of Holmes v. Walton), in the Ameri-can
Historical Review, IV, 456.
13 Chapter 432, Laws of North Carolina, Ed. 1821, I, 769.
14 Report of the American Historical Association for 1902, I, 274.
own opinion, if he thought it would promote a proper decision
as to what facts really had been established by the proofs, and
how far these were, if found by the jury to exist, controlling
in their eifect. In 1796, ISTorth Carolina, which, down to that
time, had followed in this respect the rule of the common law,
abrogated it. Chief Justice Ruffin, soon afterwards, in a well-known
case, did what he could to minimize the effect of this
statutory prohibition of an ancient practice. '^'^ But legisla-tures
are stronger than judges. The Act of 1796 in ISTorth
Carolina set up one of the early precedents in support of di-minishing
judicial power, which have gradually, in most of
our States, made the American jury a very different thing
from the jury of the common law\
The courts of North Carolina rendered an important ser-vice
to the country, in leading the way towards placing the
American law of charities on a broad foundation. It was
long a question of warm dispute at the bar, whether our courts
of equity had the jurisdiction over charitable trusts possessed
by the English Chancellors, independently of the ancient
statute of charitable uses, passed in the reign of Queen Eliza-beth.
In 1819, the Supreme Court of the United States, in
an elaborate opinion by Chief Justice Marshall, took the
negative view. If this precedent were to be generally fol-lowed,
and the statute made the sole test of what was a lawful
charity, many bequests for worthy purposes would be sure to
fail. The next year, after full argument, the English doctrine
as to equity jurisdiction was recognized in the Supreme Court
of iSTorth Carolina. -^*' Other States followed the reasoning
which had led to this result. Horace Binney, one of the
greatest of American lawyers, by his researches in the rolls
of the English Chancery, demonstrated before the Supreme
Court of the United States, in the Girard College case, that
Marshall was wrong. The 2:reat Chief Justice's decision was
15 state V. Moses, 13 North Carolina Law Reports, 452.
16 Griffin v. Graham, 8 North Carolina Law Reports, 96.
finally overruled, and the JSTorth Carolina doctrine of charities
established in its place. ^^
North Carolina was the last of the States represented in the
Constitutional Convention of 1787 to ratify its work. She
was also the last State to become a member of the Southern
Confederacy. The cause of delay, in both cases, was, at bot-tom,
the same. It was her conviction that, in large affairs,
existing political relations ought not to be disturbed without
strong cause. It was political conservatism. It was the
quality which made her and South Carolina, her early sister,
the only States which maintained a general property qualifi-cation
for ofiice until after the Civil War.^^
When the Federal Convention met, in 1787, North Caro-lina
was in territory the largest State but one^^ of the Old
Thirteen. Her geogTaphical conditions justified the state-ment,
in the ofiicial report of her delagates to the Gopernor
of the doings of the Convention, that North Carolina was
doubtless the most independent of the Southern States, for
her people were able to carry her own produce to market. ^^
Being thus independent in her position, she offered the fairest
field for the last battle ground against those who in 1787
were for the entire reconstruction of the government of the
United States. She naturally stood for State sovereignty in
everything where it was not vitally necessary to accord supre-macy
to the States acting together, or to the people of all of
them,^^ speaking in each.
At the time when North Carolina was to express her judg-ment
on the merits of the new Constitution, two great men
were contending for the mastery in the arena of theoretical
politics : Jefferson and Hamilton. North Carolina sided from
the first with Jefferson. He was representing us abroad in
IT Rusaell V. Allen, 107 United States Reports, 163, 167.
18 Report of the Am. Historical Association for 1899, I, 114.
19 Georgia.
20 Farrand, Records of the Federal Convention, III, 84.
21 Report of ttie American Historical Association for 1905, I, 104;
see State Records of N. C, I, 390.
1788, but wrote to his friends here that he favored the ratifi-cation
of the new Constitution by nine States, which would
insure an organization under it, and rejection by the other
four, unless and until it was strengthened by a bill of rights.^^
Under the leadership of Willie Jones, the first Constitutional
Convention, held in that year at Hillsborough, substantially
followed this advice. Without either ratifying or rejecting
the new Constitution, it declared that bill of rights and twen-ty-
six amendments ought to be laid before Congress and a
new Convention of the United States that should or might be
called for such purposes of amendment. The most important
of the principles thus put forward were incorporated in the
Constitution, on the recommendation of the first Congress,
secured largely by the action of North Carolina in refusing
an unconditional ratification.
Hardly had the Supreme Court of the United States been
organized when suits were brought in it against several of
the States to collect debts due from them to citizens of other
States. Chief Justice Marshall, as a member of the Virginia
Convention, had declared that the Constitution gave no au-thority
for such actions. Hamilton had taken the same
ground in the Federalist.^^ With only one dissenting opinion,
however, the Justices of the Court took the other view. This
dissent was by Mr. Justice Iredell of North Carolina. The
States, he said, were sovereign as to all matters concerning
which sovereignty had not been granted to the United States.
It was the settled law that a sovereign could not be sued in
court. Consequently the States, being sovereign, could not
be so sued, except in the few cases specially authorized in the
Constitution of the United States. The plaintiff in the case
at bar was a private citizen suing for a contract debt. There
was no special authority for such a suit, and therefore, in his
opinion, it should be dismissed.
22 Jefferson's Writings, Library Ed., XVIII, 14 ; Bancroft, History
of the Constitution, II, 459, 460 ; Elliott's Debates, IV, 226.
23 Thorpe, Constitutional History of the United States, II, 266,
A storm of protest swept over the United States when the
decision of the Court was announced. Governor Hancock, of
Massachusetts, one of the States that had been sued, called a
special session of the Legislature to consider the matter, and
declared that this new doctrine tended to a consolidation of
all the States into one government "which would at once en-danger
the nation as a Republic, and eventually divide the
States united."-'* The speedy result was the adoption of the
Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution, which prevented
any such suits for the future, and struck out of existence those
already brought.
The United States, under the Articles of Confederation,
were what a recent English writer has declared that every
independent nation is—''the organization of organizations."^^
They were a feeble organization of thirteen strong organiza-tions.
The ordinary nation has for its constituents all its
people, but they are organized politically in various territorial
divisions, such as counties, towns, and cities, and socially in
various business, or ecclesiastical, or institutional divisions.
Some of them are associated in the form of banks, or rail-roads
; others as or around universities ; as churches and dio-ceses
; or as societies of a less formal character for promoting
particular theories of human conduct.
The constituents of the United States of the Revolution
and of the Confederation were thirteen peoples, not one.
Each of these peoples were grouped in different forms of
organization, under a local government of their own ; but the
United States, as such, claimed no authoritative jurisdiction
over any of these groups in any State, and had none over the
State itself.
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 attempted a com-promise
between those who were for abandoning this system
of government entirely, and those who thought it could be
strengthened and preserved. It is certain that the great
24 Thorpe, Constitutional History of the United States, II, 290.
25 Lindsay, The Political Quarterly, I, 140.
majority of the people of !North Carolina were originally
opposed to the ratification of the Constitution. The Hills-borough
Convention of July 21, 1788, would probably have
voted it down without debate, had it not been for the influence
of James Iredell.^^ She had found herseK strong enough,
alone, to handle a very serious insurrection by the suppression
of the ^^Eeg-ulators," and later to put down the rising designed
to found the new State of Franklin, and to convict, in 1787,
its leader, John Sevier, of high treason. During the Revolu-tion,
she had seen most of the Regulators siding with the
British, and feeble as the government of the United States
then was, she had found herself, with the aid of that govern-ment,
still able to cope with any invading force, and all their
Tory auxiliaries.^'*^ Her worst enemy was her own over-issues
of paper money, and with that problem, she, like Rhode
Island, preferred to deal for herself. Why then should she join
the States which Avere seceding from a confederation which
by its terms, to which each had solemnly agreed, was to last
perpetually ?
The leaders of ISTorth Carolina so far had held its course
steadily, from the first, in one direction : away from aristoc-racy
; towards popular institutions. They endeavored to
make, and they did make, the new government more closely
a government of the people, before accepting its authority.
Any strongly marked national characteristic that makes for
good is a national asset. It endears the State to its people.
It is their voice. It speaks the habit of their mind. In the case
of a private business concern, long establshed and well re-puted,
a part of its property, well recognized by law, is the
good will of those who know on what principles it has been
conducted. Much more is the good will of its people of value
to a State. That spirit of conservatism which has always
marked ISTorth Carolina has helped to steady the course of
26 Elliott's Debates, IV. 4.
27 Life and Works of John Adams. VII, 308; Report of Am. Hist.
Association for 1894, 180, 209: Wiusor, Narrative, etc., Hist., VII, 190;
Tarleton's Campaigns, 119. 270 ; State Records of N. C, I, xiv, xviii.
American government. It was fostered by the circumstances
of her earlier history. It was strengthened by the nature of
her main industry. Agriculture binds the man to the land,
and in the land there is something of the eternal and un-changeable.
Conservatism detaches itself from the transi-tory.
It makes for unity in political action. It is unwilling
to have untried forms of government imposed upon it. It
distrusts abstract philosophies, unripened by time.
There is a certain unity in the history of North Carolina.
The Royal province, of which she originally formed a part,
soon broke in two; South Carolina followed the ways of
cities ; North Carolina those of the country and the farm.
Half a century later North Carolina broke in two. The
people of the mountains pushed the frontier Westward and
laid the foundations of Tennessee. For the people on the
Atlantic slope, the current of industry followed the waters
toward the sea. Agriculture added to itself commerce and
manufacture.
The twentieth century came. It found North Carolina
still mainly a State of the country and the farm, but, towards
the West, of a rough country and rocky farms. The ever-lasting
hills still stood as they were two hundred years before,
the home of sturdy mountaineers, largely reflecting the man-ners
and the ideals of the American of two centuries before.
It is no bad thing for a State to have representatives of
the thought of the eighteenth century uniting for the shap-ing
of her institutions with representatives of the twentieth.
On the one hand, it assures the permanence of popular gov-ernment:
on the other, it guarantees the benefit of whatever
new means time brings to make popular government more
truly by the people and for the people.
I come from a State which calls itself the Land of Steady
Habits. North Carolina and Connecticut were alike char-tered
by Charles the Second. He gave to North Carolina a
charter of aristocracy, and to Connecticut a charter of de-mocracy.
He gave to North Carolina the harder task. She
must win for herself what was the birthright of Connecticut,
How has she marked her progress to the goal ?
Let me recapitulate what seems to me the highest of her
achievements. In what great things did she press forward
first, and set the pace ?
1. In declaring for independence of Great Britain, in April,
2. In providing by her Constitution of December, 1776,
for a secret ballot, and for public education at public cost.
3. In passing, in 1795, the first general incorporation law
for business purposes since the time of the Roman empire.
4. In discarding annual for biennial elections, in the
amendments to her Constitution in 1835.
The first step, if anything, it costs something to make.
These five steps that I have mentioned, each in its day, worked
a great innovation in American institutions, and one of
them—that towards freedom of incorporation—in universal
We of other States are glad in these things to recognize
the primacy of North Carolina, and to congratulate her on
the public service she thus has done to the country and the
SIR WALTER RALEIGH AS A POET. 155
Sir Walter Raleigh as a Poet
By Nina Holland Covington.
When that gorgeous Pageant, the Age of Elizabeth, comes
upon the stage of history, there is no more splendid figure
among the actors than that of Sir Walter Raleigh, who makes
his spectacular appearance before the queen by throwing his
velvet coat upon the muddy ground so that she may walk over
dry-shod. Characteristic indeed of the man and of the age is
this anecdote of Kaleigh's young years. The romantic cour-tier
lived in a period well suited to his varied talents and
accomplishments, for it was an age of war, of exploration, of
colonization, of learning, of wit, of extravagance in speech
and dress, and an age which gave fullest encouragement to
Perhaps the most important thing in Raleigh's career as
it affected history was the fact that he made numerous at-tempts
to establish settlements in America, and although
these settlements were not permanent, nevertheless, as has been
so well said,* "You cannot measure great events with a yard-stick.
Men die, ideas are immortal. The idea of another
England beyond the Atlantic, conceived by the master mind
of Sir Walter Raleigh, was the germ from which, through
the development of three centuries, has evolved the American
nation of the twentieth century. There is a vital connection,
both physical and spiritual, between Roanoke and Jamestown.
Among those who founded Jamestown were ten of the men
who had co-operated with Raleigh in the settlements at Roan-oke.
In these men we have the physical connection between
the two, while to the idea conceived by Raleigh and to the
spirit of conquest and colonization which his attempts on this
island called into existence, the English race in Europe, in
Asia, Africa and Australia and the islands of the sea, and in
America, owes the world-wide prominence which it to-day
*R. D. W. Connor "Sir Walter Raleigh and His Associates," Book-let,
Vol. X 1, No. 3.
enjoys among the races of mankind. Nothing can be clearer,
therefore, than that we, in looking back over the events of the
last three centuries, can hail the Roanoke settlements as the
beginning of English colonization in America and throughout
the world."
But though Sir Walter Raleigh is most important as a
colonizer, that was but one side of this versatile hero of his-tory,
for he was also a courtier, soldier, manager of men,
explorer, business man, historian and poet. Perhaps his
poetry has not been, after all, very important in English liter-ature,
and he certainly is not well known as a poet, nor can he
be ranked as one of the great poets of England, but still there
is merit enough in his verse to lift it far above mediocrity.
The poems of Raleigh that have come down to us are not
numerous. The "Cynthia" has long been lost, and there are
only about twenty other poems which can be correctly ascribed
to him. JSTo attempt was made in Raleigh's lifetime to col-lect
his poems, and, for some time after his death, his poetry
was not considered important enough to be preserved. In the
first collection of his poems there were only three poems ; in
the second there were only nine. It has taken careful
research work to gather together these long neglected poems
of Raleigh, and there is still dispute among critics and literati
as to whether certain poems generally accepted as Raleigh's
are really his or not. It is not often that men of action have
either time or inclination to write verse. It is the man who
has leisure to dream dreams, and to think deeply over the
mysteries of nature and humanity who usually gives the
world its great poems. But still. Sir Walter Raleigh, busy
as he was during the years in which most of his poetry was
written, wrote, besides the long poem "Cynthia," about
twenty other poems which are of interest and literary value.
The poem "Cynthia" itself must have contained, it is thought,
about ten thousand lines—equal in length to two books of the
"Faery Queene."
Spenser, who acknowledges that he owed much to his inter-
SIR WALTER RALEIGH AS A POET. 15Y
course with Kaleigh (they were neighbors in Ireland), and
who was most grateful for Raleigh's encouragement as the
"Faery Queene" was being written, dedicated the first three
books to Raleigh with the sonnet which begins
"To thee that are the summer's nightingale
Thy sovereign Goddess's most dear delight."
And Raleigh appended to these first three books of the
"Faery Queene" the sonnet which begins:
"Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay,
Within that temple where the vestal flame
Was wont to burn : and, passing by that way,
To see that buried dust of living fame,
Whose tomb fair Love and fairer Virtue kept.
All suddenly I saw the Faery Queene,
At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept
And from thenceforth those graces were not seen
For they this Queen attended, in whose stead
Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse,
Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed.
And groans of buried ghosts the heavens did pierce
When Homer's spright did tremble all for grief
And cursed the access of that celestial thief."
a sonnet which, though it is far too extravagant in sentiment,
nevertheless contains some fine lines. Milton admired it, and
imitated it in his sonnet beginning
"Methought I saw my late espoused saint
Brought to me like Alcestis from the tomb."
Marlowe's well known pastoral poem, "The Passionate
Shepherd to his Love," called forth a reply from Raleigh that
was musical, bright and clever, with that touch of bitterness
that so many of the Elizabethan lyric poets affected. It was
written probably in 1599, and mentioned and quoted in Wal-ton's
"Complete Angler" in 1653 as a poem "made by Sir
Walter Raleigh in his younger days."
Belonging also to Raleigh's younger period is the beautiful
elegy on Sir Philip Sidney, which would alone give him a
place in English literature. Edmund Gosse says of it: "It
blends the passion of personal regret with the dignity of public
grief as all great elegiacal poems should. One stanza might
be inscribed on a monument to Sidney:
158 • THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET.
"England withhold thy limits, that bred the same
Flanders thy valour, where it last was tried.
The camp thy sorrow, where the body died
Thy friends thy want : the world thy virtue's fame."
The poem over the authorship of which there has been so
much dispute, ''The Lie," is, like all of Raleigh's poems, dig-nified
in tone, and has that independent, spirited air which
doubtless Puttenham meant to describe when he said, in his
''Art of English Poetry," "For ditty and amorous ode, I find
Sir Walter Raleigh's vein most lofty, insolent, and passion-ate."
It is not known exactly when "The Lie" was written,
but it seems probable that it belongs to that period of his first
imprisonment in the Tower after his secret entanglement with
Elizabeth Throckmorton. The first two stanzas will show the
character of the piece. Bitter, haughty, defiant in tone,
smooth and rippling in measure, it easily takes its place
among the striking poems of our language, and is important
as being representative of the poetry of the period. For, ex-travagance
of expression, smoothness of phrase and rhythm,
with a slight cynicism, were the characteristics of the lyric
poetry of this age of English literature
"Go, Soul, the body's guest,
Upon a thankless arrant
Fear not to touch the best
The truth shall be thy warrant.
Go, since I needs must die,
And give the world the lie.
Say to the court, it glows
And shines like rotten wood
Say to the church, it shows
What's good, and doth no good
If church and court reply
Then give them both the lie."
And particularly interesting to us, because it seems rather
bold on Raleigh's part, and more openly defiant that he ever
expressed himself elsewhere, is the third stanza
"Tell potentates, they live
Acting by others' action.
Not loved unless they give
Not strong, but by a faction
If potentates reply
Give potentates the lie."
SIE WALTER EALEIGH AS A POET. 159
Entirely different from this is "Sir Walter Raleigh's Pil-grimage,"
which is perhaps the best known of his poems.
The poem is very beautiful and full of striking metaphors.
The last stanza is especially interesting and startling, and
from what is implied there this poem is often said to have
been written the night before he died. But most critics seem
to agree that it belongs to the time following the trial at Win-chester
when Raleigh, having been convicted of treason,
thought that the king would have him immediately executed.
And Raleigh's supposed accomplices, Markham, Gray and
Cobham, were actually led out before his (Raleigh's) very
eyes for their execution, and then, on the scaffold, their lives
were saved by the king's pardon. This was on the tenth of
December, 1603. Gosse, Archdeacon Hannah and others
think that the "Pilgrimage" was written on the night of the
ninth of December.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S PILGRIMAGE
Give me my scallop-shell of quiet,
My staff of faith to walk upon,
My script of joy, immortal diet,
My bottle of salvation.
My gown of glory, hope's true gage;
And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Blood must be my body's balmer;
No other balm will there be given
Whilst my soul, like quiet palmer,
Travelleth towards the land of heaven;
Over the silver mountains.
Where spring the nectar fountains
There will I kiss
The bowl of bliss
And drink mine everlasting fill
Upon every milken hill.
My soul will be a-dry before
But after, it will thirst no more.
Then by that happy blissful day,
More peaceful pilgrims I shall see.
That have cast off their rags of clay.
And walk apparelled fresh like me.
I'll take them first
To quench their thirst
And taste of nectar suckets.
At those clear wells
Where sweetness dwells.
Drawn up by saints in crystal buckets.
And when our bottles and all we
Are filled with immortality,
Then the blessed paths we'll travel,
Strowed with rubies thick as gravel
Ceilngs of diamonds, sapphire floors.
High walls of coral and pearly bowers.
From thence to heaven's bribeless hall.
Where no corrupted voices brawl
No conscience molten into gold.
No forged accuser bought or sold.
No cause deferred, no vain-spent journey.
For there Christ is the king's attorney,
Who pleads for all without degrees,
And He hath angels, but no fees.
And when the grand twelve million jury
Of our sins, with direful fury,
Against our souls black verdicts give,
Christ pleads His death, and then we live.
Be thou my speaker, taintless pleader,
Unblotted lawyer, true proceeder
Thou givest salvation even for alms
Not with a bribed lawyer's palms.
And this is mine eternal plea
To Him that made heaven, earth, and sea.
That since pay flesh must die so soon,
And want a head to dine next noon,
Just at the stroke, when my veins start and spread,
Set on my soul an everlasting head
Then am I ready, like a palmer fit.
To tread those blest paths which before I writ.
Of death and judgment, heaven and hell,
Who oft doth think, must needs die well."
The references to his trust in God that occur in the "Pil-grimage"
are found in all of the writings of the latter part of
Raleigh's life. Beginning his career as gay courtier, with so
little care or reverence for religion and God that people spoke
of him as an atheist, the troubles of his last years seem to
have made him deeply religious. In that remarkable un-finished
attempt of his, "The History of the World," we have
frequent passages to show how prominent a part reliance upon
God was playing in Raleigh's life during those thirteen long-years
of his imprisonment.
In regard to the lost poem "Cynthia," written to Queen
Elizabeth, and in her praise, Gosse says, "The long passage
which we have in Raleigh's poem. The Continuation of
Cynthia, is, I think beyond question, a canto almost com-plete
of the lost epic of 1589. It is written on the four line
heroic stanza adopted ten years later by Sir John Davies for
his Nosce teipsum, and most familiar to us all in Gray's
"Elegy." Moreover it is headed "The Twenty-first and Last
Book of The Oceayi to Cynthia." Another note in Raleigh's
handwriting styles the poem "The Ocean's Love to Cynthia,"
and this was probably the full name of it. Spenser's name
for Ealeigh, the Shepherd, or pastoral hero, of the Ocean is,
therefore, for the first time explained. The twenty-first book
suffers from the fact that the stanzas, but apparently not
many, have dropped out in four places. With these losses,
the canto contains 130 stanzas, or 526 lines. Supposing the
average length of the twenty preceding books to have been
the same. The Ocean's Love to Cynthia must have contained
at least ten thousand lines. Spenser, therefore, was not exag-gerating,
or using the lang-uage of flattery towards a few
elegies or a group of sonnets, when he spoke of Cynthia as
a poem of great importance. As a matter of fact, no poem
of the like ambition had been written in England for a cen-tury
past, and if it had been published, it would perhaps have
taken a place only second to its immediate contemporary,
"The Faery Queene." Archdeacon Hannah places the poem,
The Continuation of Cynthia, in his volume of Raleigh's
poems, as belonging to the era of 1603-1618—Raleigh's years
of imprisonment—and includes, with the "long passage" men-tioned
by Gosse, two fragments which lead him to this con-clusion.
Gosse thinks the fragments were written in this pe-riod,
but that they have nothing to do with "Cynthia," since
the meter is entirely different. Gosse is probably correct in his
view—the meter proof being almost conclusive evidence that
the fragments do not belong to the "long passage." However
that may be, the long passage of "The Continuation of Cyn-thia"
is in the same vein and meter as the lost part of
"Cynthia," and gives us a good idea of the character of that
poem.
To describe, then, this part of "Cynthia," is to describe the
whole poem. Soft and subdued in tone, worshipful, but not
merely flattering in sentiment, with the gentle, sad movement
of the elegiac meter and containing some of the most beau-tiful
imagery we can find in his poems, the fragment that we
have makes us regret deeply the loss of the whole.
In August, 1618, the year of his death, Raleigh wrote his
"Petition to the Queen, Anne of Denmark." Anne made an
effort to save him^ but in vain. On October 28 he was exe-cuted.
The poem is the last appeal of a doomed man to his
queen, and the sad, resigned tone of his petition seems to indi-cate
that he feared the appeal would be in vain. It closes
with these pathetic lines
"If I have sold my duty, sold my faith
To strangers, which was only due to One
Nothing I should esteem so dear as death.
But, if both God and time shall make you know,
That I, your humblest vassal, am oppressed,
Then cast your eyes on undeserved woe
That I and mine may never mourn the miss
Of Her we had, but praise our living Queen,
Who brings Tis equal, if not greater bliss.
On the night before his execution Raleigh wrote the last
poem of his life after bidding farewell to his faithful wife,
the Elizabeth Throckmorton, for whose love he had forfeited
his place as one of the favorites of Queen Elizabeth*.
"Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have.
And pays us with but earth and dust
Who, in the dark and silent grave.
When we have wandered all our ways.
Shuts up the story of our days
And from this earth, this grave, this dust.
My God shall raise me up, I trust."
On the chill morning of October the twenty-ninth, 1618,
Raleigh went out so bravely to his death that those who wit-nessed
it have handed down to posterity in words of admira-tion
and praise the account of the glorious end of Sir Walter
Raleigh.
And so died on the scaffold one of England's bravest, most
progressive, patriotic and learned men. Upon the history of
France is the stain of the blood of Joan of Arc. The darkest
blot upon England's pages of history is the execution of Sir
Walter Raleigh.
BIOGEAPHICAL. 163
Biographical and Genealogical Memoranda
Compiled and Edited by Mrs. E. E. Moffitt.
AKCHIBALD HENDEESOK
A biographical and genealogical sketch of Dr. Archibald
Henderson appeared in the October number of The Booklet
in 1912. Since that time the subject of this sketch has added
volumes to literature. It becomes necessary and highly
proper that the continued activity be noted in The Booklet
of any one of our contributors, many of whom are young
not yet in the zenith of life. Dr. Henderson's contribution this
month is his brilliant historical essay: ''The Creative Forces
in Westward Expansion : Henderson and Boone." Like other
of his creations, it will be hailed with delight by our readers.
It is due to Dr. Henderson to record here the various activi-ties
that have won for him the distinguished place he holds
in the literary world.
The literary passions of his childhood were Joel Chandler
Harris ("Uncle Remus") and Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark
Twain"). Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, the latter his
favorite of all others, he came almost to know by heart. He
happened one day to read that William Archer, the great
English critic, said that "Huckleberry Finn was the best
story written on either side of the Atlantic in the preceding
twenty-five years." This dictum so expressed his own delib-erate,
if immature, conviction that it awakened in him a
genuine respect for literary criticism. The incident marks
the beginning of his concern for literary criticism.
He read Cooper's and Scott's works, and in fact read almost
everything coming under his eye in his father's extensive
library, except "Les Miserables," that enormous tome which
looked too formidable to tackle. Later it appealed to him on
a rainy day as the last resort. He read uninterruptedly until
the word "Finis" stared him in the face ! Well for him ; its
moral purpose and uplifting idealism made a profound and
lasting impression upon him. For the future he resolved to
judge a book not by its physiognomy, not solely in terms of
literary art, but also in terms of humanistic purpose.
With a father's influence as a churchman, instilling into
him the principles of honor, uprightness and truth ; a mother's
and grandmother's influences as idealistic preceptors, the
young lad grew up under such examples as laid the founda-tion
for manhood's success.
This sketch would be incomplete if there were omitted men-tion
of an occurrence that had much to do with shaping his
career. After marriage in 1903, at which time he received
only the meagre emoluments apportioned an associate pro-fessor
in a university, he realized the need of adding to his
exchequer, and accordingly he resorted to his pen in the effort
to balance the deficit. He wrote for the clever magazine.
The Readers, an essay two and a half pages long entitled
''The Present Vogue of Mr. Shaw/' Imagine his surprise
shortly afterwards to receive a check for $25.00. In his
heart he never really dreamed that any one would look at his
writings. Thus encouraged by this tangible recognition, he
began writing under the no7n de guerre of "Erskine Steele"
essays for different papers. These essays awoke great curi-osity
and provoked high tributes for the unknown author.
It was some years before the original of ''Erskine Steele"
became known to the public. During that period he had
won a place for himself in the national magazines over his
own signature.
With the best advantages for a fine education, a retentive
memory, patient industry and deep penetration, Dr. Hender-son
may be justly described an exceptionally erudite man.
As publicist, he has worked unremittingly, and often at
considerable financial sacrifice, for the uplift of his State
and the South.
As scientist, he has made important contributions to mathe-matical
journals, and won the recognition of such famous
BIOGRAPHICAL. 165
institutions of learning as Cambridge University (England)
and the University of Chicago.
As man of letters, he has won the reputation of being the
leading critic of the modern drama in the United States.
As public speaker, he is sought all over the country; a
leader in this line.
As historian, he is the acknowledged authority on the
movement of Westward Expansion during the period from
1750 to 1800.
Dr. Henderson raised the funds to erect a great memorial
to "O. Henry," ISTorth Carolina's greatest man of letters. He
has labored to honor ]!^orth Carolina and her genius always
and has written appreciations of Christian Reid, John
Charles MclSTeill, Margaret Busbee Shipp, O. Henry, etc.
He has been a pioneer in ISTorth Carolina in advocacy of
woman suffrage. His writings on suffrage have attracted
national attention. He has made able speeches in ISTorth
Carolina on the subject.
He has written much since October, 1912. His article,
"The Creative Forces in Westward Expansion," appeared in
the American Historical Review^ October, 1914. He has
been invited to be a contributor to the Mississippi Valley His-torical
Review. His article, "The Invasion of Kentucky"
(1775), appeared in the last issue of that magazine (1914).
His article on George Washington and the Declaration of
Independence appeared in the North Carolina Review, Feb-ruary,
"The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence," Jour-nal
of American History, Vol. VI, No. 4 (October-December,
"Forerunners of the Republic," Neales Monthly (E". Y.),
January-June, 1913.
"Richard Henderson: His Life and Times," Charlotte
(IST. C.) Observer, Sunday issues, March 9 to June 1, 1913.
"Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Trail," published in
Salisbury Evening Post, July 4, 1914.
"The Inauguration of Westward Expansion," in News and
Observer (Raleigh), July 5, 1914; Charlotte Observer
(Charlotte), July 5, 1914.
"European Dramatists" came from the press on December
20, 1913. This work consists of a collection of essays which
treat of six representative modem dramatists outside of the
United States, some living, some dead—Strindberg, Ibsen,
Maeterlinck, Wilde, Shaw and Barker. For this work Dr.
Henderson has received the highest tributes from scholars,
dramatists, newspapers and magazines. Edwin Markham's
recent pronouncement that Archibald Henderson "stands to-day
as the chief literary critic of the South and in the fore-front
of the critics of the nation," calls especial attention to
the new book. The Pall Mall Gazette, of London, says : "Dr.
Henderson is one of the most vivacious of the younger writers
of the day on matters of the theatre, and here he is at his
liveliest."
Dr. Henderson keeps entirely abreast with the times. He
is a member of the "American Historical Association," "Mis-sissippi
Valley Historical Association," "Ohio Valley His-torical
Association," "North Carolina State Literary and
Historical Association," "JSTorth Carolina Sons of the Revo-lution,"
and although entitled to membership in, he has not
yet joined, the "North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati."
Dr. Henderson was recently honored by being chosen na-tional
representative of the "Drama League of America" for
the States of North Carolina and South Carolina. He is a
member of the Drama League of America, the Poetry Society
of America, and the Author's Club of London.
During the last ten years, in addition to the books which
he has published. Dr. Henderson has published consider-ably
over one hundred essays. These have appeared in five
different languages, in great magazines and representative
journals throughout the world. This great productivity and
publication in so many countries have contributed much to
building up his European reputation as a literary critic.
Dr. Henderson's latest achievement was the materializa-tion
of his efforts to commemorate the work of "O. Henry"
(William Sidney Porter), a native of Greensboro, N. C,
considered the greatest American short-story writer of his day.
It was December 2, 1914, when, under the auspices of the
State Literary and Historical Association of ]^orth Carolina,
there was presented to the State a bronze memorial tablet to
"O. Henry," designed by the famous American sculptor,
Lorado Taft, and purchased with funds raised by popular
subscription.
It has recently been stated that there are States in the
Union which buy twenty-five copies of Dr. Henderson's books
for every one copy sold in North Carolina. His writings
are doubtless better known in Boston, New York, Chicago,
Cincinnati and Philadelphia than they are known in Raleigh,
Charlotte, Greensboro, Wilmington, and Winston-Salem ; and
they are more widely read in England, Germany and Norway
than in North Carolina.
Dr. Henderson's latest book is "The Changing Drama."
The reputation won by him as a dramatic critic—in particu-lar
of the modern drama—is evidenced by the fact that many
hundreds of copies of "The Changing Drama" were sold in
advance of publication (October 31, 1914). Already this book
is hailed by critics as the ablest and most brilliant book on
the modern drama ever written by an American, and regarded
by many as "the standard work on the subject."
On the 23rd of June, 1903, Dr. Henderson was married to
Miss Minna Curtis Bynum, of Lincolnton, N. C, a lady of
rare accomplishments, having been awarded the degrees B. A.
and M. A. from the University of North Carolina in June,
1902. She is the daughter of the late Rev. Wm. Shipp
Bynum, a noted Episcopal preacher of his day. Mrs. Hen-derson,
herself a woman of brilliant literary attainments, is
the helpmate of her husband in his literary work, and indeed
"the sum of all that makes a just man happy."
*GOVERITOE SIMEOI^ EBEN BALDWIN".
Hon. Simeon Eben Baldwin, Governor of Connecticut,
was born at New Haven February 5, 1840, the youngest son
of Roger Sherman Baldwin, Governor of Connecticut and
United States Senator. On his mother's side he is a descend-ant
of Governors Haynes, Wyllys and Pitkin, of Connecticut.
He was educated at Hopkins Grammar School of jSTew
Haven, Yale College, the Yale and Harvard Law Schools, and
was admitted to the bar at New Haven in 1863, where he prac-ticed
his profession before both the State and the United
States courts for thirty years.
In 1893 was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Errors, and in 1907 Chief Justice. Has since held
places of honorable distinction.
He has been president of the New Haven Colony Historical
Society, the American Historical Society, the American Bar
Association, the Association of American Law Schools, the
International Law Association, the American Social Science
Association, and is now (1912) president of the American
Political Science Association, the American Society for the
Judicial Settlement of International Disputes, the Connecti-cut
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Trustees of Hopkins'
Grammar School, and the Connecticut Society of the Archse-logical
Institute of America, and Director of the Bureau of
Comparative Law of the American Bar Association. He is a
member of the American Antiquarian Society, the American
Philosophical Society, and the N^ational Institute of Arts and
Letters, a Fellow of the American Association for the Ad-vancement
of Science, a corresponding member of the Mas-sachusetts
Historical Society, the Colonial Society of Mas-sachusetts,
and the Institut de Droit Compare of Brussels.
*Facts from Legislative History and Souvenir of Connecticut, Vol.
VIII, 1911-1912.
Also Review of Revieivs; Who's Who in America.
He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Harvard in
1891, and from Columbia in 1911.
He has published a "Digest of the Connecticut Law Re-ports,"
''Modern Political Institutions," "American Railroad
Law," "Illustrated Cases on Railroad Law," and "The Amer-ican
Judiciary." He is also one of the authors of "Two Cen-turies'
Growth of American Law." He has contributed nu-merous
articles to magazines in United States and foreign
Governor Baldwin has long been the dean of the Yale Law
School, and represents the best element of the old-line Eastern
Democracy. He is a lecturer and writer on subjects vital to
the interests of his state and country.
Governor Baldwin has won for himself the character of a
just man, a respecter of law as the basis of civil society, and
is a firm believer in the precepts of Christ. Richard Hooker,
that great philosophical prose writer of the sixteenth century,
has given its best definition : "Of law no less can be acknowl-edged
than that her seat is the bosom of God; her voice the
harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her
homage; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest
as not exempt from her power."
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Full Text Vol. XIV JANUARY, 1915 No. 3 '(She NORTH Carolina Booklet "Carolina I Carolina i Heaven's blessings attend her I While zve live zve will cherish, protect and defend her" Published by THE NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF TtiE REVOLUTION The object of The Booklet is to aid in developing and preserving North Carolina History. The proceeds arising from its publication will be devoted to patriotic purposes. Editoe. RALEIGH COMMERCIAL PRINTING COMPANY PRINTERS AND BINDERS ADVISORY BOARD OF THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET Mrs. Hubeet Haywood. Dr. Richard Dillabd. Mrs. E. E. Moffitt. Dr. Kemp P. Battle. Mr. R. D. W. Connor, Mr. James Sprunt. Dr. D. H. Hill. Mr. Marshall DeLancet Haywood Dr. E. W. Sikes. Chief Justice Walter Clark. Mr. W. J. Peele. Major W. A. Graham. Miss Adelaide L. Fries. Dr. Charles Lee Smith. Miss Martha Helen Haywood. editor : Miss Mary Hilliabd Hinton. OFFICERS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION 1912-1914 REGENT : Miss MARY HILLIARD HINTON. VICE-REGENT : Mrs. MARSHALL WILLIAMS. HONORARY REGENT : Mrs. E. E. MOFFITT. RECORDING SECRETARY : Mrs. L. E. COVINGTON, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY : Mrs. PAUL H. LEE. TREASURER : Mrs. CHAS. LEE SMITH, REGISTRAR : Miss SARAH W, ASHE, CUSTODIAN OF RELICS ," Mrs. JOHN E. RAY, CHAPTER REGENTS Bloomsbury Chapter Mrs. Hubert Haywood, Regent. Penelope Barker Chapter Mrs. Patrick Matthew, Regent, Sir Walter Raleigh Chapter, Miss Catherine F. Seyton Albertson, Regent, General Francis Nash Chapter Miss Rebecca Cameron, Regent. Roanoke Chapter Mrs. Charles J. Sawyer, Regent, Founder of the North Carolina Society and Regent 1896-1902 ; Mrs. SPIER WHITAKER.* Regent 1902: Mrs. D. H. HILL, SR.t Regent 1902-1906: Mrs. THOMAS K. BRUNER. Regent 1906-1910: Mrs. E. E. MOFFITT. •Died November 25, 1911. tDied December 12, 1904. The North Carolina Booklet Vol. XIV JANUARY, 1915 No. 3 The Creative Forces in Westward Expansion: Henderson and Boone^ By Archibald Henderson. As focus of the old West, Kentucky has always loomed large in the national imagination as the habitat of the Ameri-can border hero. Boone and Kenton, Harrod and Clark, Cal-laway and Logan, lurk vast in the wings of the national theatre, dramatic protagonists magnified to almost super-human proportions in the mist of a legendary past. About them floats the aureole of traditional romance. Wrought with rude but masterly strength out of the hardships and vicissi-tudes of pioneer life, the heroic conquest of the wilderness, the mortal struggles of border warfare, this composite figure of Indian fighter, crafty backwoodsman, and crude surveyor has emerged as the type-figure in the romance of the evolu-tion of American character. This model, with its invincible fascination and predominantly heroic attributes, has over-shadowed and obscured the less spectacular yet more fecund instrumentalities in the colonization and civilization of the West. To-day, in the clarifying light of contemporary re-search, illuminating social and economic forces, the creative and formative causes of colonization and expansion, the indi-vidual merges into the group ; and the isolated effort assumes its true character as merely a single factor in social evolution. We have come to recognize that the man of genius obeys a movement quite as much as he controls it, and even more than he creates it. In the pitiless perspective of historic evolution, lA paper read at the meeting of the American Historical Associa-tion at Charleston, S. C, December 30, 1913. It is reproduced here, with the permission of the editor, from the American Historical Review, October, 1914. 112 THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. the spectacular hero at first sight seems to lessen; but the mass, the movement, the social force which he epitomizes and interprets, gain in impressiveness and dignity.^ The hero of the pioneer West, Daniel Boone has played the lofty role of exemplar of the leadership of the hinterland movement of the eighteenth century. At the hands of that inaccurate and turgid amanuensis, John Filson, Boone has been apotheosized, in approved Scriptural fashion, as the in-strument of Providence, ordained by God to settle the wilder-ness. Nor was this superstitious delusion confined to Filson. "An over-ruling Providence," says Boone, in speaking of him-self, "seems to have watched over his life, and preserved him to be the humble instrument in settling one of the fairest por-tions of the new world."^ Fancy has played erratically about this sane and simple figure, envisaging him in countless disguises, from the primitive man returning to nature (after Pousseau) to the genius of modern communism (after Spen-cer). At the hands of the earlier biographers, Boone has taken on the hue and tone of an unsocial and primitive figiire, as unreal as an Indian from the pages of Chateaubriand, per-petually fleeing from civilization in response to the lure of the forest and the irresistible call of the wild. At the hands of later biographers, Boone is fantastically endowed with the creative imagination of the colonizer and the civic genius of a founder of states. In the face of such disparities of romantic distortion, wrought upon the character and role of Boone, the true significance of the westward expansionist movement suf-fers obscuration and eclipse. Scientifically historic investiga-tion must relegate to the superstitious and the gullible, to the panegyrist and the hero-worshipper, the providential inter-pretation of our national history. Meantime, there remains to narrate the just and authentic story of westward expansion, and to project the true picture of Boone as the typical figure of the expert backwoodsman in 2 Cf. Henderson, "The Beginnings of American Expansion," North Carolina Review, September and October, 1910. 3 Memorial to the Legislature of Kentucky, January 18, 1812. HENDERSON AND BOONE. 113 the westward migration of the peoples. Only thus shall we secure the correct perspective for the social, political, and economic history of the colonization of the West. Such a recital must unmask the forces behind Boone, the chain of social causation, the truly creative forces in the expansionist movement. In such recital, Boone is shorn of none of those remarkable powers as explorer, scout, pathfinder, land-looker, and individual Indian fighter which have given him a secure niche in the hall of national fame. It involves the recogni-tion, nevertheless, that his genius was essentially individual rather than social, unique rather than communistic. In the larger social sense, it involves the further recognition that those of Boone's achievements which had the widest bearing on the future and ultimately effected national results were accomplished through his instrumentality, not in the role of originative genius and constructive colonizer, but in the role of pioneer and way-breaker. Boone's pioneering initiative and his familiarity with Indian temperament found the best field for their most effective display under the giiidance of the constructive mind and colonizing genius of Henderson. Boone acted as the agent of men of commercial enterprise and far-seeing political imagination, intent upon an epochal poli-tico- economic project of colonization, promotion, and expan-sion. Boone may have been the instrument of Providence, as he so piously imagined ; but it is inbubitable that he was the agent of commercial enterprise and colonial promotion. The exploration and colonization of the West, with the ultimate consequence of the acquisition of the trans-Alleghany region, was not the divinely appointed work of any single man. In reality, this consummation flowered out of two fundamental impulses in the life of the period, the creative causes of territorial expansion. Intensive analysis reveals the further cardinal fact that it was two racial streams, the one distinguished by unit-characters, individualistic, democratic, 114 THE NOKTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. the other corporate in interests, communistic, with aristo-cratic attributes—their temporary co-ordination and subse-quent sharp mutual reaction—which constituted the instru-mentalities for the initial steps in the westward expansionist movement. The creative forces which inaugurated the terri-torial expansion of the American people westward found typical embodiment, the one in a great land company intent upon carving out a new colony, the other in the supreme pio-neer and land-looker of his day. The prime determinative principle of the progressive Amer-ican civilization of the eighteenth century was the passion for the acquisition of land. After the peace of Aix-la-Cha-pelle (1748), which left the boundaries of France and Eng-land in America unsettled, Celeron de Bienville was des-patched in the spring of 1749 to sow broadcast the seeds of empire, the leaden plates symbolic of the asserted sovereignty of France. Throtigh a grant to the Ohio Company, organized in 1748, and composed of a number of the most prominent men of the day in Virginia, England proceeded to take pos-session without the formal assertion of her claims ; and Chris-topher Gist, summoned from his remote home on the Yadkin in North Carolina, made a thorough reconnaissance of the western region in 1750-1751. Almost simultaneously, the Loyal Land Company of Virginia received a royal gi^ant of eight hundred thousand acres, and in the spring of 1750 des-patched Thomas Walker westward upon his now well-known tour of exploration.^ The vast extent of uninhabited trans-montane lands, of fabled beauty, richness, and fertility, ex-cited dreams of grandiose possibilities in the minds of English and colonials alike. England was said to be ^'jSTew Land mad, and everybody there has his eye fixed on this country."^ To Franklin and Washington, to the Lees and Patrick Henry, to Lyman and Clark, the West loomed large as the promised land-—for settlement, for trade, for occupation—to men brave 4 J. S. Johnston, First Explorations of Kentucky (Filson Club Pub-lications ) . 5 Jobnson MSS., XII., No. 127. HENDEKSON AND BOONE. 115 enough to risk their all in its acquisition. The royal procla-mation of 1763 gave a new impetus to the colonizing spirit, dormant during the early years of the war, and marks the true beginning of Western colonization. The feeling of the period was succinctly interpreted by Washington, who, in describing the "rising empire" beyond the Alleghanies, de-nominates it "a tract of country which is unfolding to our view the advantages of which are too great and too obvious, I should think, to become the subject of serious debate, but which, through ill-timed parsimony and supineness, may be wrested from us and conducted through other channels."® The second determinative impulse of the pioneer civiliza-tion was Wanderlust—the passionately inquisitive instinct of the hunter, the traveler, the explorer. A secondary object of the proclamation of 1763, according to Edmund Burke, was the limitation of the colonies on the West, as "the charters of many of our old colonies give them, with few exceptions, no bounds to the westward but the South Sea."^ The Long Hunters, taking their lives in their hands, fared boldly forth to a fabled hunters' paradise in the far-away wilderness, be-cause they were driven by the irresistible desire of a Ponce de Leon or a De Soto, a Stanley or a Peary, to discover the truth about the undiscovered lands beyond the mountains. The hunter was not only thrilled with the passion of the chase in a veritable paradise of game: he was intent upon collecting the furs and skins of wild animals for lucrative barter and sale in the centres of trade. Quick to make "tomahawk claims" and assert "corn rights," the pioneer spied out the rich virgin lands for future location, there to be free from the vexatious insistence of the tax-gatherer. "The people at the back part of those [ISTorth Carolina and Virginia] and the neighboring colonies," writes Dunmore to Hillsborough as late as 1772, "finding that grants are not to be obtained, do seat themselves without any formalities wherever they like 6 Cf. Hulbert, Washington and the West. 7 A7inual Register, 1763, p. 20. 116 THE NOETH CAROLINA BOOKLET. best."^ To exploit the land for his individual advantage, eventually to convert the wilderness to the inevitable uses and purposes of civilization : such was the mission of the pioneer. Acting-Governor ISTelson, of Virginia, referring in 1770 to the frontier settlements, significantly remarks: "Very little if any Quit Rents have been received for his majesty's use from that Quarter for some time past; for they [the settlers] say, that as His Majesty hath been pleased to withdraw his pro-tection from them since 1763, they think themselves bound not to pay Quit Rents."^ The axe and the surveyor's chain, along with the rifle and the hunting-knife, constituted the armorial bearings of the pioneer. Again, with individual as with corporation, with explorer as with landlord, land-hunger was the master impulse of the era. In a little hamlet in ]^orth Carolina in the middle years of the eighteenth century, these two determinative principles, the acquisitive and the inquisitive instincts, found a conjunc-tion which may justly be termed prophetic. Here occurred the meeting of two streams of racial tendency. The explora-tory passion of the pioneer, given directive force in the in-terest of commercial enterprise, prepared the way for the westward migration of the peoples. That irresistible South-ern migration, which preceded and presaged the greater wan-dering of the peoples across the Alleghanies a quarter of a century later, brought a horde of pioneer settlers from the more thickly populated sections of Pennsylvania, and a group of gentlemen planters from the Old Dominion of Virginia, to the frontier colony of I^orth Carolina—famed afar for her fertile farm lands, alluvial river bottoms, and rich hunting grounds. The migratory horde from Pennsylvania found ultimate lodgment for certain of its number in the frontier county of Rowan; the stream of gentlemen planters from S "State Paper Office, America, Vol. 192, No. 7," is tlie reference attached to ttie transcript in ttie A^irgiuia State Library, Aspinwall Collection, pp. 77-81. Presumably the modern reference to the origi-nal is, Public Record Office, C. O. 5 : 989. 9 Nelson to Hillsborough, October 18, 1770. Bancroft Transcripts, Library of Congress. HENDERSON AND BOONE. 117 Virginia came to rest in the more settled regions of Orange and Granville. From these two racial and social elements stem the fecund creative forces in westward expansion.^*^ II In the first half of the eighteenth century, Pennsylvania felt the impetus of civilization from the throngs of immi-grants who flocked into the ISTeshaminy Valley, the Cumber-land Valley, eastward to the Delaware, up the river to the Lehigh, and into the twilight zone of uncertain title towards Maryland. ''These bold and indigent strangers," says Logan, Penn's agent, in 1721, "gave as their excuse when challenged for titles that we had solicited for colonists and they had come accordingly."^^ Aside from these bold squatters, who asserted that "it was against the laws of God and nature that so much land should be idle while so many christians wanted it to work on and to raise their bread," came innumerable bona fide pur-chasers of land, fleeing from the traditional bonds of caste and aristocracy in England and Europe, from religious per-secution and favoritism, to a haven of refuge, where they received guarantees of full tolerance in religious faith and the beneflts of representative self-government. From East Devonshire in England came George, the grandfather of Daniel Boone, and from Wales came Edward Morgan, whose daughter Sarah married Squire, Daniel Boone's father—con-spicuous representatives of the Society of Friends, drawn thither by the representations of the great Quaker, William 10 In the history of this epochal movement there is one of the most singular of lacunae—a gap almost unprecedented in a period of Ameri-can life so industriously studied. Close scrutiny of the Draper Collec-tion, generally presmned to be the court of last resort for the career of Boone, as well as of Draper's correspondence, reveals the signifi-cant fact that the voluminous records of Rowan, where Boone lived for a quarter of a century prior to his removal to Kentucky, eluded the watchful eye, if not the curiosity, of the indefatigable Draper. An intensive study of these county records, the Draper MSS., the Henderson, Burton, Hogg, Hart, and Benton papers, taken In con-junction with a wider research into the careers of Daniel Boone and Richard Henderson, made by the writer, effects a new distribution of perspective and affords a rational expose of the early expansionist movement. 11 Hanna, Scotch-Irish, II. 60, 63. 118 THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. Penn, with his advanced views on popular government and religions toleration. ^^ Hither, too, came Morgan Bryan from Ireland, where he had gone from Denmark, settling in Ches-ter County prior to 1719 ; and his children, William, James, and Morgan, the brothers-in-law of Daniel Boone, were inti-mately concerned in the subsequent westward migration. -"^^ In 1720 the vanguard of that gTeat army of Ulster Scots, with their stern, rugged qualities of aggressive self-reliance, appeared in Pennsylvania. In September, 1734, Michael Finley, from County Armagh, Ireland, presumably accom-panied by his brother Archibald, landed in Philadelphia ; and this Archibald Finley, a settler in Bucks Coimty, according to the best authorities, was the father of John Finley or Find-ley or Findlay, Boone's guide and companion in his famous exploration of Kentucky in 1769-1771.-^^ Hither, too, came Mordecai Lincoln, great-gTandson of Samuel Lincoln, who had emigTated fronl England to Hingham, Massachusetts, as early as 1637; and this Mordecai, who in 1720 settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was the father of Sarah Lin-coln, who married William Boone, and of Abraham Lincoln, who married Anne Boone, William's first cousin. ^° Early 12 George Boone, with his wife, emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1717 ; and his son George, on his arrival, produced a certificate from Bradnich meeting in Devonshire. Edward Morgan was a member of Gwynedd monthly meeting. Cf. Original Minutes of Abington and Gwynedd Monthly Meetings, Pa. 13 Cf. Bryan's Station (Filson Club Publications. No. 12) ; also W. S. Ely, The American Ararat (Publications of the Bucks County, Pa., Historical Society) ; MS. History of the Bryan Family, owned by Col. W. L. Bryan, Boone, N. C. 14 Ely, The Fiiilei/s of Bucks (Publications of the Bucks County, Pa., Historical Society) ; also Ely, "Historic Associations of Nesha-miny Valley," Daily InteUigencer (Reading, Pa.), July 29, 1913. While Archibald, the father, spelled the surname Finley, it appears from an autograph in the possession of the Wisconsin State Histori-cal Society (Draper MSS., 2 B 161). that the explorer spelled it Findlay. 15 Mordecai Lincoln was the great-great-grandfather of President Lincoln. There was another connection between the Boone and Lin-coln families: Mary Lincoln, daughter of Abraham Lincoln (1736- 1806) and Anne Boone Lincoln, married a Joseph Boone. For data concerning the Boone and Lincoln families. I am indebted to Mr. An-drew Shaaber, the librarian of the Histoi'ical Society of Berks County, Pa. Cf., also, The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln, by Tarbell and Davis. HENDEESON A^'D BOOIS^E. 119 settlers in Pennsylvania were members of the Hanks family, one of the descendants being Abraham Hanks, grandfather of the Abraham Hanks of Prince William County, Virginia, who accompanied William Calk on his journey with Richard Henderson over Boone's trail in 1775.^^ The rising scale of prices for Pennsylvania lands, changing from ten pounds per hundred acres and two shillings quit-rents in 1719 to fifteen and a half pounds per hundred acres with a quit-rent of a half-penny per acre in 1732, soon turned the eyes of the settlers southward in the direction of new and cheaper lands, the prices for which decreased in inverse ratio to their distance from Pennsylvania. In Maryland, in 1738, lands were offered at five pounds sterling per hundred acres. Simultaneously, in the valley of Virginia, free gTants of a thousand acres per family were being made ; and in the Pied-mont region of North Carolina, the proprietary of Lord Granville through his agents was disposing of the most desir-able lands to settlers at the rate of three shillings proclama-tion money for six hundred and forty acres, the unit of land division, and was also making large free grants on the condi-tion of seating a certain proportion of settlers. The rich lure of these cheap and even free lands set up a vast migration southward from Pennsylvania in the second quarter of the eighteenth century. In 1734 the Bryans migrated to Vir-ginia, obtaining a gTant near Winchester, whence they re-moved to the Forks of the Yadkin in ISTorth Carolina about 1750.^''^ In 1750 the Boones, soon followed by the Hanks and Lincoln families, migrated southward to Virginia ; and shortly afterwards. Squire Boone, Sr., with his family, settled at the Forks of the Yadkin in Rowan County. From 1740 there was a ceaseless tide of immigration into the valley of the Yadkin, of the Scotch-Irish and Quakers from Pennsyl-vania. In a letter to the Secretary of the Board of Trade 16 The original manuscript diary of William Calk is now in the possession of one of his descendants, who permitted me to examine it. William Calk's companion, Abraham Hanks, was the maternal grandfather of President Lincoln. 17 Kercheval, History of the Valley of Virginia. 120 THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. from Edenton, JSTorth Carolina (Feb. 15, 1750-1), Governor Gabriel Johnston says, "Inhabitants flock in here daily, mostly from Pensilvania and other parts of America, who are overstocked with people and some directly from Europe, they commonly seat themselves towards the West and have got near the mountains." Writing from the same town on September 12, 1Y52, Bishop Spangenburg, of the Moravian Church, says that a considerable number of the inhabitants of North Carolina have settled here "as they wished to own land and were too poor to buy in Pennsylvania or 'New Jer-sey"; and in 1753 he observes that "even in this year more than 400 families with horse wagons and cattle have migrated to this State. . . . "'^ The immensity of this mobile, drift-ing mass is demonstrated by the statement of Governor Wil-liam Tryon that in the summer and winter of 1765 "upwards of one thousand wagons passed thro' Salisbury with families from the northward^ to settle in this province chiefly." This southward-moving wave of migration, predominantly Scotch-Irish and English, with an admixture of a AVelsh element, starting from Pennsylvania in the first quarter of the eighteenth century, swept through Maryland, and in the middle years of the century inundated the valley of Virginia and the Piedmont region of E^orth Carolina. About Salis-bury, the county seat of Rowan, now rapidly formed a settle-ment of people marked by strong individuality, sturdy inde-pendence, and virile self-reliance. The immigrants, follow-ing the course of the Great Trading Path, did not stop at Salisbury, but radiated thence in all directions. The Morgans, Quakers and Baptists, remained in Pennsylvania, spreading over Philadelphia and Bucks counties; the Hanks and Lin-coln stocks found refuge in Virginia ; but the Boones and the Bryans founded their settlement at the Forks of the Yadkin. A few miles distant was the tiny hamlet of Salisbury, con-sisting of seven or eight log houses and the courthouse 18 For these several statements, cf. N. C. Col. Rec, IV. 1073, 1312; VII. 249. HENDERSON AND BOONE. 121 (1755).^^ The Boones and the Bryans, quickly accommo-dating themselves to frontier conditions much ruder and more primitive than those of their Pennsylvania home, immediately began to take an active part in the local affairs of the county. ^^ The Boones quickly transferred their allegiance from the Society of Friends to the Baptist Church, worship-ping at the Boone's Ford Church on the Davie side of the Yadkin ; the Bryans, on the other hand, moved perhaps by the eloquence of the gentle Asbury, who often visited them, adopted Methodist principles.^ -"^ In this region, infested with Cherokee and Catawba Indians, Captain Anthony Hampton with his company of rangers actively patrolled the frontier; and Daniel Boone won his spurs as a soldier under the saga-cious Indian fighter, commander of Fort Dobbs, Hugh Wad-dell. ^^ Through the wilderness to the westward, across the mountains, and into the valley of the Holston, the nomadic Boone roamed at will, spying out the land, and hunting and trapping to his heart's content. In such an environment was bred the Pennsylvanian, Daniel Boone, of Quaker stock, with Baptist proclivities. Humble in origin, but strongly marked in his individual democracy, Boone learned the stern frontier lessons of frugality, self-repression, and self-reliance. Here he tasted the sweets of freedom and developed the roving in-stinct which later marked him out as the supreme pioneer of his time. Chafing under the hampering restrictions of com- 19 N. C. Col. Rec, V. 355 et seq. 20 Squire Boone, shortly after his arrival in the neighborhood, was chosen justice of the peace ; and Morgan Bryan was soon appearing as foreman of juries and director in road improvements in the county. 21 Says the Rev. Francis Asbury in his Journal, in speaking of his frontier congregations : "In every place the congregations were large, and received the word with all readiness of mind. I know not that I have spent such a week since I came to America. I saw everywhere such a simplicity in the people, with such a vehement thirst after the word of God, that I frequently preached and continued in prayer till I was hardly able to stand" (I. 174). Gf. also Sheets, History of Liberty Baptist Association, and J. T. Alderman, The Baptists at the Forks of the Yadkin (Baptist Historical Papers.) 22 Archibald D. Murphey, "Indian Nations of North Carolina," MSS. Collections, N. C. Historical Commission. Cf. also Alfred Moore Waddell, A Colonial Officer and his Times; and Draper's manuscript Life of Boone. 122 THE NOETH CAROLUSTA BOOKLET. munity life and realizing himself to be unsuited to the mo-notonous routine of farming, he was irresistibly impelled by his own nomadic temperament to seek the wider liberty of the wilderness. It is measurably more than surmise to say that he sought wider fields in the vague hope of enjoying there a larger degree of individual freedom under the impulse of pio-neer democracy. Virginia and Pennsylvania contributed liberally to the formation of the national character in the cradle of the West. At this precise moment in history was to emerge, out of jSTorth Carolina, after a sojourn of a quarter of a century, the incarnation of the individual democracy which afterwards was to exert such a profound effect upon the development of American civilization, and to produce in time an Andrew Jackson and an Abraham Lincoln."^ Ill Simultaneous with the streaming of the peasant Quakers and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians into the Piedmont region of ISTorth Carolina,^'^ having as consequence the gradual evolu-tion of the embryonic forms of pioneer American democracy, was proceeding another movement into the counties of Orange and Granville, of families of quality and superior position, destined to exert in equally distinctive ways an ineffaceable impress upon the development of the West. In the middle years of the eighteenth century, attracted by the lure of rich and cheap lands, many families of Virginia gentry, princi-pally from Planover County, settled in the region ranging from Williamsborough on the east to Hillsborough on the west. Hither came the Hendersons, the Bullocks, the Wil- 23 Cf. Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American His-tory," Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 1893. In this same frontier environment whicli shaped the Boones and the Bryans, was born a few years later Andrew .Jackson ; and Mr. Wil-liam Jennings Bryan is descended from a brother of the Bryan whose daughter was married to Daniel Boone. 24 S. B. Weeks, Southern Quakers and Slavery; also William and Mary College Quarterly, XII. 129-134 ; Henderson, Life and Times of Richard Henderson; Biographical Hist, of N. C. HENDEESON AND BOONE. 123 liamses, the Harts, the Lewises, the Taylors, the Bentons, the Penns, the Burtons, the Hares, and the Sneeds.^^ There soon arose in this see<"ion of the colony a society marked by intel-lectual distinction, social graces, and the leisured dignity of the landlord and the large planter. Here was forming a new society, constituting the social link between the wealthy and predominant asistocracy in the East and the rude frontier democracy in the West. A similar type of society, that of Piedmont Virginia, produced such champions of the new democracy as Jefferson and Patrick Henry—a society compo-site of independent yeomen and their leaders, the large planters. It was sharply differentiated from the colonial society of the coast, being inherently democratic in instinct and aristocratic in tone. "]^ever scarcely in England have I seen more beautiful prospects," writes James Iredell in testi-mony of the beauty of the lands of Granville,^ ^ and its rich-ness and productivity as agricultural and grazing land were demonstrated by the yield of great crops of Indian corn and other grain, and the vast droves of cattle and hogs. So con-spicuous for means, intellect, culture, and refinement were the people of this social group—a people with ''abundance cf wealth and leisure for enjoyment," says the quaint old diarist, Hugh McAden^''^—that Governor Josiah Martin, passing through Granville and Bute counties on his way from Hills-borough in 1772, significantly remarks : "They have great pre-eminence, as well with respect to soil and cultivation, as to the manners and condition of the inhabitants, in which last respect the difference is so great that one would be led to think 25 W. H. Battle, "Memoir of Chief Justice Leonard Henderson," N. C. Univ. Mag., November, 1859 ; T. B. Kingsbury, "Chief Justice Leonard Henderson," Wake Forest Student, November, 1898; R. W. Winston, "Leonard Henderson," Frank Nash, "Hillsborough, Colonial and Revolutionary," Nash, "History of Orange County," N. C. Book-let. The author has also had the privilege of examining the valuable collection of Hart-Benton MSS., kindly placed at his disposal by Miss Lucretia Hart Clay, of Lexington, Ky. 26 McRee, Life and Correspondence of James Iredell, I, 434. 27 Foote, Sketches of N. C. 124 THE NOKTH CAHOLINA BOOKLET. them people of another region."^^ From this society came such eminent democratic figures as the father-in-law and pre-ceptor of Henry Clay, Thomas Hart; his grandson, the "Old Bullion" and "Great Pacificator" of a later era, Thomas Hart Benton; Richard Henderson, president of the colony of Transylvania, known to his contemporaries as the "Patrick Henry of !N^orth Carolina" ; John Penn, signer of the Declara-tion of Independence; William Kennon, eloquent advocate of the Mecklenburg Resolves of May 31, 17Y5 ; and others almost equally distinguished. Like the society of the Virginia Piedmont, it was, to employ the words of Turner, "a society naturally expansive, seeing its opportunity to deal in unoccu-pied lands along the frontier which continually moved toward the West, and in this era of the eighteenth century dominated by the democratic ideals of pioneers rather than by the aristo-cratic tendencies of slave-holding planters."^^ From the cross-fertilization of this society of gentry, of innate qualities of leadership, democratic instincts, economic cast, and ex-pansive tendencies, with the primitive, pioneer society of the frontier, frugal in taste, responsive to leadership, ready and thorough in execution, there was evolved the militant expan-sive movement in American life. Out of the ancient breeding-ground of ITorth Carolina, from the co-operative union of transplanted Pennsylvania and Virginia stocks, came at the same moment the spirit of governmental control with popu-lar liberty, and the spirit of individual colonization, restive under control. In the initial co-ordination of these two in-stincts, with the subsequent triumph of the latter over the former, is told the story of the beginning of American ex-pansion."*" Soon after his arrival in Rowan, Squire Boone, Sr., resid- 28 iV^. 0. Col. Rec, IX. 349. Martin comments: "These advantiiges arise I conceive from the vicinity of Virginia, from whence I under-stand many, invited by the superior excellence of the soil, have imi-grated to settle in these counties." 29 Turner, "The Old West," Wis. Hist. Soc. Proc, 1903. 30 See Henderson, "The Pioneer Contributions of North Carolina to Kentucky," Charlotte Observer, November 10, 1913. HENDERSON AND BOONE. 125 ing at the Forks of the Yadkin some twelve miles from Salis-bury, was chosen as one of the worshipful justices of the county court. From the earliest sessions of the court, three years before the erection of a court-house, he acted in this capacity, deciding the many simple questions arising under frontier conditions : registering the branding marks for cattle ; selecting constables and road-overseers, and their routes; de-termining the scale of prices of foods and liquors for the licensed hostelries; and the like. By the end of 1756 he was presiding in the new courthouse—a frame-work structure, thirty feet long and twenty feet wide, provided with an oval bar and ''cases" for the attorneys. One of the attorneys who occupied one of these "cases" and argued suits before Squire Boone was a young man of G-ranville County, whose geniality had won him many friends and whose ability had won him a large legal practice.^-*- "Even in the superior courts where ora-tory and eloquence are as brilliant and powerful as in West-minster- hall," says an English acquaintance of Henderson's,, "he soon became distinguished and eminent, and his superior genius shone forth with great splendour, and universal ap-plause." Wedded to the daughter of an Irish lord,^^ and moving in the refined circle which included a Richard Benne-han, an Alexander Martin, a John Penn, a William Hooper, and their compeers, he was nevertheless conspicuously demo-cratic by conviction and in practice. His law partner, who married the widow of Lord Keeling, was John Williams— a stout exponent of the principles of democracy. Among his intimate friends was that "aristocrat in temperament, but democrat in politics," Thomas Hart, whom an acquaintance, Dr. J. F. D. Smyth, described as "an accomplished and com-plete gentleman." Henderson was well acquainted with Squire Boone, frequently appearing on legal business before 31 The earliest court records of Granville County show that he and his first cousin, John Williams, enjoyed the most extensive practice: in the court. 32 Kingsbury, "Chief Justice Leonard Henderson," loc. cit. 2 126 THE NOETH CAEOLINA BOOKLET. him; and likewise formed the acquaintance of his son, Daniel, the nomadic spirit, hunter, and trapper, who occasionally told him bizarre and startling tales of his wanderings across the dark green mountains to the fair valleys and boundless hunting grounds beyond. These stories of Western explora-tions Henderson heard from the lips of Daniel Boone him-self, who was eager to remove to the ^Yest at the first conven-ient opportunity,^^ Daniel Boone was an explorer of remarkable individual initiative. Prior to 1769 he had already traveled as far as Florida on the south and as far as Kentucky on the west. During the period from 1763 to 1769, doubtless through his long extended absences and his enforced neglect of afi^airs at home, he became deeply involved financially. His nomadic instincts, with the consequent neglect of the work on his farm, seem to have prejudiced even his father against him. The heavy indebtedness which he incurred—indeed the en-tire career of the simple-hearted pioneer demonstrates his constitutional carelessness in business and financial transac-tions— involved him in suits instituted against him by some of the most prominent citizens of Salisbury—John Lewis Beard, the philanthropist and devout churchman; Dr. An-thony ISTewnan, the active Whig; Hugh Montgomery, the wealthy landlord of Wilkes; John Mitchell, and others.^* In this hour of his poverty and distress, Boone turned to his friends, the law partners, Henderson and Williams. "A per-son so just and upright" as Boone could have become in-volved in such financial difficulties only through a certain naive indifference to the forms of law and heedless neglect of customary business precaution. In reference to this gloomy period in Boone's career, Thomas Hart wi'ote his brother ]S[athaniel in 1780 : "I have known Boone in times of old, when poverty and distress had him fast by the hand ; and in 33 Draper's MS. Life of Boone. 34 Court records. HENDEESON AND BOONE. 127 these wretched circumstances I have ever found him of a noble and generous soul, despising everything mean."^^ In the earlier years of Boone's residence in Rowan, at some time prior to 1763, Richard Henderson first formed the acquaintance of Boone. The fact of cardinal importance is that he knew Boone in a two-fold capacity—not only as hunter, trapper, and explorer, but also as surveyor and road-maker. IsTot without distinct historic significance was it that in the year 1763, and so, at the same time with England's futile proclaimed estoppel of purchase of lands from the Indians by individuals or corporations without crown grants, ^^ Richard Henderson one day arose from his "case" in the tiny courthouse of Rowan, and facing the "oval bar" which supported the elevated bench from which Squire Boone, as one of the "worshipful justices," had for a decade dispensed rude justice, moved the following: It is ordered that a Waggon Road, the best and nearest, be built from the Shallow Ford upon the Yadkin River to the Town of Salisbury, and the following persons are appointed to lay off and mark the same, to wit, Daniel Boone, Morgan Bryan, Samuel Bryan, and James Bryan , . . and accord-ingly they appear upon ISJ'otice and be qualified before the nearest Magistrate for their Faithful discharge of their office, etc. When the time was ripe for the defiance of the edict of crown governors against purchases from the Indians without 35 Morehead's Address, at Boonesborough (1840), p. 105, note. 36 The royal proclamation of October 7, 1763, avowed it to be His Majesty's "fixed determination to permit no grants of lands nor any settlements to be made within certain fixed Bounds . . . leaving all that territory within it free for the hunting grounds of those Indian subjects of your majesty." Text in Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, XXXVI. 14-19 (1908). In his elaborate papers on the subject of British Western policy, Professor C. W. Alvord, however, successfully maintains that the royal proclamation of 1763 did not set permanent western limits to the colonies, and that it was the in-tention of the Board of Trade to promote westward expansion by the peaceful purchase from time to time, under royal authority, of land situated in the Indian reservation. Cf. "The Genesis of the Procla-mation of 1763," Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, Vol. XXXVI. ; "The British Ministry and the Treaty of Fort Stanwix," Wisconsin Historical Society Proceedings, 1908. 128 THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. royal grants, upon the basis of tke royal proclamation of 1763, it was but natural that Henderson should engage as the man best fitted to spy out the wilderness of Kentucky and later to cut out a passage thereto through the dense and tangled laurel thickets—a passage far-famed in history as the Wilderness Road—his friend ''Dan Boone/' as he famil-iarly called him, whom he had known for many years as a most competent scout and expert road-cutter in the frontier county of Rowan. IV The designs which Henderson and his associates cherished for the acquisition of Western lands found early expression in some form of organization. After the proclamation of 1763, which assured the lands at least temporarily to the Indians, these men realized that these lands must eventually be thrown open to colonization.^^ They accordingly organ-ized themselves into some sort of company, for the purpose of engaging an expert scout and surveyor to spy out the Western lands, and later to examine into the feasibility of making a purchase ultimately from the Indians. Their original inten-tion, indubitably, was to colonize the territory thus to be acquired. But when the clouds of war finally gathered and a clash with Great Britain loomed threatening and imminent on the horizon, their original plan of extensive colonization inevi-tably assumed momentous political consequences; and in the event they endeavored to found a fourteenth American colony in the heart of the Western wilderness. This company, so far as known, has left no documentary record of its activities in the earlier stages of its existence. 37 The chief object of the proclamation of 1763 was to allay the alarm of the Indians ; and in pursuance of this idea the colonists were positively prohibited from making settlements on the Indian lands. Nevertheless the roving bands of determined settlers along the Indian border rendered the situation critical. In the very pre-amble of the proclamation, the Lords of Trade describe the sovereign as "being desirous that all Our loving subjects, as well of Our King-dom as of Our Colonies in America, may avail themselves with all convenient Speed, of the great Benefits and Advantages which must accrue therefrom, etc." The veiled intent of the Board of Trade, it would appear, was to control, not to prevent, expansion westward. HENDERSON AND BOONE. 129 All the evidence points to the fact that it consisted of three partners only: Richard Henderson, Thomas Hart, and John Williams. The organization first bore the name of ''Richard Henderson and Company." Some years later, after the plans for colonization had passed the stage of preliminary investiga-tion, new partners were successively added. The name of the organization, "Richard Henderson and Company," was al-tered, first to the "Louisa Company," and then to the "Tran-sylvania Company."^^ The first exploration which Daniel Boone ever made on behalf of Richard Henderson and Company was in the year following the royal proclamation of 1763. The partners evi-dently anticipated Washington in the realization that the proclamation was only a temporary expedient to quiet the minds of the Indians. Boone was vastly impressed by the Western territory as a field for settlement, and was eager on his own account to move his family to this new region. It is clear that he anticipated removal to the West with his family, as the immediate result of his first exploration in the interest of Henderson and Company.^^ Boone's enthusiastic descriptions of the Western wilderness retailed to Henderson and his associates, Hart and Williams, doubtless aroused in their minds the first suggestion of the larger opportunities for settlement and investment afforded by the rich but tenant-less West. Accordingly they engaged Boone, who upon all his pioneering and hunting expeditions continued to penetrate further and further westward, to do double duty upon his next expedition. Boone was instructed, while hunting and trapping on his own account, to make a wider cast than he had ever made before, to examine the lands with respect to their location and fertility, and to report his findings upon his return. 38 Kentucky MSS., I ; Draper MSS. Cf. Alden, New Governments west of the Alleghanies before 1180 (Madison, Wis.) 39 The county records sliow that in the early part of this same year, viz., on February 21, 1764, Daniel Boone and his wife "Re-beckah" sold all their property in North Carolina—consisting of a home and 640 acres of land. 130 THE NOETH CAROLINA BOOKLET. The expedition must have been transacted with consider-able circumspection. In 1767 George Washington, writing to his agent, Crawford, with reference to threatened future competition for the best Western lands, shrewdly counsels : '^All this may be avoided by a silent management, and the operation carried on by you under the guise of hunting game."^^ With a business sagacity like that of Washington, who was later to learn of Henderson's desire to found an inde-pendent colony in the West, Henderson fully realized that the exploration must be conducted with circumspection, if the lands were to be secured.*-^ Boone proved himself a thor-oughly satisfactory agent for the examination of the country, his trustworthiness being in no small measure due to his in-grained taciturnity and his faculty of keeping his own counsel. It is obvious, however, that Henderson gave to Boone, as Washington gave to Crawford, discretion to trust the secret of his errand to those in whom he could confide and who might assist him in making further discoveries of land. In one instance, at least, the circumspect Boone deemed it prudent to communicate the purpose of his mission to some hunters in order to secure the results of their information in regard to the best lands they had encountered in the course of their hunting expedition. In the autumn of 1764, during the journey of the Blevins party of hunters, to their hunting ground on the Rock Castle River, near the Crab Orchard in Kentucky, Daniel Boone came among the hunters, at one of their Tennessee station camps, in order, as expressed in the quaint phraseology of the day, ''to be informed of the geog- 40 Washington to Crawford, September 21. 1767. Sparks. Life and Writings of Washington, II. 346-350. In the same letter, Washington admonishes Crawford to "keep the wliole matter a secret, or trust it only to those in whom you may confide, and wlio can assist you in bringing it to bear by their discoveries of land." 41 The meagreness of our information on the subject of this initial exploration may thus be naturally explained. An acquaintance of Henderson mentions that the latter preserved the strictest secrecy about his earlier land ventures. Repeatedly taxed afterwards with having acted as the agent of the land company. Boone consistently and most honorably refused to violate Henderson's confidence. HENDERSON AND BOONE. 131 rapliy and locography of these woods, saying that he was em-ployed to explore them by Henderson and Company."*^ In this tour of exploration, Boone hunted and scouted through the valleys of the Tennessee and the Holston, but did not penetrate to the fabled region of Kentucky. His companion on this expedition was his relative, Samuel Callaway, and together they accomplished a two-fold object: hunting and trapping on their own account, and secretly prospecting and exploring on behalf of the land company.^^ y Just why Henderson and his associates did not act immed-iately upon the report brought back by Boone and Callaway — a report doubtless highly favorable, as was the case with all the "news of a far country" brought home by the pioneers there is no extant explanatory evidence. Henderson and Wil-liams, as law partners, were engaged in an extensive and lucrative law practice ; and in the prosecution of their profes-sion spent a large proportion of their time in traveling from one end of the extensive colony of ISTorth Carolina to the other.'*^ The heavy obligations of this extensive and rapidly enlarging law business in all probability sufficed to delay the immediate prosecution of the Western enterprise. 42 Haywood, Tennessee, p. 35(1823 Ed.) The accuracy of Haywood's testimony in this instance must be recognized as indisputable. Judge John Haywood was intimately associated, both personally and legally, with Richard Henderson's two sons, Archibald and Leonard ; and his successor to the post of reading clerk to the North Carolina House of Commons, in 1789, was his friend. Major Pleasant Henderson, Rich-ard's brother, and pioneer with Boone at Boonesborough, and with Robertson at the French Lick. On his removal to Tennessee, Judge Haywood formed the personal acquaintance of many of the pioneers, from whom he received innumerable accounts of their personal expe-riences. Notable figures among the pioneers in Tennessee, such as James Robertson, John Sevier, and Timothee de Monbrun, were per-sonally known to the Tennessee historians, Haywood and Putnam. 43 Ramsey [Annals of Tennessee) unearthed the fact that Boone, while acting as the secret agent of the land company, was accom-panied by Callaway—a fact which Ramsey, with his intimate knowl-edge of the pioneers and their history, probably derived directly from Callaway or his immediate descendants. 44 Cf. McRee, Life and Correspondence of James Iredell, I. 96-97 ; Henderson, Life and Times of Richard Henderson, Ch. II. 132 THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. It was not, indeed, until several years later that Henderson and Company once more actively interested themselves in the problem of Western investment and colonization. In the Virginia Gazette of December 1, 1768, a newspaper in which he advertised, Henderson must have read with astonishment not unmixed with dismay, that "the Six Nations and all their tributaries have granted a vast extent of country to his majesty, and the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, and settled an advantageous boundary line between their hunting country and this, and the other colonies to the southward as far as the Cherokee River, for which they received the most valuable present in goods and dollars that was ever given at any con-ference since the settlement of America." It was now gener-ally bruited about the colony of jSTorth Carolina that the Cherokees were deeply resentful because the Northern In-dians at the treaty of Fort Stanwix had been handsomely remunerated for territory which they, the Cherokees, claimed from time immemorial.*'^ Henderson, who had consulted often with Boone and reflected deeply over the subject, fore-saw that the Western lands, though ostensibly thrown open for settlement under the aegis of Virginia, could only be legally obtained by extinguishing the Cherokee title. His prescience was directly confirmed by royal action, when Stuart, Superin-tendent for Indian affairs in the Southern Department, at the treaty of Hard Labor, October 14, 1768, acknowledged the Cherokee title by establishing the western boundary as a line running from the top of Tryon Mountain (now in Polk County, North Carolina, on the South Carolina line) direct to Colonel Chiswell's mine (now Austinville, Virginia), and 45 Cf. Ranck, Boonesborough (Filson Club Publications, No. 16) ; also Henderson, "Forerunners of the Republic : Richard Henderson and American Expansion," Neale's Monthly, January, 1913. HENDEESON AND BOONE. 133 thence in a straight line to the mouth of the Great Kanawha Eiver.46 It was at this crucial moment that the horse peddler, John Findlay, Boone's old friend of the Braddock campaign, wan-dered into the valley of the Yadkin. Findlay had actually been successful in reaching Kentucky in 1752 ; and now de-lighted Boone with his stories of the desirability of the coun-try and the plentifulness of the game. The conjunction was a fortunate one in many respects. Boone was heavily in debt to his attorneys, the firm of Williams and Henderson, for legal services, and to other prominent citizens of Rowan County. Indeed he had been summoned to appear in Salis-bury at the March term of court. John Findlay, John Stuart and Daniel Boone all came to Salisbury to attend court. Judge Henderson arriving on March 5.^^ The attested presence at Salisbury of Boone, Findlay and Stuart, three of the six ex-plorers of Kentucky in 1769, simultaneous with Henderson, only a short time before the departure of Boone's party on their tour of exploration, makes it certain that the final con-ference to devise ways and means for the expedition was held at this time and place. Certain it is that on May 1, 1769, Daniel Boone as the confidential agent of Richard Henderson and Company, accompanied by five companions, 46 A^. C Col. Rec, VII, 851-855. "Should they [the Cherokees] refuse to give it up," writes Johnson to Gage (December 16, 1768), with reference to the action at the treaty of Fort Stanwix, "it is in his majesty's power to prevent the colonies from availing themselves of the late session in that quarter, till it can be done with safety and the common consent of all who have just pretensions to it." Cf. Stone, Life of Sir Willim Johnson, II, 307 ; Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1770-1772, preface, p. xix. 47 Court records. See also "Diary of Waightstill Avery." N. C. Univ. Magazine, 1856. Judge Henderson left Salisbury for Hills-borough on March 16. 134 THE NORTH CAEOLINA BOOKLET. left his ''peaceable habitation" on the Yadkin for a two years' exploration of Kentucky.*^ Boone and Findlay visited Kentucky in 1769, not only to hunt and trap, but "for the purpose of examining the coun-try."*^ Boone himself relates that he and Stuart, after get-ting settled in their camp, "proceeded to take a more thorough survey of the country" ;^*^ and the entire course of Boone's actions during this period demonstrates that some powerful influence held him in Kentucky until his work of exploration was completed. Had Boone desired merely to discover a location for his own and neighboring families living at the Forks of the Yadkin, he might easily have discovered such a location in Madison and Garrard counties, which he first visited, or in the neighborhood of Station Camp Creek, in Estill County. Had he desired merely to hunt and fish and trap, he might well have found satiety in the proximity of his first camps. But 'there was a motive deeper than the desire to discover a location for a few families, or to range far and wide in search of game which was bounteous in plenty in his immediate vicinity. This motive was, assuredly, to employ Boone's own words, "to recruit his shattered circumstances" ; and his financial obligations were to Williams and Henderson for legal services, and to other prominent citizens of Rowan County. The prosecution of the task of exhaustively explor-ing the Kentucky area was indubitably undertaken by Boone in the effort to meet these financial obligations. 48 Aside from numerous authorities, from Peck, who studied Boone's career during Boone's own lifetime, down to the author of The Winning of the West, there is the testimony of those historical students who were fortified by the contemporary documents—Lossing, who examined the Transylvania papers lent him by President D. L. Swain, of the University of North Carolina, in 1856 (Swain's original letter to Lossing is now in the writer's possession) ; Hall, who ex-amined the vast mass of evidence in the Hogg Papers, chiefly letters of the partners of the Transylvania Company ; and Putnam, authen-tically informed through his intimate personal acquaintance with the early pioneers as well as through his unrivalled collection of pioneer documents. Thus, independently, from North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee, the fact is related in identical form, from dociunentary evidence, as well as from personal record. 49 Filson. 50 "Memorial to the Legislature of Kentucky." HENDEESON A]S[D BOONE. 135 Disheartened by his disasters, his two captures by the In-dians and the loss of all his peltries, Boone would otherwise have welcomed the opportunity to return to J^orth Carolina with his brother Squire, who came out with supplies. ^-'- It is extremely likely, in the light of subsequent events, that Squire Boone bore a message from Henderson to Daniel Boone, urging upon him, now that he was in the country, to remain in it long enough to secure a more detailed knowledge of its geographical and topogTaphical features. With Squire Boone, John Stuart and Alexander !Neely as companions, Daniel Boone at once began that elaborate series of explora-tions ranging from the Kentucky River on the north to the Green and Cumberland rivers on the south. By the first of May, 1770, the exploration of Kentucky had only just begun ; so that Boone, fixed in the resolve to accomplish the under-taking upon which he had been despatched, preferred to re-main alone in Kentucky while Squire returned home. From this time forward, Daniel Boone ranges far and wide through north-central Kentucky, visiting the Big Lick and the Blue Lick, exploring the valleys of the Kentucky and the Licking, and traveling as far down the Ohio as the Falls, the present Louisville. In July and again in September, following a second return to the settlement for supplies. Squire rejoined Daniel in Kentucky, and from December, 1770, until March, 1771, they scouted through the southern and western portions of Kentucky, exploring the valleys of the Green and Cumber-land rivers, and hunting in company with the Long Hunters, among whom were Kasper Mansker, who discovered the lick that bears his name, and Henry Skaggs, who, because of his knowledge of the Cumberland area, as reported by Boone to 51 Gf. Boone's Autobiography (Filson). It is problematical, but not unlikely, that Squire Boone was sent out with these supplies for Daniel Boone and party by the land company. It is noteworthy that Squire Boone was accompanied on his journey by one of the Neely family, Alexander, for whom Henderson had hitherto acted as legal counsel. 136 THE NOETH CAEOLINA BOOKLET. Henderson, was subsequently engaged to act as the agent of the land company, fixing his station at Mansker's Lick.^^ On his return to ]S[orth Carolina in 17Y1, Boone's glowing description of Kentucky ''soon excited in others the spirit of an enterprise which in point of magnitude and peril, as well as constancy and heroism displayed in its execution, has never been paralleled in the history of America."^^ In 1772, the Watauga settlers secured from the Cherokee Indians, for a valuable consideration, a ten years' lease of the lands upon which they were settled. Boone, who had established friendly relations with James Robertson, communicated to Henderson the details of the leases and purchases which Robertson, Brown, and Sevier had made of the rich valley lands. After consulting with the Indians, Robertson informed Boone, act-ing as Henderson's confidential agent, that he believed, if the inducement were large enough, the Indians would sell. Fol-lowing his own disastrous failure to efl^ect individual coloniza-tion without attempting to secure by purchase the Indian title, in 1773, Boone in 1774 advised Henderson and his associates that the Cherokees were disposed to sell the Kentucky area.^^ Having previously assured himself of the legal validity of the purchase, and after personally visiting the Cherokee chiefs in their principal village to secure their consent to the sale, Henderson proceeded to reorganize the land company, 52 An exhaustive study of Boone's itinerary has been made by the present writer, in order to fix the exact route which he followed. In addition to the wealth of local materials, the Draper MSS., including Draper's Life of Boone, are rich in information on the subject. Through the personal investigations of Mr. John P. Arthur, of Ashe-ville, N. C, who went over Boone's route iu North Carolina, as well as the researches of the present writer, this portion of the route has recently been marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution under the direction of Mrs. J. Lindsay Patterson, of Winston- Salem, N. C. Cf. Home and Country, April, 1914 ; Sky-Land, September, 1914. 53 Morehead's Address, at Boonesborough (1840). 54 In a little newspaper. The Harbinger, published at Chapel Hill, N. C, in 1834, the venerable Pleasant Henderson, brother of Richard and fellow-pioneer with Boone at Boonesborough, writing from Ten-nessee, relates that in 1774 Richard Henderson was "induced to at-tempt a purchase of that country (the Kentucky area) from the Cherokee Indians through the suggestions and advice of the late Col. Daniel Boone." HENDEESON AND BOONE. 137 first into the Louisa and then into the Transylvania Com-pany. With the aid of his associates he carried through the treaty of Sycamore Shoals, purchased for £10,000 sterling the Indian title to the greater portion of the Kentucky area, and commissioned Boone to cut out a passage to the heart of Kentucky. Boonesborough became the focus of the great struggles for predominance on the Western frontier. ^^ There was the struggle of the white man against the red man, of the colonial against the Briton. There was the struggle of the Transylvania Company, first against Royal authority, and then against the authority of Virginia. But deeper than all was the struggle between the spirit of individual colonization as embodied in the pioneers, and the spirit of commercial en-terprise as embodied in the Transylvania Company. The conflict between the individualistic democracy of the pioneer and the commercial proprietorship of the Transylvania Com-pany was settled only when George Rogers Clark, with iron hand, forced upon Virginia his own selection as virtual mili-tary dictator of the West. The drastic settlement of that con-flict also made possible the most spectacular and meteoric campaign in Western history—closing only when Clark and his unterrified frontiersmen grounded their arms in Kaskas-kia and Vincennes.^^ 55 Cf. the writer's Life and Times of Richard Heyiderson; "The Beginnings of American Expansion" ; and "Forerunners of the Re-public : Richard Henderson and American Expansion," loc. cit. In a supplementary paper, the present writer purposes to detail, in ex-tenso, the history of this expansionist movement from 1772 onward. All the accounts hitherto given of this momentous episode in our na-tional history are singularly fragmentary and inaccurate. The recent discovery by the present writer of many documents not hitherto acces-sible to historical students clarifies the entire situation. Only now for the first time is it possible to throw into true perspective Boone's abortive effort to invade Kentucky in 1773, his relation to the Transyl-vania Company in the capacity of confidential agent, Henderson's prudent procedure in securing the highest legal sanction for the pur-chase, the details of the "Great Treaty" of Sycamore Shoals, the invasion of Kentucky in 1775, and the subsequent history, both gov-ernmental and corporate, of the Transylvania Company. 56 Henderson, "Forerunners of the Republic: George Rogers Clark and the Western Crisis," Neale's Monthly, June, 1913 ; James, George Rogers Clark Papers, 1771-1781 (111. Hist. Soc. Publications, Vol. VIII) ; Turner, "Western State-Making in the Revolutionary Era," American Historical Review, I, 70-87, 251-269. 138 THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. In his appeal to the Kentucky legislature, the octogenarian Boone says that he ''may claim, without arrogance, to have been the author of the principal means which contributed to the settlement of a country on the Mississippi and its waters, which now (1812) produces the happiness of a million of his fellow-creatures ; and of the exploring and acquisition of a country that will make happy many millions in time to come." The present research compels us to discount the high-flown language of the ancient petitioner for land. Boone was the pathfinder and way-breaker—wonderful independent explorer and equally skilled executant of the desigTis of others. ^''^ But to Henderson, Hart, Williams, and their associates, animated by the spirit of constructive civilization, rather than to Boone, with his unsocial and nomadic instincts, belongs the larger measure of credit for the inauguration of the militant expan-sionist movement of Western colonization. The creative causes of the Westward movement were rooted, not in romance, but in economic enterprise, not in Providence, but in political vision. It was the Transylvania Company which at its own expense successfully colonized the Kentucky area with between two and three hundred men ; and with true revo-lutionary ardor defying the royal authority as expressed through the crown governors of the colonies of JSTorth Caro-lina and Virginia, exhausted all means, through appeals to the Continental Congress, to Patrick Henry, Jefferson, and the Adamses, and finally to the legislature of Virginia, in their ultimately fruitless efforts to create a fourteenth Ameri-can colony. And yet, despite this failure, Henderson and his associates furnished to the world "one of the most heroic dis-plays of that typical American spirit of comprehensive ag-gTandisement of which so much is heard to-day."^^ It is a coincidence of historic sig-nificance that just one day after the dropping musketry at Lexingion and Concord was heard round the world, Henderson and his little band reached the 57 Cf. Henderson, "Forerunners of the Republic : Daniel Boone," Neale's Monthly, February, 1913. 58 Hulbert, Pilots of the Republic. HENDERSON AND BOONE. 139 site of the future Boonesborougli. Here the colonists reared a bulwark of enduring strength to resist the fierce incursions of bands of hostile savages during the period of the American Revolution. Unquestionably the strenuous borderers, with their roving instincts, would in any event ultimately have established impregnable strongholds in the Kentucky area. But had it not been for the Transylvania Company and Daniel Boone, no secure stronghold, to protect the whites against the savages, might have been established and fortified in 1775. In that event, the American colonies, convulsed in a titanic struggle, might well have seen Kentucky overrun by savage hordes, led by English officers, throughout the Revolution. In consequence, the American colonies at the close of the Revolu-tion would probably have been compelled to leave in British hands the vast and fertile regions beyond the AUeghanies. 140 THE NORTH CABOLINA BOOKLET. The Old North State ( Carolina) By Mbs. Julia E. Cain. Grand "Old North State," we love thee, we love thee, From the blue skyland to the waving sea. We love thy hills, thy streams, thy mountains grand — Thy golden, waving fields, all o'er the land. We are proud of thy forests, towering high. Lifting their peaks aloft to the sky — The sturdy oak, the long leaf pine. The walnut, the maple, and the trumpet vine — Thy luscious fruits and flowers rare. With all the world beyond compare. Oh ! grand Old North State, we love thee, we love thee, From the mountain top to the billowy sea ! We are proud of thy sons—aye, every one. Who fought our battle and victory won. Who stand fo? the right, who crush the wrong. While bursts from their hearts sweet liberty's song ; Who justice and honor and truth proclaim. Writing in history thy fair, good name. Oh ! grand Old North State, we are proud of thee, From the mountain top to the billowy sea — From Currituck to Cherokee ! We are proud of thy daughters, thy women grand, Who bless our homes, all over the land, In peace, in war, a patriotic band. Working, giving, with true heart and hand. Oh ! grand Old North State, we bless thee, we crown thee, From the blue skyland to the waving sea. Thy flag doth wave all o'er the State, Our hearts beat true, to liberty great. And I'eady are we, at our country's call. To defend our homes—our land, aye all. Oh! grand Old North State, we crown thee, we bless thee, From mountain top to the waving sea — From Currituck to Cherokee ! DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. 141 The Contributions of North Carolina to the Development of American Institutions* Commencement Address at Wake Forest College, May 21, 1914, by Simeon E. Baldwin, M.A., LL.D., Governor of Connecticut; Professor of Law in Yale University ; formerly President of the American His-torical Association and of the American Political Science Association. There is no State of the Union which has not done some-thing, good or bad, towards the development of American institutions; but the part thus taken by those of them who wear the proud title of the Old Thirteen is the most con-spicuous. It is they in whose honor were devised the thir-teen stripes upon our flag. The older and the newer States are alike represented by its stars : the stripes perpetuate the memory of the Old Thirteen alone. It is they only who have a background of ancient history. I say ancient; for the creation of one of our newer States, born into purely American and republican surroundings, is separated from the first settlement of Plymouth or the Caro-linas, under English and monarchical auspices, by a tract of time of whose length years are no measure. One of our American historians has said, and not untruly, that the men of the colonial era undertook "to develop thirteen autonomous States out of as many land companies."^ This was a harder task for the people of the two Carolinas than for those of any other of the colonies. Their charter scheme, as developed by the Proprietaries, was vitally un-English and un-American. So far as it bore the stamp of any nationality, it was Roman. The first Earl of Shaftesbury who, as Lord Ashley, was one of the 2,Tantees in both the charters from Charles II., Published in Bulletin of Wake Forest College, October, 1914. Re-printed by special request. 1 Chamberlain, John Adams, etc., 150. 142 THE NOKTH CAIlOLI]SrA BOOKLET. was the author of the English Habeas Corpus Act of 1679, which has done so much to secure the freedom of the indi-vidual against the power of government. It is one of the paradoxes of history that he, ten years before, with the aid of his private secretary, the philosopher, John Locke, pre-pared the original constitution for the government of the Carolinas adopted by the Proprietaries, which, had the free-men ever really accepted it, would have set up here forever a formidable bar to the growth of republican institutions. By its terms, you will recollect, a territorial nobility was set up, the highest in rank bearing the German title of Land-grave. There was to be a parliament, meeting in one chamber, but by Article 79, ''To avoid multiplicity of laws, which by degrees always change the right foundations of the original government, all acts of parliament whatsoever, in whatso-ever form passed, or enacted, shall, at the end of a hundred years after their enacting, respectively, cease and determine of themselves, and without any repeal become null and void, as if no such acts or laws had ever been made." One provision which, if in force to-day, would be unpopular with some of this audience, was directed against lawyers. "It shall be," reads Article 70, ''a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward; nor shall any one (except he be a near kinsman . . . ) be permitted to plead another man's cause till before the judge in open court he hath taken an oath that he doth not plead for money or reward, nor hath nor will receive, nor directly or indirectly bargained with the party w^hose cause he is going to plead, for money or any other reward for pleading his cause." By Article 95, no one could hold an estate or become a freeman, or even reside in the province, who did not acknowl-edge a God and that he is to be publicly and solemnly wor-shipped. This, no doubt, is the inherited cause for the clause in the present Constitution of North Carolina, debarring DEVELOPMENT OF AMEKICAJST INSTITUTIONS. 143 atheists from office. But two other States now hold to that position.^ All elections, under the Locke scheme (Article 32), were to be by ballot. In 1760, this regulation, which had been continued in force until that time, was repealed and viva voce voting substituted. This brought ISTorth Carolina in line with England and most of the Southern colonies.^ A few years later, however, she reverted to her original plan, and it was made the subject of a constitutional provision in 1776. Her Constitution of that year was the first which, in any State, required the ballot.^ In one respect, however, she differed from all these. Free negroes, born in the State, who paid public taxes, were held to be citizens, and entitled to vote at elections, if not before, certainly after the Constitution of 1776.^ It was this, in fact, more than anything else, that occasioned the calling of the Constitutional Convention of 1835, by which their right of suffrage was taken away. There is little else in the "Fundamental Constitutions" of 1669 of which any substantial trace survived the Revolution. They never went into full effect, and were substantially abro-gated by the Lords Proprietors, in 1693. The division of the Carolinas into two provinces, followed by the surrender of the Proprietary title to the Crown, early in the eighteenth century, put an end to the aristocratic government devised by Shaftesbury and Locke. From that time on till 1776, the problems of ISTorth Carolina were the same with which the other English colonies had to contend. As the tension of the bonds between them and the mother 2 Arkansas and South Carolina, Report of American Historical Association 1899, I, 121. 3 McKinley, The Suffrage Franchise in the Thirteen Colonies, III. 4 It had been a feature of the West Jersey Concessions of 1676-7, and of Penn's Frame of Government, promulgated in 1683. 5 Thorpe, Constitutional Hist, of the U. S., I, 176 ; State v. Manuel, 4 Dev. & Battle Law Rep., 25; Report of Am. Hist. Association for 1895, 276. 144 THE NOETH CAROLINA BOOKLET. country increased, jSTorth Carolina was the first to declare herself in favor of throwing off allegiance to the British crown. We may or may not take the view that the story of the Mecklenburg County resolutions of May 20, 1775, is a myth.^ Legends are the foundations of history, and the date solemnly placed upon the great seal of North Carolina ought not lightly to be disregarded. But were we to accept all that has ever been claimed for the time of that action and the words in which it was expressed, Mecklenburg County could only speak for itself. On April 4, 1776, the provincial congress at Halifax spoke for the State at large. This body unanimously em-powered the delegates from North Carolina in the Continental Congress to concur in action by that body, should it be taken, "in declaring independency and forming foreign alliances." She was thus, in the words of Bancroft. '' "the first colony to vote an explicit sa'nction to independence." In the Convention at Hillsborough, in the latter part of 1775, a further step had been advocated by many. Dr. Franklin's scheme for a permanent confederacy of all the colonies was brought forward by one of the delegates, but it was decided that such an organization ought only to be set up in the last necessity, and then only after consultation with the Provincial Congress. Soon after the Declaration of Independence had created the United States of America, North Carolina elected a Con-vention to frame a Constitution. One of her most prominent citizens. Governor Burke, consulted John Adams, the leading authority in the country on the subject, in regard to the proper form to adopt. Adams advised placing the State on the foot-ing of an independent sovereigii ; having a bicameral legis-lature ; requiring annual elections ; but choosing judges for 6 See the paper of Messrs. Salley and Ford, Am. Hist. Keview, April, 1906. 7 Hist, of the U. S., V, 238. DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAIS' INSTITUTIOjSTS. 145 life. It was a maxim of public science, he wrote, that "where annual elections end, there slavery begins."^ In general his recommendations were followed, and with the result that the Constitution for North Carolina outlasted every other of the Revolutionary period except that of Mas-sachusetts, which was also modeled largely upon Adams' advice. ]^orth Carolina had, under the Fundamental Orders (Art. 75), biennial elections. When these were superseded by Royal authority, annual elections were substituted, and this con-tinued to be the scheme until 1836, when an amendment to the Constitution reestablished the original system. In thus abandoning annual sessions, jSTorth Carolina led the way for the whole country. They are now retained in only two States. On this anniversary day of one of her collegiate institu-tions, it is not to be forgotten that JSTorth Carolina was the first State of the American Union to put into her Constitu-tion a provision for public education. Article XLI of that instrument, adopted December 18, 1776, declares ''that a school or schools shall be established by the Legislature, for the convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries to the masters, paid by the public, as may enable them to instruct at low prices, and all useful learning shall be duly encour-aged and promoted in one or more universities." Only three other of the constitutions of this period contain any provisions on this subject.^ The establishment of the University of ISTorth Carolina, towards the close of the eighteenth century, was followed, in 1822, by the appointment of one of the Professors as State Geologist and Mineralogist. His report, as such, published in 1824 and 1825, on the Geology of the State, presented the first survey of such a nature made by any of the States,^^ and 8 Life and Works of John Adams, I, 209, 211 ; IV, 195. 9 Hildreth, Hist, of the U. S., Ill, 385. 10 Dexter, Yale Biographies, VI, 593. 146 THE WORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. thus became the beginning of a long series of studies which have revealed to the country its natural sources of wealth. The Constitution of 1776 required the chief officers of the State to be Protestants, or, at least, not to deny the truth of the Protestant religion. It also declared that all officers must acknowledge the inspiration of the Old and 'New Testaments. Only one other State did that. As time went on and the Roman Catholic church became stronger, some of its mem-bers were appointed to high office. They took the ground that a Roman Catholic, simply by being such, did not deny the truth of the Potestant religion : on the contrary, they said, he believed most of its doctrines, though adding more. William Gaston, when appointed to the bench, took this ground, and it was approved by Chief Justice Marshall and Chief Justice Ruffin, whom he consulted. To put the matter beyond the limits of question, the Constitutional Convention of 1835, after full debate, siibstituted for Protestant the broader term, ChHstian.'^^ Few now seriously dispute that under our system of gov-ernment the courts have implied power to test the validity of every statute by the touchstone of the Constitution. We inherited this doctrine from the era of the Confederation, and the courts of North Carolina early came to its support. Her Constitution of 1776 guaranteed the right of trial by jury in all controversies at law respecting property. The General Assembly passed a statute requiring suits against purchasers of confiscated estates to be dismissed on motion. Such a motion was made in such a suit in 1786, and the court, a year later, denied it, on the ground that the law violated this constitutional guaranty, and was therefore void. The de-cision thus rendered was the second ever rendered in the English-speaking world to the point that if a written statute 11 Great American Lawyers, III, 72, 76, 111. DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. 147 conflicts with a written constitution, the statute must give waj.-^^ ISTorth Carolina Avas the first State to affirm the principle of freedom of incorporation for the promotion of a business enterprise. By an Act passed in 1795, she allowed any per-sons, who desired, to incorporate themselves for the purpose of building and maintaining canals. ^^ This was the first legislation of the kind since the beginnings of the Roman empire. •'^^ Other of the American States had before allowed individuals to incorporate themselves for certain charitable purposes. It was the far-sighted policy of North Carolina, which extended this principle to organizations for business purposes. They builded better than they knew. Soon fol-lowed elsewhere, in and out of the United States, it was destined, during the next century, to work a world-wide eco-nomic revolution. In one respect ]!^orth Carolina, in my opinion, has exer-cised an unfortunate influence on our judicial institutions. The English-speaking nations stand alone in the world in their division of the functions of a decider of civil causes between one man, whom we call a judge, and a dozen others whom we call a jury. By the common law of England, from whom we derived this practice, the judge had a double duty : to decide any points of law that might be raised, and to guide the jury on the path to a right conclusion on the facts. Legal questions on which counsel seriously diftered seldom occurred ; but disputes as to the facts of the case were incident to every jury trial. The English judge was accustomed to express his 12 Bayard v. Singleton, Martin's Reports, 48 ; Baldwin on The American Judiciary, 100, 110 ; Coxe on Judicial Power and Unconsti-tutional Legislation, 248. Tlie court also relied on tlie supremacy of the Articles of Confederation. The next Legislature (November, 1787) enacted that the treaty with Great Britain was part of the law of the land, and to be enforced in all courts accordingly. Stat., Rev. of 1819, I, 559. See the history of the first decision (given in New Jersey in 1780, in the case of Holmes v. Walton), in the Ameri-can Historical Review, IV, 456. 13 Chapter 432, Laws of North Carolina, Ed. 1821, I, 769. 14 Report of the American Historical Association for 1902, I, 274. 148 THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. own opinion, if he thought it would promote a proper decision as to what facts really had been established by the proofs, and how far these were, if found by the jury to exist, controlling in their eifect. In 1796, ISTorth Carolina, which, down to that time, had followed in this respect the rule of the common law, abrogated it. Chief Justice Ruffin, soon afterwards, in a well-known case, did what he could to minimize the effect of this statutory prohibition of an ancient practice. '^'^ But legisla-tures are stronger than judges. The Act of 1796 in ISTorth Carolina set up one of the early precedents in support of di-minishing judicial power, which have gradually, in most of our States, made the American jury a very different thing from the jury of the common law\ The courts of North Carolina rendered an important ser-vice to the country, in leading the way towards placing the American law of charities on a broad foundation. It was long a question of warm dispute at the bar, whether our courts of equity had the jurisdiction over charitable trusts possessed by the English Chancellors, independently of the ancient statute of charitable uses, passed in the reign of Queen Eliza-beth. In 1819, the Supreme Court of the United States, in an elaborate opinion by Chief Justice Marshall, took the negative view. If this precedent were to be generally fol-lowed, and the statute made the sole test of what was a lawful charity, many bequests for worthy purposes would be sure to fail. The next year, after full argument, the English doctrine as to equity jurisdiction was recognized in the Supreme Court of iSTorth Carolina. -^*' Other States followed the reasoning which had led to this result. Horace Binney, one of the greatest of American lawyers, by his researches in the rolls of the English Chancery, demonstrated before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Girard College case, that Marshall was wrong. The 2:reat Chief Justice's decision was 15 state V. Moses, 13 North Carolina Law Reports, 452. 16 Griffin v. Graham, 8 North Carolina Law Reports, 96. DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. 149 finally overruled, and the JSTorth Carolina doctrine of charities established in its place. ^^ North Carolina was the last of the States represented in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to ratify its work. She was also the last State to become a member of the Southern Confederacy. The cause of delay, in both cases, was, at bot-tom, the same. It was her conviction that, in large affairs, existing political relations ought not to be disturbed without strong cause. It was political conservatism. It was the quality which made her and South Carolina, her early sister, the only States which maintained a general property qualifi-cation for ofiice until after the Civil War.^^ When the Federal Convention met, in 1787, North Caro-lina was in territory the largest State but one^^ of the Old Thirteen. Her geogTaphical conditions justified the state-ment, in the ofiicial report of her delagates to the Gopernor of the doings of the Convention, that North Carolina was doubtless the most independent of the Southern States, for her people were able to carry her own produce to market. ^^ Being thus independent in her position, she offered the fairest field for the last battle ground against those who in 1787 were for the entire reconstruction of the government of the United States. She naturally stood for State sovereignty in everything where it was not vitally necessary to accord supre-macy to the States acting together, or to the people of all of them,^^ speaking in each. At the time when North Carolina was to express her judg-ment on the merits of the new Constitution, two great men were contending for the mastery in the arena of theoretical politics : Jefferson and Hamilton. North Carolina sided from the first with Jefferson. He was representing us abroad in IT Rusaell V. Allen, 107 United States Reports, 163, 167. 18 Report of the Am. Historical Association for 1899, I, 114. 19 Georgia. 20 Farrand, Records of the Federal Convention, III, 84. 21 Report of ttie American Historical Association for 1905, I, 104; see State Records of N. C, I, 390. 150 THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. 1788, but wrote to his friends here that he favored the ratifi-cation of the new Constitution by nine States, which would insure an organization under it, and rejection by the other four, unless and until it was strengthened by a bill of rights.^^ Under the leadership of Willie Jones, the first Constitutional Convention, held in that year at Hillsborough, substantially followed this advice. Without either ratifying or rejecting the new Constitution, it declared that bill of rights and twen-ty- six amendments ought to be laid before Congress and a new Convention of the United States that should or might be called for such purposes of amendment. The most important of the principles thus put forward were incorporated in the Constitution, on the recommendation of the first Congress, secured largely by the action of North Carolina in refusing an unconditional ratification. Hardly had the Supreme Court of the United States been organized when suits were brought in it against several of the States to collect debts due from them to citizens of other States. Chief Justice Marshall, as a member of the Virginia Convention, had declared that the Constitution gave no au-thority for such actions. Hamilton had taken the same ground in the Federalist.^^ With only one dissenting opinion, however, the Justices of the Court took the other view. This dissent was by Mr. Justice Iredell of North Carolina. The States, he said, were sovereign as to all matters concerning which sovereignty had not been granted to the United States. It was the settled law that a sovereign could not be sued in court. Consequently the States, being sovereign, could not be so sued, except in the few cases specially authorized in the Constitution of the United States. The plaintiff in the case at bar was a private citizen suing for a contract debt. There was no special authority for such a suit, and therefore, in his opinion, it should be dismissed. 22 Jefferson's Writings, Library Ed., XVIII, 14 ; Bancroft, History of the Constitution, II, 459, 460 ; Elliott's Debates, IV, 226. 23 Thorpe, Constitutional History of the United States, II, 266, et seq. DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. 151 A storm of protest swept over the United States when the decision of the Court was announced. Governor Hancock, of Massachusetts, one of the States that had been sued, called a special session of the Legislature to consider the matter, and declared that this new doctrine tended to a consolidation of all the States into one government "which would at once en-danger the nation as a Republic, and eventually divide the States united."-'* The speedy result was the adoption of the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution, which prevented any such suits for the future, and struck out of existence those already brought. The United States, under the Articles of Confederation, were what a recent English writer has declared that every independent nation is—''the organization of organizations."^^ They were a feeble organization of thirteen strong organiza-tions. The ordinary nation has for its constituents all its people, but they are organized politically in various territorial divisions, such as counties, towns, and cities, and socially in various business, or ecclesiastical, or institutional divisions. Some of them are associated in the form of banks, or rail-roads ; others as or around universities ; as churches and dio-ceses ; or as societies of a less formal character for promoting particular theories of human conduct. The constituents of the United States of the Revolution and of the Confederation were thirteen peoples, not one. Each of these peoples were grouped in different forms of organization, under a local government of their own ; but the United States, as such, claimed no authoritative jurisdiction over any of these groups in any State, and had none over the State itself. The Constitutional Convention of 1787 attempted a com-promise between those who were for abandoning this system of government entirely, and those who thought it could be strengthened and preserved. It is certain that the great 24 Thorpe, Constitutional History of the United States, II, 290. 25 Lindsay, The Political Quarterly, I, 140. 152 THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. majority of the people of !North Carolina were originally opposed to the ratification of the Constitution. The Hills-borough Convention of July 21, 1788, would probably have voted it down without debate, had it not been for the influence of James Iredell.^^ She had found herseK strong enough, alone, to handle a very serious insurrection by the suppression of the ^^Eeg-ulators," and later to put down the rising designed to found the new State of Franklin, and to convict, in 1787, its leader, John Sevier, of high treason. During the Revolu-tion, she had seen most of the Regulators siding with the British, and feeble as the government of the United States then was, she had found herself, with the aid of that govern-ment, still able to cope with any invading force, and all their Tory auxiliaries.^'*^ Her worst enemy was her own over-issues of paper money, and with that problem, she, like Rhode Island, preferred to deal for herself. Why then should she join the States which Avere seceding from a confederation which by its terms, to which each had solemnly agreed, was to last perpetually ? The leaders of ISTorth Carolina so far had held its course steadily, from the first, in one direction : away from aristoc-racy ; towards popular institutions. They endeavored to make, and they did make, the new government more closely a government of the people, before accepting its authority. Any strongly marked national characteristic that makes for good is a national asset. It endears the State to its people. It is their voice. It speaks the habit of their mind. In the case of a private business concern, long establshed and well re-puted, a part of its property, well recognized by law, is the good will of those who know on what principles it has been conducted. Much more is the good will of its people of value to a State. That spirit of conservatism which has always marked ISTorth Carolina has helped to steady the course of 26 Elliott's Debates, IV. 4. 27 Life and Works of John Adams. VII, 308; Report of Am. Hist. Association for 1894, 180, 209: Wiusor, Narrative, etc., Hist., VII, 190; Tarleton's Campaigns, 119. 270 ; State Records of N. C, I, xiv, xviii. DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. 153 American government. It was fostered by the circumstances of her earlier history. It was strengthened by the nature of her main industry. Agriculture binds the man to the land, and in the land there is something of the eternal and un-changeable. Conservatism detaches itself from the transi-tory. It makes for unity in political action. It is unwilling to have untried forms of government imposed upon it. It distrusts abstract philosophies, unripened by time. There is a certain unity in the history of North Carolina. The Royal province, of which she originally formed a part, soon broke in two; South Carolina followed the ways of cities ; North Carolina those of the country and the farm. Half a century later North Carolina broke in two. The people of the mountains pushed the frontier Westward and laid the foundations of Tennessee. For the people on the Atlantic slope, the current of industry followed the waters toward the sea. Agriculture added to itself commerce and manufacture. The twentieth century came. It found North Carolina still mainly a State of the country and the farm, but, towards the West, of a rough country and rocky farms. The ever-lasting hills still stood as they were two hundred years before, the home of sturdy mountaineers, largely reflecting the man-ners and the ideals of the American of two centuries before. It is no bad thing for a State to have representatives of the thought of the eighteenth century uniting for the shap-ing of her institutions with representatives of the twentieth. On the one hand, it assures the permanence of popular gov-ernment: on the other, it guarantees the benefit of whatever new means time brings to make popular government more truly by the people and for the people. I come from a State which calls itself the Land of Steady Habits. North Carolina and Connecticut were alike char-tered by Charles the Second. He gave to North Carolina a charter of aristocracy, and to Connecticut a charter of de-mocracy. He gave to North Carolina the harder task. She 154 THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. must win for herself what was the birthright of Connecticut, How has she marked her progress to the goal ? Let me recapitulate what seems to me the highest of her achievements. In what great things did she press forward first, and set the pace ? 1. In declaring for independence of Great Britain, in April, 1776. 2. In providing by her Constitution of December, 1776, for a secret ballot, and for public education at public cost. 3. In passing, in 1795, the first general incorporation law for business purposes since the time of the Roman empire. 4. In discarding annual for biennial elections, in the amendments to her Constitution in 1835. The first step, if anything, it costs something to make. These five steps that I have mentioned, each in its day, worked a great innovation in American institutions, and one of them—that towards freedom of incorporation—in universal political science. We of other States are glad in these things to recognize the primacy of North Carolina, and to congratulate her on the public service she thus has done to the country and the world. SIR WALTER RALEIGH AS A POET. 155 Sir Walter Raleigh as a Poet By Nina Holland Covington. When that gorgeous Pageant, the Age of Elizabeth, comes upon the stage of history, there is no more splendid figure among the actors than that of Sir Walter Raleigh, who makes his spectacular appearance before the queen by throwing his velvet coat upon the muddy ground so that she may walk over dry-shod. Characteristic indeed of the man and of the age is this anecdote of Kaleigh's young years. The romantic cour-tier lived in a period well suited to his varied talents and accomplishments, for it was an age of war, of exploration, of colonization, of learning, of wit, of extravagance in speech and dress, and an age which gave fullest encouragement to literature. Perhaps the most important thing in Raleigh's career as it affected history was the fact that he made numerous at-tempts to establish settlements in America, and although these settlements were not permanent, nevertheless, as has been so well said,* "You cannot measure great events with a yard-stick. Men die, ideas are immortal. The idea of another England beyond the Atlantic, conceived by the master mind of Sir Walter Raleigh, was the germ from which, through the development of three centuries, has evolved the American nation of the twentieth century. There is a vital connection, both physical and spiritual, between Roanoke and Jamestown. Among those who founded Jamestown were ten of the men who had co-operated with Raleigh in the settlements at Roan-oke. In these men we have the physical connection between the two, while to the idea conceived by Raleigh and to the spirit of conquest and colonization which his attempts on this island called into existence, the English race in Europe, in Asia, Africa and Australia and the islands of the sea, and in America, owes the world-wide prominence which it to-day *R. D. W. Connor "Sir Walter Raleigh and His Associates," Book-let, Vol. X 1, No. 3. 156 THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. enjoys among the races of mankind. Nothing can be clearer, therefore, than that we, in looking back over the events of the last three centuries, can hail the Roanoke settlements as the beginning of English colonization in America and throughout the world." But though Sir Walter Raleigh is most important as a colonizer, that was but one side of this versatile hero of his-tory, for he was also a courtier, soldier, manager of men, explorer, business man, historian and poet. Perhaps his poetry has not been, after all, very important in English liter-ature, and he certainly is not well known as a poet, nor can he be ranked as one of the great poets of England, but still there is merit enough in his verse to lift it far above mediocrity. The poems of Raleigh that have come down to us are not numerous. The "Cynthia" has long been lost, and there are only about twenty other poems which can be correctly ascribed to him. JSTo attempt was made in Raleigh's lifetime to col-lect his poems, and, for some time after his death, his poetry was not considered important enough to be preserved. In the first collection of his poems there were only three poems ; in the second there were only nine. It has taken careful research work to gather together these long neglected poems of Raleigh, and there is still dispute among critics and literati as to whether certain poems generally accepted as Raleigh's are really his or not. It is not often that men of action have either time or inclination to write verse. It is the man who has leisure to dream dreams, and to think deeply over the mysteries of nature and humanity who usually gives the world its great poems. But still. Sir Walter Raleigh, busy as he was during the years in which most of his poetry was written, wrote, besides the long poem "Cynthia," about twenty other poems which are of interest and literary value. The poem "Cynthia" itself must have contained, it is thought, about ten thousand lines—equal in length to two books of the "Faery Queene." Spenser, who acknowledges that he owed much to his inter- SIR WALTER RALEIGH AS A POET. 15Y course with Kaleigh (they were neighbors in Ireland), and who was most grateful for Raleigh's encouragement as the "Faery Queene" was being written, dedicated the first three books to Raleigh with the sonnet which begins : "To thee that are the summer's nightingale Thy sovereign Goddess's most dear delight." And Raleigh appended to these first three books of the "Faery Queene" the sonnet which begins: "Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within that temple where the vestal flame Was wont to burn : and, passing by that way, To see that buried dust of living fame, Whose tomb fair Love and fairer Virtue kept. All suddenly I saw the Faery Queene, At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept ; And from thenceforth those graces were not seen For they this Queen attended, in whose stead Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse, Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed. And groans of buried ghosts the heavens did pierce ; When Homer's spright did tremble all for grief And cursed the access of that celestial thief." a sonnet which, though it is far too extravagant in sentiment, nevertheless contains some fine lines. Milton admired it, and imitated it in his sonnet beginning : "Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the tomb." Marlowe's well known pastoral poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love," called forth a reply from Raleigh that was musical, bright and clever, with that touch of bitterness that so many of the Elizabethan lyric poets affected. It was written probably in 1599, and mentioned and quoted in Wal-ton's "Complete Angler" in 1653 as a poem "made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days." Belonging also to Raleigh's younger period is the beautiful elegy on Sir Philip Sidney, which would alone give him a place in English literature. Edmund Gosse says of it: "It blends the passion of personal regret with the dignity of public grief as all great elegiacal poems should. One stanza might be inscribed on a monument to Sidney: 4 158 • THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. "England withhold thy limits, that bred the same ; Flanders thy valour, where it last was tried. The camp thy sorrow, where the body died ; Thy friends thy want : the world thy virtue's fame." The poem over the authorship of which there has been so much dispute, ''The Lie," is, like all of Raleigh's poems, dig-nified in tone, and has that independent, spirited air which doubtless Puttenham meant to describe when he said, in his ''Art of English Poetry," "For ditty and amorous ode, I find Sir Walter Raleigh's vein most lofty, insolent, and passion-ate." It is not known exactly when "The Lie" was written, but it seems probable that it belongs to that period of his first imprisonment in the Tower after his secret entanglement with Elizabeth Throckmorton. The first two stanzas will show the character of the piece. Bitter, haughty, defiant in tone, smooth and rippling in measure, it easily takes its place among the striking poems of our language, and is important as being representative of the poetry of the period. For, ex-travagance of expression, smoothness of phrase and rhythm, with a slight cynicism, were the characteristics of the lyric poetry of this age of English literature : "Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant : Fear not to touch the best ; The truth shall be thy warrant. Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood : Say to the church, it shows What's good, and doth no good : If church and court reply Then give them both the lie." And particularly interesting to us, because it seems rather bold on Raleigh's part, and more openly defiant that he ever expressed himself elsewhere, is the third stanza : "Tell potentates, they live Acting by others' action. Not loved unless they give — Not strong, but by a faction : If potentates reply Give potentates the lie." SIE WALTER EALEIGH AS A POET. 159 Entirely different from this is "Sir Walter Raleigh's Pil-grimage," which is perhaps the best known of his poems. The poem is very beautiful and full of striking metaphors. The last stanza is especially interesting and startling, and from what is implied there this poem is often said to have been written the night before he died. But most critics seem to agree that it belongs to the time following the trial at Win-chester when Raleigh, having been convicted of treason, thought that the king would have him immediately executed. And Raleigh's supposed accomplices, Markham, Gray and Cobham, were actually led out before his (Raleigh's) very eyes for their execution, and then, on the scaffold, their lives were saved by the king's pardon. This was on the tenth of December, 1603. Gosse, Archdeacon Hannah and others think that the "Pilgrimage" was written on the night of the ninth of December. SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S PILGRIMAGE Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My script of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation. My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage. Blood must be my body's balmer; No other balm will there be given ; Whilst my soul, like quiet palmer, Travelleth towards the land of heaven; Over the silver mountains. Where spring the nectar fountains : There will I kiss The bowl of bliss ; And drink mine everlasting fill Upon every milken hill. My soul will be a-dry before ; But after, it will thirst no more. Then by that happy blissful day, More peaceful pilgrims I shall see. That have cast off their rags of clay. And walk apparelled fresh like me. I'll take them first To quench their thirst And taste of nectar suckets. At those clear wells Where sweetness dwells. Drawn up by saints in crystal buckets. 160 THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. And when our bottles and all we Are filled with immortality, Then the blessed paths we'll travel, Strowed with rubies thick as gravel ; Ceilngs of diamonds, sapphire floors. High walls of coral and pearly bowers. From thence to heaven's bribeless hall. Where no corrupted voices brawl ; No conscience molten into gold. No forged accuser bought or sold. No cause deferred, no vain-spent journey. For there Christ is the king's attorney, Who pleads for all without degrees, And He hath angels, but no fees. And when the grand twelve million jury Of our sins, with direful fury, Against our souls black verdicts give, Christ pleads His death, and then we live. Be thou my speaker, taintless pleader, Unblotted lawyer, true proceeder ! Thou givest salvation even for alms ; Not with a bribed lawyer's palms. And this is mine eternal plea To Him that made heaven, earth, and sea. That since pay flesh must die so soon, And want a head to dine next noon, Just at the stroke, when my veins start and spread, Set on my soul an everlasting head ! Then am I ready, like a palmer fit. To tread those blest paths which before I writ. Of death and judgment, heaven and hell, Who oft doth think, must needs die well." The references to his trust in God that occur in the "Pil-grimage" are found in all of the writings of the latter part of Raleigh's life. Beginning his career as gay courtier, with so little care or reverence for religion and God that people spoke of him as an atheist, the troubles of his last years seem to have made him deeply religious. In that remarkable un-finished attempt of his, "The History of the World," we have frequent passages to show how prominent a part reliance upon God was playing in Raleigh's life during those thirteen long-years of his imprisonment. In regard to the lost poem "Cynthia," written to Queen Elizabeth, and in her praise, Gosse says, "The long passage which we have in Raleigh's poem. The Continuation of Cynthia, is, I think beyond question, a canto almost com-plete of the lost epic of 1589. It is written on the four line SIR WALTER RALEIGH AS A POET. 161 heroic stanza adopted ten years later by Sir John Davies for his Nosce teipsum, and most familiar to us all in Gray's "Elegy." Moreover it is headed "The Twenty-first and Last Book of The Oceayi to Cynthia." Another note in Raleigh's handwriting styles the poem "The Ocean's Love to Cynthia," and this was probably the full name of it. Spenser's name for Ealeigh, the Shepherd, or pastoral hero, of the Ocean is, therefore, for the first time explained. The twenty-first book suffers from the fact that the stanzas, but apparently not many, have dropped out in four places. With these losses, the canto contains 130 stanzas, or 526 lines. Supposing the average length of the twenty preceding books to have been the same. The Ocean's Love to Cynthia must have contained at least ten thousand lines. Spenser, therefore, was not exag-gerating, or using the lang-uage of flattery towards a few elegies or a group of sonnets, when he spoke of Cynthia as a poem of great importance. As a matter of fact, no poem of the like ambition had been written in England for a cen-tury past, and if it had been published, it would perhaps have taken a place only second to its immediate contemporary, "The Faery Queene." Archdeacon Hannah places the poem, The Continuation of Cynthia, in his volume of Raleigh's poems, as belonging to the era of 1603-1618—Raleigh's years of imprisonment—and includes, with the "long passage" men-tioned by Gosse, two fragments which lead him to this con-clusion. Gosse thinks the fragments were written in this pe-riod, but that they have nothing to do with "Cynthia," since the meter is entirely different. Gosse is probably correct in his view—the meter proof being almost conclusive evidence that the fragments do not belong to the "long passage." However that may be, the long passage of "The Continuation of Cyn-thia" is in the same vein and meter as the lost part of "Cynthia," and gives us a good idea of the character of that poem. To describe, then, this part of "Cynthia," is to describe the whole poem. Soft and subdued in tone, worshipful, but not merely flattering in sentiment, with the gentle, sad movement 162 THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET. of the elegiac meter and containing some of the most beau-tiful imagery we can find in his poems, the fragment that we have makes us regret deeply the loss of the whole. In August, 1618, the year of his death, Raleigh wrote his "Petition to the Queen, Anne of Denmark." Anne made an effort to save him^ but in vain. On October 28 he was exe-cuted. The poem is the last appeal of a doomed man to his queen, and the sad, resigned tone of his petition seems to indi-cate that he feared the appeal would be in vain. It closes with these pathetic lines : "If I have sold my duty, sold my faith To strangers, which was only due to One ; Nothing I should esteem so dear as death. But, if both God and time shall make you know, That I, your humblest vassal, am oppressed, Then cast your eyes on undeserved woe ; That I and mine may never mourn the miss Of Her we had, but praise our living Queen, Who brings Tis equal, if not greater bliss. On the night before his execution Raleigh wrote the last poem of his life after bidding farewell to his faithful wife, the Elizabeth Throckmorton, for whose love he had forfeited his place as one of the favorites of Queen Elizabeth*. "Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have. And pays us with but earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave. When we have wandered all our ways. Shuts up the story of our days ; And from this earth, this grave, this dust. My God shall raise me up, I trust." On the chill morning of October the twenty-ninth, 1618, Raleigh went out so bravely to his death that those who wit-nessed it have handed down to posterity in words of admira-tion and praise the account of the glorious end of Sir Walter Raleigh. And so died on the scaffold one of England's bravest, most progressive, patriotic and learned men. Upon the history of France is the stain of the blood of Joan of Arc. The darkest blot upon England's pages of history is the execution of Sir Walter Raleigh. BIOGEAPHICAL. 163 Biographical and Genealogical Memoranda Compiled and Edited by Mrs. E. E. Moffitt. AKCHIBALD HENDEESOK A biographical and genealogical sketch of Dr. Archibald Henderson appeared in the October number of The Booklet in 1912. Since that time the subject of this sketch has added volumes to literature. It becomes necessary and highly proper that the continued activity be noted in The Booklet of any one of our contributors, many of whom are young — not yet in the zenith of life. Dr. Henderson's contribution this month is his brilliant historical essay: ''The Creative Forces in Westward Expansion : Henderson and Boone." Like other of his creations, it will be hailed with delight by our readers. It is due to Dr. Henderson to record here the various activi-ties that have won for him the distinguished place he holds in the literary world. The literary passions of his childhood were Joel Chandler Harris ("Uncle Remus") and Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain"). Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, the latter his favorite of all others, he came almost to know by heart. He happened one day to read that William Archer, the great English critic, said that "Huckleberry Finn was the best story written on either side of the Atlantic in the preceding twenty-five years." This dictum so expressed his own delib-erate, if immature, conviction that it awakened in him a genuine respect for literary criticism. The incident marks the beginning of his concern for literary criticism. He read Cooper's and Scott's works, and in fact read almost everything coming under his eye in his father's extensive library, except "Les Miserables," that enormous tome which looked too formidable to tackle. Later it appealed to him on a rainy day as the last resort. He read uninterruptedly until the word "Finis" stared him in the face ! Well for him ; its moral purpose and uplifting idealism made a profound and 164 THE NOETH CAROLINA BOOKLET. lasting impression upon him. For the future he resolved to judge a book not by its physiognomy, not solely in terms of literary art, but also in terms of humanistic purpose. With a father's influence as a churchman, instilling into him the principles of honor, uprightness and truth ; a mother's and grandmother's influences as idealistic preceptors, the young lad grew up under such examples as laid the founda-tion for manhood's success. This sketch would be incomplete if there were omitted men-tion of an occurrence that had much to do with shaping his career. After marriage in 1903, at which time he received only the meagre emoluments apportioned an associate pro-fessor in a university, he realized the need of adding to his exchequer, and accordingly he resorted to his pen in the effort to balance the deficit. He wrote for the clever magazine. The Readers, an essay two and a half pages long entitled ''The Present Vogue of Mr. Shaw/' Imagine his surprise shortly afterwards to receive a check for $25.00. In his heart he never really dreamed that any one would look at his writings. Thus encouraged by this tangible recognition, he began writing under the no7n de guerre of "Erskine Steele" essays for different papers. These essays awoke great curi-osity and provoked high tributes for the unknown author. It was some years before the original of ''Erskine Steele" became known to the public. 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Blackhawks Bring Back Andrew Desjardins
On Friday morning, the Blackhawks signed veteran forward Andrew Desjardins to a two-year deal with a reported cap hit of $800k per.
Chicago acquired Desjardins from the San Jose Sharks for Ben Smith during the 2014-15 season and he had an outstanding playoff run for the Hawks. His ability to kill penalties will make him a valuable asset after losing Brandon Saad this summer.
Posted in 2015-16 BlackhawksTagged Andrew Desjardins, Chicago Blackhawks, NHLBy Tab Bamford137 Comments
137 thoughts on “Blackhawks Bring Back Andrew Desjardins”
Goldenbladz says:
Tab you are the best. I was just reading about this and bam you had it posted already. Great Job!! and great signing!!
SWEET BABY JESUS!!
EbonyRaptor says:
Well this confirms that Stan is alive … I was starting to wonder.
But actually this is good news, but not real significant relative to the other moves that need to be made, notably shedding salary and re-signing Kruger and Oduya (or acquiring another #4 d-man).
I just saw the terms are $800K @ 2 years – very nice.
Hofmeister says:
I really like this deal, makes my day actually. Solid guy, great $$ for the Blackhawks, and he gets 2 years. The classic win win and in a way a domino has just fallen. They can now include one or more of their young fringe forwards in another deal.
OK … so now the mind is working and I’m concerned this may indicate that Kruger isn’t going to be re-signed. There are only so many forward positions and so far the Hawks have (10) locked up for next season (19, 88, 81, 86, 65, 11, Panarin, Anisimov, Tikhonov, Dana), (3) still under contract that may or may not be here (10, 29, 23), and at least a couple prospects with hope to join the big time (Danault, Baun, Hartman).
Is there room for Kruger in the lineup, over and above the salary cap situation?
dumdum says:
EbonyRaptor
All those guys have little to do with Kruger. They’re not Centers.
Tab Bamford says:
re: EbonyRaptor – not sure this is a direct indication of Kruger’s future, but you make a great point about there not being a roster spot for ANY of the kids any more… Hartman, McNeill, Baun, Danault, Nordstrom, Morin, Tropp all on the outside looking in right now and we’re not even considering if Versteeg is back. Will be very interesting to see what the next shoe to drop is
Negzz says:
ER- 16 and 27 fit if the moves we expect to happen do happen. I have an armchair GM Cap spreadsheet I use to calculate specific space scenarios, and here’s the steps I have to bring back both Kruger and Oduya:
1. Remove Morin and Tropp
2. Trade 10, 29 and 23 (and bring back picks and no salaries).
3. Sign Kruger for $2.75M and JO for $4M
4. Bring up TVR, 5, and Johns as your 5-6-7 D
5. Counting Panarin at his $812 base, you’d have almost $2.1M in cap space and your line mixes look like this (or some variation):
* Dano-19-81 (Dano slides into Saad’s spot)
* 72-AA-88 (could be TT’s line, but at his salary and extension, I think it’s AA’s)
* TT-16-65
* Baun-Denault-Desi (with an extra forward like Nordy on the Cap)
* 2, 7, 4, 27
* 5, TVR, Johns
Wall says:
ER- sure there is room for both 27/16…
BUT- need 100% Cap dump- of ALL 23,10,29!!!
That is going to be the HARD part… At this point- SB should take almost nothing for these guys and throw in a McNeill or 42- for someone to make “Handcuffs” disappear!!!
Edit- Rather than Nordy, I was carrying Tikhonov at $1.04 as the extra forward in my last scenario…
And to think he was scratched…
PMDD says:
Very happy about this!!! Really came to enjoy watching him on the ice. He has a smooth and methodical style about him. Thought it would happen but am surprised that he stayed very probably for less than what he was being offered elsewhere. Saw an interview on NHL at beginning of SCF and Stan Bowman’s eyes just lit up when talking about Desjardins. You could see he was pleasantly surprised by his play and very pleased to have brought him to the Blackhawks.
Rufus T. Firefly says:
Very glad to see Desjardins back. Solid hard working professional who works on the boards and gets in front of the net to clear space for others. Happy happy happy. My wild ass guess is that Stan is working very hard to package Sharp and a prospect for a true quality defenseman. We shall see what happens. With respect to Morin and Tropp they are depth guys. Nothing more. I suspect Hartman is too. McNeal has been a very disappointing prospect in my eyes so nothing is owed this kid. We all overrate what Baum is and might be so let him go back to Rockford. I think Nordstrom and Danault are the two youngsters with the best chance to make a dent on this roster. And I’m getting a sinking feeling that Kruger is not coming back based on money, which will be a blow no matter how anyone wants to slice it.
DUMDUM, Danault is a center and has been the heir apparent to Kruger for the better part of a year or more (at least in some people’s eyes).
Re: Dano – I’ve read his best position is RW. That doesn’t mean he can’t/won’t play LW but if they’re going to put a rookie in the best position to succeed it will probably be 3rd line RW. If TT isn’t going to play center, I would rather have him “move” to LW than Dano. A TT-Toews-Hossa line would be pretty cool. Course, a Panarin-TT-Dano line could be something too.
Desjardins’ agent coming out saying he took less to stay in Chicago because he liked it here. Speaks loudly for the organization and the coaching staff. I think these players appreciate a staff who understand the grind, gives days off, short but focused practices, etc.
Look at all these guys who’ve chosen to play in Chicago when they could’ve played elsewhere … Desjardins, Baun, Kero, Panarin, Tikhonov, and several more. It’s very impressive. Of course there are others who have left or signed elsewhere (Reilly) but at the end of the day the Blackhawk organization is doing something right and they’re consistent about it.
Now that they’ve signed Desjardins, Nordstrom is superfluous on this roster. A good guy to have in Rockford though if it comes down to it.
Agree on Kyle Baun. A little seasoning in Rockford is probably a good thing.
Wall- 100% correct, they’d all have to go with no salary in return.
For what it’s worth, here’s the salaries by line per that scenario:
1. Dano-19-81: $.925+$10.5+$5.275= $16.727
2. 72-AA-88: $.812+$3.283+$10.5= $14.595
3. TT-16-65: $.894+$2.75+$2.0= $5.644
4. Tikonov-Denault-Desi: $1.04+$.863+$.800= $2.703
* Extra forward (Baun): $.858
TOTAL O: $40,528,750
* 1st pair: 2-7: $5.5+$5.8 = $11.3
* 2nd pair: 4-27: $4.1+$4= $8.1
* 3rd pair (+1): 5-TVR-Johns: $1.05+$.925+$.800= $2.775
TOTAL D: $22,213,462
* CC: $6
* SD: $.587
TOTAL G: $6.587
TOTAL TOTAL: $69
Cap space: $2M
noonan96 says:
RTF-you may be right about Baun-(who knows) But Coach Q was almost giddy talking about him last week and how responsive he is and he learns quickly. It was easy to see he likes what he has to offer.
Mining Man says:
Allright! Good news for sure. Really like Negzz spreadsheet breakdown. Lets hope thats whats in the cards. Also 100% agree with Hof that everyone dumps on Oduya around November…sure was a lot of “get rid of him”, “he’s finished” sentiment last season. Oduya is too valuable back there and I sure hope we can sign him on. Such a silky skater.
If I could I would like to mention that Billy “Red” Hay was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. A career Blackhawk and a key player in the 1961 Cup win. He came from Saskatoon, I believe he was the first NCAA guy to make it to the NHL, coming out of Colorado, He won the Calder with 55 points in 1960. He played on a line with Stan Mikita and Bobby Hull. I sorta knew him a wee bit…I was just a kid but in the summer months he would go Diamond Drilling in exploration for a company owned by my good friend and close neighbour. He was a guy who left at the top of his game.
For what it’s worth, I am less concerned in this exercise with exactly where each player is slotted position-wise, but rather the pieces available for Q to to blend and the unmistakable fact that the stronger you are up the middle and on D the better you are come playoff time. Therefore- it follows that having lots of C options available the better. In this case, we’d have 19-AA-TT-16-Denault-Desi-65 and even Dano that could take a faceoff. Of course, re-signing 27 would mean the Champs would boast the best top-4 D pairings in the league (again.)
Also- for those asking about Bickell buyout options, I believe the rule is 50-60% (exact numbers anyone?) of the remaining salary spread out over 2x (double) the actual years left on the deal. Therefore, if 29 was simply bought out: He has 2x years left at $4M each, the Hawks would be on the Cap hook for $8M x .55 / 4 yrs = $1.1 per year for 4 years (or close to that anyway.)
Hawks1961 says:
Good to see Desjardins back in the fold. He gave some energy and toughness to the 4rth line. I would not like to see Oduya resigned. For most of the season prior to his injury he was a turnover machine. I would expect a further decline next year due to his age. I would rather see Kruger resigned then 27. Stan’s big problem is 29. Who is going to take him and his complete salary? The only way that could happen IMHO is if we through in a good prospect. Stan will find a taker for Sharp. He is still a very good player.
Negzz- I like it
but I flip TT on 1st…
put 11/16/65
so Dano stays on Rt wing with-Tiko/Danault/Dano
HOF-Re: Baun- While Hogs wouldn’t hurt him
I watched him like a Hawk-lol… just like I did TvR at 1st-
the kid never made mistakes, always hustled, made good reads, and on time…
I predicted TvR would stick early in camp… and Per $$$- Baun is an improvement over 29… don’t even care if he scores… is in the right place at the right time… and there is 100% effort… eventually a puck will bounce off the kid’s leg and go in- like Kruger-
MMan- 27 sucked for most of the 1st half of year!!!
But- he did play 100% better come PO’s…
so to me that says- mental focus- isn’t there ALL of the time- I can live with that- knowing 27 really does have the skills/skating and ability to focus in crunch time…
to add- perhaps the forwards/cheating/leaving a little early were part of the blame- during season… once again- 27 proved he can focus during crunch time-
way less mistakes- in way more minutes!!!
Iceman says:
Textbook example of agents on opposite side of spectrum. Desjardins’ agent doing what his client wants/authorizes, and Saad’s agent doing what he wants to enrich his own pockets. Agents have fiduciary duties to clients. Saad’s agent apparently doesn’t comprehend that, while Desjardins’ agent gets it.
…Saad still remains unsigned ….
Auggie says:
There were a lot of “experts” who were saying Desjardins wouldn’t be back, but with the way he played in the SCF and his low salary I had a feeling Bowman would re-sign him. I am very happy with the move.
Wall- Don’t think Oduya was 100% for most of the first half. After his injury and he got some time off, he came back on fire. So I’m saying more health and less focus. Or maybe he just knows the Hawks are going to make the playoffs and he doesn’t have to kill himself before that.
As far as Kruger. If he wants $3M the Hawks can’t afford a $7M 4th line. Kruger is a great checking line center, but he is really bad at scoring. So how much are you willing to spend?
MudTurtle says:
Desjardins is the kind of player Chicago loves. He plays to win, plays smart, no ego, and gave up extra dough to play here. Character matters.
JS- You didn’t ask me but for what my 2cents are worth: If Kruger signs for $2.75, add Shaw @$2 and Desi at $800k and that’s a $5.5M 4th line… errr, what was more like a “second” 3rd line in the PO’s last year. That’s not too much for me.
Wall, I think you’re right, Dano should be on the right side, so TT or someone has to go up and play with Toews and Hoss.. Not a bad gig if you’re asked to move up with those 2 fellas- yes?
Iceman, I doubt Saad is going to get an OS now that CBJ’s have his rights. Going to be tough negotiation for 20 as he may get no more than what Hawks were willing to pay before it’s all said and done. Agent overplayed that card and/or Jr outplayed him big time.
Neggz- I rounded up and included the extra forward. To me, it depends on the term that Kruger wants. I don’t want a checking line center to make it harder for the Hawks to keep TT.
Nettle creek says:
Great news, a good guy and a superb board man!
Reggie Fleming says:
Red Hay, a Center, only played together with Hull and Mikita on the power play. Hay otherwise centered the Hull line. Mikita centered a different line. After Hay came the “HEM” line, Hull-Esposito-Maki.
The right wing on the Hull – Red Hay line was Murray Balfour, who passed away 50 years ago this year at age 29. My dad told me about a month ago in the playoffs that Andrew Desjardins style of play reminded him a bit of Balfour.
Balfour scored a huge triple OT winner in the playoffs vs. Montreal during the Stanley Cup year, my dad said he beat Jacques Plante with a backhander from about 12 feet out. He was in his seats 1st row 1st balcony and it was practically right below him.
You’re correct Negzz I can see the 20 signing not going over to well in Columbus. Ryan Johannson had a difficult signing and if he sees 20 come in and make more than him there will be fireworks and not in a good way.
BTW, regarding the news that Hay was inducted in the HOF. Very good player, but HOF?
I am still pissed at the Saad trade. I am pretty sure I am in the minority here as many posters have seemingly bought into Bowman’s rationale for trading him. Clearly, there were many paths to keeping him if the Hawks were more proactive on this, were willing to make sacrifices and, IMHO, if they fully understood the potential Saad has.
I have followed the Hawks since Bobby Hull wore #16, still had his hair, played Center, and Eddie Litzenberger was the star of the team. In my opinion (excluding Toews and Kane), Saad has the potential for greatness equal to Dennis Savard and Jeremy Roenick at a similar stage in their careers. You don’t trade that for a journeyman center, a good (but not great) prospect, and two Joe Blow throw-ins. Plus, the Hawks had to relinquish Paliotta who I had high hopes for.
This may not be Esposito-Hodge-Stanfield redux, but Hawk fans will regret this deal.
Of course Hull, Mikita, Hay on the power play…and the HEM line …wow! what could have been had we kept Hull and Esposito? In any case happy days are here again except that now instead of being a kid and early teen I’m just an old fart. Man it goes fast. May we win 3 more Cups in the next six years!
What are the chances of Columbus turning around and trading Saad again? That’s what scares me. If he wanted to stay you’d think they would have signed him by now.
I just have the feeling that he’s going to end up somewhere else and really come back to haunt us. Total speculation on my part, obviously, but haven’t been able to shake this feeling since the trade happened.
Re: Bickell buyout – I believe that the window for buyouts ended on June 30th – not sure why we didn’t go this route. SB must be highly confident that someone will take 29 if we add in some prospects.
With all the promising young forwards we now have I am getting the feeling that 16 may be moved (also may be the trigger for a Bickell deal). Whether it is 27 or another solid veteran we will definitely need to addd to the current crop of d-men. I think there are some fireworks coming and I don’t mean for the 4th.
SouthSideHawkMan says:
@ Reggie
Im still pissed too, but at the end of the day. If Saad really wanted to be here he wouldnt have made a big money grab after saying it wasnt about the money. I have a feeling he is not going to get the money he thought he would get
As for Desi, solid glue guy at a good price nice move for SB.
EbonyRaptor-
I know Danault is a C, but you can’t go into a season with Toews-Anisimov-Shaw-Danault at C. Let Danault try and prove he can have his space and then move Shaw to wing. Kruger is a key piece…he’ll get re-signed, no doubt about that.
PS: If they pair the 2 Russians together I can’t see Coach Q putting Kane with them as a proper line. I see then as a different entity: Toews-Kane-Russians-Kruger
Brandon Saad has signed a 6-year extension w/ Columbus reportedly worth $6M per.
We will not regret the Saad deal. The deal had to be done because paying Saad $6 M plus could not work. And while Saad is a budding star we are now a better and more complete team in the context of having our dice in a vice because of the salary cap. We added a quality and growing 2C and a solid young wing. We also were able to sign Desjardins and have NOT been forced to unload players like Shaw, etc to make Saad fit. Stan played this exceptionally well. Nobody dismisses Saad or doesn’t understand his talent. To include Stan.
Tony-
Nope. They’ll sign him for sure.
It takes time… before 3 days ago they’ve never talked to each other. The Hawks couldn’t get it done after months of negotiations… how can they do it in such a shot notice?
hahhaahhahahhahahahahah
Adding a couple of prospects to Sharp and Bickell and Versteeg will make them go away in deals. And I continue to thing Stan is able to convert into a nice young defenseman.
Columbus is a Cup contender… if they can avoid the 100 injuries per year mark.
They’re roster and coach are the real deal. Watch out East.
The team to beat in the Eastern Conference is Tampa Bay. They are loaded with impressive young talent and have more on the way.
Reggie, Red Hay was inducted to the Hall of Fame in the Builder category, not as a Player. His resume on the administrative side of the sport far surpasses his playing career and that’s why he got in.
Okay. I feel better now knowing Saad has signed. Hard to believe that his $6mil per salary is going to sit well with everyone there. Pressure cooker time for young Brandon.
So glad Desi signed back on. Love his game and he fits so well in our mix.
Mike the Mook says:
this is a blog full of accountants and xcel spreadsheet mavens . .. me not soo much!
Anyway on Dezi or Desjardins he played well, look to tire late in the playoffs losing a step or two. I think Hawks can plug in a lot of player in his slot, maybe someone even more physical to free up Shaw. All in all very ho-hum but as we all know it’s the third and fourth line that lets ya squeak out a cup now and then.
Kruger is the “lynch pin” Hawks need him and they need to think about Shaw too.
keep your pencils sharp and that excel spreadsheet updated . . .
The NHL is just a broken sport, my favorite but it’s broken, poorly run and it’s lower than low revenues more people watching reruns of “Family Feud” than hockey most nights. Except in Canada where the “market is strong” but not robust monetarily.
look at the numbers and contracts in the NBA. sweet baby jezzzzuz.
Is that 6 Million a reliable number? Terms are undisclosed as per CBJ policy.
Saad got $6M/6yrs and ROR got $7.5M/7yrs. I think I’d rather have Saad @ $6M than ROR @ $7.5M. Monopoly money – MERCY!
Kruger was really great at the DOT most of the season just behind Towes in winning percentage. He matches up well vs.other top lien centers even though he is out sized. So with all this chatter ya just gotta know what your paying for and why. Kruger brings it every single night, plays harder night in and night out more than any Hawks period. He is great at the dot, he is GREAT at the penalrty kill ( dezi is okay you don’t sign dezi for average penalty kill, he is average at best) Kruger is great defensively and is a much better Penalty killer than Dezi. Dezi IMO is average at best no Froooolik and his lack of speed out to the points will be exploited, easily. Dezi is replaceable Kruger is not, Shaw has an upside that is still coming he’s next?
Buffalo and CBJ are going to be monster teams. Good for the East.
NBA teams have half the amount of players. Their salary cap (which doesn’t appear to be released for 15/16, not a basketball fan) is somewhere between 66 and 69 million. Also have read that future TV money may bump the current cap up.
Seeing these RFAs get crazy money and UFA’s (granted its a weak class) get more conservative contracts is odd. If Saad and O’Reilly get 6 and 7.5, gotta wonder what Tarasenko gets.
Reggie, glad to see someone might be older than my 61. I can’t see Saad = Savard or Roenick careers, maybe Larmer. And NOTHING will ever beat the Esposito trade.
Tarasenko isn’t an UFA.
Rufus-
Blue Jackets won 42 regular season games. Tampa won 50.
Blue Jackets led the league with 502 man games missed. Tampa had 160. (Bobrovsky 51-Bishop 62)
http://cdn1.bloguin.com/puckdrunklove/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2015/04/CBJManGamesLost.jpg
Now…I guess Tampa would have an upper hand because of their gained experience, but personally I’d chose the Jackets in a playoff series.
All I know is that their Top 6 forwards of Saad, Foligno, Johansen, Hartnell, Atkinson, Dubinsky are the best there are in the NHL. They’re also deep and have a great GK.
Glad to hear Desi signed at a discount. Heard he was offered a lot more by up to four different teams. Said he and his family loved the city, teammates, coach’s, and organization. Lastly, and I loved this quote… “I knew how to play hockey when I came hear. My teammates taught me HOW TO WIN!”
All this after the Saad fiasco. Hearing now that the Hawks offered Saad 5 mill per year.
So Saaaad….
Morrison says:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xomArI4aJ0
The Daves a Killer line is intact.
Good vibes. Keep em coming.
I’m aware Tarasenko isn’t a ufa. That’s why I lumped him with Saad and O’Reilly as all 3 are RFAs. The RFAs seem to be the ones getting the truckloads this off season where the UFAs aren’t getting the bank. That may have to do with a weak ufa class. But even Justin Williams took a pay cut to sign with Washington.
Saad at 6 x $6?! Wow. I get that number as a UFA in this (crazy) market, but I thought the BJ’s were going to be tougher in view of the limited chance of an OS. He is now their highest compensated player. Well, all I can say is they better enjoy Johansen for the next 2 years as they’re going to have issues when his next deal is up as a UFA (if not before.)
Happy 4th of July to all.. Have a beer for the Cup win and eat all the hot dogs you want! We just finished our own “Canada Day” on the 1st. Stay safe everyone !
Milton says:
I am ecstatic that Desi is back. His hockey IQ is off the charts. Desi is a very tough player to play against. Shaw hated his guts when Desi played for SJ. Now they are linemates and get along like brothers. Btw, did anyone notice that Shaw did not take one stupid penalty in the SCF? That’s because Desi is sitting next to him on the bench telling him to stop taking stupid penalties. Thank you, Desi. The Hawks will reward you financially when the 2 years are up.
@Negezz
He is also their best player now. If he isnt captain or alt he will be very soon.
Was listening to TSN Toronto yesterday they were in awe of the Hawks caps management. According to them the Hawks have traded a franchise player to winnipeg, columbus and Islander, and countless solid role players. Yet continue to win because they are a well run frnachise.
Big Indian says:
Glad to see Desjardins back. Great board battler. Now, waiting to get Kruger….
The story about Saad’s signing on the Blue Jackets’ web site says that dollars are not divulged, per the organization’s rules. Why not just state it? Why the hush hush? Anybody know why they would have this policy?
SSHM- “He is also their best player now.”
Really think that’s true? Not so sure on my side. Things can really look good when you play with 19 and 81. Saw him disappear for long stretches when moved down a line or 2. Like his burst and lower body strength but saw plenty of 2-on-1 oppty’s that he did not make the “finisher” play. Bottom line, imho he’s benefiting from being on a loaded top-6 Hawks team and contributing (albeit in a significant way) to 2 Cups. From my vantage point, he still has a LOT to prove moving forward, is not worth $6M on any roster I am funding and playing with Johansen (who is talented), will tell us plenty. He better put in more than 25 G’s and pass 50 points if I’m their GM to make this a good investment. Otherwise, he’s ANOTHER member of the ex-Hawks all-star squad that sure looked good in the Indian head but… Wasn’t is Babcock who said of the Canadian Olympic team’s best player was “the guy playing with Toews.”?
ZebraGreg says:
To Hofmeister – quick question for you…are you in the Rockford area? I ask as I seem to recall you regularly made numerous observations & references to Icehog players & news?
I’m a lifelong Hawks fan going back to the mid-60’s and really appreciate your input and information here. It was Saturday family nights and Lloyd Pettit that ignited my everlasting passion for this game and the beloved Indian sweater. Recently moved to Dekalb and have definite plans to begin to head up to RFD to catch the Hogs next season.
Wondering if you’d be interested in catching a game and a few beverages there at some point and talk our favorite team?
Maybe Desi has some commercial $ headed his way, these things happen to those loyal to the Indianhead.
^ Zebra thanks for your note. I’m in the western suburbs, went to undergrad in DeKalb and get out there a fair amount on business. Try Rosita’s on Lincoln Highway (Rt. 38) downtown DeKalb near 8th Street) for Mexican food and a few drinks, I have been going there since the late 70’s and try to stop every time in town. Great place.
I get to Rockford a fair amount, not sure how many times I will do that or should I say get to do that this year. But it’s only 1/2 hr. from downtown DeKalb to the BMO Center in Rockford and there are some great places near the rink for a sandwich and a beer if one is inclined to do so. Rockford gets a bad rap but if you know where you’re going there are some cool places and nice people. Carlyle Brewing Co. just two or three blocks east of the rink is a great place pre game and there are more. Let’s watch the board this season to see if we can sync up. When I’m there it’s usually with little notice but I can try to plan something.
The Hogs have a nice deal with I think it’s called a Flex Pack where you can buy tix and basically get season ticket benefits but have the flexibility to use the tickets for whatever games you want. Convenient if you want to take 3-4 people to one game and then maybe go to another by yourself. The tix are cheap and as I said it’s an easy drive from DeKalb. You can see many of the Blackhawk brass or scouts and hobnob with them although they sit in a box but they wander around between periods and are pretty friendly. I have introduced myself and you can get some great insight if you’re polite and respectful and ask smart questions.
Hope you enjoy DeKatlb ! I did four years there and enjoyed it …
By the way I too date back to the mid 60;s, Lloyd Pettit etc. First game at the Stadium was 1965 vs. the Maple Leafs, I remember being impressed with how well Tim Horton played defense for Toronto.
How many people on this board remember the very first Hawks TV announcer-“Whispering” Joe Wilson. He was a real trip. Loved him.
A great re-sign in Desjardins. An important role player for an excellent price. That he expressed such fondness for the city, the players, and the organization as a reason to stay at a discount says much for his character. Welcome back Desi! The lineup puzzle slowly takes shape. I worry that Kruger will be an incentive add on to move Sharp or Bickell. Saad at $6M for many years is of course why he is gone. Would love to have been the fly on the wall in the room when these numbers were floated by his agent to the Hawks. Bowman knew that was game over, and why the trade happened so fast. I wonder what Saad would have accepted to stay with the Hawks had this been a longer negotiation, but of course none of this matters now. I suppose it is a foregone conclusion that Sharp and Bickell won’t be with the Hawks next year, but I have to believe that Sharpy in particular is a guy that can really help lots of teams. At what price that will be is the big question. Is it also a known fact that 29 has 2 bad knees? I really want Kruger to stay, so let’s hope that gets done soon. Some big dough getting payed for UFA’s so far.
Nice to see “Red” Hay’s name come up. A good player back in the day. My dad always liked Hay and Nester alot and remarked often about Eric’s well placed sharp elbows. Wasn’t Nesterenko’s nickname “swoop”?
Happy Independence Day one and all.
Lets Go Hawks!
Reggie Fleming I don’t recall Joe Wilson. When did the great Lloyd Petitt replace him? My first memories of Hawks broadcasts were with him.
Reg Fleming, I know I heard Wilson just can’t remember much about him. Lloyd Petite was awesome, can’t forget { A SHOT AND A GOAL} And Hof, thanks for the memories, I finaly got to my 1st game in march 1967, was thrilled and 6 rows off the ice 6$ tickets on goal line Hawks shoot at twice, and Bobby Hull gets a hat trick in 1st period, and I’m thinking this is not fair for the goalie, how the hell is going to stop a shot that fast, Giacamin Rangers. Anyway, I hope Dez #11 gets a great big ovation at the Hawks convention. I wouldn’t be booing Saad when he returns to play here, don’t think much of that has been happening since Chelios, and I wouldn’t have been one of those myself, I was greatful for the way he gave us his all when here.
Reggie, do you know why Whispering Joe Wilson got that nickname?
It’s because he used to do the bowling telecasts and when he’d be remarking on a bowler’s next roll he’d do it in a whisper: “And here’s Don Carter … trying to pick up the 7 – 10 split …”
Lloyd Pettit started calling Blackhawk games in the fall of 1961 and of course his signature phrase is immortalized in the Blackhawks original theme song “Here Come The Hawks” – “There’s a shot … and a goal!”
Whispering Joe Wilson passed away in 1983, Lloyd Pettit in 2003.
More Lloyd Pettit history … Lloyd was the first choice to do the national NHL TV broadcasts on CBS in 1970 and was offered the job. Jack Brickhouse, who was also Channel 9’s sports director at the time, refused to release Lloyd from his contract. Brickhouse, who behind the scenes was known as particularly vindictive, replaced Lloyd with Jim West as the TV announcer. Jim had been calling the AHL Baltimore Skipjacks games when WGN hired him.
The Blackhawks radio broadcasts moved to WMAQ 670 (now The Score) in 1970 and they hired Lloyd to announce the games. When Wirtz moved the TV road games to Channel 32 in 1975 he hired Lloyd back to announce but he was living in Milwaukee then and it became too much and as I recall Lloyd didn’t last out the whole season. Lloyd married a wealthy Milwaukee woman who was heir to the Bradley company fortune and they became owners of the Milwaukee Admirals. I had the pleasure of sitting across the aisle from Lloyd at a game in the early 80’s when Milwaukee was a Blackhawks farm team. Got to chat with him … nice man.
In the dark days of the late 70’s guys like Andy MacWilliams and Ron Oakes and Bud Kelley called the Blackhawk games, they’d rotate new announcers in it seemed every year. None were memorable. Foley came in 1981.
Hof- Rosita’s in DeKalb… I know the owner!!!
Exactly right, Hofmeister! Carter was the greatest pro bowler of that era. Wilson called those great Carter-Buzz Fazio matches.
Brickhouse was the dominant Chicago sportscaster for a generation. Did 1) the WGN telecasts for both the Cubs and Sox; 2) the radio broadcasts of the Bears; 3) the first telecasts of the Packers/Zephyrs and perhaps the Bulls as well; and 4) the telecasts of professional wrestling. He was everywhere. I can believe the story about Pettit, though. Brickhouse was the biggest “homer” I ever saw. A propagandist for PK Wrigley and George Halas. Jack was a giant of his day, however, and I believe he is in the baseball HOF.
One further tidbit. Last year I read George Will’s (the conservative columnist) book on the Cubs. Will is a life-long Cubs fan and often references his love for the team in his columns. Incredibly, he wrote a history of the Cubs without one mention of either Jack Brickhouse or Sammy Sosa.
Joey Zamboni says:
Tab – Your going to have to start a new blog –
Committed (to trips down memory lane) Indians!! :)
Happy & safe 4th to everyone!!
Rosita’s in DeKalb. Best dive Mexican restaurant around. Great food.
Chances of signing Kruger now hinge on moving salary according to Chris Kuc. Meaning negotiations are on hold. Bowman is going to have to add prospects to have any chance of moving 10, 29, 23.
Wall I think Rosita’s has been in the same family since they opened in the early 70’s. A long time DeKalb favorite.
Reggie, yes actually one of Brickhouse’s notable basketball footnotes was that he called the first ever Bulls playoff game, held March 1967 in the Chicago Coliseum on S. Wabash Ave. Quite a backstory to them needing to play that game at the Coliseum which I will tell some time. I have an unused ticket to that game.
And yes Brickhouse was everywhere. He was almost as famous for doing the Bears with Irv Kupcinet (“Dat’s right, Jack”) as he was for doing baseball. And yes, he is in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Brickhouse also used to call the old Chicago Cardinals football games from Comiskey Park in the 50’s. Pretty much everything.
Last I heard Jim West is well into his 80’s and living outside of Baltimore. There is a great highlight on YouTube or the Blackhawks main site featuring his call of Game 5 1971 semi finals vs. the Rangers at the Stadium, Bobby Hull scored off a faceoff (Pit Martin won the draw) in overtime. West’s call: “Bobby SCORES!!! And the Blackhawks win it … Bobby Hull in overtime!!”
Pettit was outstanding. And a young Foley in the early 80s was outstanding as well. The early 80s were great times at the Big Barn on the West Side. Savard, Secord, Larmer, Lysiak, Graham, Sutter, Murray and my favorite Wilson. Bannerman in goal most nights. But alas there was this dynasty team called the Edmonton Oilers with Gretzky, Messier, Kurri, Coffey and Fuhr. Sigh.
Jack Sh!thouse was indeed a vindicative pile of crap in addition to being a brutal announcer in any sport he touched. How the hell he became a Chicago institution will forever escape me.
Don’t know how I got in moderation but anyway thanks HOF for the Brickhouse story, what a ass he was, Jim West, are you frigging kidding me . Bad very bad.
Patrick Kane says:
NEGZZ. I like the way you think but I wouldn’t break up the Shaw, Desi, Kruger line. It was very effective in the playoffs and allows the Toews line to not have to turn into a checking line so often.
For those of you who think Stan should just give Sharp, etc away for free you’ll be surprised by how much he gets in return. The great thing about Stan is he doesn’t panic and his trades are almost always good ones. He waits for the other GM to panic and then pounces. I’m sure Uncle Dale will panic at some point and give us what we want and need.
Party like a proud Blackhawk.
I read somewhere this a.m. that after the FA/trade activity of the past couple of days (Kessel, Oshie, etc.) the only teams that appear to need what Sharp brings to the table are the Islanders and the Habs. The rumor was that somebody has offered a second round pick but Bowman is holding out for a prospect as well.
For the record, I think Stan is one of the sharpest GMs around. But nobody bats 1000. I do think Bowman acted hastily in trading Saad. He should have forseen the market for Sharp and Bickell and acted accordingly. That means, IMO, he should have packaged Bickell with a decent prospect (Hartman, Svedberg, etc.) to get rid of his bloated contract. And I would have taken a decent draft choice for Sharp. He could have done this prior to the trade to free-up the needed cap space.
This, of course, is based on my belief that Saad will be a 25-30 goal scorer for the next eight years, and that any prospects we give up will only be depth guys at best and can be replaced. If you don’t believe that then, no doubt, you will disagree with me. I think $6M is quite fair for a talent like Saad. Didn’t O’Reilly get $7.5M?
This whole thing reminds me somewhat of the Jimmy Butler negotiations last year when the Bulls wouldn’t fork over the extra money for an improving young player who would be a core piece for a decade. In retrospect, this was completely foolish. But GMs are paid to look forward. What $$ separated Saad from the Hawks will look like peanuts down the road. (And, yes, I know the cap situation and expected team revenues were not the same for the Bulls.)
Have the Wild done anything at all except sign some guys they already had? Guess they are content with getting swept, signing a whole 8 goal scorer ( Granlund ) for big bucks and praying for another miracle from their goalie. Ho-Hum
Morrison…Party on like a Blackhawk and pass the grey poupon.
Reg- $6M/yr. for Saad – is completely reasonable… UNLESS- you are the Hawks and you have 30% of your payroll tied to 2 players – now!!!
SB- was prayin for a cheap Bridge- and Hoping the Cap goes up enough in 3rd year to AFFORD Saad’s keep- next contract!!!
What are some trades that didn’t work out? He overpaid for Timmonen, but he really regressed from his previous seasons level.
The dude got a 3rd round pick for Brandon freaking Bollig!
Speaking of the Cap…news up here is that economists are now projecting 2 quarters of negative economic growth, signalling a recession and the looney at 0.69-0,70 over the next year ( currently .79-,80 ). Seriously disappointing shortfalls in viewership on that big Canadain TV deal with demographics on the youth side way off base create double whammy. Not that the sky is falling but its going to be a small raise without a doubt.
Wild bought out Cooke…that’s something
Wild signed Mike Reilly too which could be very helpful to them.
Amazing how teams over value players that appear in the Stanley Cup Final. Saad was only 8th in scoring on the Blackhawks. TT was right behind him and played in a lot fewer games, a lot fewer prime PP opportunities and on the 3rd line instead of the 1st line!
There were several commentators on Canadian TV that pointed that out and the fact that in their opinion he is not an elite player. There is absolutely no guarantee that his play improves dramatically from it’s current level and not being on the Blackhawks surrounded by future HOFers certainly won’t help his cause.
Dano is a better player at age 20 than Saad was at that age. He projects to be a better player than Saad when he turns 22. He is MUCH BETTER at setting up his teammates than Saad ever will be. Look at Saad’s low assist count in the playoffs.
I wish Saad well but I do firmly believe we got the better player in the deal. Oh yea we also got a second line center as well!
AlbertaHawksFan says:
Very nice signing at a very reasonable dollar. Didn’t think he’d agree to that kind of price.
Will be interesting to see where Bowman’s heads at over the summer with respect to Bickell and Sharp. It might come down to retained salary or something for next to nothing trades.
I don’t mind Versteeg at 2.2 but it looks like I’m in the minority. Dude was having a really nice year prior to getting hurt.
Patrick- Agree with your pov on Saad and how his HOF linemates certainly helped his market value. I have been amazed to hear/read so many people refer to 20 as their “favorite Hawk” these past few days. I think he’s a talented player, but HOW talented he is will now be better determined in his soon to be “best player in Columbus” role.
Alberta- I have no problem with 23 for $2M playing LW on the 3rd line, the issue is who does not get to play on the big team if he’s still here.
Patrick-
Interesting point of view. People value skilled, power forwards who are 22 and have helped a team win two Cups–
I haven’t heard one negative thing from the Canadian media about Saad-20 possessed a combined skill set that nobody on the Hawks had-period.
People can rationalize his leaving all they want-but he will be missed.
Feathers & Stripes says:
Let’s not get silly about Saad not being a future star talent. Those HOF teammates definitely helped groom him into what he is, but many, many plays that resulted in points for those HOF players began on the stick of Saad.
Re-watch the playoff games and pay close attention to how often he starts a run, keeps one alive or finished one. He’ll really be missed. Give him due credit.
RyanDale says:
You can’t deny the kid scored some big goals for us. The last 2 playoff runs he had 14, that’s more than anybody not wearing 19 or 88. We got decent return but I’m disappointed . I enjoyed watching him.
Hossa Jr? Maybe not. I just hope that in 12-15 yrs I’m not reminded of a certain trade that happened between Chi-Bos
Hawks at age 22
Saad 23-29-52
Espo 23-32-55
Tony-O says:
As things have unfolded this past week or so, I think the Hawks will sign 16 as some point in time.
On the other hand, we have an interesting “love triangle plus” between Bowman, the Oduya camp, other GM’s, and 10/29/23’s limited or no trade clause contracts.
Oduya reportedly has other offers on the table from GM’s. Hawks reportedly are telling 27 to stay patient until they can clear salary cap to pay 27. Bowman’s reported options for dumping salary (in particular 10) are getting thinner and other GM’s are not willing to agree to Hawks trade demands. The plus part is, and what do not know, is who are the 8-10 teams 10 has identified as acceptable landing spots on his LNTC/NTC.
Who really has the leverage here?
How long will the Oduya camp wait for a move to be made by Bowman to clear cap space?
Will the reported offers from other teams still be there for 27 the longer he waits for the Hawks?
If the Hawks want both 16 & 27 back, I’m not so sure Bowman can wait out other GM’s to deal 10, 29, 23. Negzz and others pointed out the roster spots for 42 and the other kids are scarce – maybe we see a few of them added to the trades to make this all happen.
Dano age 20, 35gp, 8g-13a 21 points .6 ppg
Saad age 20, 47gp, 10g-17a 27 points .58 ppg
In his 3 years in Chicago Saad was a .58 .60 and .63 point per game player playing next to 19 and 81. It’s not unreasonable to think those 2 made Saad better. Advanced metrics agree. In Columbus he’ll most likely play next to Johansen. Who took a bridge deal at 3 million, despite putting up better numbers than Saad in his contract year. I would suspect Saad’s offensive ceiling has been reached and may “only” be a 25 goal player, good for 55-60 points at best.
Ernie. I couldn’t agree more. It’s typical for fans to over value a player that they fall in “love” with. If you look at it objectively he wasn’t the difference maker people make him out to be.
As the playoffs concluded I looked at his stats and wondered if someone would overpay for him due to his exposure during the Stanley Cup final.
It’s been reported that the Penguins owner lambasted his front office for not drafting Saad. They tried to rectify the situation by threatening to put in an offer sheet for Saad that they knew we couldn’t match. Stan was smart enough to figure that one out after Saad’s contract demands became apparent. Instead of granting his wish to go to his hometown team at a big salary raise Stan sent him to the NHL version of purgatory. Maybe the next Saad will think twice when he tries to blackmail the Hawks.
P.S. Noonan96. The “negative” comments came from some reporters on the TSN network. I wouldn’t call them negative but rather realistic! Being a former Canadian I still keep up with their hockey reporting which quite frankly is much better than what we get down here.
Things can change, especially for a 22 year old who is just hitting his stride, but as of right now Saad does not have that inate ability to score goals. Maybe he gets better but I think 30 is probably his ceiling, which is still very good considering his other assets. It doesn’t seem like he ever be a 70+ point guy because he just doesn’t have that goal scorers “touch”. That’s why comparisons to Hossa don’t really ring true when you realize all the multiple 30 and 40 goal seasons he had. An again, it’s not a knock on Saad, but so far he doesn’t project to be a HOF player like Hossa.
In my opinion, points per game is meaningless without factoring in minutes played. In basketball they have a statistic that measures production (points, rebounds, assists, etc.) per 36 minutes. Without a comparable metric for hockey points per game could be very misleading.
Moreover, I really don’t understand why some fans, who may have previously liked a player, find it necessary to find reasons to diminish that player after he has been traded to another team. My view is that some fans cannot emotionally adjust to the idea that perhaps their beloved team made a mistake. It is a type of cognitive dissonance that has to be resolved by re-adjusting their view of a traded player’s performance retroactively. I am not saying that is what you are doing here but I have noticed this dynamic continually over the years I have followed the Chicago sports scene.
Ryandale, as probably one of the few posters here who remember Esposito when he played for the Hawks I am reminded of that trade as well. Esposito had this uncanny ability to plant himself in front of the net for rebounds. I recall people denigrating Phil as lacking the “inate ability to score goals” because he didn”t have the slap shot of Hull or the stickhandling wizardry of Mikita. They called Esposito’s goals “garbage goals” not fully realizing the talent he had.
People should read David Haugh’s column in the Trib before Saad was traded. If I recall correctly he pointed out that Saad was the Hawks’ third most valuable asset behind Toews and Kane. I agree with that. Moreover, in all the years I have been following the Hawks I can’t recall a Hawks’ player with the raw speed, power, and skill of Saad at his age. Except for one generational freak-Bobby Hull. Roenick came close to Saad as well.
I’m not saying that Saad is as talented as Hull. I’m just saying that you do what you need to do to keep this type of potential on your team.
RF-agree and well said–
it’s a way to rationalize a loss
Phil Esposito did have the inate ability to score goals – that was his main attribute and it made him a HOF player. He wasn’t a great skater but there was no one better and collecting the garbage.
Maybe I was misunderstood and maybe I’ll be proven wrong – but I’m not knocking Saad and I wish we didn’t lose him. He is a very good player and the Hawks will miss him. But my comments were directed at the comparison to Hossa and I drew the distinction between them in the goal scoring department. Hossa was a great scorer early and throughout his career. Saad has not shown that he is anywhere close to Hossa in that department. It’s not a knock – few players compare favorably to HOF players. Saad will me missed and I hold no grudges because of the contract demands. I hope he does very well the rest of his career – I’ll be rooting for him. And, maybe he’ll prove me wrong and get into that 40 goal category, I just don’t see it right now.
For those of you who need a little convincing, I think this article does a great job of analyzing the situation with reason rather than emotion:
http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/eye-on-hockey/25233568/blackhawks-rebuilding-depth-while-working-through-salary-cap-crunch
There is a stat held for points per 60. Marko Dano was number 6 at 2.69 pp60 according to the site I was at. Kane led the Hawks 34th overall at 2.18. Saad was 48 at 2.09. Tyler Johnson led the league at 3.00 points per 60.
^ Nicely done article, thanks for posting it.
Usually right after prospect camp things slow down around the league big time for about six weeks. So I’m thinking either something important happens this week or we’re looking at another Leddy situation where something is done right before the season starts.
If I’m understanding things correctly, they’re just a hair over the cap now with 20 players signed. They can be 10% over the cap this summer (just over $7.1M) until the season starts. The key is it appears they want to re-sign Oduya and it’s unlikely he’ll sit around and wait all summer. They technically have time to get Kruger inked to a new deal but that’s hanging over their heads too.
I did not see the Saad deal coming as I’ve expressed although I should have. Right now I’m sensing another move out of left field, something unexpected.
Craig Nigrelli says:
good observation Hof. I think I counted 20 NHL level forward now on the Hawk roster with the moves the past week.
It seems lots of fans want a big move per day. Look at this past week alone : Saad trade, Anisimov signed long term, Tihkonov signed, Desi resigned, Schilling added.
that’s a lot of moves.
I would imagine this will be a very busy week as no doubt the Hawks can’t leave Oduya hanging for much longer. Also, you would imagine that Sharp’s agent has phoned Stan a few times and urged him not to leave such as huge contributor for the last decade twisting in the wind.
Good article PK…nothing I did not know, but it sure makes me feel better about it all. Onward and upward. This new version of the Blackhawks is going to be “killa” by the end of November.
Ernie. Thanks for posting. I saw that stat but couldn’t remember where I saw it.
This goes to my point that Dano is ahead of Saad at a similar age. Also, Saad never once went 14 points in 15 games like Dano did to end last season! This is impressive at any time of the year but especially at the end of the year when he was facing competition that were attempting to make the play0ffs. He’ll also have the benefit of better players around him which should be exciting to watch.
Thanks Ernie, I think I did see that stat before. Btw, Dano did that in about 448 total minutes which is less than half of the minutes played by the rest of the top ten in that category. Furthermore, Dano’s performance is only for 5 on 5 situations. In all situations he comes in at #25.
If Dano could maintain that pace over an entire season I would agree the trade would look much better. That assumes, of course, he is not a sieve on defense.
Saader seemed older than 22 and I dont mean his healthy beard. He just appeared to ‘get it’ when things like commitment and character were involved. He carried himself extremely well from what I could gather.
I think he could work his way into an ”A” or even higher pretty easily someday. His time in Chicago benefits him tremendously in that regard as he learned from the best. He made his debut in the Byng Trophy voting as well this past year
Of course seeing him blow by skaters on his way to the net was a main attraction. I
cant say the trade is good or bad really. Like I said, to me he was just a fun player to watch and I will miss him.
Dano seems very capable, but his sample is far too small
for me at this point. AA I have always been a fan of. He is gonna score on this team, I’m expecting a career best from him.
Just to close the loop on some of the history discussed in this thread, as older fans will recall 1966-67 was the year the Blackhawks finally finished in 1st place. They met the aging Maple Leafs in the playoffs and were stymied by 38 yr. old goaltender Terry Sawchuck. Phil Esposito had a less than stellar series and the Blackhawks were out in 6 games. Most everyone had them winning the Cup that year.
Tommy Ivan, a normally exceptionally cautious GM, lost his patience with Esposito, who was one of Billy Reay’s whipping boys. Reay was always on Esposito to lose weight and Phil spent a lot of time in the sauna. Reay was more than happy to agree with Ivan to trade him.
The key get for the Blackhawks was Gilles Marotte – they wanted a hard hitting defenseman but badly misjudged his abilities and meanwhile left the much better Ed Van Impe unprotected for the first expansion draft – he went on to become an anchor for the Philadelphia Flyers for almost a decade.
Ivan also wanted another goaltender so he acquired the forgettable jack Norris in the trade from Boston. The only decent player they got was Pit Martin but they gave up three really good (young) ones in Esposito, Kenny Hodge, and Fred Stanfield. Oops. Colossal mistake by Ivan.
Marotte was constantly out of position – lacked hockey sense – and was ultimately traded 2 1/2 years later to Los Angeles in part of the deal that brought defenseman Bill White to the Blackhawks. White helped significantly but those good Blackhawk teams from roughly 1970 – 1973 never did get over the hump.
From seemingly after they traded Esposito until they drafted Roenick, they were always looking for a “big center” and never found one. Meanwhile, Boston won two Stanley Cups and the Canadians won handfuls.
That, in part, is why this current run is so special to older fans.
This article sums up the current situation pretty accurately.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/07/01/baffoe-stan-bowman-cares-not-about-your-brandon-saad-outrage/
Great post PK. The article does indeed sum up the situation quite well. Truly looking forward to Dano in our group. And AA, too.
Bowman is ignorant for signing Asimisov ASAP for ZERO reason — like guy who has choice of girls to date, picks one who has no other suitors, and says to her during first date “hey you re hot, let’ s get married!!!” Kruger’s agent had to love it — how much more is proven all around durable player like Kruger worth if new player unproven w/ hawks gets bucco long term $? Bowman increased Kruger’s salary and made Hawks’ cap situation worse by rushing to sign that guy for NO reason. Why not wait till season is over? Bad bad move after a great trade.
^ I don’t get this comment at all. The reason he was signed now is they are confident in their scouting and he would be more expensive later on as the year progresses. They want cost certainty especially with Seabrook coming up for a deal and they have it. It’s quite risky to wait to sign all your guys right when they’re ready for UFA. Not to mention it’s a confidence booster to a player and sends them a positive message. Kruger and this guy are two different style of players, their comps are different and shouldn’t affect one another.
To say Bowman is ignorant is way off base too.
We’ll see how this plays out. As far as this signing goes & Kruger unsigned and pending, Bowman made a mistake. I stated multiple times I liked the trade. I stand by my analysis. It is well-supported. I wish I were Kruger’s agent. Thank you.
We all know the value of Kruger. He’s a rock on the pk. But at the end of the day he’s still a 4th line center. Maybe a 3c in a pinch. How much can you pay a player slotted there? To say Bowman screwed up by resigning a player a year before is just dumb. Anisimov is a 2/3c. Good for double the offensive production compared to Kruger. Kruger could be replaced by a guy in the system and get similar production. You can not say that about Anisimov.
Calling Bowman ignorant isn’t well reasoned analysis. One could even say it’s ignorant. Thank you.
irony: an ignorant comment that calls someone ignorant. Iceman w/ the Stupidity of the Week. Congrats
Go ahead and criticize me. Yippee. My analysis is one fact specific — Bowman’s move of signing a guy w/ a yr left on his contract, w THREE concussions in the last two yrs, and Kruger still unsigned — thereby increasing Kruger’s bargaining position IF you re Bowman and you truly want him back — was, is and remains an ignorant move. I never said Bowman is generally ignorant. I liked the trade of Saad, he drafted Shaw, he got a 3rd rd pick for Bollig, I’m sure he will be able to trade Bickell then — he is competent in many instances. If you can’t see that this move may not work out, then God bless. Keep criticizing me. Regards. :)
Totally off topic…watched Game 6 again from stem to stern and really loved the moment when they took the team picture at center ice. I think it was telling that Timonen sat right behind Seabrook, his arms around him, so much gratitude for the guy who helped him through a difficult transition. Q had Seabs paired with Kimmo for most of the time and it was the best choice. We have to sign Seabrook to a well deserved extension. He’s a pillar on his team.
You’re right, Hofmeister, this run is special. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Bill White and Pat “Whitey” Stapleton were the Seabrook and Keith of their day.
The loss last year to the Kings in the seventh game of the Western Conference finals was the second most painful defeat in my years following the Hawks. IMO, the most crushing loss in Blackhawks history was the seventh game of the Cup final against Montreal in 1971. The Hawks led the game 2-0 and the Habs came back to beat them 3-2 with a couple minutes left in the game. Henri “The Pocket Rocket” Richard scooted around Keith Magnuson and beat Tony. Devastation.
If you ever watched that “Legends of the Game” series on the NHL network, when they had a show on Hull, Bobby actually grimaces when he recalls that game. He accused the coach of “playing the wrong guys.” I am sure he meant Magnuson. If so, I would agree.
Doesn’t Kruger also have a concussion issues in his past?
I don’t recall Kruger missing time for consussion, or anything for that matter. He played 47 of 48 games in 2012/13, 81 of 82 games in 2013/14 and 81 of 82 games last season. So he’s missed a total of 3 games, 1 in each of the past 3 season.
He’s like the old Timex watch commercials – he takes a lickin and keeps on tickin.
I guess it’s been longer than I thought. But in 11/12 he took a hit from Deryk Engelland. Engelland was suspended 3 games. Kruger missed one game, was back for one. Then was put on IR and missed 8
Reggie, you’re right about that May 1971 game except Richard scored the 3rd goal for Montreal early in the 3rd period, only about 3 1/2 minutes in. I was there and watched him scoot around Magnuson, who was playing on a bum knee.
The momentum of that game changed on Jacques Lemaire’s goal from well outside the blueline, near the red line in fact, in the 2nd period to make it 2-1.
Blackhawks had two power plays back to back in the 3rd period (John Ashley was the ref) and couldn’t score. Jim Pappin had a glorious chance and started to raise his stick in celebration but Dryden stoned him. Nesterenko had a partial breakaway too. Worst loss ever. Losing in the 7th game of the finals in that fashion trumps a loss in the 7th game semi-finals for me. As for Bobby Hull’s comments, well, he hit the crossbar in the 2nd period but didn’t score in the game, so I take his comments with a big grain of salt.
Glad that’s in the past and we finally have had the chance to see some Cup winning teams.
Yes, that Lemaire goal was totally bizarre. It did change the momentum of the game. I read somewhere a few years ago that people said that Tony’s knees inexplicably buckled just as Lemaire took the shot and he couldn’t recover in time to stop it. Although I wasn’t at the game it was reported that it was really hot in the building and there was also a lot of smoke that created a significant haze. Perhaps that had something to do with Tony losing sight of the puck. I seem to recall that eventhough there may have been an ordnance banning smoking at the Stadium, fans (especially in the top deck where I usually sat) really couldn’t care less and lit up anyway.
The other day you, or somebody else, also mentioned Eric Nesterenko. He was a real agitator with some skill. Think of a tall gangly Andrew Shaw. Well, a story came out a few years back that really stuck with me. Willie O’Ree was a Boston forward who I believe was the first African-American in the NHL. Nesterenko never lost a chance to hurl racial epithets at O’Ree. It was really brutal and apparently nobody in the NHL or the Refs cared. At some sort of old-timers dinner several years ago Nesterenko spotted O’Ree and apologized for his behavior. It was reported that they were both close to tears.
Reggie, great story on Nesterenko. He also played a few games at the end of his career for the Chicago Cougars of the WHA, I saw him play at the Amphitheatre.
Way back then there wasn’t any prohibition for smoking at the Stadium. Later in the 80’s they used to announce “no smoking in the seating area” but people did it anyway, at least in the 1st balcony they did. You were only supposed to smoke at the top of the stairs but the enforcement was lax to say the least. Our clothes used to reek of smoke when we got home but that’s the way it was back then.
By the way, Pat Stapleton just turned 75 over the weekend.
Glad Whitey is still around. Great player, great leader.
Best Blackhawks D-Men I ever saw:
1. Chris Chelios
2. Duncan Keith
3. Pierre Pilote
4. Pat Stapleton
5. Brent Seabrook
6. Doug Jarrett
7. Bill White
8. Elmer “Moose” Vasco
I am just working from memory here and I am sure I have missed some really good ones. I apologize in advance. If anyone has other choices please pipe-up.
Btw, If I recall correctly the Hawks passed up Ray Bourque in the draft for Keith Brown. If the Hawks would have selected Bourque instead he probably would have been the best ever Hawk D-Man.
Whoops! How could I have forgotten Bob Murray and Doug Wilson? My bad.
Btw, I purposely left off Keith Magnuson as I thought he was way overrated. A phony tough guy. I saw him in literally dozens of fights and he usually got the worst of it. Often he had blood pouring down his face as he left the ice.
I only saw Keith win one fight. He sucker punched some kid who was playing in his first NHL game. True story. I know my leaving Magnuson off this list will piss off some people. Sorry, but that’s how I felt. Most of my buddies felt the same way.
Magnuson would go with anyone but yeah he usually took a beating. I saw him win one vs. Carol Vadnais (who just passed away) when he was playing for the California Seals. Other than that Magnuson was the loser a lot more often than the winner. One time I saw him get cuffed around twice in one game against the Flyers … Dave Schultz and Bob “Hound Dog” Kelly as I recall.
He was a good shot blocker and he had a knack for lofting backhanders out of the zone when killing a penalty. Not a good skater and he was lucky to play 10 years, his knees were so beat up.
The Bruins fans used to hate him because he was the Blackhawk always sticking his nose in, instigating, or defending a teammate.
And his coaching stint was a disaster. He was an exceptional guy, though. Met him a few times and he did a lot for the community and the underprivileged.
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Post subject: Re: FEEDBACK THREAD
P-F1 Mod wrote:
But if you go into a topic expecting a certain subject to be under discussion and find that it's not what's being discussed, it gets confusing.
Yep it's not ideal but how does that confused person benefit from the thread being locked?
It's just always something that's done because convention says so rather than it actually being for anybodies gain.
In the case of race threads its only natural that eventually they drift onto subjects that the race brings up. If people want to discuss those finer points then what's the harm?
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It's hardly convention, we've only started doing it this year.
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Please report forum problems to us, via PM/Feedback Thread. Screenshots will also help.
I was musing more generally rather than specifically on official race threads.
My central point to the locking of race threads is to really just question who gets hurt by leaving them open? What do we lose?
It's pretty much infuriating how quickly race threads get locked. There is no question.
What, do we need official "race aftermath" or "thoughts on the race weekend" threads or something? Maybe that could work, but it's natural for tangents to arise in the main thread in the days following the race.
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Maybe the deadline could be moved further up, e.g. to the next race weekend?
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Invade wrote:
Frustratingly, the most recently locked race thread has, according to a mod, served its purpose. Well, looking down the first couple of pages of the forum, the overwhelming majority of threads have petered out and thus served their purpose I would assume. They're not locked though.
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Asphalt_World wrote:
Might as well lock this thread as well at this stage
"Always believe you will become the best, but never believe you have done so"
Schumacher forever#1 wrote:
We began locking race threads because a few days after events they started to become circular, and people entrenched in their positions were getting increasingly aggressive towards other users. So by leaving threads open, we'd have ended up having to ban people (since mods intervening in these circumstances often didn't work). We felt that since a ban is a last resort, and new threads usually pop up for specific incidents anyway, locking race threads was the sensible move. It also meant if two major incidents happened in a race that those two discussions weren't tripping over each other.
If you're using Abu Dhabi's aftermath to disprove our theories, you've hit on a flaw: the forum always goes quiet once the season is over.
I understand the problems involved in moderating the forum and do sympathise with the time and effort put it. It's just a shame that the good are punished because of the bad. I know I sound like a broken record, but the racing is the main reason we're here, but they're the threads that are locked, regardless of how the conversation is going. I would have no issue with them being locked, possibly temporarily, if the posting becomes offensive.
Locking threads because of some posting is like my school banning all of the children from going out at break-time simply because some of the children in the school are misbehaving during these times.
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Agree with that AW, what is clear to me is that the mods have a good grip on the sites moral and legal position and have in the past censored and even blocked posters for infractions.
The mods have tools at their disposal to deal with these miscreants, polite warnings, removing posts, blocking, either temporarily or permanently and locking threads. Shouldn't those sanctions be applied in that order with thread locking being the last resort?
Seems to mean that locking is a bit of a nuclear option and other methods might be just as effective.
I do recognise that the mods task is an invidious one and that what I am saying might be more work, however, since the protagonists are limited it might be a lesson that only needs instigate a couple of time to make a point.
Historically it's been extremely rare that we've intervened once a thread has become circular, and the thread doesn't instantly die. Locking therefore serves effectively the same purpose, except without the risk of our intervention being ignored. I agree that we shouldn't punish the whole forum by preventing discussion about the most recent race, but at the same time there's invariably another thread set up to discuss each of the major incidents anyway, so it's not like there's nowhere else to post. The race threads are traditionally just there for the duration of the race anyway. Their longer term survival is a newer phenomenon.
This sort of policy is always under review anyway, especially as it's only been in place for about a third of a season. The team has been discussing leaving them unlocked again next season. We'll see what happens.
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Board index ‹ Drowtales world ‹ Path to Power ‹ Conference Hall ‹ the view from the sidelines
Where the clan gathers to discuss the issues raised in the Leader and Event archives.
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Re: the view from the sidelines
by 3Power on Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:47 am
Ahahahahaha.... no.
You basically want to make three people in charge of key parts of the game and make it so only those people can talk to the GM? You have the ranked system all over again.
Also, exactly where do the qualifications for these "sub-GMs" come from? A GM runs the game, A GM knows what happens if the players do X, splitting that role among 4 people only ensures chaos in the upper echelons.
In the end, I am still seeing an attempt to give certain community members power over other community members.
Your concern seems to be (once again) a paranoid belief that one single action would unmake the clan and that without some sort of executive position in place to veto said action, this would inevitably occur. You are (unsuprisingly) ignoring the fact that such positions in the previous game, ranks, did more harm than good in this regard, wherein your office in particular caused a great deal of problems in the game by refusing to take any relevant action whatsoever. We cannot afford to have a single paranoid officer stall the entire game process because of her personal opinions on matters.
Majority rules, if the majority is stupid, then we get our just reward. It's that simple.
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by blackshade10 on Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:55 am
In my mind, it's the GM who determines this(the qualifications) and if you are a "sub-GM" you are not permitted to play the game until you stop being a GM. That removes an aspect of "Conflict of Interests".
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by thealbinobutterfly on Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:21 am
I keep understanding what i'm reading as, in terms of what the issues lay to: "we don't want leaders. we were unhappy with the ranked systems."
i am trying to say: " we need leaders, because what we had before was a flawed system that was not efficient. we should not scrap the idea of there being leaders entirely, that is an extreme. what we need is a system in place where there can be structure, and again, efficiency."
Trey'la, you bring up a good point that if we as a whole make bad decisions we will suffer. On this, we agree completely. The difference from before to what we may be facing in ptp 2.0 is, we had some, if flawed, structure before. As it stands we'll be scattered to do as we will D&D style, it seems. I would like to prevent us making collective bad decisions by a system being put in place that is not, as you think, a chokehold on our freedoms as players. It would be a support system to which there exists a chain of command as well as powers put in place to reduce negative impact on the game from bad decisions that may use resources or put the clan at risk, such as combat/warfare.
However, it is not intended and should not be used as a power grab. My original postings said that this system was originating from my belief we can't have just one GM. If for any reason thalar would run into any problems we, as players, will suffer in our game. We should agree to respect thalar's excellent track record, but understand that she is just one person with a life of her own, not managing a handful of people but 250. my reasonings stem from both person belief and personal experience beyond path to power. To share, There have been studies done by both the military and business corporations on how far you can push someone's limits as a leader. They found that with a prime leader, maximum person management stops at 30 people for each person. This means that optimally, to reduce stress on everyone, we should have 8 GM's. This does not mean that we, as players of path to power, need 8 main leaders but rather 8 avenues of buffer to work through to optimize ourselves for ptp 2.0.
Putting aside studies, facts, etc:
Blackshade, you say that if we had the additional 3 gm's i mentioned (warfare, economics, politics) that if they did not play the game, it would remove conflict of interest: on this i agree. we have already seen these accusations flung at madea, it is a solid part of our community out-of-game history. But as i understand it, Thalar will continue to play her character in-game.
This can go one of two ways:
one way is: as i mentioned before, we will see disgruntled players begin to hold it against Thalar, who no longer has the "good cop bad cop" routine with madea. She can even claim she can handle what we as the community will throw at her, but i severely doubt she will be able to maintain that for long, or, it will simply take one bad day to bring it all crashing down. This would be the same if we had those three GM's i suggested play as well.
second way: Thalar and the three gm's i suggested do not play. They become simply a managerial part of the game, to influence the game itself directly to remove a conflict of interests.
However, what i am suggesting is that we give the power to Thalar, and the three gm's i suggested.Thalar is part of drowtales staff, so her position would unlilkely ever be removed- however, the three GM's can't be expected to stay around forever, nor could we expect a removal of human greed/vanity/pride. The three GM's would be working under Thalar and she can remove them at any point in time if she feels they are doing a bad job. And under those three GM's, we would have a system similar to the one we have in ptp 1: guild leaders who act as the ranked had, but they can only bring major decisions forward to represent their group of interest, e.g., warriors represent scouts and warriors. foods & services represent harvesters, crafters, smiths, techs, etc. these guild leaders are exactly that- meant to lead in-game, the other players. It would not necessarily mean they get extra privellege, but rather that, for gameplay sake, if Anjhali was to go and counsel the clan on major decisions such as: "are we going to war with X Clan?" we would see the warriors guild leader at front with whomever was also involved within the warriors. They are figureheads, in essence, nothing more, but with duties to represent the interests of the group they are elected for.
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I'm still vehemently against having leaders, as I've little interest in being told how to run things by someone. The idea that me and my friends can work together independently on projects we like without a ranked decreeing that it's not worth that sections time in their eyes is something that I WANT in PtP2. Plus, I want to avoid all the unnecessary drama that comes with the elections. Don't say it won't happen- it will.
blackshade10 wrote: I'm still vehemently against having leaders, as I've little interest in being told how to run things by someone. The idea that me and my friends can work together independently on projects we like without a ranked decreeing that it's not worth that sections time in their eyes is something that I WANT in PtP2. Plus, I want to avoid all the unnecessary drama that comes with the elections. Don't say it won't happen- it will.
firstly, wow, you read fast, that large post is barely 45 seconds old.
I understand that there is a lot of disinterest in what we had before. I think from it, even at the time, there were people hurt by being unable to lead or be "heroes" or "leaders". There was a lot of vying for attention and a lot of power grabs. So i agree, it would happen, it's inevitable people will see the system as a chance for them to have influence on the game.
But, you have to understand there is a flaw to having none at all: On the other side of the coin, if we had no leaders at all and just the one leader: one person in charge will do the same thing. to re-post:
What it comes down too is that no official system should exist for leaders- natural leaders shall blossom. Some will not want to follow others, and will go off with others- that's alright. That's fine. They should not be forced to wade through a leader they dislike because the majority supported him or her. If I want to follow a leader because I think he's right- then it works fine. A mechanical system is unnecessary.
And yes, I do read very fast.
blackshade10 wrote: What it comes down too is that no official system should exist for leaders- natural leaders shall blossom. Some will not want to follow others, and will go off with others- that's alright. That's fine. They should not be forced to wade through a leader they dislike because the majority supported him or her. If I want to follow a leader because I think he's right- then it works fine. A mechanical system is unnecessary.
I can see that you are letting ptp 1 ruin what i am trying to convey here.
It's a romanticized thought but, think about this scenario:
You have natural leaders. these leaders will want control, or you will have the leaders who people flock to and listen. these are the two types of leaders that basically exist, anywhere.
with the softer leader, people will support him or her, but there are other leaders, as the first i explained, who will want control and there will be people who support that type of person as well. This is where the clashes ensue, and have already been ensuing in our community for years.
With a system in place where there is established positions for both types of leaderships to fill, its not a matter of you "waiting", it's a matter of who can do the job best. And this is why i said, it would be a vote-in, vote-out system, with thalar ultimately in charge of those types of decisions. What we lacked and what caused a bad taste in everyone's mouth was a lack of execution on who was genuinely doing a ruddy job and no one bothered to try to vote people out- and when they did- it caused drama.
If you implement a system from the get-go with established rules and lines, you won't run into as many problems as implementing it later. If you establish a system with a chain of command procedure, things become mroe organized and run more efficiently. but to dismiss the entire argument based on, "it won't work at all, it will inevitably have flaw at one point", is just to say that "the sky is blue and eventually it will rain." there is no such thing as a perfect system, anywhere, but we can't jump from extreme to extreme either.
Again: We should agree to respect thalar's excellent track record, but understand that she is just one person with a life of her own, not managing a small handful of people but 250. Having no support system in place for her will be asking for failure, as well.
by minalia on Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:09 am
It's very unlikely that all 250 people will be active and participate..at best half will be mere spectators and other half with be active players..and that half of active players will most likely never bother to read the forums or read the shoutbox.
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by Catriana on Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:35 am
Xenon, forgive me for not reading every reply of yours, as some of them were long and there's only so many ways you can say the same thing. I know it's probably been a little frustrating to double back.
There is nothing wrong with having leadership in a game. Every large game has them. Every online game has someone you can go to for issues. But that's the thing, you go to them for issues, and they keep folks from abusing the game, but they don't run the show. The difference with PTP1 is that the ranked did run the show, were paying extra to do so, and not all of them were qualified to do this for various reasons. It was an up and grab Charlie Foxtrot, leaving things open for corruption and in some cases, conflict. And when I say corruption, I mean from all sides. The amount of savagery that ensued the moment a position opened was absolutely ridiculous and disgusting to watch. It didn't take me long to decide I didn't ever want to be a Ranked, because being above such a heavily flawed system (where ranked decisions could pretty much be ousted by the clan, making their efforts pointless) was simply too much of a headache.
The only thing I ever debated on running for was a possibility of a merchant, because I have an actual educational background (albeit small) concerning business. But I digress, this really isn't my point.
I will have to disagree on there needing to be leaders in this game for it to run, however, I do not believe Thalar should be running the show by herself. It's taxing to run anything alone, but my idea is less controlling and more moderating/mediating.
- I believe that the forums should hold forced utilization. In order to post your suggestion, you MUST present it first and gather supporters. Unlike before, where arguments could go on and on, a member(s) would need only so many supporters to back them. Remember, all decisions must be approved by Thalar anyway, so sitting around a bitching at each other for days on end will be eliminated. You don't have to agree, it doesn't matter. What will matter is the group presenting the idea and whether or not Thalar thinks it works. If you cannot gather...say 3-4 extra individuals (Kern says the more the easier it'll be, but one or two people isn't going to get a job done, let's face it) then you should not be posting your option.
- What is needed is mediators/moderators, not leaders. Individuals who can watch the mass chaos and bring it some order, NOT try to control mass actions. Someone who keeps in contact and, after working with Thalar, will have an understanding of what could and could not go through. They could offer suggestions/advice, and if they know something is going to automatically get rejected due to whatever reason, they can put the smack down on it early, with a viable explanation, and move on. Of course, these would be individuals Thalar trusts to speak as her voice, but if members are that pissy about it, they'll know where to go.
Kern's system allows for anyone to post a suggestion no matter how ridiculous, because if it doesn't gather supporters it won't go through and GM has final word. This is flawed, because it means more work for Thalar when something can be set up and established to dampen the blow, so to speak. You can split suggestions up by Work Field, with a few moderators for each section.
Another way is to treat suggestions/plans like you would for a RP character submission: You present the plan/character, get advice from helpers or other members, gather supporters, and the Moderator gives you the OK before the deadline. In the end, no moderator can honestly STOP you from posting if Kern's system stays in place, but some organization is needed, I agree with Xenon on that.
As for how moderators are selected, that should be the GM's job. If she wanted, she could have individuals submit applications and select who she thinks would be best. I think Thalar is a great leader, and would choose wisely from the list. This keeps power hungry people at bay.
And before the "I bet you want to apply for this yourself" accusations come out: I have a writing career I'm working on. I have a novel due out this June and I'm currently writing full time. I also will be managing other things, I do not have the time nor the patience to deal with you all in a position of power. Especially for free. ♥
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Catriana
the system i presented doesn't have to be taken as the end all, from this conversation i only want us to see that there is a need for -something- in place rather than -nothing-. so, thank you, catriana~
*nods* I figured as much. It seemed like you wanted a solid discussion on how to establish some organization to the chaos and presented your idea, which was derailed and smacked down with accusations of vying for power and other such nonsense that had nothing really to do with your goal/agenda. I didn't see too many people offer any real support/expansion of what you were trying to do, so there be my .02
So yeah, I definitely agree with you, there needs to be something in place.
by Tamo Shua on Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:08 am
This is a pretty active forum. Addressing some concerns all players have, the most important is control. In this new social experiment we all have control. We can, will do what we want, when we want, and how we want. Kind of cool.
Now unlike ranked system in ptp1 we must try to convince others of a what we consider a worthy project, large or small. We must show it’s worth with thought. Those who want to join in on a project in the making will, those who wish to do something else will. We now have to keep track of our own stuff. If I gather books I have to know what they are, how many and in what condition there in ect. Bean counters will be happy.
The rest seem to be just words vying for, or to convince others of control of the group, be it the clan or sub house within the clan, or just a group or relic hunters, let’s try the system in ptp2 at least for a time, then decide if we wish a leader. In the end remember we can do what we want, even choose or make a leader. Granted as said before they will be temp leaders, lasting only as long as the good idea lasts. Personally I do not what to start with a small group of players with the power to delegate. It rubs me the wrong way, is to me, too open to abuse, and can silence another player on the most basic of questionable morals.
In the end and at this moment we are like Neoguri, a base, what we add to it is what we will become.
At the last take this will you. This is a game, we have paid our monies, and expect to be entertained.
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by James Rye on Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:36 am
I also don´t want more or less leaders with the power to stop player projects at once aka one opinion over many.
I remember that Kern wrote that *key positions* in PtP 2.0. will be filled by NPCs so that we have a Warmaster NPC and an Ambassador NPC while An'Jhali as pour Illhar is the last instance.
So players probably won´t be able to take over such powerful positions and if Thalar wants help then it´s up to her who to select to help her and what their work will be. It would be better if it´s only guiding/advising and not interacting/rejecting at the players idea.
For example lets take the Sargs. In PtP it happend three times that several people, sometimes over 10 persons wanted that we meet with the sargs leader for diplomatic issues. However, that never happend as the one in Ambassador charge delegated it further away cause it wasn´t a urgent case. That´s nothing against you, Xexe, as i think as well that back then there were first no good opportunity to talk to them and second it was to risky to do so for your own and your escorts lives.
However, there were people who wanted that talk to happen and it was asked three times.
Now in PtP 2.0. those people could select one or some of their group to meet with them to act as diplomats. As long as those 10 people vote for it, it will get through.
But here it is where we need guiding and advising, interacting and rejecting like in the beta shouldn´t be there as it destroys the 10 people motivation to play any further if their moves/plans/ideas are always ignored by one or two persons.
In PtP 2.0. there should be someone telling them, that can be Thalar or one of he selected *admins*, that this is a risky idea and can be very dangerous for their CS lives. If that willaffect the 10 peoples determination or not an if they still do this action or not, should still be up to those 10 individuals.
The biggest problem i see for myself in PtP 2.0 is not in the *action* department aka do we need a few people as leaders who tell the rest who are not what to do and what not, but in the *ressource* deaprtment.
Ressource jobs - Tool/stuff making jobs who use ressources - jobs who use those tools
Ressource jobs would be like miner, harvester and most likely as new one: wood cutter
Tool/stuff making jobs are Smiths, Techs and Crafters
Jobs who use those tools/ressource are Warriors, Scouts and Builders
Now here comes the problem. We see that we need miners and harvesters so that smiths and techs get enough ore, gems and other stuff so that warriors gets their armour and scouts their crossbows. We kow that smiths can build some toold for harvesters to make their work easier as well as techs can build some tools to make miners being more efficent. Warriors will protect and scouts scout the area.
But now what if follow scenario will happen:
We got 10 unit of ore in the store room, of the 8 miners we got only 4 turned in their action to get more ore. With their tools each miner makes 2 units rsulting in 8 extra units.
Now the smiths turn those 18 units into steel resulting in 9. But here comes the problem, the scouts demand more arrows as they don´t have enough for their upcoming feral hunt, but some smiths are already busy making steel while the rest had promised/works already together with the techs to turn those 9 steel bars into golem stuff to build a golem.
What if other remaining smiths says *sorry, i´m busy making armour.* or *making arrows is boring, i already promised to build on that golem*. The scouts would stand there with no arrow at the end of the turn though the ressources where there, the ones who could make them didn´t as well as they couldn´t make arrows as the steel bars were already used for the techs golem.
In PtP 2.0 i believe we might get into such situations some times were not enough ressources needs to be split between several projects OR one or two projects needs to be halt for one or two turns.
Now a way to avoid that would be that some players who are harvesters be miners for this turn so that enough ore can be produced to be turned into enough steel. But we know that if this will result that the harvesters first can´t do their original job as well as gain no level/exp in their original job.
This is where the Multis (many chara Player) and Sings (one chara Player) would come in as Kern already mentioned that feature.
The multis got one main and maybe two sub charas. If those multis see that there´s a problem in another job branch, they can halt their main and use one of their sub to help out there.
Fpr example a warrior main who also is a smith sub and a crafter who´s a miner sub. The crafter player let his crafter rest a turn as he can only use one of his charas, so that he can help getting more ore. The Warrior will not train/patrol this turn as he sees it more important to make arrows for the scouts as smith though that´s not his main chara
The SIngs aka the ones who only use one chara aka only one job are high-leveled specialists, so a level 10 smith who decides to make arrows will be able to make 10 in one turn while a level 2 sub smith can only do 2. Also a high-level warrior/crafter may be able to do the share of their colleagues who are helping out in other jobs, so could a level 12 crafter do the extra work of the now missing level 6 crafter who helps out as level 3 miner right now.
That´s just how i see it. If we get many projects/different ideas we gonna need a ressource system to avoid that some groups ge superior control over those or deny other new groups the ressources they need.
That´s where admins could come in if Thalar needs them.
I say for now, we should wait till PtP 2.0 starts and wait if Thalar cannot do the whole work in the first month.
But as someone already said, only half of those 250 plays and around half of them are more then 3 times per week in the forum. So i believe Thalar will be able to do most work.
Let´s wait and see and discuss till then how we want to name our new home/settlement. It needs to be a new name instead of Ther'avare, something fitting our new made home above under the sun and in the forrest.
@Catriana
Good luck on your writing career.
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by blackshade10 on Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:04 am
With all due respect Xe, no, I'm really not letting PtP1 ruin what you're trying to say, not in the slightest. I just believe that leaders are those who make themselves leaders- and that happens when you can rally support for something and it succeeds.
Thus, I really don't see the need for what you suggest is all. Cat's idea seems interesting, and I think that'll also simply develop on its own(Much like how Taruna is doing it right now. She's not a rank anymore, but she still has gotten people who want to be warriors together and organized them, all on her own.)
by Catriana on Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:41 am
blackshade10 wrote: With all due respect Xe, no, I'm really not letting PtP1 ruin what you're trying to say, not in the slightest. I just believe that leaders are those who make themselves leaders- and that happens when you can rally support for something and it succeeds.
**nods** My biggest thing would really be the forced utilization of the forums. Because many folks just join and don't contribute unless they want screen time, and that's to throw in some random LA option. Eventually Kern just started ignoring them, but the times he didn't kinda screwed us. I think the forums should play a larger role in the game's functions, because it's the only official way to communicate, which is important for working as a team. Beyond that, it's all up to how Thalar wants to run it.
The only thing about folks coming in and taking a natural leadership position is they're not working 'officially' and, more than likely, aren't working with Thalar. Being 'official' matters here. Yes, Taruna isn't getting a lot of crap because the game really isn't going anywhere...but once PtP2 starts, the more ambitious folks will start stepping in and on her toes...and what can she do about it? In the end, her voice doesn't mean much when it holds no 'official' weight. She'll still hold some control with those who are loyal to her, but that's about it.
In the end, some 'official' form of organization should be used, just to keep people from being overly ambitious and starting forum wars in a vie for power over another 'natural' leader.
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Because we'd had our onward flights brought forward we needed to get the tickets revalidated at the airport. For that reason we asked our Perth hotel to book a reasonably early bus to the airport. We wasted the early part of the day just mooching about in the centre of Perth watching the people go by. We were relieved when the bus turned up and it was a different driver than we'd had on the way into Perth. Neither of us were in the mood for his over jolly bantering and Little Britain impressions.
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The captain announced that Perth's engineers weren't happy, we could be waiting an hour on the tarmac. He told the flight attendants to open the bar while we waited. Unfortunately Perth airports engineering team obviously know the hitting it with a spanner technique, because ten minutes later we were told we would be on our way. The bar was cancelled, much to the dismay of the majority of passengers, myself included. If the truth be told I was almost hoping for a cancellation leading to being put up in a nice hotel and fed for a night or two.
I have complained enough about flights in general and overnight flights in particular so I won't go too much into it other than to say I spent the 6 ½ hours trying unsuccessfully to find a comfortable position for my head. Needless to say not much sleeping occurred.
Although our bags had been tagged through to Christchurch, because Auckland was our first port of entry, we had to collect them and clear immigration and customs. New Zealand clearances are, if anything, more in depth and harrowing than the Australian ones. The first guy didn't seem to like us much. He asked a lot of questions about what we were doing and didn't seem too happy at our lack of pre-planning. 'What are you planning in New Zealand?' he asked.
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'You have it hired already?'
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The biological threat bloke, didn't like the look of Gemma's shoes in combination with the fact we'd been in South East Asia in the last 30 days. He made her take them off and disappeared into a little room. When he came back the soles of the shoes were gleaming and clean. Eventually they seemed satisfied that we weren't coming to work, smuggle or destroy the forests of New Zealand and let us in.
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Fonda andiron from Pilgrim Home & Hearth.
Back in the day, hearth accessories such as glass doors, toolsets, wood baskets and much more represented substantial sales for most hearth dealers. Consumers were more interested in decorating their fireplaces, and given the dominance of wood burning at the time, most accessories were also practical and necessary.
Along came the rapid rise of gas fireplaces, matched by the equally speedy decline in sales of wood-burning products; the need for most hearth accessories just evaporated. Follow that up with a recession and a huge drop in new home construction, and hearth accessories were pushed to the rear of the store – and the minds of consumers.
Consumers no longer saw a need for many accessories, and most didn’t want to spend the extra money. Some hearth dealers also forgot about hearth accessories, not wanting to sour a too-infrequent big-ticket sale by suggesting accessories.
Fortunately the tide has changed for hearth accessories and most are making a slow sales comeback. With consumers beginning to spend again, hearth dealers are recognizing the bottom line value of the extra dollars that can be generated by sales of hearth accessories.
Danish Modern fire set from Minuteman International/ACHLA Designs.
The last 10 years have not been kind to most of the more prominent hearth accessories tracked by the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association (HPBA). Glass doors, including masonry, zero-clearance and OEM units, were particularly hard hit over the past decade; they were down 75 percent due mainly to the plunge in new home construction and the corresponding decline in fireplace sales.
Surprisingly, freestanding screens were up 13 percent, toolsets were up three percent and grates up a whopping 344 percent.
In 2013, glass doors led a bit of a recovery by being down only 0.7 percent. Standing screens continued strong, up 15 percent over 2012, but toolsets were down 35 percent and grates were off almost five percent.
In the first quarter of 2014, glass doors were up eight percent, while toolsets continued on a downward trend with a decline of 35 percent, and grates were off almost five percent.
“We’ve been an accessory wholesaler from our beginning,” says Steve Hall, president of Fireside Distributors in Raleigh, North Carolina. “Accessory sales for us picked up quite a bit last year, with the improvement in consumer discretionary spending and the increase in fireplace sales.”
According to Hall, many consumers are now viewing their fireplaces and fireplace accessories as outdated and are looking for ways to update and transform them to more current decorating trends.
“Quality accessories are starting to separate themselves from cheaper stuff, particularly with specialty dealers,” he says. “As the customer becomes more discriminating, lower-priced accessories are losing ground.”
Item 6155 hearth rug from Sand Hill Wholesale.
But for Fireside Distributors, the unsung hero of hearth accessory sales has been hearth rugs. Hall says the sales growth has been “huge.” Hearth rugs have shown the greatest percentage increase in sales throughout Fireside’s accessory category for the last three or four years.
Hall also says that traditional styling and customized finishes are strong sellers in toolsets and on standing screens.
“Bronzes and the natural iron, handmade looks are the biggest sellers,” he says, “with more customers matching toolsets finished to the screens. And there has been some re-emergence of polished brass.”
“Hearth accessory sales are doing well for us,” according to Dave DeBolt, general manager of Sand Hill Wholesale & Mfg., Columbus, Ohio. “They are a big part of what we offer.” DeBolt also says that hearth rugs are a “standout” seller.
“There are a lot of sales opportunities in hearth accessories,” he says. “The consumer may brush them off, saying they don’t need them, but many accessories are needed for the proper operation, performance, maintenance and convenience of their hearth appliances. Some dealers do an excellent job of bundling and promoting accessories, but accessories are overlooked by many. A dealer needs variety and options for the consumer. If they don’t ask the consumer about accessories, they won’t get that extra sale.”
Accessory manufacturer and distributor Minuteman International is bucking published sales trends with screen sales down and toolset sales strong.
“Also for us, hearth glove sales are strong, steamers sell well, and we sell doorway fans by the thousands,” says marketing manager Randy West. Minuteman has added a new fireplace candelabra to its extensive line, plus new standing screens, andirons and toolsets in “more modern-looking” stainless-steel for its Danish Modern series. DeBolt admits grates are not an exciting item, but the company has expanded its grate line with mesh tops and ash pans.
Stoll Fireplace Equipment has always been known for its quality glass doors, but a few years ago the company started getting requests from its dealers for good, American-made accessories such as toolsets and freestanding screens.
“So three years ago, we ventured into simple toolsets,” says Gary Yoder, national sales manager. “Dealer reaction was phenomenal, so two years ago we expanded the line, and sales are way up. Our glass door sales are up about 12 percent, but overall company sales are up even more because of these accessories.” The company’s accessories have been so successful that Stoll is adding a 75,000 sq. ft. building especially to build accessories.
Stoll is not selling as much stock “cash and carry” products as in years prior; its market has moved more to custom items, including freestanding screens priced as high as $1,000. The company has added toolsets in the same powder-coated finishes as its glass doors. In order to offer less expensive, American-made accessories, the company is importing some raw parts and then finishing and assembling them in its Abbeville, South Carolina, factory. But its hand rubbed craftsman finishes offer more pricey custom accessories, too.
Carolina Premier steel mantel from Stoll Fireplace.
New from Stoll is its Modern Series including a frameless, 3/8-in. glass, freestanding screen with stainless-steel feet, and aluminum glass doors and matching toolsets with a “simpler, cleaner, more modern look.” The company’s new Carolina Premier steel mantel is “a home run” with dealers, says Yoder. Not quite contemporary, this clean and simple shelf mantel is powder coated in any of Stoll’s finishes, or black coated over a brushed finish.
Empire Distributing up in Arcade, New York, has seen its accessory sales grow “drastically” the last two years after an earlier four-year lull, according to Jeremy Rupp, Operations manager. “But sales are certainly not where they were 20 or 30 years ago.” Quality accessories are selling best for Empire; top sellers are hearth rugs, freestanding screens and steamers. The company’s glass door sales are holding steady, while toolset sales have declined.
“Dealers are starting to educate themselves for these add-on sales that add profit,” says Rupp. He laments, however, that manufacturers are bringing in accessories from overseas and cannot keep up with the demand. “It happened last year, and it’s happening again this year after our strong early-buy sales.”
“Hearth accessories are our only business,” says Doug Jenks, president of Pilgrim Home & Hearth. The company must know that business well since Jenks says it’s experiencing an average 10 percent annual sales growth. “We’re up 35 percent this year even after a good 2013,” he says.
Jenks expects that growth to continue. He says there are 47 million fireplaces in the U.S., most “needing aesthetic help with this focal point in a home. We’re always going to need aesthetic accessories,” he says, and most hearth accessories are used more for aesthetics than for utility.
Jenks agrees with others that hearth rugs are a hot accessory, and says Pilgrim’s models have been updated with a more contemporary appearance. Pilgrim also has enjoyed increased sales in freestanding screens and spark guards because of consumer concerns over hot glass on fireplaces and stoves.
“We’re even getting calls regarding screens from hospitality sources because of their liability insurance concerns,” he says.
New for Pilgrim are single-panel and tri-panel standing screens and four-piece toolsets in the company’s Newport Collection, four sizes of stainless-steel grates and six styles of contemporary andirons.
That’s right, andirons! Jenks sees a resurgence in demand for decorative andirons. He also claims to have an edge on aesthetic design because of Pilgrim’s working relationship with key OEM customers who research design trends out at least 24 months.
“Dealers can certainly be successful with accessories, but they have to stock deep and have a dedicated display area,” Jenks says. “In a 4 x 5 ft. area, you can show a lot of accessories. Don’t go cheap, and don’t be afraid to present more expensive accessories to your customers. In a small space, accessories are a high-margin extra sale.”
Michael McCue, president of Condar Co., agrees.
Hawthorne glass door from Portland Willamette.
“Brick-and-mortar dealers can’t sell accessories if they don’t merchandise them. Some do it very well and are successful. But many more do such a lousy job of merchandising accessories that it’s no surprise they don’t sell them.”
Portland Willamette (PW), another big dog in glass doors, is also seeing sales growth in standing screens as a result of the hot glass issue. PW’s toolset sales have declined, and its glass door business is flat but stable.
“Glass doors for us have recently been mostly custom items,” says general manager John Boire, “but we’re seeing a trend back to more stock doors.” To answer that trend, PW is offering lower priced stock doors with wider side-bars to fit a wider range of fireplace openings.
Yes, hearth accessories are making a comeback. Now it’s up to hearth dealers to once again take advantage of the high margin, extra sales these products offer.
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Downey Jr wants Paltrow back in Iron Man’ universe
May 6, 2016 Hichku Team 0 Comment Robert Downey Jr
Los Angeles,(IANS): Actor Robert Downey Jr says he wants to get actress Gwyneth Paltrow back into “Iron Man” films so that he can make out with her.
The 51-year-old claimed that he has a ‘free pass with Gwyneth Paltrow’ on Wednesday’s “Howard Stern Show”, reports dailymail.co.uk.
He said: “My free pass – because her and Susan are such good friends – is Paltrow.”
But the cameras have to be ‘rolling on a take’ for them to legally lock lips.
“I got to get her back in these movies so I can make out with her onscreen again,” he said.
The 43-year-old actress plays Pepper Potts in all three “Iron Man” movies, but does not appear in the “Captain America: Civil war”. The film will release in India and US on May 6.
But he also said that she will be making a return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“She’s coming back. We need her,” he said.
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Musings: Odd Little World
I was reading an article about how the low cost of oil is prompting people to drive more and buy less fuel-efficient cars when it hit me: by using the remains of all these extinct plants and animals, we're causing the climate change that will result in a whole new round of extinctions.
And the associated sea level rise is happening faster than expected, as Jan TenBruggencate reports on Raising Islands blog.
Such an odd little world we've created....
Speaking of which, a funny thing happened in the Kauai District Court last week: all the cases were decided not by a judge, but a regular citizen wearing a black robe. Yes, there is a very fine line between the two.
Seems the Judiciary had delayed the reappointment papers of Per Diem Judge Joanthan Chun, so he wasn't actually certified when he presided over court last Thursday. Oops. Big do-over.
Prosecutor Justin Kollar doesn't plan to retry the cases, though, so citizens are spared having to cast their fate upon the court a second time.
How many people, do you suppose, get fined, arrested, even imprisoned, for missing court deadlines. But when the Judiciary does it, oh, well, nevah mind.
One big winner that day was the the kanaka maoli who was acquitted of soliciting at a state park after he allowed tourists to give him donations for taking his picture in a helmet and malo. Turns out Punohu Kekaualua, who claimed religious and cultural rights, was actually right when he said Chun had no jurisdiction over him. But ironically, because this is America he won't have to go through another trial.
Question now is whether charges willl be filed against the police officer who struck a young man who had already been hit by a car while responding to that call for help. Tragic. Details haven't been released, but the prosecutor's office has been consistently filing felony and misdemeanor charges against motorists who cause accidents involving injuries.
Speaking of police, two recent retirements may help to ease tensions at KPD. Assistant Chief Ale Qubilan, source of the complaint that prompted the mayor to suspend the chief, is now gone. So is Hank Barriga, who has been on medical leave for the past couple years, ever since he sided with Mark Begley, also still out on leave, in refusing to let the chief back in upon orders of the police commission, but not the mayor.
And like sands in the hourglass, so go the days of our lives in this odd little world we've created.
The Antarctic ice extent is still above the mean.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/sea-ice-page/
I wouldn't get too excited about this.
I drove with an expired license to court to be convicted by the judge with an expired license.
Study after study reports alarming increases in the rates of Antarctic ice melt, but to many people it's of no concern. Snug in their consumerist cocoons, they stay smugly unconcerned about future generations.
Anonymous 9:42-
You left out an important word in citing Wattsupwiththat: "Sea."
Winter Sea ice is increasing but land ice (as mentioned in the Raising Island's blog cited by Joan) is decreasing. Antarctic Sea Ice melts every summer and forms every winter. So its impact on sea level rise is negligible. Whereas land ice represents centuries of accumulated moisture that, when it melts (as the West Anarctic Ice Sheet and Greenland rapidly are) raises sea level. As Jon Stewart famously presented: pour ice into a cup, and the cup overflows: http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/8q3nmm/burn-noticed
The graphs in Wattsupwiththat are all exclusively sea ice. A quick google search on sea ice brings up a few theories for why winter Antarctic sea ice is increasing at 1% per year: a higher freshwater content (from melting land ice) allows the water to freeze at higher temps, that increased heat leads to more precipitation, or, as published in the Journal Nature in terms that are beyond my intro college meteorology course:
"In recent decades, Antarctica has experienced pronounced climatechanges. The Antarctic Peninsula exhibited the strongest warming1,2of any region on the planet, causing rapid changes in land ice3,4.Additionally, in contrast to the sea-ice decline over the Arctic, Antarcticsea ice has not declined, but has instead undergone a perplexingredistribution5,6. Antarctic climate is influenced by, among otherfactors, changes in radiative forcing7and remote Pacific climatevariability8,9, but none explains the observed Antarctic Peninsulawarming or the sea-ice redistribution in austral winter. However, inthe north and tropical Atlantic Ocean, the Atlantic MultidecadalOscillation10,11(a leading mode of sea surface temperature variability) has been overlooked in this context. Here we show that seasurface warming related to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillationreduces the surface pressure in the Amundsen Sea and contributesto the observed dipole-like sea-ice redistribution between the Rossand Amundsen–Bellingshausen–Weddell seas and to the AntarcticPeninsula warming. Support for these findings comes from analysisof observational and reanalysis data, and independently from bothcomprehensive and idealized atmospheric model simulations. We suggest that the north and tropical Atlantic is important for projections offuture climate change in Antarctica, andhas the potentialto affect the global thermohaline circulation6and sea-level change3,12"
http://tinyurl.com/nature-climate-antarctic
As Obama said last night:
"I’ve heard some folks try to dodge the evidence by saying they’re not scientists; that we don’t have enough information to act. Well, I’m not a scientist, either. But you know what — I know a lot of really good scientists at NASA, and NOAA, and at our major universities. The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we’ll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe. The Pentagon says that climate change poses immediate risks to our national security. We should act like it."
Thank you Joan for sharing the link to science reporter Jan TenBruggencate's invaluable blog.
The fact of the matter is...... Nobody knows where oil comes from .
Not sure I would quote the guy who refuses to label terrorists, Islamic extremists. And that we all can agree on.
Look at the mountains. We haven't had rain (except for maybe one or two days) this month and it's supposed to be the rainy season. The trades that bring rain to the windward side have not appeared for I don't know how long. Is this climate change? I don't know but it sure seems like something unprecedented is happening.
12:23 PM wrote:
That's not a fact, that's an urban superstition, like the belief that the measles vaccine causes autism.
In an age where critical thinking continues down the crapper (nearly half of U.S. millennials believe astrology is a science), pop cults of misinformation abound for everything from global warming to GMOs.
All of which would mean nothing more than another season of silly pseudo-science TV documentaries, were it not for the fact that these dimbulbs vote.
And people wonder where the Barcas and Hoosers of life get their following.
Luke, I am perfectly aware of what the Sea Ice Reference page refers. All of the WUWT reference pages are considered indispensable resources in the field. Warmists cheer when it shows decline, ignore it when it shows growth.
There is every indication that the total ice mass of East Antarctica has increased dramatically since 2009. The peninsula is the exception, continuing a steady but rather minor decline for the last 20 years. Since the satellite data show the interior of Antarctica cooling, CO2 is not the cause.
Further the models are clearly wrong.
That having been said, hysteria and alarmism over what appears to be a failed hypothesis detracts from real environmental issues that are of more immediate concern and are vastly more measurable.
The world is ending. In the past it was the religious nuts proclaiming that God's judgement was close. Today, since there ain't no religion, the nutjobs are saying "the world is ending", not by God, but by Man.
As important as we think we are, the earth has been here quite while. How in Zues' name do you say that all critical things are done during our measly 80 year lifetime?
Do humans cause change? Yes. But the cataclysmic doom espoused by the many is total hogwash. Yes, we got no religion, Nature must be God, And God is now punishing us.
Y'all remind me of the woman who heard in a seminar that the universe would end in 8 trillion years, "WHAT?" she screamed. When ascertained that it was 8 trillion she says" Oh Thank God, I thought you said the earth would end in 8 billion years."
The sun's light takes 8 minutes to reach us.....better start worrying now, you may only have 8 minutes.
As the World Turns.
The real ice problem is not sea ice or land ice ... it's crystal meth. That "ice" problem has manifested itself on Kauai long before any rise of the sea level will impact our residents. It's nice to think about future problems but let's start facing the ones before us here and now. No affordable housing, deadend jobs for locals, grandparents having to raise their grandchildren, and cost of living hikes seemingly year after year.
Grandparents could have taught their kids to keep their legs closed, and encouraged education.
Luke Evslin said...
Anonymous 3:07,
It's a red herring to share that sea ice is expanding when the cited article was about rapid melting in Greenland and West Antarctica. It's like me refuting that 2014 was the planet's hottest year (since we began taking temps) by saying Lihu'e recently had its lowest recorded temperature.
Nobody is saying that climate change will end life on earth; but it's definitely going to make it hard for humans. There is currently more co2 in the atmosphere than there has been for all of human existence. The last time Co2 was this high the temperature of the planet was 11 degrees higher and sea levels likely 100 feet higher. Annual carbon emissions are currently 58% higher than they were in 1990 and we've increased the Co2 content of the atmosphere by 40% since the industrial revolution with the very large majority of that increase coming in the last eighty years. Yes, a lot can happen in eighty years. Please don't take my word for it-- check out what NASA says or read the IPCC report which was endorsed by the 192 member nations of the UN.
I, as everyone who grew up on Kaua'i, have lost many, many friends to crystal meth. It's like a cancer that disproportionately affects the young and disadvantaged and, without a doubt, it's the biggest current tragedy on Kaua'i. However, I wasn't aware that fighting meth or creating affordable housing means that we can't also work to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
@ 4:24 PM - no one is discrediting that meth and education are important issues but we can't continue to put global warming on the back burner. It's not a future problem; it's impacting our world and affecting our environment and health NOW. By the time it's severe enough for you & many others to notice it's a reality, it will be too late and FYI it is caused by humans. For example, we on Kauai have been guilty of driving fuel inefficient cars for years. Too many people "need" their Hummer, F150/250/whatever big truck they drive as a status symbol. People take pride it in for whatever reason -few actually need them. Most don't care what the impact is, but:
*Earth is warming because of global warming pollution, and transportation-related sources are a major contributor.
*Passenger cars and light trucks produce almost one-fifth of the nation’s global warming pollution
*The U.S. transportation sector alone emits more carbon emissions than all but three other countries' total emissions
(*Union of Concerned Scientists)
The fact of the matter is entirely correct, The crude oil we pump out of the earth is not the fabled result of millions of years of hyper compressed dinosaur and vegetation remains. Natural gas is but not oil. That is a myth big oil likes to keep alive to bolster their claims that we're going to run out soon justifying the supply/demand equation to keep prices inflated. No one is sure just what or why oil is. One theory is that it is a naturally occurring process of super compressed methane that comes from deep within the earth and lubricates the tectonic plate movements, but no one is sure yet. The major deposits of the stuff are apparently found along the plate lines which lends to that theory. But one thing is certain, there is no end to it, rather an endless abundance to which we are being held slave for the enormous profits of the global oil industry.
2014 is by no means the hottest year. It is not even the third hottest in the last decade. The confidence of the .02 C is less than half. Thirty eight percent. A exaggerated claim, the hottest years in the USA were likely between 1934-1940.
If sheet ice is a red herring, it is one continuely trumpeted by NOAA. Except when it is not.
CO2 is far from a weather driver.,
As you said, 1934 was likely the hottest year in the US, but it was the 49th hottest globally. According to NOAA, the hottest ten years on record are (in order):
2014, 2010, 2005, 1998, 2013, 2003, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2007, 2004. You notice a clustering?
Sea Ice is a red herring when you use it to refute an article on land ice.
I am sure that you passionately believe that Co2 does not impact the climate-- but, rather than an anonymous blog commentator, I will choose to trust the scientific agencies that say otherwise:
Academia Brasiliera de Ciências (Bazil)
Academié des Sciences (France)
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Germany)
Accademia dei Lincei (Italy)
Science Council of Japan
Royal Society (United Kingdom)
National Academy of Sciences (United States of America)
Australian Academy of Sciences
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts
Caribbean Academy of Sciences
Indonesian Academy of Sciences
Royal Irish Academy
Academy of Sciences Malaysia
Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS)
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
State of the Canadian Cryosphere (SOCC)
Royal Society of the United Kingdom (RS)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
American Meteorological Society (AMS)
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS)
12:13 nice explanation Did you know that Titan which is one of Saturns moons has mass quatntities of Methane
The major deposits of the stuff are apparently found along the plate lines which lends to that theory.
...Except when major deposits of the stuff are found where there are no plate lines. Like, ohhh, say... Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and North Dakota.
But one thing is certain, there is no end to it, rather an endless abundance to which we are being held slave for the enormous profits of the global oil industry.
...Except for the billions of barrels of it that are being sprayed into the air as chemtrails by the airline industry, which is in cahoots with the government in a plot to pollute your precious bodily fluids. (Control of your mind, they already have. )
A exaggerated claim, the hottest years in the USA were likely between 1934-1940.
12:53? Meet 12:13. You guys definitely should do lunch.
Musings: Facts and Fancy
Musings: Rat Pack
Musings: Hooser's Conflicting Roles
Musings: Reader Interactions
Musings: Fools and Fanatics
Musings: Slick Shtick
Musings: Forfeiting Assets
Musings: Getting Burned
Musings: Still SMH
Musings: Smokescreen
Musings: Emotional Impacts
Musings: The New Colonialism
Musings: KPD Tries Body Cams
Musings: Witch Hunt
Musings: Two Steps Ahead
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The Harper Effect by Taryn Bashford
Sixteen-year-old Harper was once a rising star on the tennis court—until her coach dropped her for being “mentally weak.” Without tennis, who is she? Her confidence at an all-time low, she secretly turns to her childhood friend, next-door neighbor Jacob—who also happens to be her sister’s very recent ex-boyfriend. If her sister finds out, it will mean a family war.
But when Harper is taken on by a new coach who wants her to train with Colt, a cold, defensive, brooding young tennis phenom, she hits the court all the harder, if only to prove Colt wrong. But as the two learn to become a team, Harper gets glimpses of the vulnerable boy beneath the surface, the boy who was deeply scarred by his family’s dark and scandalous past. The boy she could easily find herself falling for.
As she walks a fine line between Colt’s secrets, her forbidden love, and a game that demands nothing but the best, Harper must decide between her past and her future and between two boys who send her head spinning. Is the cost of winning the game is worth losing everything?
The Harper Effect is a debut YA novel by Australian author Taryn Bashford, taking the reader deep into the world of professional tennis. It’s as much a romance novel as it is a fun, sporty novel for tennis fans.
I love tennis. It’s probably one of my favourite sports. So to find a YA novel that features this much tennis was amazing. I loved all the behind-the-scenes exchanges and all the travel, and I love how this book wasn’t just about the lead up to one tournament, but several. Throughout the book, Harper and Colt perform many times together, and they learn something new about each other with each match.
Later Milo talks tactics and strategies — how we must know our opponents, when they’ve won and lost, why they’ve won and lost, how we adapt to them. ‘Winning is not only about how well you play, it’s about how well you make your opponent play badly,’ he says.
It’s so refreshing to read a young adult novel where the character’s love of sport is not just a mentioned trait, but is actually embedded in the storyline. This novel is not just about Harper’s tricky relationship with her sister’s ex-boyfriend. It’s about her love for tennis and her determination to succeed, and her efforts in learning to understand her somewhat moody — but troubled — doubles partner Colt.
Taryn Bashford does a really fantastic job of illustrating the relationship between a teen and their parent, particularly when the child has made poor choices. When Harper’s dad sees her kissing Jacob, he’s really disappointed in her, and I found this exchange to be really relatable and believable. I also think that the strong relationship that Harper has with her dad is really great to read about — I love YA novels that actually feature parents in the storyline. Absent parents can be frustrating in a YA novel.
Despite loving this novel and absolutely adoring all the tennis, I did find it rather unbelievable that two young teenagers would make it as far as they did so quickly. It’s not impossible, but Colt and Harper both make it very far for how young they are. I guess part of me felt like in real life, there’d be a lot more losses before they succeeded as well as they did. Additionally, the book is filled with metaphors and similes that are a bit redundant and could’ve been cut from the book.
“When we arrive for training I’m in the mood to wrap the tennis net around the throat of the first person who speaks to me. I march onto the court and throw my bag at the ground.”
I felt that Jacob’s character seemed to escalate at a really fast rate. Towards the end of the novel, his behaviour seems a little too extreme, and I thought his antagonistic attitude could’ve been reduced a bit.
This is great summer read, perfect for lounging by the pool or the beach and enjoying the story — I read this over my summer holiday and thought it was really fun. I’m a huge fan of tennis though, and it’s the Australian Open, after all. Perfect timing!
Thank you to the publishers for sending me a review copy in exchange for an honest review.
The Harper Effect
Taryn Bashford
Pan Macmillan Publishers
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Jeffrey Skinner
In 2006 Jeffrey Skinner was awarded his second Creative Writing Fellowship ($20,000) from the National Endowment for the Arts. His fifth book of poetry, Salt Water Amnesia, appeared in 2005 from Ausable Press. He has published four previous collections: Late Stars (Wesleyan University Press), A Guide to Forgetting (a winner in the 1987 National Poetry series, chosen by Tess Gallagher, published by Graywolf Press), The Company of Heaven (Pitt Poetry Series), and Gender Studies, (Miami University Press). Four of Skinner’s plays have been finalists in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Conference competition. His latest play, DOWN RANGE, was produced at Theatre 3 in New York City for a limited run in October and November of 2009. Skinner’s poems have appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Bomb, Fence, Diagram, and The Georgia, Iowa , and Paris Reviews, and his poems, plays and stories have gathered grants, fellowships, and awards from such sources as the NEA, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the state arts agencies of Connecticut, Delaware, and Kentucky. Over the years Skinner has made his living in a variety of ways, including work as social psychologist, actor, waterfront director, factory stock man, and private detective. He currently teaches at the University of Louisville.
ELEGY WITH YELLOW BOAT
To Ann Byers
The inconsiderate gulls came early
each morning, crying like old hinges.
Tom had trouble sleeping. But you
slept soundly and when you woke
sat with coffee, stealing a little time
on the dock before the children
commenced their litany of need,
your two-handed grip tilting
the mug to your lips, your eyes
squinting happily in the brightness–
blue above translucent green.
Turn: calmly as I approach
with the camera, click: your skin pale
as the white mug, your black hair
lifted by wind to the brim
of your straw hat. Jack, bitten by
a horsefly (the infected wound
ballooned his arm until it seemed
the arm of an older, fatter child), played
a round of miniature golf,
his hand raised in the air as if
perpetually waiting to be called on.
This was long before any hint
of your illness. We all felt sad for Jack.
At night you and Tom and Sarah
drank wine while I, newly sober,
made do with cranberry juice
and soda water, all of us talking/
flirting/teasing on the glassed-in porch,
light comedy played against the sun’s
hammy death-scene, neon-orange
and purple sinking down
behind Horseshoe Island. And
Tom, remember? looked like a giant
in the little yellow boat;
when he stood and tried to fix
the mast, thirty yards out
then swamped–Christ, we laughed!
And: picking cherries in the orchard
outside Fish Creek; the cherry-
pie making-mess that filled the kitchen
with white dust; our children’s voices
spiking off the bay’s surface . . .
Ann, it’s hard to talk to you
now. When I’m with your husband
and children your absence whelms,
I feel submerged, and see you
with my latent eyes
stroke Anna’s hair, Jack’s cheek.
You are someplace, sure.
And I don’t mean that swarm
of atoms giving you form has found
other form, or will. I mean woman
we would recognize, a place
that is a place. Where
is it then . . . We took a sail
on the little yellow boat, you and I
one dusk when the water smoothed,
careful stepping in, pushing off,
so as not to follow Tom.
I don’t remember what we said
though we must have joked–
your dry wit straight-man to my
absurdist bent. Or was it only that
I loved your laugh? I do remember
the wind was off and on
and we drifted, becalmed, watching
gulls wheel over Anderson’s Dock,
small waves fold in beneath
the hull. Also, I remember our families’
impatience at our return, because
we’d kept dinner waiting: squalls broken
out among the children, meat overdone,
etc. All came right before sleep.
This is what I remember.
Now you have drifted out alone
and we are still on shore, if you’ll
excuse the beaten metaphor.
But maybe you won’t. Maybe
I should say you died and let it go
at that, the distance too far
for any language, common, or rare.
Besides, you knew the difference
between true feeling and sentimentality–
knew then and must know now
where you stand. But, listen: I’m glad you
have not left us, entirely.
I’m glad love is too enormous
to follow rules of time and space;
glad you can read this now without glasses.
And: I’ll see you, when I see you.
It was written in the late nineties, soon after my friend Ann Byers died of breast cancer.
Fewer than most. I believe I finished this poem very fast; perhaps a week between the first and final draft.
I do believe in inspiration, and pray it visits me often. But always it comes in its own unpredictable time. And one goes on writing in any case. This poem happens to be one of those “received poems,” largely because, I think, I was not writing for any reason but my own grief. I wanted to make something that would hold the memory of my friend, and not thinking a whit about publication. Really. As to sweat and tears—I remember the poem arrived with relative ease. The tears came before, and after, but not during composition.
With my narrative poems, of which this is an example, I generally begin by re-placing myself within the perceptual space of a memory. In this case I remembered a joint vacation on Green Bay with Ann (and her husband Tom and their kids Jack and Anna) and began with Tom’s complaint that the seagulls woke him. From there a string of associative images unrolled like a scroll painting. I looked, and the words came more or less simultaneous with the images. Our time there was brief, like all vacations, but had a kind of laid back intensity, so that the details had a searing brightness. Or perhaps Ann’s death suddenly cast all memory of her in the dramatic light of mortality. In any case it was fun, and the deep value of friendship casually apparent. During composition I also followed my mind, as it shifted, allowing naïve questions we are perhaps not supposed to ask (Where was “Ann” now? What had happened to her essence, her Ann-ness, her soul?) to enter the moving scroll. Speaking of which—the poem, now that I think of it, pays homage to Wang Wei and others of his period.
Well, I’m no longer sure what technique is in reference to poetry. I know, I think, how to write a line with leanness, and to focus the vision so that irrelevance is excised. I know how to tune an image, a verb, an adjective, etc. —to maximize freshness and surprise. I think I know how to do
these things. But I’m not conscious of doing them. Is this technique?
I think this poem appeared in the Southwest Review a year or two after I finished it.
My practice varies. I like to let poems sit, generally, a year or more before sending them out. My judgment about new poems is crushingly suspect. On the other hand, patience is not one of my natural virtues, and occasionally I send things out the week after composition. (Note to self: Do I have any natural virtues?).
The emotionally charged fact is what I wish to find and use to build the larger fiction of a poem.
Yes. Though I like to think I write more of a narrative/meditative kind of hybrid. Narrative poetry has become unfashionable just now. But in fact story is neither in nor out of fashion, but above it.
No, I honestly don’t remember. I’m always reading something, of course. But as I said, I hear Wang Wei in this, and maybe the Rexroth of Signature of All Things, and, oh, a hundred
others . . . .
Not when I’m writing. Then I am only writing. But I think all I do is eventually aimed at people like my father—those who came from the working class and, by dint of awareness, intelligence, invention, compassion, and sweat, work themselves out of it.
I’m very lucky to have married a superb poet/writer named Sarah Gorham. She reads every poem I write, and is my best editor. I try to return the favor.
It sounds very like my other good poems, I think. It is one that people seem to react to strongly, though. I wish such reaction for all my poems; but one can’t just write elegies. The cost to those around one would be too dear.
It is big-hearted, and both blunt and precise.
Finished. You would not be interested in my abandoned poems.
JLC January 31, 2011 at 2:41 PM
Elegy is what drew me back to trying to write poetry. I hadn't thought of using such a story form. Now I will. Tears don't come easily after great loss, I find, as you suggested about them not arriving during your writing. This poem brought them nearer to me than almost anything I've read in the past two years. Thank you for beauty and truth and accessibility.
... Paige February 2, 2011 at 5:15 PM
broken hearted and still in love with the laughter
Laura February 6, 2011 at 3:52 PM
Jeffrey Skinner is one of my favorites. I so appreciate his tenderness - in teaching, living, and writing. Thank you, Jeffrey.
I remember your earlier days of poetry readings in Connecticut circa 1983. In early October of 2008 I was in an apartment in Stamford casting about for novel ways of justifying my existence here on Earth when I decided to try poetry. I've assembled a collection of my 38 least terrible ones for public readings. My last experiment was here in SoCal on Hollywood Boulevard in October of 2015. But I wrote an impromptu line of poetry many years ago that, I eventually discovered, was also part of a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. It went like this: [Invisible guard. He moves through the shadows] LIKE A PHANTOM AMONG MEN. And if your memory is really, really sharp you'll recall the incident because Ray Mancini (not the boxer) told me you happened to read the report in which that line was imbedded. Merry Christmas!
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An F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter taxies to be refueled on the flight deck of amphibious assault ship Wasp (LHD-1) during night operations, a part of Operational Testing 1, May, 22, 2015. (Cpl. Anne K. Henry/Marine Corps)
By: Shawn Snow
The Marine Corps’ F-35B joint strike fighters will deploy on a ship with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, marking the first time the fifth-generation fighters are deploying with a stateside unit, Marine officials announced Tuesday.
The F-35Bs are coming from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron VMFA 211 at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona.
The 13th MEU is gearing up for a six-month intensive training workup before deployment aboard three different amphibious ships, and to announce the occasion, the expeditionary unit posted a video to its official social media pages to welcome the various units that comprise the MEU.
“Today the 13th MEU makes history,” said Col. Chandler Nelms, the 13th MEU commanding officer, in the welcome video. “Welcome to the fighting 13th and get ready for a wild ride.”
The deployment of the F35B, which can take off and land vertically on an amphibious assault ship, is a key step in the Corps’ long-term plan to replace its current fleet of tactical aircraft — the F/A-18 Hornets, EA-6B Prowlers and AV-8B Harriers — with the new fifth-generation fighters by 2032.
The F-35B will be stationed on the USS Essex (LHD-2), a Wasp-class amphibious ship.
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oops!…i did it again: i cant remember to forget you (FKA MEANINGFUL)
I. Two Days After Whateverdaythegrammystookplacethisyear
I was taking about sex with a new person when I said I was annoyed choking is not on the table as an option. Then I said my ex’s name and remembered how she loved it.
“Oh, I know,” came his Freudian drip. I then punched him pretty hard on his arm, but without being violent. I was kind of upset, but I also knew he didn’t mean to hurt me, his tongue just worked faster than his brain in that moment.
The weird thing is, Billy was probably the victim in all of this. During a time we were trying to be over I surrounded myself with friends who weren’t shared, friends who didn’t let me respond to her manic pleas for reciprocity. So I saw the blocks of texts arrive, and I ignored them, but not because I wanted to ignore them. I was still forcing myself to not respond. That’s when it happened. I know because we eventually got back together and she never told me. But one day I went through her phone and saw her bragging texts about Billy and how he fucks like a rabbit and how the best part of it was that Billy was my good friend. She was bragging about it, but how unfortunate was that? She, who I successfully ignored, intentionally turned to someone else to hurt me for ignoring her. “Positional play is the maneuvering of opponents into the forced clarification of their (but not your) tactical lines of action,” and that was what she was doing. But we all got played in the end, thankfully including her.
Sometimes we do things for unclear reasons. Maybe because they feel good. Is that a reason? I think so, especially when I do the things. Is it worse when the sex is perfect with an idiot or when the sex is boring with a genius? I dunno, but I hope to have less of it and try to make it meaningful.
There is this mix I was listening to recently and it is very good, but I have a problem with it: it closes with a juxtaposition of Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me A River” and Britney Spears’ “Everytime.” Hopefully, I need not clarify why that poses a problem, but if I must let me say I have a problem with myself for feeling sorry for Britney, when she was the one doing things for unclear reasons because they felt good. “This song is my sorry,” is a fucked up lyric to be used in a pop song when it is truly personal, and in Spears’ case at that time it was. [1]
You might remember my friend “Billy?” You probably don’t, so here. We grabbed lunch together last week, it was pretty fun. We got Ramen and talked about stuff on a broad scale: the things we are doing for money, the people we have been getting naked with and, naturally, cultural ephemera. An ephemeron we addressed for example was the Grammys ceremony and how we felt about some of the performances and awards. Of course neither of us was able to watch past the first half, or perhaps nothing of note happened in that half. We shall never know!
What we do know: Billy is dating someone seriously, and she is taking him a lot more seriously than he is her. She is “intense” and “confrontational.” She senses what they both know. Basically what he is saying is that he is not up for it. He likes her, but she feels for him in ways he doesn’t. I tell Billy to tell her that he knows her intuition is right. To stop playing along and pretending he doesn’t see what she is right to notice their “thing” is missing.
Must we pass over in silence what we cannot speak about?
II. Whateverdaythegrammystookplacethisyear
THE *REAL* GRAMMYS, HAPPENING EONS BEFORE THE SUPERBOWL
I watched them with my friend who will not be told when she must cease thinking about Beyonce’s net shorts. (“i hate how everything moves so quickly. it’s like just because a few days have passed doesn’t mean i’m not still thinking about the grammys. sure, not MOST of the grammys. but i’ll be thinking about her netted costume for a WHILE. why does the internet want everyone’s brains on fast forward?”)
I could not believe how fortunate it was that I happened to be near a television! I was casually complaining about life to a dear friend on a Whateverdaythegrammystookplacethisyear when all of a sudden… Beyonce! I never fully get how award shows work, their purpose and how the selection process works for who gets nominated for what. But if they start with Beyonce, I am totally mesmerized and willing to watch with full attention and the occasional loud “OH MY BEYONCEEE!” There were multiple of those, and people on the receiving end of Beyonce’s electric chair were electrified, as expected, jumping up and down their couches everywhere, unless they lived on the West Coast, and thus were penalized for their decision .
The *Real* Grammys seem to be organized by a panel of Ladies… who Love Cool J. Why is he the presenter? Why do they keep Doin’ It (feat Leshaun)? The sartorial negligence of the Cool James was apparent as he momentarily shared a stage with an immaculately dressed First Husband of America. Let’s just say there were no ZZZs in Jay-Z’s perfect outfit, and even less ZZZs were there to be found in the way the Presidential couple looked like while performing together during the *Real* Grammys, intoxicating everyone with their intoxication.
The deep blue sea of sartorial hmmms deepened further when our favorite Neptune decided to hide his crown under a hat, and all of humanity wondered: “Pharrell. Why!” He was still perfect, and at least wasn’t being ridiculous like those dudes who must have been sweating balls in their anonymity protecting helmets.
But looks and looking supa dupa fly are not all that matters in music these days. The young musicians have set up the bar mad high, where only Lordes can fly, and your prepackaged Dark Unicorn won’t fly you there despite its hypnotic beat (gah, this hasn’t happened to my brain (?) since when Gwen Stefani was cheerleading) that encourages obsessive repeat-play.
If the producers of your album aren’t Illuminati, you might have to join a circus. In the words of pop-princess (does she keep being princess until Madonna dies?) Britney Spears: “There’s only two types of people in the world: the ones that entertain, and the ones that observe.” Pink misunderstood the distinction and thought being observed was synonymous to entertaining, but acrobatics are all the ZZZs Jay-Z was missing that night. Except for her thigh strength, which so wow, very anti-ZZZ!
[*serious-y chunk*]
Anyway, time to get serious-y. Let’s address the thing that agitated most of us about the *Real* Grammys: Kendrick Lamar—who was, is and will always be objectively the best in everything for which he was nominated—didn’t win anything. Then the band (is Macklemore a band? or just that dude with the two-year old Freeman’s Alley barbershop hair a solo thing?) made the crass, gross error of trying to recognized their (his?) inferiority by sharing the thought with all their fans. This literally felt like a violent slap to everyone: (1) the people who might have thought Mackleduders deserved to win stuff, (2) the people who wanted Kendrick to win stuff and were frustrated he didn’t, and (3) let’s not even think about all the other very sensitive and insecure artists who were both nominated and lost and not even publicly recognized by the true winner of stuff they lost as the ones worthy of winning.
To think this band (or dude? I really have to find out at this point!) would even consider considering publicly sharing a private message he sent which should have been private, because eww band or dude, get a publicist! The negative criticism they (or “he,” whichever is correct!) have received is totally deserved. Bad apologies are in poorer taste than not apologizing at all, and this one was a very selfish and self-aggrandizing one. The reason this “apology” really sucked was the way it was portrayed and whored out via social media. There is a Kendrick song called “Real.” It is greatly introspective and reflective, further showing where in the “real nigga” doctrine Kendrick falls: he is not obsessed with appearances in a way consuming his music’s production.
The song stresses the importance of showing up, of being “real” in a way that is vulnerable:
The reason why I know you very well/ cause we have the same eyes can’t you tell?/ the days I tried to cover up and conceal/ my pride, it only made it harder for me to deal
[*end of serious-y chunk*]
Speaking of #Unapologetic, sources close to the Barbadian queen of pop Rihanna have revealed to TMZ the star watched the show at the comfort of a new planet she recently purchased. While she is considering Stay-ing there a while, TMZ has learned that Rihanna used telepathy to support her bestie (hmm. Cara?) close friend Katy Perry during her Grammys performance. “Where have you been?” thought Katy in the secret illuminati witchlanguage she shared with Rih, and then she felt the transcendental high-five from afar.
Then everyone bought things and companies were so, so happy! Well, almost everyone bought things. Mostly women who wanted to wear all the beauty products that made their stars look like stars. Men would have to wait for a sports event, like last year’s Beyonce performance at the sports thing which made Janet Jackson a star.
In conclusion, the *Real* Grammys didn’t really change anything, but that’s okay. Because the Grammys rarely do that. It is mostly public opinion that shapes who the big figures are in culture, and all the individuals who are nominated for these awards have acquired a level of respect as artists significant enough to see Taylor Swift going hard to Kendrick live, which is fine and great and super, but remains besides the point. When our cultural curators shift our attention to something silly, even if this silly something is endearing and well-intentioned, they (the curators) have taken our attention away from something else.
Who chose the direction to focus on Swift—and more extensively—before showing us an enthusiastic Hova? Probably the same exact person who gave Macklemore the award. It wasn’t me. But if it were me directing, I would have focused on the performance exclusively, out of respect to the person on stage. If a majority of the population only likes stuff because other people like it, then please save the stuff I like from getting Grammys!
III Nine Days After Whateverdaythegrammystookplacethisyear
He felt sad, he said. It was the morning after he stopped hating himself for being kinda in the gray area for so long in private. The night before he had send me a text: “It’s over. A little back and forth but we both agreed it was checkmate. Broke up in Central Park, lol. It went so well/ was our first real convo. Probably the best convo we ve ever had. I feel surprisingly sad.”
I was really proud of him. And of me, for challenging him to be upfront about his lack of genuine want in his relationship. But I also felt meaningless. I wasn’t even able to arise in my person the decency Billy was finally able to come up with for his new ex.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent, I guess.
[1] I know this with certainty, because this was the first song Spears wrote. She wrote it with a woman named Artani, who then went on a Greek reality-talent show, called “Fame Story,” which everyone in Greece watched at the time because we were trying to not focus on our faltering institutions as a nation.
Artani was dealing with a breakup while Britney was trying to face the new Justin Timberlake as an ex, who had released “Cry Me A River.” The song was personal, and “Everytime” was a vulnerable response to it, but how vulnerable was it really, when it was a pop song and it was created for everyone? Doesn’t that take away from it in serving a purpose as being a meaningful apology? I think it did/ does/ forever will.
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Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city Listening Party
Music by Kendrick Lamar. Commentary by David Fishkind, Adam Humphreys. Beer by Coors Brewing Company.
Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city – <<Find Yourself>>
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'Escape from ISIS' wins International Emmy
We couldn't be prouder - 'Escape From ISIS' has won an International Emmy.
"We're thrilled to win this Emmy for a second year running against stiff international competition. Reporter / producer Ed Watts and Exec producer George Waldrum did an amazing job with a very challenging subject but the real heroes are the extraordinary women who despite their appalling experience were willing to tell the world about their ordeal at the hands of ISIS." - Chris Shaw, Editorial Director.
'Travel Agents Taking Off' launches at ASTA 2016
Our USA Industry News team had a grand time premiering our new film 'Travel Agents Taking Off' at the ASTA Global Convention in Reno last night.
The programme, featuring an interview with travel personality Samantha Brown, was very well received.
ITNP Advertising team win gold at the CMA Awards
We couldn't be prouder of our Advertising team for winning gold last night at The CMA International Content Marketing Awards 2016. The branded content they created for Barclays came top in the category for 'Best Finance' film.
Click below to view the video of last nights events.
Commercials team wins big at Media Week Awards
The Commercials team attended the Media Week Awards 2016 last night in their finery.
They took home a whopping four awards; the gold award for their ‘ITV with #suzukisaturdays and Ant & Dec’, ‘ITV with The Woodland Trust: Discover the World on your desktop’ and best use of content for ‘The 7Stars and ITV for #suzukisaturdays’.
They also won a bronze award for ‘ITV with Camelot’s Play Makes It Possible’.
'WATANI' Oscar and Prix Europa success
The ITN Productions documentary 'WATANI: MY HOMELAND' has been shortlisted for the Documentary Shorts category of The Oscars 2017. It has also won the Prix Europa award for Best European TV programme of the year about cultural diversity.
Marcel Mettelsiefen's unique documentary follows a Syrian family over three traumatic years, from the ruins of their life in Aleppo, to beginning their new lives in Germany.
'Behind the scenes' of our Jamie Oliver interview
Here's a little sneak-peak behind the scenes of our Jamie Oliver interview on the shoot of our new Industry News programme 'Championing the Public's Health'.
The programme launches tonight at the RSPH awards in front of key public health leaders.
ITNP Industry News launch at RSPH awards
Following on from 2015’s ‘Improve and Protect’ programme, RSPH and ITN Productions partnered again this year to produce a programme called ‘Championing the Public’s Health’.
This was launched last night at the Royal Society for Public Health Awards. The programme explores some of the UK’s major public health challenges and the initiatives being taken to tackle them.
Watch the full programme here.
Children on the Frontline wins AIB award
We are delighted to have won an award at the Association for International Broadcasting Awards last night.
Our documentary 'Children on the Frontline: The Escape' came top in it's nominated category for International Current Affairs.
Take a look at the trailer here.
ITN lands Easyjet access
ITN Productions has landed access to Easyjet and will follow trainee pilots as they take off for the first time in a three-part documentary series for ITV.
It will follow pilots as they begin training and take their debut solo flight, their first passenger flight and track the ups and downs of mastering take-off and landing.
Melissa meets The Cookie Monster
Last week our Digital News reporter Melissa Nathoo was lucky enough to meet The Cookie Monster!
Click here to watch them boogie to 'Can't Stop the Feeling' by Justin Timberlake.
On Set with the ITNP Advertising team
It’s been a busy time for the Branded Content team who were on a two day shoot last week for Barclays combining three locations across London.
They put the cast through their paces literally, forcing them to deliver lines whilst on the treadmill – multitasking at its finest!
ITNP is shortlisted for the Broadcast Awards 2017
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Documentary about Big Ben announced
The House of Commons has now announced that we will be making a series of unique programmes for Channel 4 which will document the epic transformation of the Elizabeth Tower, the Great Clock and the Great Bell, also known as Big Ben.
On set for The Christmas Channel
Filming and editing is now complete for the Jerusalem Productions' Christmas campaign 2016 (formerly known as Nativity Factor).
Our Head of Ventures, Duncan (see photo), has been working alongside a team of specialist Christian film makers on two short films for YouTube.
Click here to see the first film and here to see the second film.
'Healthy Communities, Healthy People' launches
Today Industry News launched their latest programme 'Healthy Communities, Healthy People' at the NHS Alliance Health Creation day. The programme looks at every aspect of health and social care and how we can improve peoples health and well being across the entire population.
Click below to take a look at the trailer.
ITNP NewsXchange Breakfast Event
The ITN Productions news team held a breakfast event for our broadcast and digital news clients at this year’s NewsXchange conference, in the DR Koncerthuset.
This year's NewsXchange saw opening speech from Ulrik Haagerup, Director of News at DR TV, followed by a keynote from Nigel Farage. Other noted speakers included Patrick Worrall of Channel 4 News, along with Patrick Walker of Facebook.
Camps to Champs Premiere
'Camps to Champs: The Power of Sport for the Displaced' launches with a premiere event at the ICA tonight. The Olympic Channel Original Series follows Olympic heroes as they visit refugee camps and areas for displaced people to see how sport can positively change lives.
The episode will go live at 7.30pm, directly after the screening, at www.olympicchannel.com and further episodes will be released weekly for the next three Thursdays.
Children on the Frontline wins award at Rory Peck and FPA
We are very proud to be able to congratulate Marcel Mettelsiefen and our Broadcast team on their continued awards success for 'Children on the Frontline: The Escape'. Last night it won a Rory Peck award and the FPA voted it TV Doc / Feature Story of the year. Marcel also won FPA's Journalist of the Year.
Click below to view the trailer.
Double win for Escape from ISIS
'Escape from ISIS' has achieved a double win for the Broadcast team by winning a Rory Peck and a Columbia duPont Journalism Award.
To find out more about the duPont award winners click below.
Bake Off's Andrew Smyth joins Industry News
Industry News is feeling festive this week after filming with engineer and Bake Off finalist Andrew Smyth for the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Andrew put both of his skill-sets to good use by showing us how to engineer a Christmas gingerbread house.
ITN Productions ranked 21st out of 100
We are delighted to have been ranked 21st in Televisual's annual 'Top 100 Production Companies' yearly listing, published at Edinburgh Television Festival.
We also placed highly within a number of individual specialisms such as 6th for entertainment, 5th for popular factual and 6th for specialist factual.
The Edinburgh Television Festival
At ITN Productions we’re all about new emerging talent.
With that in mind our Group MD Mark Browning spoke in a panel discussion at the Edinburgh TV Festival about the success of apprenticeship schemes in delivering new industry talent and our Editorial Director Chris Shaw chaired a talent scheme session from 2016’s Ones to Watch (the Festival’s charitable talent scheme for emerging talent).
Overall it was a hugely interesting and enjoyable festival and we were delighted to have been nominated for 2 awards at the festival.
ITNP News heads back from the Rio Olympics
After a few eventful weeks at the Olympic Games our News and Sports teams are on their way home from Rio. One of the many highlights for them was hosting Mo Farah's wife and daughter for an interview on their rooftop terrace.
ITNP Industry News attend ASAE Exposition
ITNP Industry News have been out in the US attracting new Associations at the ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Salt Lake City.
The cupcakes on their stand went down a treat with attendees and more importantly they met Kevin Bacon!
ITNP Sport looks to rights-holders outside UK
Alastair Waddington, Director of Sport Production, talks with rights-holders outside the UK.
Check out the full article below.
'Bridging the video chasm' by Greg Melia, CAE
By 2020 video will account for 82% of all consumer internet traffic. Find out how ITN Productions Industry News can help Associations make the leap to video.
'Escape from ISIS' nominated for International Emmy
'Dispatches: Escape from ISIS' has received a nomination for the Current Affairs category at the prestigious International Emmy Awards 2016.
The documentary exposes the brutal treatment of the estimated four million women living under the rule of the so-called Islamic State.
The EFL season kicks off
The ITNP sports team were on site with camera's in hand to capture the first game of the EFL season between Fulham and Newcastle.
There's nothing quite like the smell of a freshly mown football pitch!
The Rio 2016 Olympics are here
Our sports team has been busy in Rio creating digital coverage of the Olympic Games for SNTV and for anyone wishing to broadcast live from the Olympics, our news teams are over there now offering quality broadcast facilities.
To book your spot email rio2016@itn.co.uk.
Grierson Award nomination
Starting the week with good news - we’ve been shortlisted in the Grierson Awards Best Documentary for Current Affairs category for 'Dispatches: Escape from Isis'.
GB Athletes & ITN Source News prepare for Rio
As the excitement to the Olympics rises, Jennifer Cordingley caught up with Mo Farah & the GB athletics team when they brought the spirit of Rio to London.
Don’t forget our ITN Source News team are setting up broadcast facilities in Rio, so make sure you’ve booked your spot to broadcast live from the games by emailing rio2016@itn.co.uk
Industry News & the IET
Industry News joined forces with the IET for their Open House initiative to get kids thinking about feats of engineering and technology.
They learned all about the VR studio wearing ‘the cloak of invisibility’ and got the opportunity to present the weather with ITV London presenter Helen Plint.
'I am Team GB' gets Ad of the Day
Our Commercials team are delighted to have been awarded 'Ad of the week' in The Drum for their 'I Am Team GB' ad campaign, created in collaboration with ITV Creative, ITV AdVentures and the National Lottery.
ITN Productions won the contract to produce The Wright Stuff
ITN Productions has picked up a multi-year contract to produce Channel 5's long-running current affairs format The Wright Stuff, beginning January 2018.
After The News
This week we launched our new series After The News, on every weeknight after ITV News at Ten for the next 4 weeks. The series, hosted by Emma Barnett and Nick Ferrari, debates Britain’s biggest talking points featuring a plethora of high-profile guests from news, politics, and popular culture.
3 programmes, 1 night and 20% of total TV audience
Last night 3 ITNP programmes were broadcast simultaneously on ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. During this time 20% of the total TV audience were watching ITNP shows, equating to around 2.5M viewers. The shows include; 'After The News' for ITV, 'Trump & Russia: Sex, Spies and Scandal' for Channel 4 and 'Becky Watts: Killed for Kicks' for Channel 5.
Stephen Fry recording the voiceover for easyJet: Inside The Cockpit
Stephen Fry came in yesterday to record the voiceover for the 3rd episode of our EasyJet series Inside the Cockpit. The programme aired as a two-parter on ITV to fantastic reviews and ratings. It is in the top three of most watched documentaries on ITV this year. It’s now going to MIPCOM 2017 for international sales as a three-parter and is a Hot Pick for the Festival.
It’s still available on the ITV Hub if you missed it first time round.
Emmy Award Win for ITN Productions 'Children of Syria'
Children of Syria won Emmy Award for Best Current Affairs Documentary, beating competition from HBO, NBC and Netflix. This is our third Emmy win.. 2 years ago the prequel Children on the Frontline won an International Emmy Award, and we repeated the achievement last year with Escape from Isis. Over the past 3 years this body of work has picked up around 25 gongs including 2 Baftas, 3 Emmys, The Prix D’Italia and an Oscar nomination for the film adaptation.
I Am Team GB wins BIG at The Media Week Awards
We're on a roll.. ITN Productions' advertising campaign I Am Team GB, produced for ITV Adventures, won a Gold, Silver, Bronze and the biggy.. The Grand Prix at the Media Week Awards 2017. That’s our second Grand Prix for ITV in the last few years! I Am Team GB was produced in partnership with ITV Creative and Art & Graft.
ITNP receives SIX nominations to the CMA Awards
ITN Productions Advertising has been nominated for not one, not two but SIX Content Marketing Association Awards for our work with Barclays, Matalan and REED.
ITNP Advertising appoints first Directors Rep to boost talent offer
ITN Productions’ advertising business has appointed Flavia Blajfelder as its first dedicated Directors Rep to build our advertising director roster and boost our talent offer. Flavia joins us from Pulse Films, where she was leading new business.
Careers at Sea: To Sea or Not To Sea
ITNP Advertising have just launched a new campaign, Careers at Sea: To Sea or Not to Sea, created for The UK Chamber of Shipping / The MNTB and aimed at school leavers.
It depicts the different career options available to young people, aged 16-28, who might be interested in working at sea.
Click below for more info.
The Breakfast Challenge
Yesterday various members from all of ITNP's different divisions made their way down to the Whitechapel Mission to complete another breakfast challenge.
They had the following to say about their experience...
"This was something I had not thought about before and really made me think about how isolating homelessness must be."
"It was great to see what a rounded experience the Whitechapel mission offer their customers. They don’t just offer food - they offer a community, cleaning facilities and a place where their customers get choice."
IET Open day
ITNP Industry News hosted an engineering open day inviting a group of children into the studios to see how a TV company operates and show how engineering has made this possible.
The kids got to make their own news report, control cameras from the gallery and even got to visit a satellite truck, beaming their footage 30,000 miles via satellite to ITN MCR.
This is the third year ITN Productions has hosted this open day in partnership with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
ITNP film in Juvenile Detention Facility
ITNP Industry News travelled to Malibu last week to film at Camp Kilpatrick Juvenile Detention Facility for the ICPA.
The Camp re-opened in June this year after being re-designed by DLR Group with natural light, better acoustics and access to the outdoors.
This new setting has been found to influence positive behaviour, reduce incidents and create a less-stressful environment for staff.
Butlins launches 'Summer Breaks' campaign
Butlin’s has launched their ‘Summer Breaks’ sponsorship of ITV’s The Voice Kids, with the campaign creative and production by ITN Productions.
The family-focused sponsorship series premiered on Saturday June 10 with the tagline Discovering Something Special.
'Sarah Payne: A mother's story'
Luke and Lee Payne remember killer Roy Whiting smiling and waving as he drove their sister away.
Hear the family speak about this painful event and the long lasting effects in tomorrow's documentary for Channel 5 'Sarah Payne: A Mother's Story' at 9pm.
You can also read the full BBC article by clicking below.
easyJet documentary takes off
The first instalment of our groundbreaking new fly-on-the-wall documentary 'easyJet: Inside the Cockpit' aired last night at 9pm on ITV. If you missed it, fear not! You can watch it on catch up here.
It did tremendously well with an average audience of 3.7million (peaking at 4million) leaving it in the running to be one of the highest-rating documentaries of the year for ITV.
Make sure to watch the next episode on Monday 21st August, 9pm on ITV.
ASAE's American Associations Day
Industry News have just spent the past two days filming US association leaders at ASAE's American Associations Day in Washington DC.
If you've ever wondered what associations are all about, click below to watch a video of the event.
A night of Magnificent Madness at The Oscars®
"We may not have won an Oscar, but it was a thrilling ride all the same, says ITN Productions editorial director Chris Shaw."
Click below to read the full Broadcast article on Chris' first Oscar® experience.
'Camps to Champs' makes OWM Shortlist
The Shortlist for the One World Media Awards has been announced and 'Camps to Champs' has been shortlisted in the Popular Features Category.
We look forward to the announcement of the nominees in early May. Take a look at the full shortlist here.
To find out a bit more about the programme click below to read of this fantasitc Huffington post article by Olympic Silver Medallist Samantha Murray 'The Power Of Sport For The Displaced'.
Congratulations to Marcel
This weekend Marcel Mettelsiefen (director of Oscar® nominated film WATANI: MY HOMELAND) was awarded the Grand Prix du Figra for 'Syria, Return to Aleppo', which is France’s most prestigious documentary award.
It also won the Young Jury Award at Figra.
The Last Days of George Michael
Last night ‘The Last Days of George Michael’ was watched on Channel 5 at 9pm by 1.3m people, currently making it the most watched programme in its slot this year after ‘Celebrity Big Brother’.
The documentary charted the days leading up to the shocking death of music icon George Michael on Christmas Day 2016.
'Video and your association' event
This morning ITNP Industry News held their breakfast event “Video and Your Association” at Kings Place. The event was designed to give insight into the world of associations and creating an effective video strategy.
Massive thanks to Jon Snow for kicking off proceedings with his observations about the growth and future of ITN Productions. Also thanks to some familiar faces for joining us on our panel, including Adam ‘two panels in two days’ Barnett, Grant Fulton and Louisa Preston.
Advertising speak at CMO Inspired Conference
The ITNP Advertising team are currently at the CMO Inspired Conference at Sopwell House in St Albans.
This morning Mark and Adam spoke about 'Real and relevant content' and the importance of authentic storytelling within the industry.
EasyJet excitement 'takes off'
Filming has begun for our easyJet fly-on-the-wall documentary. This revolutionary series will be the first to use a mini fixed-rig in the cockpit following easyJet’s pilots-to-be as they take off for the very first time.
With women making up only 5% of pilots worldwide, the series will also include inspirational female role models and efforts to increase the proportion of female recruits.
ITN Productions 'Green' shoot
As a company we are conscious of how much waste can be created on a large commercial shoot.
With that in mind, click below to find out what our Advertising team decided to do to combat this on their most recent shoot.
Mel chats to Hugh Jackman
This week Mel chatted to Hugh Jackman and Sir Patrick Stewart about 'Logan' and their final roles as Wolverine and Professor X.
Click below to see the full interview.
Second win for 'Interview with a murderer'
‘Interview with a Murderer’ achieved it's second win at the RTS Awards on Wednesday night for Best Home Current Affairs, alongside 7 other awards for ITN.
First Industry News programme launch of the year
The Industry News team launched their first programme of the year last night. A special preview launch event of ‘Vision for the Future’ for the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) took place at the Intercontinental London, Park Lane before the IMI Annual Dinner.
All guests, including participants of the programme were extremely positive about the programme and their experience with the ITN productions team.
To view the programme and find out more about IMI click below.
ITNP appointed as Host Broadcaster for IAAF World Relays
We're excited to announce that IAAF have appointed us as Host Broadcaster for the 2017 IAAF World Relays in The Bahamas!
Our live coverage of the IAAF World Relays will feature 16-18 cameras and will incorporate digital and social media coverage. We will also be providing an integrated live feed for international television and radio rights holders of the opening and closing ceremonies, all races and medal ceremonies.
Click below for more info. (© Getty Images for IAAF)
'Shannon Matthews: What happened next' documentary
The disappearance of Shannon Matthews was a story that first gripped and then appalled Britain. Nine years on, executive producers Ian Rumsey and Andy Dunn's documentary 'Shannon Matthews: What happened next' investigates the aftermath of one of Britain's most notorious crimes.
When aired, the documentary averaged 1.4 million viewers (peak at 1.6m), beating ITV, BBC2 & Channel 4 in the slot.
Click below for full article and where to view.
ITN Productions takes to The Oscars red carpet
Today was a momentous day for ITN Productions. We walked the red carpet of The Oscars for the first time, wondering if our Best Documentary Short Category nomination for WATANI: MY HOMELAND would come up trumps.
We didn't walk away with The Oscar in the end but this is another big milestone moment for us in growing our business, particularly in growing the business in the U.S.
Image: WATANI Executive Producer, Chris Shaw with wife Martha Kearney
'Murdered by my Fiance'
'Murdered by my Fiance' is an exclusive documentary following the investigation into the murder of Helen Bailey, and the conviction of Ian Stewart.
Airing Thursday 23 February at 10pm on Channel 5. Executive Producers: Ian Rumsey and Andy Dunn
Click below to read more about the twists and turns of this tragic tale.
What an Oscar means to an independent studio
Our M.D. Mark Browning talked to The Hollywood Reporter about our Oscar® nominated documentary film WATANI: MY HOMELAND and his U.S. expansion plans for the company.
"...this is another big milestone moment for us in growing the business, particularly in growing the business in the U.S."
Click below to find out why.
Using live / documentary-style production in video marketing
In this AMA article Mark Browning makes the case for applying video production skills used in news and documentaries to marketing.
The same storytelling used in news or other video formats can help authenticate marketing or branded content.
To read the whole article click below.
ITNP nominated for two RTS awards
Nominations for the RTS Television Journalism Awards have been announced and we are up for two categories!
Current Affairs - International nomination: 'Children on the Frontline'
Current Affairs - Home: 'Interview with a Murderer'
To view the full list click below.
'Interview with a Murderer' wins Best Doc
'Interview with a Murderer' won Best Documentary Programme at the Broadcast Awards 2017 last night. To view the documentary click below.
Also in the category were: 'Abused: The Untold Story', 'Behind Closed Doors', 'How to Die: Simon's Choice', 'The Murder of Sadie Hartley' and 'Swim the Channel'.
'WATANI: MY HOMELAND' nominated for Oscar®
ITN Productions is delighted to announce that 'WATANI: MY HOMELAND', a unique film documenting the refugee journey of one Syrian family, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Short Subject category.
Click below to find out more.
Birthday Shoot
When Industry News freelance reporter, Jon 'the voice of Siri' Briggs agreed to today's shoot, he told his producer that he was happy to be working on his birthday. He was teamed up with DOP David 'Rocksteadi' Crute only to discover that it was his birthday too!
The two birthday Boys gowned up for a photo whilst filming an innovative anesthesiology technique at Royal Union Hospital, Bath.
ITNP appoints first Head of Creative
ITN Productions has appointed Kathryn Dufty as the first Head of Creative of its advertising production business to further amplify the creative output of its TV commercials and branded content teams
Find out more about our new Head of Creative by clicking below.
'Going Back Giving Back' Recommissioned
This week we’ve begun work on a new series of Going Back Giving Back for the BBC, which has been re-commissioned for five further episodes. It’s succinctly summed up by the BBC as: A place for heart-warming stories and life-changing journeys.
We’re currently on the hunt for worthy beneficiaries and potential donors, please contact chris.dodd@itn.co.uk with your suggestions.
La La Land interview with Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling jokes that his friends have told him to stop playing the piano all the time and he'll maybe consider doing a stage version of La La Land. Interview by Melissa Nathoo, ITN Productions news presenter.
Click below to see full interview.
Seize the Holiday wins 'Campaign of the Year 2016'
#SiezeTheHoliday live ad for Virgin Holidays, created by AMV and produced by ITN Productions and HLA, beat off tough competition from Adidas and Channel 4 to take home the prize of ‘Campaign of the Year 2016’ by Marketing Week.
Click below for more info on #SiezeTheHoliday, the world's first live ad campaign.
'easyJet: Inside the Cockpit' begins Monday
The 2 part documentary series 'easyJet: Inside the Cockpit' begins this Monday on ITV at 9pm!
Becoming a pilot involves dedication and determination. Follow rookie pilots as they take their first steps from the flight school classroom to flying with hundreds of paying passengers on board.
IAAF partners with ITN Productions
ITN Productions has formed a joint venture company for Host Broadcasting and Media Production with the IAAF. The company will incorporate traditional and digital production and 24/7 storytelling.
ITN Productions will work with rights holders, event organisers, sponsors and athletes to ensure quality and consistency of production across the sport.
ITNP partners with LCCA for art exhibition
ITN Productions have entered into a new partnership with the London College of Contemporary Arts.
We have offered them an ‘exhibition space’ on one of the walls of our office and in return they will offer us art work from the students to be hung there on a quarterly rotation.
To learn more about the project click below.
'Be the Business' movement
ITNP Industry News have been supporting the Productivity Leadership Group, producing videos with Brand Ambassadors to spearhead the 'Be the Business' movement.
You can read all about it and register to be part of it by clicking here.
Or find out at what time of day successful industry icons, such Deborah Meaden and Matt Barbet, are most productive by clicking below.
'Children of Syria' nominations
‘Children of Syria’ has had a very successful week receiving two Emmy nominations for 'Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary' and 'Best Documentary'.
It has also been shortlisted for a Grierson Award in the ‘Best Documentary’ category.
Sarah Payne doc receives rave reviews
ITN Productions sensitive 1.5 hour documentary film 'Sarah Payne: A Mother's Story' received outstanding ratings and rave reviews.
"Sarah Payne: A Mother’s Story trod softly and let the terrible facts speak for themselves." The Telegraph
Watch Sarah Payne: A Mother's Story on Demand 5
'Brands as Broadcasters' by Simon Shelley
"I was recently invited to present at the Content Marketing Association ‘Digital Breakfast’ on the topic of ‘Brands as Broadcasters’.
This is the idea that brands are moving towards being broadcasters in their own right, utilising the democratisation of social channels to reach wide audiences with a vast array of content, not just about the brand, but often more about the world around that brand."
Click below to read the full article by Simon Shelley, Head of Industry News.
U.S. ITNP Industry News launch 'Trusted Leader'
Industry News US launched the AWHONN 'Trusted Leader' program last week in New Orleans.
Attended by over 3,500 nurses and healthcare professionals, the 'Trusted Leaders' programme highlights the valued and vital role of nurses working in women's health, obstetrics and neonatal nursing.
To watch the programme click below.
Excitement hits the offices of ITNP
We all know that in an office environment you can find yourself getting excited about things you normally wouldn't, such as a delivery of new stationery.
Well imagine the excitement levels in the ITNP offices today when our delivery of brand new office mugs arrived!
Each department of ITNP now has it's own branded mugs as part of the ITNP rebrand.
ITNP run the British 10K
ITN Productions ran the British 10K through the heart of the capital on yesterday, raising £1,700 for The Whitechapel Mission to help the homeless.
Congratulations to all who took part on such a hot day!
Mel meets Harry Styles and Fionn Whitehead
Mel interviewed Harry Styles and Fionn Whitehead about their new film 'Dunkirk' yesterday.
Did you know that they tried method acting with corned beef?
To watch the full interview click below.
'The Power of A' by Greg Melia CAE
The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) has been advocating on behalf of the association community for nearly 100 years.
The heart of the initiative’s message is that associations make a difference in every corner of the US, and in every industry.
To read the full article by Greg Melia CAE click below.
ITNP Sport debuts as IAAF host broadcaster
Last weekend saw our debut outing as host broadcaster for the IAAF World Relay Championships in the Bahamas.
The competition took place over two days in Nassau, and saw some of the fastest athletes on the planet compete in teams for the coveted Golden Baton.
The revolutionary production included a Facebook Live Friday night preview show, and most importantly a superbly executed broadcast of all the races.
ITNP Sport attend the EFL Awards
Here's some of the ITNP Sport team looking glam at the EFL Awards.
The Football League Awards is an annual awards ceremony commemorating football-related people involved in the three divisions of the Football League.
ITNP Sport attend the BT Sport Industry Awards
Last night Tim Godfrey, Partnerships Director, and Raj Mannick, Head of Sport, attended the BT Sport Industry Awards, the largest of its kind.
The Awards celebrate the best in the business and attracts sports stars, celebrities and senior figures from across the industry and beyond.
ITNP makes Realscreen's Global 100 List
We are delighted to find out that we've been included in Realscreen Magazine's Global 100 list.
Click below to see the full list.
Mel talks to Dave Bautista for ODE
Melissa Nathoo spoke to some of the cast of the new Marvel film, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, this week.
Click below to see her interview with Dave Bautista who plays Drax.
Trump is TV doc gold dust
ITN Productions' editorial director, Chris Shaw, speaks to The Hollywood Reporter about Donald Trump.
He is "...gold dust for TV documentary producers".
To read the article click below.
Grand Opening of new ITNP Post Production
Last night saw the launch party to celebrate the grand opening of the new ITNP Post Production facilities.
80 people joined Post Production for a live DJ and lots of awesome tech demos.
'Alternative Election Night' success
ITNP have had a major victory with our overnight live election coverage for Channel 4 in the format of the 'Alternative Election Night', hosted by David Mitchell and (as the Telegraph described him) the man-stallion that is Jeremy Paxman.
With a tiny team and a modest budget we created a successful 10 hour long show.
Channel 4 said of it "Our show was a complicated mix of content and talent but felt brilliantly judged and balanced on air."
ITNP Industry News have been busy...
ITNP Industry News have been very busy week indeed with a whopping 3 programme launches in one week.
'The Future of the Single Market' for AmCham EU launched at the European Business Summit, 'The Changing Face of Retail' for BRC launched at Retail 2020 and 'Above and Beyond' launched for POLFED at the Police Federation Annual Conference 2017.
Crime documentary 'Murdered by My Daughter'
ITN productions continued its successful run of fast-turnaround crime documentaries for Channel 5 with yet another ratings success last night at 1.2 million viewers.
‘Murdered by My Daughter’ followed the case of Britain’s youngest double murderers – the 14 year old who killed her mother and sister with the help of her teenage boyfriend.
It’s the 12th crime documentary for Channel 5 so far this year.
Filming in Namibia
One of our broadcast producer's, Nathaniel, drew the short straw and was sent to the Namibian desert over the weekend to film with Angelina Jolie.
Despite being dedicated to her African conservation project she was still kind enough to fly Nat over the landscape in her friend's plane!
Click below to see some beautiful photo's from the shoot.
Sports look to data enrich the fan experience
“Producers are working out how to create more inventory for their clients" says Tim Godfrey, Partnerships Director for ITNP Sport.
ITN Productions is testing a number of different “medical grade” sensors and devices and says it would assign a specialist to a future production to assist in the interpretation and presentation of the data on screen.
Data capture of athletes to innovate sporting events
ITN Productions is exploring ways of capturing telemetry from sensors worn by athletes and presenting the data to fans on digital platforms.
"We want to innovate in this area to provide a more indepth view of an event than ever before" says Tim Godfrey, Partnerships Director.
To read the rest of this Broadcast article click below.
ITN Plotting British Invasion Into U.S. Market
“We’ve built a lot of our business plan on rapid U.S. growth. We have intentions to hire and employ a lot of extra head count in the next 18 months and set up offices in the east and west,” said Mark Browning, ITN Productions group managing director.
“For us, probably the single biggest and most exciting opportunity as a U.K. production company is working with U.S. networks and getting into the U.S. sector.”
ITNP sign digital production deal with ICC
ITNP has extended its partnership with the International Cricket Council (ICC) to provide digital clip productions services to clip licensees for the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup.
Following a successful integration for the ICC Champions Trophy 2017, star players and key moments will be showcased in a variety of ways, from individual clips of in-match content to curated packages and highlights clips.
The Good, the Bad and the Hired
Thursday 'telly take-over'
This coming Thursday ITN Productions will be taking over your telly's with a programme triple whammy.
There will be 'On Benefits' at 8pm and 'Fritzl: What Happened Next' at 10pm on Channel 5. There is also 'Super Orgasm' at 10pm on Channel 4!
'Don't neglect sensitivity for speed' by Ian Rumsey
"Trust, tenacity and a talented team are key on a fast-turnaround doc" says Head of Topical Programmes, Ian Rumsey, in this article for Broadcast.
"Is it possible? Can you get anything exclusive? How quickly can you do it? These are the questions that prompt one of the most exciting forms of documentary-making in the business: the fast-turnaround."
Tami Hoffman joins ITNP News
Welcome to our new Head of News, Tami Hoffman. What a week to start, Election week!
Tami was previously an editor at Sky News.
Alternative Election Night
Tune in to Channel 4 tonight at 9pm for our 'Alternative Election Night', co-produced with Zeppatron.
Includes Jeremy Paxman, David Mitchell, Cathy Newman, Richard Osman, Romesh Ranganathan and more..
Realscreen award for 'Interview with a Murderer'
ITNP Television were delighted to have won the Crime & Investigation award at last nights Realscreen 2017 Awards for 'Interview With A Murderer'.
Adam at Butlins
The Advertising team have just come back from a 3 day shoot to create new idents for Butlins.
Here's our Head of Client Services, Adam Barnett, taking a moment from the shoot to spend some quality time with Butlins' Billy Bear.
Who did Mel meet this week?
This week our Mel got to chat with Priyanka Chopra, Zac Efron and Alexandra Daddario, stars of the new 'Baywatch' movie.
She also interviewed 'Neighbours' legend Susan Kennedy and Rob Mills.
Click below to see her interview with the 'Baywatch' cast.
Broadcast award nomination for 'Camps to Champs'
ITNP Television have been nominated for a Broadcast Digital Award, in the 'Best Non-Scripted Online Short' category for 'Camps to Champs'.
'Camps to Champs' see Olympic athletes invite viewers to experience how sport can positively change lives.
Simon Shelley meets Prince Charles
Head of Industry News Production, Simon Shelley, was delighted to meet Prince Charles yesterday. Simon attended the College of Medicine event ‘Social prescribing: from rhetoric to reality’ at the Kings Fund, as Industry News are currently working on a programme about the very same subject.
‘Social prescribing: from rhetoric to reality’ is not about asking 'what’s the matter with someone?' but rather 'what matters to someone?' Prince Charles is a huge supporter of that work and we'll hopefully be interviewing him for the programme.
Focal Awards 2017 win for the archive team
Head of UK Sales, Simon Wood, and his archive footage team were awarded 'Footage Employee of the Year' at The Focal Awards last night. Simon accepted the award on behalf of his team.
'Going Back, Giving Back' is back!
Aled Jones returns for a new 5 part series of 'Going Back, Giving Back'. You can watch it every week day, starting this coming Monday on BBC1 at 9:30am.
'Soham Revisited: 15 Years On' documentary
It was a story that horrified the country. 10 year old best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman left a family BBQ to buy some sweets - but never came home.
To find out more about the 90 minute special documentary that's on tomorrow night click bellow.
ITNP Sport Football Tournament
After years of heartbreak the Sports team were finally crowned champions at this year’s ITNP Sport Football Tournament.
All proceeds from the tournament went to the charity Rethink Mental Illness, as part of Mental Health Awareness Week, and former Premier League footballer Clarke Carlisle was on hand to present the prize to the winning team, as well as taking the time to referee a few games.
'Shannon Matthews: The Mother's Story'
‘Shannon Matthews: The mothers story’ is the following instalment to the successful Channel 5 documentary ‘Shannon Matthews: What happened next’.
It went out last night and will be aired again at 10pm this Sunday on My5.
Tune in to watch Karen explain her motives for the kidnap of her daughter.
Industry News shortlisted for the ‘International & European Association Awards’
Industry News found out this week that they have been shortlisted for a nomination in the ‘Best TV Video Channel category’ for the International & European Association Awards.
The Awards Ceremony takes place on Wednesday 3rd May in Austria as part of the Associations World Congress on 2 - 4 May.
Industry News - US first launch of the year
The Industry News team in the United States had their first launch of the year this weekend with ‘A Place for Living’, in partnership with ACHCA (American College of Health Care Administrators).
The programme was premiered at the ACHCA 51st Annual Convocation & Exposition in St Louis, Missouri. Things kicked off on Saturday with a short intro and presentation to the board. The programme was then officially launched during the opening session on Sunday, introduced by Cecilia Sepp CAE, President & CEO, ACHA.
Both the ACHCA and all participants were thrilled with the programme and launch. ‘A Place for Living’ can be viewed below.
Game on for remote production
Broadcast recently interviewed our Director of Sport, Alastair Waddington and our Chief Technology Officer, Bevan Gibson about the capabilities afforded to us by incoming IP-based technologies.
As host broadcaster for the IAAF World Relays this month we will be expanding our remote production model out to the Bahamas.
To find out more take a look at the article, click the link below.
Live commentary for International Champions Cup
The International Champions Cup (ICC) has commissioned ITN Productions’ Sport to provide live commentary for international broadcasters during the tournament.
Director Ben Holman joins ITN Productions
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ben Holman has joined the directors roster of ITN Productions Advertising division.
ITNP renews digital production partnership with International Cricket Council
ITN Productions’ sport team has renewed its partnership with the International Cricket Council (ICC) to provide digital clip production services.
ITN Productions commissioned to make six series for audible
ITN Productions has been commissioned to produce six new podcasts for Audible, Amazon’s audio entertainment service, covering subjects ranging from tales of survival and success, to literary history and the future of technology.
ITN Productions to produce Channel 4's The Real Brexit Debate
The live, hour-long programme will see four high profile politicians reflecting the main divisions in the House of Commons on this issue – Theresa May’s Deal, Labour’s “Jobs First” offering, a harder Brexit and People’s Vote/Remain, just days before MP’s historic vote on 11th December.
Channel 5 Christmas Special Celebrates Tommy Cooper
Produced by ITN Productions, the affectionate look back at Tommy Cooper’s life and career is full of classic routines and sketches along with some rare gems from the archives.
Channel 4 and PBS Frontline secure global exclusive from Emmy award-winning Channel 4 news filmmakers Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts
Emmy award-winning Channel 4 News filmmakers, Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watt's feature documentary, For Sama, produced by Channel 4 News/ITN Productions, has been commissioned by Channel 4 and PBS Frontline, it was announced today.
ITN Productions Appoints Head of Development and Makes Internal Promotion
ITN Productions has appointed Georgina Madley as Head of Development and promoted Grace Dean to Head of Short Form, it was announced today.
Channel 4 and PBS Frontline's "For Sama" wins Top Documentary award at SXSW Film Festival
Documentary feature grand jury prize went to “For Sama” directed by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts.
Channel 4 and PBS Frontline's "For Sama" Scoops another Award at SXSW Film Festival
Just days after winning the Grand Jury prize for Documentary Feature, “For Sama” won the Audience Award at the South by Southwest Film Festival Awards in the US on Saturday night.
ITN Productions Expands Advertising Team With New Appointment
ITN Productions (ITNP) is expanding its Advertising team with the appointment of Ella Littlewood as Executive Producer and team lead, it was announced today.
ITN Productions Appoints New Commercial and OPS Head
Lawson will be responsible for ITN Productions Advertising, Industry News, Education, News and Archive businesses which produce a range of content for brands, businesses, trade associations, publishers, producers and broadcasters in the UK and around the world.
"For Sama” selected to screen at Cannes Film Festival
Channel 4 News and ITN Productions film one of five UK titles in Cannes line-up. For Sama, a documentary telling the story of one woman’s journey through love, motherhood, war and survival during five years of the Syrian conflict, has been selected to screen at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
ITN Productions, Lifetime/A&E Network, Nine Network and RTL Collaborate on Global Royal Documentary, Meghan & Harry: Baby Fever
ITN Productions has inked deals with Lifetime/A&E Network, Nine Network Australia and RTL Netherlands for a brand-new Royal documentary, Meghan & Harry: Baby Fever.
BBC One commissions Inside the Supermarket
BBC One has commissioned ITN Productions to produce a six-part series following 12 months in the life of Sainsbury’s - Britain’s oldest supermarket.
Channel 4 to Broadcast First Live Conservative Leadership Debate
ITN Productions is making the special 90 minute programme, Live: Britain’s Next PM - The C4 Debate, which will take place on Sunday, June 16that 6:30pm, after the first round of voting in the Conservative leadership contest.
'For Sama' Scoops Audience Award at Sheffield Doc Fest and Receives Special Mention in Grand Jury Award
The award, in memory of Dr Clifford Shaw, is voted for by the Sheffield Doc/Fest audience. It recognises the film that receives the highest audience vote during the festival. Audiences votes after two screenings where it received standing ovations and critical accolades.
ITN Productions nominated for Edinburgh TV Awards Production Company of the Year
Formed in 2010, ITN Productions is ITN’s Oscar-nominated, in-house production company producing nonfiction and current affairs content for UK broadcasters and networks around the world.
ITN Productions Charts River Thames Illumination
ITN Productions has been commissioned by Channel 4 to film one of the most ambitious public art projects ever attempted in the world – Illuminated River, a public artwork that will light up to 15 bridges on the River Thames...
ITN Productions Advertising & Adam&EveDDB Launch New Campaign For Esso
Esso has launched a new campaign this month produced by ITN Productions, Advertising and adam&eveDDB, which follows an inspirational, real-life father whose ultimate goal - as a double amputee - is to take part in one of the world's most prestigious and oldest active sports car races in 2022.
ITN Productions Advertising Relaunches Social Content Campaign for M&S Food
ITN Productions, Advertising, has been charged with creating and producing the social content for the new series, which features a celebrity tasting panel of Emma Willis, Amanda Holden, Paddy McGuinness and Rochelle Humes.
ITN’s Head of Post Production, Olly Strous explores the company's recent adoption of Sony’s Ci media cloud platform live at IBC 2019
In a panel interview live at IBC 2019, ITN’s Head of Post Production Olly Strous shared his unique insights on the company’s recent adoption of Sony’s Ci media cloud platform.
O2 and ITN Productions to capture England rugby fan reactions in first live TV advert to be powered by 5G
O2 and ITN Productions will create the world’s first live TV advert, powered by 5G, and aired live on ITV during the England match this Saturday.
Channel 5 to broadcast live Brexit debate featuring biggest opinion poll on Brexit since the EU referendum
This is the latest live debate ITN Productions has produced for Channel 5. Jeremy Vine also chaired Live Debate: Are Our Politicians Up To The Job? last month.
New Netflix originals docu-drama series Drug Lords coming soon...
ITN Productions' first Netflix series Drug Lords will be released globally on January 19th. This 8 part series charts the rise, reign and fall of the world's most notorious gangsters.
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Gary Caldwell sacked as Partick Thistle manager
Gary Caldwell has been sacked as manager by Scottish Championship side Partick Thistle.
Former Celtic and Scotland defender Caldwell and his assistant manager Brian Kerr have had their contracts terminated with immediate effect.
The board unanimously agreed on the decision after a prolonged run of poor form resulting in Thistle languishing second-bottom of the Scottish second tier, without a league win in their five games this season.
Partick Thistle chairman David Beattie said: “This is not an outcome anyone wanted, however we believe this decision is in the best interests of the club and we could wait no longer to make a change.
“On behalf of the board, I’d like to thank Gary and Brian for all their efforts for Partick Thistle and wish them both every success in their future careers.”
The Glasgow club were relegated from the top-flight in 2018 and narrowly avoided relegation last season, with Caldwell, 36, taking over in October last year after Alan Archibald’s departure.
Chief executive Gerry Britton, academy director Scott Allison and first-team striker Kenny Miller will take charge for Thistle’s home match against Dunfermline Athletic on Saturday, with a League Cup clash against Celtic following that on Wednesday.
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Erika Spyropoulos Appointed as Illinois Arts Council Commissioner by Gov. Quinn
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE THEODORE & ERIKA SPYROPOULOS FOUNDATION (APRIL 7): CHICAGO, IL – Erika Wilhelmine Knickmann Spyropoulos has been appointed by Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn as a Commissioner of the Illinois Arts Council (IAC). The agency is governed by up to twenty-one private citizens chosen for their demonstrated commitment to the arts and appointed […]
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Getty Museum to Return Rare Bible to Athos
LOS ANGELES— A 12th-century Byzantine illuminated New Testament that was acquired by The J. Paul Getty Museum in 1983 will be voluntarily returned by the museum to the Holy Monastery of Dionysiou on Mount Athos in Greece. The manuscript was acquired by the Getty Museum in 1983 as part of a large, well-documented collection. Recent […]
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SAE Brothers Say That Banning Pledging Will Destroy The Fraternity
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity made news last month when it banned new-member pledging in an attempt to shed its reputation as the "most deadly fraternity in America."
However, as SAE members' reddit discussions show, many brothers believe this decision will ruin their fraternity and its brotherhood. By quickly initiating new members — and exposing them to secret SAE rituals and traditions — brothers say that the fraternity experience will likely become devalued.
Perhaps the most important SAE tradition that brothers fear will be lost is the "True Gentleman Experience," the fraternity's new member education program. According to a 2013 new member guidebook, over the course of several weeks SAE pledges would learn the history of the Greek system, the "purpose of membership," and SAE songs, among other topics.
"When the new brother takes his place in the chapter he should have a pretty good idea of what the fraternity is all about. He should be able to effectively explain the role of Sigma Alpha Epsilon in the collegiate experience, i.e. the development of the individual toward becoming a solid citizen on campus and after graduation," the 2013 "The True Gentleman Initiative" guidebook says.
Another sensitive piece of information is SAE's secret motto — "Phi Alpha" — defined on various websites as "Brighter from Obscurity."
Under SAE's revised new member program, which went into effect immediately after its announcement in March, "candidates for membership" must be fully initiated into the brotherhood within 96 hours of receiving their bids. "From the first day, the Ritual of Sigma Alpha Epsilon will guide members not in quiet allusion, build-up or allegory, but by experiencing it fully," states the new version of the "True Gentlemen Experience."
Now, new SAE members will have full access to the fraternity's secrets and rituals almost immediately after receiving an invitation to join, instead of having to go through weeks of lessons and exams before being initiated as brothers.
This quick access to fraternity secrets seems to be at the core of many members' concerns. As one SAE brother writes on reddit, "I cannot believe this is happening to our beloved Fraternity ... Pledgeship was my favorite part, now abolished entirely for the mistakes of few. Phi Alpha will not be a reward after twelve weeks, but now a privilege after one."
Members claim that SAE's pledge process led to a greater appreciation of the fraternity and its values, a connection that could be lost under the new system. "I don't think I would ever have appreciated SAE as much, nor had a relationship with my Brothers, had pledgeship been a week-and-done deal. It will be a gym membership: sign up, get involved for a month, then drop out when life offers you something easier," one member writes on reddit.
These fears were echoed by another SAE brother:
Now that new guys will be initiated they will not care for SAE like we do because they didn't earn it and now we will have random 17 and 18 year olds rushing, becoming brothers and representing our house in most likely bad ways. Sure we will get a few guys that will be TG and phi alpha but the amount of guys that will bring SAE down will be unbelievable. It's going to be so disgusting (from my perspective at least) when I have to call someone I meet my brother after 4 days ... I take pride in wearing my letters and living by the TG ever since I rushed, went through pledging and got initiated and now it's like I got slapped in the face.
Alumni members also joined in the discussion, with one writing on reddit, "I don't like seeing what I earned and worked my a-- off to achieve being given away to some little twerp that wants everything given to him. This is not a way to stop any hazing. I feel that this is only giving those individuals an easier way to become a part of something amazing...something they need to learn before they are given."
It is important to note, though, that several SAE members involved in the reddit discussions explicitly differentiated "pledging" from "hazing." As one SAE brother writes, "I am totally against any pledge program that involves hazing. Too many equate a hazing program as 'earning it,' when in fact, all you have done is select someone who has endured, not achieved. Give pledges real opportunities to prove themselves in skills that will be necessary to run a chapter, i.e., fundraising, philanthropy, scholarship, leadership."
Other members wrote that this change will actually create a worse situation for new members, who will no longer have a pledging period to determine if SAE is the right fit.
"Besides educating pledges, pledgeship helps sort out new people. If you're only a pledge you still have a chance to drop if SAE isn't right for you. If you get initiated instantly, well, you're kinda in a weird situation," writes one SAE reddit user.
As another SAE brother puts it, "Now accepting a bid from SAE is going to Vegas to get hitched. Now you're in so you better like it."
However, some SAE members wrote on reddit about what they viewed as the perseverance of the fraternity, arguing that their brotherhood would not be particularly affected.
"To all the brothers out there facing this, I urge you to remember that ΣΑΕ has preserved through every war, and governmental and ideological shift our country has encountered and we remain IMHO the greatest brotherhood out there. ΦΑ," one SAE brother writes.
A freshman SAE member took to reddit to write about the possible upside of the changes, which may offer an opportunity for chapters to demonstrate their leadership skills:
I've just been thinking about it in terms of life as a whole. Life is not easy, and it is filled with many situations that will bring you out of your comfort zone. You can lay down and die in the face of adversity, or you can learn to adapt. Yes, this new program sucks, and may destroy the fraternity, but it gives us a taste of experience in the world of business. Employers like leaders, those who bend but do not break. Learning to adapt to this new situation rather than let it kill us is crucial, and one of the reasons why fraternity men are so coveted in their post-collegiate careers.
However, a member of Chi Phi, a different national fraternity, responded with a slightly more cynical view. He writes, "I was under the impression that these actions killed the whole 'business atmosphere' of the Fraternity by making freshmen (entry-level employees) equal to the upper classmen (high execs)."
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Why Are So Many Greek Orthodox Leaving Church?
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There is a historic preservation movement now underway all across Greek America. There is no central authority directing or organizing its progress. No lone academic crusader or collection of ardent scholars is/are monitoring or documenting its movements. Sadly, there is not even much news coverage found in the Greek or Greek-American press about this unprecedented […]
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Lucas Samaras: Father Of The Selfies
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Michael Skafidas: Are you surprised that 55 years after your breakthrough in New York, the "selfies," addicted as they are to Instagram, are manifesting an obsession with the self-image that has always been your trademark fixation? Lucas Samaras: Yes, but there is one slight difference -- that I am a professional and they are amateurs. I come from an art tradition, so there is a certain aesthetic desire to make it look good, whereas the so-called selfies could not care less whether it looks nice or not. They can do anything they want because it’s a different world. It’s almost like Sunday painting. There is a stage in art that you have to pass where if you are an amateur, magically you become a great professional. Instagram people could not care less about this transition. There is no self-criticism from an artistic point of view. A few perhaps pretend to be artistic. Out of those, it’s possible to get somebody who becomes a legitimate photographer with style, even though at the moment there is a style of no style. MS: It’s been argued that the selfie is not actually a new phenomenon; it is just a technological reincarnation of a very old one. As a critic remarked recently, even cavemen tended to be the subject of their own paintings. LS: Well, it wasn’t the self back then, it was an idea of painting what you saw. With the cavemen there was no mirror. They couldn’t see themselves, but they saw the person next to them, so they got an idea what they could look like. The self didn’t quite come then. The mirror came at the moment when glass was invented, before glass it was polished metals like bronze that enabled people to see their face there sometime in the ancient period. I assume in Homer’s time, there were small mirrors made of metal, but not glass. People did not have a chance to see themselves naked really, unless they saw their reflection on the pool like Narcissus. MS: How is today’s fast self-portrait of the selfie shaping the notion of art and the principles of self-portraiture in photography? LS: The critics get tired of the artists; they want to see something raw. What is going on now is considered raw and therefore of interest to analyze. That diminishes the value of self-portraiture, especially when someone decides to see the difference between the professional and the non-professional, which is mostly junk. Many people have stopped searching for an intelligent, intellectual criticism. The selfie mentality demonstrates a very aggressive behavior: it’s like going to a museum and saying : "screw the Rembrandt." The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait. Remember how we were brought up with a huge number of valuable restrictions? Now if you are a kid, it’s all about escaping restrictions, and that’s a perfect example of escaping clasps of social upbringing. MS: Your Autopolaroids (a series of manipulated Polaroid self-portraits) were considered very raw as well back in their time. In a way you were escaping artistic restrictions yourself as a young artist. LS: Back in the 1960s, there was a great deal of experimentation. For me, the idea of exposing myself so other people can see it -- it’s almost like being a child discovering the water and jumping to its openness. I had been seeing how artists at different periods always painted themselves, maybe once or twice, maybe more. How can you paint other people and not paint yourself? Some artists, like Van Gogh, were sort of hooked. At the same time that they exposed themselves, they also exposed their environment -- Van Gogh’s bedroom, for example. The exposure of the self is not only your body; it’s also your space, where you live, what’s hanging on the wall. My fame is part of this exposure, and technology expedited it. Even though I’ve done a million other things, people still think that the Polaroids were the best part of my work. My Polaroids were quite open, raw and sexual also. I went lecturing with them, and I had people get up and leave the auditorium because they couldn’t accept the naked part. But exposing oneself is both a self-journey and a journey you share with other people. Some people use the term exhibitionism, which nowadays is trendy again because of the selfie mentality. Different words can try to explain the same situation. But I never saw it that way. My self-portraits are not strictly about sexuality, they are about the development of the self in time and the various stages of the self, from youth to aging. Aging is quite shocking and requires strength to continue."Photography is the best way to depict the idea that you existed. You don’t have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once." MS: Is photographing your own body an erotic act? LS: No, it isn’t erotic for me. But there might be something in the nature of love –- eros and agape which are two different things in the ancient Greek context -- that brings tenderness to it, but no sexuality. MS: This tenderness for the self echoes Walt Whitman, the great American poet who celebrated the self in his poetry long before the wannabe narcissism of the selfie-era. In a way you do with images what Whitman did with words. You are recording a life that becomes paradigmatic for others. LS: Yes, in my pictures I am talking to my future viewer in a non-traditional way, which I guess is what Whitman did in his time with poetic language. But aside from celebrating the self, now that I'm getting older, I am also celebrating the lives of others through my photographs. Photographs reveal something inner about any self, and photography is an imprint of existence. Everything you see existed. As I’ve said before, photography is the best way to depict the idea that you existed. You don’t have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once. MS: Has the selfie-era somehow justified your preoccupation with recording the self? LS: Perhaps, but I wouldn’t use this term. You see, this is my problem, I was doing what I was doing, and then 50 years later people are using the word "selfie." I hate the word, it’s awful. It almost has something childish into it. I detest it for that juvenile aspect of it. "Pop art" was stupid enough as a term, but at least it had some kind of punch. But "selfie" is diminutive and phony. It denotes a crowd mentality and transfixed stupidity, a massive movement that technology has enabled to release the need of the so-called "selfies" to see themselves as they want to see themselves. MS: You already sound like a disapproving father! So I assume you would resent the honorific title "father of the modern selfies." LS: I like to make my own titles. But if somebody gives you a title, you say thank you. (The exhibition Lucas Samaras: Offerings from a Restless Soul is currently in view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York through June 1. Samaras’ works are also featured in the current exhibition "What is a Photograph?" At the International Center of Photography in New York, through May 4).
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15 Undiscovered European Destinations
When it comes to the very best European destinations, bigger does not always mean better. While travelers typically gravitate toward larger cities like London and Paris, some of the region's most rewarding and best-kept secrets are alternatively set well off-the-beaten path. From a tiny Albanian cliff town with stunning mountain vistas, to a Swiss mountain village known for its beer and cheese, it's well worth the extra effort to get to any of our 15 picks for the best undiscovered European destinations.By Emily Wasserman1) Porto Palermo, Albania Nestled among rolling green hills just south of the town of Himarë is Porto Palermo. This Albanian village keeps a low profile, but features a towering 18th-century castle that overlooks a sparkling bay. Visitors can explore its well-preserved grounds, and take in the coastline's picturesque scenery.Photo Credit: Yelena011 | Dreamstime.com2) Sainte-Agnes, France Narrow stone-paved streets, arched passageways, and spectacular views make Sainte-Agnès one of Southern France's hidden gems. This tiny seaside village comes perched atop a mountain, offering visitors a lookout over stunning Mediterranean vistas. Climb its hills to see the ruins of a 9th-century chateau, or stop by the Maginot Line fort for panoramic views of the water.Plan Your Trip: Visit Fodor's France GuidePhoto Credit: Kuz'min Pavel/Shutterstock3) Coimbra, Portugal Once a bustling capital city, Coimbra is now a vibrant university town touting plenty of historical attractions. Located halfway between Lisbon and Porto, this Portuguese town boasts one of the oldest academic institutions in Europe, and visitors here can partake in lively local festivals and traditions. Visit vibrant cafés and bars to hear authentic fado music, or take a tour of one of the city's ancient cathedrals.Plan Your Trip: Visit Fodor's Coimbra GuidePhoto Credit: Arseniy Krasnevsky/Shutterstock4) Kotor, Montenegro Tucked away in a secluded channel of a Montenegro bay, Kotor exudes picturesque scenery and natural beauty. Visitors can walk through a maze of winding, cobblestoned streets, and tour buildings that date back to medieval times. For unparalleled views of the mountains and water, climb 1,350 steps to the town's ancient fortifications. Adventurous souls can also opt to paraglide from atop the surrounding cliffs.Plan Your Trip: Visit Fodor's Kotor GuidePhoto Credit: Peter Guttman5) Warsaw, Poland Known as the "Phoenix City," Warsaw has experienced its fair share of change. The Polish capital was practically demolished during World War II, but has since reinvented itself as an up-and-coming metropolis. Visitors can browse upscale shops near the city's Palace of Culture and Science, or take a stroll around the majestic Royal Castle and Old Town Square. For a taste of local culture, visit the buzzing Praga District on the city's right bank, known for its lively bars, art galleries, and underground theaters.Plan Your Trip: Visit Fodor's Warsaw GuidePhoto Credit: Marcin Jurczuk/Shutterstock6) Appenzell, Switzerland Step back in time in Appenzell, one of Switzerland's least explored regions. Located at the foot of the Alpstein mountain range, the area boasts delicious beer and cheese, quirky residents, and traditions that date back centuries. Explore streets lined with colorful houses and stop by a bakery to sample local confections like pear bread and almond and honey cakes. Plan Your Trip: Visit Fodor's Appenzell GuidePhoto Credit: TwilightArtPictures/Shutterstock7) Smolare, Macedonia Small, landlocked Macedonia is often overlooked by travelers, but passing by the country would be a mistake. Visitors here can take in stunning mountain ranges, sparkling lakes, and architecture dating back to the Byzantine era. Stop by the tiny village of Smolare to see the country's tallest waterfall: Located 130 feet above the town, travelers can walk up 300 stone steps to gaze at the sparkling blue falls from a wooden bridge.Plan Your Trip: Visit Fodor's Macedonia GuidePhoto Credit: Smolare_Watterfall by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License8) Sibiu, Romania Built in the 12th century, the Romanian citadel city of Sibiu is an ideal destination for history buffs. Still boasting many of its original fortifications, visitors can walk through mazes of stone staircases and archways to explore the area's rustic architecture. Stop by Grand Square to visit Brukenthal Palace, a majestic 18th-century Baroque mansion that houses one of the oldest museum collections in the world.Photo Credit: Boerescu/Shutterstock9) Kosice, Slovakia While the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava, garners most of visitors' attention, travelers would be remiss to skip over Košice, the country's second city. Located on the eastern side of Slovakia, Košice boasts beautiful gothic architecture, carefully preserved buildings, and plenty of historic charm. Stop by the Villa Cassa to see Europe's oldest coat of arms, or take a stroll through the city center, with its medieval houses and palaces.Plan Your Trip: Visit Fodor's Slovakia GuidePhoto Credit: silver-john/Shutterstock10) Korcula, Croatia Breathtaking scenery and rich local culture are what draw visitors to Korčula, Southern Dalmatia's largest island. Also known as "Black Corfu," the densely wooded islet boasts secluded beaches and bays, and verdant green hills perfect for hiking. 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Helmut Schmidt: 'Why Chinese Civilization Has Lasted.' Part III
Recently, the Chinese scholar Wang Hui sat down for a conversation with Helmut Schmidt, Germany’s elder statesman, in Hamburg. Until 2007, Wang Hui was editor of the influential journal, Dushu, and is the author of the seminal four-volume study, “The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought.” Helmut Schmidt, 95, was chancellor of Germany from 1974-1982 and visited China several times to meet Mao and Deng Xiaoping. WANG HUI: I read some interview in which you talked about your early visits to China and you said that Deng Xiaoping smoked when you met him. [Helmut Schmidt is famous for insisting on smoking, even in public places, at 95- ed.] SCHMIDT: I met him three times in my life. And each time we had plenty of time. He was a great listener; quite different compared to Mao Tse-tung. Mao didn’t really listen. He did not speak a lot, but he did not really listen. He believed in what he believed and stuck to that that over a long number of decades. THE SELF-RENEWAL OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION HELMUT SCHMIDT: There is something about China that I do not really understand. The Chinese civilization, the Chinese written language, Mandarin, has existed at least for 3000 years now. Three thousand years ago we had the great civilization of the Iranian people, of the Egyptian people, of the Romans, of the Greeks. All of these civilizations have gone. Yet, the Chinese civilization has retained its continuity. And after more than 4000 years of Chinese history, all of the sudden the Chinese are exploding onto the world stage. Why? WANG: The Chinese civilization has had the tendency to construct and reconstruct itself continuously. It was interrupted many times, but continuity was always revived. No doubt it has much to do with Confucianism. Confucianism is a political culture and not only a philosophical culture."Confucianism is a political culture and not only a philosophical culture." SCHMIDT: The Confucian civilization starts only around the year zero A.D. -- 500 years after the death of Confucius. And later on Confucianism almost died out. And it came back around 900. So, Confucianism covers only one half of Chinese history. WANG: But even in the dynasties when Confucianism was in decline, rulers and scholars still attempted to reconstruct the ideology of the Confucianism to some degree. SCHMIDT: And it is coming back today. WANG: They always tried to reconstruct it. The thing most difficult to understand is that the Chinese civilization was interrupted by nomadic people from Mongol, Khitan, and Jurchen. But it is interesting that the nomads who came to China also tried to re-establish society in the tradition of Chinese dynasties. They tended to respect Confucianism while preserving their own cultures and diverse identities, hence enriching the Chinese civilization. SCHMIDT: The political civilization of China differs in one way from the rest of the civilizations. Chinese Confucianism does not seek to establish the belief in one religion. Confucianism is a philosophy, or an ethical system, but not a religion. You do not believe in God. In what do you, as a Confucian, believe? WANG: Confucius himself said that we should respect ghosts and spirits while keeping some distance from them. SCHMIDT: Your theory is that the impulse for reinvention so many times after so many dynasties is what gives Chinese civilization its sustainable longevity? WANG: To one extent, yes. SCHMIDT: What is the other extent? WANG: The other extent is that there was still an important legacy that always survived, especially in the countryside. Until the 20th century, China remained as an agricultural civilization. “Farming and studying as the family lineage,” or geng du chuan jia, had been the basic lifestyle. But now there is a big change. Another great transformation is happening now. SCHMIDT: Of course, farmers are always conservative. They stick to what they have learned from their fathers and from their grandfathers. This is the same all over the globe. It is not a Chinese specialty. WANG: No, of course not. But the other side of the coin is radicalness. Mao himself is such a paradoxical character. On the one hand, he was very radical. But on the other hand, he was so well acquainted with Chinese history and classics. When I was a student in the middle high school, I started to study the Chinese Classics under the influence of Mao. SCHMIDT: Did you do it with the consent of Mao or against his will? WANG: Well, both. Mao argued that we needed to criticize Confucianism and should be pro-Legalism (the school of thought emphasized strict obedience to authorities and the law—ed.) That political campaign started in 1974. That’s why even in middle school, we were required to read and then criticize Confucian texts. We were hence asked to read a lot of the classics. SCHMIDT: My impression is that Mao was even against Confucius being quoted in public. WANG: That happened mainly after 1974 when the campaign “Criticize Lin Biao, Criticize Confucius” started. Lin was criticized for attempting to revive Confucianism as a power move, so Mao launched this campaign. SCHMIDT: At the time of Confucius, there was another outstanding Chinese philosopher, Laozi. Did Mao also attack Laozi? WANG: No, at least he was not the main target. He was considered a master of dialectical thinking. Mao regarded Laozi as a strategic thinking above all. You may read Laozi from the perspective of military strategy. SCHMIDT: When I was in China in the 1990s, the general answer that I got when asking about Mao was the he was “70 percent was right and 30 percent was wrong” in what he did. Is that still the answer? WANG: For China, Mao is complex. Nowadays, some people dislike him very much, but on the other hand many people have a very positive opinion of him. It is difficult to evaluate such a man with such accurate metrics. SCHMIDT: By the way, he also liberated women in China. This is something that is overlooked at present. If you speak about what Mao has achieved, he paved the way for the liberation of women. Am I right? WANG: Yes, absolutely. And another issue is that, even though we suffered in a certain period, the history of his period would become the foundation for the next period. After the Cultural Revolution, Deng Xiaoping was under great pressure to denounce Mao. But Deng refused to do so. It was partly a political strategy since the legitimacy of the reform was derived from the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party. But it was also because he knew perfectly well that while the Cultural Revolution caused tremendous loss, the Mao era also laid the foundation and defined the framework for a unified nation that was the basis for “opening up and reform.” Deng’s decision strengthened the legitimacy of China’s political system. Otherwise, China could have fallen into chaos at that time. SCHMIDT: This could still happen -- not very likely, but not totally unlikely. And it would certainly, after some time, lead to reconsolidation of China once again. It is not the first revolution in history. By the way, Mao confessed to not being a Marxist. He never was (laughter) -- he was a revolutionary. WANG: How Mao should be evaluated remains a provocative question. But he said during the Cultural Revolution that, in his view, very few people in the Chinese Communist Party really knew Marxism. He made this comment in the 1970s. SCHMIDT: Marx believed in the revolution by industrial workers. Mao believed in revolution by the peasants. That had nothing to do with Marx. What they had in common was revolution. Right now in Germany, among every hundred people who earn their living by working, less than a third are “workers” in the sense Marx meant it. Many are not workers in a traditional sense. They work in an office and in front of them is a computer. WANG: The Chinese situation is different. We still have 260 million migrant workers -- who have come to the cities from the countryside. It is the largest working class in the world. But in the 20th century, when the Revolution took place, there were less than 2 million workers in China. HOUSEHOLD REGISTRATION, URBAN WORKERS AND MEGACITIES SCHMIDT: You have to consider the abolishing of the hukou system [the system or urban registration for urban dwellers. Without residence permits, migrants do not get urban services, as urban residents do, including education.. editor]. WANG: Now we are moving toward that direction -- not abolishing it, but making it much more flexible. . SCHMIDT: You need to do away with the whole system of hukou. It is one of the necessities or modernization. How long will it take? WANG: Some cities in China have already changed the policy for allowing migrants to get urban services. Compared with the past, the significance of hukou has already dwindled. The key issue for the present is land ownership. Each peasant has a small piece of assigned land, the rights of which they still own even after they migrate into cities. SCHMIDT: This has also to be changed. WANG: This is a big issue for China. There are heated disputes over it. Many peasants who live in the suburbs or cities don’t want to give up their land. SCHMIDT: I think one of the greatest changes that have happened in China is that you do not need so many farmers any more. And they are going into the cities. And the cities are becoming bigger and bigger. Beijing has about 19 million inhabitants now. Shanghai is close to 30 million. This means that the instinct of the farmer keeping to his father’s will in the Confucian tradition is bound to dissipate. WANG: That’s right. SCHMIDT: You Chinese today do not believe in your father or your forefather. You believe in making money. WANG: That is a big challenge. According to the estimation of some Western scholars, by 2035 China will have 25 of the most populous cities among the top 75 in the world. If true, that would entail a thorough transformation in the social structure of China. SCHMIDT: The urbanization of the nation also means massification. The psychology of the masses is something completely different than the psychology of the family, or even the psychology of the market. And the masses can be led astray. This is as big a problem as the smog over Beijing and Shanghai. WANG: Now there is a debate in China among the leaders and the intellectuals about the approach for the next reform, and about the trend of urbanization. Basically the consensus is that globalization renders the trend of urbanization inexorable. This has been the premise of such discussions. But in China, land is still state-owned and collectively owned, so the problem focuses on how to handle the relationship between cities and the countryside. In the end, the debate comes down to the issue of the privatization of land. Some argue that state and collectively-owned land should be privatized. But some other scholars disagree and promote the reconstruction of the rural society at the same time as urbanization continues. Even if our rural population is reduced dramatically in the next 50 years, we will still have a population of 500 million in the countryside. SCHMIDT: I guess that the average size of a Chinese village today is several thousand people. At the time of Sun Yat-sen, there were several hundred people. How great was the population of China in the year 1911? WANG: It was about 400 million. SCHMIDT: And now it is more than 1.3 billion. And an increasing share of that 1.3 billion is living in the cities. And the process is going on, whether you like it or not. WANG: Life in central cities is not that comfortable. The Chinese government does not simply encourage the expansion of cities. The trend is rather to get people to move to the smaller cities. THANKS TO THE ONE CHILD POLICY, TOO MANY OLD PEOPLE SCHMIDT: The problem is rather more complicated, because the standard of living in the big cities, is infinitely higher than in these small towns that are large villages. The standard of living per capita in Shanghai is probably 10 times higher than the standard of living in the small towns of which you have spoken. On the other hand, the bulk of the Chinese people are still living under the consequences of the one child policy. That means that as a nation you become ever older and you will need to care for the older people. And this is one of the great Chinese problems approaching the middle of the century. WANG: Yes, absolutely. One doctrine of Confucianism is about “expanding piety to your parents and to others as well.” It is about the respect for the elderly and about sympathy with those who came before, both of which are facing challenge as urbanization accelerates."One can expect a future race between America, on the one hand, and China on the other hand. Both of them will be forced to invent social security systems almost at the same time." A RACE BETWEEN THE U.S. AND CHINA ON SOCIAL SECURITY SCHMIDT: One can expect a future race between America, on the one hand, and China on the other hand. Both of them will be forced to invent social security systems almost at the same time. The Americans have an advantage because they already do have the beginning of a social security system and you do not have one, or it is very weak. WANG: Yes. China has been attempting in the last decade to rebuild the social welfare system, especially the healthcare system. Of course the standard is still low, but for the first time in history China has a basic healthcare system that can cover the whole population. We have to be realistic in a country with more than a billion people: The pressure on the state budget might be too much. SCHMIDT: Further, the science and the art of applying medicine today will extend people’s lives. Your children will become much older than yourself. They will become five years older at least. I am an example; I will become 95 this year. And I’m still alive, due to modern medicine. WANG: Average life expectancy is already over 70 years of age in China. SCHMIDT: Before long their lifetime will reach 80. WANG: I believe so. The average life expectancy in China is much higher than that in India, and is about the same as Russia. It is still lower than that in Japan. SCHMIDT: And this longevity will grow while the margin of manoeuvre for the state to act in a globalized world is dwindling at the same time. WANG: The pressure exerted by the society on the government has grown. The urban population has a strong consciousness. Most of the protests in the early days happened in the countryside. But now, they happen in urban areas. Globalization has certainly impacted China, but in comparison to other nation-states, we are relatively independent. SCHMIDT: And at the same time they are not revolting against the central government. WANG: That is another phenomenon. A lot of the protests call for social equality more than a change in government. Read Part IRead Part II
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Woolwich Market - notes from Diana Rimel
Woolwich Market – taken from notes by Diana Rimel
It was first granted an ancient charter in James I reign, 1619. The Charter was granted to a) Sir William Barne, then Lord Mayor of London and b) Hugh Lyddiard, Clerk of the Cheque at Woolwich dockyard. Both were important men and trustworthy.
They and their heirs had the right to hold and keep one Market Day on Fridays each week, and to collect the tolls and dues from the market holders, while it was on the site in the High Street, then called the Market Head, buildings erected about 1750.
There have been five markets in all, which Woolwich historian, Vincent identified from Barker's plan made in 1748.
1) The first called Market House stood at the end of Ropeyard Rails, which became St Saviours Schools, later in Woolwich High Street. In 1849 it was occupied by the parish cage, the old market house having been pulled down in 1749.
2) Roff's wharf was next - a quadrangle with narrow entrances from the High Street and New Street (1835) with a square market house and shops all round, erected in 1748 with its market house disappearing in 1774.
3) Another market was tried out in 1807, under a new Act, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, because the old market place had fallen into disuse. (The buildings attached to the market included a number of public houses; the Crown and Cushion, the Waterman's Arms, the King's Head; four shops and 14 private houses belonging to Lady Wilson. Roff's Wharf House and shops stood on the north side of Market Head) The Market Act proved inoperative, because the new Market was in competition with the Market Head in the High Street. The site of the new market, now the Town Hall and police station was ignored by the public. The area round the Town Hall had streets with names connected with the Market.
4) The Wilson family improved Market Hill and Market Head, ultimately clearing all the old buildings around about 1830. This became the 4th market.
After the Crimean War (1854-5) the population shifted eastwards, dealers followed, leading an unsettled life about the streets, at constant war with the authorities. Beresford Square therefore began lawlessly - against the wishes of Town and Parish. The ancient market place became deserted.
Public opinion eventually forced the authorities to put in sanitation and to recognise the new market. Sir Spencer Maryon Wilson sold all his land rights in the market to the local board in 1887 for £500. The new market was given its Regulations in September 1888, and a plantation of shrubs and trees was cleared to make the market as it is today. There were strong regulations about conduct, cleanliness and operation, 24 bye laws were drawn up in January 1888 and the market opened 1 September 1888.
Beresford Square had 27 small houses on it in 1810. The Square was formed to improve the entrance to the Arsenal at the expense of the Government. It was named after the Marquis of Beresford, Master General when the Arsenal entrance was formed in 1828-30. The tolls varied from 6d upwards. In the first year they realized £620 or nearly £12 a week.
The first toll collector was Enoch: Hunt appointed from 49 applications. The regulations were accepted as a wholesome improvement upon the previous disorder. Julian Watson's book shows old Market place - Market Head, Beresford Square). All went well for the first day and income from the tolls was £9 12s 3d. Market dealers paid 3d a foot for the day. There were early complaints about high charges. One dealer's goods were seized for non-payment.
Betting and gambling was allowed and horse racing tickets sold.
Some of the well-known late 19th early 20th century market dealers.
Harry Spithouse had a chip stall. Very clean, high class, chips fried in pure lard. His wife was popular for the amounts she gave
John Lawrence and the corn cure. Demonstration to the audience by showing his own perfect bare feet. He also jumped up and down on a bed of nails.
Glass cutting expert.
Fred Webb was a knife and scissors sharpener and had a table full of knives and shears.
The Purse King also sold handbags.
Sid and his china - he juggled with dinner plates. He dropped price from £1 to 7s 6d for a dinner set.
Headache cure man; a shabby man sold joss sticks; a fortune teller had a bird that picked up your fortune card with its beak; there was a ballad seller; also a lively fellow with curtains, linen and household materials.
There was an artist in clay who invited people to suggest a modelling subject e. g. Edward VII; Kitchener; Will Crooks; George Robey and Shakespeare. He always ended up doing Shakespeare as it was the only one he could do properly!
An East Indian had tiny samples of exotic perfume that attracted the girls. And there was a man with a patent darner whose brother sold needle threads.
An unshaven fellow had grease remover, and a man showed creases in his trousers made by wire stretchers costing 6d each.
There was also a pie shop with live eels, meat pies, potatoes and gravy.
Wombwell's Menagerie pitched in it in the 19th century until 1854
The Lino King brought his yardstick down athwart a roll of cloth. Mac the toffee man had a stall covered with the latest football results. Another sweet stall sold Doncaster toffee, actually made in Bermondsey! and another more legitimately saying where the toffee was actually made.
Near the butcher's stall was a turbaned Indian garlanded with scarves and shawls. Similarly the pipe smoking bootlace seller, another with needles, thread and elastic and an old lag begging.
Near the toll hut stood Mr Gibson, Razor King of Woolwich, selling razors, shaving materials with scissors and nail cutters. Whistling Rufus was his assistant.
Flash Harry the Mock Auctioneer was the cleverest psychologist. He sold everything and threw odd gifts, cakes of soap, pencils, etc. into the crowd.
There too was Maud Skinner, "they've arrested her again, she's drunk." She was the local prostitute.
The present stallholders keep some traditions going. When Diana made these notes there were still about eight families holding stalls in the market who could trace family links back to the turn of the century and even before.
Grace Ellis’s husband's grandmother Polly Ford and her husband Joe had to wait overnight for a pitch on the square before the 1888 charter legalised the market. Grace herself handed her stall over to her daughter.
Also the Manchester family
The Rolfes have been there since early in the 20th century, running the fruit stall on the ".high' pavement. Johnny Rolfe remembered started at 4 am and staying open till 11 pm to catch workers coming out of the Arsenal. The market was 100 years old in 1988.
In 1874 a crowd of some 20,000 heard Gladstone make a speech in the Market from a coach hauled into the Square, before the General Election; some 20,000 two years later, heard a rabble- rousing speech by John de Morgan, who was leading the Plumstead Common campaign.
A paved crossing was laid from the Elephant and Castle pub across the Square to the Mortar Tavern to placate the traders in 1884, when the Board admitted it could not shift them from there. The Board did try to buy the Ordnance Arms to increase the market's size but the Burrage Estate, the freeholders, asked too high a price.
Explosions at Woolwich Arsenal
I have just acquired a cheerful little booklet - Explosions at Woolwich Arsenal - written by Clive Jarvis in 1982 ('Not for sale' it says on the back)
Generally it is all pretty terrible, and a whole history of Woolwich we have more or less forgotten.
It starts with 18th June 1903. Work had started at 7 am rather than 8 am because it was the day that the big guns would be tested. At 8.10 there was a terrible explosion with bodies and body parts flying through the air. Woolwich people were used to explosions and took a bit of time for a crowd to gather at the gates - but there was no news until the Kentish Independent came out the next day. 16 men were dead or missing and 14 injured. The accident has occurred during the packing of Lyddite - and as ever the evidence as to what had happened was blown away with the explosion
The next listed by Mr. Jarvis was on 11th February 1907 at 3.20 in the morning - and people woke up, got up, and took to the streets. The explosion was inn the Chemical Research Department magazine on Plumstead marshes and near the river - leaving a hole 15 metres deep. Is there any evidence of this hole today?? Nobody was anywhere near although there was a lot of damage to buildings, to the Arsenal gas holder, railway carriages at Plumstead Station, Lakedale Road shops - and for miles around. The nearest creature to the explosion was a cat in a shed next to the site of the explosion - it was 'safe but not completely happy'.
I haven't been able to scan the cartoon style drawing which shows broken windows and dismay as far away as Braintree and Southend - but the above diagram does show the extent of damage, albeit it is a bit unclear
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Cyberpunk 2077 Shows Off Seven New Screens at Gamescom
Cyberpunk 2077 Multiplayer
According to an announcement on the game's website, the footage will be a 15-minute cut of what's been shown to game journalists at Gamescom.
The Cyberpunk 2077 map will be smaller than that of The Witcher 3, but it will have much more content packed into every nook and cranny, as revealed in an interview with GamesRadar.
While NVIDIA claims that this is a Gamescom 2019 trailer, we've seen the exact same trailer in E3 2019.
Character creation in Cyberpunk 2077.
Where and when can you watch the stream?
Speaking to Eurogamer, CD Projekt RED's Marthe Jonkers - a senior concept artist for Cyberpunk 2077 - confirmed that multiplayer modes were being developed internally, but that the company had made no firm conclusions about their eventual inclusion in the anticipated title. "Hosting the entire thing will be our very own Hollie Bennett, our United Kingdom head of comms, and the dev line up will include some familiar faces you know and like", they say in the announcement.
Fans ready for more Cyberpunk 2077 action will not have long to wait for that lust to be satiated, as CD Projekt RED has announced that it will be hosting a live stream on August 30, showcasing more of the upcoming RPGs nihilistic gameplay. "The most important thing we want to say is that we're sorry for the change of plans". Cyberpunk 2077 is set only in one place, and so the emphasis is on filling it to the brim with activities and intrigue. It will also be released on Google Stadia, although it is unclear if it will launch with the other platforms.
Gov. Jay Inslee drops out of presidential race
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Chargers RB Melvin Gordon's holdout to roll into regular season
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Motherless Brooklyn Trailer for the Edward Norton Film
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Man assaulted by Conor McGregor speaks out: "I can take a punch"
McGregor claimed to have "made amends" around the time of the incident. "I'll be fighting until the day I go out". Speaking to ESPN's Ariel Helwani, McGregor addressed the incident and was quick to admit he was in the wrong.
Son of ex-Cowboys quarterback dies of cancer at 21
His spirit and fight are a reminder to me of what it means to play and coach the game of football. I don't know that I've ever a better example of that in my life.
Pompeo takes aim at China over diplomatic feud with Canada
He boasted about his government's success in signing trade deals with the United States and Mexico and with Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
Justin Verlander orders Astros to bar Detroit reporter over grudge
The paper, however, said it had not been contacted by Verlander as of noon on Thursday and has offered to interview him. Reports also state that Verlander himself requested that Fenech not be allowed in.
Mobile partners with carriers and state attorneys general to fight robocalls
There is no silver bullet to put a stop to them, but these anti-robocall principles represent a dramatic step forward", he added in an interview.
Beth Chapman’s Daughter Opens Up About Her Mother’s ‘Last Moment’ Of Consciousness Before ‘She Literally Choked On Her Cancer’
Of course, Beth's husband (real name Duane Chapman ) supporter her decision and stood by her side throughout it all . She didn't want to feel like she was falling apart.
Bayer to sell off animal health business for $7.6bn
Capital expenditures amounted to 2.6 billion euros, R&D expenses to 5.2 billion euros. Bayer's animal health business recorded sales of 1.8 billion dollars in fiscal 2018.
Cowboys Reportedly Offer Ezekiel Elliott Big Money
Considering his numbers and track record, I highly doubt Elliott will jump on this offer. At 24 years old, he's already a two-time Pro Bowler and a two-time All-Pro.
Bangladesh, UNHCR to survey Rohingyas regarding return to Myanmar
Besides, the returnees will go through medical check-ups and will be taken to transit camps near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. According to the prelate, "Most think that refugees fear for their security if they return to Myanmar".
States to Launch Antitrust Probe Into Big Tech
As many as 20 states could participate, according to The Wall Street Journal , which first reported the story on Monday. Talking point: The probe means some tech giants could be facing three US antitrust investigations at the same time.
The Bard of Blood Trailer Shows a New Kind of Action Hero
From the past few days, Shah Rukh Khan has been building up curiosity among people by sharing short videos. It is set to be released on Netflix on September 27.
Bose announces new Portable Home Speaker with Assistant and Alexa for $349
That way, you can ensure there is no possibility of you being listened to or recorded. If you choose to not use the mic, that's fine too.
Respawn CEO apologises for "ass-hats" remark from employee
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No Rohingya turn up for repatriation to Myanmar
UNHCR had only interviewed a third of the 3,450 refugees , or 1,037 families as part of the agency's intention surveys, he said. An earlier repatriation attempt last November was suspended because no one was willing to go back.
Hyundai 45 Concept has a graphic lightbar for taillights
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Astros Block Detroit Free Press From Clubhouse at Justin Verlander's Request
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Jada Pinkett Smith Confesses Her Love For Sex Toys
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The Obamas Open Up About Producing New Netflix Documentary And Future Projects
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Taliban claim killing 2 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan
Adam Driver in First Teaser Trailer for Investigative Film 'The Report'
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AP breaks news of Soleimani killing; dominates all-formats coverage
The source’s initial tip seemed fairly run-of-the-mill for Baghdad: A late-night rocket attack hit the international airport.
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Soon, from three sources, came confirmation that Soleimani was dead. Regional news director Zeina Karam’s AP alert reached our customers well ahead of the competition and triggered a response by teams, across the region and beyond, that would maintain AP’s edge with all-formats coverage astounding in its breadth, speed and insight.
Usage in all formats was off the charts, both by AP customers and on social channels.
For standout work in a competitive tour de force, AP’s Middle East team of Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Zeina Karam, Jon Gambrell, Nasser Karimi, Ahmed Sami and Nasser Nasser share Best of the Week honors.
Decisive win at Women’s World Cup – for AP Photos team
We all want to perform well on the big stage, and AP’s photo team did exactly that at the recent Women’s World Cup in France, a tournament that is being called the greatest edition yet of the sport’s most prestigious event.
AP’s photo coverage was strong from the outset of the 52-match marathon, but it was the crew’s performance in the championship final that really stood out. Intelligent planning from Paris and London, and brilliant execution by specialist photographers and remote editors saw AP photos dominate play with their coverage of the 2-0 victory by the U.S.
A five-strong team of photographers – staffers Alessandra Tarantino, based in Rome; Francisco Seco, Brussels; and Francois Mori, Paris; joined by freelancers Vincent Michel and Claude Paris – won the day in a manner arguably even more decisive than the U.S. women.
The list of front pages is long and includes prestigious titles like The New York Times, L’Equipe, The Guardian, The Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Houston Chronicle.
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Harris breaks soccer news with US and UK scoops
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The days leading up to Catalonia’s independence referendum pointed toward trouble on the day of the vote. The autonomous region in northeast Spain was pushing ahead with the election despite the country’s constitutional court ordering it to be stopped. In the weeks leading up to the vote, thousands took to the streets, demonstrating for and against independence. The election, set for Oct. 1, was sure to be a defining moment for the region and the country.
It also posed a challenge to those planning AP’s visual report: How best to capture the expected chaos? How to navigate its major city, Barcelona, which would be flooded with demonstrators and police? How to get photographers and video journalists in the right positions, knowing they might be stuck there for hours?
These decisions fell to Emilio Morenatti, AP’s chief photographer for Spain and Portugal. A longtime Barcelona resident, he anticipated those obstacles as he deployed AP’s staff and freelance photographers.
The result was some 200 photographs that captured the violence and passion of a remarkable moment in Spanish history. For planning creatively, making smart in-the-moment decisions and risking personal safety, Morenatti and his team of photographers win this week’s Beat of the Week.
FIFA removes Qatari match official due to diplomatic crisis
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Exclusive interview with soccer's top referee yields scoops
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Plane crash tragedy reverberates across three countries
for aggressive all-formats coverage of the plane crash that killed 71 people, including members of a Brazilian soccer team. The team worked in three nations, getting vivid photos and video of the wreckage in Colombia, unearthing detail on the plane’s owner and fuel capacity in Bolivia, and videotaping interviews of the families of the dead in Brazil. http://wapo.st/2hhrCBW
Soccer looks to allow medics to assess concussion on replays
for reporting that doctors assigned to soccer matches could be allowed to watch replays of collisions next season and have the game stopped to assess the potential for concussions. http://apne.ws/2eYhKr7
Fifa disbands racism task force, says job done
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AP Interview: Infantino Fighting Resistance to Overhaul FIFA
for an in-depth interview with Gianni Infantino, the new president of FIFA. http://tiny.cc/7jlxey
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Meredith Blogs? Oh Snap!
English Studies, ODU
PAB Entry #2 (Hollenberg)
Studies in American Indian Literatures
Hollenberg, Alexander. “Speaking with the Separatists: Craig Womack and the Relevance of Literary History.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 2009: 1-17. JSTOR Journals. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.
In his defense of Womack’s work Red on Red and his theory of a literary separatism, Hollenberg argues that Womack’s work must be seen through the lens of literary relevance, or “what it really means for a literary history to be relevant” (2). Hollenberg—a white, Canadian scholar with a full understanding of the scary implications of “separatism”—argues that we should understand Womack’s work as a call for enriching and true dialogue, not as a schism between white and/or multiculturalist scholars and Native scholars/writers, but rather as (as Womack intends) a Creek sovereignty in which “a Creek community…defines and evaluates itself internally by reimagining its own borders” (2).
Hollenberg argues we should understand that Womack is arguing for the hybridity of Creek identity, in which a Creek individual exists within the Creek community and outside of the Creek community, which suggests a “permeability” of borders that should make clear (since a Creek individual exists in multiple communities outside of the Creeks) that Womack is not arguing for ethnic exclusivism, but instead for a Native consciousness that is “separate yet integrative” (5). Through this, the Creeks can create a literary history and theory “that speaks for and, even more importantly, to itself” (2). Hollenberg acknowledges this view is difficult for pluralists, multiculturalists, and postmodernists to swallow, and in his essay addresses the multiculturalist scholars Arnold Krupat and Elvira Pulitano’s reactions to Womack’s work. Hollenberg argues that their criticism of Womack’s work, along with the criticism coming from a number of multiculturalists and postmodernists, falls exactly into the trap Womack warned critics to avoid.
The biggest issue that Womack (and consequently, Hollenberg) point out is that Native American literature should not be used simply “as an instrument of canonical subversion—as if it exists purely to disrupt and defamiliarize the established discourse” (Hollenberg 5). In the cultural and civil rights movements of the sixties, seventies, and even into the early eighties, critics often used literature written by minorities (Native American, African American, Asian American, etc.) as a new lens through which to view and destabilize the center, or the established canon. However, Native American texts (oral or written) have existed far longer than the formal European/American literary canon, and even longer than European contact; in this view, even a cosmopolitan perspective, such as the one adapted by Pulitano in her criticism of Womack, falls short, because “it inevitably presumes that the Indigenous is always in a marginal position” (Hollenberg 7). As Hollenberg questions, “why, we must ask, is the Native subject always first constructed as a borrower in cosmopolitan criticism?,” or, why do “critics unwittingly posit the Native self as always victim” (7)?
Ultimately, Hollenberg fully supports Womack’s approach, and encourages others to support it as well, for “the point of reading a Native literary history is not to feel like a better multiculturalist (comfortable in one’s recognition of difference) but to locate for one’ self the capacity to dialogue and, also, to accept the possibility of not possessing the central and controlling perspective” (8). Hollenberg’s argument then gives me, and other white scholars like me, a direction for how to proceed in consideration of Womack’s work: we are the outsiders, and the traditional methodologies we’ve used to analyze literature won’t necessarily work or be appropriate in analyzing Native American texts. The question remains: what will an Indigenous-centered methodology look like (Womack’s methodology being one example), and how can a white scholar learn it?
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Seoul, Seoul Travel Bits, Travel
Sungnyemun
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Sungnyemun, a 600-year-old landmark in Seoul, was officially opened to the public on May 4, five years after it was severely damaged by an arson attack. Sungnyemun served as the official main entrance to Seoul during the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910). The walls on both sides of the gate have been rebuilt. In order to make the structure more faithful to its original design, the width of the stairway on its east side has been broadened. The ground level has also been lowered by 30 to 50 centimeters.
Sungnyemun Gate in the 1900s ⓒ Kim Young-taek
Nearby Namdaemun Market is the land of opportunity for culinary adventurers looking for Korea’s authentic street-cart snacks.
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If you cannot find a good buy at Namdaemun Market, head to Seoul Station’s Lotte Mart outlet.
It is worth checking out the number of physical improvements cited above.
www.sungnyemun.or.kr, Open Tuesday through Sunday (9am–6pm)
(29 Namdaemun-ro 4-ga, Jung-gu, Seoul | 서울시 중구 남대문로4가 29)
City Hall Station 시청역 (Line 1, 2), Exit 8
Seoul Station 서울역 (Line 1, 4, A’REX), Exit 4
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A Landforms Adventure
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Personal Narrative (nonfiction)
The Earth’ s surface is always changing. The beautiful and impressive landforms of the United States are evidence of this powerful process. Students will enjoy tagging along on this road trip from coast to coast, during which various landforms are highlighted and explained. Detailed text features support students’ understanding of the science behind these landforms while photographs offer examples of the stunning results of the ever-changing Earth. Book and lesson also available at Levels N and Q.
A New Skyline
Informational (nonfiction)
New York City is a major world hub with an unmistakable yet evolving skyline. Yet this thriving city wasn’ t always a towering metropolis. A New Skyline details the history and evolution of New York City’ s skyline. The book can also be used to teach students how to effectively sequence events and the proper use of adjectives. The book and lesson are also available for levels W and Z.
A Trip to a Prehistoric Cave
Informational Narrative (fiction)
Emmanuel and Victor never expected to find such archeological wonders in France. Come with them as they discover Font de Gaume, a cave with Paleolithic paintings, and Prehisto Parc, filled with life-sized scenes of these ancient peoples. The boys and their parents experience firsthand what life waslike for early humans, and you will, too!
Adventures with Abuela
Realistic (fiction)
In Adventures with Abuela, the Cruz children and their parents set out to discover where they’ ll be meeting their grandmother, Abuela, for vacation. Armed with a map of Arizona and their grandmother’ s clues, the children unravel a mystery that takes them from Utah to Arizona.
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Fairy Tale (fiction)
A magician tricks Aladdin, the son of a poor tailor, into getting a magic lamp from a hidden cavern. Aladdin is able to use the magic lamp to get treasures for his family and marry the Sultan’ s daughter, Princess Buddir. But the magician wants his lamp back, and Aladdin must outwit him again.
Biography (nonfiction)
Albert Einstein is a biographical text about the accomplishments of the renowned scientist. Readers learn about his theories that changed the way people think about the universe. Information about Einstein’ s hobbies, struggles, and opinions allows readers to gain insight into the personalside of his character. Famous quotes begin each section, and photographs and diagrams support the text. Book and lesson also available at Levels W and Z.
Alice’s Birthday Cake
Alice’ s Birthday Cake is a story about a girl growing up during World War II. Although her thirteenth birthday is tomorrow, she is very sad. Her father is away fighting in the war, so he won’ t be there to sing Happy Birthday to her. With food and materials on short supply, she knows that her family cannot make her a cake. When her birthday arrives, Alice receives a special surprise. Illustrations support the text.
Amelia Earhart: A Legend in Flight
Historical (nonfiction)
Who was the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane? Amelia Earhart: A Legend in Flight provides students with a historical look at Earhart’ s accomplishments in aviation. The book can also be used to teach students how to sequence events in a text and to identify compound subjects.The book and lesson are also available for levels Q and W.
Ants in My Bed
Personal Recount (fiction)
Ants in My Bed, written in the first person, recounts a child’ s summer vacation at the shore with Gram. Living in a Victorian beach town is quite a contrast to the child’ s usual life in the city. The child learns about ocean tides, building sand castles, and conquering ants in a bed. This book is the second in a three-part series. Charming illustrations complement the text.
Art Around Us
Art Around Us is an informational book that teaches readers about different kinds of artists and the varied and sometimes unusual art they create. Painters, sculptors, potters, glassblowers, and fiber artists are highlighted. Photographs and captions support the text. Book and lesson also available at Levels M and P.
Awesome Ants
In the millions of years that ants have crawled the earth, they have become some of the most fascinating and amazing insects. Informative and entertaining, Awesome Ants gives students a look into the intricate lives of ants. Detailed photographs provide up-close views of everything awesome about ants, from communication through scents and vibration to their underground activities. The book can also be used to identify main idea and supporting details. The book and lesson are also available for levels N and Q.
Bats in the Attic
Bats in the Attic, written in the first person, recounts a child’ s summer vacation at the shore with Gram. Living in a Victorian beach town is quite a contrast to the child’ s usual life in the city. The child learns the importance of bats, how to dig and cook clams, and to say good-byeto a very special summer. This book is the final installment in a three-part series about a child’ s summer at the shore.
Brazil covers many interesting facts about the largest country in South America. Students will learn about the life of Brazil’ s people today as well as their long history and vibrant celebrations. The book also discusses the many landforms and diverse wildlife throughout the country. Exciting photographs and detailed maps support the text.
C Is for Canada
Narrative (nonfiction)
C Is for Canada is a book written in the form of emails between two pen pals: Stephanie from the United States and Jacqueline from Canada. Stephanie’ s school assignment is to write a report about Canada, so Jacqueline writes about the details of her country. Photographs support the text.
Cali and Wanda Lou
Cali and Wanda Lou is a story about a girl and her stuffed calico cat. Told from the perspective of Cali, the cat, the two take adventurous trips to many faraway places, such as Tokyo, Beijing, and Bangkok. Students will enjoy learning about the many interesting sites Cali and Wanda Lou visit on their trip. Photographs and illustrations support the text.
Camouflage explains different types of animal liz-5248098187312563. Readers learn why and how animals use liz-5248098187312563 throughout their lives. The book shows examples of types of liz-5248098187312563 in interesting, close-up photographs.
Captain Morty Commands the Sky
Fantasy (fiction)
Going on an airplane for the first time can be an exciting and nerve-racking adventure, especially when you are in charge! Follow Morty as he guides his blind grandmother through a day of travel in Captain Morty Commands the Sky. Will they make it to their destination, or will the responsibilities be too much for Morty to handle? Rich character dialog and a relatable story will engage readers. This book can be used to teach students how to identify character point of view and to recognize articles.
Caribou Man
Folktale (fiction)
Caribou Man is an Eskimo folktale that tells the story of Onhgarouk, an Eskimo man who lives with his wife and sons in a village near the sea. After overhearing his wife’ s father say that he is a terrible husband, Onhgarouk leaves home to learn how to become a better man. Believing that theanimals living on the tundra lead carefree lives, Onhgarouk wishes to become one. When he is granted his wish by the caribou, Onhgarouk gradually learns the lessons he sought. Onhgarouk’ s wife eventually sees the man her husband has become.
Carlos’s Puzzle
Carlos’ s Puzzle is the story of 9-year-old Carlos and his trip to a cornfield maze with his family. Unlike Carlos, Javier, his older and more athletic brother, is not interested in the trip. However, Javier believes his athletic ability will make him better at completing a maze, so he challenges Carlos to see who will finish the maze first. Although Javier rarely recognizes Carlos’ s abilities, something happens inside the giant maze that gives Javier a new impression of his younger brother. Rich vocabulary and illustrations support the text.
Cathy Freeman
Cathy Freeman is an Aboriginal Australian athlete. Early on, Cathy’ s stepfather recognized that she had a talent for athletics and ensured that she had the right opportunities to foster that talent. Cathy’ s hard work and training were rewarded when she won Australia’ s 100th gold medalat the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. This account of Cathy’ s success is set against the difficulties the Aboriginal people have experienced since colonization
Color blindness is the world’ s most common genetic disorder, affecting more than 10 million people in the United States alone. Color Blindness provides students with a comprehensive explanation of the causes and effects of this condition. The book can also be used to teach students how to determine an author’ s purpose and to use hyphenated compound adjectives. The book and lesson are also available for levels Q and W.
Desert People
Desert People is an informational text about various peoples who live in deserts. It focuses mostly on the Tohono O’ odham (a Native American tribe) and the Bedouins but also briefly mentions other cultures. Desert People tells about many aspects of desert life, from diet and shelter to daily routines, traditions, and customs. Photographs, tables, and a map support the text. Book and lesson also available at Levels P and W.
Deserts Dry
Deserts Dry asks readers to think about what they already know about deserts and adds surprising new facts about three of the most unique deserts in the world: the Sahara, the Gobi, and the Atacama. The book explains that some deserts are home to expert horse herders, lakes of salt, underground oceans of oil, and ancient civilizations. It also describes different animals and plants that can be found in these inhospitable climates and explains how they survive. Photographs and captions support the text.
Drums and Drumming
Drums and Drumming explores the many uses of drums from the past to the present. Readers learn about the origins of drums, how different drums are made, and some of the types of drums used around the world. Photographs enhance the text.
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis teaches readers about some of the most intense and unpredictable forces of nature. It describes the causes of each one and explains the ways in which these three furious forces are connected. Diagrams, photographs, and a map support the text. Book and lesson also available at Levels Q and W.
Elizabeth Blackwell: America’s First Woman Doctor
“This is the way to learn!” wrote Elizabeth Blackwell in 1847, after beginning her medical studies. Blackwell was the first woman ever to attend medical college. Readers will learn how this determined woman never gave up on her dream, and how she went on to devote her life to helping others. In the process, she also broke down many of the barriers to becoming doctors that women once faced.
People around the world express themselves most joyfully through their holidays. This book takes a look at many of the major holidays that take place from November through March-one of the busiest holiday seasons. Students will learn through sensitive text and photographs how kids just like them celebrate Hanukkah, Ramadan, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year, Holi, and the international celebration of the new year.
Horseshoes Aren’t Just for Good Luck
Horseshoes Aren’ t Just for Good Luck is a realistic fictional book written in the first person. A child is visiting Gram (Great-grandmother) at the seashore over summer vacation. Living in a Victorian beach town is quite a contrast to the child’ s usual life in the busy city. The child learns about life at the beach and becomes especially interested in horseshoe crabs. Illustrations support the text.
InFLUenza provides basic facts pertaining to the flu, or liz-6507029148880402- including what it is, how it spreads, and how it changes. The book provides students with useful information about how their body naturally fights flu viruses, as well as how the flu can be prevented and treated. Photographs, diagrams, charts, and maps support the text. Book and lesson also available at Levels W and Z.
Japan exolores many interesting facts about this island country. From the ancient history of shoguns to culture in the modern capital city, this book details many of the aspects of Japanese history, geography, and people that make the country such a wonderful place.
Kid Inventors
Did you know that children invented snowboards, trampolines, and Popsicles? Many inventions have been created by kids, and famous inventors often started their work at an early age. Kid Inventors describes the achievements of several forward-thinking children, and concludes with advice on howany child can become an inventor. Photographs focus on both the inventions and the inventors highlighted in the book. Fluent readers will be inspired by these accounts of children changing the world with their ideas.
Lighter than Air is a fascinating history of floating aircraft. Topics range from the discovery of Montgolfier Gas to the flight of the Goodyear Blimp. Both the photographs and the details in the text are of high interest to children. Many teaching opportunities are provided throughout thebook.
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Each spring fans turn their attention to the frenzy and excitement of one of the most popular sporting events in the United States. March Madness is a detailed look at the ins and outs of this college-level basketball championship tournament. The book can also be used to teach students how todiscern the author’ s point of view and to effectively summarize. The book and lesson are also available for levels Q and W.
Mexico is an amazing country, filled with amazing landforms, animals, people, and culture. Students will learn ancient civilizations as well as modern life in Mexico as they read this book. Detailed maps and colorful photographs support the text.
Money in the USA
Money in the USA answers many questions about how money is made in the United States and how it is distributed across the country. The history and symbolism of our coins and bills, counterfeiting and how the U.S. Treasury combats it, design changes over the years, and recycling money are all discussed. Rich photographs, charts, and illustrations support the text.
Morty and the Mousetown Gazette
Morty Mouse couldn’ t believe he finally had a chance to become a newspaper carrier. His friend Ben asked him to cover his route for three days, and if Morty did a good job, he just might get his own job. Will Morty see his dream of being a newspaper carrier become a reality? Students will learn about the importance of dependability and honesty as Morty discovers if he is ready for the responsibility of having a job. Illustrations support the text.
My Secret Internet Friend
My Secret Internet Friend tells the story of a twelve-year-old girl, Sara, who really loves her computer. Sara is learning from her mother and teachers about the proper use of the Internet and also about cyberbullying. In this book, Sara also learns a scary but important lesson about communicating with strangers on the Internet. The text provides an opportunity for readers to learn about Internet safety for young people in an engaging and friendly format.
Mysteries of the Lost Civilization
Mysteries of the Lost Civilization is a book about the Greek island of Crete and its rich history. It describes the first civilization that inhabited the island, what the island was like, and how the Minoan people became so successful there. It also describes theories on how the powerful Minoan civilization disappeared and why its disappearance has remained such a mystery. The text includes a rich variety of geographic, economic, cultural, and historical information. Photographs, maps, and illustrations support the text.
Puffins are unusual and fascinating birds that have captured people’ s imaginations. Nicknamed “clowns of the sea,” these skillful birds are well known for their unmistakably distinct appearance. Students will enjoy detailed photographs that support the text. The book can also be used to teach students about asking and answering questions and discerning fact or opinion. The book and lesson are also available for levels Q and W.
Remembering the Alamo
Remembering the Alamo tells about the famous battle in 1836 and highlights the leaders on both sides. It recounts the history of Texas and Mexico, the events leading up to the battle, and what happened after Mexican troops defeated the Texans. Illustrations, diagrams, photos, a time line, and maps support the informative text.
Ricardo’s Dilemma
Ricardo is a star soccer player and not too excited about having to attend a ballet performance of Cinderella with his class. His perspective changes, however, when he goes backstage and sees the well-toned athletes warming up. Ricardo is so impressed with the performance that he decides to take ballet classes, but he is concerned about what his friends will think and doesn’ t tell anyone about the classes. His dilemma comes to light when his ballet training enables him to save a child’ s life.
Originally built as America’ s first major highway, Route 66 has taken on a life of its own and has become a wildly eclectic travel destination. Route 66 details the history and evolution of this historic highway including the artistic oddities found along the way. The book can also be usedto teach students how to effectively sequence events and summarize. The book and lesson are also available for levels Q and W.
Running for Freedom
Historical (fiction)
Running For Freedom follows the path of young Daniel and his father as they escape from slavery. Through the Underground Railroad, they are eventually led across the Ohio River and onto free soil. Both are driven by the desire to find Daniel’ s mother, who was sold to another family when Daniel was very young. Illustrations, photos, and maps support the text.
Russia is a fascinating country. Its land varies from frozen tundra to lush forests and grasslands, and its culture is rooted in a long history. Students will be excited to learn more with this book.
In this fascinating biography of Saladin (or Salah al-Din), find out how one man united the Muslim people, retook Jerusalem from the Christians, and came to be known as one of the greatest and most compassionate leaders during the Crusades.
Sally’s Secret Ambition
Sally’ s Secret Ambition is a story set in 1862 during the American Civil War. Sally is a young girl whose secret ambition is to become a surgeon like her father. Unfortunately in the late 1800s, a surgeon was not a typical profession held by women. However, Sally secretly learns the profession by watching her father and reading books on the subject. One day, Sally gets her chance to help a wounded soldier, and her secret is revealed. Illustrations support the text.
Severe Weather is a factual text that discusses temperature, air pressure, wind, and moisture, which combine to form various kinds of weather patterns. Thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and blizzards are all forms of extreme weather that are discussed in this book. The book also talks about safety precautions that people can take to minimize the risk of injury during severe weather.
Ships of Discovery is an informational book about the types of boats that explorers built and used when discovering new lands. Ships and conquests of Polynesian, Viking, European, and Chinese explorers are highlighted. The author also describes the people who set out to sea as well as theirmotivations for going. Illustrations and maps support the text.
South Korea explores many different aspects of this impressive country. From its culture and celebrations to its land and complex history, students will enjoy learning about this amazing place.
Spain explores many different aspects of this amazing European country, from its complex history to its exciting food and varied landscape.
From gigantic apes to alien spacecrafts, special effects help to create images on screen that make scenes more believable and entertain audiences of all ages. Types of special effects are discussed in relation to their evolution in the movie industry. Photographs, illustrations, and timelines support the text.
The Black Stones
The Black Stones tells the story of twins who learn to put aside their differences and get along with each other. Tala finds two obsidian stones and wants to learn more about how they were formed from a scientific viewpoint. Her brother, Paco, isn’ t interested in science and wants to findout if the stones are lucky charms or have magical properties. Their mother forces them to work together to find the answers. The twins discover that they actually enjoy working together.
The Buffalo Soldiers
After the Civil War ended, the U.S. Army formed the regiments that would come to be known as the Buffalo Soldiers. Despite discrimination and hardship, the Buffalo Soldiers served until the Korean War, becoming an important chapter in the history of the United States. Historic photographs and detailed text features support engaging text. Book and lesson are also available for levels Q and W.
The Kingdom of Happiness
What is the key to happiness? How is happiness measured? The Kingdom of Happiness开元棋牌靠谱吗 introduces students to Bhutan, a tiny mountain kingdom, where happiness is the priority. Bhutan’ s first happiness survey was conducted in 2007 and inspired other countries throughout the world to consider thestate of contentment among their citizens. Students will be asked to contemplate the effect of the modern world on the happiness of the Bhutanese citizens. The book can also be used to teach students how to identify cause-and-effect relationships as well as to identify adjectives. The book and lesson are also available for levels Q and W.
The Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize is the most illustrious nonmilitary award in the world. Although not without controversy, the Nobel Prize has a legacy of honoring great thinkers throughout time. The Nobel Prize is a detailed look at the history of this award and some of its most well-known recipients. The book can also be used to teach students how to discern the author’ s point of view and to effectively summarize. The book and lesson are also available for levels W and Z.
The Red Baron was the most feared pilot in the skies during World War I. With eighty victories in aerial combat, Manfred von Richthofen will be forever remembered as the leading ace of the conflict. The Red Baron describes Richthofen’s life, focusing on his military career, pilot training, and rise to prominence, while framing his experiences in the historical context of World War I. Photographs, illustrations, and maps support the information in the text. Book and lesson are also available for Levels W and Z.
The Return to the Hollow (Part I)
Adventure (fiction)
Qynn and Sarah are back in this book in the Hollow Kids Series. Their research into the strange events in Porter’ s Mill and Sarah’ s mom’ s disappearance is starting to yield results-and everything is pointing to the Hollow as the source. The girls eventually go to Sarah’ s Aunt Terra and demand answers. What she tells them will lead them to the next stage in the mysterious journey. The first part of The Return to the Hollow, sets up the story for the biggest adventure of the series yet. Illustrations add detail and atmosphere to the story.
The Return to the Hollow (Part II)
Part II of The Return to the Hollow continues the engrossing adventure as Qynn, Sarah, and Jake enter the Hollow on Halloween night to find the mysterious Porter’ s Mill. Soon, they find the strange boy they met the previous year, who leads them deep into the heart of the spooky woods as they are chased by the haunting laughter once again. Will Qynn, Sarah, and Jake find Porter’ s Mill? Students will be excited to find out as they practice visualizing and analyzing setting.
The Return to the Hollow (Part III)
In this exciting installment of the Hollow Kid series, Qynn and Sarah have finally discovered the original Porter’ s Mill. Will they discover clues about the whereabouts of Sarah’ s mom and Qynn’ s Uncle Jasper? Will they finally learn the source of the haunting laughter? Read The Return to the Hollow (Part III) to find out! While immersing themselves in this suspenseful adventure story, students will also practice sequencing events in a text and using contractions.
Lawyer, slave owner, architect, writer, Founding Father, secretary of state, president-Thomas Jefferson was all these things. Readers will learn how Jefferson authored the Declaration of Independence, served the American colonies, and helped shape the United States into the nation it is today. Students may know him as the third president, but Thomas Jefferson was much more.
Titanic Treasure
Although everyone said it was unsinkable, the Titanic, the largest passenger ship ever built, did sink. In Titanic Treasure, readers learn how this great ship sank in 1912, who discovered its remains, and what people learned from the disaster that helped to improve ocean travel. Engaging historic photographs support the text.
Vikings is an informational text that describes a group of Nordic men. Hailing from what are now Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, these explorers sailed far from their homeland to discover new parts of the world. They were trained at an early age to be warriors and skilled navigators. Eric theRed’ s and Leif Ericson’ s explorations to Iceland and Greenland are highlighted. Book and lesson also available at Levels W and Z.
Weave It!
How to (nonfiction)
The craft of weaving dates back tens of thousands of years and has been practiced by various cultures all over the world. Readers are led through the process of creating three separate weaving projects–a paper mat, a friendship bracelet, and a dreamcatcher–as well as being given different sourcesto explore more. The author teaches the basic principles of weaving, and invites readers to experiment through use of different materials, patterns, and colors. Diagrams and photographs support the text.
What Is Water Worth?
How much do you value water? Some of us take it for granted, while others prize water as a treasured resource. What Is Water Worth? teaches students about water’s importance, the encroaching worldwide water crisis, and the three main threats to our water supply. The book ends with some thoughts on how to address the problem. Photographs, charts, and graphs support the information. Book and lesson are also available for Levels W and Z.
Yee Haw! The Real Lives of the Cowboys
We all know the gun-slinging movie hero, but what was life really like for the cowhands of the old West? This informative book details the real hardships and dangers of the cowboy life and recounts the fascinating story of how cowboys became famous just as that way of life was ending. Historical photographs enhance the text.
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Saturday's loss contributed to the Twins' growing record of holding the MLB's longest active postseason losing streak in baseball, having dropped 15 consecutive games.
The Yankees won Games 1 and 2 in convincing fashion as the scene shifts to Target Field in Minnesota for Game 3.
The Nationals shrugged off a poor start this year and won 93 games, earning a chance to host the National League wild card game against Milwaukee.
Moneyline: Stick with the YANKEES following Friday's and Saturday's dominating performances.
And then they went out and played Game 1 like nervous tourists waiting to get mugged in the big, bad city.
The expectation entering this series from everyone, including the Twins, was that this would be a heavyweight offensive fight with the Yankees and Twins exchanging homers. Both starters will be charged with keeping potent offenses at bay at hitter-friendly Yankee Stadium. A $10 bet on the Yankees to win the game returns a profit of $6.67.
Arraez later added a run on a two-out RBI double off Jonathan Loaisiga in the ninth. "I got one in the zone and I hit it out". Mitch Garver is 2-for-9 with three strikeouts, Eddie Rosario is 1-for-9 with four strikeouts and Sano is 1-for-8 with six strikeouts. We got punched in the mouth a couple times in NY.
On the brink of sweeping the ALDS, dropping one game to Jake Odorizzi and the 101-win Twins won't be the end of the world, especially since the series would conclude in the Bronx, should it go the full five. The Twins, fresh off setting a Major League record with 307 home runs, one more than the Yankees hit this season, were going to prove all that postseason history between these teams was meaningless.
"We'll try and have him prepared for a lot of different roles, but he'll certainly, in some way, shape, or form, be in play the first two games", Boone said.
Littell and the bullpen took care of that and not in a good way. Sano struck out four times, a night after hitting one of the Twins' three homers. Aaron Judge finished 2-for-3 with two walks and a run.
NY led 3-0 when Gregorius came to bat in the third.
Gregorius' grand slam was the Yankees' first in the postseason since 2011, when Robinson Cano hit a bases-loaded homer against the Detroit Tigers in Game 1 of the division series. If the Twins want to turn things around and stay alive in the series, they need to get more base runners and score runs in bunches because their pitching staff hasn't been good enough to keep the Yankees contained for nine innings. Duffey had pitched the previous day, while Romo and Rogers were fresh. Hopefully soon considering who they are now matched up against.
Knowing that Altuve is up to bat should make us all feel at ease that the job is going to get done one or the other with him being the leader of this team.
The best of five series will continue if necessary on Tuesday and Thursday of next week. Every game is important.
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Have you noticed that there are a lot of gurus out there these days?
Internet marketing, the Power of the Now, Secrets and Key Insights, to wealth, fame and enlightenment are all within your reach. Everyone seems to be an expert these days. But is anyone actually working?
Never before has so much information been available to so many. In many ways it is the heralding of a new age of enlightenment and individual opportunity, a signal of the coming frontier of unprecedented entrepreneurship. In other ways it is the beginnings of a sea of confusion for those who seek help and guidance amidst the storm.
For entrepreneurs, who already suffer from the burdens of steep learning curves and overwhelm, sorting through the ever increasing roster of gurus is one more steep learning curve.
Where did they all come from?
They came from the changes to our marketplace that are unfolding rapidly with the age of information and globalization of commerce. The world is flattening. Everyone is potentially now an internet millionaire, and all the real work in society is now being shipped offshore or relegated to migrant workers. What's left? Instant gurus.
The problem is that consumers love it. Where would Oprah or all the talk shows be if they didn't have the newest expert on the show? Where would the news channels be without the opposing talking heads; where a former drug addict or felon can share the stage with a lifelong PhD in a battle for "expert" opinion?
Old Fashioned Gurus
It used to be that a Guru attained status from deep dedication and ritual attention to a discipline of inquiry and insight such that the wisdom of a lifetime could be conveyed to those who sought knowledge and wisdom and a path to understanding.
Often a Guru was an ascetic eschewing Life's distractions in order to stay on course to understanding. Professors in Universities who applied critical thinking to find new theories, brilliant geniuses who tinkered radically, or prolific writers who tired over words and explanations were the hallmarks of the world's inventory of Gurus.
In the past it was easier to find and follow a Guru, because they stood out. There were measures of devotion and dedication against which to grasp their credibility. And the uniqueness of their content and ideas was not drowned out in the noise of waves of new ideas, like we are experiencing now.
New Era Gurus
And in truth, this is a new era for Gurus. It is no longer good enough to sit on a hill to attain insight and to then confer those insights onto one's followers. No one has time to sit on a hill anymore and few can get paid for it. The new Gurus must find and teach enlightenment or wisdom or new theories while tap dancing and farting while walking down a crowded street in Manhattan.
The sitting mystic or passive expert has given way to the walking mystic and the active expert, the doers, the one's whose wisdom in transcendent of the noise and hype and confusion, the ones who can weather the crowd by delivering compelling value and differentiated wisdom.
Which Guru?
There are gurus who have become gurus by teaching people how to become gurus. And there are a lot of instant gurus, experts in something that has rapidly emerged as a trend and they are leading the pack of "How to" experts.
Where does one turn, and who does one go to nowadays to figure out which guru is hot now; which ones are real; and which one's can actually help?
Look for Wisdom
The answer is: Look for wisdom, tire tracks and war wounds in plain wrappers. Wisdom is different from knowledge. "Wisdom is having gained knowledge, understanding, experience, discretion, and intuitive understanding, along with a capacity to apply these qualities well." Wisdom takes time, hard knocks and lots of learning, which is where the tire tracks and war wounds come in. Look for gurus who have experience, have been in the trenches and fought the battles and survived economic cycles to be able to see the Blinding Flashes of the Obvious™ or the forests for the trees.
The world is full of nifty shiny objects, and gurus are now becoming as common and glitzy as shiny objects. Look carefully, and find the weathered ones. Chances are they know the value of duct tape, tarnish and rust and they understand the real path to success or enlightenment, not the flash in the pan or the latest trend or fad.
If you'd like to get advice from the Sturu or non-gurus, contact us.
“Stewart is a true leader, he is trustworthy and confident, a genius at making all who work with him raise the level of their game...” February 21,2008
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<a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/17786210"><strong>Natural Selection</strong></a> (74307 words) by <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/users/msqjoe"><strong>msqjoe</strong></a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/users/msqjoe"><strong>asphodel</strong></a><br />Chapters: 15/?<br />Fandom: <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Red%20Dead%20Redemption%20(Video%20Games)">Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)</a><br />Rating: Explicit<br />Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence<br />Relationships: Arthur Morgan/Original Male Character(s), Minor or Background Relationship(s)<br />Characters: the gang's all here - Character, Original Characters<br />Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Behavior, pretty much everything is canon typical, except the sex, and the swearing, let Arthur say fuck, Animal Death, Some graphic descriptions, Period Typical Attitudes, (I try to keep it tame but let me know if something needs to be tagged), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, no TB, welcome to Operation:, Happy Ending, but there's a bit of angst and pining before hand, and gang dynamics, which i am editing and posting in chunks, Original Character(s), Disabled Character, Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, spoilers for the game in case you haven't finished, randy old ladies, god there's just so much pining, we're at about 80k words of this written<br />Summary: <p>Arthur Morgan makes a different choice, and it turns the whole story on its head. Maybe thieves can adapt, and learn to live in a changing world. Maybe the world just needs a different kind of criminal. And maybe those that don't try to find a different way will be left behind.</p>
Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
Arthur Morgan/Original Male Character(s)
Minor or Background Relationship(s)
the gang's all here - Character
Canon-Typical Violence
Canon-Typical Behavior
pretty much everything is canon typical
except the sex
and the swearing
let Arthur say fuck
Some graphic descriptions
Period Typical Attitudes
(I try to keep it tame but let me know if something needs to be tagged)
no TB
welcome to Operation:
but there's a bit of angst and pining before hand
and gang dynamics
which i am editing and posting in chunks
Original Character(s)
Disabled Character
spoilers for the game in case you haven't finished
randy old ladies
god there's just so much pining
we're at about 80k words of this written
asphodel (msqjoe), msqjoe
Arthur Morgan makes a different choice, and it turns the whole story on its head. Maybe thieves can adapt, and learn to live in a changing world. Maybe the world just needs a different kind of criminal. And maybe those that don't try to find a different way will be left behind.
Red Dead Redemption 2 drove me to write more fan fiction than I have in my entire life. A good deal of this story is already written, and will be updated frequently. If you notice any errors, please let me know, all mistakes are my own. If you encounter something that you would like me to tag for, just tell me. Please like or comment if you're enjoying it. Aside, the Arthur in my head is in his late-30s in this timeline, simply because that's what by brain supplied while playing the game.
Chapter by asphodel (msqjoe)
— Horseshoe Overlook —
Arthur thundered across dusty scrubland, twisting away from bullets, with Calpurnia’s powerful muscles bunching between his thighs. Arthur was never more at peace, at his best when he could let his instincts take over. He knew himself best in these situations: the law on his tail, gold in his saddlebags, and a gun in his hand. No time for self-doubt. No time to question his skills. A straightforward goal.
He leaned into a turn with Calpurnia as they whipped around a rocky outcropping east of Wallace Station. If they could get past Cumberland falls, they would be scot-free. He and Calpurnia would be able to disappear into the forest there, after they led the law away from John, Bill and Sean, fresh from robbing two stagecoaches in a row. It had been a ripe opportunity, both coaches arriving at the crossroads within minutes of one another. Maybe it had been a stupid idea, but the spoils would be worth it, assuming they all made it out alive. Unfortunately, it had also brought on extra law from nearby Emerald Ranch and they were hot on Arthur and Calpurnia’s heels. In an unspoken agreement, he had agreed to lead the lawmen away while John took the others back to camp the long way to mislead any hangers-on who may try to track them. At times like these, Arthur was grateful that he and John had ridden together for so long, that they could communicate complex plans with a glance.
Bullets whipped out of the forest to Arthur’s left, startling Calpurnia who skittered to the side on loose gravel that lined the trail. A weight slammed into his side, knocking the air from his lungs. Blood smeared his hand when he grabbed at his side. Arthur hauled Calpurnia’s head around, cutting at an angle away from the additional guns that had appeared from the trees. He ducked several branches while Calpurnia crashed through the underbrush, looking for a better trail to follow. Off to the right, he could hear the pounding of the falls. He didn’t think that they should be so close to the water already.
Calpurnia slammed to a halt at the edge of the cliff, rearing to keep her balance on the skree as her hooves scrambled for purchase. Arthur felt her reins slip through his blood-slicked hands as her head yanked against his hold and he went tumbling backwards. Calpurnia whinnied and darted back into the trees. At least Arthur thought she might make it back to camp with her saddlebags full of money for the others. It was the last coherent thought he had before he slammed into the cold, rushing water of the Dakota river.
Roaring water tumbled him ass over tea kettle through the relatively calm waters of the lower Dakota. He thanked whatever dumb luck kept him alive for dumping him into the rapids below the falls, where at least he had a chance at surviving. His lungs burned, but for the life of him, he couldn’t remember why. All the cold had leached the instinct right out of his body. He slammed sideways into a heavy rock and the pain in his side made him gasp. Air. He needed air. After a moment of disorienting spinning, he surfaced and gasped, choking against the water that had already invaded his body and now pounded him from all sides. Before he could do anything more than gulp a lungful of air, a tree trunk that bobbed in the water caught on his satchel. He twisted, trying to free himself, but the leather strap caught on his jacket lapel and forced him underwater as the log rolled. When it dragged him back up, he gasped again, desperate for air. His fingertips clawed at the rough bark, trying to keep himself on top of the trunk as it turned sideways. It caught on two boulders and slammed to a halt, while Arthur kept going. His satchel tore free, but not before it wrenched his shoulder out of the socket and dumped him back underwater with no air in his lungs, only fire.
Pain from his shoulder snapped everything back into focus. Arthur’s body remembered how to breath. His head breached the surface and he dragged air into lungs. His cold-numbed hands and feet remembered their jobs too, and started to guide Arthur’s dizzying journey down the river. He swam one-handed against the current, trying to pull himself towards the opposite shore, on the Valentine side of the river. It took a couple of tries, but he finally caught at the roots of a toppled tree that hadn’t yet been washed away.
He climbed out of the river and collapsed in the dirt at the edge. Turning to the west, he could see the sun beginning to set. It was the first time that sight had worried him. He was already shivering in the cold. Soaked clothing, no supplies, and several injuries would make it hard to find shelter or start a fire or do much of anything, really. He groaned and rolled onto the side with the bullet wound. Fire roared through his flank. It still hurt less than the shoulder. At least the cold had worked to numb some of the pain.
Breathing through his teeth, Arthur hauled himself to his feet, bit by careful bit. Upright, he stumbled into a tree and held himself there to a count of three then made his way forward. He worked his way from tree to tree, stopping often to breathe through the pain. Sluggish blood made its way down his side, warm and sticky in contrast to the biting cold of his skin. He wanted, at least, to stop and wring the water from his jacket, but he wasn’t sure that he could get it off without making his shoulder worse. Nor did he think he could get it back on again.
Teeth chattering against the cold, he pushed on. A tall rock face rose out of the evening mist off of the river. He looked back to discover that he’d made it a disappointingly short distance from the water. Now he was faced with finding a path up the cliffside. He thought that he was near Caliban’s seat, but his current location didn’t afford him a view of any landmarks.
Arthur followed a switch backing trail that wound up the side of the rocks, taking slow and deliberate steps, but his feet were beginning to burn with the cold and had gone numb inside his boots. He stepped sideways on a loose stone and dropped, rolling down the slope until he slid to a stop back near the base of the rocks.
At that point, Arthur gave up. He wasn’t too proud to admit it — inside his own head, anyway. He lay in the dirt, groaning and wished for his horse… a bottle of whiskey… dry clothes... He wished for a lot of things, even just the will to get up and keep going up the slope. Wobbly darkness at the edges of his vision told him a tale of heavy blood loss and he wasn’t sure that he could drag himself to his feet again if he wanted to.
Not many more of his thoughts made sense after that, as he started to hallucinate John’s face swimming in the air above him. John’s voice was more soothing in death, than Arthur would have expected. And, God, did heaven and its angels have it out for him, sending John Marston to escort him to the pearly gates. Pain flared in his side again and he gasped.
“Shit, Charles, he’s still alive.”
“How in the hell did he make it this far with a wound like that? Quick, get him up on Taima.”
“I think he needs a doctor.” Someone tugged his arm up, trying to lift him from the ground and he screamed.
“I think you may be right. Valentine? It’s closest.” Hands on his arms, dragging him upright again. Fire everywhere. By the time his feet left the ground as he was shoved into Taima’s saddle, he had blacked out and welcomed the dark, ominous end of communication between his brain and body.
When he next awoke, he wished that he hadn’t. Death might have been preferable to the bruising that seemed to reach into the very core of him. At least he lay on something soft — far softer than his camp bed. Warmth radiated from several heat sources tucked in around him. Blankets were draped across his naked torso and bandages wrapped around his middle, binding the bullet wound and holding his arm in place. His other arm was free, on top of the blankets. Golden lamp light fell from the table beside him, illuminating a real bed somewhere in a dark room that smelled vaguely of alcohol and liniment. He shifted, trying to get a better view and groaned in pain.
“Easy, Arthur.” Charles. Arthur closed his eyes and breathed out, relieved beyond measure. He hadn’t hallucinated Charles dragging Arthur onto his horse. “Doctor Barrow? I think he’s awake.”
Several sets of footsteps announced the arrival of others. Arthur opened his eyes, winching in the brighter light that accompanied the others’ additional lamps.
“Arthur?” John asked, leaning over his bed. So, he hadn’t hallucinated John’s presence either. He’d never live that down.
“What’d you want Marston?” he mumbled. “Turn down the damn lamp.” Arthur was surprised at the watery laugh John produced as he moved away from Arthur, to be replaced by the doctor. Or, a doctor at least. Arthur had met the Valentine doctor once before, while buying some spare bandages and rubbing alcohol for camp. This man looked nothing like him. He was quite a lot younger, clean shaven and dark haired, with small round spectacles perched on the bridge of his nose. Light glared off of the lenses, obscuring the doctor’s eyes so that Arthur couldn’t see their color, only the long, straight nose set between them.
“Good evening, Mr. Morgan,” the doctor said, pulling a stool closer so that he could sit beside the bed. “How are you feeling?”
“No worse than usual.” John chuckled, but Charles only pursed his lips into a frown. One out of two on a bad joke was better than none. Arthur cleared his sore throat. “Like I got trampled by a whole herd of horses.”
“Well, that’s better than you might be feeling after the day you’ve had. Open,” the doctor said, holding out a thermometer. “I want to make sure that you haven’t contracted pneumonia. Or anything else, for that matter.”
Arthur didn’t have the energy to fight this kind of fussing. On a normal day, he might get up and walk away, but he wasn’t sure that he could even sit up on his own. And, frankly, he didn’t want to find out where John could see him fail. Charles at least wouldn’t terrorize him or suggest that he’d become feeble in his old age. Arthur really should have beaten John more, when they were younger. He might be more respectful now. He was jerked out of his thoughts by the doctor removing the thermometer from his mouth.
“Your fever has gotten worse since your companions brought you in. I would really suggest staying here until you recover. Mr. Marston, would you get a cup of that tea off of the stove please?” John left the room, taking his offensive lamp with him.
“I think I’d best be getting home Doc. Can’t really wait around here, when there’s stuff needs doing.” He saw an odd expression flutter across the doctor’s mouth, that he didn’t quite know how to read.
“Go ahead, then, Mr. Morgan.” He leaned back from the bed, giving Arthur room to stand.
Arthur could recognize a challenge when it stared him right in the eyes. He pressed his unbound elbow down into the mattress and tried to force himself into a sitting position. He almost blacked out again from the pain and dropped back, gasping for breath. He hadn’t risen more than a few inches from the mattress. Stitches, front and back, pulled on his left side where the bullet had pierced it, but that was nothing compared to the pain that clawed at his shoulder; his back, his neck, his ribs and stomach, even his jaw got in on the action. Sweat broke out across his chest and forehead as he ground his teeth against the pain. He recognized the doctor’s expression: smug.
Arthur glanced at Charles, whose expression was stony and unreadable, then at the ceiling, which he imagined he’d be staring at for a long while. At least the pressed tin tiles were pretty enough, with their intricate patterning. John arrived with a cup of tea in hand.
“I’ll give you all a moment. See if you can get him to drink that whole thing. It’ll help with the pain,” the doctor said as he walked out of the room, which was starting to feel hot and cramped with four fully grown men in it. Charles settled on the doctor’s stool and helped raise Arthur into a sitting position, pushing a pillow behind him. Even with help, it hurt. Arthur waited for John to take a swipe at his inability to sit up on his own. Instead, John stepped forward and offered the cup to Arthur, with the handle turned towards his right side so that he could take it without struggle. Arthur felt the back of his neck burning, surprised at the thoughtfulness. Bitter tea burned his tongue, but he took a second sip anyway.
“We realized that something must have happened, when Calpurnia made it back to camp without you,” Charles said. “Hosea sent a few of us out to look for you.”
“He sent Marston to rescue me? Should’a left me to die,” Arthur drawled. Charles frowned at him.
“You almost did.” Arthur glanced at John, who looked away, also frowning. Arthur didn’t usually manage to piss them both off at once. He swallowed hard and drank some more of the scalding tea. At least his burning tongue distracted from the pain everywhere else, if only for a moment.
“Everyone’s glad you’re alright, Arthur.” Charles put a gentle hand on his shoulder. “We should get back soon, let folks know how you’re doing. We’ll be back tomorrow.”
He squeezed Arthur’s shoulder and stood from the stool with a groan, stretching his back “You’re heavy, you know.” Arthur rasped out a laugh as the doctor came back into the room.
He watched John and Charles leave. Both shook the doctor’s hand and thanked him for the help; John even clapped a friendly hand on the other man’s shoulder as he said something else too quiet for Arthur to hear. Whatever it was, it made the doctor laugh, a low rumbling sound in his chest. He escorted them out of the room. Arthur heard the front door of the clinic close and let his head fall back against the pillow.
“Those are some loyal friends you have there.” Doctor Barrow’s voice filtered through the foggy feeling had wrapped itself around Arthur’s head. “Very concerned for your safety.”
“Nah, just don’t wanna have to do all the work on their own.” Arthur snorted. Doctor Barrow raised his eyebrows at Arthur, looking doubtful. He was sure that they didn’t want to lose him as a contributor to the group, but he couldn’t speak to what other motivations they might have. Arthur also wasn’t about to discuss his companions or their loyalty with a stranger. He was even less inclined to do so when they were still wanted men.
“I promise not to keep you from your duties for long,” the doctor said. He braced Arthur with one hand and rearranged the pillows so that Arthur could lay down for the night, pulled the blankets up across Arthur’s bandaged chest. Arthur couldn’t remember the last time someone had tucked him in. It was...nicer than he remembered. It also seemed a strange thing for a doctor to be doing. Wasn’t this the sort of thing nurses were in charge of? Even a small town doctor was a busy, well-respected person far above this level of patient coddling. Bent over the bed, Arthur could see him better in the low light. His glasses, looking so much like Strauss’s, did nothing to endear Arthur to the man, but in the light his eyes were a warm, golden brown.
“No offense, Doc, but how much is all this gonna cost me?” Arthur asked, garbling the last couple of words with a massive yawn. Whatever had been in the bitter tea was making him fuzzy with sleep. He closed his eyes.
“No charge, Mr. Morgan.” Arthur knew that couldn’t be right, but he would have to deal with in the morning.
Weak sunlight filtered through the yellowed paper over the window in Arthur’s room, casting an unfortunate pallor over everything. Arthur pulled the blankets away from his torso and winced at the sight. Marks in all the colors of the rainbow splattered across his chest; bruises in dark blues and purples, with yellowing edges; angry red cuts and scrapes from sharp rocks and tree limbs. He tried once more to push himself into a seated position, but his arm shook from the effort and the exhaustion that still clung to his bones. He dropped against his pillow with a huff.
A knock at the door announced the doctor’s presence, standing in the entrance with another cup of tea and a small metal tray piled with bandages and a few glass bottles. “Good morning, Mr. Morgan. How are you feeling today?”
“Bit farther from death this morning, I think.”
“A ringing endorsement of my skills.” Arthur choked out a laugh, while the doctor smiled softly. At least his throat hurt less this morning. He told the doctor so, while the other man helped Arthur sit up against the pillows again. “Drink that tea. It’ll help. And it will distract you while I change your bandages. Might sting a little.”
Arthur sipped at the tea while the doctor peeled away the blood soaked padding from his side. Although the doctor’s stitches were neat and precise — maybe the best Arthur had ever received — the wound itself was a disgusting color and still oozed when the doctor prodded at its edges. Arthur sucked in a sharp breath and the doctor apologized. He began to clean the wound with the contents from the bottles and Arthur just stared at the ceiling, breathing steadily and counting the tiles above his bed.
“All done,” Doctor Barrow said. Arthur had made it to seventy six tiles. “Better than I’d hoped for, but we still need to keep a careful eye on it. Since the bullet went through, it’s not too bad an injury. Then you went and dragged yourself through a disgusting muddy river and collapsed in the dirt. I want to make sure that it doesn’t fester.”
Arthur took another sip of tea and his stomach growled in the quiet. Doctor Barrow smiled. “I can help with that too.” He returned soon after with hot, salty porridge that Arthur wolfed down.
“Where’s the other doctor?” Arthur asked between spoonfuls, trying not to talk with his mouthful.
“He had to leave suddenly, but no one told me why. I was looking for a job and when this spot opened up, I accepted and came right out. Left the back of the clinic in a terrible state.”
“So, you’re not from around here then?”
“No, I moved from Boston.” He frowned. Arthur knew the type. He didn’t have anything against the doctor, but he was dead certain the doctor would take issue with him. City boys didn’t come out west voluntarily, they were sent for some reason or another and they never seemed to leave their old life behind; forever going on about hot water and plumbing and the theatre. Arthur always had the worst trouble from wealthy easterners who didn’t understand what the west was really like. Although, they often had the fattest pocketbooks.
“Coulda guessed you were a city boy.” Arthur said, with a hint of derision in his voice. “Too fancy for Valentine, I reckon.”
“I needed work, Mr. Morgan. Wherever it may be found.”
“Don’t we all,” Arthur responded with a sigh. Doctor Barrow took his empty bowl and piled it onto the tray as he left the room.
“I have to go out on a house call. Should be back in an hour or so. My assistant is here if you need anything.” There was a coldness to his voice that hadn’t been there earlier. A hint of guilt crawled up Arthur’s spine as he remembered the doctor’s words from the night before about not charging him for the help. Arthur nodded, unsure what else to say.
Arthur dozed against the pillows in the low light, waking only to drink tea when the doctor’s assistant brought him a new cup. Noise from the outside of the clinic brought him back out of sleep, he heard voices that he recognized. Charles and Hosea came through the door. Hosea crossed the room and put a hand on Arthur’s forehead as he settled onto the doctor’s stool.
“How are you son?”
“Just fine, Hosea. Y’all are fussing for no good goddamn reason.”
“Arthur,” Charles said. “You were in such rough shape when we found you, John thought you were dead.”
“Yeah, well, Marston’s an idiot, ain’t he?”
“We were all worried Arthur.” Hosea took his hand away and Arthur missed it instantly, the cool touch had felt so nice against his too-hot skin. “Brought you a change of clothes.”
“And this,” Charles added, setting Arthur’s journal on the bedside table. “I just wanted to make sure you were still alive, before I went and bought supplies for the camp. I’ll see you back there, Hosea.”
Hosea turned to Arthur as Charles left, putting his hand back on Arthur’s forehead. Arthur sighed and turned into it. “What happened after you left the others?”
Arthur closed his eyes and tried to remember the details of the night before. So much of it was a blur of pain and confusion, being tossed about in the water. He told Hosea the parts that he could remember.
“I’m sorry, Arthur. You shouldn’t have been left on your own like that.”
“My own choice to do it, Hosea,” Arthur grunted.
Hosea frowned. “You shouldn’t have had to make it.” Arthur shook his head, looking for a different topic. He didn’t know what Hosea was on about. Arthur always had to make the tough decisions like that. He never had the luxury of any other way of doing things. Of course Arthur had to make those decisions, even if he sometimes chose poorly and got himself put through the wringer.
“How was the take from the coaches?” He asked, hoping to distract Hosea from Arthur’s apparent shortcomings as a leader and companion. Hosea grinned and turned his attention to Arthur’s question, Dutch’s glee over the tidy profit they had made — including the haul from Calpurnia’s saddlebags — and the generally positive feeling of the gang with more hope for escape on the horizon.
As Hosea was getting up to leave, the doctor returned, ringing the bell above the door in the main clinic. Hosea shook his hand on the way out and waved to Arthur.
“Your father was worried about you too, you know.”
Arthur smiled softly and didn’t correct him.. At least the doctor seemed to have forgotten about Arthur’s rudeness earlier that morning. He had another plate of food for Arthur.
“But first, a check up.” He said, setting the plate at the end of the bed out of Arthur’s reach. Alright, maybe he hadn’t forgotten about that morning. Arthur fidgeted, impatient while the doctor checked his bullet wounds, took his temperature and examined his shoulder.
“What kinda doctor are you?” He asked, while the other man wrote something in a notebook. “Ain’t ever been fussed over this much even by my own momma.”
“A doctor that cares about my patients not wandering around with septic infections and deadly fevers.”
On his fourth morning in the clinic, Arthur managed to haul himself up right and out of bed a few minutes before sunrise. Doctor Barrow came into the room as Arthur was leaning against the wall, trying to pull on the pants Hosea had left him with his one working hand.
“Your friends warned me that you’d be like this,” he said as he slid his shoulder under Arthur’s uninjured one, holding him upright. Arthur’s ears turned pink as he wiggled the rest of the way into his jeans. Doctor Barrow buckled his belt and then helped Arthur back over to the bed, lowering him down. “Is there a reason you’re out of bed?”
“Told you Doc, I can’t just sit around like this.” Doctor Barrow stared at him, emotionless.
“What jobs, exactly, do you think you’ll be able to do if you can’t even put on your own pants?” Arthur bristled. He didn’t take kindly to the suggestion that he was infirm, or couldn’t do his job. Even if it was true, this doctor didn’t get to stand there acting like Arthur was useless.
Dutch had visited the night before. All he’d said to Arthur was that he should take all the time he needed to convalesce, that they couldn’t function without him, that he was no use to them in his current state. All Arthur had heard was that he was useless to the group. He’d tossed and turned all night, getting very little sleep and irritating his injuries. Dutch only had the best intentions for Arthur. And Arthur was letting him down. He worked too hard for the gang, to fade away into nothingness over a couple of injuries.
“If I let you exercise your shoulder, will you behave yourself?” Arthur glanced up at the doctor, still glowering. “I have some stretches that you can try, to get your arm functional again. If you want to try them.” Arthur chewed the inside of his cheek. He would be doing something other than sitting around and it might get him up on his feet faster.
“Alright. Show me.” Doctor Barrow smiled and started to show Arthur a collection of exercises and stretches to help his arm. Arthur tried to follow along, but he could barely move his arm. He ground his teeth against the pain during the whole process. By the time the doctor helped Arthur into bed, he was shaking from the effort and sweat had broken out across his face and neck. Lying back against the pillows, Arthur had to admit that maybe he wasn’t ready to be up and about just yet. He glared at the ceiling, resenting his lack of an instant recovery. He used to feel invincible, doing this job. Now he just felt old. Old and tired.
A few days later, after almost a full week had passed since his dip in the river, Arthur could sit up on his own and move his arm without wanting to vomit from the pain. Days of rest, good food and, frankly, pampering by Doctor Barrow and his assistant Lucy, and Arthur was starting to feel like a human being again. It may have been the most restful vacation he’d ever had, compliments of a bullet and near drowning in the Dakota. He sat on the edge of his bed, buttoning a shirt that he’d struggled to get on with his arm’s limited mobility.
“You’re certainly looking better.” Doctor Barrow had appeared in the doorway, holding one last mug of tea for Arthur.
“Jesus, Doc. I look like shit.”
“Well, the only frame of reference I have is what you look like a hair's breadth from death. Compared to that, you’re looking positively radiant.” Arthur laughed and took the cup of tea. Given that he couldn’t saddle Calpurnia on his own, Charles was coming to get him later that morning for the ride back to camp. Arthur found that he was reluctant to leave. He told himself it was a matter of having been spoiled by his treatment at the clinic, but it was more than that. He couldn’t even nail down the feeling in his own mind.
“You really ain’t gonna charge me for all this, Doc?” He asked, staring at the empty cup in his lap. He and Hosea had both tried to get the doctor to take some form of payment and been refused. “I been eatin’ your food, drinking whatever the fuck is in this cup two, three times a day, getting fussed over by you and Miss King. Seems foolish of ya, not to take any money from me.”
“I only accept payment from patients that… have extra money lying around, that they aren’t using, that could benefit others. Usually, the wealthy assholes.” Arthur stared.
“So, you’re what, the Robin Hood of medicine?” Barrow laughed at the description.
“Hardly. I’m not stealing from the rich, they get their treatments same as anyone. I just charge them through the nose for it.”
Arthur shook his head. His own relationship with morality was weak, more distant acquaintance than anything else, nodding as they passed each other in the street. Whenever he stopped to think about good and evil, it all ended up jumbled in his head and he could never make heads nor tails of how it all fit inside him. Seemed the doctor had a different approach, had it all figured out for himself and found a place where he could do his version of the right thing.
“Secret’s safe with me, Doc.” Arthur shook his head and returned to his boots, pulling them on one-handed with great difficulty.
Arthur rode back into camp a little bit after midday, to the cheers of those present and many hands touching him. Despite the protest from his tender shoulder, he was glad to see everyone. So many people seemed to have worried about his absence. Even Strauss gave him a pat on the back. Arthur cradled his arm, still in its sling, against his chest to protect it from jostling. He pushed his way through the crowd.
“Alright, get outta here, y’all. Get back to work.” Arthur chuckled and waved them all away. Charles squeezed Arthur’s uninjured shoulder and left to unsaddle both his and Arthur’s horses. John hadn’t come to greet Arthur, but nodded from across the camp now, acknowledging Arthur’s presence. Arthur pushed back a sudden swell of emotion at the sight of everyone safe and happy, excited to see him.
After everyone had gone away, back to their tasks, Arthur took his time feeding and grooming Calpurnia, whispering sweet nothings into her soft ears. She pressed her velvety nose against his chest and lipped at his shirt. He brushed until her coat glistened in the sunlight and every scrap of dirt had been removed, cleaned her hooves and slipped her sugar cubes the entire time he worked. Pressing his head against her strong neck, he relaxed. She deserved the star treatment. No one would have come looking for him if she hadn’t come back to the camp without him. She’d brought the money back. Hell, she’d done more for the group than Arthur had managed, only burdening them with his injuries. He pressed a solid kiss to the white blaze on her nose and made promises involving fresh produce and peppermints. She’d saved his life just as much as Charles and John had, just as much as the doctor.
Recovery took a few more weeks, before Arthur could use his shoulder. He could finally shoot, but bow hunting was still beyond his reach. Saddling Calpurnia still caused a twinge and heavy animal carcasses were sometimes a struggle. Sleep remained elusive, without the doctor’s pain relieving tea. Still, he healed.
On another sunny, spring day Arthur and Lenny found themselves tucked into a corner table at the saloon in Valentine, drinking lukewarm beer and whiling away the afternoon. Arthur had never been a great fan of Valentine — a town of mud and morons, as Hosea once called it. But he certainly didn’t hate it. As towns went, it was far from the worst: small and out of the way — to its benefit and Arthur’s — with a doctor, cheap booze, and an easily bribed Sheriff. It suited the gangs purposes just fine and it smelled better than other places he’d been. Shame they’d have to leave soon, if Pinkertons were already sniffing around with their snouts down in the dirt. He’d better get a move on, collecting the last of their debts in the area for that little weasel Strauss. He turned to Lenny, stuck in a chair beside him at their corner table. It was quite, with only a few other people scattered throughout the saloon at this time of day. Arthur sat with his feet up on another chair and his journal propped up against the table, sketching the street outside. He closed it with a sigh.
“Best be on my way up to the Downes ranch. Gotta collect that debt for Herr Strauss” Arthur sneered, emphasizing the man’s german title. Lenny took a moment, then looked up from his book, cluing into the fact that Arthur was speaking to him. Arthur shook his head with a wry grin. He envied Lenny’s ability to turn off from everything happening around camp. Arthur felt that his own work was never done, no rest for the wicked, and he never stopped worrying about the needs of everyone else. Not that Lenny didn’t worry about others, he wasn’t selfish. Only, he had the ability to pull back and relax that Arthur lacked.
“I’ll probably head back to camp in a bit.” He turned back to his reading and flipped the page.
“You do that kid.” Arthur rolled his eyes and thumped Lenny on the back. At least he was less likely to get into trouble than the others, if Arthur left him behind in the saloon; he’d be content to read until the sun began to set and then he’d head home. As long as he didn’t have Arthur’s bad influence around, he’d be fine.
Arthur knocked back the last of his whiskey and left the empty glass on the bar. Outside, he stretched and popped his back as he headed for Calpurnia. A voice called his name and he turned to see the doctor striding across the street.
“Afternoon.” Arthur tipped his hat in greeting.
“How’s your arm?”
“Doing fine now. Bullet wound’s all healed up too.”
“I assume you slugged back some whiskey and asked one of your companions to remove your stitches, instead of coming to me.” Arthur laughed, surprised that the doctor had guessed the exact circumstances, despite hardly knowing Arthur or his friends.
“Bullseye, doc.” Barrow rolled his eyes toward the sky and shook his head.
“I don’t mean to keep you. Just wanted to say hello, check on your shoulder.”
“No hurry, doc. I’m heading up to the Downes ranch for a little business, then I’m done for the day.”
“Downes… Thomas Downes?”
“That’s the feller.”
“You can’t go up there.”
“Excuse me?” Arthur asked, incredulous at the doctor’s commanding tone. “I can damn well go wherever I please.” Arthur moved to swing into the saddle and Doctor Barrow grabbed his arm before he could get a good grip on his saddle horn.
Arthur’s free hand flew to his pistol. “I ain’t lying half-dead in one’a your clinic beds, Doc. You don’t actually got any control over what I do or where I go.”
“I didn't have much control over you then, you stubborn fool.” Arthur yanked his arm away from the doctor’s grip. “Thomas Downes has tuberculosis.” Arthur stared at him, jaw clenched. “You know, consumption.”
“I know what the fuck it is. Don’t see how it’s any of your business.”
“It’s contagious. I’m already struggling to keep his wife and son from contracting the disease while they care for him.”
“Well, I’d best be going quick then, if he’s as close to death as you’re suggestin’. Man owes me money, can’t rightly take it off of his corpse.”
“That sounds like robbery.”
“Money lending’s plenty legal, Doc.”
“And entirely immoral,” he muttered, staring down at the ground in thought. He squared his shoulders and looked Arthur in the eye. “I cannot let you expose yourself and the rest of the town to this disease. I’m enough of a threat by treating him.”
“I got folks to take care of,” Arthur growled.
“I’m thinking of them too!” Arthur pulled back when the doctor’s voice rose to a shout, calm demeanour vanishing. It startled him enough that he stopped to process what the doctor had said and found that he had a point. It would be a risk to bring disease like that back to the camp, where they already lived right on top of each other, crammed into a small space. Sickness would spread through them like wildfire. Arthur rubbed at his chin.
“I still need that debt. We can’t just be givin’ money out to people, or we’ll never make enough to…” He trailed off, deciding that maybe the doctor needn’t be privy to all their business. “Gotta get that money somehow. Man owes us what he borrowed.”
Arthur thought maybe he could confront Downes’ wife when she came to town, try to coax the cash out of her, but that turned his stomach more than the debt collecting usually did. Threatening a sick man’s wife didn’t sit well with him. Bad men still had lines that they wouldn’t cross, even Arthur, and this felt like one of them.
“How much does he owe you?” Arthur grunted and turned towards the doctor, who had a gleam in his eyes now, devious and determined. “How much?”
“Hundred dollars.”
He fumbled in the leather satchel at his side and came out with a bundle of cash, leaving the bag hanging open, where Arthur could see more bills inside. It looked like a lot more money than a small town doctor should have in his possession. “Take it.” He waved the cash in Arthur’s general direction, while Arthur rocked back on his boot heels, considering the offer. Doing this in broad daylight in the middle of main street seemed like a bad idea that could lead to trouble for the lot of them, doctor included.
“Just take it.” He gestured at Arthur, more aggressive this time, and took a few steps closer.
“Man, bandits must lo-ove you.” Arthur drawled. “I ain’t even threatened you yet and you’re handing over the goods.” The doctor rolled his eyes.
“Are you really going to wring the money out of a man in his condition? He’s dying, in front of his family and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.” He gestured broadly at Arthur with his wad of bills for emphasis. “I can stop this, though. If you’ll only take the money.”
Arthur eyed the money that the doctor offered him. He hated this usury business at the best of times. Robbing banks and hitting trains didn’t feel half so cruel as going after desperate folks for their pocket change or, worse, their life savings. Maybe this doctor had a point. Did it matter how Arthur got the money, so long as he did? Strauss would never notice, nor likely care. Maybe, Arthur conceded, the doctor had a point.
And here he stood in front of Arthur, offering him the easier option. Kinder option too, though Arthur didn’t consider that much within his purview. He chewed at the inside of his cheek. Dutch had said they were meant to be helping people, and this surely counted, even if it was a bit roundabout in its execution. Maybe Strauss hadn't had all the information or maybe he hadn't felt obliged to share it with Arthur, but the doctor had it. He'd shared. He was giving Arthur a choice to do...differently. He stared at the pair of buck antlers hanging over the saloon’s doorway.
Before he could question his decision any further, Arthur strode forward and accepted money, thumbing through the stack of bills while he counted. “This is more’n he paid for your doctorin’.”
“It’s only money.” Doctor Barrow looked down at the ground, seeming smaller and more anxious now that Arthur had accepted the money. Deflated, like the fight had gone out of him. He flipped the top of his satchel closed. “If I’d known that he was in debt, I wouldn’t have accepted it in the first place.”
Only money wasn’t really a thought that Arthur could sympathize with. He saw that guilt was partly to blame for the doctor’s show of defiance and that, at least, he could understand. “No one woulda blamed you for taking it, you gotta make money, same as the rest of us.”
The doctor hummed a non-committal response. Arthur shook his head in disbelief. Maybe the doctor really did thrive on pissing people off. “It’s worth it, to help people who need it.”
Arthur snorted. Doctor Barrow had just hit the nail on the head of Arthur’s own dislike of their more legal business endeavours. Legal, but unsavoury, and his least favourite job. They were meant to be helping folks, like Dutch had said, and Strauss’s side business seemed to do the exact opposite of that. Here he was, too, giving Arthur a way out of the dirty feeling debt collecting gave him. Maybe just for this one job, but it unkinked something in Arthur’s spine that let him relax some. Probably a good thing, too, that he wouldn’t be bringing tuberculosis back into the camp. It certainly added to the justification in his own mind. He looked at the expectant doctor.
“Alright. Consider the debt paid.” He yanked two extra bills out of the pile, seeing that the doctor had overpaid, and handed the folded bills over to the doctor. “Gave me too much.” He had huffed out a breath and seemed relieved when Arthur had absolved the debt, but now a wary look had found its way back to his face. He accepted the money with a nod.
“Thank you, Mr. Morgan.” He tucked the bills back into his bag, with a small, tight smile. “Is it customary for highway robbers to provide change?”
“As I saw it, you paid up all on your own, doc. That’s hardly robbery. Twice now you’ve accused me of it, though.”
Arthur would be the first to say that he didn’t know much about folks. Strange people abounded all across the world, particularly the closer one got to civilization, and their motivations were often baffling. Everything about this exchange with the doctor had been strange. Arthur had been thanked by a man who had, moments earlier, begged Arthur to take his money, to protect a dying man, because a sense of duty had compelled the doctor to do so. If Arthur thought too hard about it, his head spun. He favoured a more simplistic approach. Guns or talking solved most of his problems.
After all of that, he felt there ought to be something else to say between them. Something about this conversation felt unfinished. It seemed the doctor might agree, as they stood in the street, staring at each other in awkward silence. Arthur caught himself staring; Barrow’s eyes were practically golden in the late afternoon sunlight.
“Arthur?” Lenny’s voice interrupted them. Both men jumped, startled by the sound cutting through their moment. “Thought you’d headed out already.”
“Got distracted Lenny.” He faced the doctor again.”Suppose that concludes our business, doc?”
“I’ll let you go,” the doctor said, backing away from Arthur and Lenny. He nodded at them and walked towards the clinic, long legs speeding him across the road. Arthur watched him go, feeling odd about the whole conversation and the doctor’s strange moral code, that existed far outside of Arthur’s realm of experience. Money didn’t grow on trees for people like him. He didn’t just have handfuls of it to give away.
“Good take today Arthur!” Sean swung an arm around his neck and waved a beer bottle in the air. Arthur rolled his eyes and steadied them both. It would be like Sean to drag them both into the dirt in his exuberance. “Dutch bought a crate of whiskey for the whole camp!”
“Alright kid, get off’a me.” Arthur pushed Sean back towards the rest of the celebrating camp. He whooped and threw an arm around Karen instead, who rolled her eyes and took a drink of whiskey.
“They’re just excited. Hit another stagecoach today and made off with a decent haul.” Hosea sidled up beside Arthur, chuckling.
“You ever worry one’a them’s gonna fall in the fire?” Sean now hung off of John, who looked like he was considering dumping Sean in the fire himself.
“Constantly.” Hosea laughed. “But we’ve avoided it so far.” Arthur clapped Hosea on the shoulder and walked away, dumping his belongings in his tent. He took the money to Strauss.
“Ah, Mr. Morgan, efficient as always.” He counted the bills and recorded the amount in his ledger, dropping the rest into a lockbox in his wagon. “I’ll have a few more names drawn up for you next week.”
Arthur grunted in response, and pulled a bottle of whiskey from the crate nearby. Strauss smiled — a tight, unfriendly little grimace. “A pleasure, as always.”
— Can’t say I like Barrow much, but there was something admirable about his way of doing things. Stupid, maybe. Even self-destructive. A doctor’s just as liable to starve as we are with no money.
Can’t say I mind the way things worked out neither. Always hated Strauss’s money lending. I’m glad that I didn’t have to beat $100 out of a sickly old man. Barely enough to feed the camp for more than a day or two. Hard to understand the point of something like that, in Dutch’s grand scheme. Seems a damned evil thing to do for damned little reward. How’s robbing and beaten poor folks going to get us enough cash to get out of here for good?
We’ll have to keep looking for work and hope that Dutch’s plan comes together. He’s never led us astray before, excepting Blackwater. —
Charles dropped beside Arthur in his spot near the scout fire. Arthur jumped and snapped his journal closed, trapping the pencil between its pages and likely smearing his sketch. “Didn’t mean to startle you, Arthur.”
“If you weren’t so damned quiet–,” he started.
“Are you going to share the dirty pictures or leave the rest of us to fend for ourselves?”
“I should leave you all to starve , if this is what I have to put up with.”Arthur dropped the journal into his lap. “Dirty pictures,” he mumbled under his breath.
Laughing, Charles knocked his bottle against Arthur’s and leaned back against the tree beside him. Arthur thought about telling him to fuck off, but Charles was good company. They drank in silence for a few minutes. Laughter and singing filtered over from the main campfire. Javier’s guitar sounded wonderful, the rest was drunken tomfoolery. Arthur didn’t mind in the least. Maybe not his first choice for a lullabye, but it always pleased him to see the others happy and safe.
“Brought in another debt for Strauss today,” Charles said. “He was real happy about it. Said you do the best work for him.”
“Oh, and you know how much I enjoy making that little weasel happy,” Arthur drawled. He kicked his feet out, one foot over the other and relaxed against the trunk at his back.
“He’s always been your favourite, admit it.” Charles laughed and ducked when Arthur chucked a stick at him. Charles’ laughter faded back into a companionable silence. “You seemed happy about it too. Easy job?”
“More or less. Didn’t get bloody, so I was in a good mood.” Arthur hadn’t thought much of it at the time, but he hadn’t wanted to punch Strauss in the face the moment he saw him and it had been so novel he’d been cheered by it. It was true, he’d been happy ever since. He wouldn’t have thought anyone paid enough attention to notice his behaviour like that. It both comforted and unsettled him. Being seen by others was always a mixture of the two.
“I’m glad it went well.” Charles sipped from his bottle. “I worried when you weren’t stoic and cranky all night. Thought maybe you’d come down with something.”
“I most certainly am stoic and cranky. Don’t you dare tell anyone otherwise, Mr. Smith.” Arthur leveled a playful glare at Charles, who shook his head. Arthur tipped his hat down over his eyes and folded his hands on his belly, looking to all the world as if he’d gone to sleep in an instant. “I’d lose my reputation.”
“Oh, I’ll never tell, Arthur.”
“Now go on, get,” Arthur muttered from beneath his hat. He waited until Charles had wandered laughing back to the campfire, before he pulled out his journal and set out to sketch in the fading sunlight.
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Only a few hours ago, with the rising of the sun, Arthur had set out hunting for Pearson’s stew pot and now he was crouched at the side of the road, sawing away at some poor bastard’s blood-soaked jeans. He only wanted to stop the man’s hollering and leave, but to do that, he needed to suck out the venom before it progressed any further. He’d tied a tourniquet tight around the man’s thigh while he worked.
“How in hell’d you get yourself in this spot, mister?” He didn’t respond, only hollered louder, crying out at his own stupidity. Arthur pushed him back down the ground one handed while the man thrashed around in the dirt. “Hold still, for fuck’s sake.”
Arthur tossed his hat behind him and bent to suck the venom out of the man’s exposed knee, spitting mouthfuls of blood into the dirt beside them. After the fifth mouthful, he yanked the canteen from his belt and tried to rinse away the foul taste. Now the man lay at his feat moaning, not looking much better off than when Arthur had stumbled across him. Arthur sat with his hands braced on his thighs, watching the man’s chest rise and fall.
“Shit.” He scrambled up out of the dirt, scooping up his hat and dragging the man into a sitting position, then onto Calpurnia’s back.
Joseph Barrow stepped onto the porch when he heard his name being shouted outside of the clinic. An unfamiliar form stood with his back to Joseph, dragging an unconscious man out of the saddle and across his shoulders. He murmured to his horse as he patted her neck, then turned towards Joseph. He recognized Arthur Morgan, who looked as surly as ever, and nearly as bloody as the first time they’d met, smeared in streaks across his face and hands.
“Bring him inside, quickly.” He held the door wide and waved Arthur inside. “What happened?”
“Snake bite. Above his knee.” Arthur puffed his way upstairs with the heavy weight across his shoulders. Joseph directed Arthur towards a metal cot, where he dropped the unconscious man. Blood coated the back of his jacket. “Tried to suck out some of the poison.”
Joseph saw now where the blood on Arthur’s chin had come from. He pulled out a pair of sharp scissors and cut away the remaining pant leg and the blood soaked belt had been used to staunch the bleeding. More than just a puncture, the would was nasty. It looked as if the snake’s fangs had torn out a chunk of the man’s flesh, leaving a nasty, jagged hole.
“Miss King!” He shouted into the back room. “I need a splint and bandages, needle and thread. Whatever alcohol we have. Fast as you can.”
His assistant shouted a confirmation and he could hear cabinets and metal clattering as she gathered the requested materials. Once he had the alcohol in hand, he soaked a rag and cleaned the blood off of the area around the injury, to better assess the damage. He would need stitches. As Joseph poked at the wound, the man groaned in pain.
“Between sucking out the venom and that tourniquet, you saved your friend’s life,” he told Arthur.
“He ain’t my friend,” came Arthur’s gruff response. Joseph glanced up.
“Who is he then?”
“Found him out on the trail. He was hollerin’ and scaring off all the game.” Joseph pursed his lips. Only a few days ago, Joseph had been pleading with Arthur not to beat a sick old man for money, and here he was bringing Joseph injured strangers. Joseph had assumed that he would never see Arthur Morgan again. He would have been fine with that, too. Stubborn patients were a pain even after they’d walked off their injuries.
“Thank you for bringing him,” Joseph said, splashing clear alcohol across the wound. His patient bucked up against the bed with a guttural scream of pain. Arthur lurched forward to hold his shoulders down. Joseph took advantage of the help and worked at cleaning the wound. He used metal forceps to pull the edges of the skin together while he passed a needle and thread through the gash. It took several long minutes, made slower each time the man tried to thrash against Arthur’s tight hold. He snipped the last of the stitches with a sigh. Arthur’s forearms still held the man down and he was staring at Joseph’s hands while Joseph wrapped bandages around the wound.
“You can let go now, Mr. Morgan.”
Arthur shook himself and let go, easing off of the man’s torso. Their patient would sleep for a while now. If he made it until tomorrow morning, he would live and his wound should heal without too much trouble. Joseph walked over to a wash basin in the corner and cleaned the blood off of his hands. When he turned back to the clinic, Arthur was gone.
Joseph stepped onto the clinic’s front porch, wiping his hands on a clean towel and looked for Arthur, who he found leaning against the building’s warped wooden siding. “It’s a good thing you got him here as quick as you did.”
“Thought he was a goner for sure.” Arthur stubbed a barely-smoked cigarette out on the bottom of his boot.
“Not your friend, but you carried him all the way here, on the off-chance that he might survive?” Arthur shrugged and Joseph reevaluated what he knew of the other man. Under Joseph’s gaze, Arthur fidgeted, as if unused to this level of scrutiny. Or maybe Joseph still hadn’t yet figured out how to look at people without staring. He thought that perhaps he may have misjudged Arthur during their first encounter. He looked away, to spare Arthur the discomfort and prolonged eye contact. Although Arthur had been on the way to do something vile, he had stopped when Joseph confronted him and offered him an alternative. Maybe that spoke to a stronger moral code than Joseph would have guessed. Joseph had a bad habit of assuming the worst of people and, between the company Arthur kept and working as a loan shark, Joseph had made a snap judgement of him.
“He gonna make it?” Arthur pushed off of the wall and took two steps forward to spit into the street moving away from Joseph. He tucked his hands into his belt.
“Snake bites are almost impossible to treat, if you don’t get the venom out early. If he lives ‘til morning, he should be fine. All we can do now is wait.”
“Well, Doc, while you do that, I never did finish my hunting this morning and I gotta whole bunch of people to feed.”
“Thank you.” Joseph cleared his throat and Arthur looked up. “In case someone doesn’t get a chance to tell you.”
“I just wanted him to stop hollerin’ and scarin’ off the game.” Arthur’s ears turned pink. He stepped off into the mud and walked away, tossing a casual two-fingered salute back at the doctor.
fun fact: most snake bite treatments prior to 1901 were as likely to kill you as the bite please do not treat snake bites with arterial tourniquets, and do not attempt to suck out the venom, thank heavens for the invention of antivenin so we no longer have to inject people with strychnine.
The boys go flower picking. That's it. That's the chapter.
Arthur looked down at the lake from Calpurnia’s back, baffled by the sight before him. Doctor Barrow stood with his trousers rolled to the knee, soaked in thick, dark mud. Green sludge oozed across the surface and his stomping had turned up a sulfurous odor. Arthur wrinkled his nose. It had been a few days since their last meeting. Well, Arthur wasn’t sure it could be called a meeting, since the doctor hadn’t noticed Arthur or spoken to him at all. Arthur hadn’t approached him either.
"Doc, what in the hell are you doin'?" Arthur asked, since the doctor hadn’t once looked up from whatever it was that he was fiddling with. Arthur had made no effort to be quiet, the doctor was simply distracted. Barrow jumped, overbalancing and almost submerging his whole body in pond scum.
“Mr. Morgan!” He wobbled a little as he turned. “You scared me half to death.”
“I seen cleaner corpses.” Barrow looked down at the state of his clothes and the mud all around. Splashes of dirty green water dotted the front of his shirt and trousers and, only visible to Arthur, he had a smear of mud across his temple.
“Yes, well, needs must.” He frowned.
“Now, what is it you’re doing?” Arthur slid off of Calpurnia’s back and approached the edge of the water.
“Hunting.” Barrow turned back toward the soupy lake bed.
“Hunting,” Arthur repeated. “Hunting what exactly?”
“There. Ha!” Barrow pointed at a patch of tiny blue flowers. He pushed forward through the water and started plucking the leaves. “Brooklime. We used it to treat scurvy, but it should also be useful for the cases of dysentery that happen through Valentine. A few came through last week and I didn’t have any handy. Family had a rough time of it.”
“I’ll just get my bow then, before it can run off on you again.” Barrow glowered at him. He grinned, rolling his pant legs. He left his boots on the shore and waded into the pond to help corral the delicate little blossoms. Grimshaw would have Arthur’s hide if she saw the muck clinging to his legs.
“You know, you can tell me what all you’re looking for and I could help ,” Arthur drawled. “It would go a lot faster.”
“Well, I need foxglove as well. Some yarrow, ginseng, burdock root, if we can find it.” Barrow hummed. “Stinging nettle would also be a great help.” Arthur shook his head and waded over to another patch of brooklime and started to gather. Delicate blue blossoms looked so bright against the murky water.
After a few minutes of quiet work had passed, Arthur spoke up. “Why all the plants, Doc?”
“Patient of mine is having heart trouble, amongst other things, and I was thinking about some of the medications we’ve used back east. Remembered I had a book about some of the native plants around here, thought I might be able to concoct something for her myself.” He sighed and straightened. “All the drugs I’ve had shipped here… they just aren’t working. Not as well as I’d like. She isn’t getting any better.”
“So, the nettle and the foxglove are for her then?” Arthur asked. Joseph blinked at him. Arthur scrubbed at the back of his neck and grimaced at the dirt he’d smeared there without thinking. “I may be an idiot, Doc, but I know plants. How you think I’ve survived out here so long? Can’t live off’a rabbit meat all the time.”
Arthur knew he wasn’t as smart as all that, but Hosea had taught him plants, and taught him well. It had come in handy more than once and he had a bit of a knack for finding them. An eye for detail worked in his favour, when it came to picking out one plant from a sea of green. He looked away from the doctor, who was scrutinizing him once more. Arthur crouched by the lake’s edge and pulled up a few cattails, snapping off the crunchy roots and rinsing them in the clearer water there. He picked up one of the fuzzy brown plant heads and ran it through his fingers, letting the fluff explode out into the breeze. If he was going to be digging them up at the roots, the least he could do is make sure they had a chance at regrowing.
“You must know the best place to find foxgloves then.” Arthur turned back and Barrow smiled at him. He walked out of the water.
“Reckon I know a few places.”
“I bow to your experience,” he said, then actually tried to bow, wobbling in the mud once more. “Lead on. Mr. Morgan.”
On horseback, Arthur led the way along a trail into denser forest, and then up between tall, winding columns of rock. Apparently, he hadn’t meant that he knew where to find foxgloves in the immediate area. At the top of the rise, the tight chasm opened up into more trees and beyond, a flowing meadow sprinkled with colorful patches of flowers that swayed in the breeze. Dotted throughout the meadow were numerous isolated thickets of pale birch trees, like little islands in a sea of grass. A creek ran through the area, bisecting obvious animal trails that had beaten down the vegetation, tumbling over rocks with a soft, musical sound.
They stopped when they hit the boundary between further forest blanketing the hills that rolled up and away from them and the edge of the meadow. Arthur dismounted and went about picketing their horses in a patch of shade. Joseph followed, less graceful sliding off of his own horse. Arthur moved with more grace than Joseph expected, particularly out in the countryside, easy with his horse and the flora they’d encountered. Arthur left the horses long leads so that they could graze and removed their saddles, setting them on the ground nearby. Joseph noticed that both horses crunched sugar cubes after Arthur had finished with them.
“Come on, Doc.” He trotted off into the meadow. “We’ll be able to find most of your grocery list around here.” Joseph hurried after him.
After an hour, Joseph realized that, not only was Arthur knowledgeable about the local flora, he was a damned savant when it came to finding the plants he wanted. Joseph had found only one patch of yarrow and been scolded by Arthur for nearly stripping the plant bare. He had a practical knowledge of nature that Joseph admired. He was the first to admit that he was used to being the smartest person in most rooms. Sometimes he needed to reevaluate. He knew his arrogance wasn’t exactly charming. Several friends and family members had made their feelings clear about it.
“It won’t be able to regrow if you take everything from the one bush.” Joseph hadn’t even considered that and felt sheepish. Arthur crouched and examined a patch of pale-spotted leaves. He plucked a handful of leaves and waved them at Joseph. “Lungwort. Useful for treating Mr. Downes.” Joseph accepted the leaves and tucked them into his satchel with everything else they had gathered. A few meters away he saw a patch of tall stalks of colorful blossoms and made his way over.
“I found foxgloves!” he called, examining the delicate flowers. Arthur came up behind him, scratching at the stubble on his chin.
“‘Fraid not, Doc.” Arthur plucked one of the flowers and sniffed it, twirled it between his fingers so that the crȇpe-like petals danced away from the stem.
“Nonsense,” Joseph turned the plant in his hand, looking at it from different angles. “It looks just like the description in the book.”
Arthur shook his head. “That’s a lovely little patch of hollyhocks you’ve found there.” He pulled a leather bound book out of his satchel and flipped through it, turning the pages towards Joseph.
On it were a series of detailed sketches of flowers and plants, some that Joseph recognized, but many that he didn’t, all labeled in Arthur’s neat handwriting. Under “hollyhock” was a flower drawn with wide open petals like a twirling skirt on long, delicate looking stalks. Several were bunched together, stacked off center, working upwards toward the buds that hadn’t bloomed yet. Arthur turned to a second page and tapped at the handwritten label, where he had also illustrated a foxglove. Both flowers could fit into the description from Joseph’s book, but they were clearly different plants. The foxglove had smaller, bell-shaped blossoms that hung down towards the ground with speckled insides and sturdier stalks that supported many of the small blooms packed together.
“Mr. Morgan, these… are amazing,” he breathed. Arthur rubbed at the back of his neck.
“Naw, they’re just scribbles. Help me keep track of different plants so I don’t accidentally kill myself.”
“No. These are beautiful. They’re so detailed.” He huffed. “I couldn’t have told you the difference between these two flowers with my book. At least I wouldn’t have killed Maeve with the hollyhocks.”
“No, Doc.” Arthur chuckled. “Might’a given her the runs, though.”
Joseph winced and took the book out of Arthur’s hands so that he could take a closer look at the page of flowers. Arthur tensed as the book left his grasp. Yarrow was detailed there too, with its tight clusters of tiny white blossoms, as well as several species of mushroom. If these were simple sketches to Arthur, he wondered what the man could do when he put his mind to a drawing. He wondered if Arthur could paint . He might like to see that some day. Joseph had always been a bit envious of people with artistic leanings and the beautiful things they could produce. His own art left a lot to be desired.
He reached to turn the page and Arthur snatched at the book. Joseph fumbled and dropped it on the ground. He was glad to see that the white pages were face up, unmarred by the dirt. Arthur was no longer lunging for the book that he and Joseph stared down at. Flowers had been replaced by writing and a pencil sketch of a man sitting in a chair, reading, with small round glasses perched on his nose. He looked away from the artist at an angle, staring off into the distance. One leg crossed over the other, ankle resting on his knee. As it happened, when Arthur put his mind to a drawing, it came out beautiful and detailed.
It seemed that Joseph had also made his way into Arthur’s journal, rendered in swift, delicate pencil strokes alongside the flowers and mushrooms. A charming duck had been doodled in one corner. He bent to pluck it out of the dirt. Closing it, he handed the book back to Arthur whose face had closed off and turned to stone, unreadable to Joseph, who didn’t know him well. Arthur must be angry, at the very least. Joseph would be, if someone had gone digging around in his private things without permission. He knew he shouldn’t have done it, in retrospect, he’d just been so enamoured with Arthur’s drawings.
“I’m sorry.” He swallowed. “I, uh, I thought it was just the plants. I should have asked.”
Something passed over Arthur’s face, a flicker of emotion that Joseph couldn’t identify. It looked like he might want to shout at Joseph, who couldn’t understand why he wasn’t yelling. He blinked and Joseph watched his jaw relax a tic. He shoved the journal back in his bag and mumbled that it was alright.
“Only a journal. Like to document things.” Arthur shifted his weight and stared off across the meadow, continuing to not make eye contact. “I’ll go make us some lunch.”
“I can help–,” Joseph started. Arthur interrupted him.
“It’s alright Doc, you keep looking for your flowers.” It wasn’t a suggestion, but a dismissal. Arthur had been so genial throughout the last few weeks, Joseph worried that he’d upset Arthur and broken the equilibrium between the two of them. “We can check it ain’t poisonous while we eat.”
Arthur walked across the meadow towards the horses. Joseph was left feeling off about the whole exchange. Obviously, Arthur hadn’t wanted Joseph looking through his private journal, which he could understand, but the actual contents hadn’t seemed all that private. He wondered why Arthur had ended up sketching him of all people. Perhaps that’s what had embarrassed Arthur. If that was the emotion he’d been feeling. Joseph remained unsure.
As they’d wandered, Joseph had come to realize that he enjoyed Arthur’s company. He had a sharp, sly sense of humour that Joseph found refreshing after he spent his own days trying to be calm and professional with patients. He also had a quiet, thoughtful intelligence that Joseph wished he encountered more often — even if the other man didn’t seem to recognize it in himself. He’d learned a lot from Arthur in only a few hours of conversation over flowers and he was growing more comfortable with the new world he’d found himself in upon moving to Valentine. He hoped that Arthur would forgive him the invasion of privacy, perhaps give them a chance to become friends.
Arthur busied himself with their packs. He’d brought his usual kit, assuming he’d spend most of the day hunting, try to bring back a fat whitetail for the camp’s dinner. How he’d ended up traipsing around a meadow with a pushy doctor was a total mystery. Arthur really had to start saying no when people asked him for weird favours. Half the time he ended up somewhere odd, covered in weird substances, injured, or on the run from the law. At least Barrow had taken this errand into his own hands, instead of making Arthur do all of the work. Although, they would need to check the flowers afterwards, on the off chance the doctor picked something deadly to pass along to one of his patients. Given how poor the man’s wilderness skills seemed so far, Arthur was surprised that he’d made it out of the swampy pond without drowning or ending up mudied head to toe.
Fire blazed up beneath Arthur’s hands as he scraped flint and tinder together into the pile of dry kindling he’d collected. He set about stoking the fire, adding a few heavier branches, until it blazed. He gathered up water from the stream, filling first his waterskin, then his coffee pot, so that they would have something hot to drink with their lunch. Something sharp lay on the bottom of the stream, not rounded and organic like the rocks around it. He scooped it up, rinsing the dirt from its chipped surface with his thumb to reveal an arrowhead. Carved from stone, it glistened wetly in the sunshine along its pitted surface. Arthur tucked it into his pocket, smiling. Jack would love it, and it wasn’t so sharp that Abigail would bite his head off for giving it to the boy.
Once he set the water boiling, he wandered off into the trees, looking for something to eat. He had canned food, of course, but whenever possible he tried to offset it with fresh ingredients. In a small patch of wet earth, he found wild carrots and, nearby, wild garlic. An arrow through the eye of a jackrabbit and the cattails from his bag, mixed with the rest, would make a decent meal for the two of them. He set the food to cook, coffee to brewing, and distributed oatcakes and wild carrots to the horses. Work kept his mind off things he’d rather not think about. Finally out of things to do, he sat back against a tree and watched the doctor working his way through the meadow.
Arthur had never intended for the doctor to see anything but the flowers he’d sketched in his journal. It was rare that he showed anyone anything that he’d drawn or written. Sometimes Hosea asked to see one, or he tore a page out as a gift for one of the women in camp. A few of those were scattered around camp, tacked to wagons beneath people’s tents. Last winter, he’d given Jenny a drawing of an old mission church they’d passed to the west of Blackwater. Arthur wondered what had happened to it, when she’d died. No one ever saw the drawings he made of them. He’d been drunk when he’d drawn the doctor. Arthur had been two whiskies in to an evening out with Charles and Javier — complete with a black eye and a muddy shirt from a bar fight. The doctor walked in and took a seat, reading in a corner with his feet up and a drink at his elbow. Arthur hadn’t said hello, or even greeted the man, but he’d been distracted the entire evening. Alcohol made people do stupid things, like drawing strangers in the middle of crowded bars. At least Charles and Javier had been too drunk and distracted themselves to notice Arthur’s activities or their focus. Thank christ, no one needed to know who Arthur liked drawing or why.
Barrow hadn’t turned on him though, gotten violent or angry or twitchy, the way Arthur worried he was going to. Instead, he didn’t seem to have noticed anything weird about Arthur’s sketches or their subject matter. He seemed to think that he’d done something wrong, not Arthur. Invaded Arthur’s privacy, rather than revealing his drunken stupidity to the light. He didn’t even seem to like Arthur much. Certainly thought he was an idiot and a criminal, which Arthur had done nothing to disprove. He wasn’t wrong, but Arthur didn’t need the judgement from Barrow, just because their moral codes didn’t align.
Barrow wandered around the meadow, picking flowers as he found them. Arthur watched from beneath the brim of his hat, shielding his eyes from the sunlight and from view. He’d have an easier time of it, if he were more methodical, but he seemed to be doing alright. Arthur was glad that the doctor was so far away, it stripped Arthur of the urge to draw him again, because the rest of the doctor’s attitude hadn’t managed it. He’d only be a dot amongst the waving flowers, if Arthur sketched the scene in front of him. Not that it mattered much. Arthur could sketch him from memory later, if he felt so inclined. He closed his eyes and let the coolness of the shade lull him into a doze.
Arthur sat with his back against a tree, hat tipped down over his eyes, hands folded on his chest. A small grill held sizzling pieces of meat and sticks pierced cattail roots and wild carrots over the fire. A smattering of other ingredients already sat on two tin plates. Fresh coffee steamed near Arthur’s feet.
“Hell, that smells good.” Joseph dropped down beside Arthur and the fire. Arthur glanced up from beneath his hat with one eye, then let it fall back down over his face.
“It’ll be done in a couple’a minutes.” A salty, gamey smell rose from the meat on the grill that made his mouth water. Joseph chewed his lower lip while he stared at Arthur, still thinking.
‘Stop watchin’ me sleep, Doc.”
“Sorry.” Joseph chuckled. He wanted to know how Arthur knew that he was staring, without looking. Arthur made a nice picture, legs stretched out long in front of him, looking relaxed for the first time since Joseph had met him. He was a handsome man, if a bit rough. Joseph took a breath, steeling himself. “Do you think you could copy some of those drawings into my guidebook? It would be so much more useful if it were illustrated. You’d be saving all of my patients from my stupidity.”
Arthur chuckled, but took his time responding. “Yeah, I guess I can do that. Might not know what all them plants in your book look like, they gotta be ones I seen before. Or I guess ones we can find.”
“Whatever you can do. I could even pay you. Good, honest work.” Arthur stiffened, then abandoned his nap, sitting up to check the food without looking at Joseph. He was sad to see that he’d broken Arthur’s relaxation, even if he didn’t understand exactly how. He groaned inwardly. Why anyone at all bothered with him was a mystery. Arthur pulled things off of the fire and dropped them on the plates. Joseph inhaled the delicious smell when he was handed his portion. Arthur had put together a startling spread that would never have occurred to Joseph. Arthur had prepared rabbit meat — fresh, if the small pelt hanging from Calpurnia’s saddle was any indication — grilled with garlic, roasted cattails and wild carrots with a sprinkle of salt. Arthur’s foraged camp meal was better than anything Joseph could cook, but instead of being insulted, he accepted his substandard abilities and a plate from Arthur.
He vowed to let Arthur cook for them again. Assuming there would be another meeting like this one. Joseph didn’t have a lot of experience with adult friendships, with only his relationship with Felicity to draw on. Joseph had always struggled in that regard — colleagues, bosses, other soldiers, professors and other students, none had ever quite clicked with Joseph. Maybe he hadn’t ever found a place where people understood him. He choked down the rabbit that had gone dry in his throat. He didn’t want to ruin whatever dynamic had popped up between Arthur and himself over their brief handful of interactions. Arthur made for good company, all told.
“Bet you can teach me about plenty of plants I’ve never even heard of,” he said. “We could do this again, sometime. I’d love to pick your brain. As you’ve already seen, I’m not well-suited to the wilderness.”
“Well, we’ ain’t exactly got hot running water out here.” Arthur teased. “It’s not like you’re born to it, Doc. We all gotta learn how to do shit like this. And it sticks or you die.”
Arthur didn’t respond right away, he seemed to be thinking. Since there had been no immediate denial, Joseph took it as a good sign. He looked down at his food, too nervous to keep eating while Arthur stared at him. He supposed Arthur had a point, about survival. It was something one had to learn on their feet, or they’d be swept away in a blink. Cynical though it was, it seemed like a good life philosophy for someone in Arthur’s position to have. Wilderness romps were different than living out in it, day to day, subject to its unforgiving nature.
“Sure. Why not?” Arthur cleared his throat. Joseph smiled, relieved, and went back to his rabbit. He hadn’t disrupted things after all, maybe hadn’t even upset Arthur as much as he’d thought. “Can’t have you killin’ your patients.”
“We don’t know very much about each other.” Joseph pointed out, pausing again, after they’d been eating in silence for several minutes. It was true, they didn’t know much about each other. Admittedly, they hadn't known each other for long, or with any real level of intimacy. Although, Arthur did seem to let his guard down around Joseph sometimes.
“Ain't like you share much.”
Joseph opened his mouth to respond, not sure where to start. Arthur thought he didn’t share? A man with a chronic scowl, and one word where ten would do, thought that Joseph was secretive. He laughed.
“I am an open book, Mr. Morgan.”
“Alright,” he drawled. “Why’d you come out west? It don’t seem to suit you much.”
“I’m better on the ocean.” Joseph found himself responding. It was as if he’d lost all control of the pipeline between his brain and mouth. Arthur caused him to blurt things out, with no thought given to the consequences. Arthur raised an eyebrow and Joseph barreled ahead. “I was a navy doctor for four years.”
“Why in the hell’d you do a thing like that?” Arthur laughed, incredulous.
“My father wanted me to. More of a demand, actually. I think he wanted the military to turn me into a proper man. Said it would teach me responsibility and how not to piss off the people in charge.”
“Heavens no.” Joseph chuckled. “I’m terrible at following orders and have no respect for authority. I think the navy made me worse . My father certainly thought so.” He chewed, reminiscing. “I can sail and I was good at my job, but I’m happier on dry land where I can go where I want, when I want, and choose the people that I spend my time with. There’s no one out here to give me a dressing down.” Arthur’s lips twitched a small smile and he nodded.
“Might be a few militant squirrels that take issue with your clothes.” Arthur said, straightfaced. Joseph laughed.
“Don’t know what I would do, if I couldn’t pack up and leave whenever I wanted,” Arthur said, sipping his coffee. “Probably lose my mind, if I’m being honest. Never much liked the ocean, myself. Awful lot I don’t know about sailing, either.”
“You could learn it, better than most others, I’d guess.” Arthur ducked his head. His openness made Joseph bold enough to ask. “Tell me about that family of yours. I met a few of them, but they didn’t hang around for long.”
“We ain’t family by blood,” Arthur said. He pressed his tongue to his cheek while he thought. “Some of us are. Most found each other different ways, now we all travel together.” It was more than Joseph thought he’d get out of Arthur. He could see that Arthur was considering each fact before he shared it, weighing what Joseph was allowed to know.
“Hosea, he’s how I know so much about herbs. Taught me everything I know about ‘em. Taught me most everything else too. Raised me when there was no one else left to do it. Him and Dutch.”
“My patients and I are grateful to him, for that,” Joseph said. Arthur laughed, but Joseph could see that he was starting to close back up again. That he’d felt comfortable enough to share at all was something Joseph appreciated. He started in on a story about three soldiers who’d drunk the local brew on an island down south, and been found naked in the jungle two days later. Arthur leaned back, seeming to relax into the conversation, and they talked while they ate.
After their meal, they relaxed by the fire as it petered out, untended. Arthur had brought out a flask and dumped a shot of whiskey into each of their coffees, that they now drank in the shade. Joseph watched cloud shadows slipping across the meadow. At the far end of the valley darker clouds gathered, heavy with rain. In the distance, he could see slanting curtains of dark rain, woven with patches of sunshine. He drifted off.
He jerked awake when Arthur kicked his boot, standing over him. Both horses had been saddled, the fire doused, and their belongings packed away. Joseph wanted to be annoyed that Arthur hadn’t let him help, but he was grateful for the nap. He thanked Arthur who ducked his head and moved away. Joseph noticed that thanks always caused him to fidget or hide his face. It was charming on such a gruff and stoic person, who otherwise seemed self-assured.
A twig snapped in the trees and Arthur paused, peering over Calpurnia’s head into the forest. He put a finger to his lips and waved at Joseph to follow him. He crouched behind a tree and pointed into a clearing ahead. Joseph stifled a gasp. In the middle of the trees, where a clear patch had been beaten down and grazed over, stood the most magnificent ten point buck that Joseph had ever seen. A rack of antlers stood from his head like a crown. Other deer lay scattered around the field, relaxing in the beams of golden light that shone down on them through the trees. Now this was something you couldn’t get in the city.
Arthur had been heading out to hunt when Joseph had distracted him with plant collecting and he had his bow strung on his back. Joseph felt a pang, he couldn’t bare the thought that Arthur would shoot such a magnificent creature, even if the meat was needed. When Arthur reached towards his own back, Joseph grabbed at his wrist, stopping him. Arthur stared at Joseph’s hand for a long moment before he looked up. He used his other hand to shrug his bow off, setting it on the ground behind him, so that he could lean back against the tree to watch the deer grazing.
Joseph swallowed. Maybe he shouldn’t have presumed with Arthur. Arthur’s face had gone soft, not quite smiling, but calm and content. He seemed less tense and wary than he had most day, if not as relaxed as he had been while napping beneath the trees. Joseph sat back on his heels and watched the deer too. After a while, Arthur crept backwards, scooping up his bow, and returned to the horses, with Joseph on his tail. He mounted back up and waited for Arthur, who pulled a bundle out of his saddle bag. Arthur swept on to Calpurnia’s back then let the cloth fall open in his hand. Several handfuls of blackberries dotted the clean handkerchief. Arthur popped one into his mouth and offered them to Joseph as he chewed.
“Dessert.”
A week later, Arthur found himself in town fetching supplies for the camp with Mary-Beth and Lenny along to barter and carry. He offered Mary-Beth an absent-minded hand out of the wagon while he stared at the sign over the doctor’s office across the way.
“You comin’ Arthur?” she asked, hiking her skirts clear of the churned up mud from last night’s rain.
“Got an errand to run. I’ll meet y’all back at camp.”
Joseph looked up as Arthur stepped inside, “Mr. Morgan, good morning.”
“Mornin’.” Arthur nodded and shoved his hands in his pockets.
“Have you brought me another wayward victim of the local snake population?”
“No.” Arthur shifted his weight and looked around the room, scratched at the stubble on his chin. “Ain’t come across any more of them.”
An awkward silence draped itself over the room. In the distance, Arthur could hear sloshing water and the doctor’s assistant shuffling around, singing to herself. Outside a horse snorted and stomped, people passed on the walkways, and chickens clucked in the backyard. Inside, nothing but the rustle of clothes and soft breathing. And, Arthur was sure, the audible pounding of his heart as his anxiety set in. Arthur couldn’t think of a good reason for being there, wasn’t even sure why he’d come in to the clinic. Joseph’s bemused expression didn’t help, waiting for Arthur’s reason for being there at half past ten in the morning, not covered in blood, not carrying medicinal plants or an unconscious victim — a reason Arthur couldn’t supply. He hadn’t thought this far of the head, only coming inside on a whim.
“Something you needed? Bandages? Painkillers? Seems necessary, given your usual bullet holes.” Joseph smiled stiffly. Arthur bristled, bothered by the doctor’s insinuation, and Joseph’s smiled dropped. “I only meant that you seem to wander about injured an awful lot.”
Arthur’s ears burned. He was starting to feel ridiculous, like Joseph was laughing at him. Although, given what he knew of the doctor, it maybe wasn’t all that malicious. He’d felt off-kilter since their previous meeting. Last they’d seen each other, Joseph had expressed interest in meeting again, more hunting for medicinal plants, which sounded ridiculous now that Arthur thought about it. Had he been serious when he’d suggested it, or just talking to talk, as he tended to do? Arthur had enjoyed that day, thought he might like to do it again, when he had the time. There was something real satisfying about doing a thing he knew well, that didn’t involve running from the law, and using it to help the doctor and his patients. He enjoyed watching the doctor in the clinic, too — he had seemed less squirrely, more at ease and had shown a competence in his work that Arthur always respected. What he wanted now was to talk about that last meeting, but he wasn’t sure where to start. It felt like such an odd question: Say, Doc, you want to go pickin’ wildflowers again? He shook his head at his own stupidity. Arthur’s mind was as tongue-tied as the rest of him.
“Ah, nevermind.” He ducked his head, scrubbed a hand across the back of his neck and turned to leave.
“Wait!” Arthur froze with his hand on the doorknob and looked back over his shoulder. “I could use your help, actually. If you’re free?” Arthur let out a breath and nodded.
Arthur listened to the doctor’s rambling while they drove up into the hills above Valentine. When Arthur was nervous, he tended towards silence. It was easier to not say something foolish in the first place than it was to try to corral it again once it had escaped. His silence contrasted poorly with Joseph’s chattering and made him seem uninterested, while the opposite was true. Only, he couldn’t quite seem to concentrate on the content of Joseph’s chatter. His thoughts rattled along with the crates of groceries in the wagon behind him. Joseph seemed to be talking about his acquisition of the clinic.
“So, I took over and all of the previous doctor’s patients, but Mrs. Hennesey — Maeve, uh, she insists I call her by her given name — I couldn’t ask her to come to town for her medication, it’s too far. I started bringing it out to her and then, well, it seemed like she and Felix could use the help. Next thing I knew, I was hauling groceries and helping with chores around the farm.” He cut himself off with a glance at Arthur and fidgeted.
“Who’s Felix?”
“Maeve’s grandson.”
“Why can’t he do all this haulin’ and totin’?” Arthur asked. Joe sighed through his nose and slumped back in his seat, stretching long legs out in front of him. Arthur stared until the wagon bumped over a stone he should have avoided and jerked his eyes back to the road.
“He doesn’t come to town often. People aren’t–” Joe paused, shifted in his seat, distracting Arthur from driving again. His polished shoes shone in the sunlight. Arthur dressed well enough, but his clothes were rough and work-worn. Joseph dressed well, neat and pressed, despite often being covered in other people’s bodily fluids. Arthur wasn’t sure how he maintained it in the face of blood and god knows what else. “People aren’t very kind to the boy. He was one of the best horse trainers in the state, until he got kicked in the head. Got knocked out, slept for about a week, and woke up different. Doesn’t talk now.”
Arthur grunted a response. Joseph seemed fidgety and anxious, watching Arthur out of the corner of his eye. All he could do was feel sorry for the injured boy, but he tried to think of something to say. With a crack and a thump, one of the wheels caught in a rut and came loose, dragging the wagon to a halt. Arthur cursed and clambered down from the driver’s seat to see the damage. At least it wasn’t broken, only knocked loose. Joseph surprised him by hopping down to take a look too.
“I’ll lift, you put the wheel back on?” He asked. Arthur nodded and rolled the wheel back up to the side. On the doctor’s count of three, Arthur realigned the wheel while Joseph lifted.
“I hate this town.” Arthur said, punctuating each word by ramming his shoulder into the loose, mud-caked wheel. Joseph laughed. Back in the wagon, Arthur saw that Joseph’s shoes had obtained a layer of dirt. He was glad to see that the doctor could pull his own weight. Wandering in the woods had called the doctor’s more practical abilities into question, but it was obvious to Arthur that he was at least willing to try and to do his part.
After a long drive, they pulled up outside of a sprawling property. Bounded on three sides by sparse forest, out buildings, paddocks and livestock pens surrounded a robust stable and a small ranch house with clapboard siding and a front door painted a cheerful spring green. Age showed in the few places that had fallen to disrepair, but it was clear that the property was well loved and taken care, despite those little wobbles. Arthur assumed that Maeve was the petite old woman seated on the wrap-around porch. She climbed to her feet as the wagon approached and Joseph waved. Arthur ducked his head to hide a crooked smile at Joseph’s easy excitability. Maeve came to the edge of the stairs, but didn’t descend while Joseph jumped out of the wagon, dragging his bag behind him.
“I see you brought some muscle along this time, Joe,” Maeve grinned, revealing strong teeth that seemed at odds with her age. Her voice carried an accent that Arthur couldn’t quite identify; Something worn away at the edges by long exposure to the mixed accent of the west. She wore her thick grey hair plaited down her back and a sturdy, practical blue dress. Arthur already liked her. She had the no nonsense air that Arthur always enjoyed. Women who’d lived a good long while on the earth tended to have a better grasp of things than Arthur or anyone else he knew, and he was happy to bow to their experience. By the way she held herself, it was clear, even to Arthur, that Maeve’s joints pained her.
“That I did, Maeve. I thought he could help Felix with the supplies, maybe chop some firewood, if he gets bored. Maeve, this is Mr. Morgan.”
“Mornin’ ma’am.” Arthur tipped his hat at her.
“Shame he can’t come in and visit with us. Strappin’ lad like that, I’m sure he’s got stories to rival mine.” Arthur felt his ears go hot. Older women were also often, in Arthur’s experience, shameless flirts.
“Maeve.” Joseph laughed. “Didn’t you once tell me that you scared a young soldier back to life? No one’s stories can rival yours.”
“Said I’d tell his gran, brought him right back. I’ll tell you about it sometime.” She cackled and accepted the arm Joseph offered her. As the door closed behind them, Arthur heard their cheerful conversation and smiled. Felix stood beside the wagon, watching Arthur.
“Alright kid, come on then. You grab that sack there. Yeah, that’s the ticket. How about you show me where this goes in the barn.” Felix tipped the sack over his shoulder with careful movements and started towards the barn. Arthur followed, his own grain sack tossed over his shoulder.
Inside, Maeve made her way back into her bedroom. Joseph helped to prop her up against the headboard with a pillow for her comfort. He could tell from the shake in her hands that she was in more pain than usual. He chewed his lip while she settled into place.
“Where’d you find the big handsome feller?” Maeve asked, snapping Joseph out of his distracted thoughts. She laughed and waved in the direction of the barn. “Not every day one of them just wanders onto your farm. You gotta tell me if he’s married, so I don’t embarrass myself later when I swoon and get him to carry me back in the house.”
“You’re incorrigible, Maeve. Leave the poor man alone.” Joseph laughed and shook his head. Joseph also hadn’t the foggiest idea if Arthur was married, or partnered up. He’d never seen a ring, or talked about a wife, but Arthur had surprised him before. He had spent a fair amount of time looking at Arthur during their interactions, but hadn’t let himself stop to think about it in any kind of depth. He had to admit that Maeve had a point. Arthur was a handsome man, more so because of the casual ease with which he carried himself that suggested a general lack of awareness about his looks.
“You’d best be bringing him back by,” she chuckled. “He’s nice to look at.” Yes, he is , thought Joseph.
“How are the new medications working?” Joseph asked, in hopes of distracting Maeve, before she could see the pink tinge on his cheeks. She started to describe her symptoms, both heart and joint, and Joseph focused on the medicine instead of thinking about Arthur.
His medical knowledge was good, strengthened by experience at sea and with the injuries born of warfare. But with Maeve, he’d hit a wall. Facefirst. At a gallop. But, instead of breaking his own nose, Maeve would suffer the consequences. He felt derailed. His training had never focused on the day to day illnesses of people just going about their lives. He could amputate a limb, treat hypothermia in drowning victims, stitch a bullet wound. He was in the weeds with Maeve’s condition and other doctors that he’d written to hadn’t been a huge help, only recommending things that he’d already tried while awaiting their responses. He was glad to hear that the foxglove that he and Arthur had harvested was working well, now he needed to find some better treatments for her joints. He told her as much.
“I look forward to it. I do need my hands, you know.” Joseph did know. He hadn’t confessed this to Arthur during their ride to the farm, but he was worried about Maeve and Felix; Alone, so far from town. Now with Maeve losing the use of her hands, struggling to walk and get out of bed on the bad days, he worried even more. She was approaching a point where he wouldn’t be able to do anything more for her besides numbing her pain. The outcome and consequences of that were quite clear to him. He wondered if he could take Felix in, when Maeve passed. Felix hadn’t any family left, besides his grandmother, and there weren’t many places for him to go. Joseph thought while he worked. He couldn’t quite bring himself to look Maeve in the eyes, knowing that she could see right through him.
“Did I ever tell you about the man I nursed during the war who’d lost a hand to cannon fire?” She asked, looking him straight in the eye. He swallowed a nervous smile and shook his head. While she talked, he put on the kettle and stoked the fire. He collected a few blood samples in small glass bottles and started his physical exam. He always listened to every word of her stories, but today he was even more focused and let it soak into his mind. When Maeve passed, those stories would be all Jo had left of their time together and the warm relationship that had developed between them. He missed his grandmother. One of the few people he had felt understood him and loved him, in a family that otherwise seemed disconnected from one another. He and his father — cold and vicious, disapproving of his choices during and after medical school — had never been close and their relationship had vanished entirely, when he’d left for Valentine in disgrace. Maeve had only ever criticized his cooking and he loved her all the more for it. It was also a valid criticism; Joseph was a terrible cook.
It was afternoon by the time he’d finished his work and Maeve her story. She’d drifted off part way through and Joseph had left her to sleep with warm towels wrapped around her achiest joints. It was such hard work to get her to take it easy in the first place, he could use the help. Then he’d gone about doing some chores around the house that he knew troubled Maeve. Afterwards, he stretched and popped a kink out of his spine as he stepped onto the porch. Arthur and Felix were nowhere in sight, but the wagon was empty — all the crates piled on the step, waiting to be carried inside — and a large stack of firewood was stacked in the shelter by the door. He heard Arthur’s laughter from the back of the house and went to investigate. He followed the trail of chores around to the back of the house. Joseph worried, for Felix’s sake, because people so often failed to be kind to him, despite his renown as a trainer from only a few years back. Respect for the boy hadn’t lasted past his usefulness for most people.
“Yeah, just like that. Good work son.” Felix looked up and grinned at Arthur’s praise, from where he was doing the bulk of the repair on a loose shutter. Arthur stood by, holding the hinge in place while Felix nailed it in with careful hammer strikes. Arthur looked up as Joseph approached. When he saw Joseph, he seemed to tuck his smile away. Joseph wondered if he’d done something to make Arthur hide his feelings like that. “Hey Doc. All done in there?”
Joseph nodded. “Finished a few minutes ago and came to look for you two. Figured you’d be ready to high tail it out of here by now.”
“Sure. Unless there’s something else ‘round here that needs doing.” Felix finished with the nail and Arthur admired their handiwork, ruffling Felix’s hair as he praised the boy’s good work. Joseph glanced around. Together they had accomplished a lot in the handful of hours that they’d been left to their own devices. Firewood was chopped, home repairs completed, fresh hay thrown down from the loft for the horses, and sacks of grain stored away in the barn. Boxes sat stacked on the front porch, replete with groceries for the household, the only chore left unfinished. Joseph pointed this out to Arthur who now stood beside him, leaving Felix to hammer in the last of the three nails by himself.
“We didn’t want to disturb the goings-on inside. Felix agreed to carry all them crates in once you and his gran were finished, ain’t that right Felix?” It took Felix a moment to switch tasks, looking away from the newly secured hinge to Arthur, who repeated his question. Felix nodded with enthusiasm. Joseph was glad to see that Arthur and Felix had gotten along so well during the day. Joseph hadn’t been sure what to expect, given how surly Arthur appeared on the ride to the property. He was surprised to see that Arthur didn’t seem keen to leave.
“Well, I’m ready whenever you are, Mr. Morgan.”
“Reckon we can head out. Felix, you hungry yet?” He looked up from the hinge he was admiring and nodded. “Bite to eat before we head back, Doc?” Joseph gave a faint nod and followed the two men over to the front porch, where Arthur dug around in the crates stacked there. He came up with a packet of crackers and, from his own satchel, some cured sausage, a flask and a knife. He tossed three apples to Joseph, who caught them with ease, juggling all three into his arms.
“Didn’t know you could juggle, Doc.” Arthur laughed.
“Sailing can get very boring,” Joseph responded, feeling his face get hot. “Also, it’s good for your dexterity”
“Planning to join the circus if medicine didn’t work out?”
“My father wouldn’t have disowned me then, he’d have just died.” Joseph was glad to see Arthur’s smile returning, even at his own expense. They sat on the steps and set about their lunch; Arthur and Felix with the gusto born of an afternoon of labour, Joseph less so, as he took small bites and listened to Arthur speaking. After a moment, he focused on Arthur’s words and found that the other man was telling a story about his old horse and its complicated relationship with ducks. Felix listened with wide eyes, enraptured, hanging on Arthur’s every word and laughing when Arthur described being thrown into a pond.
Lunch didn’t last nearly long enough. Joseph had enjoyed Arthur’s story and realized that he could listen to Arthur talk for hours. His voice was gruff, but soothing. He was reluctant to leave now, to burst the happy little bubble that he’d found himself in for the last half hour. But he had other patients and Arthur… he had a family to get back to, work to do that didn’t involve hanging around with Joseph and running errands for little old ladies. They packed up to go and, as Arthur turned to bid Felix goodbye, the young man threw his arms around Arthur’s broad torso. Arthur grunted as the air was squeezed right out of him and patted Felix on the back, as high as he could reach with his arms pinned at his sides.
“Alright kid, it was nice hanging out with you too.” Joseph smiled and climbed into the wagon. Maybe Maeve would get her wish and Arthur would visit again.
Arthur started riding into Valentine a few times a week. Not many people around camp noticed, since Arthur setting out first thing in the morning wasn’t unusual and he brought back game or money, always contributing. Folks around camp were calm and happy, and it kept them from asking questions about where he was going, or what he was doing with his time. It wasn’t like Arthur was breaking the rules, and he was doing what he usually did for the gang, he just didn’t want the scrutiny over his actions. He wasn’t even sure why, he only knew that he didn’t want to explain himself. Trust was hard-earned in the gang, and Arthur offering it up to a virtual stranger would create suspicion where it wasn’t deserved. He didn’t want to disturb the equilibrium they’d developed.
Not only had he continued to help Maeve and Felix around the ranch, he had run other errands for the doctor — fetching supplies from other towns or the train station, lifting and carrying heavy boxes, sometimes helping transport patients to and from the clinic. He’d even spent an afternoon washing bandages and linens out back, when Joseph’s assistant had stayed home to care for her sick mother. Arthur felt a calm joy in these tasks. Building and helping, repairing, feeding, and being appreciated for it all. It was rare that he did most of these things back at camp. Usually, such tasks were relegated to the women or those not out earning for the group’s funds. Arthur’s contributions tended to be fixed. He made money and he hunted, sometimes he chopped wood or hauled water. Nothing that felt constructive. It was all maintenance, sustaining their long-held status quo, keeping everyone alive and waiting to run from the law, when the next time came.
He hadn’t spent every day in town, of course. He’d continued to work for Dutch, robbed and rustled and hunted, had a couple of firefights with passing O’Driscolls and a lawman or two. After one such firefight, Joseph had even taken a look at the bullet wound on Arthur’s thigh when he’d been limping that day. Arthur appreciated that he didn’t ask too many questions and didn’t seem to want to know where the injury had come from. Arthur was grateful for the help, too. He rarely got any more pain relief than a few mouthfuls of whiskey could provide, but the doctor kept his clinic well supplied. It wasn’t just the errands that Arthur enjoyed, either. As it happened, he liked the doctor’s company more than he had expected.
Arthur arrived at the clinic one morning to find it empty of both patients and medical professionals, although the door was unlocked. Following the feel of fresh air, Arthur made his way out to the backyard where Joseph sat in a comfortable chair, watching the chickens scratch at the dirt. Fresh laundry, swung in the soft breeze, strung between the clinic and the shed in the yard. Joseph stared off into the distance, lost in thought. A rumpled letter lay in his lap. He hadn’t noticed Arthur’s arrival and jumped when Arthur settled in the chair beside him, where they’d sat sipping whiskey a few nights before, watching the sunset after a long day. Arthur had enjoyed himself.
“Quiet morning.”
“Kinda rare around here.” Arthur wondered if Joseph wanted him around, disturbing his peace. It wasn’t like his presence was always welcome.
“Got a letter, Doc?” Joseph gave Arthur a quick, tight smile, almost a grimace. He gripped the paper so that it wrinkled in his fist and Arthur saw where the crumpled appearance had come from. Neat, looping hand writing covered the paper, something angry about the slant of the letters and the occasional splotch of ink, as if it had been written in a hurry. Even when he made eye contact, Arthur could tell that the doctor was a thousand miles away in his own head. He waited for the other man to wrangle his thoughts, appreciating the early morning quiet.
“My father wants me to come home.”
“No shit,” Arthur whistled low and shoved his hands in his pockets. “Thought you two were feudin’ when you came out here.”
Joe let out a bitter laugh and waved the handful of papers at him. “I assure you, that hasn’t changed.”
“What’s he want then?”
“I’ve been ordered to return home immediately, marry the nice girl they’ve found for me and set up my own practice in the city.”
“Don’t you miss Boston?” Joseph took his time responding and stared down at the letter in his hands, looking dour.
“I don’t know. Sometimes.” He sighed and stared off into the distance again. “Cities have...an appeal. Hot running water and theatre and libraries are things I can’t deny missing, but...”
“Might be a good opportunity. For you.” Arthur tried to sound supportive, but his heart wasn’t in it. He’d be happy for Joseph if he went back, but it’s not like he wanted him to leave. Arthur didn’t tend to have a lot of friends outside of the gang, but he and the doctor had been enjoying themselves and friendship felt like a possibility. Joseph stared at him hard for several seconds, so long that Arthur started to feel his ears going pink. He fidgeted and looked away, unable to take the scrutiny any longer. He felt like he’d said something wrong.
“Maybe I should go back and marry.” Joseph leaned forward and put his chin in his hand. “I thought about marrying my friend Eleanor, just to get it over with.”
“Jesus, Doc. What a romantic you are.” Arthur plastered on a little half-smile. Joseph shook his head, sardonic and bemused. “Try not to sound so enthusiastic about it”
“You’re not married. What do you know about it?”
Arthur was quiet for a moment, watching Joseph reread the letter in his hands. He stammered, “I tried, once.”
“You did?” Joseph seemed surprised. Arthur couldn’t blame him. It wasn’t like he was much of a catch, nor much of a romantic. Probably hard to picture Arthur courting a woman, even when he had been. Seemed the women didn’t think it counted for much either, in the long run. “Why didn’t it work out?”
“She didn’t want me, in the end. Married someone else. Life I lead didn’t suit her and neither one’a us was gonna change.” Arthur went quiet, stewing in his own distant memories.
“You’ve never mentioned.” Joseph pointed out. He watched Arthur for a moment, then added, “I’m around, if you ever want to talk about it.”
“Not much to tell, Doc.” Arthur frowned. “Any idea what you’re gonna tell your dad?” Joseph shook his head.
“Do you even know the girl they want you to marry?”
Joseph laughed. “That’s far more information than my father felt was necessary to include. He expects that if he says jump, I’ll jump, facts or feelings be damned.” Arthur was surprised and oddly pleased at Joseph’s anger showing its face. Not that he wanted the other man upset. Rather, he was pleased to see a spark of fire. He was also pleased that Joseph didn’t seem at all inclined to follow his father’s orders and return to Boston. Selfish, maybe, but Arthur couldn’t help feeling relieved.
Morning ticked by while Joseph stewed in the silence between them. Arthur had things to do. A job out near Strawberry at some point, a stopover at the gunsmiths and the stables — he needed a piece to fix Calpurnia’s spare halter — but he didn’t want to abandon Joseph to his own misery. Joseph had even fewer folks to rely on that Arthur did. At least Arthur had Hosea in his life, who cared about his happiness like a father should, as well as all the others around camp, most of whom he would trust with his life. Joseph had Maeve and Felix. He also had Arthur, not that Arthur thought that counted for much in the end. Arthur had begun to doze in the sunshine, hat tipped over his eyes, far too comfortable in Joseph’s presence if he could drift off like that, when the doctor’s voice startled him awake. When he raised his hat to see Joseph pacing the narrow width of the yard, restless and fidgety.
“Let’s go for a ride.” He stopped with his back to Arthur, staring at the distant mountains. “No one’s been in for three days.”
“Hot as hell out,” Arthur mused, scratching a thumb across his chin. Moving into early summer, the air had grown heavier and more humid, making the indoors miserable during the day. “Not even dehydration or heat stroke or somesuch?”
“Nothing. Apparently the people of Valentine are all healthy as horses.” He sighed. “Or at least dying quietly where I can’t see it happening.”
“No one needin’ you by their bedside, tending their fevered brows?” Joseph glared, producing Arthur’s favourite part of teasing him about his bleeding-hearted tendencies.
“Miss King can send for me, if something comes up. It’s just a ride in the country. What’s the worst that could happen?”
Heat beat down on them, making folks cranky and miserable as they rode out of town. Passing through a small valley between tall hills, they passed a group of people trudging down the road towards Valentine with one wagon and a sad, underfed donkey. Most of them carried a pack or two, even the children helping with the burden. Arthur and Joseph slowed on the way by, Arthur nodding a greeting at them. Little acknowledgement came from the progress. He and Joseph made eye contact and shrugged. The party wasn’t far from town, they’d make it without issue and didn’t seem to want to acknowledge Joseph and Arthur, much less accept help from them. Arthur was curious about where they’d come from.
Rounding the base of the hills, Arthur spotted a familiar horse picketed in the brush, grazing. Up the slope, another familiar shape lay along the ridge line, looking down into the forest beyond. Arthur rode up to the bottom of the hill with Joseph on his heels and dismounted, tying Calpurnia and Cutter by Taima so that they could gossip and graze together. Charles looked up and waved a greeting, then put his binoculars back to his eyes. Arthur scurried up the hill, keeping low and kicking up dust as he went. He crawled the last few feet on his stomach to settle beside Charles. Joseph came up on his other side, showing surprising skill at stealth that Arthur hadn’t expected. A deep furrow marked Charles’ brow as he frowned down at a work camp in the trees.
“What’s wrong Charles?”
“Cornwall’s men,” he said, passing the binoculars to Arthur. Down in a clear cut chunk of the Cumberland forest, a bunch of men had set up a work camp of sorts. Out buildings surrounded a small collection of tents, with a few pens of assorted livestock scattered near a barn. For a small camp, they’d cleared a lot of trees and men in the distance could be seen hacking away at even more. “Asked around a bit, turns out they’re looking to start drilling here despite protests. Cornwall thinks it’s a good spot for more crude and he sent the men to setup a headquarters.” Arthur returned the binoculars.
“Doesn’t seem to care how many folks live down river or depend on the forest for game,” Charles added with a bitter grumble. Arthur gave his shoulder a sympathetic pat, stirring up a layer of dust that had settled on his back as he lay watching the camp. All three scooted backwards until they were below the ridge and out of sight, laying back against the steep slope on their backs. Joseph sat up and glanced between Arthur and Charles’ faces, confusion evident on his face.
“Shit,” Arthur cursed. He rubbed his hand across his lips as he thought. Joseph stopped glancing between his and Charles’ faces to stare at Arthur’s hand. Arthur stopped and the doctor looked up, making eye contact then looked away. Arthur dropped his hand away, feeling self-conscious.
“Leviticus Cornwall? That oil magnate?”
“That’s the one,” Charles said.
“Doesn’t he have his own personal militia?”
“He does,” Arthur added. Joseph watched both men thinking and frowned.
“Thought they were poachers at first, since they killed a few bison. Followed them here and figured out what was going on.” He turned towards Arthur. “You see that group of travelers? Folks are already being driven off.” He paused and ground his jaw. “I want to stop them. Oil drilling here will destroy the river and hurt people here and downstream.”
“Plus, if we drive them away it’ll be a screw you to Cornwall,” Arthur added.
“Is that wise?” Joseph asked.
Arthur waved a dismissive hand. “Cornwall already hates us, this won’t even make a dent.” He thought a few more seconds, then said, “Let’s put together a plan. His men will recognize the two of us, most likely.”
“I’d rather not shoot anyone, if we can avoid it,” Charles added.
“Doc, you need an escort back to town?”
“I want to help.” Arthur looked up surprised. He knew the doctor assumed some things about Arthur’s activities, but he hadn’t expected Joseph to want to help. He mulled it over, watching the other man who seemed determined and a little defiant. “Alright. Got any ideas?”
“A couple,” he responded with a grin.
Joseph approached the work camp, appearing rumpled and downtrodden in an old, patched shirt of Arthur’s, having rolled in the dirt for that authentic, transient worker look. Arthur had mussed his hair with pomade to make the slight greasy tousle hold for a while. He had a spare leather satchel from Charles tossed over one shoulder, containing supplies for his later role in their mission. He’d outlined his rough idea to Charles and Arthur, who’d agreed, laughing, that it sounded both productive and fun. After a bit of spitballing, rolling ideas back and forth, they’d worked out a plan. Joseph’s role came first.
“Hold it right there, mister.” One of the guards called out to him, brandishing a rifle. Joseph put up his hands in surrender, despite the man’s unthreatening appearance. He hardly looked like he knew how to hold the rifle, much less use it. Joseph took it as a good sign that the rest of their mission wasn’t doomed. If they were going up against trained guards or soldiers, it might fail before they even got started.
“Whoa. I was just comin’ to talk to the boss. Heard there was work ‘round here.”
“Depends,” said the second guard. “What kinda work you lookin’ for?”
“Whatever you got. I ain’t picky.”
Both of the guards made eye contact, something disconcerting passing between them. Joseph swallowed, but stayed steady. The first guard nodded at him, dropping his muzzle towards the ground, and gestured towards the work site. Joseph nodded and stuffed his hands in his pockets while he tried to look as non-threatening as possible — not that he often looked threatening, he just didn’t want to alert the guards to anything before it was time.
Men around the camp called greetings as the guard marched Joseph towards the small wooden office building and inside. A clean man in a nice suit sat behind the desk, writing in a ledger. Sweat beaded on his forehead in the heat, but his outfit remained pressed and crisp, the red satin of his waistcoat glistening.
“Got a new recruit here, boss.” Joseph straightened and held out his hand to introduce himself. The boss man glanced at his hand and then his face, dismissing the gesture. He made no move to stand or greet Joseph himself.
“Mr. Hatfield, do you think perhaps I should be the one to decide who our new recruits should be?” he asked. Joseph’s guard looked sheepish. “You can go back to work now.”
“Yes, Mr. Roth. Sorry, sir.” Mr. Roth waved a hand at the guard and shooed him away.
“Joe Callahan,” Joseph supplied, borrowing one of Arthur’s aliases.
“What can you do, Mr. Callahan?”
“Whatever needs doin’, sir.” Roth smiled, smug and satisfied. Joseph recognized Roth’s kind of authority, a figure who thought he was a bigger fish than they really were. He’d seen plenty of them in the navy. Roth would be easy to deal with, as long as Joseph sucked up and bowed and scraped to the man’s satisfaction. Roth shouted and another man appeared in the doorway.
“Take our new worker to the tents, find him a bed and a set him up with the diggers.” Joseph groaned internally. Digging hadn’t been in his plan and his shoulders already ached at the prospect. Joseph followed the other man out of the door, realizing that he and Roth hadn’t discussed anything like compensation for his labour. He frowned and wondered how many of the other men had been swept up in this work without a contract or conversation about their duties or pay. Even the military hadn’t been that underhanded. Slimy management annoyed him almost as much as the rest of the operation.
Not fifteen minutes later, he found himself with several other men digging a trench along one side of the camp. For what purpose, he didn’t know. Within minutes, he was drenched in sweat, hands slipping on the shovel handle. He joined the other diggers and unbuttoned Arthur’s shirt to alleviate some of the heat and dug until blisters started to form, far too early in the process for his comfort. Some of the other men were holding a conversation. Joseph and two of the others huffed and puffed too much over their shovels to bother. Time blended into one horrible morass and Joseph focused on the task at hand, worrying about Arthur and Charles’ part of the plan. He knew that their jobs were more dangerous and he hoped that nothing would go wrong. At least he didn’t actually rely on this work and could walk away if the rest of the plot went awry.
He realized that the other diggers beside him did rely on this work and felt a twinge of sympathy — mostly in his hands and back — sad that they were dependent on backbreaking labour to care for themselves and their families. Joseph had always been lucky, in that regard. He’d worked hard in the navy, but there was plenty of down time and his duties were centered more around other sailors than the ship. It occurred to him that Arthur’s work, while illegal, kept him and his people from having to do work this hard and hazardous in order to just scrape by. He could almost understand why they made the choices that they did.
A whistle sounded, calling for a noon break and Joseph followed suit as they dropped their shovels and made their way to the mess tent to accept bowls of food and cups of cold water drawn from the well. Did they realize that drilling for oil here would pollute the well water? Did Cornwall care? He settled beside the rest of the men from his area and tucked into his lunch, ravenous as he hadn’t been in ages.
“Where you from, new guy?” Asked the man who seemed like the leader of their section. He had a thick accent that Joseph couldn’t quite identify, something southern. Joseph looked up, mouth full and mumbled something about Boston, which was at least partly true.
“Ain’t they got food in Boston?” joked one of the other men. Everyone laughed, including Joseph.
“Didn’t realize diggin’ would build up such an appetite,” he said, sheepish. Someone passed him an extra roll and he accepted it. Joseph was surprised at how easy it was to ingratiate himself with the workers. Turned out, when he put on a playacting personality, he could be charming and pleasant. Lunch didn’t last long, but he bantered back and forth with the others, keeping up a positive vibe. By the end of the day, he had wormed his way into popularity and become a focus of everyone’s attention. It all worked in his favour for his part of the plan. He almost felt bad about tricking the men, who seemed nice enough, even though they were working for an unpleasant man. Nightfell and he slipped out of his bedroll with supplies in hand.
Arthur’s job was straightforward enough. While Joseph and Charles got into place, he rode to Emerald Ranch with a shopping list that included two small bags of flour, a debt for Strauss and the entire payroll for Cornwall’s workers at the campsite. He collected the debt first, so that he could afford the flour and some ammunition for the payroll robbery. At the last minute, he bought a replacement part for Calpurnia’s halter, as he’d planned to do in Valentine earlier that morning.
Given that no one knew much about Cornwall’s new worksite, the coach only had two guards who were riding ahead of it rather than behind. Arthur loosed Calpurnia with his supplies and whistled for her to follow as he slipped into the passenger-less coach. No one had bothered guarding the inside of it while they stopped in Emerald Ranch. Once they were on the road, Arthur slipped out the back window to hang upside down, fiddling with a lockbreaker on the cashbox. He popped it open and retrieved the money, then hauled his whole body out of the window, where he jumped off of the back and rolled in the dirt. He scrambled to his feet and dropped into the bushes to hide from sight. Once the coach had disappeared over the rise, he whistled for Calpurnia. Three things accomplished in only a couple of hours left Arthur feeling satisfied and pleased with himself. He returned to their campsite and waited for dark before he crept back towards Cornwall’s camp to watch the events orchestrated by Charles and Joseph.
A little while after midnight, a scream broke the silence of the night and chaos ensued. Arthur watched as a ghost, glowing white in the waxing moon’s light, grabbed Joseph from behind and dragged him into the trees. Charles seemed almost translucent, covered head to toe in flower that made him look ethereal and unreal. Arthur was surprised at how well the disguse worked. Blood spurted from Joseph’s chest, painting the ground red and they vanished before anyone could register what was happening. Joseph’s screams cut off. In the relative silence, the men of the camp erupted to their feet shouting and grabbing for weapons, from guns to shovels. At the mouth of the tent, Joseph’s — well, Arthur’s — shirt sleeve had been torn off had been left shredded in a pool of fresh chicken blood. Men raced for the trees, ready to defend their own, but found nothing, as the three of them had planned. Charles and Joseph, Arthur was confident, had slipped away unseen, running at top speed. Arthur stayed to watch, curious to see how the men and their boss would react. It would inform the rest of their actions. Useful intel. Moments after they disappeared, the men tramped back into camp looking shaken and muttering between themselves, voices overlapping.
“Like a ghost, did you see? All white and see-through.”
“Dragged the new guy off and killed him, I’m sure of it.”
“Looked native to me, do you think it’s an attack?”
“Sure, idiot. Natives go around all wispy like that all the time. Whole armies of ‘em.” Arthur heard a thump as the speaker smacked his companion in the back of the head. “He weren’t alive, I’m telling you.” Lanterns came out, lighting up the area. Men stoked the fire and Roth came stumbling out of his bedroom in the main building rumpled and fuming.
“What in the hell is going on here?” Several men scrambled to explain, until Roth roared over top of them. “If we ain’t under attack, you’d best all get back to your damn beds. We start at the same time in the morning, no matter what nonsense y’all fishwives are screeching about.”
One of the guards tried to explain, pointing at the blood stains pooled in the dirt by their sleeping quarters, at the shredded shirt sleeve that looked like animals had attacked it, but Roth slammed back inside, ignoring them. A few at a time, the workers returned to their bedrolls, but they didn’t look inspired to go back to sleep. Most sat up, whispering between tents and sounding scared. Satisfied, Arthur crept away and left them to it. In the morning, they’d be tired, scared and paranoid.
Arthur waited in camp for their return, which was announced by their delighted laughter and complete lack of stealth. That’s more what Arthur had expected from the doctor, but Arthur was surprised that Charles had let loose along with him. Both men were covered in chicken blood when they slipped between the rocks, giggling to themselves. Arthur clapped them on the back one at a time, sending a puff of flour off of Charles as he did so. Joseph collapsed beside Arthur at the campfire while Charles wandered towards the water to wash himself. Arthur told them about what he’d seen after they left in delighted detail while they shared hot coffee between them. Joseph laughed and flopped against him, exhausted from a day’s hard labour. Arthur brought an arm up around his shoulder to keep him from toppling over and ignored the flour transferring from Joseph’s hair to his shirt.
“Got ‘em terrified, for sure.” Arthur felt Joseph’s continued laughter rumbling through his own chest.
“Won’t be no problem to scare ‘em off for good tomorrow,” he responded. They lapsed into silence, until Charles returned. Joseph sat up and pulled away from him, leaning to pour a cup of coffee for the new arrival.
After they discussed the rest of their plans, they burned the remains of Arthur’s shirt, thanking it for its sacrifice. As Arthur prepared for bed, yanking off his boots while seated on his bedroll, he watched Joseph pull an envelope out of his jacket. When he turned it towards the firelight to read its contents, Arthur recognized the writing on the outside. Text shouldn’t be able to convey fury through the angled slant of a person’s handwriting, but somehow Joseph’s father had managed it. Arthur wanted to say something. Joseph had slouched down against the fallen log they’d been using as a seat earlier in the evening. He looked, well, Arthur wasn’t entirely sure. Ponderous maybe, lost in thought. Before Arthur could figure out what to say Joseph glanced up at him. He felt cornered, sitting there with one boot on and the other in his hand, knew he looked like startled game. A soft, crooked smile graced Joseph’s face and he tossed the papers into the fire. Arthur nodded and smiled back.
Most of the next morning was spent relaxing, dipping out of camp for short hunting trips and to run errands at the work site — at least for Arthur and Charles. Joseph stayed hidden away, waiting for his return later that night. Arthur snuck into the camp and made off with tools during the lunch break, reducing the whole site to chaos when they tried to return to work. Charles absconded with livestock, reducing their numbers by a third when no one was looking, and leaving leftover chicken blood behind, smeared on the fence posts. At dinner, Arthur slipped into the main building and stole Roth’s ledger and every penny from his personal cash box — a not insignificant amount that suggested he’d been skimming from the payroll for some time. Guilt tickled the back of his neck as Roth screamed at the workers and blamed them for the theft, but without proof he couldn’t fire any of them and all the men had been accounted for. Three men quit before the day was up, a fourth after dinner. They were furious at the lack of pay that morning, the murder of one of their own, unacknowledged by those in charge, and the interruptions to their work day and meals. Chaos had been easy to sew in their ranks, with no blood shed, Arthur was glad to say. Well, except for the chicken’s noble sacrifice.
Charles, Arthur and Joseph ate a light dinner and napped for a while, waiting for the moon to rise and then they enacted the rest of their plan. Carrying supplies, they crept the long way around to the work site, where the men tossed and turned in a restless sleep. Guards slumped at their posts, drowsy from the poor night’s sleep during the previous day’s chaos. Charles pulled a jar from his bag, Arthur put a hand on his arm and raised his brows in a silent question.
“Wolf pee,” Charles whispered, teeth flashing white in the moonlight. At the look on Joseph’s face, Arthur’s iron control on his laughter almost broke.
“You just keep wolf pee on you for… emergencies?”
“You’d be surprised how often it comes in handy.” Joseph made a horrified face. Charles and Arthur shook in silent laughter. Each broke off in a different direction, headed for their personal jobs.
Arthur slipped inside the barn and flipped the latches on all of the stalls, so that the horses would be free to run at the first opportunity. Outside, he could already hear the livestock penned beside the tents squealing in distress. Charles’ wolf pee, doing its job.
He rounded a corner and saw a man dozing against the wall on top of a hay bale, legs stretched across the side entrance. Backing away from the unexpected obstruction, Arthur bumped a bucket that rattled in the open space. He froze and held his breath. The sleeping guard snorted and stirred, but didn’t wake. Arthur breathed a sigh of relief. Then, one of the horses whinnied and kicked at the back wall of its stall.
Arthur’s stable guard startled awake, eyes bugging as soon as he registered Arthur’s crouched form. Arthur lunged, clapping a hand over the man’s mouth before he could shout and they rolled on the ground. Arthur was surprised at how dirty the other man fought, kicking and scratching at him as they scuffled in the dirt. Arthur grunted as the man elbowed him in the gut and lost his grip. Arthur scrambled up with him, before he could get more than the start of a shout out and dragged him backwards. When the man kicked again, his foot collided with a lantern. Glass shattered and sprayed burning kerosene into the hay. At the sound and the smell of smoke, the horses panicked. Rearing, they broke out of their stalls too early for Arthur’s part of the plan. He hoped the others were good at improvisation. Arthur’s combatant rolled into the fire and screamed as he burst into flame. Arthur watched him run out of the barn screaming as fire licked up his side. Arthur thought the sight would only help their cause. One of the last horses, desperate to flee the burning barn, crashed into Arthur and sent him tumbling back into the hay. His pant leg caught light, and he rolled in the dirt slapping at the fire with his hat and hands. He yelped at the pain. Crawling backwards, he crashed into a bucket full of water and dumped it on his leg. Tendrils of smoke and steam rose from the blackened denim on his calf. He sent a quick thank you to whatever dumb luck kept him alive. With the barn well and truly on fire, he slipped out the side door and moved towards the main building.
Outside, men screamed and scattered, too panicked to notice his presence as he limped away. Charles and Joseph had covered themselves in flour once more and glowed in the full moon’s bright light. Arthur was glad he hadn’t been covered in flour when he’d caught fire. No one ran towards them as they shouted and howled. Livestock and horses fled into the forest, with the workmen hot on their heels. Weapons and tools lay abandoned, tents knocked down. Even Roth had fled. Charles wandered over and put a torch to the empty animal paddocks. Every single man had vanished into the night, their panicked shouts still audible through the trees. Smoke from the flame-engulfed barn turned the moon a frightening shade of red. Before, they might have stayed to fight the fire in the barn, but the fear that Arthur and his companions had sewn the two days prior had caused them to flee instead. Arthur was glad that the men would find their well-earned cash in their bags and pockets in the morning, deposited there by the three of them throughout the day. He was also glad that they’d still walked away turning a profit, due to Roth’s greed.
A few minutes later, Joseph found Arthur leaned against a tree gritting his teeth against the pain in his leg. He hated burns. Arthur would rather be shot full of lead. Arthur cackled at the sight of Joseph covered in flour and old chicken blood, pain briefly forgotten.
“Shut up, Morgan,” he chuckled. Arthur pushed off of the tree and winced, pulling Joseph’s attention to his injury. He rushed forward. “Are you alright?”
“Casualty of the barn fire,” Arthur said with a dismissive wave. Joseph ducked under his arm to act as a human crutch to help him hobble down the hill towards the water, where they’d planned to meet Charles. Arthur leaned into him, marvelling at the fact that his hair still smelled nice, despite the day they’d had. At the very least, it covered the burning smell that clung to Arthur.
Despite the pain in his leg, Arthur doubled over with laughter at the sight of Charles, covered in flour, making his way down the hill towards them, leaving powdery white clouds in his wake. He hopped as his leg twinged, almost dragging Joseph down with him.
Charles still somehow looked dignified and he made a rude gesture and walked past them down to the water. Arthur continued to chuckle while Joseph held him upright, so that he could hop along the path after Charles without putting weight on his leg. Charles dunked his entire head in the water, scrubbing the flour from his face and hair. When he emerged again, any trace of dignity had vanished. Charles took his turn helping Arthur while Joseph dipped into the river to clean himself. Arthur couldn’t be bothered to wash the transferred flour from his side.
Camp was a riot of laughter as Charles cracked open a bottle of whiskey for Arthur, who took two long drinks before he nodded his permission for Joseph to work on his leg. He hissed in pain as Joseph peeled the denim away from his burnt calf. A true celebration of their success would have to come after his wound was cared for.
“Fucking Christ, Doc.”
“Yeah, this is gonna hurt. I’m sorry.” Arthur yelped when the cool water from the river splashed across his leg and threw his head back, biting his lip until he tasted blood. Charles fetched multiple buckets of freezing water from the river and the cooling sensation did a lot to alleviate Arthur’s pain. Joseph worked fast, cleaning the burning and bandaging it with a loose layer of gauze. Satisfied with Arthur’s status, Joseph took the bottle from his hand and knocked back a long swig of whiskey, grimacing at the burn in his throat. Arthur and Charles whooped. Arthur was glad to see the doctor relaxing, loosening up a bit. It seemed Charles had helped a good deal with that. He caught himself with a stupid, lopsided grin on his face and realized that he’d been having fun the last couple of days. Joseph nodded, decisive, and returned the bottle to Arthur’s hand.
“That’s quite enough excitement for me today,” he said, then shot them both a sloppy salute and then crawled off to bed in Arthur’s tent. Arthur watched him go, chuckling the whole time. He looked up to find Charles scrutinizing him.
“What?” he muttered, shoulders curling into a defensive hunch.
“Nothing.” He sipped at his coffee. “Nice to see you outside of camp, with other people. We get so insular, you know? Makes me miss normal folks sometimes.” Arthur snorted.
“Know what you mean, we can get a bit too up in each other’s business, living like we do.”
After a few minutes, Charles asked, so nonchalant that it seemed suspicious to Arthur, “if you hate debt collecting for Strauss so much, why do you do it?”
“We all gotta do jobs we don’t like.”
“Seems to me you have more choice than most, on that front. You’re, what, second or third in command after Dutch?” Arthur frowned, considering. He didn’t see much of a choice in his activities, did as Dutch asked, whatever it may be. He didn’t always like it, Often didn’t, actually, but those tasks needed to be done and Arthur… it was his job.
“I ain’t exactly a nice man, Charles. Reckon it’s my job to do the low-down, dirty stuff ‘round here. I’ve earned it, life I’ve lived. Spares others from the shit if I do it.” He scoffed into his drink. “Besides, who else is going to do it?”
“Micah, he ain’t a nice man at all.”
“Christ,” Arthur laughed. “Micah’s a backstabbing weasel and a monster. Can’t do a simple job without shooting someone or losing his head. He’d just kill whoever Strauss sent him after. Least I ain’t out here hurtin’ innocents.”
“We rob a lotta payrolls.” Charles pointed out. “You think that money ever makes it to the people owed it for their work?” Arthur shrugged. “Bystanders die. Guards we kill are trying to care for their families, make an honest living.”
“You really think working for Cornwall is an honest living? Seems to me it’s just as big a lie as the rest of civilization.”
“Well, maybe not Cornwall…” Charles smiled at him.
“Far as I can tell, they’re all the same Charles. Rich folks who don’t got souls or morals or nothing, think they can do whatever they want, and hire desperate people to do it for them, cause they got money to give ‘em.” Arthur sighed and popped the top off of his whiskey bottle for another swig. Alcohol, pain and Charles’ questions had soured his good mood. “All I see ‘round me is a whole lotta damned folks, tryin’ not to be damned and failing cause the whole world runs on money that they ain’t got. Ain’t ever gonna have, neither. Don’t really matter who we hurt, as I see it. What difference does it make if I’m Dutch’s muscle or someone else is?”
“I don’t know you well, Arthur.” Charles said with a frown. “But mean and heartless doesn’t suit you near as well as you think.”
“Been my job for a long time.”
“Maybe it doesn’t have to be.” He said as he dumped the rest of his coffee into the brush and stood. He nodded at Arthur and made for his tent. “Night Arthur.”
Arthur waved a lazy farewell and went back to his drinking. A few hours before dawn, he ducked into his own tent and stumbled over its forgotten secondary occupant, swearing. Last night, they’d traded off keeping watch and it hadn’t been an issue. He’d forgotten they were sharing two tents between three people. Joseph grunted and looked up at Arthur on his knees beside him, leg out at an awkward angle to avoid jostling it. Arthur put his hands up, placating.
“Sorry, sorry. Go back to sleep.” Arthur hoped that Joseph would roll over, close his eyes and ignore Arthur’s drunken fumbling as he tried to climb into his own bed in the tight space. Instead, Joseph watched him shuck off his hat, jacket and boots and crawl under the spare blanket Charles had stolen from the worksite. Arthur tried to will away the feeling of Joseph’s eyes on him and closed his own. Joseph settled back down without moving too much. Arthur could tell that Joseph was still facing him, but he didn’t say anything. Arthur drifted off the the sound of the other man’s quiet breathing.
Morning dawned bright and far too early for three men who’d worked a late night and then drank themselves to sleep. Arthur groaned and tried to move, only to find that he’d rolled into Joseph as they slept and they were tangled together beneath the blankets. He extracted himself from the embrace and bumped his leg, wincing at the pain. Joseph stirred but stayed asleep as Arthur crawled out of the tent. He looked up to see Charles sitting by the fire, studiously ignoring them. Arthur limped off into the trees to relieve himself. When he returned, Joseph had emerged from the tent and sat beside Charles, looking rumpled and sleepy. He offered a fresh cup of coffee to Arthur, who accepted it with a brief smile and nod. Conversation was slow to start up, their day even slower, but they broke down camp and made their way back towards Valentine before noon. Joseph broke off with a yawn and wave, riding to his clinic, while Charles and Arthur headed towards the overlook.
No chickens or cowboys were harmed in the making of this chapter. Thank you to everyone who had read this fic or commented, I appreciate every word!
When they returned to camp, Arthur shoved the cash they’d stolen into Charles’ hands and told him to hand it over to Dutch, turning away as soon as the other man started to argue. He unsaddled and groomed Calpurnia, letting her loose with the other horses for a well deserved rest. She was a sturdy, steady companion and Arthur often found that the calm, repetitive process of grooming her steadied his nerves. Charles had brought up questions last night that Arthur didn’t want to dwell on during the daylight hours, but the harder he tried to forget them, the more jumbled up it all became in his mind. Arthur wanted Charles to take the credit for the job. He deserved it and it had been his idea to go after the camp in the first place. With a start, he realized that he hadn’t asked Charles to keep Joseph out of his explanation.
It was an odd feeling, to know down in his bones at that precise moment that he trusted Charles as much as he trusted the closest members of his family, maybe more. Charles was a discreet person, observant, and he wouldn’t mention the doctor’s role in their adventure. Arthur felt like an ass because of his surly behaviour the night before. He’d fouled their good spirits with his moodiness. Charles’ questions and the points he’d made had been valid, important, worth considering once Arthur had sobered up. Although they hit a bit too close to home, nipping at the heels of his own insecurities — baying hounds of doubt and worry — Charles hadn’t asked them to be cruel or judgemental. Charles didn’t have to try to answer complex questions like Arthur did. He simply understood that the world was messy and knew how to make it less so. Arthur found it was something he liked about Charles these days. Before recent events, he might have been more annoyed by the idea than anything. Arthur wished that the right actions came to him as easily.
Arthur also didn’t want to think too hard about how he’d woken up that morning, tangled up in Joseph’s arms, warm and content despite his hangover blossoming in the sunshine. He hadn’t woken up with another person like that in a long time, years maybe, and he missed it. Plenty of sex had come his way over the last few years, it wasn’t hard to come by, but he liked to wake with someone he knew in his arms. It was a nice feeling, loathe though he was to admit it, even to himself. Waking up with Eliza in his arms had been one of the best parts of visiting her and Isaac. But, he knew there was a timeline on his friendship with Joseph, as there had been from the start. Arthur lived a transient life and never settled down too long in one place. It would be foolish to build up some kind of relationship only to walk away in a few weeks time, when Cornwall or the Pinkertons or whoever else came for them. He already anticipated the pain of leaving Maeve and Felix, who he’d grown attached as spring had begun to roll over into summer, but they’d been fine without him and they’d be fine once he was gone.
Regretting the mess he was soon to make, Arthur hefted the doe they’d shot on their way back up over his shoulder to deliver it to Pearson. At Dutch’s gritty, delighted laughter, he glanced up. Charles was explaining how they’d robbed Cornwall again and ruined his prospects in the forest.
“Christ Arthur, what’d you do to get so bloody?” Bill asked, passing Pearson’s wagon with two pails of cold, sloshing water from the river. Arthur dropped the potato he’d just peeled into a bucket with the other spuds and made a rude gesture, then grabbed another from the bucket to his right. Exhausted from the previous days antics, but feeling antsy with energy thrumming beneath his skin, he’d opted to help Pearson with dinner. Punishment work at any other time, it was repetitive and soothing, much like grooming the horses. While he worked, he noticed that the O’Driscoll boy lurked nearby, twitching with nerves. Arthur could hardly blame him, but the pacing in and out of his peripheral vision was making his skin crawl.
“Knock it off, boy, or you’re going in the stewpot instead of the venison.” Kieran swallowed hard, feet frozen in place while his hands fidgeted with a broken bit of bridle. “What the hell are you doin’ over there? Don’t you got chores or are you thinking you’re on a vacation from Colm?”
“I do. I–I’ve been helping with the horses.” Arthur snorted and scooped up another potato. Kieran mumbled, “I’m good with ‘em.”
“Still ain’t answered my question.”
“Your girl, Calpurnia?” Arthur grunted. “I think she’s hurt.”
“She’s riding fine, just got back with her this morning.” Arthur said. Calpurnia grazed with the other horses, weight shifting side to side as she snuffled through the grass looking for the juiciest patches and mowing them down to nothing. Sean moved about through the group, breaking up a hay bale for their dinner. Kieran twitched, nervous.
“I think she’s twisted something. Maybe not even while you were out. There’re gopher holes and the like around here. But she’s hurt.” If she was, Arthur couldn’t tell, but Kieran seemed adamant. Maybe the most backbone he’d shown at any point since Arthur had roped him in the mountains. “You don’t believe me, but I can prove it.” Arthur stopped peeling, knife wedged beneath a bit of peel and pressed against the pad of his thumb. He glowered at Kieran while he thought for a moment and then nodded.
“Show me then.”
And Kieran did. Moments later he and Arthur were bent over side by side examining Calpurnia’s left back leg for an injury. Arthur couldn’t see any scrapes or blood, but Kieran had grabbed Arthur’s fingers and wrapped them around her hock.
“See how it’s hot? She ain’t limping yet, but I think she will be.”
Her leg was hot. Only in the one area, much like a human sprain. Inflammation, Joseph had called it. Arthur felt bad for not noticing sooner and lowered her leg back to the ground. He cooed and slipped her a peppermint from his pocket, thumped her shoulder with a couple loving pats. Arthur stood back, impressed and pleased with Kieran’s observation. Calpurnia could have been hurt if he’d kept riding her injured. Hell, Arthur could have been killed if she’d fallen or thrown him. Kieran could have stayed quiet and no one would have ever known, but he didn’t. Arthur wasn’t deluded into thinking that it was because Kieran cared about his well being, he knew that it was because the boy liked the horses.
“I’ll borrow a spare, for now. Let her rest up.” Kieran’s shoulders slumped as he relaxed. He hadn’t been trying to impress Arthur or anyone else, he had wanted to protect Calpurnia from injury. He started to walk away, content with having gotten Arthur to listen to him. Arthur called his name and he looked back at Arthur, wary again. “Good work...with the horses. Thank you.”
Kieran swallowed hard and bobbed his head, then scuttled away.
Arthur hurried across the campsite, hauling a new batch of wood over to the fire, where most everyone else sat eating dinner. Beneath the canopy of his tent, Javier tuned his guitar. It was shaping up to be a cozy night with music and drinking. Not a party, exactly, but something cheerful and appreciative of the place they’d found themselves in recent weeks. He dumped the logs and Bill bent to stack them into a neat pile. He saw Dutch emerge from his tent for the first time that day. Arthur strode over to his tent where he stood smoking, phonogram playing softly in the background.
“Well done, my boy,” he said as Arthur approached. Dutch clapped him on the back. Chuckling, he said, “Charles told me all about it. Not like you to come up with such a smart plan. You know that I’m not easily impressed, but I’m proud of you.” Like always, the praise made Arthur feel important, dependable, loyal.
“Had fun fuckin’ with Cornwall’s men like that. Ran away with their tails between their legs.” He nodded towards the campfire, where Charles sat with the others. “Charles was the brains of it all.”
“Scaring the pants off them! Just the kind of forward thinking, clever plans I’m hoping for from everyone else. Micah says he’s got a few things in the works.”
“Sure he does.”
“Arthur, come on now. We have to cooperate to succeed. I do wish I could convince you to trust Micah.”
“Perhaps I’ll change my mind, if he ever does somethin’ trustworthy.” Dutch only shook his head. Arthur thought back to the massacre that had come from Micah’s time in Strawberry, bodies in the streets, all over a pair of guns. Arthur saw what Micah valued and it sure as shit weren’t the gang or their safety. He thought that Dutch was oblivious to it all, and then felt guilty for doubting the man who’d raised him. Arthur might be even more of a low-down, dirty, scoundrel without Dutch and Hosea.
“I can always count on you, Arthur.” He used the hand that still lay on Arthur’s shoulder to give him a gentle shake. ”We all can. You’re the most dependable man we have. Don’t let yourself get jealous over Micah’s presence.”
“I ain’t fuckin’ jealous of him, Dutch. I think he’s dangerous .”
“No more dangerous’n you, son.” Arthur grumbled and made a noncommittal noise. Micah wouldn’t be getting on his good side anytime soon. Arthur still didn’t know what had gone down in Blackwater, but Micah and Dutch had killed some poor girl and in a brutal fashion. While it wasn’t like Dutch at all, it was exactly the kind of shit Micah pulled. He wasn’t sure if Micah had convinced Dutch to do something violent and stupid, or if Dutch had accepted part of the blame for some unfathomable reason, some misguided sense of loyalty to their newest and deadliest member.
“How are you feeling about the train job we’ve been planning?” he asked, guiding Arthur over to the poker table. He kicked a crate out for Arthur to sit beside him. Arthur let the wood carrier drape on the table in an awkward lump. We haven’t planned anything, Arthur wanted to point out. John did, it was all his idea and he and Arthur had done all the work so far. Retrieving that oil wagon from Cornwall Kerosene and Tar had been a pain in his ass.
“John’s plan seems fine, Dutch. No Bill, that already makes me feel better.” Dutch chuckled and puffed on his cigar. Arthur had an idea, perhaps a stupid idea. He scratched at the stubble on his chin. He needed to shave, it was getting unruly. “I was thinking though… Maybe we should take Kieran on this job.”
Dutch looked askance and raised an eyebrow. “The O’Driscoll? Why?”
“I’m thinking he deserves an opportunity to contribute to the group. Always claiming he ain’t an O’Driscoll… maybe we give him a chance to prove it. What’s the harm?” Something about the way Dutch’s eyes narrowed concerned Arthur. He sat, letting Dutch’s scrutiny wash over him, not entirely sure where it was coming from. “We won’t give him any big jobs, or tell him anything until we’re right up on the tracks. He never leaves camp, not like he can a rat us out or anything.”
Dutch puffed away while he thought, and then said, “I’m hesitant, with these Pinkertons sniffing around.”
“Likewise.” Arthur was still furious that that those two damned Pinkertons had approached him while he’d been out with Jack. It was as if they hoped to use the boy as a shield for themselves, assuming that Arthur wouldn’t draw on them or fight back with Jack present. He’d stormed right up to Dutch’s tent and begun ranting about the encounter the second they returned to camp. He was furious, too, that they’d put a damper on the good time he’d been having with the boy. It wasn’t often that he had the time to devote to Jack — he wasn’t the boy’s father, but as with everything else the responsibility seemed to fall to his shoulders. In the end though, he didn’t mind so much. Jack was a nice kid, too nice for their lifestyle he thought. No kid really deserved to grow up the way he and John had with the gang.
“Alright, take the O’Driscoll. Let’s see how he does under pressure.” He’d already saved Arthur’s life under pressure up at Six-Point Cabin, but Arthur didn’t feel the need to point that out. He’d expected more resistance from Dutch. It was an honest surprise to Arthur that he’d agreed so easily. He mentally shrugged and then stood to finish his chores so that he could relax near the others and enjoy the food he’d helped to prepare.
— Dutch agreed to let us take the O’Driscoll boy on the train job. Not quite sure why I recommended it, but it seems he wants a chance to ingratiate himself with the lot of us. Not quite sure why he’d want to, if I’m being honest. Sometimes seems that good, undeserving folks get swept up in this life with no way out. I’ll be in till I die, but maybe Jack or Kieran or Tilly could have futures outside of all this, if we can wrangle the money. —
Hosea lent him Silver Dollar for the train job, so that Calpurnia could rest. Arthur had been sure to explain that Kieran had identified the injury and deserved the credit for it. Hosea, at least, would take that into consideration where Dutch might not. His hatred of Colm O’Driscoll clouded a lot of his decisions. More and more these days, it seemed. Arthur and Silver Dollar got on well. He was a calm, gentle horse, but good in a crisis, much like his owner. But, he needed to be reshooed before Arthur was forced to flee the law on his back, else they’d both end up dead, so he took a ride to Valentine’s stables.
He wished it weren’t pouring rain, but he was on a time limit and this needed to be done. Silver Dollar would take a few hours to get reshooed, giving Arthur some time to putter around town. Rain pelted down in sheets, running freezing trails down the back the back of his neck. He tucked his chin down into his collar and tried not to collect anymore water in the upturned brim of his hat. He scurried up under the shelter of the main street’s store fronts. Two brothers splashed past him, across the street, arguing the whole way while a woman wrapped in a shawl followed rolling her eyes. People trudged past him, sliding through in the muck as they dodged from one side of the street to the other. A town of mud and morons indeed. He headed towards the saloon, thinking that he could duck inside to get out of the rain and grab a drink while he waits for the horses. He stood dripping on the deck boards, feet refusing to move for no good reason. Patrons were pouring into the saloon as fast as the rain and it would be crowded. Arthur wasn’t in the mood for that kind of thing today.
On the other hand, Joseph’s clinic was just there a few stores down and Arthur could be in the mood for a quiet drink with a friend. At least the inside of the clinic would be dry and warm. When he ducked inside, though, it appeared empty, aside from the steady dripping of water from somewhere in the back. Arthur splashed into the store room and found that the doctor had arranged buckets in several places along the back wall, collecting rain that crept in through leaks along the edge of the roof. The small flood had caused several of the buckets to move with the flow of the water, which now ran down the walls. Arthur looked out the back window and saw Miss King standing in the rain, holding the bottom of a ladder and looking miserable.
“What in the hell are you doing?” he asked as he banged outside into the cold again. Joseph’s ladder gave a dangerous wobble, despite his assistant’s steady hands. Joseph stood at the top of the ladder with a hammer in hand, trying to repair a chunk of battered gutter that was the obvious source of the leaks inside.
“Arthur!” Lucy shouted. Her nose and cheeks had gone bright pink with the cold and her hair was a sodden mess, sticking to her face and neck. “Oh it’s good to see you. Can you talk him down from there?”
“You’ll freeze out here. I’ll hold that. Go inside, warm up. Get some tea in you, please.”
“Are you sure?” Arthur nodded and reached around her to grasp the ladder in a firm hold. “Alright, but do try to keep him alive please. He’s an idiot, but I do like him.”
“I’d hate to have to find a new boss. They’re always so difficult to train.” Arthur chuckled and she swept inside as a peal of thunder cracked in the distance. Arthur shivered. He’d been so close to sitting inside, warm and toasty, with a glass of whiskey, apparently having forgotten who he was friends with. He wasn’t even surprised. “Any reason you chose to do this during a fucking typhoon Doc?”
“You may have noticed that this ‘typhoon’ is trying to wash my damned clinic away. I had to do it now, before there’s no roof left to attach the gutter to.” Arthur glanced up to see Joseph tapping away with the hammer as he tried to nail the wobbling piece of pipe into place. Joseph was also drenched, far worse that Arthur since he’d climbed up there without a jacket, and his button down was nearly translucent. It looked like color from his vest was bleeding into the white fabric. Arthur waited, freezing and watching his hands turn red in the cold. Every time he looked up to keep an eye on the doctor, water slid off his hat and tipped down his back. Awful, but better than without the hat. Time crawled by, until Arthur heard Joseph’s triumphant yell. It looked like he’d finished, the gutter affixed to the wall and the holes patched.
“Get down here before we both freeze to death.” Arthur caught the flash of Joseph’s white teeth as he smiled and then started to back down the ladder.
Once Arthur shrugged out of his jacket, he was down to a shirt and vest that were merely damp at the edges. Water had soaked up the cuffs of his pants a few inches, but otherwise he was dry enough. Out of the rain, he’d warm up. Joseph, however, was drenched, dripping onto the clinic’s floorboards. His face was a charming rosy pink all over. He looked down at himself, as if he was only now noticing the extent of his personal water damage, instead of just the clinic’s. He grimaced.
“Let’s go, Doc. Upstairs.” Arthur lifted his jacked up over both of their heads and shuttled them up to Joseph’s apartment and then shoved him inside. Arthur pulled the door shut. When he turned, Joseph was rummaging through a closet. Arthur left him to it and took the opportunity to look around the apartment. He’d never been inside before. It was small and tidy, but felt cold, unlived in. Arthur hadn’t stayed in many places long enough to settle in, not an apartment like this one, but even he’d had a few more personal touches than Joseph had managed. He glanced over and saw Joseph struggling to undo his buttons with frozen fingers. Arthur could see that they’d turned bright pink from the cold and shook too hard for him to get a grip on the small buttons. Wearing gloves as he had been, Arthur’s own fingers were fine. The solution was obvious.
“Hang on.” He draped his own jacket over the back of a wooden chair and strode across the small space and took Joseph’s wrists in his hands, unbuttoning one cuff and then the other. He fumbled a bit with the buttons down his front, unused to unfastening them from the front instead of his own perspective. Women’s clothing had always been easier to remove. He flushed at the thought. Joseph was watching him with an odd expression. It occurred to Arthur that this might be too personal for the doctor, he hadn’t thought about it in the moment. Unlike the doctor, Arthur remembered waking up in the tent tangled together. Up close, he found that he wanted to talk about the tent. It might even have been his unconscious reason for coming here today, lingering in the back of his mind as it had been. He realized that they’d been staring at each other a bit too long. He cleared his throat and stepped back.
“Why the hell’d you climb up there dressed like this. You couldn’t have put on a jacket before hand?”
“I wasn’t thinking. Water was coming in and the room was flooding.” He shrugged. Arthur thought that, for a very smart man, the doctor had somewhat poor forethought. Intelligent, but at times impractical. “What are you doing here anyway?”
“Well, I was looking to get out of the rain. Thought a hot drink with a friend might be nice instead of sittin’ in that crowded saloon. I shoulda known it would turn out like this.” Joseph looked sheepish. If he was blushing, Arthur couldn’t tell through the pink that already colored his cheeks. He was still drenched.
“I, uh, think I can handle the rest.”
He came back out in dry clothes. Wearing clean pants, pulling a fresh button up on over his undershirt, he looked warmer already. Arthur stepped forward without thinking and took his wrist, fastening his right cuff. It wasn’t until he reached for the other hand that he stopped to think that Joseph didn’t actually need help at this point. He paused, not wanting to look up.
“Uh, did you want–” He heard the doctor swallow hard.
“Do you mind? My fingers are still stiff.” Arthur could feel how much warmer his hands were, having changed out of his wet clothes. Arthur grasped his other wrist and fastened that cuff too, then he moved on to the delicate buttons down Joseph’s front. Against his better judgement, he took his time. When he’d finished, he smoothed a hand down Joseph’s front, pressing the fabric flat. Up close like this, he could see Joseph’s clean shaven jaw clenched against the cold, accentuating the square angle of it. He wanted to ask about the tent, find out if the doctor remembered, find out if he’d enjoyed it as much as Arthur had. It required more bravery than he had at his disposal. He’d faced down cougars that scared him less. He opened his mouth–
Joseph interrupted, “It’s not too late for that drink, if you’d like to stay.”
“I’d like that.”
A botched god damned train job is how Arthur ended up back at Joseph’s clinic that evening, half-carrying, half-dragging Kieran through the mud and the steps while the boy moaned in pain. John, Charles and Sean he’d ordered back to camp — the long way round — while he dragged Kieran in to have his wounds dealt with. Never had they thought that men law men might show. Arthur couldn’t even fathom how that many men had showed at a train crossing in the middle of nowhere, in the dark, looking like they’d expected resistance, expected the gang. It was a miracle they’d made it out in one piece. Mostly. He banged on the door to the clinic. Given how late it was, Arthur thought he might have to run upstairs to get the doctor. Then the door opened and Arthur blew out a breath of relief, so happy to see his face and his round little glasses. He took one look at Arthur’s burden and waved them inside.
“You are exactly like a cat,” Joseph said, staring down at them over the top of his glasses in the dimly lit front room of the clinic, where Arthur supported a moaning Kieran over one shoulder. “Always bringing dead birds and leaving them on my front step.”
“This one’s still alive, Doc. And I’d rather we kept him that way, much as I don’t like him.” Arthur hefted Kieran onto a cot.
“Yes, the fact that you always want them saved, given the state that you bring them to me, is one of the great miseries of my life.” Arthur chuckled while Kieran looked alarmed.
“Plus, I was the bird one time, that hardly counts.” He laid a reassuring hand on Kieran’s shoulder. “Settle down, kid. You’ll be alright. Doc’s seen me through far worse. Might even give you some whiskey before he starts digging buckshot outta you.” Kieran blanched, turning whiter than the bloodloss had already made him.
“Arthur, instead of torturing the boy, why don’t you go and get me some supplies.”
“Where’s Miss King?” Arthur asked, moving towards the cabinets.
“Given the slow day I was having, I sent her home. I wasn’t aware you’d be bringing me gunshot victims at half past one in the morning.” Arthur banged about in the cabinets, fetching the things he knew Joseph would need to clean and stitch Kieran’s wounds.
Kieran did better than Arthur would have thought. When they’d first captured and interrogated him, he’d been whiny and annoyed Arthur with his turn-coat attitude towards the O’Driscolls, rolling over at the gang’s feet and showing his belly like a beaten dog. Then the boy had saved his life that one time, and Arthur had at least started to warm up to him. He’d helped with Calpurnia, despite fearing Arthur. Maybe he had a backbone afterall. It was a start. Joseph gave him a shot of morphine.
“See kid, you get the good stuff.” Kieran moaned.
“Twice in one day, Arthur?”
“Apparently, I can’t stay away.” Arthur said, holding Kieran’s leg in place while the doctor worked. A hint of bitterness crept into his voice as he said it. More and more, he was being drawn back to the clinic and Joseph. Not that he was fighting it. But it was becoming dangerous. “Happens when you ride with dumbasses who don’t know when to duck outta the way.”
“Do I want to know how this happened?”
“Call it a hunting accident. ‘Cause of all the mud.” Arthur said. Joseph rolled his eyes and began digging shrapnel out of the leg. Kieran startled awake with a yelp. Even with the morphine, the doctor’s ministrations would hurt.
“I could call it a hitching post, doesn’t mean it is one.” Arthur huffed. Joseph had some idea of what Arthur did, but he never asked outright and Arthur never confirmed nor denied anything. It was an fine, unsteady line that Arthur walked. Some part of him, the bit that had come to trust Joseph despite Arthur’s reservations, wanted to tell him the truth. Fear prevented him from going through with it. Not fear of Joseph, but fear of what it might do to their friendship. Suspecting that Arthur was a criminal and outlaw was different from knowing it. And, once heard, it couldn’t be unheard and might color Joseph’s opinion of him forever. It was getting dangerous to know this man. Arthur worried that he could slip up at any time and reveal himself. It would ruin everything between them and it might put the gang in jeopardy. He couldn’t have that.
Joseph had finished with the shrapnel and moved on to stitching. Arthur tried to be helpful, scooped up the doctor’s instruments and took them to the sink in the back to rinse the blood off. Joseph would sterilize them later, but Arthur needed something to do with his hands, needed a short break to gather his thoughts. He had begun to come down off of his exhilaration high from the train job. In the other room, he could hear voices. Curious, he stepped closer and pressed his back to the wall so that he could hear better.
“Don’t wanna do it no more. Never wanted to do it in the first place and I just...just keep getting dragged in to it and then–” he trailed off for a moment, words slurring as he spoke to Joseph. He moaned when Joseph tightened the bandage around his leg. Arthur wished he’d heard what the doctor had asked him. “Then your face gets slapped on a poster and what you want don’t matter anymore, cause you’re a criminal and it’s for life.” Arthur winced. Kieran was close to spilling the gang’s secrets if he kept this up.
“What is it you don’t want to do anymore, Kieran?”
“Killin’!” Arthur swept into the room, ready to put a permanent cork in the kid, but he hadn’t been fast enough. “Robbin’ and hurtin’ people. S’like I’m trapped and there ain’t no way out.”
Joseph looked up at the sound of him cursing, another odd look on his face. Arthur’s skin burned and he didn’t want to meet Joseph’s eyes. If he’d had suspicions about Arthur’s activities before, then Kieran had confirmed them. Kieran hadn’t even noticed what he’d done. He’d passed out, drugged and dopey. Arthur wanted to join him.
“All done Doc?”
“Yes.” Joseph was slow to respond. He sighed and took off his glasses, rubbing at the bridge of his nose where they pinched. Arthur thought looked handsome with or without them, the planes of his face illuminated by the low-burning lamp on the table beside Kieran. He caught sight of his own hands and grimaced. Blood splattered his forearms and rolled up his sleeve. He tried to wipe it off with little success, he’d need a good scrub. Arthur tried not to stare at the lean corded muscle that the doctor's forearms had on display, twisting up beneath his shirt. Arthur could stare at him, but he couldn’t meet his eyes. If he did, he felt like he might burst into flames from the shame. He hadn’t realized how much he wanted the doctor to respect him, to not fear him like so many others did, to not know what a monster he could become.
“Are you injured at all?”
“I asked if you have any injuries that you need me to look at. Sometimes you don’t notice, during a firefight.” Arthur swallowed. He hadn’t bothered to check. Bruises would be showing up soon and he’d pulled a muscle in his thigh, he thought. Steeling himself, he looked up and met Joseph’s eyes. No revulsion, no anger. Joseph only seemed… tired.
“Pulled something, but nothing else, I don’t think.”
“Are you going to run away like a coward if I come over there to check?” Arthur startled, taken aback.
“You look like a spooked horse, Arthur.” He sighed. “I would like to know if you’re alright.” Arthur nodded. Joseph approached him, cautious and slow, to give him a quick pat down, checking for bullet holes. Arthur lifted his arms away from his body to submit to the check up. His heart raced. He couldn’t find it in himself to be mad at Kieran, though he desperately wanted someone else to blame. Joseph’s examination ended, but didn’t step out of Arthur’s space. Arthur ached to touch him, but that barrier felt even more insurmountable than it had before. He’d had so much to say, before he’d ruined this. He had known it would never last. He opened his mouth to speak, to apologize or explain himself, something , when the doctor interrupted him again, by stepping forward and wrapping his arms around Arthur’s torso. Arthur’s arms hovered at his sides and then settled against Joe’s back. He squeezed tight and felt Joe's hands bunch the fabric at small of his back. It only lasted a moment and then the doctor moved away, not looking at Arthur. He puttered with the materials he’d used to stitch up Kieran’s leg.
He cleared his throat. Arthur wanted to break the tension in the room. "I'm glad you're alright."
“He’ll be fine," Joseph said, jerking his head towards Kieran. "You can take him home in the morning. Keep him off of the leg, keep it dry and make sure to change the bandage twice a day. Pretty minor injury, all told. We should keep an eye on him for a few hours.” He glanced at his pocket watch. “Morning isn’t actually that far away now, but there seems to be some internal bleeding.”
“Good amount of bleeding on the outside too.” Joseph turned to look at Arthur, eyes crinkled in a silent laugh, trying not to disturb their patient.
“Was that a joke, Mr. Morgan?”
“Obviously not a very good one,” Arthur said, rubbing at the back of his neck. “Look, I’d like to explain. I–”
"My gran always said 'you never have to explain a good joke'."
"That's not what I meant."
"I know." He sighed and pinned Arthur with a look. “Do you have any plans to rob or murder me?”
“Jesus, Doc. No, of course not.”
“Then I don’t need an explanation.” Arthur opened his mouth to protest. He felt contrary, now that the doctor had told him not to explain, he felt even more compelled to do so. “Do you want to sleep to pass the time, or have another drink with me?” Arthur’s jaw clicked shut with a frustrated huff. Joseph had that same defiant look in his eye, like he was ready to bite down on something and not let go until he’d gotten his way. Arthur found that the stubborn, righteous, bossiness was… not unattractive.
“A drink.” Joseph’s eyes crinkled again when he smiled and that wasn’t unattractive either.
I recognize that Arthur isn't peeling potatoes in the safest way but like... What's anyone going to do about it? Call OSHA? Arthur's PPE is his horse and a revolver.
“Afternoon boys!” Maeve called from her spot on the porch, where she rocked in the shade, snapping beans into a bowl on her lap. Joe and Arthur both smiled and waved, pulling their horses up by the front of the house and tying them there. Arthur visited often now, much to Maeve’s delight. Today, he’d arrived with a heavy turkey tied to Calpurnia’s saddle, ready to prep for Maeve and Felix’s dinner.
“What are a couple of handsome young men doing on my porch? Come to woo me?” Joseph laughed, and bent to kiss her wrinkled cheek.
“Come on now Maeve, you know I’m an old man, too old for the likes of you.” Arthur bent and kissed her cheek as well. Joe had been pleased to learn that he was a softer man than he’d first seemed, softer than his background would imply.
“At heart maybe. A grouchy one.” Arthur grinned at her. Maeve was one of the few people who could reliably pull a smile out of him.
“Brought you some game and some free manual labour.”
“You know I ain’t takin’ your labour for free. You’ll join us for supper or leave right now.” She swatted at his arm. Arthur shook his head and untied the wild turkey. Joe took it out of his hands. They both knew that Maeve couldn’t pluck it without his help, not without suffering for the rest of the day as a result. “Felix is just around the corner, working with the horses.” Arthur tipped his hat and walked off towards the barn.
Joe settled beside her on the porch. Dragging a pot over with his foot, he began skinning the bird, and finished gutting it where he and Arthur had left off in the field. It had been a nice morning, just the two of them out in the woods. Joe was never much of a hunter — he was good with a gun, a good shot, but Arthur had been teaching him to use a bow and he’d learned a lot in the last couple of weeks. He’d brought the bird down himself. Maybe not the cleanest kill, but he was still proud of himself. Arthur had seemed pleased too, clapping him on the back and leaving his hand there while he congratulated Joe with a gentle shake. Ever since Joe had hugged him in the clinic, Arthur had been freer with his affection. At least, in private. Joe drank it in, relishing the surly cowboy’s change in demeanor. It was like something had snapped the tension and he’d relaxed into being friends with Joe.
“Joe, dear, you seem distracted.” His head jerked up as he realized that Maeve was speaking to him.
“Sorry, I–”
“Boy, you don’t need to apologize for letting your mind wander.” She laughed. “I keep telling you to relax, you’re too uptight all the time. Ain’t no reason for a fine boy like you to be so rigid.”
“And I keep telling you it’s ain’t rigidity, it’s propriety.”
“That’s more like it.” Maeve cackled at Joe slipping into a more local speech pattern, he responded with a small smile. “Come on laddie, I’ve got some potatoes inside that need your gentle touch.”
Maeve latched on to Joe’s arm, letting him help her into the house. At the sink by the window, she had a basket full of dirt-covered potatoes that needed to be cleaned and peeled. Joe turned his attention there, setting down the basket of greens she’d been working on when they’d arrived. Maeve bent and pulled out a heavy bottomed pan to put the bird in. It was peaceful, working with Maeve. Joe had always enjoyed it, found the farm warm and quiet, the kind of place he felt settled and calm.
Maeve grabbed his arm in a tight grip and whistled. Joe stiffened and followed her gaze out the window, concerned at Maeve’s iron grasp interrupting the peace he’d been feeling. Outside, Arthur was stripping off his shirt, suspenders hanging at his sides.
“Lord, that ain’t good for an old woman’s heart.” Maeve put a hand to her chest.Joe swallowed hard. He wasn’t sure how good it was for his heart either. Discreet as a kitchen fire, he turned away from the window with heat blazing across his face. Joe had been steadfast about ignoring the way Arthur’s presence made him feel. It wasn’t an unfamiliar feeling, but it never led anywhere good.
After that rainy afternoon they’d spend in Joe’s apartment, it had become almost impossible to ignore. Arthur had been so close, so warm, while he buttoned Joe’s shirt. When he’d fastened the cuffs of Joe’s shirt, his thumb had brushed the inside of Joe’s wrist and it had set his skin on fire. It was all the spark he needed to figure out that he wanted more from Arthur. He’d spent the rest of the afternoon kicking himself over how selfish that thought was. Arthur had done nothing more than help him when his fingers were frozen because of his own stupidity. He’d made it clear that Joe’s messes were a pain to clean up all of the time.
As he bustled about the kitchen, rinsing and chopping vegetables, he could feel Maeve’s eyes following him. He ignored the sensation and worked. Other things needed to be done around the house, dinner would need a while to cook.
“Plenty in this life ain’t proper boy.”
“Pardon?” He paused with his knife halfway through a hearty carrot.
“I’m an old lady, Joseph, I’ve lived. Most of the fun things in this world ain’t proper. It’s part of what makes them fun.”
“I always knew you were a rule-breaker, Maeve.” She laughed at him and they continued to work. After a moment, she continued.
“Drinking, gambling, sex.” Joe choked on his own tongue and coughed, his face going beet-red. He looked away from the vegetables to Maeve’s wicked grin.
“Mrs. Hennesey,” he gasped. “What in the hell are you on about?”
“You should have more fun, boy. I can’t get up to half the things I used to, but here you are wasting all that potential.”
“I have plenty of fun. I like spending time with you and Felix.”
“And Arthur.”
“Well, yes.” He cleared his throat. “Him too. But I have fun, I’m not a complete stick in the mud.”
“I ain’t had so many handsome young bachelors around me since before I was married,” she mused.
“Oh, I’m sure you were quite the prize. You still are.”
“Hush you, you’re hardly my type.” Joe looked up, affronted. “I like I’m tall and rugged. Blonde too. You’re lucky I’m old and don’t have the energy to pursue that handsome man out in the barn. I’d give you a run for your money.” Joe couldn’t help it, he burst into nervous laughter.
“Maeve, I have no idea what you mean.” She leveled a look at him that said that she saw right through him. Joe’s skin broke out in goosebumps, that hint of fear sinking its claws into his spine, cold and invasive. Nothing about Maeve’s attitude hinted that she took issue with his attraction. He wasn’t surprised, it wasn’t like Maeve to care about things like that, but he’d been feeling that dread a lot longer than he’d known Maeve. It was instinctual at this point. He stared out the window at the horses in the paddock outside, leaning on the edge of the kitchen counter.
“I’m old, I ain’t dead. And I don’t have many manners left at this point. He’s a fine man, gruff exterior and all, I’d be a fool to let him get away without at least a bit of flirtin’. Not a lot of ways for an old lady like me to have fun these days.” She handed him the basket of green beans. “Anybody would be a fool to let him go.”
Down to only an undershirt, damp with sweat in the noon sun, Arthur picked up his pitchfork again. Only a few minutes in the heat of the barn and he’d been soaked and approaching miserable. Now, he leaned against the fence of the corral, while Felix exercised one of the horses Arthur had brought him two weeks ago. He’d found the beautiful dark bay mustang on one of his jaunts through the heartlands and thought to himself that it would make an excellent gift for Felix. So, he’d roped the mare and hauled her straight out to the farm. Felix had been ecstatic, cooing over the horse and running his hands across her withers, flank and legs. He didn’t say it out loud, but Arthur didn’t really need him too. He and Felix had learned to communicate, and everything about the kid’s body language said that he was enamoured with the horse. Arthur smiled at the memory, as she jogged past him, dark mane billowing behind her. Felix had groomed her until she practically glittered and it looked as if her training was coming along well.
Felix whistled and she slowed, trotting across the paddock to butt him with her head. Arthur was always happy to see Felix laughing and excited. Sometimes, it was hard to engage with him, when he wasn’t interested in a particular task. But the horses never bored him. Arthur encouraged the training and tried to help where he could. He and Joe had talked at length about Joe’s concern for Felix’s future, if something were to happen to Maeve, and Arthur hoped that horse training could give him a chance at a life on his own. Enough customers, enough support, and Arthur thought he might do alright for himself in an unaccommodating world.
Felix emerged from the stable, having brushed the new mare, and noticed Arthur for the first time. He ran forward and hugged him, a bit more affectionate than Arthur typically welcomed, but he appreciated the exuberance enough to let it go, patting the kid’s back with his free hand. He’d been trying lately to be more open and approachable. He’d been trying.
“Howdy, kid. How’re things?” he asked. Felix backed away and smiled, waving excited hands at the stables. It was good that he’d gotten back into training. Arthur was excited to see what might come of it.
Arthur had advertised Felix’s skills around Strawberry and Emerald Ranch, hoping that someone might be willing to pay for his work. Even if they didn’t buy one of Felix’s horses, they might send their own to him for training. He’d been leaning against a fence at Emerald Ranch, watching the horses in the pen with a critical eye, looking for one that might suit Joe better than the skittish old thing he currently rode, when the owner had come over to speak with him. Hosea was nearby, trading with their fence in the area, handing over another coach they’d jacked earlier in the day.
“Looking for a new mount?” Arthur shook his head in response.
“Friend of mine needs one, I was havin’ a gander at what you’ve got.”
“Couple’a fine beasts. I’ve got a few wild ones in that other field.” He nodded with his head towards a different area. Arthur examined them from a distance, but didn’t see anything that would work for Joe. Man barely knew how to sit a horse, he needed one that was calm and gentle and would put up with his fidgeting in the saddle. All of the wild ones he saw here were good horses, full of energy, and unbroken. Mounts that Arthur would love to work with, and ones that would toss Joe into a lake the first chance they got.
“Say, you don’t happen to need a trainer, do you?” Arthur asked.
“Last man ran out on me with a woman, cause contracts don’t mean nothing round here. Why, you know someone?”
“I do,” he’d begun, then he’d sung Felix’s praises until Hosea found him and they’d left for home.
Now, Arthur was glad to see that Felix was coming out of his shell. Arthur understood how hard damage could be to recover from, although he could never understand what Felix had been through. None of Arthur’s injuries had ever been permanent. He enjoyed helping the family, enjoyed Maeve’s company and Felix’s, enjoyed the rides to the farm with Joe. He’d even dropped by a few times on his own, just for a visit. Felix had a whole collection of well trained horses now and Arthur needed to start looking for buyers in his travels. Leaving Felix to it, he made his way to the barn for some good, old fashioned manual labour mucking out stalls. Dirty work was the kind of thing Arthur was built for, whether it was thieving or shoveling shit. Not that much difference between the two , he thought.
While he worked, his mind wandered — one of the dangers of heavy work, it gave one time to think — and he thought about about Kieran’s conversation with the doctor. He hadn’t wanted to dwell too much on Joe’s reaction, or the quick hug from the clinic, but Kieran’s comments had stewed in his mind for the last few weeks. Arthur hadn’t considered that Kieran might want to get out of this life entirely, rather than being shunted between different gangs. He felt all the more fool because of it. Arthur hadn’t had time for pity or comfort for the boy when they’d been running the train job, but the boy had stuck to his side and followed every command — including the ones that had almost gotten him killed. Kieran would do well somewhere like this, training horses on a working ranch. Arthur chose this life. Sometimes he forgot that others in the gang hadn’t, and they were simply trapped in it due to circumstance. Kieran wasn’t wanted yet — by anyone but the O’Driscolls — maybe there was still a chance for him to end up on a different path.
After two hours of sweaty, backbreaking labour, the barn’s stalls were clean, compost turned, and horses fed. Roasting meat and vegetables filled the air with a delicious smell, but there was still time for dinner. Arthur grabbed his shirt and a pack of cigarettes and made his way down to the creek that flowed past the ranch, behind the barn. He washed his face and neck in the stream, splashing in the cold water, before he collapsed back against the soft grass to watch the clouds and smoke. He was starting to drift off, when footsteps crunched in the dirt behind him. Joe stood nearby with his hands in his stuffed in his pockets, looking awkward. He was looking anywhere but at Arthur.
“Dinner’s almost ready.”
“Smells good.” Arthur said as he sat up and pulled his shirt on. Cool, fresh air blowing across the creek had dried his skin while he’d laid in the shade. He reached for his boots, but didn’t feel like putting them on yet. Joe’s face was hot and red, like he’d spent too much time in the kitchen’s heat. Arthur nodded towards the creek. “Water’s nice, if you want to wash up.”
Joe glanced at him and then went down to the shore to splash cold water on his face and neck. Arthur lay back in the grass again, while Joe came over and sat beside him an arm’s length away. Bright sunlight brought out the reddish tones in his dark hair. Rivulets of water ran down his neck to pool in the hollow of his throat. Arthur looked back at the sky. Joe’s quiet stillness was unusual, and Arthur wondered if he’d done something to cause it.
“How is it that you and Felix get along so well?” Joe asked, disrupting the silence.
Arthur shrugged in response. “I like kids.”
“Felix and Kieran are hardly children.”
“They ain’t, but they’re young.” Arthur tucked his arms behind his head. “Young people just want someone to care about them, most of the time. A little guidance, someone who gives a shit, it goes a long way.”
Arthur winced at the idea of himself as some kind of mentor. Teaching Jack to fish or read was one thing, but he wasn’t any kind of moral authority. He realized how stupid it sounded, to suggest that he might be able to guide a young person into any kind of good life. He could barely manage to do that for himself. He didn’t even want to look at Joe.
Only, he did. When Joe didn’t respond or say anything further, Arthur shot him a furtive glance. Joe was watching him with another one of those searching looks, that always made Arthur feel like he was being peeled open. He wasn’t sure that he wanted Joe to dig into all the layers of grime to reveal the core of him. Hell, Arthur wasn’t sure he wanted to see that core himself. He wasn’t secretive, but he was private, kept things close to heart and not laid bare for any stranger to see and judge. Then again, Joe was hardly a stranger. And Joe seemed to be able to see through him the way very few others could.
“I’ve told you about Jack. He’s happy, so long as someone takes an interest and spends some time with him.” Arthur took a deep breath. “My son was like that too.” Joe didn’t say anything and Arthur couldn’t look at his face, didn’t want to see whatever expression the other man now wore. He was a coward, down to the core. He'd turn over the stone to reveal all the secrets hidden underneath and then ran away before anyone could examine them. “Dutch and Hosea gave me that, when I was young. Don’t know where I’d be without them.” He let the quiet settle back over them. After a few long moments, Joe spoke again.
“I’m glad Jack has you then. And Felix. I wish I’d had more of that as a boy.” Arthur let out a breath and relaxed. “Who knows where we’d all be now.”
Arthur hummed and watched the clouds moving by, broken up by the canopy of leaves overhead. He wasn’t all that bothered with the state of things just then. He was even rather content. Joe leaned back on his elbows beside him and they relaxed by the stream until they heard Maeve calling them a few minutes later.
Arthur returned to camp at the end of another long day not a penny richer, with no food or leads to show for his work, but cheerier than he’d been in months despite a failed hunt. Between Maeve’s gratitude and the doctor’s company, he felt more rewarded and appreciated than he had in some time. Nothing that they asked of him brought the law down on his head or resulted in the deaths of anything more than grouse or elk. And, when he did fail, it didn’t bring the whole arrangement crumbling to the ground. Fortunate, since he and Joe had failed to bag a single kill that morning. When Arthur had slipped down an embankment and splatted into the mud Joe’s loud laughter had scared off all the game for miles. It wasn’t Arthur’s most graceful moment, but he’d been distracted by the way the sunlight had hit the angles of Joe’s face and the sudden, fierce need to draw him. After an hour spent trying to salvage the hunting trip, they’d given up — Joe apologetic, Arthur muddy, damp and cold — and flopped in the sunshine by the river until they both needed to return home. It had been downright lazy of them and Arthur found that he hadn’t cared.
After hitching Calpurnia, he shouted greetings at both Charles and Uncle on guard duty, to the pleasure of the former and consternation of the latter. As he dismounted, he found John nearby mending tack and grabbed him in a brotherly headlock, preparing some much deserved verbal haranguing, when he heard Dutch call his name and froze. His hesitation lasted only a heartbeat, but in that short time his thoughts flew by so quickly that he felt dizzy. He knew that tone in Dutch’s voice and it didn’t bode well. Arthur hadn’t heard that tone directed at him for nearly a decade and it sent his skin crawling with anxiety.
“A word, son.” Dutch’s voice was stern, but not angry. Not yet. Still, it wasn’t a request. Arthur gave John a good natured shove and plastered on a smile as he walked away, but a blanket of disquiet lay across the camp. Most folks had scattered, quiet, the moment Dutch had appeared. It seemed Arthur wasn’t the only one who knew that Dutch was primed like dynamite, temperamental with a blast radius. Dutch’s anger was rare, but unavoidable when it did appear. They had all been on the receiving end of that anger at one point or another. He strode forward and pushed back the flap to Dutch’s lodgings. It dropped back into place, cutting them off from view. Dutch stood with his back to Arthur.
“What can I do for you Dutch?” Arthur tried to keep the question light and casual, maybe feigned a little bit of ignorance. It wasn’t likely to work, but Arthur was not yet prepared to admit fault for whatever may have angered Dutch. Best not to take the fall until he knew what it was about.
“You’ve always been so reliable Arthur. Ever since you were a boy, I knew I could count on you. My expectations are high because, well son, you always deliver.” Arthur frowned, skeptical of the praise. Dutch sighed, sounding disappointed. “Where have you been today?”
“Hunting.” Dutch raised his eyebrows, taking in Arthur’s clean and bloodless entrance, with no meat in sight. “No luck. Something scared off the game and I lost the trail.” Dutch turned to look at him, an odd expression on his face.
“And Strauss’s side business? How’s that been going?” Arthur’s skin prickled.
“Figure you’d know better than me,” he responded with a shrug.
“I’m not really involved in collections.”
“I think there’s a few debts outstanding debts, but nothing urgent. Strauss hasn’t approached me in… a few weeks, at least.”
“No, I didn’t think he had.” Arthur’s brow furrowed. “I need to know that when we send you out, you actually collect Arthur.” Arthur stiffened. What the hell had Dutch heard? “I found out about your little run-in with the town doctor. What were you thinking Arthur?”
Not wanting to incriminate himself, Arthur chose not to respond. At least, not until Dutch spilled a few more details. There was a world of difference between a one-time encounter with the town doctor and the entire days spent traipsing around the wilderness teaching Joe to shoot a bow or identify plants. He wasn’t eager to share the ways that he’d been wasting his time. Dutch frowned at him, the very picture of a disappointed father.
“Do you understand what you’ve done, son? By not doing your job, the one that I sent you to do, the way I sent you to do it, you’ve harmed us all. Didn’t follow through with Strauss’s client, took charity from the town doctor and worst of all, you lied to me about it.” So, someone had ratted him out about the debt he’d accepted from Joe, that afternoon outside of the saloon. Arthur could only identify two people who might be responsible: Lenny, who hadn’t heard enough and Joe. That thought hurt. He didn’t want to entertain the idea that Joe might have turned on him like that. Who would he even have spoken to?
“I expected more from you Arthur.”
“Do you understand what you’ve done, Arthur?” Dutch asked, voice rising. “We cannot appear weak . Not when we have O’Driscoll’s and Pinkertons and god knows who else breathing down our neck. You’ve made it so that we all have to work that much harder to get out of here.”
Arthur hadn’t considered that detail. Now that he did he couldn’t help but think that Dutch might be right. Joe had offered him an easy way out and Arthur had taken it, only thinking about how it might make him look, in the face of accusations from the likes of Bill Williamson. He hadn’t taken the gang’s image into account. He’d only wanted to prevent some senseless violence and Joe’s solution had been right there, ripe for the taking. Dutch’s voiced dripped disgust that Arthur felt like poison in his gut. He wanted to defend himself, but what was there to say? Non-violence wasn’t a noble goal for someone like him, who did the work that he did. He had fucked up and put them all in harm’s way. Hell, he’d even told Joe where they were camped. Getting cozy with straight-laced townsfolk was foolish. He knew that and he’d done it anyway. He’d allowed himself to be distracted, falling into mud, both literal and figurative.
He’d put his family in harm’s way. Another facet of his selfishness, he supposed. He’d had a wonderful day, sure, but he hadn’t contributed squat to the camp. People might go hungry because of him. He’d wanted some time off from shooting and robbing and he’d gotten them, but what had it cost the camp? His family ? Dutch had every right to be furious with him and all Arthur could do was try to make it up to him.
“You cannot do this to us again, Arthur. You are a pillar of strength amongst these fools. Without you, we would all fall. You know how much your loyalty, your faith means to me.”
“It won’t happen again.”
“I know it won’t, son.” Dutch smiled at him and Arthur saw something worrying beneath the façade. He had wondered in the past at Dutch’s grasp of “calm”, but he saw now that the man was more than capable of it, and that it carried with it a truly frightening threat of what the alternative might be. Dutch had a firm grasp of “calm”, with both hands wrapped tight around its throat and ready to squeeze. He set a supportive hand on the back of Arthur’s neck, leaning their heads close together. “Fortunately, I sent Micah to finish your work and he delivered.”
“Micah? ” Arthur tried to pull back, to fully express his disgust, but Dutch had a firm grip on his neck, held in place like a wayward kitten.
“He was willing to do the job.” Dutch looked him in the eyes again, holding his gaze. “This cannot happen again, Arthur. We– I need you.”
Arthur couldn’t remember the last time Dutch had punished him for anything — so long ago that it escaped his memory entirely — but he feared now that that’s exactly what Dutch intended for him. And whatever he had in mind wouldn’t be some boring camp chore. Furious as he was that Micah had been seen fit to replace him, Arthur couldn’t help but think that he deserved it. He should have done it the right way the first time, instead of letting Joseph talk him out of it. A half-assed, lazy approach to their business was the kind of thing that got people killed. He’d been preaching that for two decades, hammering it into John’s thick skull only a few years after Hosea had finished hammering it into his. And Arthur hadn’t been around camp enough to defend folks if something were to go wrong, roaming around the countryside with people he barely knew, who weren’t his family. Dutch pulled them both out of the tent, smiling the whole time while Arthur tried to keep his face neutral.
“Go on now, Micah’s waiting by the river for you. Head on up towards Monto’s Rest” Dutch led him back over to Calpurnia, who hadn’t even been unsaddled. “And son? Thanks for volunteering.”
Micah did nothing to improve Arthur’s mood. For some god damned reason, the man could never just do a job, grab the take, and make for the hills. Things always went south, Arthur got shot at while Micah whooped and cursed and killed with abandon. No regard for bystanders, innocent lives lost to his warped and gleeful destruction. Arthur knew that he was a bad man, they all were, given their choice of careers, but Micah took it all to another level. He crossed lines that Arthur never would, likely ones that Arthur couldn’t imagine, and didn’t want to. Arthur thought back to the botched job with Micah only a week ago, where they’d almost robbed a stagecoach without issue, only to have it go belly up at the last moment. They’d left the dead to poison the river. The take had been good, but Arthur questioned whether it was worth the destruction they’d caused. Worse, he rode alongside Arthur and refused to shut up for the entire journey.
“Really, Morgan? A sick old man and you couldn’t collect?”
“Shut up Micah.”
“He rolled right over for me, screaming wife and all.” Calpurnia’s reins creaked in Arthur’s white-knuckled grip. “Easy pickins. That kid of his is barely old enough to hold a rifle, much less use one.”
“Settle down cowpoke. I ain’t angling for your job or nothing. No one’s better at the big, angry brute thing than you are.” Arthur tried not to let it show, how much Micah’s commentary bothered him. It only added fuel to the fire.
“Old man could barely stand when I got there. What’d he do, cough and scare you away?” At least Micah didn’t know the full story, had no idea that Arthur hadn’t even made it to the ranch before he’d failed in his mission, distracted by the doctor’s plea for leniency. Who had told Dutch about their interaction? Arthur didn’t want to think that Joe might have ratted him out, even accidentally, but now it nagged at the back of his mind while they rode. He only had to endure a few more minutes with Micah.
It hadn’t been far to the homestead at all. Bodies littered the property by the time they were done with it. Micah had galloped his sweaty horse into camp only a few minutes before Arthur had and told Dutch that he’d found a place ripe with easy pickings, panting hard. Micah had assured him that the original family had been misplaced by some rogue gang of bandits, who wouldn’t be missed. Nor would their money. He’d called Arthur a bleeding-heart, when Arthur had asked for those assurances. Arthur had done as he was told, after Dutch had made it clear that this was Micah’s job and Arthur was there as support. Opening fire, they’d wiped out the bandits in only a few minutes. They’d been surprised, despite Micah and Arthur’s obvious approach, had seemed undisturbed by their appearance at the edge of the property. None of them had raised a gun until after Arthur and Micah had started shooting. Micah had run ahead of him, putting bullets in those men that still writhed on the ground, instead of waiting for their injuries to take them. Arthur hadn’t really understood the other man’s motivations. Now, rifling through the pockets of the dead, Arthur wasn’t so sure about Micah’s assurances either.
Most of the men they found did have the rough-and-tumble look of outlaws. As they approached the house, Arthur came across a younger man — a boy really — who didn’t have the same look, but who sported fresh bullet wounds, their size matching the caliber of Micah’s pearl-handled pistols. Micah stomped off to the barn, looking for more loot, maybe some horses or cattle that they could steal and sell. Arthur approached the house instead, where he found two more dead bodies, who also looked too clean to have been with the other group, but had been shot recently, blood still soaking into their white shirts. Arthur checked them over and found that they still had money in their pockets, not yet robbed by the bandits in the yard, but dead nonetheless. Arthur chewed at his cheek, perplexed by the incongruities.
He was certain that he hadn’t killed any of the men here in the house. No glass had even been shot out of the windows. Micah had promised that the house had already fallen to the bandits. Had that been a lie? Were these men part of the original family, only recently killed by the bandits? Both men’s hands were bound. Arthur wouldn’t have bothered with two men who couldn’t even fight back, but maybe the bandits had been less sure. He explored the house, opening cabinets and drawers, where he found a few small trinkets that weren’t entirely worthless. In the chimney stack, tucked into a metal lock box, he found a small nest egg of bills, which he tucked into his satchel.
Little else revealed itself in the house. He found a few other trinkets, a battered pistol hidden in a bedside drawer. All the makings of a quaint little homestead, including girls’ dresses, a handful of fancy ribbons in one of the rooms and a big quilt near the main hearth, half-finished. Something wasn’t adding up to Arthur. Here were signs of women in the house, but no women anywhere to be found. He checked the rooms again, and found only the dead men. He went outside to check those bodies too and found nothing. It also didn’t seem that the bandits had settled into the homestead, like Micah had suggested. In fact, it looked like they had only just begun to set up camp. He wanted to investigate further, a thought nagging at the back of his mind that begged to be explored. While he stood in the main room, chewing his lip, he heard Micah call his name.
“Ain’t much here,” Micah said, with a disappointed grumble. He hadn’t found much in the barn, no horses worth botherin’ to sell, basic tack, no hidden cache. One of the bandits had a good deal of money on him, which Micah had taken with glee. They mounted up and headed out, Arthur still mulling over his findings.
“Seems like a real good location to set up camp,” Micah said. “Maybe we should burn it down, make it less desirable a spot. Might cut down on the competition.” Arthur had been thinking about going back to have a second look. A fire, although a reasonable enough way to deal with the property, made it seem all the more like Micah had lied about something. Obscured some important element. Arthur couldn’t even say why it was bugging him so much.
“Ain’t we done enough today? ‘Sides, if it burns outta control we’ve started a forest fire near camp. Damn foolish idea, to me. It’ll scare off all the game too.”
“Fuck you, Arthur. I’m just tryin’ to cover our tails. You wanna leave a bunch’a corpses lying around, be my guest.” He spurred his horse into a trot, weaving between broken fence posts and down hill towards the road. “Guess you are all about leavin’ things half finished, like Dutch says.” Arthur bristled and kept his mouth shut, not wanting to start a fight with Micah this close to the homestead. Arthur had muscled down all the other urges he’d had to break Micah’s face, this one could be controlled as well. At least if he’d tried to start a fire, Arthur would have had a good excuse to wring his neck. When they reached the road, Arthur turned towards camp while Micah headed the other way.
“Where the hell are you going? Camp’s that way.” Arthur had been planning how to ditch Micah, so that he could return to the homestead. Micah ditching him instead had been an unexpected twist.
“Got some shit to take care of Morgan.”
“And the money? Where’s the camp’s share?”
“Jesus, man. You ain’t got a trustin’ bone in your body.” Micah rode a few feet closer and slapped a handful of cash into Arthur’s palm. “You losin’ faith in all’a us now? Or just Dutch?”
“Ain’t ever had any faith in you to begin with,” Arthur drawled, counting the bills he’d been handed. Micah rode off towards Strawberry — because of course he wanted to traipse around the places that had his wanted poster plastered on every building and sign post. Arthur wondered if it was some kind of narcissism. Maybe Micah liked seeing his own face wallpapering the whole town. Arthur went a ways up the road, to be sure that Micah wouldn’t follow, then looped back around to the house.
Once again, he went through the corpses outside with a more thorough eye. Everything about them said that they were a bunch of rough outlaws, that seemed to fit with the rest of it. He examined their belongings and found that they had just begun to set up camp when he and Micah had arrived. A firepit in the middle of the property was filled with fresh wood, a camp kettled had been tipped over beside it. Could that account for their lack of surprise? Maybe. Still, Micah had claimed that they had been camping on the property for a while when he found them.
Arthur approached the front door. Before he could open it again, it flew open to reveal the muzzle of a shotgun pointed between Arthur’s eyes. He put his hands up. Behind the shotgun stood a furious woman with wet, red eyes and three children clinging to her skirts. Where had she even been hiding?
“Saw you ride off with that man from the barn, the one that killed my husband when he answered the door. Wasn’t about to let that happen again.” Determination had hardened her features, and Arthur knew she wouldn’t hesitate to fill him full of buckshot. Arthur frowned. During the firefight, Micah hadn’t approached the house until well after the bulk of the fighting, hadn’t even gone inside, long after the woman’s husband had already been killed. Maybe she was mistaken? Arthur doubted it before he’d even finished the thought.
“Micah there, he told us this place had been abandoned to raiders.” He used one hand to gesture at the property, but snapped it back up when the woman waved her shotgun at him. “It’s why we came and shot the place up.”
“We weren’t overrun by those vermin until he showed up and killed my boys. Them raiders followed right behind.” Arthur looked at the property again, taking in the mess and trying to remember the details of their firefight, which were so easy to lose in the adrenaline of the moment. Micah had appeared in camp, looking as if he’d already been in fight of some kind. He’d led Arthur here and the men who’d taken over the property had been surprised by their approach, as if they recognized Micah and hadn’t expected him to attack. Pieces started to click into place.
“Man I was with, you’re telling me he showed up here and shot your husband and boys? And then this group of bandits arrived?” He gestured at the bodies behind with his thumb.
“That’s right,” she snarled. “‘Bout 5 minutes later, whoopin’ and hollerin’ like the animals they was, cheering that murderous bastard on. Then your friend rode off without them, like a bat outta hell. None’a them seemed to care.”
Arthur closed his eyes and let the thoughts congeal a minute. Micah had done this, murdered this woman’s husband and sons alongside a group of bandits, that he’d then come back to wipe out with Arthur. What had been the logic there? Trying to take out two birds with one stone? Double the take from the family and the bandits? Arthur couldn’t begin to guess, but one thing was obvious, that Micah was a bigger snake than Arthur had suspected. When he opened his eyes again, the woman’s face had less of a suspicious squint, although the shotgun remained steady and aimed right at him.
“Ma’am, if there’s one thing I can assure you of, it’s that Micah Bell ain’t my friend. We was here to rob you. Well, not you, but the house, when I thought it was just bandits.” She continued to glare, jaw set, gun not wavering an inch. Arthur didn’t see his trust in Micah improving soon, not in this lifetime. Arthur reached for his satchel, despite the woman’s waving of the shotgun and looped it over his head. “All the money I took from you and them bandits is in there. Take it all back, it’s yours.”
The woman looked skeptical, but the oldest of the children tucked behind her darted forward to pick up the satchel. She dug through it for the money and the goods he’d taken for the fence down at Emerald Ranch. She also found the small wooden horse he’d been wittling for Jack when he had a spare minute. It was almost done. He nodded at it in her hand.
“You can keep that too, if you want.” She handed it to her little brother, the smallest and shyest of the bunch and then tossed Arthur’s satchel back towards him. He made no move to pick it up. He’d tested the woman’s patience enough by removing it the first time.
“I’m not a nice man, but I don’t go around robbing children and grieving widows. Ain’t much of an honor code, but it’s something.”
“You was with that man.”
“I was–I am . We’re...business partners. Ain’t no excuse for his actions.” No excuse for mine either , he thought.
“Some business.”
“That it is. “I’m–I’m sorry.” He glanced around the property again. “I’d like to offer you some help cleaning up around here, if you’ll accept it.”
“Your friend coming back to finish us off?”
“No. Not that I’m aware of.” Although it was clear that Micah lied as easy as breathing. Arthur was starting to resent this woman referring to Micah as his “friend”, not that he could complain about it. He’d been complicit in destroying her family. Maybe he deserved it. Worse punishments than being thought of as a friend to Micah… probably.
“I swear, all I want to do is help you fix this place up.” Arthur could tell that she was reluctant to accept his help, but also that she knew how hard it would be without his help.
“I want to bury my sons and husband.”
“Where do you keep the shovel?” he asked, lowering his hands for the first time as the tip of her gun pointed towards the ground. She inclined her head towards the barn and Arthur went to work, all the while thinking about the risk of something like this happening to Maeve and Felix. How complicit he would be in that, too. How much danger he was bringing into their lives.
Camp that night, became Arthur’s own personal hell. He’d returned long before Micah and tossed cash from his own savings into Strauss’s lap for bookkeeping. Arthur wanted nothing more than to watch the man’s nose crumple beneath his fist. He knew that would bring more problems than it would solve, but he longed for the satisfaction. He never wanted to help Strauss in the first place, and now he was in trouble with Dutch for having found a different way of doing things. One time. He and Micah hadn’t even tried to find a different way of robbing that stagecoach, just shot and killed those guarding it and walked away with the money, leaving bodies to bleed out in the river. He’d come to suspect that, when Micah did look for different ways of doing things, he ended up using more brutal tactics and hurting people who didn’t deserve it. Micah had returned to camp well after dark, looking pleased with himself and that never boded well in Arthur’s eyes.
Arthur wanted to talk to Dutch about Micah’s place in the gang, but the look on Dutch’s face earlier that day made him reluctant to approach Dutch at all. How Micah had become Dutch’s new confidant and buddy, Arthur didn’t know. Aside from the shifty tactics, and violence far beyond what the gang usually brought to the table, he was unpleasant to talk to, pitched bad plans, and terrorized others around camp. People that Dutch was meant to be protecting, defending, who’d been around far longer than Micah. People that Arthur liked a whole lot more than Micah, too. Arthur ribbing John about his scars was different from Micah doing it.
He knew that it was pointless to dwell on the family from earlier, the one that it seemed Micah had attacked and ruined. Arthur didn’t have much in the way of hard proof. Nothing that Dutch would take to heart, at least. Micah was teaming up with random gangs of bandits to attack innocent folks, and Arthur’s loyalties were in question, because he’d… what? Failed to beat the debt out of Thomas Downes? No, not failed. He’d chosen not to, taking an easier path. But, at the time at least, he’d also thought it was a kinder, gentler path. One that hurt fewer people. Hadn’t Dutch been crowing about their need to help the poor and downtrodden? We shoot fellers as need shooting, save fellers as need saving, and feed ‘em as needs feeding. Dutch had said when they’d first emerged from the mountains. It was a solid philosophy, Arthur thought, but not if they didn’t stick to it. Micah hadn’t needed to shoot that family and they sure as hell weren’t saving or feeding anyone but themselves. Much as he wanted to blame Joe, in part, for the trouble he’d found himself in and the doubting of his abilities, he couldn’t help but think that he liked the doctor’s way of doing things. They were more in keeping with Dutch’s supposed philosophy.
Later, Strauss approached the spot where Arthur sat against a tree, whiskey bottle in hand. He had settled himself close enough to the fire for defense against the night time chill, but far enough away to be, hopefully, ignored. It was fortunate that people tended to avoid him when he was in one of his moods. An angry Arthur was given a wide berth by anyone in camp with a hint of common sense or self-preservation. It seemed that Strauss possessed neither. Firelight flashing on the money lender’s glasses reminded Arthur of nothing more than a predator’s eye shine in the darkness. He shivered, suddenly wishing he were closer to the fire, and took another swallow of whiskey.
“Thank you for your contribution today, Mr. Morgan.” Strauss said with his quiet, lilting accent. “I’ve noticed that your additions to the cash box have been… a bit light lately. Is there anything I can do to help you? Perhaps more contracts to fulfill?” Arthur didn’t respond, only took another slug out of the bottle and continued to stare into the fire.
“Very well, Mr. Morgan. Perhaps another time.”
Arthur ached to leave the camp, get away from the dragging feeling that dogged him. Arthur wondered how he managed to feel lonely while surrounded by people. Part of his soul that didn't work right, he guessed. He couldn’t describe the feeling, couldn’t fight it. He only knew that it would fade as he moved away from the overlook, disappearing entirely if he went far enough from camp. Away from prying eyes and pressure always alleviated the feeling. A pang in his chest made him regret those thoughts. He looked around the camp, where Javier had brought out his guitar and the others were singing along, cheerful and content, at least for the time being. Micah said something to Bill and their uproarious laughter echoed around the site.
Arthur scowled. These fools were his family, he shouldn’t want to escape them like this. His priorities had become skewed as the doctor had distracted him. Feeding and helping and protecting them should be his top priority, no matter the methods used. But… he was tired. He looked up at the sound of crunching leaf litter to see Hosea making his way over.
“Evenin’ Arthur,” he said. Arthur nodded. Most people avoided him when he was like this, but Hosea always had a pass, seeing as he was the voice of reason more often than not. “Do you remember that summer we stayed near– aw hell, what was it. Something orchard? Couple years before John joined us.”
“Orchard Mills? Down south?”
“That’s the spot,” Hosea said. Arthur grunted, not expecting the question from Hosea. He’d been prepared for a fatherly lecture, maybe some faff about learning to work with Micah or Arthur’s responsibilities. He didn’t know where Hosea was going with the question, only that he was being dragged along for the ride.
“It was after that big take from the mine’s payroll, so we had money. Spent the whole summer relaxing. I preferred the dry heat, you know. Never much liked humidity. Bessie met us there, for a while. You and that boy were always skiving off work. What was his name?”
“Ira.”
“I remember you ran off every chance you got. Ditched all your chores to go swimming, cause it was such a hot summer.”
“Robbed a lot’a orchards that summer too.” Arthur added.
Hosea chuckled. “Stolen fruit tastes better anyways.”
Arthur remembered that summer. Pilfering ripe peaches right off the trees and swimming in a clear, cool creek with the only real friend he’d made in his youth, he’d had more fun during those few hot months than he had in most other summers put together. Ira had been… an anomaly. Arthur hadn’t made a lot of friends, growing up with Dutch and Hosea. People came and went, they were on the move so often that there wasn’t a lot of time to meet anyone that stuck. He and John had more of an antagonistic, sibling relationship than a friendship — Arthur would never admit it outloud, but he and John were brothers to the end, but even that had been a few years after the summer in Orchard Mills. Memories of that summer bloomed vividly in his mind. Arthur had turned seventeen and had his first kiss, under one of those stupid trees. He’d also relaxed, really relaxed, since he first came to Dutch and Hosea. Officially, they didn’t have vacations, but that was as close to any kind of prolonged break as Arthur had ever gotten.
“Maybe I’m just gettin’ old, but that seems like it was one of the nicest summers we ever had.” Hosea’s voice pulled him out of his reminiscence, seemed he was talking just to talk, since Arthur wasn’t. “My joints don’t like the cold so much, anymore. Could really use another vacation like that one. Especially after those mountains. I was starting to worry I’d never be warm again.”
“Dutch was spittin’ mad, yelled at me every damn time I didn’t finish something.”
“So, most days,” Hosea said, laughing. “But you were just a kid and we all needed some fun back then.”
“Never did lay into John as hard as me.” Arthur thought back to John’s days as a stupid, gangly kid, new to the gang. He’d worked hard when asked, but he’d been a layabout the rest of the time. Most of the responsibility off-loaded onto Arthur’s older, more capable shoulders. Resentment still lingered in Arthur’s memories. John had left, too, and Arthur had once again been forced to pick up the slack, furious that John had abandoned Abigail and Jack, taken them for granted. Then John had come back, welcomed with open arms and no consequences for his desertion. Maybe those scars he’d gotten were some kind of cosmic punishment. Arthur wondered if he would have received the same greeting, had he run out on the gang for more than a year. He’d considered it, when Eliza and Isaac were still alive. He tried not to linger over it. John and Abigail and Jack deserved happiness, that Arthur believed. No matter how frustrating John could be, he was still family and Arthur wanted better for them. Not that it was within his ability to provide, given the future that stretched out before him, but he could dream of happy endings for everyone else.
Hosea paused, contemplating. Arthur looked back down at his whiskey, at the journal discarded at his side. “Dutch can be wrong, you know. Sometimes we need to think about different ways of doing things, different ways of living. World’s complicated.” Hosea sighed. “Ain’t nothing wrong with considering how it all works. Seems to me, some of us should do that a bit more often.”
“What are you on about old man?” Arthur tried to inject some wry humour into the question, but it came out flat and surlier than he intended.
“We all deserve a break sometimes Arthur.” Hosea climbed to his feet and put a gentle hand on Arthur’s shoulder. “We all deserve happiness, whatever form it comes in.” Arthur stared into the fire again.
“I don’t know if that’s true. We ain’t good men, Hosea.” Some better than others , he thought to himself, still bitter about Micah.
“Maybe we can be.”
Arthur picked up his journal once again, after Hosea had moved on and wrote something for the first time that night. Earlier, he’d done nothing more than draw the tear-streaked, broken face of the woman whose life he’d had a hand in ruining. He knew he’d be seeing it whenever he closed his eyes, for a good long while.
— I am a damned fool, hoping for things I cannot have. I am destined for this life, but perhaps others could be spared. May be there is a chance for some of the others, down the line. Once we have enough money, they could live peaceful lives. If only we can find it. —
He stuck his pencil between the pages and closed it with a thump before he returned to drinking.
Dutch’s plans were imperfect. Arthur knew this, always had, but he always brought them through it too. Before Blackwater, they’d been a well-oiled machine, chugging its way west. Arthur couldn’t help but question him now. Blackwater had shaken him and, despite Hosea’s best efforts, he hadn’t yet snapped out of it. Not leaving the overlook was a mistake. Arthur could feel it in his bones. Pinkertons roamed the area, confronting him in front of Jack — a child — and they knew his face, knew all their faces. Cornwall’s money supplied power to their cause, fuelling the fire of civilization that was eating up the land. O’Driscolls were coming out of the cracks in the walls, like rats. Trouble had hounded them through the Grizzlies and it was coming to ruin what little peace they’d scrounged up.
Arthur was still furious that they’d spoken to Jack; furious and frightened. He loved that boy, as much as he’d loved his own. Had to, given John’s half-assed approach to fatherhood. Jack didn’t deserve to become a target, just because of who he’d been born to. It weren’t fair. And now, Dutch didn’t want them to pack up and leave. He was putting them in danger by sticking around at the overlook out of some misplaced sense of pride. Or maybe a challenge. It felt foolish to wave a red flag at a bull when there wasn’t anything but a cliff behind you and nowhere to run.
Camp had Arthur all turned around inside his own head. He hadn’t done more than walk out to hunt a few times, feeling as if Dutch watched his every move. He hadn’t been to town, had no idea how Joe was doing. Tensions ran high and certain people only fanned the flames. Micah antagonized folks freely, including Arthur, and Dutch hadn’t done a thing to curb his behaviour or even acknowledged the gang’s complaints. Abigail and John were at each other’s throats, driven to fighting by the threat to Jack. Bill drank and heckled his companions until they snapped. Uncle and the Reverend just drank . And through it all, Sean yapped like a terrier.
When John offered him the opportunity to rustle sheep — an easy, low stakes job, by all accounts — he’d jumped at the chance to leave camp, to do something other than sitting around camp, waiting for that metaphorical powder keg to explode. He and John had ended up enjoying themselves, even if they hadn’t negotiated quite the payday he’d been hoping for. As they wandered back towards the main street, Arthur knocked a playful elbow into John’s side. He dodged and grabbed at Arthur, trying to snag him in a headlock. They roughhoused like a pair of stupid boys. Arthur was still mad at John for leaving the way he had, but it was getting easier every day to slide back into the kind of relationship they’d had before.
He looked up from the stranglehold he had around John’s neck, pulling away from a weak punch at his ribs, and saw Joe striding towards them, long legs eating up ground at a brisk pace. Arthur released John and stood upright, glancing sideways at his companion. Charles was still the only member of the gang that had any idea how much time Arthur and Joe had been spending together. John might find it suspicious that they were on such good terms. He’d only met the doctor that one time, when Arthur had been injured. And, as far as he knew, that was all the time Arthur and Joe had spent together too. Arthur raised a hand in an awkward greeting, barely a wave. Now that Joe was closer, Arthur could see that concern had carved deep furrows between his brows and he kept glancing between buildings as he passed. His body language telegraphed a twitchy urgency. Arthur expected Joe to stop or slow when he approached them, instead the other man grabbed him by the elbow and pulled him between two buildings, John trailing behind, confused. Joe peeked out between the buildings, looking up and down the street before he pulled back.
“You have to get out of here.”
“What in the hell?” John glanced between them. Arthur was well aware of the fact that he’d allowed Joe to manhandle him into an alleyway and didn’t feel like addressing it with John. It wasn’t like Arthur to let himself be dragged about.
“Cornwall’s men are here and they’re looking for you.”
“How d’you know?”
“You’d be amazed at the things people say in front of me, I’m practically invisible.” Arthur wanted to argue, that statement couldn't be less true for him. He wasn't sure that he was ready to admit that though.
“He’s got a bunch of paid men here, some Pinkertons among them.” Joe let go of Arthur’s elbow. Arthur hadn’t even noticed that he was still holding it. “I’m going to stay with–uh, at the ranch for a few days, in case any of them recognizes me.”
“Why would they give a shit about the town doctor?” Joe looked up at John’s question and then glanced at Arthur.
“If you start shooting folks, I’m the one that has to clean up the mess. I’d rather we avoided that.” John’s eyes narrowed, suspicious of the weak excuse. Arthur didn't think they would come after Joe, for his role in their scheme, but it seemed that Cornwall was vindictive enough. Arthur didn't think it likely that any of the men from that night would talk, still too spooked by the experience to reveal many details. “You need to get your companions and go, before they find out that you’re here.” Joe looked Arthur right in the eyes, imploring.
“I don’t trust you.”
“You don’t have to trust him, John. You have to trust me.” Arthur leaned out into the street and looked around. There were odd clusters of men on the balconies, talking in clumps outside of several buildings. If he hadn’t been horsing around with John, he might have caught on, but it was unlikely. A few sported the same civilized looking bowler hats and clean jackets of the men who’d approached him and Jack by the river. Joe may have saved all of their lives. He walked out into the street, casual as could be, and made his way toward the bar where Dutch had asked to meet him. He felt eyes on them the whole way. A group of two men broke off and started on a path to intercept them. Arthur looked down at the feeling of Joe’s hand on him again. He gave Arthur’s arm a quick squeeze.
“Get out of here,” he whispered before he moved off towards the men. Arthur wanted to stop him, but John grabbed at his other arm, hard and hauled him off towards the bar. Arthur watched over his shoulder as Joe walked past the men, knocking his shoulder into one of the passersby. When the man turned to bark a warning, Joe shoved at his chest and said something that Arthur couldn’t hear. John yanked him inside as the three men’s attention centered on Joe. The door slammed shut, cutting off the escalating sounds of a fight and Arthur’s view of the situation. He wanted to go after Joe, but John's grip was like iron. Arthur could overpower him, if he tried. Both he and John knew that, but something in John's expression gave him pause. If the Cornwall's men were after them, they needed to get out and they needed to take the rest of the gang with them. A vicious stream of curses fell out of his mouth as John hauled at his elbow. For the second time, Arthur allowed himself to be dragged along. At the very least, he was now certain that Joe hadn't been the one to rat him out. Although that still left the question of who had.
After a quick word, with Dutch and Strauss, the four of them slipped out the back and rode for their camp, splitting up to avoid any possible pursuit. Arthur had tried to find Joe as they’d fled, but hadn’t seen hide nor hair of him. All three of the Pinkerton men had disappeared as well. He wasn’t sure if that was good sign or bad. What he did know, was that his family was more important right now. He'd come back and look for Joe later, make sure that he got out alright. He had some defenses as the town doctor. Even the Pinkertons would be reluctant to hassle him over a minor altercation. Arthur had to tell himself that Joe would be fine. He could handle himself. He knew what he was doing. Arthur repeated the idea over and over while he and Charles rode south in search of a new campsite.
Apologies for the lateness of the update, but I hope y'all enjoy the chapter. Next chapter is written and just needs to be edited a bit, so expect it soon! Thank you for reading as well as for all the nice comments and kudos :)
— Clemens Point —
Arthur watched as Pearson’s meat cleaver thunked into the chopping board, where it quivered, penetrating deep in the already scarred wood. It was almost loud enough to drown out the sounds of him and Sadie shouting at each other. He hoped it was in deep enough that Sadie couldn’t yank it out and use it to gut Pearson. He dreaded to think of what the camp’s meals would turn into without even Pearson’s basic competence to keep them edible. He’d suffered Abigail’s cooking once when a flu had put half the camp out of commission and he had vowed never to do it again. It might even redeem Joe’s cooking. Arthur shook his head, he couldn’t think about that right now. Enough news came out of Valentine that he at least knew that Joe was alive. He had jobs to do, a camp to settle and Pearson’s murder to preempt.
While he was glad that Sadie seemed to be coming out of the fog that she’d lived in ever since Colter, it was making Arthur’s life as camp referee a lot harder. He closed his eyes for a moment and sighed, then stepped in to separate them. Not that she and Pearson were the only ones at each other’s throats. Fights broke out hourly around the camp, many between the usual culprits, but even the calmest, most level-headed members of the Van Der Linde gang were getting sucked into the conflicts. Some of those fights he enjoyed, sitting back to watch as Javier dropped Bill to his knees with a knife at his throat. Both men could handle themselves and frankly, he thought a little humility in Bill might keep him from being killed by someone outside of the gang. Camp set up took longer than usual, with all the squabbling. Buckets of water spilled during arguments, someone knocked over the stew pot, a whole line of clean laundry was knocked into the dirt and had to be washed all over again.
It was no surprise that their simple sheep rustling scheme hadn’t gone as planned. Nothing had in months. In Blackwater, their luck had turned and never quite recovered. Arthur didn’t like their prospects these days, nor Dutch’s increasingly fallible plans. He hadn’t often steered them wrong in the past, but now that seemed to be the exception more than the rule. At least the near run in with Cornwall’s men had given Dutch the push he needed to pack up and move out. Arthur felt profound relief when the whole gang put Valentine behind them and rode out together, although concern for Joe still needled the back of his mind. But he knew where he was needed most, where his priorities lay, so he let the worry settle in as background noise while he and Charles had scouted their new location.
Of course that had turned into a mess, too. Most things did when they were on the run. Arthur’s moodiness hadn’t helped the situation, stress and worry making him even more surly than usual, no matter how much he tried to push them to the back of his mind. Although he’d hardly noticed until Charles snapped at him. Then, he’d felt bad. He’d been cold and harsh with the immigrant family, while they’d been kind and grateful to him — despite his insistence that Charles had done most of the work, they’d given him small fortune in gold for doing… what he already did almost every day. He found himself wishing that he were better at corralling that part of himself, less prone to lashing out. Maybe he’d end up running into the family again some day, out west, settled somewhere nearby his own new home.
Now Arthur sat at the edge of their new camp, outside of a dry, red town called Rhodes that still clung to a heyday of rich plantation families and slavery. It smelled of dust and foul legacies and left a nasty taste in Arthur’s mouth. Already, Charles, Lenny and Tilly were hesitant to wander far from camp, grown cautious. Rhodes itself was out of the question. Arthur hated it and it was nothing more than a stop-gap measure before one of their enemies found them again. West was where they belonged, out in the wild territories beyond the Grizzlies. But now Dutch had started talking about confederate gold and warring southern families and that brief sense of relief he’d felt vanished on the wind, blown along by all the hot air Dutch spouted. Instead of running westwards, they were trapped where the air they breathed was soup, their clothes never quite dried on the line and everyone was hot and cranky.
It was three full days before Arthur could get away from camp.
After he’d broken up his third fight of the day before noon, Arthur found himself on the road to Maeve’s farm, hardly realizing that he’d made the decision. Things had settled enough that he felt like he could leave for a short while and he had something he needed to do.
He wanted to say goodbye. And he worried that, if he waited, he might not get another opportunity. He knew that he needed to cut himself off from them. For their own good, more than anything. Joe was already getting sucked into their confrontations with the law. Dutch had made it clear, too, that they were a threat to the gang and Arthur could see his point. If he was being honest with himself, it was for his own good too. He knew there was a short fuse on his relationships with all three of them and he was nothing, if not good at blowing things up. Eventually, Arthur would be forced to move on for good, maybe without the chance to say his piece to the lot of them, so he wanted to do it now, while he could. Bad shit followed him everywhere he went and it likely always would. It put innocent people like Maeve and Felix in danger. Joe had thrown himself at a bunch of hired killers on Arthur’s behalf and he couldn’t have that happening. They’d be fine without him, same as they had been before. If anything, all the crime and chaos on his heels made his presence more dangerous to them. Worse still, if Micah or one of their enemies ever discovered their existence, Arthur didn’t know what would happen. He’d been thinking about it often, glaring at Micah across the campfire with all the mistrust he could muster. Yes. He’d decided. It was easier to cut things off now, than to be forced into it by some other means. He took the long way around, avoiding Valentine.
Quiet suffused the ranch when he approached. Another hot day beat down on the unshaded property and all was still and muted, the horses tucked away in the shadow of the barn out of view, chickens cooing softly from their coop. Arthur was tying Calpurnia to the hitch by the front porch when the door opened and Joe stepped out with a basketful of eggshells, peels and leavings for the compost heap. He froze when he spotted Arthur, a look on his face like he wanted to run back inside. Arthur didn’t have time to process why Joe looked like that, or how much he hated that he was the one that had inspired it. It was the least upsetting thing about Joe’s face.
A vivid sunset of a bruise encircled one of his eyes, fading from deep, midnight purple to nasty shades of green and yellow. He had a gash across the cheekbone below, red and swollen with two small stitches holding it closed. Maeve had probably sutured the wound. With Joe’s sleeves rolled up, Arthur could see more bruises spotted across his arms and a few that peeked out of his collar. He sported a couple of raised red welts too. Insects buzzed in the heat, whispered noise so dense it had become the new sound of silence, saturating the air. He made eye contact with Arthur and adjusted his grip on the basket, then turned away and trudged over to dump the basket’s contents, Arthur on his heels. When he straightened again, Arthur could tell that his ribs were bruised too by the stiff way he held himself. Joe hadn’t turned away from the compost to look at him yet. Instead he stared off into the distance, shoulders tense.
“I’ve gotta know what you said to get a shiner like that.” Joe’s startled responding laughter cut off as he winced and grabbed at his ribs, muttering a soft “ ow ”.
“I’m sorry I didn’t come right away.” Arthur shoved his hands in his pockets when Joe turned to look at him. His face had lost its taught wariness and now Arthur could see that he was tired and trying not to let injuries show.
“Figured you were resettling your family somewhere far away from Valentine.” Joe twisted to the side, like he was trying to stretch the pain out of his torso.” Truth be told, I thought you might not show up at all.” It was Arthur’s turn to grimace as a wave of guilt squirmed down his spine. He was hurt that Joe would assume he’d just disappear without a word.
“You thought I wouldn’t come?” After all that Joe had done for them, how could he not? And, if Joe thought that, then why had he bothered to help Arthur in the first place?
Joe sighed as he responded, “I know you have priorities, people that depend on you. I… wouldn’t expect you to walk away from them.” Had he really thought that Arthur would skip town without saying goodbye? Is that what he’d wanted, the reason he’d looked skittish when Arthur arrived? He had done exactly as Joe assumed, prioritized his family and moved them away from the scene of disaster. But he was here to see Joe. And Maeve and Felix, of course. But they hadn’t been the ones engaged in recreationally pissing off a pack of Cornwall’s hired goons.
“I wanted to see you,” he blurted out. Joe glanced at him sideways. Arthur cleared his throat. “All of you.”
Joe stared a few seconds, then said, “Come on, Maeve made lunch.” Joe walked past him, back towards the house. Arthur thought about tossing an arm over his shoulder while they walked, but he didn’t want to jostle Joe’s ribs or any other injuries. Besides, it was a poor substitute what he really wanted — to reel him in for a proper hug and to check the state of Joe’s ribs himself. He had to suppress the urge, surprised at its strength. He’d been more worried about Joe than he realized. When they walked around the corner, Maeve had wandered onto the porch.
“Afternoon Arthur.” She greeted him, less warm than usual. He stooped to kiss her cheek. “You boys were here again so soon?”
“You know me, Maeve, like a bad penny.”
“Ain’t that so.” She made a noise in the back of her throat. “Come on in then, and have some lunch. ” Inside, cloth covered dishes of food steamed on the table. It was hot in the house — sweat already sliding down the back of Arthur’s neck — set to the exact temperature that Maeve liked it. Arthur hadn’t realized that her joints had improved to the point that she could cook like this on her own. His mouth watered at the delicious smells. At least that was one small thing of which he could be proud; his time with the three of them hadn’t been wasted. Maeve had improved with the medicines that he and Joe had collected and Felix’s business was taking off, filling their pockets with honest profit that would see them safe for a good, long while. He felt good about the little bit of help that he’d been able to offer them, leaving a positive mark on the world for at least a couple of people.
Felix wrapped him in a strong hug. All the horse wrangling had caused him to bulk up and become less weedy, so that Arthur was left to absorb the sweet, crushing affection while Joe shuffled around the table keeping an arm around his torso for protection. Arthur raised an eyebrow at Joe over Felix’s head as the hug dragged on longer than usual. Joe pointed at his own black eye and Arthur sighed and patted Felix on the back. Of course he’d have been concerned when Joe showed up on their porch covered in bruises. Under the onslaught, Arthur felt his earlier resolve weakening. He would really miss the kid.
When Felix pulled away and went back to setting the table, Arthur caught sight of Maeve’s stern and calculating look from across the room, direct at him. Before he could say anything, Maeve’s demeanor shifted and she stuffed a handful of cutlery into his hands with a cheerful smile, shooing him towards the table. He added that to his list of conversations that needed to be had. Arthur put out the place settings as he worked his way around the table. Joe slid along behind him, carrying a small stack of plates and whispered in his ear. “Don’t worry, all I did was peel vegetables.”
Arthur snorted out a quiet laugh and shivered at the not unwelcome sensation of breath against his ear. At least Joe didn’t seem mad about the beating he’d taken on behalf of Arthur’s mistakes. Joe’s elbow brushed his back on the way by, and a thought began percolating at the back of his mind, quiet and unobtrusive, easy to ignore while they sat themselves at the table. Unlike Joe’s black eye, which was even worse up close and distracted him throughout the whole meal. Guilt warred with the small, impressed part of him that was a little bit proud of Joe’s nerve.
Everyone took a seat together at a table that was really too small for the four of them, but instead of uncomfortable it felt cozy. Most of the camp ate in shifts. Rarely did they sit around like this together. As they ate, Arthur resolved to get the group together more often. It felt nice, eating like this. Maybe it would improve morale, cut down on the fighting. He loved the pack of fools he called a family, so why not spend more time with them like this? If they were truly a family, as Dutch so often claimed, they might as well act like it.
Maeve had made a delicious stew and fresh biscuits. Sliced cheese and apples made their way around the table. Arthur loved it, but didn’t eat much. Something in his gut rolled whenever he thought about the decision he’d made. But, he knew that this whole thing had been temporary from the very beginning. He kept repeating that idea to himself. As they talked and laughed and ate, his resolve weakened further. Maybe coming to say goodbye had been a mistake.
After lunch, Felix went outside to deal with the horses. Arthur hauled in a tub of water and scrubbed their plates. Everytime Maeve thrust a new chore at him, it sent him in a different direction to Joe. He was starting to wonder if it was deliberate. At last, Joe was sent to deliver stale leftovers to the feeder pigs behind the barn, leaving Arthur and Maeve alone in the kitchen. Arthur considered how to start the conversation he wanted to have. But Maeve beat him to it, setting three tea cups down at the table and nodding towards the empty chair beside hers. Arthur was no fool, he could take a hint. He swallowed and sat beside her. They sipped their tea in silence while Maeve looked him over, that same kind of searching gaze that Joe could conjure up, which always felt like they were digging around inside his head and made him squirm. It was amazing that too unrelated people could look so similar. Arthur looked down at the table, pushing the tea cup around on its saucer.
“Loyalty will drive a herd of fools to the edge of a cliff, but it’s only the blind ones that will jump to their deaths.” She set her chin in one hand and stared out the window. “My da told me that, when I tried to run away with Glenn Cochrane as a girl.” Arthur chuckled. She smiled at him. “He was a year older than me, handsome as the devil and full of ideas. Wanted to emigrate and start a family overseas. My family convinced me not to go, nearly broke my heart. But, it weren’t two months later that he’d married another girl from a village down the road with a babe on the way. Turned out he was a scoundrel and didn’t do right by her. Still took me a long time to understand what my da had actually meant by it.”
He thought of Joe’s injuries, the way he jumped right into the path of men who wanted Arthur’s head and come out worse for wear. “Blind loyalty will get you killed?”
“No.” She shook her head. “Glenn Cochrane was a snake, but I couldn’t see it through his charm. But my da could, most of our family could. I think he saw it as his responsibility to try to stop me.” Ah , thought Arthur. He couldn’t muster even an ounce of outrage on his own behalf, he deserved all the blame Maeve could dump on him. He should have done more to stop Joe. He didn’t want to see him hurt or jailed or dead on Arthur’s behalf.
“I don’t understand why he did it. Involved himself like that, with a bunch of people he’s never met.” Maeve stopped drinking her tea, mid-sip, and raised an eyebrow at him over the brim of her cup. She set it down with a clink.
“Arthur, what I mean is, that I think if we see someone headed down a dangerous path, the least we can do is warn them, to let them make an informed decision if they can’t see the danger themselves.” Arthur frowned at her. “Joe is about as loyal as they come. To you, especially, regardless of the threat it poses. Loyalty like that is priceless, but it can cost a person everything.”
“You couldn’t live with yourself if you didn’t at least try to warn him about me.”
“Not you, Arthur,” she said with a sad smile. “Just the kind of life you lead.” He shook his head. Of course she’d figured that he was an outlaw. Not that he’d been hiding it, but he’d done his best to keep it away from the ranch, and away from Maeve and Felix. But Maeve was sharp as a tack and, thinking on it, somehow he knew that she’d get to the point soon enough. She interrupted his train of thought.
“And not a warning either. We can’t always stop people from doing rash and foolhardy things, but we can give them all the facts. I know you’ll do what you can to keep him safe.”
As if on cue, the back door banged open with Joe silhouetted in sunlight, kicking the mud off of his boots. He glanced up and looked between Arthur and Maeve, with concern scrawled across his brow. Maeve smiled at him and filled the third cup, pushing it towards the seat beside Arthur. Joe’s shoulders dropped and he appeared properly relaxed for the first time that day. Arthur couldn’t help but notice that his brown eyes sparkled when he smiled, golden flecks picked out in the late afternoon sunlight, bright in contrast to the dark bruise. Arthur smiled back, but caught the sight of Maeve rolling her eyes out of the corner of his own. Joe sat close enough that their shoulders touched and it was almost enough for Arthur. Affection fizzed in his stomach, effervescent like good champagne. Joe knew the details of Arthur’s life, Maeve had warned him, but he still smiled at Arthur, still obviously wanted him around. Arthur still intended to to keep as much trouble away from Maeve and Felix as he could, to visit less often for their safety and his own peace of mind. But he was beginning to think that maybe he didn’t have to say a permanent goodbye after all.
Outside, the sun was starting to set and Arthur could hear Felix whistling to the horses while he worked them in the field. A rare stillness settled across the three of them. Maeve drifted, head nodding against her chest as she sat by the oven relaxing in the radiant warmth. After he finished his tea, Arthur flopped on the sofa for a nap. Joe had found himself a lapful of Maeve’s sewing and was working his way through it with tiny, even stitches. It was so quiet, Arthur could hear the gentle shuttling of the needle and threat through the fabric. He was forced to close his eyes, when watching Joe’s long, graceful hands at work proved to be distracting. He drifted off to the soothing sounds of life happening around him.
Arthur shot upright on the sofa. A metallic bang had come from outside, wrenching him from his doze. Listening hard, he stiffened when he heard a group of men laughing outside of the house. Maeve had woken too and she and Joe looked at Arthur, concern evident across all their faces. Horses whinnied in distress and Arthur could hear the men’s laughter turn to shouts. He scraped his chair back as he leapt to his feet, banging through the front door onto the stoop. His pistol was in his hand before he even knew it. Outside of the main barn, where Felix kept the horses, several men stood over the boy who lay sprawled in the dirt with blood dripping from his nose.
Arthur approached the scene with his gun drawn and raised at the group of men, who looked unintimidated by one one man with a pistol, although several of their hands went to their own gun belts in apprehension.
“Who in t’hell are you?” One of them asked in a thick Irish accent. Shit. O’Driscolls. “Ain’t supposed to be no one here but the boy and the old woman.” With that, Arthur knew that this was all his fault.
Arthur’s thoughts raced. The last thing that Arthur wanted on Maeve’s property was a shootout. People would get hurt, probably people he cared about. It might bring the law, too, and then his time with Maeve and the doctor would end with him at the end of a rope. It was the exact kind of thing he’d been hoping to avoid. He’d only brought his pistol inside with him, but he had a rifle strapped to his saddle. He looked at Felix, who had pushed himself up with his elbows.
“Come here, son.” He beckoned with his free hand never quite taking his gun off of the O’Driscolls spread out before him. Felix scrambled to his feet and ran towards Arthur. One of the O’Driscolls kicked dirt at him on the way past. Arthur aimed between his eyes. Felix wiped his bloody nose on his sleeve as he ducked behind Arthur.
A stack of crates to his left would make decent enough cover, as long as he got down fast enough. Arthur and one pistol versus seven men, armed and dressed for rough work. He’d beat far worse odds. It was easy to be reckless with his own life. He knew that Joseph had followed him out and hoped that Maeve hadn’t. He didn’t dare turn to look. “Doc, get them inside.”
“Arthur?” Joseph sounded worried.
“Get them inside ,” he growled. He heard the door close behind him and turned the rest of his attention to the O’Driscolls, who had begun to spread out in an arc. It would make it harder for Arthur to take them out. He could take down one, maybe two, but the others would make it to cover and then he’d have a real fight on his hands.
“Ain’t that one of Van der Linde’s men?” One of them asked. Arthur fired twice before any of them could respond and dove for the stacked crates. If they knew who he was, there was no getting out of this without blood on his hands. Not if he wanted to keep the others safe.
As he’d predicted, he took out two of O’Driscolls men, before the other five found cover of their own and began shooting. He heard scrambling in the dirt from behind a water barrel near the front door and saw Joseph crouched behind it. Bullets kicked up plumes of dirt as they struck the ground around him.
“I told you to get inside!” he shouted over the wood above his head.
“You told me to get them inside,” the doctor responded. Arthur’s mouth hung open. Joseph flinched as another bullet ricocheted off of his barrel’s metal banding. How had he managed to befriend someone so well educated and yet so incomparably stupid? “I meant you too, you fool. They won’t beat you, they’ll kill you!”
More bullets lodged in the crate. Calpurnia was safe from the gunfire, aside from ricochets, but she whinnied and pulled at her tether. Arthur popped up from cover and shot at another O’Driscoll. A shout indicated that he’d hit someone. He glanced at his horse again and the rifle stored there. Joseph followed his gaze and Arthur saw realization dawn in the doctor’s eyes.
“Hang on–” he managed to say before the doctor was running across the gap towards the horses. Bullets flew past him, but it seemed the insane choice had caught their enemies off guard. Joe slid on his ass in the dirt, near the horses and grabbed Arthur’s rifle.
“Toss it here!” Arthur shouted, yanking his arm down again when the gesture caught the attention of the O’Driscolls’s guns. Arthur had expected the doctor to comply. He should have known better, Joe often didn’t do what Arthur expected. Instead, he ducked behind the porch steps for shelter and sighted down the barrel of the rifle. In one breath, he fired and dropped one of the O’Driscolls with a bullet square to the forehead. He ducked behind the stairs and pulled back the bolt, chambering another round. Instincts overroad Arthur’s surprise and he fired again, trying to provide Joe with some cover. A bullet grazed his shoulder and he rolled behind the crate. Joseph knelt out of cover and fired twice more, dropping one of the men with a shot to the head, and taking out another with a shot straight through the left shoulder.
Two men remained. Arthur could see one man’s heels peeking out from behind Maeve’s wagon, but the other’s location was a mystery. He couldn’t come out of cover long enough to get a glimpse of the other man. Joe popped out of cover a few more times, trading shots with the one that they could see. After he reloaded, Arthur rose on one knee and propped his gun on the crate he hid behind, firing most of his bullets at the man whenever he started to look out, keeping him pinned.
No other shots were forthcoming. Arthur scanned the area, looking for the other O’Driscoll. He ducked into cover to reload, counting his remaining bullets, when a noise from near the house caught his attention. Their missing O’Driscoll had snuck around the back of the house to go after Joe from behind. Before Arthur could shout to warn him, the man lunged, tackling Joe into the dirt with a knife in hand. Arthur lurched towards them without thinking about the O’Driscoll still in hiding. Joe rammed the butt of his rifle into the man’s temple and rolled on top of him as the other O’Driscoll’s bullets whizzed by Arthur’s head, sending him behind the barrel Joe had been using as cover earlier in the fight.
Arthur watched them struggle, praying they were outside of the other shooter’s sights. He tried to get a shot off, but they were moving around too much for him to shoot without risking Joe’s safety. Finally, Joe wrestled the gun free and hit the other man again, then snatched the knife from his hand and sunk it hilt deep into his throat. Arthur heard the remaining attacker scrambling around by the wagon. He saw the O’Driscoll take aim at Joe, who knelt squarely in the open on top of the man he’d just killed. Arthur rolled up to his knees, pushing with his injured arm, and gave into one of his few good instincts. He shot the man straight through the sternum. Arthur collapsed to the ground, breathing hard. Blood oozed from his shoulder, soaking his shirt with a spreading, red stain.
Joe scrambled to his feet and dropped to his knees beside Arthur, brustling with concern over his wounded shoulder. He left splotches of fresh O’Driscoll blood on Arthur’s shirt while he attempted to look at the injury. Arthur brushed him off. Blood dripped from the cut, but adrenaline had dulled the pain for now. Decades experience told him that part would come later, once the high wore off. Arthur collapsed to the ground with a grunt and a puff of dust. Joe rocked back on his heels and watched Arthur as his breath returned to normal, a curious look on his face.
“Do you do this often?”
“Excuse me?” Arthur wheezed.
“For a professional gunslinger and wanted outlaw, you’re spending a lot of time on your back bleeding out in the dirt.” Arthur turned his head towards the other man, incredulous and saw the small, dry smirk on Joe’s lips that indicated the other man was screwing with him. “I always thought it would be a little more impressive, is all.” Arthur whacked him in the thigh as hard as he could manage in his current state. “I have broken ribs, what’s your excuse?”
“You think you’re funny, don’t you?” Arthur muttered up at the sky. “Help me up, you ass.” The line of tension between them snapped with the sound of Joe’s deep laughter. Joe eased him into a sitting position and this time Arthur let the doctor examine his injury. He dealt better with heckling than genuine concern; It seemed Joe had figured that out on his own. “Do you get some kind of kick out of throwing yourself into dangerous situations with half a thought?” Joe’s smile crinkled the bruise around his eye and he winced. Arthur reached out to touch the bruise and failed to catch himself before his thumb had brushed the pale, uninjured skin of his cheek. He hesitated for a moment, then pulled his hand away while Joe watched his every move.
“Thanks for the assist.” Joe didn’t reply, only nodded his head and prodded the wound. “What actually happened ?” Arthur asked. Joe cleared his throat and looked off into the distance.
“Cornwall’s men took umbrage at my manners and kicked the crap out of me behind the saloon. Apparently they found me difficult and insulting.” He pointed at the sutured wound beneath his eye and said, “I suspect this was specific retaliation for the insinuations I made about their fathers and goats.”
“Fuck. I’m sorry.” It was clear that Joe wanted to drag another dry chuckle out of Arthur, to deflect the attention away from the new facts about his personality that were coming to light. Mainly, his foolhardy willingness to jump into fights that barely, if at all, involved him. Joe looked away. For once he was the one suffering under Arthur’s scrutiny. Arthur tried not to enjoy it.
“I knew what I was doing.” Arthur frowned at him. Even if he knew what he was doing, it was damn near suicidal. Hearing a moan from one of the men who wasn’t dead yet, Arthur clambered to his feet and made his way towards the downed O’Driscolls. He lay in the dirt, clutching his bleeding gut wound and writhing in pain. Arthur looked down at him.
“Go check on the two of them,” Arthur nodded towards the house. Joe seemed reluctant to go. Arthur tried for a conciliatory tone. “They’ll be upset, you’re better at that sorta thing than me.” Arthur approached the man and kicked him hard in the side. Joe hesitated a moment longer before his concern for Maeve and Felix overwhelmed his desire to keep an eye on Arthur’s copious bleeding. He disappeared inside with the rifle slung over his shoulder.
“Why’d you come here?” The man only whined and curled away from Arthur’s foot. He knelt and grabbed the man’s lapels, hauling him part way off of the ground to growl right in his face. “I said: why’d you come to this damn farm?”
“We was just looking for horses to steal,” he gasped. “Someone said a trainer broke ‘em here. Please...” Arthur released the man’s jacket and let him fall. He aimed his pistol at the man’s head.
“No, wait. Please…” He tried to push himself upright and blood poured from his stomach wound, staining the ground. He pulled himself a few inches through the dirt, leaving a red smear behind. No chance he’d survive, even with the doctor in his corner. As Arthur assumed he would be, devoted as he was to keeping idiots like Arthur alive. It would be a painful death too. Gut wounds were. “Please.”
“I’m doing you a kindness, son,” Arthur said as he pulled the trigger.
He checked the others and found them all dead. Calpurnia whinnied and he went to check on her as well, whispering into her ears as he scratched them. He slipped her a crushed peppermint from his pocket, one more casualty of the fight. In the barn, he retrieved a shovel and began dragging the bodies one by one around the back of the barn towards the trees. Each body left a trail of bloodied mud in the dirt. Then, he broke ground and began digging a mass grave. His arm ached within seconds, but it only needed to be deep enough to keep animals away. He turned at a sound behind him. Joe stood there, still wearing Arthur’s rifle on his shoulder, but with a shovel in hand. He set the gun to the side and started to dig before Arthur could protest.
“They ok?” Arthur asked, sinking his shovel into the dirt again.
“A little shaken. Felix has never been shot at before. Maeve, of course, has taken as much gunfire as the two of us combined.” Arthur huffed out a laugh.
“Forgot you were in the navy.” Arthur had thought he struck an impressive image, kneeling long and lean line with the gun pressed to his shoulder. Arthur truly had forgotten about Joe’s time in the military. He was soft spoken, gentle with patients and enthusiastic about almost everything Arthur showed him, bouncing from interest to interest with boundless enthusiasm and deep intelligence. Not like any of the soldiers Arthur had met. Most were like Bill, a little jaded and surly, filled with bad memories of battles that never quite went away. Joe was also relatively unflappable, tough, and a bit of a shithead, which fit better with his mental image of the average soldier. He found himself trying to reconcile warring mental images of the man: what he’d seen and what he’d been told. He cleared his throat. “That was some good shootin’.”
“It’s been a while. Can’t say I really missed it.” Shovels sinking into the earth was the only sound for a while as they worked.
“You knew those men.” Joe’s voice cut through the quiet. It was firm and confident, his doctoring voice; the one he used on stubborn patients. Arthur was well acquainted with it.
“Not those ones specifically.” Arthur sighed. “But their gang generally? Yeah. They work for Colm O’Driscoll. Had run-ins with them before. Usually end about like this. He and Dutch have hated each other for, oh… years now, I guess.”
“Are you the reason they came here?” Joe sounded reluctant to ask the question. Like he didn’t really want to hear the answer. Arthur sighed.
“They were here for the horses.”
“Oh,” Joe said. He dumped another shovelful of dirt on the growing mound at their side. “Guess Felix is still a sought after horse trainer.”
Arthur snorted. Joe’s dark sense of humour reared its head at the oddest times. He smiled crookedly at Arthur, who leaned on his shovel and breathed through his nose. His arm hurt. Blood trickled down his sleeve and dripped into the grave they dug, making the handle slippery.
“Don’t see you running for the law,” Arthur pointed out. A small part of him had almost expected that, over Joe helping him to dig a grave behind the barn. Joe frowned and looked away.
“No. I’m not.”
“Thought you were against this kind of thing, making the world a worse place. May not have wanted me caught by Cornwall’s men, but I figured this might at least warrant a visit to the sheriff.” Joe thought for a moment, silence dragging.
“First, the nearest sheriff is in Valentine and I don’t trust him.” He sighed. “Second, I’m not sure you did make it worse.” Arthur looked up at him, surprised. It was one thing for the doctor to know the kind of violent life that Arthur led and another thing entirely to experience it first hand. “They were going to rob the farm, they hurt Felix, maybe they would have hurt Maeve too — probably, it’s not like she’d have just let them take everything. You stopped them. I wish there had been some way to do it without… killing them. But it’s not like they would have listened if you’d asked them politely to leave.” He trailed off, as if trying to imagine what that might have looked like, then let out a gusty sigh. “I may not like everything you do, but I like you and, as it happens, that’s enough to want to keep you around. So, no, I won’t be going to the authorities. Besides, I think I’m an accomplice at this point.”
Arthur was surprised at the doctor’s attitude. Here he was, suggesting that Arthur had done the honorable thing by killing seven men, one of them in cold blood. Arthur was happy to kill to protect people that he cared about, it hadn’t been an issue for him, but he hadn’t expected the doctor to agree with him. On the other hand, Joe had picked up a gun and helped.
“I’ve killed a lot of men too, you know.” Joe added. “We weren’t at war when I joined up, but I’ve been in battles. We were attacked, fought back.”
“You were doing your duty then. I’m only an outlaw.”
“Don’t see that they’re so different. I killed people too. Following orders or not, didn’t change that. I saw soldiers looting, taking supplies. Many… most weren’t particularly good men, we just had a uniform to make our crimes official.” He shrugged, dismissing the memories more than anything. “Outlaws do much of the same. Our cause was sanctioned by the government, yours isn’t.”
“Doubt you ever held up a bank while you was in the navy.”
“Other soldiers did.”
“You don’t say?” Arthur raised his eyebrows.
“People’s morals don’t stand up too well when they’re the ones making the rules. At least, in my experience.” He huffed air out of his nose.”Turns out, if you question any of that, they throw you out and send you on your way.”
“You never said you got booted.”
“I’m not ashamed or anything, I still think I did the right thing. It’s just not the best memory, so I don’t talk about it much. I put it behind me. What do you reckon, this hole deep enough?” Arthur nodded and tossed his shovel to the side. He could recognize deflection from an unsavory topic. It was his go to. Together, they rolled the dead men into the pit and began to fill it. When they’d finished, Arthur supported himself on his shovel. Exhaustion was creeping in as the adrenaline faded. He and Joe both looked down at the mass grave in silence.
“Sometimes, I don’t feel no better than an animal, doing this shit.” Arthur stood stiffly, jaw clenched. “Wish it didn’t always have to be this way. Everything ends in bloodshed.” Joe looked at him, with something close to pity, but that didn’t make Arthur’s skin crawl. Compassion, maybe. Sympathy. A look Arthur wasn’t too used to anyway. He minded even less because of the person it came from.
“We’re all animals, Arthur. Gotta choose what kind of animal you want to be. Humans are pretty unique that way, we get some choice.”
“Predator or prey?” He asked with a snort.
“Not exactly… You know those dinosaur fossils you were telling me about? Ones you found out near Flatneck station, was it?” Arthur nodded once. “They’re extinct now, but we think some of them survived over time. Mammoths turned into elephants, some of the big lizards turned into alligators — I think, I’m not up on the science anymore — but my point is that they changed, they adapted to different environments and learned to deal with the new challenges that appeared. It’s how they carried on living, in the modern world.”
“Adapted, huh?”
“Predators have sharp teeth. Herbivores have flat teeth to grind of vegetation. Different tools for different creatures, suited to their specific needs. Some do it better than others.”
“So, we get a choice because we wear pants?”
“In essence.” Joe chuckled.
Arthur shook his head. He wasn’t stupid, everything Joe was saying made sense. He just wasn’t sure that it applied to the situation. And he didn’t have the energy to delve too deeply into what he was feeling at the moment, not when there was still work to be done before he could rest. He’d told Dutch himself that they needed to adapt to the changing world or they’d be killed off like vermin. Or the same sentiment, not in as many words. World didn’t want them no more, but they kept on fighting the rising tide of civilization, its waves beating against their shore and threatening to wash them all away. He’d zoned out, staring at the fresh gravedirt, but didn’t realize it until Joe’s hand came to rest on his forearm.
“I just don't think we always have to be what the world's made us. What's the point if we don't have some choice?” He muttered. It didn’t appear to be directed at Arthur. His hand was warm, firm, fortifying. Arthur didn’t want him to let go. Worse, he wanted more than a bracing hand on his arm. He’d been shoving that thought to the back of his mind, stomped on it whenever it appeared, unbidden. But then Joe’s breath had ghosted along the back of his neck and, from then on, it had only been a matter of time before it broke loose. He felt like he’d been thrown from a horse, winded and unsteady on his feet. He started to reach for Joe’s shoulder and wobbled, stumbling a bit as dizziness overwhelmed him. Maybe it was love, maybe it was blood loss. Either way, he wasn’t handling it well. Joe rolled his eyes and tucked a shoulder under Arthur’s arm to help him to the house.
Maeve and Felix waited anxiously by the door. They waved Arthur and Joe inside and while Maeve pushed them into chairs. Arthur looked at himself, then Joe and realized that they were filthy , covered head to toe in mud made of blood and dirt. Both of their shirts were riddled with holes and irreversible stains. Arthur felt like the grit was ground right into his skin. He thought about wriggling away to clean up, but Joe grabbed Arthur’s arm before he could and cut the rest of his sleeve. Arthur winced when the doctor dumped clear alcohol over the wound and dabbed at the blood with a clean cloth, provided by Maeve.
“This is going to need stitches.” Arthur groaned and tried to pull away, only for Joe’s grip on his arm to tighten. “Let me get my bag, and then I’ll give you the good painkillers.” The way he cinched the bandage around Arthur’s arm conveyed his seriousness well enough that Arthur didn’t argue. Instead, he turned to Maeve and Felix.
“Are you both alright?”
“Felix was a bit frightened, weren’t you dear?” Felix nodded at his grandmother. Maeve had a mug of something that steamed at her elbow. “But we were safe enough in here. And we never doubted that you’d be able to handle it.”
Arthur wasn’t sure how he felt about that. Did it speak to his competence, that Maeve had assumed he could deal with anything? Or did he just look like a violent criminal? Felix twitched and fidgeted near the door.
“Everything alright son?” Felix looked out the window and back at Arthur, clearly anxious about something outside. Joe piped up from Arthur’s side.
“I think he wants to check on the horses,” Joe said. Arthur tried to rise and Joe pushed him back down into the chair. He put the rifle strap back over his shoulder. “I’ll go. Stay here and try not to hurt yourself further. Come on Felix.” Arthur watched them leave and let out a sigh. He looked up and found Maeve watching him, with a sympathetic look on her face.
“You ain’t gonna try to doctor me too, are ya?”
“No dear. Those days are long past me.” She smiled at him. He leaned his head back and closed his eyes. Heartfelt enthusiasm and giddy-up weren’t the same thing as sturdiness.
“Good. Joe’d have to start paying you a salary.” He’d hoped for a laugh, but Maeve remained silent. Something occurred to him. “Did you stitch up Joe’s face?”
“He did that himself.” Arthur grunted, impressed despite himself. Joe was tougher than he’d expected. He shifted in his seat with a quiet groan. Maeve looked sad, now, on top of the sympathy. She cleared her throat.
“You’re a good man, Arthur Morgan. My farm might not be here anymore, if you hadn’t been. Felix and I could be in that grave out there, instead of those thieves.” Arthur frowned and looked down and away from Maeve’s eyes. How could he walk away from them now? What if they were attacked like this again, with no one to protect them? He might be able to teach Felix to shoot, but the boy was so terrified Arthur didn’t think it would matter when the time came for him to fire. And, well, he shouldn’t have to learn something like that. It didn’t make anyone’s life better, it just made everything more violent, everyone worse off. Maeve might be able to hold a gun — probably a crack shot, if Arthur were to guess — but she’d never be able to take on as many men as they’d faced today. As Arthur thought about it, he wasn’t sure that he could have taken on all seven O’Driscolls without Joe’s help. That last one would have snuck up on him and taken him out. Then again, it was his fault they’d made it here in the first place. His presence surely did more harm than good.
“Those men might not have come here, if it weren’t for me. We’ve been fighting with the O’Driscolls for a long time. They killed some of our folks. It’s my fault they were here, looking for the horses.”
“And you killed some of theirs,” she added. “I’m sure it’s a mutual hatred. You still did the right thing, protecting us like that.”
“I don’t regret killing them.” He ran one filthy hand across his forehead. “But I’m not so sure I know what the right thing is anymore.” He didn’t like questioning all these things he thought he knew the answers to, things that had always been stable in his life. Everything Dutch had taught him seemed to be up in the air and Arthur had never learned to juggle. He was waiting for it all to come crashing down around himself.
“None of us do. We’re all just feeling our way along in the darkness, Arthur. Sometimes we’re lucky enough to know someone who brings in a little light, but mostly we stumble along and hope for the best, whatever that may be.”
Pain and adrenaline and a long, emotional day made the exhaustion well up in Arthur. Heat pricked at his eyes and he closed them again, breathing deep and pushing it all back down. Even though he was willing to kill when it was necessary, it didn’t erase the emotional toll it could take. Surrounded by the gang, he could gloss over it all when they went back to camp and drank whiskey around the fire, turn it into a celebration instead of regret. He wanted a drink. Breath shuddered out of him, along with all the energy he had left.
“Oh, darling.” She shuffled over to him, cupping his cheek in one soft hand and kissed his forehead. “You saved my boy and my home. I’ll never be anything but grateful. Don’t you dare let yourself lose track of that. Right or wrong ain’t as important as all that, but you keep trying to do good, and eventually you will.”
Joe returned to the house with Felix, soothed by the horses and the with the blood cleaned off of his upper lip. Of all the things that had happened that day, he felt the worst about Felix being targeted and found himself unbothered by the deaths of the men that had attacked them. His indifference surprised him. He could see that it bothered Arthur, maybe even the killing, but more so the where and how that it had happened and who had seen him do it. By now, everyone knew what Arthur did and the kind of people he ran with, Maeve had cautioned him about all of it, not against Arthur, but she’d encouraged him to use his head and to consider the kinds of dangers Arthur’s presence might expose him too. It seemed he’d seen the worst of it that evening and he was surprised at how untroubled he felt.
After his dismissal from the navy, he’d gone a bit… rigid, as Arthur might put it and fallen into seeing things more black and white than he ever had before, like he’d wanted to justify his rebellion by clinging to a strict dichotomy that put him on the “right” side. He still didn’t doubt that what he’d done was right and what the others had been doing was wrong, but he could see some more of the layers, the complexity that he’d struggled with when he’d first returned home. He could see the layers to what Arthur did as well. He’d come to care for Maeve and Felix as much as his own family, like Arthur cared for his own and, when he considered it, he could see himself turning to crime to support them, if that’s what it took. He’d been privileged in that way, never wanted for money, even now that his father had finally cut him off for refusing to come home. He was starting to understand why Arthur did what he did, what motivated him. He had people he cared about, that he’d sacrifice for. That was… new to Joe, but not unwelcome.
Arthur jerked awake when they came through the door, still keyed up from the fight. Everyone looked exhausted. Joe banished Maeve and Felix to bed with an armload of reassurances, so that he could sit and stitch Arthur’s arm without interruptions. Arthur didn’t even complain when Joe gave him a shot of morphine, which said a lot about the kind of night they’d been having. Joe had assumed Arthur would want to ride home that very night to report back to Dutch about the O’Driscoll menace. Then again, they’d wiped out all the men who’d come to the farm so perhaps they weren’t much of a threat at the moment. Maybe he even wanted to be knocked out for a little while.
He peeled the last of the destroyed shirt sleeve away to reveal the gash on his arm. How Arthur had dug the better part of a mass grave with his arm in this state, Joe couldn’t understand. There was tough, and then there was dangerously self-destructive and Arthur walked that fine line like a cat on a ridgepole. He’d given it a cursory clean, but took the time now to be more thorough while the morphine kicked in. Sweat beaded on Arthur’s forehead, past the adrenaline high as they were, and the blood drained from his face while Joe checked the edges of the wound and rinsed away the grit that had found its way in. Its edges might not have been so ragged if Arthur had let Joe clean it earlier, but he could work with it. He tried to think of something to distract Arthur and remembered how foolish he’d felt while they were digging.
“I wasn’t trying to call you an animal earlier.”
Arthur snorted. “Your metaphors could use work.” Joe smiled, avoiding Arthur’s gaze by bending over his work. “But I know that’s not how you meant it.”
“Where did you all end up?”
“South, near Rhodes.”
“All the way down in Lemoyne?” Joe glanced up at him. “Guess we won’t be seeing much of each other anymore.”
“It’s better if I go.” Arthur winced as the needle pulled and squeezed his eyes shut. “Not like you need my help so much anymore. You can handle yourself. Took on a whole parcel of Pinkertons and hired goons.”
“No, I don’t need your help” Arthur swallowed, keeping his eyes shut. “But I’ve always liked your company.”
“I ain’t as pleasant as all that.” Joe rolled his eyes and scoffed, which caused Arthur to glance sideways at him, surprised by the reaction. Joe found himself feeling angry with Arthur, and not for the first time. What had Arthur heard from people, to make him think that way about himself? He saw affection and ran the other way. Was he trying to push Joe away? He breathed deep, trying to rein his anger in, but Arthur winced as he pulled a stitch tight and Joe felt bad, embarrassment heating the back of his neck. He refocused on the wound. Something told Joe that this conversation was important, for reasons he didn’t quite understand, and he felt like he was dropping his end.
“Sorry.” Arthur sighed. Joe kept his eyes down. He didn’t want Arthur to feel bad. It was obvious, to Joe at least, that self-deprecation was a natural reaction for Arthur. Maybe Arthur knew this about himself. Maybe he was trying to do better. “I was planning on going up north for a little while, until the heat blows over. Everyone else is safe down south I just… hate it there.” He huffed. “Heard a good rumour about some wild horses up near Lake Isabella, thought I might have a look. Bring something back for–” he cut himself off. After a few heartbeats, Joe spoke into the sudden silence.
“So, you’re leaving.” Arthur stared at the ceiling. “For how long?” Joe stopped stitching, finished with the wound, waiting for Arthur to respond. It took far too long.
“Should be permanently. People aren’t safe around me.” Joe’s heart constricted in his chest. He’d suspected Arthur’s motivations for returning were related to the gang’s flight from Valentine. Maeve had also suggested that Arthur was fully capable of breaking Joe’s heart and now that seemed more than likely. “Can’t quite bring myself to do it though.”
Joe sucked in a breath. His hands had fallen to his lap, where they lay folded on top of the clean bandages he had yet to apply to Arthur’s arm. Arthur slumped in his seat. “Good.”
Arthur turned to face him. “I’m selfish.”
“And I don’t want you to go. What does that make me?”
“Foolish.” Arthur shook his head, eyes closed. “Bad shit follows me, Doc. Dangerous people want me dead. I don’t want you– anyone caught in the crossfire. I ain’t worth all that.”
“And if I disagree?”
“Then you’re an idiot.” Joe smiled and stared at Arthur, who avoided his gaze. He wanted to drag him in by his filthy shirt collar and kiss him, but the whole moment felt fragile and the last thing he wanted to do was scare Arthur away. It was one thing for Arthur to enjoy his company, join him for hunting, flower picking, visiting patients and another entirely for Arthur to feel the same way that Joe did.
“I always have been. Just ask my father.” Arthur let out a startled bark of laughter and the taught moment shattered. Joe picked up the clean, cotton bandages and wrapped it around Arthur’s arm, tying it into place. His fingers lingered against Arthur’s skin. Arthur’s head lolled against the back of the chair as he turned it to look at Joe. Firelight cast a warm glow across his face, logs popping in the hearth. Maybe it was foolish to love someone with a price on their head, but if the fluttering of his heart was anything to go by, he couldn’t help himself. It stuttered when Arthur looked at him that way, knocking him off balance in the best way.
“I’ll come back, I promise. Once the heat dies down in Valentine.”
“Good.” Arthur’s bangs had flopped across his face. Joe pushed them out of his eyes. Arthur sighed and leaned into the touch. He was more than half asleep. “I look forward to it.”
In the morning, Arthur’s anxiety got the best of him as it hadn’t the night before, when he’d been knocked out by the morphine. He rose before anyone else and went to work while the air was still cold and the only sounds were the soft stirrings of sleepy livestock. He passed Joe, asleep on the sofa with his arm thrown over his face eyes. Arthur had been downright disappointed to wake up alone, when his last coherent memory from the night before had been Joe’s hand on his forehead.mIt took a while to expel all of the extra energy he’d built up, but he was calmer by the time the others had climbed out of bed, with breakfast ready for them, the animals all fed and a host of other chores squared away.
After they ate, he left without ceremony. He smiled at Joe and promised to see him in Valentine, once the town’s law enforcement had settled down and found new prey to chase. Felix hugged him tight before he went back to work training the newest horse. Last of all, once Joe had retreated to a respectful distance, Maeve took his hand.
“You’ll be going then?” He swallowed and nodded.
“I don’t know when I’ll be back. If I even can come back. I want to promise that nothing like this will happen again.”
“I know dear. We’ll keep an eye out for you.” Maeve patted his hand. “You’re always welcome here, Arthur.”
I did promise it'd be ready soon. As always thanks for reading and leaving comments, you guys are great!
(fun fact: Maeve is loosely based on a mixture of two women, one of whom I worked for as a ranch hand in 2014/15. now I try to seduce people with my knowledge of goat husbandry.)
on the other hand, since most of my goat husbandry knowledge centers around how to castrate them, it might not be the BEST type of flirting...
your reminder that this self-indulgent dross will be embracing ALL of the tropes. enjoy.
Joe looked up from the bundle of mail in his hand to see a very familiar horse hitched beside several others across the street. Arthur was nowhere to be seen, but if his horse was there then he must be as well. They hadn’t seen each other since the shootout at Maeve’s farm. Shortly after, Arthur had disappeared into the mountains for too long, in Joe’s opinion. He’d received a letter, once, and nothing more. It seemed Arthur really had decided that he was too dangerous to have around. Joe shoved the mail into his saddlebags and jogged from the train station towards Valentine’s wheel-rutted main street. He climbed the stairs outside of the gunsmith’s shop and scanned the crowds for any of the faces that he recognized. Ahead of him, a well-dressed woman walked into the bank, blonde hair coiffed in ringlets. People milled on the streets, going about their daily business in town, but no Arthur. Joe cursed under his breath. He hadn’t expected Arthur to simply abandon him. Leaving Maeve and Felix he could understand, they’d been threatened by those O’Driscolls, but hadn’t Joe proven he could take care of himself?
A group of men stood outside the bank now, backs to him. All were dressed in dark clothing and carrying guns. Lounging, relaxed, against the outer wall they looked a touch too casual. An odd feeling niggled in the back of his mind. One of the men turned to do a quick survey of the street. Joe’s heart plummeted at the sight of Arthur pulling a black mask up over his face. He’d disappeared from Valentine with hardly a word to Joe and now he was back to rob the bank without a hint of a warning, or a quick hello, or… anything. Joe’d been expecting less of Arthur, more infrequent visits maybe, but not a complete disappearance. Joe found he was also a touch disappointed in Arthur. It had seemed like he intended to follow a better path, when they’d last spoken, but maybe that was the blood loss doing Arthur’s talking for him.
The first few drops of rain had begun to sprinkle down on him as he moved from store to store. Despite knowing that it was a foolish idea, Joe strode towards the bank. He could hear the woman crying and thought that perhaps she’d been cornered in the impending robbery. He ducked inside and found himself looking down the barrel of a gun.
Bank patrons cowered on the ground, handing wallets over to one of Arthur’s companions who dropped them into a sack while he waved a gun around. Arthur was nowhere to be seen, but the blonde woman it seemed was with them. She had a pistol drawn and pointed at one of the bank tellers too, issuing harsh commands to empty the tills into the sack she’d shoved through the partition. He couldn’t begin to guess which of Arthur’s companions she might be. He’d kept his descriptions too vague. Somewhere in the back room, he could hear Arthur’s low growl and a loud thump, followed by cursing.
“You’re watching the door, Lenny! That means you don’t let any damn fool wander in here while we’re robbin’ the place.” One of the men snapped at the other who held the gun in Joe’s face. Joe got a good look at the part of his face not obscured by a bandana in the watery, grey light through the window and recognized Arthur’s friend. At least these really were Arthur’s people, not some random group he’d been press ganged into helping. Although, that might have been preferred, the robbery not being Arthur’s idea. Judging by the startled look on Lenny’s face, he recognized the doctor too.
“Get on your knees, hands up.” He said, with little conviction. Joe complied. He could hear some kind of commotion outside, distressed horses and men shouting. He hoped that Arthur and his friends had an escape route in mind. Lenny called towards the backroom, distress evident in his voice, “Arthur?”
“Do your job, kid. Eyes on the prize,” the other man growled. He shot a nervous glance out the window and then aimed his shotgun back at the bank teller who sat in the corner with a large bruise on one side of his face and blood flowing freely from a cut above his eye. Joe frowned. “Come on, Arthur. Hurry up!”
“Hold your fucking horses, Bill” Arthur shouted from the back. A moment later, he stumbled out with saddle bags tossed over his shoulders, bulging with cash. He tossed one of the bags to Bill and then caught sight of Joe. More emotions than Joe could count flashed across his face. Swearing, he holstered his pistol and grabbed Joe’s arm, dragging him to his feet. Lenny jumped out of the way.
“Shit.” He pulled Joe close and whispered, “What the hell are you doin’ here?”
“Well, I was going to make a deposit.”
“This is a joke to you?” Arthur growled.
“I saw your horse, I was coming to see you . I walked in on this.”
“Shit.” Arthur glanced out the window. A real ruckus had started up in the street. Raised voices directed at the bank, signaled the arrival of the law. “ Shit. ” Arthur paced, moving away from the windows so that he was less visible. “We have to get out of here. Come on, Doc. You lot, horses. Now.”
“You’re bringing him with us?” Karen asked, wrinkling her nose at the prospect. “Why?”
Bill opened his mouth to respond and Arthur interrupted him. “Innocent bystander. We’re not robbing him, we’re getting him out of here.” Joe restrained himself from pointing out that, technically, everyone in the bank was an innocent bystander accept themselves. Lenny continued to look stricken. Joe suspected the bank job was meant to go more smoothly than it had. Lawmen outside had begun to shout, demanding that they come out with their hands up. Joe could see several sheltering behind crates and boxes in the street. Karen peeked out the front door to get a look at the chaos on the street. She straightened her skirts. Arthur swore again and shoved one of his pistols into Joe’s hands with a grimace.
“Let me go first,” Karen said. “Just trust me.”
She pushed through the doors with her hands in the air, speaking in a high voice that made her seem younger, more innocent. Joe was impressed at the change, given the bluestreak she’d been swearing moments earlier. She pulled her pistol and dropped the sheriff with a single shot. All hell broke loose. Gunfire ripped through the windows. Arthur ducked outside, firing at anything that moved and guarded everyone as they ran for the horses through the back alley. Joseph hesitated beside Arthur, only to be met with a hard shove towards the others. He hurtled along behind the others, ducking behind a crate when bullets flew past them, law men now shooting at them from the end of the alley. Behind them, he heard a grunt and, peeking over the top of the crate, saw Arthur go down beneath a man who was tackling him into the mud. Arthur cracked the man’s wrist against the ground, forcing him to drop his gun, but the man was bigger and heavier, easily grappling Arthur and keeping him pinned.
Joe hesitated. He was a good shot, but not good enough to hit the man without hitting Arthur. He shoved the pistol through his belt and then ran back towards Arthur, barreling into the man with his left shoulder, so that they both rolled into the mud. Joe ended up pinned before blood splattered his face and the man collapsed on top of him, groaning in pain. Arthur grabbed Joe’s arm and yanked him from underneath the bleeding man, both of them staggering to their feet and running towards the horses. It had only taken seconds, but time felt molasses slow. Like, if Arthur let go of him, he might not be able to keep going.
Arthur grabbed Calpurnia’s reins as they darted past, racing towards Joe’s horse outside of the post office. He climbed into Cutter’s saddle while Arthur did the same beside him, shots still flying all around them. Everyone in their right mind had already fled indoors to hide from the chaos on the street. Together, he and Arthur spurred their horses towards the edge of town as they all galloped into the building thunderstorm.
Bullets and horses followed, their riders in hot pursuit of the group of thieves and their hanger-on. Hooves slipped in the churned up mud, slowing their escape, but they pounded onwards. Arthur’s sharp whistle cut through the noise, as he signaled the others of the approaching train. Karen, Bill and Lenny pushed ahead, urging their horses to go faster. If they could beat it, they could lose the law and get away relatively unscathed. Joseph’s horse, never a calm creature, was in a full panic and he was losing control of it. He had never been much of a horseman. They would never beat the train with Cutter fighting as he was. He was falling behind the others. Arthur looked around, noticing that Joe was no longer beside him, and then back over his shoulder. He jerked Calpurnia’s reins to the side, scaring Joe’s horse into a parallel path with the train, cutting them off from the others. Several of their pursuers turned from the others to follow Joe and Arthur alongside the train, splitting off of the main posse with a shout.
Beside Calpurnia, Joe’s horse had calmed somewhat and they barreled along the path side by side. Looping up to the north and around led them towards the falls and a series of tight, winding paths that they could maybe use to disappear. After the firefight with the O’Driscolls, Joe knew that Arthur was a crack shot. He hadn’t known the extent of it though. Arthur picked off their pursuers with ease, guiding Calpurnia with his knees while he twisted to aim his pistol at the next lawman foolish enough to end up in his sights. It should have filled Joe with unease, instead he had the odd feeling that he was in good hands. He didn’t doubt that Arthur would see them through this.
Ahead, their path diverged. One route clattered over a narrow wooden footbridge that crossed the canyon, with the river roaring below, while the other twisted along the water’s edge, following the scraggly shore line down the side of the cliff. As they approached the bridge, Cutter shied away from the open space beneath them and turned down the other path, fighting Joe the whole way. With no other choice, he raced along the trail, trying to outpace the law at their backs. Every time they fired a round, Cutter skittered nervously, slowing. Rainwater made the path slick and treacherous. As they moved down into the valley, towards the river, their road’s twists and turns tightened, until Joe could hardly navigate them at all, much less at Cutter’s top speed. He’d lost track of Arthur, but couldn’t do a thing to stop what was happening, short of jumping off of Cutter’s back. Solid rock to one side and a sheer, icy river drop on the other prevented that.
Rain and runoff from the mountains had swollen the river and turned it into a raging monster, eating up the shoreline and any trees unfortunate enough to be close to the edge. Joe realized too late that Cutter had lost his footing and they were sliding down a slick, muddy embankment with no hope of stopping. Cutter and Joe both screamed as the earth gave way and they tumbled into the roaring Dakota river. Freezing water closed over his head, shocking the air from his lungs.
Arthur felt triumphant as he looked back and saw that they’d finally lost the law. No chance that they were being followed down these tight paths, this close to the dangerous, surging river. He turned to look for Joe, expecting him to still be on his heels, only to see that he’d veered off on a branching, parallel path. Arthur watched, powerless to stop it, as Joe and his horse both disappeared over the edge. Both of the lawmen on his tail pulled up short, sliding dangerously close to the edge of the the cliff before they backed off. Arthur yanked Calpurnia’s reins to the side, forcing them along the river’s edge, down towards the water. He caught up only a few seconds later, heart hammering in his chest and looked down into the water. Joe bobbed to the surface, fighting the current, before a rolling log on the river crashed into him and forced him back under.
On the other side of the river, there was a path that ran parallel to the water low down. Arthur could see a crossing, one he’d even used before, and he raced towards it. The water was high, but manageable once he slowed. Calpurnia picked her way across the slippery stones while Arthur tried to catch a glimpse of Joe somewhere in the water. Arthur remembered his own tumble down the Dakota and the state he’d been in at the end. At least Joe wasn’t full of bullet holes, the way Arthur had been — he hoped. When they reached the other side, he spurred Calpurnia to run faster than he’d ever asked of her. They passed Cutter’s corpse, caught up in a ragged tangle of logs and branches at the edge of the water and Arthur encouraged Calpurnia to go a little faster.
Galloping along, he spotted Joe, caught up on a branch. He was awake, still fighting to stay afloat. Arthur leapt to the ground and grabbed his lasso from his saddle, feet sliding in the slippery mud, churned up by hooves and rain and the river’s erosion. His first throw missed by a few feet, but Joe now struggled against the current towards Arthur. His second throw missed too, but ended up closer than the first. Joe lunged to reach it and his shirt tore. He scrambled to get a grip on the branch again, hands scrabbling against the wet bark of the log in search of a handhold. Arthur swore as the current yanked him away again. Arthur pelted along the shore, trying to keep up.
He could shout himself hoarse, but there was no chance he’d be heard over the roar of the upcoming falls. It was almost too loud for Arthur to hear himself think. Ahead the river churned in violent, thrashing rapids, meters before the falls and a long drop to a painful death. Rocks continued to slide by, too slick for Joe to get a decent grip. Enough taction to slow himself, nothing more.
Calpurnia’s run and Joe’s own, brief stops as he grabbed at handholds had slowed him enough that Arthur had moved ahead of him. He hauled on Calpurnia’s reins to slow her and leapt off of her back, stumbling into the freezing water, waste high. He threw the loop of the lasso backward, letting it catch on a heavy tree branch closer to the river now that it had risen so much, then wrapped the other end several times tight around his forearm. He made it to the edge of where his own balance would give out on the slippery stones and lunged into the deeper water, where Joe crashed into him and held tight.
Overbalanced with their combine weight, they slipped beneath the rushing river. Freezing cold, it closed over his head and he fought the urge to gasp underwater. Cold threatened to knock the air from his lungs. Being back in the river is a shock to his system, memories of his own near drowning spilling out of the back of his mind where he’d squirreled them away. He almost panicked, until his head broke the surface and he could see again. He wrapped on arm tight around Joe’s waist and held on.
Arthur’s lasso went taught against the current and spun them around, slamming his back into a boulder near the edge of the water. He almost lost hold of Joe, jostled by the impact. One handed, he managed to haul the two of them along the sodden rope towards shore, where he collapsed in the mud at the water’s edge and lay there, panting. He groaned as pushed himself up onto his hands and knees and rolled Joe over, thumping his back. He coughed up some of the water he’d swallowed, but Arthur was forced to fight down the panic rising up his throat when Joe didn’t immediately regain consciousness.
Between the damp and the storm and night time closing in, Arthur was already shivering. They would be in trouble without shelter. Joe needed fire, a roof, blankets. A tent wouldn’t be enough, not in the current torrential downpour, and it wouldn’t hide them from any patrolling lawmen in the area. It wouldn’t do to survive the river and the robbery, only for Joe to wake up in a jail cell awaiting a hanging. He wracked his mind, eyes roving to where a small feeder creek met up with the raging Dakota and remembered a cabin not too far along it, near a small pond. He’d have to hope that it was abandoned, that he wouldn’t have to fight someone to get Joe inside, warm and dry.
His fear subsided to a low buzz in the back of his thoughts. Everything was easier with a plan, a goal, somewhere to focus. He whistled for Calpurnia who was torn between worry for her rider and fear of the water. With a grunt, he dragged Joe upright, tossing him over his shoulder like a sack of grain. Arthur made his way over to her and, with difficulty, hefted Joe up into the saddle then climbed up behind him. Arms tight around Joe’s middle so that he wouldn’t topple out of the saddle, Arthur urged Calpurnia along the trail towards Cattail pond. Slick stones and mud made the trek difficult, but Calpurnia was clever and sure-footed and Arthur swore, outloud, that he’d spoil her rotten at the first opportunity. Her ears flicked back forth, as if she planned on holding him to it.
Relief flooded his body when he saw that the hunting cabin looked as ragged and abandoned as it had the last time he’d seen it. Inside, after he’d kicked the door open, he found a single room with a heavy, metal wood stove in the middle, two tables and some chairs, and a wooden bed frame in the corner with a bare mattress. He dumped Joe onto the bed and then went back to Calpurnia. His bedroll was a bit damp where it had been exposed to the rain, but nowhere near as soaked as they were. He fished out his warm hunting jacket and took it inside too. Joe had developed the pallor of a pickled herring, milky white, all color drained from his face and hands.
“Shit, Doc.” Arthur draped Joe against his shoulder, providing support while he tugged off his soaked clothing. A medallion on a leather cord caught on the collar of his shirt. Arthur flipped it out of the way. Blood oozed from a wound on his side, that looked ragged, but not too deep. Arthur’s hand brushed Joe’s back as he shifted him, tugging the shirt off his shoulders, and found raised scars scattered across his torso. He wrapped his hunting jacket around Joe’s body while he yanked his pants off and then added a later of woolen bedroll, so that only Joe’s face peeked out. After he set a fire in the stove, with wood that he found in a small lean-to outside, and had the inside of the cabin blazing hot, he left to deal with Calpurnia. A primitive shed out back would serve as a temporary stable for her; wobbly, but sturdy enough to keep the rain off for the night. He unsaddled and brushed her, and left water and grain as he took his saddle bags and her blanket inside. He gave a cursory scrub to Joe’s hair with a shirt from his bag to dry it and then added Calpurnia’s musty blanket to his nest. Already the small space smelled of damp sheep, what difference would wet horse make? He tucked the edges in beneath Joe, trying to retain as much body heat as possible. Then, on a whim, he brushed the damp hair off of his forehead and left a kiss in its place.
He collapsed in the chair beside the bed and rubbed his hands over his face. It hadn’t been more than half an hour since their dip in the river but it felt like an eternity. He was exhausted. He also realized that hadn’t changed yet, and turned to dig out dry clothing for himself. Rope strung across the cabin made for a clothesline, where he draped their wet things so that they could hang near the fire. He set fresh water to boiling and returned to his seat, afraid to move too far away from Joe, whose pulse he checked frequently. It remained weak, but steady. He was warmer, the blankets and fire doing their job. Arthur hoped that a hot drink would help too once the water was ready. While he waited, he unrolled Joe to check the wound on his side. Arthur examined the sluggish bleeding, but didn’t see too much to worry about, besides the potential for the water to infect it. He dabbed it clean with some clear alcohol before he bandaged it. It didn’t even look like it would require stitches.
Joe was alive. More than that, Arthur wasn’t sure he had the right to ask of the universe. He was still unconscious, but his skin had already lost the white translucency it had gained in the water. Arthur wouldn’t describe him as pink-cheeked quite yet. But improving. Arthur had made a stupid mistake and almost gotten him killed. He never should have agreed to the robbery. It hadn’t sounded like a terrible idea when the others had pitched it to him. Joe shifted in his sleep and muttered something incoherent. Hope kept making a fool out of him. He drifted off, fingertips resting on the inside of Joe’s wrist.
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Arthur turned from his work at the sound of Joe’s gravelly voice whispering his name. Morning had come and gone, gray and wet like the day before, while Arthur puttered around the cabin. He’d woken stiff and sore from a night spent sleeping upright in a hard wooden chair, river-chilled muscles protesting the mistreatment. He’d left Joe to sleep while he took care of some chores. Calpurnia had whickered and tried to rummage through his pockets for treats while he’d fed her hot mash, evidently expecting that he’d start keeping his treat promises right away. He’d also hiked down to the river, where he’d retrieved Joe’s ruined saddle bags and the deceased Cutter’s horse blanket, which he hung in the cabin to dry out.
“How are you feeling?” He asked, settling in the chair beside the bed again. Joe was nothing but a lump of wool at this point, wrapped in layers of blankets — both human and horse. All the wet wool, cooked dry by the fire, had a created an awful and unique smell that had filled the cabin with a musty fog. Joe, staring at the ceiling, wriggled slightly in the nest of blankets.
“Am I naked?”
“Yes.” Arthur laughed. Joe turned his head to look at him, the only part of his body he could move from within his wool cocoon. “Sorry about that.”
“Am I dead?”
Arthur smiled. “If I said you were, would you feel better or worse?”
“I’m not sure.” He groaned. Arthur watched him shift again, grimacing in pain. “Is it really hot in here?”
“At least your powers of perception have improved. This morning, you thought I was a magical talking catfish.” Arthur had kept the fire blazing most of the day, sweating it out to ensure that Joe stayed as warm as possible. Joe blinked and frowned.
“You did,” Arthur teased. “You were real upset that I wouldn’t grant any wishes.”
“Are you going to be cracking jokes on my deathbed?” he asked, scowling. Arthur chuckled again and helped push Joe into a sitting position, without unwrapping him from the nest of blankets — although he loosened them enough that Joe was no longer immobilized. He was still pale, despite the blazing heat of the tent. Color hadn’t yet returned to his cheeks and Arthur worried. An odd rattle to his lungs did nothing to ease Arthur’s concern. Arthur helped him wiggle one arm free, resettling the blankets across his lap and around his shoulders. Arthur reached for the steaming cup of tea beside the bed and handed it over.
“You ain’t dying yet. Drink this.” Joe sipped at it and made a face.
“Now you know how your patients feel.” Arthur felt his own whining was vindicated. He sat again and resumed the chore that he’d been working on when the other man awoke.
“We’ve really got to stop meeting like this,” Joe muttered into his cup. Arthur chuckled.
“What are you doing?” Joe croaked out after several valiant minutes of attempting to stomach the tea. Arthur held up Joe’s tattered shirt, not so tattered anymore. He’d been stitching the holes torn by rocks and branches. Once the weather broke, he could go wash it in the river. He and Joe would both need a good scrub soon. It was a shoddy patch job, but it would hold together until they could pick up a new shirt in town somewhere. Well, he hoped it would. “I didn’t know you could sew.”
“Plenty you don’t know about me, Doc. I’m a world’a mystery.” He glanced over, grinning. Joe watched him with a soft smile. “Hungry?”
“What happened?” he asked, while Arthur dished up a bowl of stew that he’d set on the wood stove earlier in the day. Arthur set about telling him the whole story. It took up part of the afternoon and knocked Joe right out. Arthur tucked him back in and let him sleep some more.
“How are you feeling?” Arthur asked several hours later, after Joe had managed another two cups of the vile tea with a small bowl of stew and a couple crackers. Joe wiggled his hand in a so-so gesture, then tucked it back into the blankets, slowly chewing his last cracker before he drifted off again, unable to keep his eyes open.
Evening rolled in before Joe woke again. He looked better, cheeks reddened by the heat. Warmth had returned to his skin, chasing away a few of Arthur’s worries. He lay in the dark and quiet while Arthur worked, ate what Arthur fed him, drank whatever Arthur put in his cup. No energy, Arthur figured, was a small price to pay. He knew how Joe must be feeling. Arthur was impressed that the other man was awake at all. He himself had slept for days after his trip down the river, despite a much milder experience in the Dakota. He’d also received better medical care than Arthur was really capable of providing. Arthur kept an eye on him, considering his next steps.
He figured it would take Joe the better part of a week to recover, which was fine. He had plenty of supplies for the both of them and the hunting skills to keep them fed with little effort, so long as he could leave Joe alone in the cabin. After that, if someone from camp hadn’t already come looking for them, he’d need to return to Rhodes to report back and hand over the rest of the money from Valentine. Joe wouldn’t be able to return home yet. He was well known around town and bound to have been recognized during their escape. Likely, his face was plastered on wanted posters around town alongside Arthur’s and the others. Arthur felt entirely responsible for what had happened. Joe’s clinic would be compromised, his horse was dead, and he was half-drowned and ill, trapped in a decrepit cabin with someone not well suited to caretaking. He had wanted to join in on the robbery right up until everything went to hell, but there was a nagging sense of something rattling around in the back of his mind. Not the guilt, that was forefront in all his musings, a solid weight draped over Arthur throughout the day. He could see that some changes were needed in the gang, that they would need to shift their focus, find a bigger plan if they were to get out of this situation with any chance of deliverance. It looked like he’d have to drag Joe along, since he had nowhere else to go. Not even Maeve’s farm was safe, since most people in town knew about how much time Joe spent out there. More than once, people in search of emergency medical care had sought him out there. He would be surprised if Joe still wanted him around after all of this .
Joe woke some time later, but couldn’t keep up much of a conversation, concentration drifting about. Rain still slicked the cabin’s sole window, obscuring the trees outside. Flashes of lightning had cut through the sky ever since the sun had set. Arthur, concerned, left Joe to his vacant staring at the wall and went to check on Calpurnia. Her ears snapped back and forth, displaying her displeasure at the accommodations, but she would be alright. He’d already apologized to Joe for the loss of Cutter. Except the guilt continued to weigh on him. Cutter never should have been put in that position, or used for a job like that. He wasn’t trained or suited for it. And Joe wasn’t the kind of rider who could handle him on a good day. It was clear that the loss hurt Joe too, and that he blamed himself, which made Arthur feel all the guiltier. He slipped Calpurnia a couple of treats, grabbed an armful of firewood and went back inside. Joe had already passed out, curled beneath the blankets.
In the morning, Joe woke to another pot of food that, unlike yesterday’s, made his stomach growl with hunger. It smelled inviting, rather than nauseating. If his appetite was recovering, that was a good sign. Arthur scooped some of the soup into a bowl and brought it over with another cup of tea, which Joe really was beginning to hate. Arthur gestured at Joe, indicating that he should lift his left arm out of the way. He did so, allowing Arthur to check the wound on his ribs which was healing better than the rest of him.
“Did you know you talk in your sleep Doc?” Joe groaned in embarrassment as Arthur backed away.
“What wish did I ask the catfish for this time?”
“I don’t recall,” Arthur responded with a grin that looked very much like a lie.
Joe sighed aloud and sipped his tea. “Were you kind enough to ignore the rest of my fevered ravings?”
“I tried, but you were awful insistent.”
“Christ,” he groaned again, looking to the heavens for help that wouldn’t come. “Did I say anything horrendously embarrassing?”
“No, nothing too terrible.” Arthur’s smile looked warm and fond as he ate his own soup. “I made a few notes though.”
Joe shook his head, unable to stop himself from smiling. Stuck in bed and miserable, it was still so easy to slip into the camaraderie that he and Arthur had developed over the last few months. He wanted to be upset at everything that had come to pass and, well, he was, but he was also happy to see Arthur. Happy to be alive. Even if it wasn’t going to last. Arthur was probably already anxious to get back to Rhodes, to report back to Dutch and the rest of the gang. While he ate, he watched Arthur moving around the cabin and working. He stoked the fire, mixed up hot food to take to Calpurnia and then brought two ducks that he started to dress. Joe felt like time had gone to molasses, heavy and tired, so much so that Arthur’s steady work was making him sleepy. He slipped into unconsciousness again and woke a few hours later, to find that Arthur had completed even more tasks around the cabin — and those, only the ones that Joe could see inside. He started to feel guilty, that Arthur was stuck here looking after him. He also worried. Who knew what was going on back in Valentine, what Maeve thought had happened to him, what the law thought had happened to him.
Later, Arthur returned with a small turkey, that he left hanging in the corner of the cabin while he went back outside. Joe could hear the steady thump of an axe and the crack of splitting wood. He crawled out from under the blankets and set his feet on the uneven floorboards, before he pushed himself upright and made his way over to the bird, one hand on the wall for support. He could at least finish dressing it before Arthur finished with the wood pile, contribute even a little bit. Arthur walked back in to find him leaning unsteadily against the wall, breathing hard. Black spots had started to dance around the edge of his vision. He thought he’d stood up too quickly, but the longer he stayed upright, the worse they got instead of dissipating. Arthur wrapped an arm around his waist and guided him back to the bed.
“What’re you doin’ up?”
“Wanted to help.” He took a shaky breath.
“Might not be ready for that.”
“No. I think not.”
Despite Arthur’s protestations, Joe tried to stay awake for the next few hours. At the very least, he could talk to Arthur, provide some kind of conversation while he worked. After a while, Arthur stopped grumbling and seemed to enjoy having someone to talk to. After dinner, he struggled to keep his eyes open, but Arthur was still steadily working away, sharpening the startling array of knives that he’d emptied out of his pack. Joe yawned wide, jaw cracking and shook his head a little to stave off sleep a little longer. Arthur fought back a strangled laugh while Joe scowled at him again.
“Sun’s down, you don’t gotta stay awake on my account. Get some rest.”
“Where have you been sleeping?” Joe asked, realizing that he had yet to see Arthur lie down for any real rest. Surely he hadn’t been sleeping in the chair this whole time.
“Second horse blanket’s dry and good as anything.” Arthur shrugged. Joe frowned at him.
“You fished me out of the river. I owe you my life. The least I can do is share the bed.” Joe was ashamed that it hadn’t occurred to him to offer sooner. Arthur never would have let Joe take the floor, and he knew that, but they’d shared a bedroll before and, given the way Arthur lived, he was used to sleeping packed close to other people.
“It ain’t an obligation. Floor’s fine. I’ve slept in worse places.”
“I know. I’m offering.” Joe waited for a response, eyes roaming around the cabin instead of looking at Arthur, who’d become twitchy and nervous. Joe had tried to keep his feelings in check, although he still wanted to kiss Arthur, but his offer of sharing a bed was an innocent desire to see Arthur sleep comfortably. It was all Joe really had to offer in exchange for Arthur taking care of him. Arthur cleared his throat. He wasn’t used to other people taking care of him. He was usually the one doing that and it made him oddly uncomfortable.
“Alright.” He scooped Calpurnia’s blanket off of the ground by the hearth and shook it out over the bed. “Scoot over.”
The next afternoon, Joe had emerged further from his blanket cocoon — more movement than Arthur had seen all day — and sat with his saddlebags beside him, their contents strewn over the bed. At the sound of the door closing, he shot Arthur a weak smile. Arthur dumped the wood in the rack by the door. Joe’s damp letters had been spread out across the blankets to dry, surrounded by the rest of Joe’s belongings that hadn’t been lost to the river: a handful of coins, a broken pair of glasses, a canteen full of water and a small pouch full of medical supplies. Arthur picked up the book and peeled apart its still damp pages, hopelessly wrinkled and smeared with ink.
“I know. It’s ruined.”
“More waterlogged than you.” Arthur sat beside him, enjoying the ability he had to make Joe roll his eyes. He leafed through the book. It was Joe’s book of medicinal plants. His own illustrations had been added in beside paragraphs of descriptions and details about the featured plants. He hadn’t managed to add many. It required that he sit somewhere stable, with ink and a pen and good lighting and there weren’t many opportunities for that in his life. He set the book down closer to the fire, tipped on its end so that the pages fanned out — he’d lost a few of his own books to water and knew the drill. Although it seemed like the book itself was beyond repair, the information remained in tact enough that Arthur thought he could probably recreate it with enough time. He scooped up Joe’s spare socks and shirt from the end of the bed and hung them to dry. Joe watched it all with a thoughtful expression before returning to the letters, to see which ones were salvageable. Arthur sat by the fire with Calpurnia’s spare halter that needed repairing and they settled into a companionable silence for the rest of the afternoon.
“When do we need to leave?” Arthur looked up at Joe, who’d woken and watched him work a little while ago without saying anything. His question sounded resigned, as he pushed himself upright. Arthur was draping their spare shirts, which he’d washed in the river, over the clothes line strung across the cabin.
“Not going anywhere until you’re well enough to move.” Arthur responded, tugging Joe’s shirt flat so that it would dry with fewer creases.
“I can move now.”
Arthur frowned and kept fiddling with the placement of their clean socks so that he wouldn’t have to turn around. “Why the rush?”
“You need to get back, don’t you?”
“We’re safe for now. No one followed us.” He paused in his moving around the cabin. Arthur had made sure to obscure their path out of the ravine as much as he could and the continuous rain storm had taken care of the rest. Even Charles wouldn’t have been able to track them through that storm. “And the gang won’t send anyone out after me for a while yet. I’m like a stray dog, I usually come back on my own,” he said with a grin.
“What about your people? Been a few days already.” Joe asked, his tone serious, without a hint of amusement at Arthur’s joke. He’d watched Joe grow more and more serious over the last day and a half, all of his good humour washing away and he’d started to worry. But, Arthur wasn’t worried about the others. He knew the train had kept the law off of Bill, Lenny and Karen and that everyone would be relatively safe near Rhodes. Aside from the general awfulness of the area, they weren’t actually wanted by the law. Well, not yet . With their current string of luck, who knew how long that would last.
Regardless, there was no chance of Arthur dragging Joe about in his current state, no matter how worried the gang might be. He wasn’t about to abandon Joe here alone either, without a horse or money or the ability to stay awake for more than an hour at a time. Besides, Joe looked exhausted and miserable, with dark circles beneath his eyes. Arthur knew that he was trying to hide it, but there was only so far that kind of playacting could take him and Arthur saw right through it. He had first hand experience with his own bullshit attempts to convince people that he was fine when he wasn’t. It was like looking in an extremely stubborn mirror.
“We’ve got time for you to rest.” Joe let out a frustrated huff, that set him off coughing. Arthur moved over to pat him on the back. He was pretty certain that Joe had meant something else with his question, some secondary layer of meaning that Arthur had missed. At least his lungs sounded better than they had the day before.
“Suddenly they aren’t important enough for you to leave?” came Joe’s curt response. Right, Arthur had definitely missed something. His hand stilled.
“That’s why you left, remember?” Joe tugged the blanket tighter around his chest, pulling away from Arthur in the process. Arthur dropped into the chair beside the bed and pinched the bridge of his nose. “You don’t need to stay on my account. I can make my way to Strawberry on my own in a day or two.”
“Joe, y’look like shit. You can’t even walk across the cabin on your own.”
“Of course I can.”
“Care to demonstrate?” Arthur raised a skeptical eyebrow.
Joe hesitated. “...I’ll be better soon.”
“You don’t get to be mad about me taking care of my family.”
“I’m not. I just don’t need you taking care of me.”
“Sure sound mad–”
“You left me!” he snapped. Arthur’s brow wrinkled into a frown. He sat up from the position he’d slumped into, arms still crossed. He refused to meet Arthur’s eyes. Unusual, since he seemed to enjoy pinning Arthur with his eyes, like a beetle to a board in some insect collection. “I thought we were friends at least.”
“Said I’d come back, didn’t I?”
“And you did. To rob a bank . Without a single word in weeks. It’s like you forgot about us the second you left.” Joe wasn’t quite shouting, but Arthur thought it might be as close as the man ever got. He felt awful that he’d inspired that reaction and even worse because Joe had hit close to the truth. Arthur had tried, a little, to forget about Valentine and the people he’d grown to love there, because it still felt doomed whenever he thought about the situation. He thought that perhaps time and distance might make it easier, or at least less messy. But that had failed, thoroughly , and only made him miss them all the more.
“I didn’t want to go.”
“But you did anyway. No one forced you to leave! That was your choice.”
Arthur stomped over to his saddle bags and yanked out his journal, before tossing it in Joe’s lap. The pencil trapped between it’s pages bounced out onto the bed. Joe looked up at him, frowning. As if it weren’t immediately clear what he was supposed to do with the damn thing.
Joe opened it to the most recent entry — all about the last few days in the cabin — and then turned to the next, which happened to be a sketch of a decaying old church covered in vines, then flipped back to the page before, which was filled with Arthur’s handwriting. Arthur grabbed his coat disappeared into the rain before he could see Joe’s reaction to the journal’s contents. He hadn’t written much. He didn’t always trust that his journal’s contents were safe when it wasn’t with him, and there were things he didn’t want others knowing, but it was full of stories about Joe and, more tellingly, sketch after sketch of the man. He wasn’t quite ready to confront the cat he’d let out of the bag; there was still a chance it might bite him in the ass.
Joe stared at the journal’s contents for a long time, leafing through the pages of sketches and writing. Arthur’s entries were, at times, downright poetic but also provided a window into his thoughts that Joe hadn’t imagined he’d ever see. He had never doubted Arthur’s thoughtfulness, but it was different, seeing it in a tangible form like that. He was shocked at the number of sketches he featured in, more so the ones that he realized had never happened, but had come from Arthur’s own imagination. Or his fantasies, maybe, if the shirtless sketches were anything to go by. He’d never been shirtless in front of Arthur. And Arthur had failed to include the scars on his back. When his vision started to go spotty again, he had to stop looking at the sketches. Instead, he flipped through the written entries. His name appeared as often as the pictures had.
Arthur returned well after dark, startling Joe out of his thoughts when the door opened. He hesitated as he came in, like he was considering leaving again, but came inside and kicked the door shut, shaking off the rain. He shrugged out of his coat and hung it by the door to dry, then kicked off his boots and unbuckled his gun belt. Joe watched until Arthur came and sat by the waning fire again, stuffing a few logs into the stove. He wished that he had something like Arthur’s diary, that he could shove under the other man’s nose to say “look, I feel the same way”, but he’d never been much for writing his thoughts down and now he was at a loss.
“I’m sorry,” he said instead. Arthur grunted an acknowledgment and poked the fire, elbows resting on his knees. He had angled himself away from Joe, shoulders around his ears in a defensive hunch. Joe chewed at the inside of his lip, where it was still healing from being split open in the river. There was a possibility that he’d misunderstood the point of Arthur showing him the journal, but it seemed a slim probability. He climbed out of the bed in his sock feet and walked the few steps towards Arthur, who still wouldn’t look at him. Maybe he could do better than a revealing journal. Or at least be a touch clearer with his intentions. He tipped Arthur’s chin up and leaned down to kiss him.
Chapter by msqjoe
Joe’s heartbeat thundered in his ears for the handful of seconds that passed without Arthur responding. A handful of seconds in which Joe worried and wondered if he’d misunderstood the journal’s contents. He thought it had been startling in its clarity, especially for Arthur’s taciturn nature, but as Arthur stayed frozen and unmoving beneath his touch, he started to doubt. Then Arthur moved, his lips sliding across Joe’s as he tilted his head, leaning up into the kiss. Joe melted against him with relief.
It was rough and warm and dry and so much better than Joe had imagined. And he had imagined it a fair bit. He trailed his fingers along Arthur’s stubble-roughened jaw and into his hair. As Arthur’s lips parted, allowing Joe to dip his tongue into Arthur’s mouth, he found himself burning with gratitude that at least one of them had been brave enough to say something about their feelings. Romantic confessions had never been his strong suit, and he doubted they were Arthur’s, but a sketch filled journal had been better than Joe could have imagined. His mouth moved over Joe’s, firm and tender, with the bitter taste of black coffee lingering on his tongue.
Arthur wrapped a hesitant hand around the back of Joe’s thigh and the other reached up to cup his jaw, pulling him closer. Joe lost himself in the wealth of sensations. Goosebumps crawled across his body and he shivered at every place where Arthur’s warm hands burned against his skin. His knees turned watery and he pulled back to breathe, trying to blink spots out of his vision. Dizziness washed over him as he sucked in a deep gulp of air. He’d been struggling to breathe before his heart had started pounding like he’d run a mile in the last five minutes. Panting, he looked down at Arthur’s glassy-eyed, crooked smile and decided that breathing wasn’t that important after all. Following the pull of Arthur’s hand on his thigh, he swung one leg over Arthur’s knees, then let out a sharp puff of air as Arthur’s arms wrapped around his waist and dragged him down into his lap. The cabin’s lone chair gave an ominous creak under their combined weight.
Joe sighed out a breath, a touch embarrassed at how pleased he was to be seated again, but it gave him the opportunity to pull Arthur closer, to wrap an arm around his back and to run the other along Arthur’s jaw, teasingly across his shell of his ear and into his hair. He scratched gentle nails across Arthur’s scalp and felt him shiver beneath the touch. He broke off the kiss to suck in another deep breath, which didn’t slow Arthur down in the slightest. Arthur busied himself with Joe’s neck, the underside of his jaw, the soft spot behind his ear, pressing hot kisses against goosebump-riddled skin. Joe leaned in, drifting closer to the warmth that radiated off of Arthur. It felt like his heart was beating out of his chest, blood rushing in his ears. Arthur dipped his tongue into the hollow of Joe’s throat and ran his tongue along his collarbone.
Joe tightened his hand in Arthur’s hair and tugged. Arthur allowed himself to be led, tilting his head back so that Joe could slot their mouths together again, licking into Arthur’s. He was surprised at how easily Arthur gave himself over to Joe’s guiding touches. Arthur melted, pliant and responsive beneath him, leaning into each caress with soft, contented sounds. His hands wandered across Joe’s sides and back, carefully avoiding the bandage on his ribs.
Need settled low and heavy in his belly. Arthur’s hands found their way under his shirt, rough, calloused fingers skipping over his skin, sending sparks of pleasure skittering across his body. Arthur’s hands were gentle, teasing and far too soft. All Joe wanted was for him to hold on tight, dig his fingers in and not let go. Joe ground his hips down against Arthur’s lap. Arthur’s grip on his sides tightened roughly and Joe licked the subsequent groan right out of his mouth. He grinned against Arthur’s lips, pleased that he’d figured out how to elicit the kind of reaction that he wanted. Seeking out more, he ground down again, pulling Arthur close. He’d take whatever Arthur would give him, for as long as it would last. A wide open range of possibilities spread out before him, his thoughts galloping away unfettered.
Numerous, creative ideas that been floating around in the back of his mind for the last several weeks jockeyed for precedence. For the moment, he settled on stripping Arthur’s shirt, getting his hands and mouth on the rest of Arthur’s skin. But that didn’t last long. Hot kisses shifted into tongue and the scrape of teeth as Arthur began sucking a mark into Joe’s neck. Distracted and hazy, Joe dug his hands into the meat of Arthur’s shoulders and held on until he could breathe again. He wanted Arthur in bed, naked and moaning.
He climbed to his feet too quickly. He had meant to drag Arthur along with him, but his vision sparkled at the edges and he stumbled under a fresh of wave of dizziness. It was possible that breathing was more important to his plans than he’d bothered to consider.
“Woah,” Arthur said as he stumbled too, halfway to his feet on Joe’s heels, clearly on board with the move to the bed. He caught Joe’s arm and held him upright. “Don’t gotta swoon,” he teased.
Joe groaned and buried his face against Arthur’s shoulder. He’d never live that down, not this century at least. Arthur wrapped an arm around him for support and closed his eyes, rubbing their noses together in a caress dripping with affection. Joe thought his heart might have stopped as it swelled with emotion, his chest tightened in a way that had nothing to do with a lack of air. He dragged Arthur in for another kiss, lips tingling from the scrape of stubble and let Arthur hold him up as he backed them towards the bed. Arthur pressed him down into the rumpled blankets. One of his knees slid between Joe’s thighs, his body settling over Joe with a pleasing weight and warmth. Arthur rocked their hips together, rough denim dragging between them.
Joe gasped at the touch and his lungs constricted against the rush of cold air. He sat up with a jolt, nearly headbutting Arthur in the nose as he hacked, lungs rattling. It lasted for an annoying length of time. He felt utterly disgusting, but rather pleased that Arthur hadn’t stopped touching him, his hand falling instead to rub soothing circles against his back.
“Sorry,” he gasped, when he could get the breath to do so. Arthur had shifted to sit beside him, their legs still tangled together. A soft laugh spilled out of him as he let his head fall forward to thump against Joe’s trembling shoulder.
“Knew you were sicker than you said.” He raised his head and pressed a gentle kiss to Joe’s temple. “Maybe you should get some rest.”
It sounded more like an instruction than some kind of gentle suggestion and some small, stubborn part of Joe wanted to ignore him and get back to what they’d been doing, but he wheezed faintly as he breathed and had gone pale and sweaty for reasons not related to Arthur touching him. It was perhaps the least sexy he had ever looked or felt. And yet, Arthur hadn’t pulled away for anything more than a direct attack, when Joe had made a valiant effort to break his nose. He also realized, with no small amount of disappointment and a hint of embarrassment, that he wasn’t even half hard after all of that. Something Arthur had surely noticed. He collapsed back against the blankets with a frustrated grunt, furious with his body for ruining his plans. And all Arthur did, damn him, was snuggle closer.
Enough time had already passed with the two of them not being together, that he wasn’t inclined to add more on to the clock. He was already counting down the short time that they would be able to enjoy… whatever this was, before Arthur went back to his people and it all went away again. Judging by Arthur’s small frown, the disappointment showed clearly on his face too. He took Joe by the chin, thumb caressing his bottom lip and tilted his head back to kiss him, softer this time. “You’re on the mend and I ain’t going anywhere.”
Joe’s breath hitched, overwhelmed by the sense that Arthur knew him, and saw him and liked him despite it all. Liked him enough to sketch him over and over again, like some kind of unwritten love letter. Joe’s own family hadn’t been as accepting of illness, even when he was just a boy. He leaned in and kissed him again, grateful beyond belief that Arthur had washed ashore in his clinic. Would it be too much to thank Charles and John for bringing Arthur to him? Probably. But the temptation was there.
Arthur kicked his boots over the side of the bed and slid down beneath the blankets. Joe allowed himself to be pulled down against Arthur’s chest as he was held from behind. He relaxed into the feeling of Arthur’s warm embrace, one arm wrapped snake like around his waist, fingers splayed low against Joe’s stomach. Warm, dry lips pressed against the back of his neck. He had been thinking that this was far from his top choice of activities, but he found that had just been the disappointment talking. As it happened, there was nowhere else he’d rather be. Wrapped up in scratchy, woolen blankets he drifted off with the smell of horse in his nose. He had the fleeting thought that he’d managed to stay away for the longest stretch yet before he finally passed out.
Joe woke to a roaring fire in an otherwise empty cabin. He dropped a hand to the spot beside him, still warm from where Arthur had lain. Outside of the only window, it was dark, but he could hear the soft whickering of Calpurnia as she grazed her way around the building, making a valiant effort to denude the landscape of all greenery. Arthur wouldn’t be far off. If only he were tucked in with Joe, where his presence would be real instead of Joe’s imagination trying to fill the empty spot beside him as it had been for months. After only a few days of sharing a bed with Arthur, he didn’t want to go without it anymore. Staring at the ceiling, Joe realized that he could simply find Arthur outside. He wasn’t stuck with a handful of imaginary morsels of Arthur, he had the real thing at his fingertips, under which he’d seemed eager and willing. If Arthur wanted to be alone, Joe would go back to bed, but it would be so much easier if he could get a quick glance, to reassure himself that it hadn’t all been a delight of his fevered mind.
He opened the door and almost tripped over Arthur, seated on one of the two creaky, decaying steps beneath the threshold. Apparently, he hadn’t gone far at all. Joe hadn’t bothered with a jacket or shoes, so the cold bit instantly through his thin shirt and made him shiver. He picked his way down the steps to stand on the grass beside Arthur, who had thought ahead and sat wrapped in one of the heavy wool horse blankets. As summer wrapped up, the cold crept in at night and gave the forest a forbidding air, with a frigid reminder that death could come swiftly in the mountains. It wasn’t enough to force him back inside yet. He followed Arthur’s contented gaze up towards the swirling canopy of stars overhead. He hadn’t seen them since well before they’d left Valentine. Grey clouds had cut them off from the sky for days, and then his own illness had kept him locked away inside. Arthur’s voice interrupted his train of thought. Joe glanced down at Arthur’s face and felt his heart constrict. It had only happened twice, and he already knew he’d never get enough of Arthur looking at him like that.
“You alright?”
“Fine,” Joe said with another shiver. He smiled, “missed you when I woke up.”
“Come over here, before you make yourself even sicker,” Arthur growled. He lifted the side of the blanket up and jerked his head towards the empty space. Even in the low light from inside the cabin, Joe could see a flush creeping up the back of Arthur’s neck. He ducked beneath the offered blanket and settled on the step. Heat blazed off of Arthur’s skin, more than a match for the night time chill. Joe had become so much more sensitive to the temperature since his dip in the Dakota, which made Arthur’s touch all the more delicious in combating the cold.
“It’s freezing. What are you doing out here?”
Arthur shrugged. “Don’t sleep indoors very often, ain’t much used to it.” Arthur went back to sharpening his knife with steady scrapes against a whetstone. A half-formed horse’s wooden head protruded from the pale piece of pine wood that Arthur was carving. He liked to watch Arthur do little tasks like this. His hands moved with grace over the tools. He’d always been enamoured with people that knew their craft well and practiced it with confidence. Arthur wanted to pretend that he wasn’t skilled or clever, but Joe knew better and awaited the day he could have a word with whoever had brought Arthur to believe that vicious lie with such sincerity. Arthur was more than those skills too, so much more. Joe wished he could help Arthur understand. He loved Arthur’s hands for all the fine work that they could do, but also simply because they belonged to Arthur.
“You saved my life.”
“Reckon we’re even on that front, more or less.” Joe could see his small smile out of the corner of his eye. He blew on the wood and a handful of soft pine curls fell to join the others in a pile at their feet. Setting the wooden horse aside, he returned to sharpening.
“Should we talk about it?” Arthur stiffened beside him, hands stilling over his whetstone. Frozen in place, he kept his eyes down, looking at the dirt between his boots. Joe slipped one hand out of the blanket and reached out to turn Arthur’s face towards him. He pressed a deep, tender kiss to Arthur’s lips. “Thank you. For showing me your journal.”
Arthur met his eyes and nodded once, swallowing hard before they dropped back to the ground. Joe listed to the side, letting his head drop to Arthur’s shoulder while they sat. He pressed their knees together. After a minute, Arthur shifted and then stopped. A few seconds later, he did it again. Joe thought maybe he’d pushed too hard. Or perhaps was simply making Arthur uncomfortable, but when he sat up, pulling his head away from Arthur's shoulder, Arthur's arm snaked out around his waist, hand settling in a loose hold on Joe's hip. Joe’s breath stopped. Arthur’s fingers left hot spots of fire against his skin.
He cuddled closer, wrapping his own arm’s around Arthur’s waist and tucking himself more comfortably against Arthur, who settled into the touch and tightened his grip. Shifting about, they twined themselves together. Arthur dropped his knife and whetstone to the ground, abandoning the task to pull Joe closer. He couldn’t remember the last time he’s simply sat and watched the stars, tucked up against another warm body. All the pressing issues that he’d had nothing but time to think about for the last few days drifted away. Their small puffs of breath mingled in the cold night air. He breathed out a contented sigh and closed his eyes, soaking in the moment for as long as he could.
Joe let out a startled yelp as a hot burst of horse breath ruffled his hair, yanking him back into alertness. Calpurnia, choosing to ignore his theatrics, lipped at his hair as she investigated his person. He hadn’t seen her since the bank robbery, but wasn’t fool enough to think she had been concerned for him, only his ability to pass along treats. Her demanding nose bumped against his pockets, nudging his entire body so that he rocked against Arthur, pushed by her heavy head. Arthur’s chuckle was a low, warm rumble against his back.
“Sorry girl, I haven’t got anything.” She pulled face her back with an offended snort and blew a damp breath into his face again. Arthur’s head tipped back with open, delighted laughter.
“Your own fault for spoiling her,” he whispered into Joe’s ear, as if he wasn’t wrapped around her hoof, wandering around the woods with his pockets full of peppermints. “Best not be expecting some kind of reward,” he said, pushing Calpurnia’s inquisitive nose away from his own pockets. “Off with you. Get. Think there’s one whole plant over there you ain’t eaten yet.”
Arms tight around Joe’s waist, Arthur pulled him close again, tucked between Arthur’s knees so that he could wrap the blanket all the way around both of them. Arthur kissed the angle of his jaw and he shivered, sighing into the embrace with Arthur’s smile pressed into his skin. He much preferred the warmth of Arthur’s breath ghosting across his neck.
“She can’t help it. She was raised in a barn, you know,” he said, just to feel Arthur’s soft laughter tickling his ear.
Arthur woke long before Joe, eyes cracking open at the first brush of sunlight on his face. He’d watched the storm clouds break apart last night, peeling away to reveal a glittering, inky black sky that promised the resurgence of warm weather in the morning. Despite that certainty, everything else was like a haze. He was walking through a dreamscape where few events made sense, and those that did still felt topsy-turvy. Joe lay beside him, blankets pulled up over his face, so that nothing but a tuft of curly dark hair peeked out. Arthur reached out to brush it off of his forehead. Because I’m allowed to do that now, he thought with a giddy rush. When he’d practically thrown his feelings at Joe by tossing the journal in his lap, he hadn’t known what to expect. Not that he’d gone in completely blind. Joe had said and done things over the last few weeks that had lessened Arthur’s doubts time and again. It was so rare that his love life worked out the way he wanted it to that Arthur had still been worried. He hadn’t expected that Joe would be horrible, but any level of rejection would have hurt.
Fortunately for Arthur, rejection didn’t seem to be on the table, or even in the room.
Inside the cabin, it was bright and warm. A happy change from the last few days of dreary skies and cold. Maybe Rhodes wouldn’t be so bad, as they tumbled into autumn, with its warmer, southern weather. Valentine’s fall would be wet and muddy, which Arthur thought they’d both endured enough of that week to last for the rest of the season. Arthur slipped out of bed, leaving Joe to sleep. He’d be lying to himself, if he said that he wasn’t a touch more invested in Joe’s recovery than he already had been. For entirely selfish reasons.
Over the next couple of days, they settled into a rhythm that comprised of Arthur working to keep them warm and fed, and Joe sleeping and driving Arthur to the brink of madness. Arthur didn’t mind the idea of working while Joe recovered, found it relaxing, even a touch domestic, but Joe chafed over it all. Pent up energy drove him mad, his body unable to keep up with his desire to be up and out of bed. Arthur tried to give him an array of quiet distractions, but they didn’t tend to last long. He powered through every chore Joe gave him before Arthur could find another one to fill his time. In the evenings, he managed to keep Joe abed with a steady supply of warm touches and kissing as Arthur read to him from the book that he’d been carrying in his saddle bags.
It was all terribly domestic, something that he had never really envisioned for himself. Even with Eliza, he’d dipped in and out so infrequently that they hadn’t settled into any kind of daily routine. He didn’t see his usual chores as domestic, just duties that needed to be done. But he found himself enjoying the quiet moments with Joe, not minding laundry or anything of the other jobs that he often found so tedious. After a while, he realized that he’d be sad for it to end. They’d made the cabin cozy and inhabitable and for a little while, everything was easy and gentle with no threats to his or any one else’s life.
One evening Arthur returned from the wood pile outside to, once again, find Joe shuffling around the cabin attempting to stoke the fire and stir the stew that Arthur had left to bubble on the stove.
“How many times–” Arthur huffed, dumping his things by the front door. “Stay in the goddamned bed.” He pulled Joe to his feet and hustled him over to the bed, where he sat back with a thump. Arthur could see goosebumps on what little flesh he had exposed to the elements, despite the toasty temperature within the cabin, and he’d gone a greenish shade of pale again. His lungs rattled on each breath out. Life was devolving into a race to see what would kill Joe first: Arthur or his lungs.
“I can’t watch you run around and do all the work.”
“Until you can get out of bed without breaking out into chills or coughing , you’re not well enough to be up.” Arthur pushed Joe’s legs back up under the blankets and tucked them firmly around him, hoping to restrain him for a little while at least.
“You’re bossy.”
“And you’re a bad patient,” Arthur snapped at him. Joe pouted and Arthur was annoyed that he found it charming, rather than ridiculous, despite his frustrations.
“Almost as bad as you,” Joe muttered.
“Oh, no. I was worse. But you think I’m an idiot, you don’t want to be like me.”
“That’s not true.” He uncrossed his arms and sighed, pulling the blankets up around himself. “You shouldn’t be doing all of the work, it isn’t fair. Besides, moving about a bit is good for patients with pneumonia, it helps your lungs heal.”
“Is that a professional diagnosis or are you just lyin’ to me so I’ll let you up?” Joe fidgeted while Arthur stoked the fire properly. After a few moments of watching Arthur moving about, he tossed the blankets down again in a huff.
“I feel useless! I could cook. That’s simple, not much standing at all.”
“I’d rather our food remain edible.” Joe scowled in response. Arthur went over and pressed a kiss to his forehead. He was happy to tease Joe, but he wasn’t willing to make him actually feel bad about the scenario.
“I don’t want you to have to take care of me,” he mumbled. Arthur sat on the edge of the bed and squeezed Joe’s knee through the blanket. He’d figured out quickly that Joe was a tactile person, rubbing up on him like a cat at every opportunity, and Arthur didn’t mind at all. He shot Arthur a wobbly, apologetic smile that did very little to make him look less miserable. He stared down at his hands, folded in his lap and murmured, “I’m not very good at this.”
“Being… idle.”
“Not sure recovering counts as bein’ idle.” Arthur tucked some of Joe’s dark hair back behind his ear. “Body’s rebuildin’ itself and repairin’ things, ain’t it?”
“You’ve spent too much time with me,” Joe snorted, rolling his eyes. Arthur waited for him to respond, some desire to comment evident in his body language. Arthur was nothing if not patient. More so, whenever it managed to annoy Joe.
Eventually, he spoke, ”you’ll start to resent me.”
“I will if you up and die on me cause you won’t rest,” Arthur responded with a crooked smile and then sobered, sensing a need for seriousness. He couldn’t imagine why Joe was worried about that. Arthur owed him and cared for him and failed to see any other way that this could turn out. He would have taken care of Joe no matter the circumstances at this point. It was a bit of a shock for him to realize that. Somewhere in the last little while, he’d become invested in Joe’s health and happiness and he wasn’t entirely sure what to do about it. It was the same old problem that he always encountered: his lifestyle wasn’t conducive to relationships with normal people, whose faces didn’t appear on wanted posters across multiple states. The universe seemed to be against it. He tried not to take it too personally.
“I don’t mind. You’ve done more’n that for me.” Joe didn’t look convinced. Arthur leaned in and kissed him. “I want to take care of you.” He kissed Joe again, pressing closer and licking into his mouth. “And if you weren’t so damn stubborn, you’d let me.”
Joe laughed as Arthur pushed him down against the bed, slotting their thighs together and rolling them to the side, kissing and stroking until Joe turned into a happy puddle beneath his hands. He stopped, with a quick peck to Joe’s lips, who looked instantly ruffled and offended. Arthur grinned. “If you want more of this , you have to get healthy enough to have it. I ain’t sure you’d survive right now.”
Arthur kissed the aghast expression off of his face, dragging them together for another slow round of necking. He trailed his hand down Joe’s side and dipped his thumb beneath the band of his trousers. Joe arched up into the touch, fingers tightening where they’d wandered into Arthur’s hair. By far, Arthur preferred this method of keeping Joe in bed.
Arthur fair considered it a miracle when Joe emerged from the cabin a few days later, looking much farther from death than he had for the week prior. He was still pale and a touch weak, but the cough had eased to the occasional bout and he’d been fever free for a while. Cold air didn’t bring him out in chill bumps at the slightest provocation and he had only fallen into short naps here and there, rather than sleeping through most of the day. Arthur also considered it a minor miracle that he hadn’t murdered Joe over the last couple of days, when it had become harder and hard to convince him to rest. He wasn’t sure that it was necessary, and Joe certainly argued that it wasn’t, but he didn’t want to take any chances. He’d seen the smallest injuries turn fatal in the blink of an eye.
Calpurnia stomped and hit Arthur with a restless slap of her tail as he cinched the strap around her flank. He smacked her rump and pointed one stern finger at her when she glared at him with one black and glassy eye. Grunting, he heaved the heavy saddle bags over her back and tied them in place. Joe went to collect more of their things for the journey, to check for anything they might have forgotten.
Now that the time had come, he didn’t really want to leave. He could have stayed in the cabin for weeks more, maybe months. Strawberry wasn’t far, an easy ride for supplies, and there was fresh flowing water a stone’s throw away. He’d already invested time in minor repairs, with some additional work he could have made it more than livable. In another time, it might have been the perfect place to while away the days with Joe. But, in the end, it didn’t suit either of them. Both had jobs to do, people to look after. Joe stepped back outside with the last of their belongings and the door shut behind him, closing on their little spot of peace.
Arthur mounted up and waited for Joe to shrug into his jacket, offering his hand to help the other man up. He swung into his seat behind Arthur, tucked warmly against him. Calpurnia shifted beneath them, displeased with the weight she was being forced to carry after so many days without any passengers larger than flies. She stomped once, jostling them, then settled. Joe grabbed Arthur and held on; Arthur could feel Joe’s nervous tension digging into his sides. One handed, Arthur grabbed Joe’s hand and tugged it around his waist, threading their fingers together where he rested them against his stomach. Joe’s soft laugh bumped against his back as he leaned into the touch and relaxed. Arthur smiled as they set off for civilization.
AO3's spell checker is viciously American and kept trying to convince me that "enamoured" was spelled without a 'u'. Sadly, it is very wrong.
Arthur flinched as water shook off of the tightly packed evergreen needles above his head, shaken loose by the passing train. Calpurnia shied away from the sound, twitching with unhappiness and causing more water to run down the back of Arthur’s neck. He watched heavy droplets battering the periwinkle petals of a bunch of columbines and felt grateful for the branches easing the downpour above them. At least they were sheltered from the worst of the downpour. Wrapped in Arthur’s heavy shearling leather jacket and Arthur’s arms, Joe was sheltered from the rain entirely.
A raucous group of lawmen outside of Wallace station had forced them to backtrack a short distance, alerting Joe and Arthur to their presence with loud laughter. Down the hill, where the trees packed together in dense thickets, they’d found a spot to hide, wedged between the station and the train tracks. Rain had begun to fall an hour into their ride, while they had been going slow to prevent Calpurnia from tiring too quickly, forced to carry the both of them and an extra set of packs. Arthur might have walked the whole way to Strawberry, if he were alone, but he didn’t think Joe would make it without exhausting himself. And, with the mud and damp, they wouldn’t have made it before dark. Gentle mist had turned into a cold deluge, so that Arthur had been considering getting off of the trail anyway. The last thing he wanted to do was try to escape or outrun the law on Calpurnia, both him and Joe together. Although, in all likelihood Arthur would have sent Joe off with Calpurnia and tried to lead the law away. He’d get them there in the end.
Somewhere in the distance, an echoing howl made Calpurnia stamp and fidget, ears flicking back and forth and eyes rolling in her head. He hated this part of the country, having run into more than his fair share of bears and wolves roving the landscape. Joe shivered and pulled closer, tucking his face in against Arthur’s neck. Warm lips passed over his skin, leaving three small kisses in their wake. Arthur had his suspicions that Joe wasn’t all that afraid of the threat of wolves, but he was happy to maintain the façade. He’d been clingy, pressed up against Arthur for most of the trip. Not that Arthur had any real complaints about that.
“Fought off two goddamn grizzlies in one day out here, you know.”
“And this is supposed to make me feel better?” Joe mumbled against his skin. Arthur grinned.
“Black bears I like, they’re cowards who’ll run for the hills soon as they smell you‘n your horse, but grizzlies look at a man on horseback and take it as some kinda challenge.”
“But you fought two of them? That’s terribly impressive,” he said, turning his head to plant a trail of kisses up the otherside of Arthur’s neck. Arthur tipped his head back and felt his hair catch in a bit of sap. He almost regretted leaving his hat hooked to Calpurnia’s saddle.
“I’ll show you the scar sometime.”
He kept talking, to fill the time.
“Wolves, they don’t much care for people. Even in packs. Humans just ain’t their cup of tea. Gotta be real hungry.” Joe slid his hands beneath Arthur’s jacket, tucking them up against the back of his shirt. “Now, cougars. They’re the real assholes of the forest.” Joe smothered his laughter against Arthur’s chest, shoulders shaking. “Take one look at a human being walkin’ along and think to themselves ‘mm-mm, lunch on the hoof’.”
Joe snorted again, then froze as the voices they’d been hiding from got closer. Hidden beneath the trees, so far from the trail, it was alarming to hear the creak of the horse’s tack as the lawmen passed them by, their voices close and loud. Arthur silently willed Calpurnia to stay calm and still. He could feel Joe holding his breath. A few heartbeats later and they were gone, splashing away down the trail.
“Do you think that’s all of them?”
“Maybe. Might wait a bit longer to be sure.” Arthur replied, tightening his hold on Joe. Despite the ice cold water making its way down his back and the suggestion of nearby dangerous predators — both human and animal — he didn’t have too many complaints about the situation.
Joe wasn’t warm enough though. Still pale and clammy. Arthur continued to feel bad about how wrongheaded things had gotten and how much chaos he’d sewn in Joe’s life. Even Joe’s breath against his throat was a touch colder than he thought it should be. Joe scraped his teeth across Arthur’s collar bone and he sucked in a cool breath of pine-scented air. Springy, needle-filled soil shifted beneath their feet.
Lawmen trotting about in the wilderness was a concern. Aside from the station, there were few settlements in the area and not a lot of places to run or hide, except for places in which Arthur had ended up at one point or another. Given that information, he didn’t take their presence as a good sign. It seemed more than likely they were searching for bank robbers in hiding. Arthur couldn’t be sure of their safety until he’d seen the wanted posters in town, but he didn’t want to risk coming in to contact with lawmen out in the wild. That wasn’t a fight he wanted to have. He yelped when Joe’s freezing cold hands found their way under his shirt, sending goosebumps rippling across his skin.
“Now that’s just mean.”
Arthur kept their going slow, to keep Calpurnia from turning an ankle in the sloppy mud around their feet and dismounted frequently to walk her through the more treacherous parts of the trail. Caught up in the euphoria of their time in the cabin, he’d almost forgotten the mountain of bullshit that awaited them back in the real world. Or he’d blocked it out at the very least, tried to forget the fact that he’d inadvertently ruined Joe’s life. It was possible that Joe had forgotten too, since he had kissed Arthur… Although, Arthur had seen enough of the kinds of decisions that Joe made to at least consider the idea that the man had lost his mind. He hadn’t shown any signs of regretting it though. Arthur wanted to relax into Joe, but he was distracted by the oncoming storm he could feel brewing ahead of them, its shape unknown. It bothered him that he didn’t have enough information to predict what might happen. There was a solid chance that everything would blow up in their faces the second they hit town. He sighed as Joe’s hands and mouth wandered aimlessly across his skin. Pine bark bit into his lower back where his shirt and jacket rode up against the trunk.
“Once we get to Strawberry, I’ll have a better idea of what’s goin’ on.”
“And how much trouble we’re in?” Arthur snorted. “Maybe no one recognized me. Might be lucky this time.” He was surprised, Joe seemed so relaxed about the whole situation.
Joe leaned back, looking puzzled. “For what?”
“Ruinin’ everything for you, I guess.” Arthur shrugged and let his hands drop to Joe’s upper arms with a gentle squeeze. “Sorry you can’t go home. Sorry it’s all a mess.”
“I liked Valentine fine, but I never really considered it home. Haven’t had anything I’d call ‘home’ in a long time.”
“Well, wherever you want to go, anywhere, wherever home is, I’ll help get ya there. Got a little money, know some people.”
“Right.” Joe pulled out of Arthur’s grip, his chilled hands sliding the rest of the way out of Arthur’s jacket. He stepped a few feet away and wrapped his arms around himself. “Anywhere.”
“It’s the least I can do.”
“Thank you,” Joe responded, sounding stilted. Arthur shivered, sad to lose what little heat Joe had been providing, but they needed to get going if they wanted to reach town before dark. He led Calpurnia out from under the trees and checked the saddle over, slipping her a wild carrot in the process to thank her for her cooperation. She crunched happily while he cinched a strap. Joe stayed beneath the tree’s sheltering branches until the last minute, when he mounted up behind Arthur. He frowned, but said nothing, when Joe didn’t press back up against him and rested his hands on Arthur’s hips, touch a bit more polite than Arthur would have liked. He nudged Calpurnia back up the trail and stopped to listen. A few moments of silence later, they rode off through a field of fireweed and sweetgrass, kicking up a fresh, sweet smell into the air. Joe remained quiet for the rest of the ride, only speaking when Arthur asked him a direct question and even then, he did little more than grunt out one word answers. Arthur missed the warmth clinging to his back.
Strawberry came into view through a gap in the rocks, glittering with lamp light. Somehow, Arthur was surprised when the drizzle kept coming after they’d arrived in Strawberry, like he’d thought the introduction of civilization would cut them off from the wilderness, the rain. Like it could hold off the weather. It was later than he’d planned, right around twilight. But the lawmen had waylaid them for a while and they hadn’t hurried. At the very least, the semi-darkness gave them a bit of cover if the law was lying in wait, ready to grab them up and lock them away.
Arthur guided Calpurnia to the message board as they passed it, browsing the combination of adverts and wanted posters. He was pleased to see neither his face, nor Joe’s. Perhaps he had gotten away from the Valentine bank robbery without being implicated. Coming as no surprise to Arthur, Micah’s was a prominent feature, repeated no less than three times. He wasn’t proud of the part he’d played in freeing Micah or what they had done to the town. He still couldn’t quite decide if helping Micah had been better or worse than leaving him to hang. Loyalty mattered, sure, but he wondered how far that went when it was directed towards someone that killed indiscriminately and revelled in the havoc they caused. He suspected he knew Dutch’s opinion, but Arthur wasn’t sold. Certainly not on Micah.
“Do I want to know?” came Joe’s sullen voice from behind him, a few feet back.
“Free and clear. Here at least,” he said with a small, crooked smile.
Joe declined the offer of a ride and walked beside Arthur to the inn, a respectable distance away. Standing in the visitor center’s foyer, dripping on their polished hardwood floors, he looked exhausted. For the last hour, they had slogged through the mud on slippery hills, leading Calpurnia behind them. By the time they’d stumbled into town, both men and their horse were soaked through and covered in mud up to their knees. Arthur ordered hot baths and food, and asked to have their clothes cleaned for the morning, all while the man behind the desk glared daggers at them for tracking in mud.
It took a few tries before Joe registered Arthur’s voice calling his name and snapped back to reality and Arthur dangling a key in front of his face. Arthur smiled at him and rattled off their room numbers upstairs, but he got only the barest twitch of a smile in return. He hoped that Joe’s reticent misery was purely because of the cold and damp. Joe took his key and disappeared up the stairs. Arthur was tempted to follow him, to make sure he was alright, but he had a few things to accomplish before night fell. He had been distracted and unfocused for hours by that point and Arthur worried. He was starting to worry that he’d done something wrong by taking them away from the cabin in the woods. Or done something to Joe, hurt him in some way. He wasn’t sure what to do about Joe’s sudden change in behaviour. Maybe he wasn’t as relaxed about the mess as Arthur had assumed.
After depositing Calpurnia at a stable and paying extra to ensure she was treated like a queen, Arthur posted a letter to Maeve and Felix, to reassure them that he and Joe were alright. He considered including the fact that he and Joe had finally started to figure their shit out, thinking that she’d get a kick out of it, but in the end he realized that they hadn’t really talked about much of anything. He hauled their packs upstairs to his room and knocked on Joe’s door. After the second knock with no response, he wandered off to take his own bath.
Although Arthur tended to eschew civilization as a general rule, he could admit that it had its perks. Many of which he’d forgotten until he was submerged up to his chin in steaming hot, citrus-scented bathwater. He looked forward to decent food, a comfortable mattress and clean clothes, all waiting for him after his bath. Bubbles tickled his skin.
He scrubbed himself from head to toe until the water went cold and his fingertips began to wrinkle, then hauled himself out to dry off and shave away nearly two weeks worth of beard growth. He pulled on fresh, clean clothes and went off to look for Joe. Either he was ignoring Arthur knocking on his door, or he’d left the hotel entirely. Arthur hoped it was the latter.
While passing by the saloon, Arthur caught sight of Joe inside, ensconced in a back corner nursing a glass of whiskey with a blank expression while he watched a handful of people swing around the dancefloor. A wall of noise met Arthur in the doorway, thrusting him firmly back into civilization, where everything was loud and populous. Cheerful, jaunty piano music danced throughout the room. Joe looked up when Arthur sat beside him with his own drink, a puzzled expression passing over his face. Arthur grew more certain that he’d done something to upset him, but struggled to believe that Joe was punishing him, or ignoring him. It simply wasn’t like him to react that way to anything. Joe had more than proven that he’d rather meet things head on.
He sat with one elbow propped on the table, chin in hand, staring out over the people moving around him as if he didn’t see them. Arthur almost wished he were frowning instead, rather than the blank, mindless look he wore now. All Arthur wanted to do was drag him in by the collar and kiss him until it slid off of his face. Not that the Strawberry saloon was the right place for that kind of thing. But he’d gotten used to being able to do so over the last week.
After a while, he went to the counter and got another round of beers. When he returned to the table, he scraped his chair to the side so that he was closer to Joe, their backs to the wall and kicked his feet up on the chair across from him, angling his upper body towards Joe. He didn’t pull away, which Arthur took as a good sign, but he didn’t seem changed much at all. Arthur wasn’t foolish enough to think that his mere presence would cheer Joe up. He wanted that to be the case, but knew better. He only hoped that it might make Joe feel a little less alone. Arthur was well acquainted with the feeling, particularly when he’d been shoved back into civilization’s tender mercies like this and needed time to adapt. At least he was used to it. He doubted Joe had much experience with the transition, born city boy that he was.
When the light began to dim with sunset washing over the town and the bar got dark, the music got louder, the people rowdier, and Arthur let himself relax into a feeling of anonymity tucked into their back corner. He laughed along with everyone else when two couples crashed into each other and nearly took out the piano player, then slipped one hand beneath the table to squeeze Joe’s thigh in the distracting chaos. He hadn’t really been thinking much when he’d made the decision. Joe jumped, startled.
For the next little while, Joe seemed less vacant, kept sneaking glances at Arthur out of the corner of his eye. Arthur couldn’t read his expression any better than that. After a while, he started to relax. He was still quiet and closed off, but looked more tense and perplexed than actively unhappy. Eventually, they relaxed back into their chairs and watched the ebb and flow of the bar patrons swirling around them.
True night had fallen by the time they left the saloon. Two tumblers of whiskey had made Arthur warm and loose and happy, but not drunk. He was sad to leave the coziness of the bar for the cold, muddy streets as they made their way back to the inn. Joe chose to walk beside him, about an arm’s length away, outside of Arthur’s reach, which felt pointed and disappointing. Arthur still wanted to reach out for him, but his body language was clear enough that he didn’t. He seemed closed off and uninterested, like he’d shut himself off from Arthur. Instead, he tucked his hands in his pockets and wandered along beside Joe in the quiet darkness.
Upstairs, past the unmanned reception area, they once again parted ways going to opposite corners of the sitting area and their respective doors. Arthur slotted his key in the lock but, standing there, he wasn’t sure that he’d be able to fall asleep without Joe tucked up against him. He’d been sleeping alone for most of his life, but now he couldn’t see the appeal anymore. He didn’t want to. It was cold, even inside the building. He’d gotten them separate rooms part as a pretense and part because he wanted to give Joe space. Arthur was used to cramped quarters, everyone living out of each other’s pockets, but Joe wasn’t. He’d had a whole building to himself not too long ago, living out of the clinic.
Now confronted with the idea of sleeping alone, he decided that he had made the wrong decision and sent a message he hadn’t intended. He wasn’t quite sure how to take it back. He turned to say something and saw that Joe, standing in a mirror of Arthur’s own position, forehead pressed to the door he slumped against, eyes shut tight. Arthur must have made some kind of noise, because the next thing he knew, Joe was looking at him with that same piercing gaze that Arthur loved and hated in equal measure. Tension filled the room like a tangible thing; Arthur could take a bite out of it if he wanted to.
"Joe—" he began and in three long strides, Joe had crossed the space between them and crowded Arthur against the door; he was in Arthur’s arms, cupping his jaw and pulling him into a searing, open-mouthed kiss. Arthur groaned into it. Sharp, smokey whiskey lingered on his tongue when Arthur licked into his mouth. There were things they needed to talk about, but Arthur couldn’t bring himself to care one whit with Joe pressed up against him.
He fumbled with the key, glad he’d slipped it into the lock before this all started, because he wasn’t sure he would be willing to stop kissing Joe long enough to get them through the door. He doubted the Strawberry welcome center would look kindly on them tearing each other’s clothes off in the sitting room. On his fourth try, the lock clicked open and them tumbled into the room. Joe kicked it shut, then whipped Arthur around and shoved him back against it all over again. Arthur grunted as the door knob dug into his kidney.
Suspenders slipped from his shoulders, pushed by Joe’s hands, which had moved on to his belt buckled before Arthur could catch up. Joe pulled away so that he could see what he was doing and Arthur panted, his lips felt bruised. Arthur’s gunbelt dropped to the floor with a thud that seemed loud in the small space and he briefly wondered if there were other guests that might be disturbed, then Joe was kissing him again and he forgot all about it. Normally graceful, Joe’s hands had turned clumsy in his haste as they popped the buttons of his shirt. He dragged Arthur in for another kiss, their teeth clicking together painfully.
Arthur was far from unwilling. Joe was healthy again. Or, well, healthier than he had been and it had been a long time since Arthur had gotten to have sex indoors, on a comfortable bed with walls and sheets and pillows; all the trappings he rarely got to enjoy. He was excited by the opportunity to do, but Joe’s hand was already down his pants, gripping him through the fabric of his underclothes and Arthur thought they might not make it to the bed. Arthur groaned into Joe’s mouth and twitched his hips.
“Joe,” Arthur tried to say, voice muffled against the other man’s lips. “Hang on a sec.”
“Do you want to stop?” Joe pulled back a bit, still pressed against Arthur, still breathing the same air.
“No. Just, slow down. We got plenty of time.” Joe let out a small, hysterical laugh.
“Right. Sure.”
“We’ve got all night,” Arthur said, leaning in to press a quick kiss to his lips. “Might as well use the bed while we got it.”
Joe’s only response was to grind their hips together with the rough slide of denim between them. He slowed, but not much. Something about him still seemed off. Arthur couldn’t put his finger on it. Joe wasn’t quite acting like himself. At least, not in any way Arthur had seen. But this whole situation was new and Joe full of surprises. His hot tongue and teeth scraping at Arthur’s jawline had taken on a desperate tinge. He wondered if he should be stopping this. If not this, he couldn’t imagine what might help Joe feel better, to drag him out of his own head for a while, where he was clearly trapped in a flurry of unhappy thoughts. Arthur felt responsible for Joe’s evident misery. Neither of them would be in this situation if it hadn’t been for the bank robbery and Arthur’s bad decisions. If he’d been a better man, Joe wouldn’t be suffering, wanted, on the run, ill and injured. He’d have his clinic and his work and his stable life. No matter how much Arthur cared, he’d still messed things up for Joe.
“I’m better,” Joe whispered against his lips, “I’m fine.” He kissed the underside of Arthur’s jaw. “I want this, if you do.”
Arthur grabbed Joe’s collar and dragged him into another kiss, angling his head to push it deeper. Joe’s tongue pressed against his lips until they parted, bringing that sharp whiskey-bite into his mouth again. Wrapping his arms around Joe’s waist, Arthur pulled him closer. Joe’s chilled hands caressed his neck and slid up the nape into his hair, where he buried his fingers, sending a shiver down Arthur’s spine. He’d been cold since the river, like his body had forgotten how to generate heat all on its own. Judging by the flush on his cheeks, that wasn’t quite true. Arthur found himself enjoying the tingling contrast between Joe’s cold hands and his own flushed skin.
Joe finished with Arthur’s buttons and tugged his shirt tails free, then his undershirt, and slid his hands around Arthur’s exposed waist. Arthur’s abdominal muscles jumped at the cool touch. Joe’s thumb traced the bullet scar on his flank, the only remnant of the wound that had first brought Arthur to the clinic. Arthur, feeling exposed, started in on Joe’s clothes, fumbling and distracted by Joe’s hands sliding down the curve of his ass as he began to push Arthur’s jeans down. Joe pressed a kiss to the pulse point in his neck, dragging his lips along the sensitive skin to nip at the skin of his throat. Freshly shaved, the sensation felt novel and delightful. Arthur hadn’t had anyone focus on his neck before and he found that he liked it, enjoying the feeling of someone’s teeth at his throat who didn’t want to kill him.
Joe returned his attention to Arthur’s mouth, sucking and biting at his lower lip. They fell into a rhythm, kissing and working away at each other’s clothes. Arthur’s skin burned. It had been a too long since he’d last done this. He slid his hands down Joe’s sides, careful to avoid his wound from his trip down the river, although it was healing well. As his hand floated over the bandage, his heart skipped a beat. Joe had almost died in that river, before they could ever experience this. Arthur hadn’t quite realized how devastating that would have been. His hands clenched tighter, digging into Joe’s waist.
He dragged their hips together, slid his right leg between Joe’s and rocked up, pulling a gasp out of him. He was making slow progress with Joe’s clothing, distracted as he was by Joe’s hands and lips and the urge to touch. Joe’s single-minded determination hadn’t been impeded at all and now Arthur stood slouched against the door, half-dressed, in complete disarray: jeans unbuttoned, undershirt rucked up his chest and belt abandoned on the floor. His hand had been working its way back into Arthur’s pants, but he pulled away. Arthur made a noise, not exactly happy about the development.
But Arthur got to experience Joe’s scrutiny in an entirely new context. His face went hot under the look on Joe’s face, like he was admiring Arthur’s debauched appearance in the room’s low light. Joe had never looked at him quite like that before and he found he wanted to see a whole lot more of it. But still, he couldn’t help himself, he scoffed at Joe’s appreciative hum.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” Joe asked, with one eyebrow raised, finishing off the rest of his own buttons.
“Ain’t much to look at.” Arthur shrugged. Joe opened his mouth to respond and then rolled his eyes instead. It was one of the first sparks of Joe’s personality to shine through that evening. Figured that Arthur would simply annoy it out of him. He yanked Arthur’s shirts up over his head and pushed into Arthur’s space and dropped to his knees, shoving Arthur’s hips back against the door. Arthur shifted away from the doorknob, which was starting to get a touch too familiar with his spine. Joe carried on where he’d left off, pulling his pants down his thighs. Arthur’s head dropped back and cracked against the door. He groaned, half from the pain, half from the intense heat of Joe’s mouth suddenly wrapped around his cock. It seemed Joe saw something he liked.
His hands dropped to Joe’s shoulders and gripped his shirt in balled fists. Joe’s hands held his thighs, pressing his hips back against the door. Joe did something with his tongue and Arthur’s hands convulsed, vision sparkling as a pleasant pressure shivered along his spine. He twitched his hips forward and and a hand on his abdomen shoved him back. Joe pulled part way off and looked up at Arthur, lips still wrapped around the tip of his cock and grabbed one of Arthur’s hands. He cooperated as Joe guided it into his own hair at the back of his head. It was just long enough for Arthur to hold, sweeping a few stray bits of fringe out of his eyes, so that he could see them better. In the room’s dim light, they were so dark they were almost black. Then he sank down on Arthur’s full length without breaking eye contact. Arthur’s hand tightened in his hair and he hummed, satisfied, turning his full attention back to licking and sucking. Arthur started to worry about his heart and almost came on the spot. Joe’s typical intensity carried through in every swipe of his tongue, the attention bordered on too much for Arthur.
He gathered Joe’s hair in his fist and, as he pulled back to swirl his tongue around the tip of Arthur’s cock, he tugged and turned Joe’s face to the side. Eyes squeezed shut, he panted and shuddered against the door, trying to hold off before this was all over too soon. When he opened them again, Joe watched him with an expression both adoring and mischievous, more of his personality coming back out of his earlier silences. Head still turned to the side, he locked eyes with Arthur and ran his lips along the underside of Arthur’s cock.
Arthur grabbed his open shirt and hauled Joe back to his feet. Joe stumbled forward, crashing into him and shoving one denim-clad leg between Arthur’s, scraping rough fabric against his erection. Arthur let out a strangled groan at the almost-painful sensation. Joe laughed out an apology against his throat while Arthur grabbed at his trousers and worked the fly open, taking him in hand. His laughter turned into a rough gasp at the touch.
One handed, Arthur pushed Joe’s pants down his thighs while he jerked him slowly, far softer than Joe had been. He drank down the small, guttural sounds that Joe was making, the soft puffs of hot breath against his neck. Having shoved both of their pants off and kicked their boots to the side, Arthur let go a moment and reached for Joe’s shirt, only to be stopped by a hesitant hand. Joe stayed pressed up against him, chest heaving, but wouldn’t meet his eyes anymore. Arthur let go. It was a touch awkward, being the only one completely naked, but he wouldn’t have forced Joe to do anything uncomfortable. He grabbed Joe’s waist instead, pulling him close and and rolling their hips together, hot and insistent.
Joe laughed short and rough, weaving his hands into Arthur’s hair. He sounded giddy. Joe’s head tipped back, exposing his neck and Arthur took full advantage, kissing him again. He ran teeth and tongue over the taught cords of his neck, the soft spot behind his ear and the edge of his jaw. He tasted fresh and clean with the same lingering citrusy scent as the inn’s bath soap. Joe’s hands tightened in Arthur’s hair and turned his head to the side, so that he could lick into his mouth again. Arthur reached down to grip them both in one calloused hand. Joe groaned into his mouth, thrusting his hips.
“God that’s good,” Joe managed to choke out, breath coming in stuttering puffs. Arthur chuckled. He pulled away from Arthur for heartbeat and grabbed the bottom of his undershirt, yanking it and the button-up over his head. Hair tousled and eyes glazed, he looked the exact right amount of rumpled for Arthur’s liking. He backed towards the bed, pulling Joe along with him.
With Joe’s arms around his shoulders, Arthur hooked his hands beneath his thighs and hauled him up into his arms, tipping back onto the bed at an angle with Joe straddling his hips. Arthur tried not to hit too hard, but the old brass bedstead rattled beneath them. Joe laughed. As he tipped forward on to his hands, the medallion around his neck swinging on its leather cord to smack Arthur in the face.
“Sorry,” he said, tossing it over his shoulder and out of the way. Arthur made a quick, distracted mental note to ask about it later.
“Better that than your skull.” Joe’s eyeroll started out sarcastic and ended on a note of pleasure as Arthur took him in hand again, stroking slowly. Joe curled over his hand to kiss at the junction between his neck and shoulder, dragging his teeth against the muscle there, thrusting against Arthur’s stomach.
“What d’you want to do?” Arthur asked, baring his throat again. Joe took the hint and worked a leisurely nibble up the side of his neck. He had some idea, but clarity was always helpful.
“Do you have oil?” Arthur nodded. Joe pressed their bodies together again and kissed Arthur before he slid off the bed.
“Saddlebag. Small one, left side.” Arthur rolled on his side to watch him. He rummaged around until he made a triumphant noise and held up a small glass bottle. He pushed at Arthur until he rolled back over and straddled his hips again. Before Arthur could ask anymore questions, Joe had unscrewed the cap, poured oil onto his fingers, and reached behind himself. He groaned and rocked back while Arthur ran his hands across Joe’s torso, alternating between the soft scrape of calloused skin and the sharp bite of fingernails. He looked amazing on top of Arthur: head thrown back and eyes closed; lips parted by soft, rapid panting; spine bent in one taught arch; skin flushed and glistening.
When he reached for more oil, Arthur dipped his fingers too and slid one in alongside Joe’s. He wrapped his other hand around Joe’s cock, adding the remaining oil as he tugged, enjoying the broken noises that fell from Joe. He pulled out when Joe did, hissing as cold oil dripped on his cock too. Joe jerked him a few times then leaned forward and guided Arthur in. Arthur let him set the pace. He waited until Joe began to move with a slow roll of his hips, then thrust upwards in one long, slow glide; then another. Joe let out a sound that was half-gasp, half-whimper and oh, how Arthur wanted to hear that sound from him. He bucked up harder and faster.
Arthur ran his hands up Joe’s thighs, rubbing his thumbs into his hip bones, wrapping his hands around Joe’s waist and holding on. Joe braced his hands on Arthur’s thighs and rocked back, rolling his hips until Arthur saw stars. Nothing mattered for that brief span of time, both of them moving against each other, dragging raw noises out of each other, not thinking about anything else. Joe set a relentless pace; Arthur gave himself over to it, let it happen.
“Arthur, Arthur,” he groaned, voice ragged. “Please”. An orgasm crept down Arthur’s spine, building with each thrust and roll of hips. He wrapped a hand around Joe’s cock and began to stroke, dragging his lover along with him. A few quick pulls and Joe clenched around Arthur, coming on his chest with a gasped cry. Arthur thrust up into the tight heat of him a few more times and came with a white-hot orgasm, buried to the hilt in Joe.
He collapsed forward against Arthur, trembling, and brushed their mouths together, smearing a mess between them. It was too soft and formless to be a kiss, a simple drag of their lips against each other. Arthur wrapped an arm around his waist and hauled him closer. Heart pounding, he pressed his face into Joe’s hair, burrowing in the soft, sweat-soaked locks. After a while, Joe twisted around so that he was half draped over Arthur, legs tangled together and Arthur kissed him deep and slow. Arthur’s fantasies hasn’t even been able to keep up with Joe and he already yearned for more, mind wandering to the future as he held Joe. He smiled, fond and happy.
“I should go. So that you can sleep.”
Arthur’s wandering mind took a moment to catch on to the meaning behind Joe’s words. He pulled away — not to dislodge Joe, he didn’t want to — but far enough that he could see Joe’s face as he spoke. Resigned sadness lay written across his features again. Exhaustion made it hard for Arthur to analyze the change in Joe’s behaviour, back to where it had been at the start of the evening. Joe tried to look away again; Arthur held his chin in place and asked, “Did I do something wrong here?”
“What?” Joe said, voice filled with genuine surprise. “No, of course not.”
“What’s wrong then?”
“I don’t know what you mean.”
Arthur gave him a flat, unimpressed look. Bullshit wasn’t going to fly with him. “You’ve been miserable the whole day. Most people at least pretend to enjoy sleepin’ with me.”
Joe rolled away and slid out of bed. “Hang on now.” Arthur lunged forward and grabbed his wrist. Joe stopped, didn’t fight it, but didn’t look at Arthur either. Arthur was overwhelmed with the sensation that he couldn’t let Joe leave without talking about this, or he’d never understand Joe’s sudden misery that afternoon and they might not recover. Sex was grand, but the last thing he wanted to do at this point was lose Joe over a misunderstanding or a mistake.
“You got me my own room,” he pointed out, like Arthur was being slow on purpose. Arthur frowned.
“Thought you’d appreciate some space. Didn’t mean I wanted you to sleep there. Never gave me a chance to say otherwise.” Arthur rubbed his thumb against the inside of Joe’s wrist. “I’d rather you stay.”
“I can’t,” he said, shoulders slumping. “It’ll hurt too much.”
“What do you mean?” Arthur asked, stomach dropping right out through his feet. Maybe leaving the cabin had been his mistake and Joe had finally realized that this was all Arthur’s fault. He was going to lose someone he cared about, again.
“Because this–whatever this is–it’s over now. You’re gonna go back to your people and I’m gonna go back to Valentine, or wherever it is you send me.” His breath hitched on the last word and he sounded close to tears. “And that’s it. You’ll go back to your life and I’ll–I’ll go back to whatever’s left of mine. We’ll see each other when– if you get a chance to visit.”
“Wait a second. I never meant it like that.” Arthur rolled up into a seated position and tugged his wrist, turning him around. “Don’t gotta go anywhere you don’t want. Stay right here, if that’s what you want.” He stumbled to explain.”I don’t want you to go anywhere, I figured that’s what you’d want. You had a good life in Valentine, ‘til I ruined it all, thought you’d want it back eventually.”
“You have to go back–to your folks.”
“I do, but I planned on taking you with me. Least ‘til we figured some things out.” They had definitely forgotten to discuss a few important details. Arthur tugged again and Joe dropped back to the bed beside him with a thump. Arthur wrapped an arm around him and titled his chin until he could kiss him. “Come with me. Please.”
Joe still looked hesitant. Arthur kissed him again, grinning with roguish intent. “I promise I’ll make it worth your while,” he whispered. Soft, watery laughter bubbled out of Joe. Sobering, he said, “if you don’t want to sleep with me, that’s your choice, but I’d like it if you stayed.” Joe held his gaze for a long, drawn out moment and for once, Arthur didn’t feel himself flushing. He meant every word and wanted Joe to see it. A smile crawled across Joe’s face, gentle and tentative.
“I’ll stay. I’d like that.” Joe pecked a quick kiss to his lips, eyes soft. “One second.”
Satisfied that Joe wasn’t going to leave, Arthur rolled over and sprawled against the pillows with one arm thrown over his eyes. He was astonished to find that he now knew someone less straightforward with their feelings than himself. Writing in a journal was one thing, spilling your heart to someone another thing entirely and Arthur had never been good at the latter, but Joe was even worse. He heard Joe moving around and a moment later a damp cloth landed on his chest with a smack. Arthur winced and moved his arm to glare at Joe as he wiped himself down.
“Persnickety, ain’tcha?”
Joe smiled at him. Arthur suspected it was meant to be a cheeky kind of grin, but it came across as fond instead. Or maybe that had been Joe’s intention afterall. He should stop assuming things. Cleaned up, Joe crawled back into bed beside Arthur, curling around him with his head on Arthur’s shoulder.
“You thought I was going to send you away and end it.” Arthur said. “Is that why you been squirrely all day?”
“I am not squirrely. ”
“Squirrliest man I know. Gonna find you up a tree one’a these days, building a nest.” Arthur jerked when Joe sank retaliatory teeth into his shoulder.
“I thought the cabin was all the time we’d get. Nothing like this ever lasts long for me.” He sighed. Arthur could sympathize. No one ever wanted to stick with him either, not romantically, not in the long term. He understood why, but it never made it hurt less. He wondered what Joe's history with that was. “Longest relationship I’ve ever had is my best friend Felicity.”
“Twenty-five years, give or take.” Arthur pulled the quilt and rough cotton sheets up over them. Goosebumps were breaking out across Joe’s skin as their sweat cooled and chilled them. Joe shifted and settled. “We got in a fight as school kids. I bit her. We’ve been friends every since.”
“So, the biting is normal for you.”
“You know what? I’m going to go sleep in my own room.” Joe said with mock outrage, kicking at the blankets and rolling away. Arthur grabbed him around the waist and pulled Joe’s back flush against his chest, laughing. He pressed his nose to the back of Joe’s neck and breathed deep, kissing the top of his spine. Joe relaxed into him, muttering under his breath.
He whispered against Joe’s skin, “All that time in the cabin and ya never said anything?” Joe nestled into him, tipping his head to the side so that Arthur could mouth at his neck. Joe gnawed at his lip, thinking on a response.
“You know when you’re little and you’re afraid of whatever’s in the darkest corner of your bedroom, but you don’t want to light a lamp, because then you’ll know what’s there?” Arthur huffed in understanding. He did know. There were plenty of monsters in the dark corners of his life and he was afraid to illuminate any of them. “I was afraid of what you might say.”
“Don’t really know what to do, now that you’re stickin’ around.” Arthur admitted. He found the conversation easier when he couldn’t see Joe’s face. “Not exactly used to it.”
“I don’t want to be anywhere else right now.”
“After all the shit I put you through? Bein’ shot at and half-drowned and branded a criminal?”
“Experienced plenty of those things before I even met you, Arthur. Plenty worse things, too.”
“Sure, but it’s not like you’re suddenly fine with all the low down shit I get up to,” he said. Joe didn’t say anything for a long while, but not because he’d fallen asleep. Arthur worried that he’d prematurely poked a hornet’s nest that he was too tired to deal with after the day they’d had.
“It’s not like you’re okay with all of it either.” Arthur didn’t have a response for that.
I can't look at this any longer, so here you go. Thus ends Act 1 of 3. Enjoy!
In the quiet breath before dawn, Joe startled awake. Grasping hands and darkness. Rough rope cutting into the delicate skin of his neck, sharp pain and the panicked, rancid smell of fear. Staring up at the ceiling, he lay in bed, heart hammering in his throat. It beat so hard he worried that it might actually wake Arthur, whose face was pressed against his chest. Soft breaths tickled the sensitive spot behind his ear. One arm and part of Arthur’s leg were thrown across Joe, a warm, comforting presence, despite nightmare-sweat chilling on his skin and making him shiver.
He didn’t want to wake Arthur, or to disrupt the little bubble of silence that had filled the room in the early morning hours. Not that he didn’t enjoy Arthur, or talking to Arthur or the recently discovered touching Arthur, but there was always the chance that Arthur would wake up and regret the night before. For now, Joe could relax and live in the maybe, instead of the no. He kept replaying the night before; shocked, delighted and a little bit confused. He’d been so certain and so miserable, mostly about Arthur, but a few other things too. Now there was an unsteady sense of chaos all around him, like sand shifting beneath his feet. He didn’t exactly mind — it brought some good surprises, like Arthur’s wonderful hands moving over him and the beautiful flush of his throat, head thrown back as he came. Still, he’d always been happier with stability, knowing what came next. He’d happily let go of a little control if it meant more of that.
Arthur’s chest rose steadily beside him, with a gentle snore. His cuddling didn’t surprise Joe. He’d had a few chances to get used to it, even before the cabin. It was nice, too. Joe wasn’t used to it, from anyone. Relationships weren’t a major part of his general purview. He felt awkward, with one arm losing feeling beneath Arthur’s head and his right side burning hot and sweating where Arthur was mashed against him. Arthur’d called him persnickety the night before, teasing, but he didn’t like to be dirty. He didn’t think living rough and a lack of bath’s had to go hand in hand. Arthur stirred, arm tightening around Joe’s waist. He chose to ignore the sticky sweaty awfulness.
Damp earth and bruised grass permeated the air, cut through with the sharp, ozone-tang of a storm on the horizon. Mere hours ago, he could hardly imagine this scenario, for all the pain it caused, longing crawling up his throat to choke him. Now, satisfaction clung to his muscles with a pleasant ache. He basked in the press of Arthur against him. He still felt unsettled by his dreams, but a deep-seated sense of affection lodged beneath his sternum and did a lot to dispel the sensation.
Over the last little while, learned that Arthur was an early riser (and forgave him...mostly), but if he didn’t fall back to sleep soon, he’d be exhausted the next day when they set out for Arthur’s camp down south. He drifted off for what felt like seconds, only to wake up when a hand moved across his stomach. Pale pink light dusted the tops of the trees outside the windows, meaning that he’d been asleep longer than he’d imagined. Arthur pressed a kiss to his shoulder, then ran his lips lightly along the tip of one long scar that crossed from his left shoulder to the top of his right hip. He responded with a sleepy sigh.
“Mornin’,” Arthur said, with a touch of hesitation in his voice, resting a hand on Joe’s upper arm. Joe acknowledged him with a soft grunt and wriggled closer. He felt Arthur relax. “I know you ain’t much of a mornin’ person...”
“No, I’m not,” he mumbled into the pillow, closing his eyes. He never had been, much to the chagrin of his early-rising father, who couldn’t fathom his son’s apparent dislike of dawn exercise and coffee before the birds had begun to chirp. It often made him wonder why he’d chosen to surround himself with bright-eyed and bushy-tailed medical students for so many years of his life. How they all had so much energy first thing in the morning had always baffled him. His attitude hadn’t improved while he’d been ill either, not least because Arthur had let him sleep late every day.
Arthur gave his arm an encouraging rub, then moved on to trail a hand along his ribs. It was still so early. So, so early. He drowsed an hour or two and he wanted to go back to sleep, wait until the sun had actually warmed the air; Arthur was already awake and perky, particularly if the hard cock digging into his thigh meant anything. They did, presumably, have a long day ahead of them to get where they were going. Suddenly, Arthur’s gentle wake up made a disgusting amount of sense.
“We have to get an early start, don’t we?” Joe groaned, horrified by the realization. Arthur’s hand roamed up and down his side, the smile pressed into his shoulder was answer enough. He buried his face in the pillow, smothering another groan that had less to do with Arthur’s wandering hands than he would have liked. Downy pillow fluff garbled his next words, “you’re a menace.”
“Incentive?” Arthur drawled, voice rasping in Joe’s ear as his hand finally drifted lower. That voice made Joe’s knees go weak when it wasn’t whispered directly into his ear. Arthur rolled between his legs with a mischievous grin and began kissing his way down Joe’s chest. He hadn’t been certain what would happen when Arthur woke up and remembered everything, but he was happy with the results.
“Wish I’d said something sooner,” he mumbled against Arthur’s shoulder half an hour later, when the sun was finally up. In the few short minutes that they’d been laying together, he’d gone a bit melancholy, dwelling on regret. He should have spoken up earlier. “We’ve missed out on so much time.” Arthur chuckled, stroked a hand up Joe’s bicep. Sleepy and blissed out, Joe didn’t fight the urge to keep things to himself. “I’ve wanted you for ages, you know.”
“Ages, huh?” Arthur asked, ann odd tone to his voice. “How long?”
“Not sure exactly.” He frowned, thinking about it. He couldn’t pinpoint one particular moment where he’d switched over from admiring Arthur and enjoying his company to wanting him. With a slightly confused smile, he asked, “does it matter?”
“Tryin’ to figure out how long you been pinin’ for me.” Joe burst out laughing and palmed Arthur’s face, shoving at him.
“Go away.”
“Come on, admit it.”
“Never,” he laughed and started to climb out of bed, indignant, but Arthur pulled him back in and kissed him, far too amused with himself. Joe could see his face again, eyes like a mountain pond pale, shifting blue-green. An unnamable emotion clutched at his chest, one that he was afraid to address at the moment, with so much else going on. He's well aware of his own feelings, that Arthur's rugged, handsome appeal was only the tip of the iceberg, all the rest of it buried beneath the water, out of sight out of mind. Affection, fondness, lust, boredom, all were acceptable explanations in his own, personal experience, but anything additional to that tended to be frowned upon and he couldn’t bear to hear what Arthur’s response might be. Arthur liked him, that much was obvious, and more than Joe had expected. He could live with that.
After trading a few lazy kisses, Arthur rolled over him — pressing a quick kiss to his forehead — and climbed out of bed, while Joe burrowed deeper into the covers and the warm patch that Arthur left behind. He tugged on pieces of clothing as he found them scattered around the room. Joe propped his head on one hand and watched.
“I could learn to like mornings,” he added, while Arthur bent over and pulled on his discarded jeans. He grinned as a blush appeared on the back of Arthur’s neck. “Where are you going?”
“Gonna go see if we’re wanted yet. Pick up a few supplies. Check on Calpurnia.” He buckled his gun belt on and grabbed his satchel. He smiled at Joe, who had no desire whatsoever to leave the warm nest of blankets Arthur had just vacated. “You can sleep a little longer if you want.”
“Are you saying that you woke me up early unnecessarily ?” he asked. He looked aghast as Arthur pecked a kiss against his lips and headed for the door.
“You weren’t complainin’ five minutes ago.”
Joe fell back against the pillows and pulled the quilt back up over himself, burrowing deeper and ignoring Arthur’s laughter as he walked around the room. He wondered how long Arthur’s happy, open affection would last outside of their room, out in the real world. It felt like each time he and Arthur grew closer, the bubble of peace around them constricted. He decided to drink it in now, while he could, because he didn’t know how long it would last. Whatever happened, he knew it would be different when they joined up with the rest of Arthur’s crew.
In no time at all, they were bathed and packed, dressed in clean clothes — new in Joe’s case, thanks to Arthur — and ready to hit the road. Calpurnia’s glossy chestnut coat shone in the light, looking the cleanest that Joe had ever seen. He cooed and offered her some of the dried fruit from his breakfast, running his hand over her silky neck. He held the reins while Arthur strapped on the saddle bags, now filled with new supplies. Joe wandered away while Arthur checked Calpurnia’s various straps and buckles, making sure everything was secure. He wanted to get a better look at the sign board from the previous night. Hurried footsteps alerted him to Arthur following, before a hand grabbed at his arm and turned him around.
“We gotta get goin’.” Joe frowned and glanced at the board again. Arthur winced and tugged at his upper arm, pulling him towards the horse. A brand new poster fluttered in the breeze, crisply printed with fresh ink.
“What’s on the poster, Arthur?”
“Nothin’.”
“Arthur.”
“It ain’t important.” His hand tightened on Joe’s arm, voice dropping to a whisper. He yanked his arm away from Arthur, who made only a cursory attempt at stopping him, and strode over to the wanted posters. On the new piece of paper, he learned that a sizable reward was being offered for information about the bank robbery in Valentine and the names or descriptions of anyone involved. All of the blood drained out of his face. Arthur stood behind him, hands shoved in his pockets, guilt twisting his mouth. “No one saw your face. No one knows you was there.”
“Doesn’t matter. Someone will piece it together, sooner or later.” Nausea swooped through his gut. “Any chance one of your people will turn me in? Hardly any of them know me.”
“No. They know me, they trust me. None of them’s got the balls to try anything.” Joe wanted to believe him, but he could see the hesitancy on his face.
“Sodomy is illegal you know.”
“Pretty sure that’s the least of my crimes.”
“Depends who you ask…,” Joe muttered as Arthur led him back towards Calpurnia. She had picked her way across the muddy road to stand on a clear patch of flourishing greenery, which she had dedicated herself to clear cutting in their absence.
“I’m used to being a criminal.” Arthur’s cheeky smile did nothing to assuage his concerns, although it did make his heart flutter a little in the middle of the street. Joe had been witness to plenty of crime and it wasn’t as if he was pure as the driven snow, or anything like that, but now he was a wanted man. It was a lot to process. He wasn’t used to being a criminal. Not in this capacity. In the last few weeks, he’d broken more laws than the rest of his life combined, mostly on Arthur’s behalf. He’d killed O’Driscolls, robbed a bank, attacked a lawman, run from arrest and punched more than one Pinkerton. His father had cut him off from the family money when he’d refused to go home, so he’d lost his moral footing and the cash he’d once used to sustain it. He’d lost almost everything in the blink of an eye. Worse, the consequences of his actions were only now sinking in. His clinic and all the good he’d been able to do with it were gone, he’d left his Lucy without a job or any income, left patients high and dry, put friends in danger and committed crimes that came with a noose if he were caught. And, he was going to live with a gang of wanted thieves and con artists and murderers. Perhaps it was time he got used to being a criminal.
“Arthur! Christ, son. We were worried sick about you!” Dutch shouted out Arthur wound through the trees, Joe riding pillion behind him. Calpurnia had carried them the whole distance with minimal complaint and Arthur made a mental note to shower her with praise and treats at the first opportunity. She’d done well over the long journey, carrying two grown men and all their supplies.
“Keep your shirt on Dutch, I’m fine.”
Arthur pulled up to the horse hitches as people crowded around, calling greetings and concern. Joe slipped off of Calpurnia’s saddle and retreated from the pack, while Arthur was slapped on the back. Arthur couldn’t pick out individual questions from the chaos — Where have you been? What happened? Who’s that? Are you hurt? Where’s the money? A few faces were missing from camp, but there were enough to drown out Arthur’s thoughts with the cacophony.
“Alright, alright. Get back to work, you pack of fools,” Arthur said, raising his voice above the noise. In secret, he was pleased by the boisterous greeting, but he worried that it might overwhelm Joe. Most people broke away, still shouting at Arthur in their excitement. A few of the less invested individuals wandered back to their jobs. Dutch and Hosea stayed close to talk, while Charles and John lurked nearby, inconspicuous as a pack of dogs after table scraps. Hosea dragged him into a hug, thumping his back, but Dutch’s attention had turned to Joe lurking in the background.
“Friend of yours Arthur?” Dutch asked. Arthur turned and nodded his head at Joe, gesturing towards Dutch and Hosea. As he approached, Arthur saw the genuine rattling of his nerves at being this close to the camp. Regret gripped his heart, once more, over the situation he’d landed Joe in, now dragging him to stay with a bunch of wanted outlaws. It wasn’t ideal, Arthur knew that, but he didn’t see another choice until they either cleared Joe’s name or the suspicion for the robbery in Valentine slipped to someone else. Joe shook both men’s hands as he introduced himself, shaking firmly. It was more than Arthur had gotten out of him the entire day. He’d been near silent since they’d left Strawberry. Best behaviour, he supposed.
“Doctor Barro–uh, Joseph.”
“Nice to see you again, Doc.” Hosea said. Joe’s responding smile was small, but real. It reached his eyes, when most of the others hadn’t.
“He was with us during the bank robbery, Dutch. Got caught up in it when we ran outta there. Saved my life when one of the sheriff’s men grabbed me.”
“Lenny told me about that. Said the last thing he saw was the two of you riding off into the hills together with half of the money.” Arthur snapped his fingers, and reached into Calpurnia’s saddle bags, retrieving the cash he’d kept from the job, minus the cost of their hotel room in Strawberry and his own share. Dutch accepted the money, still stony faced. “We were starting to worry you’d run out on us.”
“I’d never do you like that, Dutch. You know me.” Hosea frowned at Dutch. Arthur was certain that Hosea hadn’t doubted his return. “He’s gonna stay with us for a bit, get back on his feet.”
“Welcome to camp, doctor,” Dutch said with a stiff smile. “Come talk to me, when you get a chance Arthur. We’ve plans to discuss.” Arthur nodded as he walked away.
“Don’t mind Dutch, he doesn’t like change is all.” Hosea’s welcome was far friendlier, as he set a hand on Joseph’s shoulder. “You’re welcome to stay as long as you need. We always have someone around here needing stitches.”
“So long as you contribute!” Pearson shouted from the supply wagon nearby. “I ain’t feeding people who don’t do there share.”
“Good think you ain’t in charge of who gets fed around here then.” Mrs. Grimshaw added, revealing that people around camp had been listening in far more than Arthur’d thought. He pinched the bridge of his nose. How he’d gotten crammed in with a bunch of busy bodies who couldn’t mind their own business, he’d never know. They were all thieves, every last one of them. Weren’t thieves supposed to be discreet?
“‘Course I’m in charge! I’m doing the cooking ain’t I?”
“Not if I shove you in that stew pot, Mr. Pearson.”
“I’m happy to work,” Joe said, not near loud enough to be heard by anyone accept Arthur, since the clamour had returned and folks were shouting back and forth across the camp. He glanced at Arthur, who offered him a crooked smile.
For now, Joe would have to cram into the same tent as him. It was the only one left with any room. He asked Grimshaw for a second cot on the way by. He had a chest full of spare clothes, blankets in the wagon, and enough space beneath the canopy if he rearranged some things. It would be cozy, but what sleeping arrangement in camp wasn’t, with everyone living in each other’s pockets. Arthur didn’t even need to know Joe as well as he did to read the misery on his face. From a house to a cot in the middle of nowhere, none of his own things, surrounded by strangers and criminals, of course he wasn’t happy. Despite the eyes of the camp on them — pretending that they weren’t staring, and doing a poor job of it — he set a light hand on Joe’s arm.
“It won’t be for long, I promise.” Joe glanced up at him with a puzzled expression and nodded. “Take anything you need, what’s mine is yours. And folks around here are nice. Mostly. Holler for me, if you need anything.” Arthur rubbed at the back of his neck. He wanted to do something comforting, but Joe didn’t seem like he’d accept that at the moment and Arthur didn’t want to push him.
“Doctor?” Both men looked up at the soft spoken question. Arthur hadn’t even heard Mary-Beth approach, which told him that he was more distracted than he’d realized. Dangerous, in his line of work. “We were just going to have something to eat, we thought you might like to join us.”
“You’re that doctor from Valentine, right? Stitched a few of these fools up for us, if I remember. Come have a seat.” Karen called from her place near the fire, where she was ladling an undefined stew into bowls for herself and the others.
“Arthur Morgan, if you think I’m hauling this bed over there for you, you got another thing coming!” Arthur smiled at Joe and waved him off. Mary-Beth took his arm and led him over to the food, where Tilly stood waiting with a bowl for him. Arthur trotted over to help Susan wrestle the spare cot out of their supply wagon. He glanced up to see Charles giving Joe’s hand a welcoming shake that Joe returned with another real smile. Arthur couldn’t hear what they were saying, but he was glad that Charles had gone over to chat with him. A small cluster of others gathered around, with even Sadie lurking on the outskirts. Arthur wasn’t too worried. Most folks would get along with Joe fine. He tended to inspire affection in odd ways — like Maeve and Felix, and a whole host of recovered patients that brought him gifts in lieu of money for his services — and Arthur was sure it would carry through to many of the others.
After he finished setting up, rearranging canvas and crates to make some additional space, Arthur made his way over to Dutch’s tent. He paused outside. Over the quiet music issuing from the tent, he could hear Dutch and Hosea’s voices. Not arguing, exactly, but there was tension between them.
“Dutch, you have to admit that having a doctor around camp could be useful. You know the kind of trouble we get in to.”
“I don’t like him. We’re having enough trouble with the Pinkertons, who’s to say he isn’t some kind of spy.”
“He ain’t.” Arthur said, knocking the tent flap aside with one hand. “He ain’t a fuckin’ Pinkerton spy , Dutch, Jesus.”
“Good to see you Arthur.” Hosea said, leaned back in his chair, looking casual and relaxed.
“Hosea,” Arthur nodded.
“You can’t vouch for him Arthur, you hardly know the man. Couple’a doctor’s visits ain’t enough to go off of, not with everything we have on the line.”
“Dutch, you gotta trust me.”
“After you went and disappeared for two whole weeks, with half the money from the bank?” Dutch’s jaw ticked, incredulous. Arthur hesitated. A few months, half a year ago, Arthur would have known better how to navigate this situation, but Dutch had been so off-kilter that he wasn’t quite sure what to do.
“You have to admit having our own doctor around camp could be useful," Hosea pointed out. Dutch glared at him. Arthur could see the wheels turning in his head, weighing the apparent risk against the benefits. Arthur didn’t wholy trusted Dutch’s judgement these days, but he didn’t know what the hell he’d do if they told Joe to leave. It’s not like Arthur could go with him.
After a while, Dutch spoke again, “he gonna work around here? Pull his weight?”
“Better’n some I could name,” Arthur responded, thinking of their resident slackers and freeloaders.
“You best believe I’ll be keeping an eye on him.” Dutch leaned back on his bunk. “Takin’ him in, it’s a big damn risk Arthur. Better be worth it.”
“Always got your back Dutch, you know that.” A shadow passed over Dutch’s face, one that worried Arthur more than anything else he’d seen or heard in the past few months.
“Let’s talk about the locals and their mystery gold,” Hosea said, clapping his hands together cheerfully as he leaned forward, elbows on his knees. “I’ve been working on my accents.”
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Alex on Chapter 1 Thu 14 Feb 2019 09:50PM EST
I need chapter two:)
msqjoe on Chapter 1 Sat 16 Feb 2019 05:54PM EST
As and ye shall receive. Thank you for reading!
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Yeeechan on Chapter 1 Sat 16 Feb 2019 07:12PM EST
This is written beautifully! I love it already <3
Thank you so much! I'm really enjoying writing it.
barbarosabee on Chapter 1 Tue 11 Jun 2019 06:34AM EDT
Please tell me you write original fiction bc your writing is SO GOOD <3
I re-read the whole story almost every time you post an update bc it’s THAT good oh my gosh.
msqjoe on Chapter 1 Tue 11 Jun 2019 08:18AM EDT
I do! And thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it so much :)
barbarosabee on Chapter 1 Wed 12 Jun 2019 02:28AM EDT
please let me know if you ever publish anything! or if you have somewhere you post original content. Or if you ever want an editor for your original content (I do it for free lol I just really love editing for people, I've been doing it for about 12 years now).
Birdaboobies on Chapter 2 Sat 16 Feb 2019 07:19PM EST
Woah I learned something about snakebites today and that makes me feel wise
Thanku great chapter!
I hope you'll never need to use that knowledge :) Thank you!
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Angelicasdean on Chapter 3 Tue 19 Feb 2019 10:51AM EST
can't wait for more!
I'm glad you're enjoying it!
cripplingmoon on Chapter 3 Thu 21 Feb 2019 11:59AM EST
This is so freaking good! I can’t wait to see how this relationship grows! <3
cripplingmoon on Chapter 4 Sat 02 Mar 2019 01:03AM EST
I think Arthur would make an excellent father! I love this story so much, keep up the great work!
msqjoe on Chapter 4 Sat 02 Mar 2019 11:49AM EST
Thank you so much! I hope you'll enjoy some of the letter developments :)
crazstiz on Chapter 4 Sat 02 Mar 2019 09:00AM EST
Gentlemen Arthur!!!!
The_Dark_Shepard on Chapter 4 Sun 03 Mar 2019 01:46AM EST
This chapter is so sweet! I am enjoying this story very much so far!
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cripplingmoon on Chapter 5 Sun 03 Mar 2019 11:09PM EST
Can I leave kudos again? Getting closer to feelings, a nice little tent cuddle soothes my shipper heart!
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ElectricEuphonium on Chapter 5 Mon 04 Mar 2019 11:57PM EST
This is really incredible so far, loving the work you’re doing here. Especially how you write Artihur.
Thank you! I'm so glad you're enjoying it.
Volantice on Chapter 5 Tue 05 Mar 2019 08:40AM EST
Love this so much.
msqjoe on Chapter 5 Sat 09 Mar 2019 10:16PM EST
cripplingmoon on Chapter 6 Fri 08 Mar 2019 09:27AM EST
This fic is killing me! It will literally be the death of my soul. I will applaud as they lower me into my grave. Love this so much!
I feed off of your suffering, thank you
Birdaboobies on Chapter 6 Sat 09 Mar 2019 04:07AM EST
Joshep is such a good character i love him aaa
Thank you! I've never written fic with original characters before, but this fandom seems like the place to do it.
Lisa on Chapter 6 Tue 12 Mar 2019 05:39PM EDT
I I'm love with this fic. I'm not very good with words so I'll just say this is awesome and the writing is amazing. <3
msqjoe on Chapter 6 Tue 12 Mar 2019 07:15PM EDT
Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it. :)
cripplingmoon on Chapter 7 Tue 12 Mar 2019 10:58PM EDT
This buildup is good. *rubs hand like a crazy person* GOOD!
barbarosabee on Chapter 7 Tue 19 Mar 2019 12:43PM EDT
I can’t leave extra kudos so here’s a comment!
Thank you for writing this~ spot on characterisation! Please continue :)
Thank you! That's one of the things I've been most worried about.
The_Dark_Shepard on Chapter 8 Sun 24 Mar 2019 04:53AM EDT
Joe best be ok in the next chapter!!!!
msqjoe on Chapter 8 Sun 24 Mar 2019 02:18PM EDT
I can make no promises
Birdaboobies on Chapter 8 Sun 24 Mar 2019 05:58PM EDT
JOE NOOO WHAT R U GONNA DO TO HIM
(great chapter im loving it)
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How Can I Help Save the Historic Colona School?
The alumni and friends of the Colona School have made a commitment to preserve this historic landmark. We feel strongly that this building deserves to be saved for future generations to use and enjoy.
Several areas of concern were noted in the Historic Structures Assessment completed in 2003 and funded through a State Historic Fund Grant. They noted as priorities: a new roof, replacement or restoration of windows and the installation of fire and security alarm systems.
Due to the efforts of Colorado Preservation Inc. and other concerned individuals and organizations, we have been awarded a restoration grant from the Colorado Historical Society, State Historical Fund. We are in the process of raising matching funds required to start these much needed restorations and additions.
There are several ways in which you can help.
1. Monetary donations are tax deductible as we are a not-for-profit organization. Donations can be mailed to:
Wanda Miller
23 Whinnerah Avenue
Harry Loss
1438 CR 906
Thelma Caddy
Printable Donation Form here.
Please make checks payable to - P.I.C.K.
Memo: Colona School Restoration Fund.
They can also be hand delivered to the above listed individuals.
2. A donation of goods, or services, that we could sell at auction to raise funds would also be much appreciated. Please contact Wanda Miller at 249-5024 or Harry Loss at 258-4918 if you would like to contribute in this way. Harry can also be reached via email at harryloss1@netzero.net
3. If you have a talent for fundraising and would like to help with a project, please give one of us a call. Again contact Wanda Miller at 249-5024 or Harry Loss at 258-4918.
The members of the Colona Grange #259 have recently replaced several windows and doors and completed a wheel chair ramp to the west entrance of the building. The Adolph Coors Foundation, through their support of the Colorado State Grange and their P.I.C.K. Program (People Improving Communities and Kids), funded the Grant that made these improvements possible.
We are very excited about the much needed restoration and improvements that will be scheduled in the near future and thank you in advance for any help that you can contribute in our cause.
Harry Loss Master, Colona Grange
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Israel’s elections: many messiahs, but only one king
Anthony Bubalo
Benjamin Netanyahu survived a scare, and why should anyone be surprised when a noble amateur loses to the ruthless pro?
In his decade in power Benjamin Netanyahu has watched new political messiahs rise to challenge him (Photo: Oliver Weiken via Getty)
Published 15 Apr 2019 12:00 0 Comments
Twenty years ago, Benjamin Netanyahu – “Bibi” to friends and foes alike – lost in an electoral landslide to Ehud Barak, then head of the Israeli Labor Party. It ended his first term as prime minister. Many thought it would be his only term.
I remember standing in a densely packed Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on election night watching Barak heralded as the new messiah of Israeli politics: a non-politician (he was a military hero and former Chief of General Staff) who would transform Israeli politics and society. Bibi, meanwhile, was being despatched by most observers to the rubbish receptacle of history.
To his most ardent admirers Bibi is “King of Israel”. To his equally passionate detractors, some of whom share his ideological outlook, he is mendacious and Machiavellian.
To be fair to that last prediction, Bibi did spend a fair amount of time in the political wasteland after 1999. When Barak stumbled out of office in 2002, a failure caused as much by his own political ineptitude as the collapse of the peace process he was trying to conclude, Likud returned to power. But it was led back into office not by Bibi, but by an older war-horse, Ariel Sharon.
Sharon made Bibi his Finance Minister which did a lot to rebuild his reputation, at least as a steward of the Israeli economy, which boomed under his watch. But it would be a decade following his ignominious defeat in 1999 before Bibi would return to the Prime Minister’s chair in 2009, a seat he has occupied ever since.
In a few months he will overtake Israel’s founder David Ben Gurion as the country’s longest serving prime minister. To his most ardent admirers Bibi is “King of Israel”. To his equally passionate detractors, some of whom share his ideological outlook, he is mendacious and Machiavellian. The fact that he won this election with a corruption indictment hanging over his head explains as much about why people love him as why they loathe him.
In his decade in power Bibi has watched new political messiahs rise to challenge him, from the left, the centre and the right. Like Barak before them they have mostly been political neophytes: a few spies; a tech entrepreneur; a TV host; and a conga-line of generals.
Some of them gave Bibi a good scare politically. Some ended up serving with him in coalition (as did Barak when he came back for a time to a serve as Bibi’s Defence Minister). More fell by the wayside including most recently, Naftali Bennet, a man talked about as a future prime minister at Israel’s last election, and now booted from the parliament in this one.
But really, why should anyone be surprised when another noble amateur loses to the crafty, ruthless pro? (And not just in Israeli politics.)
Don’t rule out Benny Gantz and/or his party joining Netanyahu’s ruling coalition (Photo: Menahem Kahana via Getty)
Bibi’s main challenger in this election, Benny Gantz, another recently retired head of the military trying his hand at politics, is the latest addition to the messiah roll call. He even had a few former messiahs and half-messiahs working with him, most notably Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid.
Even though – indeed precisely because – he narrowly lost to Bibi, Gantz is being feted like many of his messiah-predecessors. Some observers will tell you Gantz’s performance was nothing short of a miracle, given that his hastily assembled political coalition ended up winning just one seat less than Likud. Some may even argue – or rather hope – that this has brought Gantz within striking distance of the king.
But Israeli politics does not work that way and if Israeli political history is any guide, it is more likely that Gantz will end up like the messiahs that came before him: peaking early and petering out. In fact, don’t rule out Gantz and/or his party joining Bibi’s ruling coalition, despite current protestations against such a possibility. At this point, that seems the most likely miracle.
Australia’s Israel-Palestine conflict
The souring mood towards Beijing from Berlin
Australian media: missing in action on Bougainville
Ben Bland 9 May 2017 08:22
Indonesian prosperity needs certainty on resource regulation
Only regulatory certainty will ensure that Indonesia's resources are ‘used for the greatest possible prosperity of the people’.
William Sharp 5 Feb 2019 10:30
Not only China, Tsai Ing-wen must master the politics of pork
The agricultural lobby is making trouble for Taiwan’s president, yet tackling vested interests might be key to winning.
Kate Walton 19 Aug 2019 06:00
Indonesia should put more energy into renewable power
Blackouts and chronic air pollution in a nation with abundant sources of clean energy makes no economic sense.
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League of Women Voters®
Making Democracy Work
Empowering Voters; Defending Democracy
press releases & news articles
Keep up to date with League activities. Read the most recent League press releases and news articles about the League here.
College students voting SB3 update US Census 2020 Nashua municipal election 2019 Learn Everywhere press release Aug. 9, 2019 Response to Gov. Sununu's veto of 2 election law bills Open Letter to NH Board of Education Redistricting Commission op ed League testimony mentioned SB3 repeal bill heard Jan. 10, 2019 SB3 court ruling--disappointing news Oct. 26, 2018 SB3 court ruling--good news Oct. 22, 2018 SB3 lawsuit news, 2018 successful forum in Jaffrey Voter funded elections Constituion Day Sept 17, 2018 HB 1264 voter suppression bill editorial: postponing town elections Nashua registers new young voters new League unit: Mt. Washington Valley Gerrymandering: guest editorial New Women's Prison opens April 17, 2018 Students March for our Lives (March 24, 2018) Editorial voting rights bills Lawsuit update Sept. 12, 2017 Lawsuit update Sept. 11, 2017 Lawsuit update Sept. 6, 2017 LWVNH lawsuit Aug 23, 2017 "Fake News, Tweets and Facts in our Democracy" League news story 3-4-17 Voter ID struggles on primary day 2016 Voting in the Presidential Primary 2016 Voter Reg victory Another election law court challenge Election Law HB 112 testimony 2015 voting fraud rebuttal
College students voting
Nov. 14, 2019 Follow-up to the Dartmouth newspaper article below is this one, in which the Hanover town clerk and LWVNH president Liz Tentarelli are quoted. Click here to read the article.
Oct. 29, 2019 League board member Nancy Marashio is quoted in this article explaining the hurdles faced in registering to vote by NH college students whose families live in other states. Click here to read the Dartmouth college article.
SB3 trial December 2019
Post-trial wrap-up by NH Public Radio: https://www.nhpr.org/post/what-nh-voters-need-know-following-trial-over-sb3-voting-law#stream/0 Broadcast Dec. 16, 2019.
Trial began Dec. 3 in Manchester Superior Court. Read the newspaper articles here:
https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/state/trial-over-tougher-nh-voter-registration-law-to-begin/article_58ee91ef-39f8-5159-b9a2-2791adf8eb54.html
https://www.nhpr.org/post/court-students-share-concerns-over-election-law-say-they-could-still-register-vote
US Census 2020
LWV and LWVNH units have been partnering with Nicole Mackenzie of the US Census Bureau to inform the public about the importance of the census. Lovely write-up about us on pp 17-18 of the Dec. Partnership Newsletter. Next up is LWVNH-Mt Washington Unit presentation on Feb. 18.
Sorry, the publication file was too large to include here.
Nashua municipal election 2019
The guest column below was submitted to the Nashua Telegraph for publication on October 13,2019. It was prepared by LWVNH-Greater Nashua unit members.
LOCAL COMMENTARY Nashua Telegraph, OCT 13, 2019 THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS Guest Columnists
Everyone's talking about the 2020 elections, and rightly so. But 2019 is an election year, too. All municipal offices in Nashua are elected on odd-numbered years, and this year's general election is on Nov. 5. The mayor is running for re-election unopposed, but there is an abundance of contested races + Board of Education and Board of Aldermen all the way down to ward offices. The outcomes of those races will play a large part in shaping our city for years to come.
We all have a stake in local elections. In many ways, they can affect our lives even more than state or federal elections. The winners make decisions about your children's schools and how your property taxes are used. You also will be choosing the people who run all our elections in Nashua and are responsible for making sure that election laws are followed and that every eligible voter is able to vote. But it can often be hard to find much information about candidates running for municipal offices. Luckily, this year there are two easy ways to learn about who will be on your ballot and what they stand for.
First, a Board of Education Candidate Forum will be hosted by the League of Women Voters at 7 p.m. on Oct. 30 at the Nashua Public Library, co-sponsored by the library and The Telegraph. This is a hotly contested race, and the Board of Education has a huge effect on the lives of all of our Nashua children. We're thrilled to provide you with the opportunity to hear the candidates speak about their beliefs and goals regarding public education and the issues facing the Nashua schools. You'll also have a chance to submit your own question for the candidates.
We also are excited to announce that Nashua is participating in the League of Women Voters' non-partisan VOTE411.org Online Voter Guide. Just go to http://www.VOTE411.org, click "Find What's on Your Ballot," and enter your address to see a list of all the races and candidates on your ballot as well as candidates' descriptions of their priorities, experience and more in their own words. Not sure which ward you live in? VOTE411.org makes it easy: enter your address, you'll see the candidate line-up that will be on your ballot on Election Day. All the candidates at all levels have been invited to participate, and even some of the candidates in uncontested races have graciously submitted answers, so make sure you check out the site to learn more about the people who will be representing you.
If you'd like to help protect your voting rights and educate your fellow citizens, we invite you to join the League of Women Voters + a non-partisan group heading into our 100th year. We meet on the third Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Nashua Public Library. All are welcome. If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact us at lwvgreaternashua@gmail.com.
August 23, 2019. Read the editorial by League board member Janet Ward explaining why Learn Everywhere is the wrong program for NH's public schools. https://www.concordmonitor.com/Extended-learning-opportunities-27857821
press release Aug. 9, 2019
This press release is in response to Governor Sununu's veto of the independent redistricting commission bill, HB706, this afternoon.
The League of Women Voters New Hampshire is angered by our governor's veto of a truly bi-partisan bill to create an independent redistricting commission. Governor Sununu ignored the work put into this bill by House and Senate members from both parties. The Election Law committees of both bodies supported this bill, and the Governor chose to ignore their informed decisions.
The Governor's veto statement that legislators would "abbrogate their responsibility to the voters" by relying on the skills and concensus of a commission chosen from a pool of non-legislators misses the point of a commission: to be non-partisan, to follow the constitutional guidelines, and to create fair maps. HB706 still puts the final vote in the hands of the legislature, Governor Sununu, as stated in the NH Constitution.
HB706 would have reversed at least two decades of partisan stances in creating our state's voting districts, behind closed doors in 2011 and in violation of the constitution's requirement that any town that was large enough deserved its own state representative. In 2001 the redistricting decisions were so bad that the courts stepped in!
The Governor had a chance to support efforts by both parties to create fair election districts in 2021. Shame on you, Governor, for failing to recognize the will of the people to end gerrymandering. And shame on you for ignoring the good work of our senators and representatives at the state house.
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Response to Gov. Sununu's veto of 2 election law bills
July 29, 2019: This joint press release is from the voting rights coalition of which League of Women Voters NH is an active member organization.
Kate Corriveau
kcorriveau@americavotes.org
Governor Sununu Vetoes Legislation that Corrects Unconstitutional Voting Rights Policy
HB 105, 106 Sought to Protect Access to the Polls for Granite Staters
CONCORD-- Today, Governor Sununu vetoed HB 105 and 106, bills that would have repealed the widely-opposed SB 3 and HB 1264, two student vote suppression bills that came from the Republican led legislature in 2017 and 2018 respectively. SB 3, a bill that requires voters who register at the polls on Election Day to provide proof of residency within 30 days of voting, is currently suspended while it is being challenged in the courts. Meanwhile HB 1264, which went into effect this month, is viewed by many as a confusing post-election poll tax that changed the definition of "resident" to disenfranchise student and transient Granite State voters. Following the vetoes, the New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights released the following statement:
"The New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights is deeply disappointed in Governor Sununu's decision to veto HB 105 and HB 106, bills that would have corrected unconstitutional policy that adds confusion to voting. Voters across the state have spoken out against unnecessary and cumbersome bills like SB 3 and HB 1264, and Governor Sununu's decision to uphold them infringes on our democracy by disenfranchising some Granite Staters, including students, medical residents, and seasonal workers.
We urge Governor Sununu to look past party lines and ensure that all Granite Staters have the right to vote in the place they call home.
He will have a chance to do so with another bill coming to his desk this session, SB 67, a bill that would lift the undue burdens on some Granite Staters while keeping HB 1264 on the books. We hope that Governor Sununu takes the second chance to do right by his constituents and signs SB 67 when it reaches his desk."
The New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights is a project of America Votes and a coalition of state and national advocacy organizations, voters, attorneys and watchdog organizations working to ensure and preserve the right to vote for every Granite Stater.
Kate Corriveau, New Hampshire State Director
Open Letter to NH Board of Education
May 6, 2019 The League of Women Voters New Hampshire believes that the proposed rules for "Learn Everywhere" under consideration by the NH State Board of Education will hurt the credibility of high school diplomas and diminish public education. Read the open letter to the NH BOE here.
Note: Board member Nancy M. drafted this letter, with input from the board, but it was sent from the LWVNH president on behalf of the entire board. Appeared in the Concord Monitor on 6-10-19.
Redistricting Commission op ed
April 4, 2019 in the Union Leader Op Ed by LWVNH president Liz Tentarelli. Learning From The Past: Why we need an independent redistricting commission. Here is the pdf
League testimony mentioned
April 24, 2019 Liz Tentarelli testified for League in favor of HB611, to expand absentee voting opportunities, in a Senate hearing reported on by NHPR. https://www.nhpr.org/post/senate-takes-bill-expand-absentee-voting-nh#stream/0
SB3 repeal bill heard Jan. 10, 2019
Read the report of this hearing, at which League and many others testified in support of HB105 to overturn SB3. Union Leader link. https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/it-s-standing-room-only-as-lawmakers-hear-testimony-on/article_cdfc6f2a-6d56-5c38-aa39-96704324bf64.html
SB3 court ruling--disappointing news Oct. 26, 2018
The NH Supreme Court this afternoon ruled that SB3 will stay in effect through the Nov. 6, 2018 election, in effect cancelling the impact of the good news below for this election.
Here is WMUR's explanation of the ruling: https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-supreme-court-restores-registration-forms-process-of-2017-proof-of-domicle-law-sb-3/24286469
Here is NHPR's explanation of the ruling. NHPR had daily coverage of the hearing in later August, for which League thanks them sincerely, particularly reporter Casey McDermott. http://www.nhpr.org/post/nh-supreme-court-says-sb3-can-stay-place-reversing-lower-courts-order
SB3 court ruling--good news Oct. 22, 2018
The League is happy to announce that voting rights scored a victory today with Judge Kenneth Brown's ruling. Read the NHPR article for more details, then tell everyone you know who hasn't registered yet that they can do so on election day without unnecessarily complicated paperwork and without longer than usual lines at the polls.
"Read the ruling here."https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/sb3preliminaryinjunction-1540234091.pdf
From NHPR: http://www.nhpr.org/post/judge-blocks-sb3-voter-registration-law-use-upcoming-midterms#stream/0
SB3 lawsuit news, 2018
Aug. 27, 2018 The preliminary injunctions hearing in Manchester began today, continuing thru Sept. 7 at least. Liz Tentarelli testified on behalf of League on Monday. Read NHPR Casey McDermott's report here. Our thanks to Ms McDermott for being in court each day to cover this important voter registration lawsuit.
July 10, 2018 Union Leader article explaining the upcoming legal events for the voter registration bill passed last year, SB3. See more.
June 26, 2018 Nashua Telegraph article by Damien Fisher, staff writer: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/local-news/2018/06/26/august-sb-3-trial-delayed/
"MANCHESTER + The saga of New Hampshire's voter residency requirement law, commonly known as SB 3, began amid allegations by Republicans that people from Massachusetts crossed the border to cast Democratic ballots during the 2016 presidential election.
On Monday, the latest development in the matter saw Hillsborough Superior Court-North Judge Kenneth Brown call the trial schedule for SB 3 unrealistic, as he pushed back the planned Aug. 20 trial.
"It's not going to happen this August. I think we should look at it more realistically," Brown told attorney Bruce Spiva, who is representing the League of Women Voters in the case.
Spiva was pushing to keep to the Aug. 20 trial date. Instead, Brown will oversee hearings during the week of Aug. 27 on whether to issue a preliminary injunction against the state to keep it from enforcing the law ahead of the November midterm elections.
Brown took on the case this week after Hillsborough Superior Court-South Judge Charles Temple stepped aside, citing a conflict of interest because of a personal relationship with one of the lawyers working on the case. In his ruling taking him off the case, Temple wrote that the change of judges should not delay the case schedule.
Brown disagrees.
One of the major issues at play in the case is a New Hampshire Supreme Court review of Temple's order from earlier this year, which requires state officials to hand over copies of the statewide voter database to the plaintiffs: the League of Women Voters and the New Hampshire Democratic Party. The high court could reverse Temple's ruling, throwing much of the evidence prepared by the plaintiffs into question.
"You can't try the case without that information," Brown told Spiva.
Spiva argued for pushing forward with the planned trial, saying he expected an expedited ruling from the Supreme Court before the end of July. That would give both sides just enough time to prepare for the Aug. 20 trial, according to Spiva.
Assistant Attorney General Anthony Galdieri balked at the idea of going forward with the trial, saying there are still too many outstanding issues concerning motions to quash subpoenas, motions to exclude some witnesses, and depositions to still take before the trail can start.
"It's virtually impossible to have a trial in August," Galdieri said.
The state is pushing for a trial sometime in April, well after the November elections and after New Hampshire's traditional Town Meeting election season. Short of a trial, Spiva said he has enough evidence to seek the preliminary injunction against the state. The could keep the state from enforcing SB 3 during the midterms while the trial is pending. Temple ruled last year to block the state from enforcing any criminal penalties written into the law.
The SB 3 lawsuit started last year, after Gov. Chris Sununu signed the law, which creates possible criminal penalties for people who register to vote on election day, but fail to provide evidence they are legally entitled to vote within a certain timeframe. The lawsuit, brought by the state's Democratic Party, the League of Women Voters, and some individual voters, claims the law will discourage poor, minorities, and college students from voting.
Though no schedule for the trial has been set yet, Brown ordered all the attorney's to be present for the preliminary injunction hearings in August.
Damien Fisher can be reached at 594-1245 or dfisher@nashuatelegraph.com or @Telegraph_DF."
June 19, 2018 Nashua Telegraph article: By Damien Fisher, Staff Writer <http://nashuatelegraph.nh.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=25ff909d3>
"MANCHESTER + The SB 3 voter registration lawsuit is going to have to wait, as the scheduled Aug. 20 trial is being put off after the case was moved to Manchester.
According to court filings this week, the lawsuit's trial date for later this summer is not going to happen, and has yet to be rescheduled. The case was moved to the Hillsborough Superior Court-North in Manchester after Judge Charles Temple, who presides in the Hillsborough Superior Court-South in Nashua, recused himself.
The case is now on for a status conference next week in the Manchester courthouse where it has been assigned to Judge Kenneth Brown. Temple took himself off the case to avoid a conflict after the state hired one of Temple's close friends.
The SB 3 lawsuit started last year, after Gov. Chris Sununu signed the law that creates possible criminal penalties for people who register to vote on Election Day, but fail to provide evidence they are legally allowed to vote within a certain timeframe. The lawsuit, brought by the state's Democratic Party, the League of Women Voters, and some individual voters, claims the law will discourage poor, minorities, and college students from voting.
The law was written and passed amid reports of people from Massachusetts taking buses to vote in New Hampshire during the 2016 presidential election. Those stories turned out to be false. Assistant Attorney General Ann Edwards recently testified before the Ballot Law Commission that while some hired buses were used to bring voters to the polls on 2016's Election Day, the voters in the buses were legally permitted to vote in New Hampshire."
June 8, 2018 Judge Temple has recused himself from the trial, previously scheduled for Aug. 20-31, 2018. League does not know yet know what the trial date will be as the case is moved to another judge's courtroom. Read the Union Leader article here.
successful forum in Jaffrey
"Speed-dating" format for NH House candidates forum in Jaffrey on October 24. Read the article. https://www.ledgertranscript.com/Jaffrey-Civic-Center-holds-candidating-event-21086390?fbclid=IwAR0pASogQGkhWGzKjv_YsyzizVn-uEACQhgUSIQx9hRhLAEbFkAN1ItPsq8
Voter funded elections
Open Democracy released this statement on 9/25/18 regarding a bill submitted for public funding of elections. The League shares with Open Democracy a commitment to campaign finance reform, and this bill would be big first step in NH. Read the press release here.
Constituion Day Sept 17, 2018
The League of Women Voters NH, in accordance with our national League position on constitutional conventions, issues this op-ed for Constitution Day 2018. Click here
HB 1264 voter suppression bill
July 13, 2018 The League of Women Voters NH urges Governor Sununu to keep his promise to veto any bill that would infringe on the right of college students in NH to vote. That means the advisory opinion on HB 1264 should be viewed in a limited light: two of the judges do not agree that the bill is constitutional, and in any case the advisory opinion is not binding. A court challenge, after implementation of a bill whose intent is to make voter registration harder for students and others who can't say they will live in NH forever, could well result in a different verdict.
The League urges the Governor to veto HB 1264. UPDATE: Governor Sununu signed this bill, which will take effect July 1, 2019.
July 21, 2018: News posting about voter suppression in NH from NBC news. Click here to read the article. Article also mentions the League's lawsuit against the state re last year's onerous SB3 voter registration bill.
editorial: postponing town elections
This editorial appears in the June 14, 2018, Concord Monitor. Nancy Marashio is a state League board member and vice-president of the LWV Kearsarge/Sunapee Area.
Click here to read the editorial about why SB438 needed to be killed.
Nashua registers new young voters
A big thank you to the League, the Nashua mayor and city clerk, and the election officials who made it easy for 61 students at Nashua High School (North and South) to register at their schools, to vote in future local and state elections.
See the Mayor's posting about this on his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MayorJimDonchess/?hc_ref=ARRZV7E5RmLNxA0d1I8HflhFoFhlsFdOB8biBWMotVZcUbU_5FxCK-3hsQG9tDAgVmk&fref=nf&hc_location=group
new League unit: Mt. Washington Valley
The steering committee of our newest unit is pictured in this Conway Daily Sun article of May 17, 2018: https://www.conwaydailysun.com/news/local/area-residents-form-unit-of-league-of-women-voters/article_e3cf46c4-577d-11e8-8e5e-5bae3dcb604b.html
Gerrymandering: guest editorial
LWVNH member from Nashua Jean Lewandowski has been writing occasional editorials for the Nashua Telegraph. Today's is part two of her thoughts about gerrymandering. Try this link, or find the print edition for May 17, 2018.
New Women's Prison opens April 17, 2018
Read the NH Dept. of Corrections press release here.
The League of Women Voters NH began our study of the issues facing women incarcerated in NH in 2009. We visited the county houses of correction, the women's prison in Goffstown, the women's "halfway house" at Shea Farm, drug courts. We interviewed many people and did research (some of which is available on our website.) Along with several other organizations we fought the proposal for a privatized women's prison and won, then advocated for a new prison with improved education and rehabilitative services. Finally the new New Hampshire Correctional Facility for Women is open in Concord. The women moved in on April 17, 2018. The old Goffstown facility will be turned back to Hillsborough county for conversion or dismantling as they see fit.
Students March for our Lives (March 24, 2018)
In the Nashua march of over 1,000 people, one of our student members (second from left) walked beside our US Senators.
A LWVNH member also marched in DC, and a number of members from around NH joined marches in Concord, Jackson, Peterborough, and elsewhere.
Proud of our members making their voices heard to keep our schools safe!
Editorial voting rights bills
Thanks to a partnership between the Nashua Telegraph and the LWVNH Nashua unit, League member Jean Lewandowski is writing occasional editorial pieces from the League's perspective. Way to go, Jean!
Here is a link to the Feb. 18, 2018, piece about election law bills working their way thru the NH Legislature.
http://nashuatelegraph.nh.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=245a207b2
Lawsuit update Sept. 12, 2017
Judge Temple in Hillsborough Superior Court this morning issued a ruling that the procedures for voter registration under SB3 may be used for the special election today in the Laconia area, but that any penalty for failing to return papers shall not be imposed. He also directed the Secretary of State to educate the voters about the new registration procedures (something that has not happened, via website or a public information campaign, as of Sept. 12, 2017).
League had its day in court Monday, 9/11/17, although no "live" testimony was taken. The judge's ruling for a preliminary injunction is promised for 7 am Tuesday. Click here to read the article from the Union Leader.
Lawsuit update Sept. 6, 2017
Read the WMUR-TV article about the League's lawsuit in our attempt to stop implementation of the voter registration restrictions. Click here to read the article.
The hearing on the preliminary injunction is now scheduled for Monday, Sept. 11, 1:30 pm, at Hillsborough Superior Court, 30 Spring St., Nashua.
LWVNH lawsuit Aug 23, 2017
UPDATE Sept. 3, 2017 The state has moved the case from state court to federal court (their right), so the hearing on the preliminary injunction (see below) scheduled for Sept. 6 at 10:30 am in Hillsborough Superior Court, Nashua, is unlikely. Check back Tuesday, Sept. 5, for an update.
On Aug. 25, 2017, a preliminary injunction was filed on behalf of the LWVNH and others to halt implementation of SB3 voter registration provisions while the lawsuit (see below) moves forward. The scheduled Sept. 8 enactment means that people registering for city primaries and city elections in Sept-Nov will be subject to a law that is unnecessarily complicated, has not yet been explained to the public in simple language, and thus may intimidate otherwise qualified potential voters from even attempting to register. Click Here for link to Public News Service article on the injunction filing, 8/28/17
Look in Thursday's (8/24)newspapers for a press release, but this is a heads-up for League of Women Voters NH members about some exciting news:
LWVNH and three college students are the plaintiffs in the suit filed Wednesday morning in Hillsborough South court against NH Sec. of State Bill Gardner and Attorney General Gordon MacDonald, to stop implementation of the unreasonably complicated new voter registrations procedures set to go into effect on Sept. 8. The new procedures are the result of the passage of SB3 last spring in the NH House. The League contends that the complexity of the forms and procedures will discourage new voters, particularly those in a state of transition in their lives in terms of where they live. SB3 created a process impossible to explain in short simple language, which is how we have to explain things in our voter information brochures and on our website. We hope to stop the implementation so we won't be compelled to attempt the impossible...and also so this solution in search of a problem can go away.
The suit itself is 86 pages and we can't post such a large document on the LWVNH.org website. We hope the press release tomorrow will include a link to the court file stamped document.
The primary law firm is Perkins Coie LLP, who have prepared numerous lawsuits across the country on behalf of voting rights groups. The League proudly stands up for the rights of all to vote.
"Fake News, Tweets and Facts in our Democracy"
LWV/Hopkinton Town Library Program--
On Sunday, March 26, a standing room only crowd filled the Community Room at Hopkinton Town Library eager to learn what a distinguished panel had to share with them about "Fake News, Tweets and Facts in our Democracy." NH League of Women Voters President Liz Tentarelli served as moderator as Dan Barrick, news director of NHPR; Ralph Jimenez, Concord Monitor editorial writer; John Greabe, UNH Law Professor, and documentary maker John Gfroerer discussed the proliferation of fake news across the media spectrum and the challenge this poses to voters seeking solid, dependable information upon which to make decisions as to what policies or political candidates they should support.
Professor John Greabe emphasized the difficulty of legally challenging Fake News given the central importance in our society of the First Amendment which states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." He cautioned his audience not to expect the courts to solve the challenges posed by fake news.
NH Public Radio News Director Dan Barrick spoke of the very human element of "bias" in all of us, and, reflecting fellow panelist Ralph Jimenez's observations, noted that a journalist's training is focused on the recognition of such natural bias and the intentional determination to examine issues from a variety of perspectives to ensure balanced and accurate reporting.
Ralph Jimenez challenged the audience to "not think of an elephant." In doing so Jimenez demonstrated the views of cognitive science and linguistics professor George Lakoff, whose research helps to explain how fake news works. Simply by hearing presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called "crooked Hillary" over and over, voters automatically made a negative association.
Filmmaker John Gfroerer, whose presentation "Television: The Art and Ethics of Manipulation" is included in the NH Humanities Humanities to Go catalogue, shared a series of examples of the acceptance of far-fetched, unsubstantiated stories by uncritical news consumers.
The panelists spoke of a time not so long ago when there was justifiable public confidence in the solid reporting of journalists like Walter Cronkite. The internet and the growth of "infotainment" sources make the creation and proliferation of fake news a growth industry. Still, today there are many excellent and dependable journalists working diligently to provide the solid information citizens in a democracy rely. However, Ralph Jimenez cautioned his audience, it is now imperative that citizens practice "discernment" and rely on multiple reputable news sources and utilize fact-checking services whenever there is reason to doubt a news report.
As Doris Haddock, NH's own "Granny D." said, "Democracy is not something you have, it is something you do." In the era of fake news, that means we need to do what is necessary to get the information we must have to exercise our rights as citizens.
(League member Janet Ward was the driving force behind this program and wrote the above summary for us. More than 110 people attended. For more information on the topic of Fake News, people might want to seek out area libraries that offer presentations on how to recognize internet fake news sites, given by library personnel or by guest speaker Randall Mikkelson.)
League news story 3-4-17
The Valley News published an article about League on Saturday, March 4, 2017. Correspondent Nicola Smith conducted interviews with league president and several members in NH and VT. Read the story here.
Voter ID struggles on primary day 2016
From Think Progress, this Feb. 9, 2016 article quotes LWVNH Election Law specialist Joan Flood Ashwell on the challenges that face people in voting under the current voter ID rules. Click here to read the article
Voting in the Presidential Primary 2016
This NHPR article of Jan. 4, 2016, details potential confusion voters may have regarding voter identification in the presidential primary. Clear answers are given to voting questions, and the article references League election law specialist Joan Flood Ashwell. One item missing from this article that voters should keep in mind: By law, a voter without voter ID can ask an election official (moderator, town/city clerk, supervisor of checklist) to verify his or her identity. Such identification counts, and those identified do not have to complete the affidavit/photo-taking route. Click here to read the article
Voter Registration Court Victory 2015
May 15, 2015 NH Supreme court struck down the 2012 law that added language to the voter registration form requiring car registration in NH as part of voting domicile. The League was a plaintiff in the original lawsuit, along with several college students. Read the press release from the NH ACLU that handled the case. League is happy.
State Rep Wayne Burton wrote this Op Ed piece about HB 112, on which the League has testified at every opportunity. We are opposed to the bill that links car registration to voter registration, and were part of the lawsuit challenging that in 2012. Read his piece from the Foster's Daily Democrat of March 24, 2015
Another election law court challenge
Feb. 3, 2015 Election Law This press release by the American Civil Liberties Union of NH refers to the situation in which LWVNH originally was a plaintive. The League agrees with the ACLUNH that the Secretary of State's letter to voters described in this press release is in violation of the court order. Download the pdf of the press release
Election Law HB 112 testimony 2015
League testimony on HB 112 as amended was submitted electronically to the House Election Law committee on Feb. 1, 2015. The League opposes this attempt to redefine "domicile" for voting purposes in an unclear and possibly unconstitutional way. Download the pdf of the League's testimony.
voting fraud rebuttal 2014
Oct. 5, 2014 op ed piece, on which LWVNH is one of four signers, rebutting Secretary of State Bill Gardner's recent erroneous statements about widespread voter fraud. Download the op ed pdf
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VMware Expands NSX Vision
Tuesday May 1st 2018 by Sean Michael Kerner
NSX is now the new portfolio brand for all of VMware's virtual cloud network technologies.
VMware originally built NSX on technology that gained via the $1.2 billion acquisition of Nicira in 2012. The core NSX technology provides network segmentation and software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities. Now everything under networking at VMware will carry the NSX brand.
"What we have done is brought the entire networking stack under a single NSX portfolio brand to deliver on our vision for the virtual cloud network" Peder Ulander, vice president of product marketing at VMware, told EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet. "To highlight the value of the portfolio, we showed how solutions such as NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud integrate with NSX Data Center and NSX Cloud to deliver a secure connected fabric from data center to branch to cloud."
VMware acquired VeloCloud in November 2017, and it provides SD-WAN capabilities. Ulander added that VMware is also adding the NSX Hybrid Connect solution, which is a net new product but was built from an existing solution, VMware Hybrid Extension, which in turn was previously known as VMware HCX. Hybrid Connect abstracts on-premises and cloud resources to provide organization with a single view of resources.
Though VMware is re-branding is networking product, it isn't changing its broader software-defined data center (SDDC) strategy.
"The software-defined data center is about abstracting, pooling and automating across the entire data center stack — compute, networking and storage," Ulander said. "Within the SDDC, we will virtualize the data center network, and then that virtualized fabric can extend beyond the walls of the private data center to deliver consistent networking and security out to the cloud and to brand locations."
Ulander added that within the SDDC the virtualized network layer is part of that overall Virtual Cloud Network architecture.
"Our NSX portfolio now extends beyond the walls of the SDDC to deliver that business fabric for distributed global environments," he said.
Originally NSX was seen as a complement to VMware's vSphere virtualized server technology. With the dramatic rise in cloud and container environments in the last few years, NSX has seen adoption beyond vSphere as well.
"One of the greatest value propositions of the Virtual Cloud Network is that it can connect and secure applications wherever they reside, in whatever form they take, on whatever infrastructure," Ulander said. "So in our case, we deliver multi-cloud networking capabilities by being able to take networking and security policies that are tied to apps in the data center and extend those out to workloads running in AWS, Azure or IBM Cloud, for instance."
Ulander added that for containers, VMware has NSX Data Center, which has native container and bare-metal networking capabilities built right in, as part of the platform. Additionally he noted that the NSX Data Center is also integrated with Pivotal Container Service (PKS) and also Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
"So a Virtual Cloud Network needs to connect everything to everything in a seamless and secure architecture, and we’re already delivering a lot of these capabilities today," Ulander said. "But in all honestly, nobody is delivering everything that the Virtual Cloud Network aspires to be. There’s plenty ways to go."
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.
Why Isn't VCE Using VMware NSX?
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VMware Leverages NSX for Mobile, VDI Control
Running SDN Over the WAN
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Messing Around with Hero Forge
A while back, there was a Kickstarter for company setting up a 3D printed miniatures website, called Hero Forge. The idea is that you could build a character, much as you do in many video games, and then have in printed out in plastic and shipped to you. In mid December their website went live with a host of races and artwork options across multiple genres.
I just started playing with the site a few days ago, but I’ve already built a handful of characters with it. In particular I’ve focused on building existing characters, to see how well I could get it to match existing concepts. I though I might share some of my results.
This is one of my Shadowrun characters. A hacker that had replaces most of his body with cybernetic limbs. Head, arms, legs, torso: the full body conversion.
Theoretically, I should have made the character look like a normal human, but I wanted to play up synthetic aspect of the character, so I made his body a robot and while I kept a human looking face, I made sure not to include eyebrows or ears, to help it play into the uncanny valley. Eventually I added the sunglasses because it’s both something he wore a lot, and because it fits the shadowrun coat, silencer, and mirrored shades style of the character.
Generally speaking, I’m rather happy with how this character looks.
Arannis Dayereth
My 4th edition D&D Eladrin Arcane Archer. This particular character was interesting to build because he had a lot of particular features I wanted represented. He needed a bow, obviosly, but he was also known for his rituals, so I included a book too. Lastly, he forged his own sword, so I included a sword on his belt. His armor overall is a mix of magical looking armor and wilderness themed bits, like the hide shoulder pad.
I ran into a few problems making this character. First up, the sword I put on his belt is a wakizashi, but I would have preferred a more traditional fantasy sword.
Second, I wanted to put a set of small antlers in his hair, to play up the wild hunt aspect of the character, but all the horns in the system were larger than I wanted.
Morn Greycastle
This is the 5th edition character I made in a previous post. He’s a star-pact warlock, so I picked a pose where he’s looking up at the sky. I also enjoyed putting a slightly confused look on his face. I think it gets the crazed star-worshiper vibe right to have him looking perturbed into the sky.
The rest of the design was simply matching up parts from the character, like an arcane focus staff and big tome with armor & warlock robe.
Overall, a good model for the character.
Laughing Vulture
My 5th edition shadowrun cascade ork t-bird pilot. This was a fun minis build mixing fantasy and sci-fi parts. Orc head parts, with some fangs for good measure, goggles, data-jack plugs, tribal shoulder pad, coat with charms, high tech pants parts, gun and wrench, etc.
While fun, there were parts of this construction that were lacking. First, the only data jack option was a mohawk made of jacks, instead on just one in the back of the head or one on the side (maybe replacing an ear?) Second, there aren’t a lot of native-American looking trappings, which are important for a character with a Tribal SIN, even if it is the less than authentic cascade orks.
Telldor Devilhand
Another 4th Edition 4th D&D character, this one inspired by the 2nd edition Planescape setting. Telldor was a half-elf bard from Sigil. For extra fun, he beat a devil at the crossroads with his lute, and won infernal power from it. Also a golden lute. Making a planewalker meant using a lot of odd looking and mismatched gear. Thankfully a lute is already and option in the system. For his magical sword of annihilation I went with the orish blade.
This is a pretty good model of of Telldor. He’s foppish, and oddly clothed in a way that reminds of Tony Diterlizzi’s Planescape artwork… and the laughing smirk on the face is dead on right for his personality.
Gibson Martini
Gibson is my post apocalypse “highway ronin” for the new Feng Shui 2. He’s got his force sword, his shotgun, his revolver, and the mismatched gear of a man from a future nearly destroyed. I particularly liked giving him boots that didn’t match, and a confused but nonplussed facial expression.
Overall, this character is just about how I picture Gibson, although his sword, while high-tech looking, still looks more like a sword than the light sabre knock-off I think it should be.
The White Devil
“The White Devil” was a scarlet pumperknickly like character I made for a Feng Shui 1 game taking place in the 1800s Hong Kong. He was the son the rich English Governor, but fought for the oppressed people, wearing a white mask to hide his identity.
I’m not overly pleased with this model. It’s close to right, but the mask, a key aspect of the character, isn’t right. I ended up using ninja head wrap and ninja face mask, but what the character really needs is a mask that covers the head and comes down over the eyes (with eye holes) but leaving the lower part of the face, including a proper arrogant smirk, visible. The rest of the character isn’t bad, although the character used a pepper-box pistol, not a flintlock, this gun is still fairly close compared the revolvers and auto-loader options.
Biorn Baud the Haftbane
My Big Bruiser viking from another Feng Shui 1 game. Biorn Baud is in many ways a standard big viking concept, and so took little tweaking to produce in the Hero Forge interface.
Where I felt limited making this character’s mini was in the lack of back options. Biorn Baud carried a lot of axes, spears, etc around because he typically broke them when hitting enemies. A good mini for him would have 3 or more weapons strapped to his back to go with the one he is holding, but at the moment, the only back option allowed are cloaks.
Tagged on: 3D Printer, D&D, Feng Shui, Feng Shui 2, Hero Forge, Miniatures, Shadowrun
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Drinkable houses, edible canoes and Trojan horses
February 27, 2019 Mike Franjieh Comments 0 Comment
Michael Lotito, a French entertainer known as Monsieur Mangetout, became famous for his penchant for devouring objects that most would consider inedible. From bicycles and televisions to the most bizarre of all, a Cessna 150 light aircraft.
Though Monsieur Mangetout hailed from France, one might have thought that he was from the archipelago of Vanuatu. This small island nation is not only famous for being the most linguistically dense country in the world – with over 130 languages for a population of just a quarter of a million – but is also renowned for its intriguing possessive classifiers, which turn up in sentences when you talk about the things that you own, much like the possessive pronouns in English – my, your, hers etc. But in the Oceanic languages of Vanuatu these classifiers also tell us about how you will use the item that you own.
It took Michael Lotito two years to eat the Cessna 150!
The most common distinctions these classifiers make are between three types of possessions: ones that can be drunk, eaten and a residual classifier used when the more specific instances of eating and drinking aren’t needed. So, for example if you speak Paamese you can make a distinction between a coconut that you will drink, ani mak ‘my drinkable coconut’; one that you will eat the flesh of, ani ak ‘my edible coconut’; or one that you intend to sell, ani onak ‘my coconut for an unspecified use’.
But, more intriguingly, several languages of Central Vanuatu, spoken on the islands of Pentecost, Ambrym, Paama and Epi, use the food and drink classifiers for some rather strange items that one might not consider to be edible or drinkable — though of course Michael Lotito might beg to differ. The drink classifier in the language of North Ambrym covers a rather broad range of entities, including the obvious drinks such as water, tea, coffee and juice:
(1) ma-n we / ti / jus
DRINK.CLASSIFIER-his water tea juice
‘his water/tea/juice’
But the classifier is also used with items that can’t be drunk, like the words bwelaye ‘cup’ or bwela ōl ‘coconut shell (used as a cup)’, but also im ‘house’, hul ‘mat’ and bulubul ‘hole’. And in the Sa language spoken on Pentecost island, the food classifier can also be used with the word bulbul ‘canoe’!
The languages of Central Vanuatu where houses can be drunk, except for Raga which likes to be different.
How do you drink a house? How do you eat a canoe? While Michael Lotito might well be able to eat canoes and drink houses, the people who speak these languages certainly do not! So what explanation can be given as to why and how these non-drinkable and non-edible entities are included within the semantic domain of drinks and food?
The words meaning cups and containers of liquids are included with the drink classifiers in some of these languages due to a process of semantic extension. This is when the coverage of the semantics of a classifier are extended to include entities that are frequently associated with the core meaning of that classifier. This type of semantic extension is known as metonymy, where the word for a container can be used instead of the word for what it contains – e.g. in English we can use the word ‘dish’ to refer not only to a plate, but also to its contents. It is not such a large cognitive step to associate drinks with cups, and that is why containers of liquids are now included in the drink classifier’s semantic domain. However, it is quite a large cognitive leap to think that houses are associated with drinks and canoes with food.
To explain how houses are now classified along with drinks and canoes with food we have to look into the history of the languages and how these languages have changed through time. This is of course quite a difficult endeavour considering that these languages have no literary traditions and are only now just starting to be written down. We cannot consult old texts to see how the language used to be several hundred years ago as these don’t exist. Though limited records exist for a few languages going back to the mid 1800s, we mainly have to rely on comparing how related languages in the area differ and try to figure out how they got to be different.
Let’s start by looking at the language of Apma, spoken on Pentecost. The word for house, imwa, doesn’t occur with the drink classifier, but instead occurs in a different possessive construction where the owner is marked directly on the word for house, instead of on a classifier:
(2) imwa=n atsi
house=his person
‘a person’s house’
This type of construction, called direct possession, normally occurs with possessions closely associated with the possessor, including body parts and kinship terms, but sometimes includes more intimate personal possessions as well. Now if we look at Apma’s neighbouring language, Ske, spoken to the south, the noun for house occurs with the drink classifier:
(3) im mwa=n azó
house DRINK.CLASSIFIER=his person
As you can see the word for house in Ske, which historically for the languages of Pentecost would have been imwa just like it is in Apma, has been split, where the first part im now means ‘house’, and speakers recognise the second part of imwa, namely mwa, as identical in form to the drink classifier. Speakers have now reanalysed the second part of the word for house as being the drink classifier, and now accept houses as being classified along with drinkable entities. A similar mechanism has occurred across several other languages of Central Vanuatu, and this is why houses are classified along with drinks.
Just what is a drinkable house anyway?
In most languages of Vanuatu this change didn’t occur and houses are either directly possessed or occur with the residual general classifier. But in a few other languages, the word for house developed into a distinct classifier that is different from the drink classifier. In the languages of Southern Vanuatu the word for house iimwa has now turned into a classifier for locations and places, and is distinct from the classifier for drinks — nɨmwɨ.
Now what about the edible canoes that I mentioned earlier? This strange occurrence happens in the language of Sa, also spoken on Pentecost island:
(4a) a-k anian (b) a-k bulbul
FOOD.CLASSIFIER-my food FOOD.CLASSIFIER-my canoe
‘my food’ ‘my canoe’
Historically, the word for canoe was waga in Proto Oceanic, and the word for bulbul was used for a specific type of canoe. Sometimes linguists get lucky and there can be historical documents that help show us the way. Miss Hardacre, a missionary living in northern Pentecost in the early part of the twentieth century, made a small dictionary of the Raga language. In this dictionary she recorded the generic-specific word pairing waga bulbul, ‘canoe type/raft’. Now in Sa, the original word for canoe, waga, underwent several sound changes until it ended up looking like the food classifier, where only the medial vowel /a/ was left! The new word for canoe was bulbul, whereas the old generic term, waga, merged into the food classifier. In other languages of the area, such as Raljago, spoken on Ambrym, a separate classifier for canoes and boats emerged, distinct from the food classifier. Thus, the food classifier is a, but the canoe classifier is ai.
Sometimes when a merger takes place, the noun that merges into a classifier acts as a Trojan horse. Looking back to the language of North Ambrym, where the drink classifier can occur with other nouns denoting houses, parts of houses, and mats. The word for house that originally merged into the drink classifier acts as a locus for semantic extension, opening a back door to other nouns that are semantically similar — those that are in the domain of houses — to enter into the drink classifier as well.
I think Michael Lotito would have felt at home speaking one of the Oceanic languages of Vanuatu. He might even have said of his Cessna 150ː
(5) a-k Cessna 150
FOOD.CLASSIFIER-my Cessna 150
‘my edible Cessna 150’
Many thanks to Andrew Gray who runs the languages of Pentecost Island website and is my co-conspirator in turning this post into a journal article!
Optimal Categorisation: How do we categorise the world around us?
October 11, 2018 Mike Franjieh Comments 0 Comment
People love to categorise! We do this on a daily basis, consciously and subconsciously. When we are confronted with something new we try and figure out what it is by comparing it to something we already know. Say, for instance, I saw something flying through the air – I may think to myself that the object is a bird, or I may say it is a plane based on my previous experiences of birds and planes. Of course the object may turn out to be something completely new, perhaps even superman!
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s Superman!
Our love of classification runs deep in scientific enquiry. Botanists and zoologists classify plants and animals into different taxonomies. Even the humble linguist loves to classify – is this new word a noun or a verb? What about the new word zoodle that was recently added to the Merrriam Webster dctionary? Is it a thing? Or an action? Can I zoodle something or is it something I can pick up and touch? Well apparently zoodle is a noun which means ‘a long, thin strip of zucchini that resembles a string or narrow ribbon of pasta’. To be honest, I love eating zoodles, though until now I never knew what they were called!
The way people classify entities around them has become encoded in the different languages we speak in many different ways. The most obvious example that springs to mind is when we learn a new language, like French or German, we are confronted with a grammatical gender system. French has two genders – Masculine and Feminine. But German has three – Masculine, Feminine and Neuter. Other languages can have many more gender distinctions. Fula, a language spoken in west and central Africa, has twenty different gender categories!
So what exactly are grammatical gender systems and how are they realised in different languages? Gender systems categorise nouns into different groups and tend to appear not on the noun itself, but on other elements in the phrase. In German, nouns are split into three different gender categories – masculine, feminine and neuter. The gender of a noun is shown by using different articles (the word ‘the’ or ‘a’) and sometimes by changing the ending of an adjective, but never on the noun itself. Thus the word for ‘the’ in German is either der, die or das depending on whether the noun in the phrase is masculine, feminine or neuter.
(1) der Mann
(2) die Frau
(3) das Haus
This is called ‘agreement’ as the adjectives and articles must agree with the gender of the noun. In a language with gender, each noun typically can only occur in one gender category.
Not every language has a grammatical gender system, but they are highly pervasive, with around 40% of all languages having such a system. English is quite a poor example when it comes to gender. There is no real gender agreement in English, with the exception of pronouns. We have to say: Bill walked into the grocers. He bought some apples. Where the pronoun he must agree with the gender of the noun that was previously mentioned. English uses he, she and it as the only markers of gender agreement.
Languages behave differently in how they allocate nouns to the different genders, which can be very baffling for language learners! Why in French is chair feminine, la chaise, but in German it is masculine, der Stuhl? How a language allocates nouns to its gender categories can seem somewhat arbitrary – with the exception of the words for women and men, which fall into the feminine and masculine genders being the only semantically obvious choices.
But wait! If you thought the English gender system was dull, think again! A couple of months ago my piano was being restored and when it was being moved back into the lounge the piano movers kept saying: “pull her a little bit more” and “turn her this way”. The movers used the female pronouns to describe the piano. In English, countries, pianos, ships and sometimes even cars use the feminine pronouns.
Grammatical gender isn’t the only way languages classify nouns. Some languages use words called classifiers to categorise nouns. Classifiers are similar to English measure terms, which categorise the noun in terms of its quantity, such as ‘sheet of paper’ vs. ‘pack of paper’ or ‘slice of bread vs. ‘loaf of bread’. Classifiers are found in languages all over the world and are able to categorise nouns depending on the shape, size, quantity or use of the referent, e.g. ‘animal kangaroo’ (alive) vs. ‘meat kangaroo’ (not alive). Classifier systems are very different to gender systems as nouns in a language with classifiers can appear with different classifiers depending on what property of the noun you wish to highlight. There are many different types of classifier systems, but to keep things short I am just going talk about possessive classifiers, which are mainly found in the Oceanic languages, spoken in the South Pacific.
When an item is in your possession we use possessive pronouns in English to say who the item belongs to. For instance if I say ‘my coconut’ – the possessive pronoun is my. In many Oceanic languages a noun can occur with different forms for the word my depending on how the owner intends to use it. For instance the Paamese language, spoken in Vanuatu, has four possessive classifiers and I could use the ‘drinkable’ if I was talking about my coconut that I was going to drink. I would use the ‘edible’ classifier if I was going to eat my coconut. I would use the classifier for ‘land’ if I was talking about the coconut growing in my garden. Finally, I could use the ‘manipulative’ classifier if I was going to use my coconut for some other purpose – perhaps to sit on!
(4) ani mak
coconut my.drinkable
‘my coconut (that I will drink)’
(5) ani ak
coconut my.edible
‘my coconut (that I will eat)’
Why do languages have different ways of categorising nouns? How do these systems develop and change over time? Are gender systems easier to learn than classifier systems? Are gender and classifiers completely different systems? Or is there more similarity to them than meets the eye? These are some of the big questions in linguistics and psychology. We are excited to start a new research project at the Surrey Morphology Group, called optimal categorisation: the origin and nature of gender from a psycholinguistic perspective, that seeks to answer these fundamental questions. Over the next three years we will talk more about these fascinating categorisation systems, explain our experimental research methods, introduce the languages and speakers under investigation, and share our findings via this blog. Just look out for the ‘Optimal Categorisation’ headings!
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Mick Southerland Drops Solo EP ‘A Night Divine’
New Indie Electropop Music Out Now
Critics and fans alike have been raving about Mick Southerland’s A Night Divine calling is confident, catchy, and memorable. Formerly of Southernayers, Mick Southerland is branching out on his own to embark on an indie meets electropop wave that has people feeling like they’re listening to the ’80s elevated to modern times on his solo debut.
As the titular single, “A Night Divine” presents a charismatic look inside what the rest of the album it shares its name with is all about. Much the in the same wheelhouse as the likes of Bastille, Mick Southerland lays his heartfelt and at times soulful vocals atop a myriad of electropop so that in the end there is this beautiful balance between two styles seamlessly coming together whether it’s the emotive expressions of “Slumber” or the liveliness of “Stay Awhile.”
The past 20 years or so of Mick Southerland’s life has been dedicated to his craft. Growing with the Austin scene, he put his stamp on the city playing alongside notable acts like Spoon and Ghostland Observatory. After playing in Southernayers he decided it was time to focus on something new, and sooner than later his solo efforts were realized in the form of A Night Divine.
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Annual Steam Release Numbers Used To Climb Every Year, But In 2019, They Held Steady
By Kotaku.com on January 8, 2020 in gaming, General, kotakucore, pc, steam, valve
I’m fairly certain that I haven’t played 8,400 games in my entire life, but that’s the number of new releases that rolled up their sleeves and threw down for Steam users’ time and money last year. That is, obviously, a lot. But it’s not that much more than the number of games released on Steam […]
How to Find the Best PC Game Bargains in Steam, GOG and Epic Games Store’s Winter Sales
By Lifehacker.com on December 20, 2019 in deals, epic games store, General, gog, steam, Tech, valve, video games
2019's big end-of-year Winter sales on PC gaming platforms like Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store are finally here. These sales often have the biggest discounts on PC games you’ll find all year, making it the best time to pick up a few titles from your wishlist. All three winter sales run from now […]
Valve Removes Nazi Steam Profiles After German Complaints
By Kotaku.com on December 11, 2019 in gaming, General, germany, kotakucore, nazis, pc, steam, valve
Far-right groups that often employed Nazi-inspired language have long been able to create ugly little dens on Steam without facing too much resistance. Last year, Valve quietly deleted many hate groups in the wake of sustained reporting from publications like Vice, but Steam’s owners weren’t comprehensive in their…Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
The First Epic Exclusives Are Now Arriving On Steam
By Kotaku.com on December 10, 2019 in ashen, Epic, epic games store, gaming, General, hades, kotakucore, pc, steam, valve
In the annals of holiday lore it said that, every year, after circling the globe on a carpet-sized copy of Death Stranding, Geoff Keighley touches down for the briefest of moments in December to host The Game Awards. Last year, this led to an announcement that was curious indeed: a store, from grumpy old…Read more… […]
Halo: Reach, As Told By Steam Reviews
By Kotaku.com on December 6, 2019 in gaming, General, halo, halo reach, kotakucore, microsoft, pc, steam, steam reviews, valve, xbox
Halo: Reach, Bungie’s final entry in its second (of three, so far) series about armored space knights, is finally on PC. People are clearly excited, so much so that they managed to propel it to the third most-played slot on Steam earlier this week. But do they actually like the port? Yes and no.Read more… […]
In The Valley Of The Gods “On Hold” As Developers Work On Other Valve Games
By Kotaku.com on December 3, 2019 in campo santo, gaming, General, in the valley of the gods, kotaku core, pc, valve
Campo Santo’s follow-up to Firewatch, In the Valley of the Gods, was supposed to be out at the end of 2019. Since being bought by Valve, however, the game’s situation has changed.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Valve Finally Ran Out Of Steam Controllers
By Kotaku.com on December 3, 2019 in gaming, General, kotaku core, steam, steam controller, valve
Valve’s Steam Controller, once useful for allowing players to enjoy their favorite games on televisions around the house, is pretty much dead. Following the Autumn Steam sale that drastically reduced prices, Valve is giving refunds as stock runs out.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Valve Is Not Making Any More Steam Controllers
By Kotaku.com on November 27, 2019 in gaming, General, kotakucore, pc, steam, steam controller, valve
We are gathered here today to bid farewell to the Steam Controller, the little gamepad that could in some cases, but couldn’t in others, because it made people’s hands hurt. Its haptic pads are tickling the fingers of angels now.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Dota 2 Gets Total Overhaul
By Kotaku.com on November 26, 2019 in dota 2, gaming, General, kotakucore, outlanders, patch, update, valve
I’ve spent over 1,000 hours playing Dota 2 and reading through the game’s latest set of patch notes is breaking my brain.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Valve Removes 1,000 Games From Steam As Punishment For Abusing Tools
By Kotaku.com on November 26, 2019 in gaming, General, kotakucore, pc, steam, valve
There are more than 30,000 games on Steam. When Valve removes the odd offender for breaking the rules by, say, being a low-effort meme masquerading as a low-effort game or by being low-effort porn masquerading as a low-effort game, it’s like siphoning a drop from a bucket. Yesterday, Valve removed over 1,000 games…Read more… Continue […]
Data Suggests Most Steam Users’ PCs Aren’t Ready To Play Half-Life Alyx
By Kotaku.com on November 26, 2019 in gaming, General, half life, half life alyx, kotakucore, pc, steam, valve
Deep-pocketed companies like Valve and Oculus have been pushing virtual reality for years, but mainstream interest in the practice of strapping video games to one’s eyeballs has remained relatively low. Half-Life: Alyx seems primed to give a whole new audience a very valid reason to hover a hesitant finger over a…Read more… Continue Reading at […]
It Sucks That Half-Life: Alyx Is VR Only, But I’m Still Excited For More Half-Life
By Kotaku.com on November 24, 2019 in gaming, General, half life, half life 2, half life 3, half life alyx, hlvr, kotakucore, valve, vr
Half-Life 2 is probably my favorite game of all time, with my other option being Half-Life 1. I wanted to start with that sentence because I think it really helps explain my love for the Half-Life franchise. And as a lifelong, hardcore, super Half-Life fan I’m excited to play Half-Life: Alyx, even if it means […]
Half-Life: Alyx Takes Place Between Half-Life 1 And Half-Life 2
By Kotaku.com on November 21, 2019 in gaming, General, half life, half life alyx, kotakucore, pc, steam, valve, vr
Half-Life: Alyx, you might be dismayed to learn, is definitely not Half-Life 3. But it is a new “full-length” Half-Life game, Valve said today, and it’ll be out in March.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
The Internet Reacts To The Announcement Of A New Half-Life Game
It is 2019. Valve just announced a new Half-Life game. All bets are off now. Quit your job. Buy a lottery ticket. Fail to win the lottery. Buy several more lottery tickets. Fail again. Give up. Sell your car so you can make rent. Go online. Find out that the new Half-Life is a VR […]
Valve Announces New Half-Life Game
By Kotaku.com on November 18, 2019 in gaming, General, half life, half life alyx, kotaku core, pc, valve
After some whispers earlier in the week, Valve has come out and confirmed it: the company is working on a new title called Half-Life :Alyx, which it describes as a “flagship VR game”.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Steam Is Now Asking Users To Re-Review Games After Playing Them Some More
By Kotaku.com on October 30, 2019 in gaming, General, kotakucore, pc, steam, valve
There are plenty of reasons to distrust any given individual Steam review. It might be obsessively hyper-focused on a relatively slight issue or, god forbid, a game taking a political stance. It might be part of a review bomb. It might be a meme. Now, though, Valve has taken aim at one of its system’s […]
I Love Dota Underlords’ New Jail
By Kotaku.com on October 25, 2019 in dota, dota 2, dota underlords, gaming, General, kotakucore, pc, steam, valve
Today, Valve’s ever-evolving auto-battler received its long-awaited “Big Update,” aka the one that finally adds Underlords to Dota Underlords. But while I’m still figuring out how I feel about having a howling, fire-haired general accompanying my tiny troops into battle, I’m already certain I’m in love with another…Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
How to Play Local Multiplayer Games Over the Internet With Steam
By Lifehacker.com on October 23, 2019 in gaming, General, pc, remote, steam, Tech, valve, video games
We live in a golden age of gaming, one where we can easily access tons of games from every era, genre, console, and niche you could possibly think of. But while playing co-op or local competitive games is relatively easy when you’re sitting on the couch with a console, local multiplayer can be more difficult […]
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Q/A - "Were it not for Muhammad, I would not have created you"?
Q-1. How sound is the hadeeth "Were it not for Muhammad, I would not have created you"?
What is your opinion on this hadeeth? It was narrated that ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: the Messenger of Allaah (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) said: "When Adam committed his sin, he said: ‘O Lord, I ask You by virtue of Muhammad to forgive me.’ Allaah said: ‘O Adam, how do you know Muhammad when I have not created him yet?’ He said: ‘O Lord, because when You created me with Your hand and breathed into me the soul that Your created for me, I lifted my head and I saw it written on the pillars of the Throne: Laa ilaaha ill-Allaah Muhammad Rasool Allaah, and I knew that You would not attach to Your name any but the most beloved of creation to You.’ Allaah said: ‘You have spoken the truth, O Adam, for he is the most beloved of creation to Me, and as you asked Me by virtue of him, I have forgiven you. Were it not for Muhammad I would not have created you.’".
Praise be to Allaah.
This hadeeth is fabricated, as was explained by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him), because Allaah only created the jinn and mankind to worship Him alone with no partner or associate, and Adam (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) is one of mankind. And Allaah is the source of strength. End quote. Majmoo’ Fataawa Ibn Baaz (26/327)
Al-Bayhaqi said concerning it in Dalaa’il al-Nubuwwah (5/489): It was narrated only by ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Zayd ibn Aslam, who is da’eef (weak). End quote.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah said concerning it in al-Tawassul (p. 166): It was narrated in marfoo’ and mawqoof reports attributed to ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab (may Allaah be pleased with him), but (its isnaad) includes ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn Aslam, who is da’eef according to their consensus and he makes many mistakes. End quote.
Al-Albaani (and Allaah have mercy on him) ruled that it is fabricated in al-Silsilah al-Da’eefah (25).
See also the answer to question number 23290. Falseness of the hadeeth, "Were it not for you, I would not have created the universe"
I have got a question regarding a hadiith. How sound is the hadiith, that states, that it were not for Muhammad (saw) Allaah (swt) would not have created this world??? To be honest I am a bit suspicious about this hadiith, could you shatter some light in the matter?.
Many false and fabricated ahaadeeth have been narrated that say similar things. For example:
"Were it not for you, I would not have created the universe."
This was quoted by al-Shawkaani in al-Fawaa’id al-Majmoo’ah fi’l-Ahaadeeth al-Mawdoo’ah (p. 326). He said: Al-San’aani said: (it is) mawdoo’ (fabricated).
Al-Albaani said in al-Silsilah al-Da’eefah (282): (it is) mawdoo’.
Another example is the hadeeth narrated by al-Haakim according to which Ibn ‘Abbaas said: "Allaah revealed to ‘Eesa (Jesus, peace be upon him): ‘O ‘Eesa, believe in Muhammad, and tell whoever you meet of your ummah to believe in him. For were it not for Muhammad, I would not have created Adam, and were it not for Muhammad, I would not have created Paradise and Hell. I created the Throne over the water and it would not settle until I wrote on it, Laa ilaaha ill-Allaah Muhammad Rasool Allaah (There is no god but Allaah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allaah)." Al-Haakim said: its isnaad is saheeh! But al-Dhahabi commented on that and said: I believe it is fabricated and falsely attributed to Sa’eed.
Meaning, Sa’eed ibn Abu ‘Aroobah (one of the narrators of this hadeeth). This hadeeth was narrated from him by ‘Amr ibn Aws al-Ansaari, who is the one who is accused of fabricating it. Al-Dhahabi mentioned him in al-Meezaan where he said: "He produced a munkar report," then he quoted this hadeeth, and said, "I believe that it is mawdoo’ (fabricated)." Al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar agreed with him, as it says in al-Lisaan.
Al-Albaani said in al-Silsilah al-Da’eefah (280): There is no basis for it.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked:
Is the hadeeth which some people quote – "Were it not for you, Allaah would not have created the Throne or the Kursiy or the earth or the heavens or the sun or the moon or anything else" saheeh or nor?
He replied: Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) is the leader of the sons of Adam, and the best and noblest of creation, hence some people say that Allaah created the universe because of him, or that were it not for him, Allaah would not have created the Throne or the Kursiy or the earth or the heavens or the sun or the moon.
But this hadeeth that is narrated from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) is neither saheeh (sound) nor da’eef (weak), and it was not narrated by any scholar in a hadeeth from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). Neither was it known from the Sahaabah. Rather it is the words of one who is unknown. Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 11/86-96.
The Standing Committee was asked: Can it be said that Allaah created the heavens and the earth for the purpose of creating the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)? What is the meaning of the hadeeth, "Were it not for you the universe would not have been created," and does this hadeeth have any basis?
They replied: The heavens and the earth were not created for the sake of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), rather they were created for the purpose which Allaah mentions (interpretation of the meaning): "It is Allaah Who has created seven heavens and of the earth the like thereof (i.e. seven). His Command descends between them (heavens and earth), that you may know that Allaah has power over all things, and that Allaah surrounds all things in (His) Knowledge" [al-Talaaq 65:12]
As for the hadeeth mentioned, it is falsely attributed to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and has no sound basis. Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 1/312
Shaykh Ibn Baaz was asked about this hadeeth and said: The answer is that this was transmitted from the words of some of the common people who have no understanding. Some people say that the world was created for the sake of Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and were it not for Muhammad the world would not have been created and mankind would not have been created. This is false and has no basis, and these are corrupt words. Allaah created the world so that He would be known and worshipped. He created the world and He created mankind so that His names and attributes, His power and knowledge, would be known and so that He alone would be worshipped with no partner or associate, and so that He would be obeyed – not for the sake of Muhammad or for the sake of Nooh or Moosa or ‘Eesa or any other Prophet. Rather Allaah created the universe so that He alone would be worshipped, with no partner or associate. Fataawa Noor ‘ala al-Darb, 46.
And Allaah knows best.
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Q-2 What are the types of Tawheed and their definitions?
A – The types of Tawheed are three: Tawheed Ar-Ruboobiyyah, Tawheed Al-Uloohiyyah and Tawheed Al-Asma-was-Sifaat.
Tawheed Ar-Ruboobiyyah is singling out Allah the Exalted in (i.e. belief that He alone is capable of) creation, providing sustenance, giving life, causing death, and all of the types of regulation and administration of the dominion of the heavens and earth, and (also) singling Him out, the Exalted, with (the right to) judgement and legislation and sending of the Messengers and revealing of Books. Allah said, "Verily, to Him belongs the creation and the command, blessed be Allah, the Lord of the worlds." (Qur’an, 7:54)
Tawheed Al-Uloohiyyah is singling out Allah in worship so that none besides Him is worshipped, so that none besides Him is called upon, so that rescue, or aid, is not sought from anyone except Him. Sacrifice, slaughter, or an oath, should not be for anyone, except Him. Allah said, "Say: My prayer, my sacrifice, my life and my death are for Allah, the Lord of the worlds. He has no partner. This is what I have been commanded with and I am the first of those who submit (to him with Islam and Tawheed)" (Qur’an, 6:162), and He said, "Therefore turn in prayer to your Lord and sacrifice (to Him only)." (Qur’an, 108:2)
Tawheed Al-Asma-was-Sifaat is describing Allah the Most High and naming Him with whatever He described and named Himself with, and with whatever His Messenger (peace be upon him) described and named Him with in the authentic narrations – and to affirm (those attributes and names) for Allah without resemblance (to the creation) or likening (to the creation), and without (false) interpretation (of any of that) or negation (of any of that). There is nothing like Him and He is the All-Hearer, the All-Seer.
– The Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Verdicts; Fatawa, vol. 1, pg. 20-21, no. 8943.
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Talking to brother.
Me: Aff and I visited Atlanta and Albuquerque so far this year, and are going to Sydney later. I like going to places with diversity -- I learn more from the experience.
Brother: There won't be much diversity in Sydney.
Me: That's true.
Brother: Except diversity of animals. Poisonous animals.
The apple of knowledge and customs
Today Aff told me about a woman flying from France to Denver. She was served an apple on her flight, and put it in her luggage to eat later.
At customs, she was searched and received a $500 fine due to the apple.
I said that compared to all the other issues that happen during customs and immigration, this was quite minor. She has to sign a form that she is not bringing fruits, so she should have known.
I wonder how I will think about this situation in 5 years or 10 years. Will I think that even though there are larger immigration struggles, this small issue is still an injustice?
A good speech on narcissism
I heard a great talk at SXSW about narcissism. The speaker commented on how society attributes moral virtue to successful people. A new friend who is perfectly coiffed and lives in a mansion is given more of the benefit of the doubt than an "average Joe".
She said: "I do the opposite. If someone pulls up in the latest Tesla and lives in a mansion, I am more on guard. I am more skeptical of them until I get to know them."
I liked the talk.
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atlantic yards Apr. 22, 2010
ACORN’s Bertha Lewis Goes a Little Nuts on Last Atlantic Yards Holdout
Yesterday, the last man yet to be evicted from his home to make way for the Atlantic Yards development, Daniel Goldstein, agreed to move out for $3 million. Can you blame the guy? Goldstein, the spokesman for the Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn group that had been fighting Atlantic Yards, was going to be evicted anyway, but was given millions of dollars to leave early. Here’s how he described the deal today:
On April 9th ESDC filed papers requesting that the court evict me on May 17th. Wednesday morning my attorney argued that the court should not grant that eviction. After the argument, Judge Gerges made it crystal clear that he wanted resolution between me and ESDC/Ratner — that day — as to when I’d leave my home.
So instead of being evicted in about 27 days and then being forced to go to court to hope to get close to fair market value for my home (as opposed to the extremely lowball “just compensation” offered to me by New York State, which was nowhere near fair market value), I agreed to leave in about 17 days. That agreement to leave ten days sooner avoids further litigation over “just compensation,” which would have cost me more time and money while accomplishing nothing for the fight against the project.
I did not sell my home today. I had no home to sell as the state took my home on March 1st. Contrary to what Ratner and ESDC might want people to believe, eminent domain was used on me and many others. My home was seized by the government to give to a private developer.
Personally, we can’t argue with that logic, even if the symbolism of the anti-development warrior taking a big fat check from the evil Bruce Ratner isn’t quite the Hollywood ending some were hoping for. There are few things we wouldn’t do for $3 million (seriously, it’s kind of scary). Leaving our home a few days sooner than we had to would definitely be one of them. But ACORN’s Bertha Lewis — we thought ACORN had shut down, but okay — doesn’t see the logic of Goldstein’s decision, according to an absolutely savage e-mail she sent out to reporters last night.
Finally, the itch that was Daniel Goldstein has been scratched and scratched out. After almost seven years of flawed strategies, smear campaigns, stupid tactics, disingenuous rhetoric and total disregard for people who have lived in the downtown Brooklyn community for years before he even thought about coming here; finally he got what he really wanted. A Deal. Not for the community he claimed to love so much, but for the only beneficiary of his community of one, himself, Double Dealing Danny Goldstein …
Yeesh. The irony of it all is that ACORN got its own payoff from Bruce Ratner to support and provide political cover to the Atlantic Yards project. Granted, in exchange, ACORN solidified the promise of affordable housing in the development — but it was also set to make millions off of marketing the housing and deciding who gets to live there, according to a former employee. ACORN was also saved in 2008 by a $1.5 million loan provided by Ratner when it was embroiled in financial trouble. Maybe Lewis is just jealous it wasn’t $3 million.
Statement From Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn Co-Founder Daniel Goldstein [Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn]
Bertha Lewis, ACORN CEO, Not Happy for Daniel Goldstein [NYO]
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Further documents relating to the question of boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela : despatch from Her Majesty's ambassador at Washington, inclosing the first part of the brief for Venezuela, presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, August 1896
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This special topic poll was undertaken to assess public opinion on United States military and political action regarding terrorism and terrorist threats six months after September 11, 2001. Respondents were asked to give their opinions of President George W. Bush and his handling of the presidency and the campaign against terrorism. Views were also elicited on the military action in Afghanistan, the likelihood and necessity of capturing Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, foreign diplomacy, the possibility of broader anti-terrorist military action, and the effects of September 11th. A series of questions asked whether those queried supported military action in Afghanistan, whether they thought the military action was going well, whether the campaign would become more or less difficult, whether United States involvement would at some point become comparable to its involvement in the Vietnam War, and whether the United States was doing enough to avoid United States military casualties. In regards to bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network, respondents were asked how confident they were that bin Laden would be captured or killed, whether the success of the war on terrorism depended on bin Laden's being captured or killed, how effectively the United States had limited bin Laden's ability to maintain the Al Qaeda network, whether large numbers of United States military casualties should be risked to capture or kill bin Laden, and whether the United States should focus specifically on capturing/killing bin Laden, neutralizing the Al Qaeda network, neither of the two, or both actions. Another series of questions focused on United States diplomatic relationships and the possibility of expanding the current military campaign to other countries. Respondents were asked if the United States was effectively winning support from its allies in the war on terrorism, if the United States was... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03431
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Provincial Ambassadors
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Lights Out #10for10
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Thank you for a decade of Lights Out Canada!
Schools across Canada have turned out their lights and switched on education about climate change since 2005.
Since 2005, our work with educators who go above and beyond for their students has inspired, energized and moved us. We are proud of the following milestones you have made possible:
Lights Out has had 1.5 million participants, growing from 50K students in the first year of the project to more than 300K at its peak.
We have presented on climate education and youth empowerment to thousands of students in 4 countries.
6 student ambassadors in high school and university successfully organized and grew the project in their regions.
Lights Out has been featured in more than 25 publications.
The project is now complete. Our website will continue to live on, along with the lesson plans, event guides and posters that we’ve shared with schools. Please feel free to use these tools and to host Lights Out days in your schools, districts and communities.
We may find another home for Lights Out in the future. If we do, we’ll be sure to let you know.
Many individuals and organizations have supported Lights Out over the years. The project would not have been possible without them:
Special thanks to Dev Aujla, Ed, Joyce & Nic Annau, Patrick Forestell, Dr. Michael Fox, Simon Jackson, Elizabeth May, Thomas Paul, Bill Rawlins, Leanne Souchuck, Johan Stroman, Tom Ewart, Barbara Turley-McIntyre, Dr. Brad Walters, Kyle Wamer, Dr. Andrew Weaver, Craig Wilson, the teachers and administrators at Ballenas Secondary School, Mount Allison University and The Cooperators.
The idea behind Lights Out is that small changes add up to make a big difference. It is within all of our power to commit to making those small changes together.
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Archived News for Professionals in Local Government - March, 2013
Sydney ups commitment to light rail
The City of Sydney has announced it has voted to increase the council’s contribution to the South East Sydney light rail project from $180 million to $220 million.
Albanese takes on Local Government portfolio
Anthony Albanese has been announced as the new Minister for Local Government in the wake of last weeks Federal Government leadership spill.
ALGA urges changes to referendum law
The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) has called on political parties of all persuasion to support proposed amendments to the Referendums (Machinery Provisions) Act that would remove existing constraints on public funding of referendums ahead of the potential referendum on constitutional recognition in September.
Cairns Airport upgrade gets the go ahead
The Queensland Government has announced it has granted planning approval for the $1 billion, 20-year redevelopment plan of the Cairns Airport.
LGAQ releases 10-point Federal Election plan
Better funding for roads, a smart approach to disaster management and a fairer go in the way Queensland determines how Federal funding is spent on local government are among the 10 policies put forward under the Local Government Association of Queensland’s (LGA) 10 Point Federal Election Policy Plan.
Streamlined communications saves SA councils $6 million
A unique 10-year partnership between the South Australian Local Government Association (LGA) and consultancy firm Deloitte has saved an estimated $6 million in electronic communications and file management costs.
Bowen pipeline gets the nod
Queensland’s Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (EHP) has announced it has given environmental approval to the proposed billion dollar Bowen coal seam gas pipeline.
Government introduces asbestos agency legislation
The Federal Government has introduced legislation before Parliament that seeks to establish the new Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency.
SA to tackle living costs
The South Australian Government has it will move to tackle the rising cost of living in the state, specifically addressing what it calls life-changing events, housing expenses and concessions.
ACELG kicks off social enterprise study
The relationship between social enterprise and local government is being put under the microscope with the release of a new study by The Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG) and the University of Tasmania.
ACELG program kicks off
Forty-Four of Australia and New Zealand’s top local government leaders have convened in Canberra this week to participate in a unique week-long Excellence in Local Government Leadership Program.
MAV hits out rating guidelines
The current draft differential rating guidelines is pockmarked by serious shortcomings and more must be done to develop ratings strategies, according to the Municipal Association of Victoria’s (MAV) submission to the State Government.
Victoria announces support for climate-resilient communities
The Victorian Government has announced $6 million in local government funding to support communities adapt to climate change.
Logan seeking more information on de-fluoridation
Logan City Council has announced it is continuing to seek more information from SEQwater on the potential costs of de-fluoridating the council’s water supply.
Queensland to conduct body corporate review
Queensland’s Attorney-General, Jarrod Bleijie, has announced he will conduct a full review of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act, forming part of a broader review of property laws after amendments passed Parliament earlier this week.
Victoria releases climate resilience plan
The Victorian Government has tabled its Climate Change Adaptation Plan before State Parliament, with State Minister for Climate Change, Ryan Smith, saying that it will provide for improved climate risk planning, strong leadership and partnerships with local government.
Committee hands down Queensland uranium report
Queensland’s Uranium Mining Implementation Committee has handed down its final report outlining how the uranium industry should be re-established in Queensland.
Victoria green lights Australia 108
Melbourne will be home to the tallest sky-scraper in the Southern Hemisphere after State Minister for Planning, Matthew Guy, officially gave the project his seal of approval.
LGNSW grills minister over early intervention
Local Government NSW (LGNSW) has held an urgent meeting with the Minister of Local Government today and demanded the deferral of the NSW Government’s Early Intervention Bill until all details of the proposed legislation are publicly released.
Melbourne releases Council Plan outline
The City of Melbourne is inviting its residents to contribute to the conversation about the future of the city with the release of an outline of the council Plan.
Independent Local Government Review Panel close to releasing draft report
The Independent Local Government Review Panel has announced it is nearing the end of the second round of consultations with councils and key stakeholders, with the final draft findings due for release in April.
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Pony jobs for Jill...or not? Are pony books pro or anti-feminist?
As with many of my musings, this topic has been inspired by a discussion on the ponymadbooklovers chat forum. Now, I always thought that compared to other books of that era aimed at girl readers, pony books were fairly empowering. Unlike the many of the adventure books, especially those by Enid Blyton, both girl and boy characters in the majority of pony books were on a fairly equal footing. (Compare for example the escapades of the female characters in the families of the Pullein-Thompson books to the way that Dinah and Lucy-Ann in Enid Blyton's 'Adventure' series were always left to do the boring stuff by the boys, who had all the exciting adventures.) However when these independant pony-girls began to grow up and enter the job market, things seemed to change for them. One of the biggest disappointments of my pony book reading career (and that of many other similar readers) is at the end of Pony Jobs for Jill by Ruby Ferguson, when Jill is persuaded to give up her dreams of pursuing a horsy career. After a series of unappetitising horsy jobs, she almost seems to welcome the suggestion by Captain Cholly-Sawcutt that she keep her riding for a hobby and get trained for a 'proper job.'
Far more satisfying were the characters who defied their parents and convention to stick with a horsy career. We have Janet in Janet Must Ride, Rennie in Rennie Goes Riding, Fiona in Clear Round, Sarah and Ginette in Ten Week Stables, and many more.
A lot of books followed the Pony Jobs for Jill theme of the horsy job as being deadly hard-work, under-paid and disappointing: which as we all know it can be. And of course not pursuing a horsy career is not necessarily giving up the fight for equality and independence. However as another forum member pointed out, how come the non-pony choice of job always seemed so un-intellectual? The older pony books offered a selection of secretarial or domestic jobs, more recently modelling has been offered as an alternative to the horsy career. Where were the degree courses, the careers in science, law or teaching? Were these books actually saying that the pony mad girl was anti-intellectual and that horses and brains could not be combined? I am still wracking my brains for books where the heroine left the world of horses to pursue such a job.
So are pony books pro-feminism or do they conform to the old stereotype of women as intellectual inferior and fit only for motherhood or unchallenging jobs? It is sad that many authors allowed their creations only a short period of equality and freedom before
they were expected to conform, and that many were not allowed to show any intellectual capacity at all. Especially so as most of the authors of the genre were female and many were highly educated. On the whole however I think compared to other books of the 1940s-1960s era, they do come down on the side of empowering female characters. For every Jill who allows herself to be moulded into what society would like her to be, there are ten Janets and Rennies who pursue their independance despite the odds. Certainly no girl in any pony book I have ever read bemoaned the fact she was a mere girl and tried to turn herself into a psuedo-boy, as did George in the Famous Five! They may have had their problems but in general, their gender was not one of them!
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Comments Off on Find Your FOREVER HOME in Jenna Ayoub’s New Graphic Novel From BOOM! Studios
Discover the Hidden Ghosts in this Original New Middle Grade Novel about Family and Home in November 2020
LOS ANGELES, CA (January 13, 2020) – BOOM! Studios announced today a brand new original graphic novel, FOREVER HOME, from cartoonist Jenna Ayoub (Adventure Time), an all-new story about finding your place and learning to love where you are, available in November 2020.
Willow has had a nomadic childhood—with two parents in the military, staying put has become a pipe dream. And when the family arrives at their latest stop— the historic Hadleigh House— Willow encounters something that doesn’t help her chances of finding home… ghosts!
Hadleigh House’s spectral residents have been scaring off would-be homebuyers for decades, and they intend to keep the house to themselves. But Willow’s not about to let some nagging spirits force her to move for the millionth time. As Willow spends time in the house and gains the ghosts’ respect through her own strong will to stay in the house no matter what, they find that all of them belong there. Together, the restless spirits are finally able to find some peace, and Willow finds a home.
Then it’s just a matter of convincing Willow’s parents that this old house is the one for them- ghosts included.
Jenna Ayoub is a comic artist and writer who began her career as an inker and has since worked as an illustrator for comic book series including, Adventure Time, Regular Show, and The Amazing World of Gumball with BOOM! Studios. Her latest project is the graphic novel FOREVER HOME, which she has both written and illustrated.
“FOREVER HOME has been a very fun, and very personal project for me. It has given me the chance to pay homage to the spirits that I love—many of whom are actually still alive and hopefully will appreciate the little parts that they contributed to this story,” said cartoonist Jenna Ayoub. “I’m very excited to bring this adventure to life, and hope that it will bring readers as much joy as it has brought me.”
FOREVER HOME is the latest release from BOOM! Studios’ award-winning KaBOOM! Imprint, home to comics for middle grade and younger readers including original series like Just Beyond by R.L. Stine and Kelly & Nichole Matthews, Hex Vet by Sam Davies, RuinWorld by Derek Laufman, Hotel Dare by Terry Blas and Claudia Aguirre, Pandora’s Legacy by Kara Leopard and Kelly & Nichole Matthews, as well as Wonder Pony by Marie Spénale and the upcoming Space Bear by Ethan Young, along with licensed series such as Adventure Time, Steven Universe, Regular Show, Ben 10, and Over the Garden Wall.
“I’ve been excited about this book since the pitch first came in, and now having the chance to work with Jenna and watch her bring Willow and the charming, funny, and heartfelt world of FOREVER HOME to life is an absolute joy,” said Bryce Carlson, Vice President, Editorial & Creative Strategy, BOOM! Studios. “Jenna is an incredible talent whose debut graphic novel weaves a heartwarming tale about a young girl who finally finds a place she can call home and the lengths she’ll go to protect the place—and those living and unliving inside—that she loves.”
Print copies of FOREVER HOME will be available for sale in November 2020 at local comic book shops (use comicshoplocator.com to find the nearest one), bookstores or at the BOOM! Studios webstore. Digital copies can be purchased from content providers, including comiXology, iBooks, Google Play, and Madefire.
For continuing news on FOREVER HOME and more from BOOM!, stay tuned to www.boom-studios.com and follow @boomstudios on Twitter.
BOOM! Studios Announces SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE Graphic Novel By Ryan North and Albert Monteys
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Allies in Canada
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Updates : Conflict with the Canadian Oil Company Pacific Rubiales
Two days before the departure of the Humanitarian Convoy, coordinated by the Worker’s Trade Union (USO) and the Central Confederation of Workers (CUT) with participation of 60 Colombian social organizations and an international trade union delegation1, the Colombian minister of Mines and Energy Mauricio Cárdenas and the Vice-President of Pacific Rubiales announced they had reached a union agreement to put an end to the labour dispute in the oil fields of Puerto Gaítan and Campo Rubiales (department of Meta). 2
According to the USO “It is a unilateral measure designed to distract public opinion from the real issues.”i “The company achieved the ‘alleged accord’ in just a few days by subverting an earlier set of assurances Pacific Rubiales offered the USO and the government with the aim of restoring full production in Puerto Gaitan,” said USO chief Rodolfo Vecinoii. During his speech at the Senate Chamber, Senator Jorge Enrique of the Polo Democratico, accused the Minister of Mines and the Vice-President of not respecting their prior commitments to the USO, which represents the workers in their labour dispute. The “agreement” of which the government speaks does not resolve any of the demands made by the 12 000 workers during the previous negotiating tables. The new agreement was signed by a trade union whose representatives are closely connected to the government, and represents only one sector of the company, the administrative personnel, the Senator declared.iii Last month, Mr Robledo had also denounced the public disinformation campaign conducted by Pacific Rubiales in which it described the USO trade union as “armed criminals, forcing work stoppages”.iv
In fact, this new Trade Union, the Unión de Trabajadores de Energía Nacional y Servicios Petroleros y Domiciliarios (Uten), is comprised of 700 administration employees hired directly by Pacific Rubiales between the 4th and 6th of October, before forming the new agreement on the October 7th. However, the labor dispute that has lasted since July 2011 concerns about 12,000 subcontracted workers of which over 5,000 are affiliated with the USO.v According to Edwin Sanchez, an ex-subcontracted worker, “the labour conditions of subcontracted workers lay at the heart of the labour dispute (…) Workers slept in tents for weeks on end with no sanitary facilities. Furthermore, workers were routinely employed on one month contracts, and were then sent home wondering if it would be renewed the next month. In Campo Rubiales we were 14 000 employees, there are now 2800. [Since the beginning of the labour dispute], they keep on renewing contracts, as in my own case... “. vi
During the unions’ roundtables and negotiations with local communities (in August 2011), concluded in a settlement between the USO and Pacific Rubiales, with grievances including poverty wages, sub-standard housing (in Campo Rubiales, the 240 workers are packed together in roughly-made tents), poor sanitation, poor transport, degrading treatment, all imposed on a workforce precariously employed on 28-day contracts. Furthermore, the affected communities' demands were specifically targeting the environmental degradation taking place, high local unemployment with many jobs not filled by area residents, and a lack of social investment in local infrastructures. The members of the Caravan reminded that the Canadian company had until the 21st of October to concretize its engagements.
The denunciations documented during the various assemblies organized by the Caravan with the workers and the affected communities will be handed to the Colombian Parliamentary Congress and to the International Labour Organization (ILO). In addition to the absence of a solution to the extreme precarity of the 12 000 subcontracted workers, the following denunciations were brought by the peasant communities:
Absence of investments in infrastructures and social services
Concerning the high rentability of Pacific Rubiales's operations in Colombia (annual profits of US$218 million in 2010vii), Henry Jara, regional president of the USO for the Meta department, explains that it is “a lot of money that has not be seen in social investments nor in the salaries.” viii During the assembly that was held in the village of Rubiales, the members of the community indicated that “the Canadian company is not keeping its promise to offer a solution to the public service problems such as access to electricity, to the aqueduct and to housing (…) problems which are extremely urgent.” ix
Public health problems caused by water and air contamination
During a meeting held by the inhabitants of Porvenir village, the participants have denounced that “the problem with the air quality is suffocating because [we permanently breathe] dust” x The members of the indigenous communities expressed the same conclusion, stating that “the children are the main victims of the [contaminated] water seepage and that the surrounding dust causes respiratory and skin diseases.” They also stated that those health problems were presented to the administration of Pacific Rubiales, but they yet have not given any answer. xi
The Canadian oil company prevents the free movement of the inhabitants on their own territory by blocking public roads
During the assembly that was held in Puerto Triunfo, the population denounced the “degrading treatment from part of the Pacific Rubiales multinational company, to which they have to ask permission to travel to their places of residence.” xii The members of indigenous communities neighbouring the oil fields of Campo Rubiales raised that “their population is particularly vulnerable because during the access controls [imposed by the private guards of the Canadian company, these guards] say that they do not know them and deny them the access to their own territory.” xiii
Henry Jara, regional president of the USO for the Meta department, notes however that the Canadian company was able to improve its public image because it temporally removed the barricades and the 700 members of the riot police, ESMAD, that habitually patrol its properties were invisible during the visit of the Convoy.xiv We note, however, that the members of the Convoy ran into a barricade made by Pacific Rubiales, consisting of a trench and a 6 foot-tall and 300 meter-wide metallic fence.xv
In short, in the press release sent by the USO and the CUT replying to the announcement of the new agreement signed by Pacific Rubiales and the new trade union UTEN, the Unions demanded that the government and Pacific Rubiales “resolve the deplorable social and labor situation” in the Rubiales and Quifa oil fields. “Even though it is one of the main centers of oil production in the country, it has alarming rates of social inequality”. xvi They call upon the National Government and the Canadian company to respect the agreement concluded on September 30th.
1Among the members of the Humanitarian Convoy, there were delegates from : Asociación Nacional Sindical de Trabajadores y Servidores Públicos de la Salud, Seguridad Social, Integral y Servicios Complementarios de Colombia (ANTHOC), Sindicato de Trabajadores y Empleados de Servicios Públicos, Organización Colombiana de Pensionados, la Escuela Sindical María Cano, Corporaciones Autónomas, Institutos Descentralizados y Territoriales de Colombia (SINTRAEMSDES), etc. The international delegation was composed of delegates from the International Trade Union Confederation, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and the World Federation of Trade Unions.
2Pacific Rubiales announced that it would hire local people to fill the unskilled positions at the Puerto Gaitan oilfield, donate $1 million to a hospital serving the people of Puerto Gaitan, and build 3,000 new housing units. See : http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/economy/19420-pacific-rubiales-in-deal-to-hire-colombian-workers.html
i« Still No Agreement For Subcontracted Workers in Rubiales ». Justice for Colombia, October 12 2011. http://www.justiceforcolombia.org/news/article/1110/still-no-agreement-for-subcontracted-workers-in-rubiales
ii« Colombian, int'l labor activists battle oil company » Futures and Commodity Market News, Bogota, October 10, 2011 (EFE via COMTEX) http://futures.tradingcharts.com/news/futures/Colombian__int_l_labor_activists_battle_oil_company_166248432.html
iii « En Rubiales, el gobierno incumple el acuerdo suscrito con la CUT y la USO, con el vicepresidente Garzón de garante
", USO, October 13 2011 . http://www.usofrenteobrero.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2721:en-rubiales-el-gobierno-incumple-el-acuerdo-suscrito-con-la-cut-y-la-uso-con-el-vicepresidente-garzon-de-garante&catid=43:boletin-junta
iv« Colombian Oil Workers Fight Back Against Mass Persecution », International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions, September 15 2011. http://www.icem.org/index.php?id=217&la=EN&doc=4661
vCommunicado de prensa. USO , CUT. October 11 2011. http://www.usofrenteobrero.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2711:comunicado-de-prensa&catid=43:boletin-junta
vi « Edwin Sánchez, ex trabajador en Campo Rubiales: "Nosotros venimos a vender nuestra fuerza de trabajo, pero no nuestra dignidad"», Notiagen, October 11 2011 . http://notiagen.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/edwin-sanchez-ex-trabajador-en-campo-rubiales-%C2%ABnosotros-venimos-a-vender-nuestra-fuerza-de-trabajo-pero-no-nuestra-dignidad%C2%BB/
vii« Colombian Oil Workers Fight Back Against Mass Persecution » International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions, September 15 2011, http://www.icem.org/index.php?id=217&la=EN&doc=4661
viii« El primer día de la Acción Humanitaria y Laboral a Puerto Gaitán es una aclaración ... » op.cit.
ix« La Caravana Humanitaria y Laboral finaliza su jornada en Campo Rubiales reunida con los trabajadores en el lugar donde tienen sus carpas. », Notiagen, October 13 2011. https://notiagen.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/actualizacion-13-octubre-10-y-15-de-la-manana-caravana-de-accion-humanitaria-y-laboral-entra-a-campo-rubiales/
x« La Caravana Humanitaria y Laboral finaliza su jornada... » op.cit.
xi« Caravana Humanitaria llega a Puerto Triunfo », USO, October 13 2011. http://www.usofrenteobrero.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2719:caravana-humanitaria-llega-a-puerto-triunfo&catid=43:boletin-junta
xii« Caravana Humanitaria llega a Puerto Triunfo » op. cit.
xiii« La Caravana Humanitaria y Laboral finaliza su jornada ... » op.cit.
xiv« La Caravana Humanitaria y Laboral finaliza su jornada ... » op.cit.
xv« Colombia termina donde comienza los campos de la petrolera canadiense », USO, October 13 2011. http://www.usofrenteobrero.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2720:colombia-termina-donde-comienza-los-campos-de-la-petrolera-canadiense&catid=43:boletin-junta
xviCommunicado de prensa. USO, CUT. op.cit.
September 17th : Support for the Humanitarian Convoy
Following the violent repression of the protest movement led by the Colombians workers of the Canadian Oil Company Pacific Rubiales Energy and the refusal of the Canadian company to take into consideration the social demands of affected communities and to allow unionization of its employees, an humanitarian convoy is being organized to visit the workers and mobilize international supports.
Before the eminent risk of repression (protesters seriously injured, death threats against trade unionists, etc.), the PASC invites you to show your support for this Humanitarian Convoy which will be hold from October 10th to October 14th in the area of Puerto Gaitan, Department of Meta - Colombia. We invite invite canadian citizen to complete the following form online: Support to humanitarian convoy.
In addition, we believe that strong support from Canadian unions and NGO will have a positive impact on the labor conflict and will not only force the negotiations with the Canadian company but also in the short term, protect human lives currently in danger. That is why we are collecting signatures for a Joint Letter to be sent to the Canadian Embassy with copy to Colombian authorities and Pacific Rubiales Energy to demonstrate support to this humanitarian convoy. Endorsments must be confirmed before October 6 so that je letter can ben sent no later than Friday, October 7. Please contact us if your organization would like to express his support for this Joint Letter.
PUERTO GAÍTAN, META, COLOMBIA : MAIN COLOMBIAN REGION FOR OIL PRODUCTION
Puerto Gaitan is a city of Villavicencio, capital of Meta department, this is the first region of Colombia in terms of oil production. Three foreign companies are present including the Canadian Pacific Rubiales Energy, registered at the Toronto Stock Exchange and headquartered in Toronto, Canada. This Canadian company operates oil fields "Campo Rubiales" and "Quifa" (Puerto Gaitán), in association with Ecopetrol, where approximately 13 000 employees work. These employees have no job stability, they are subjected to up to 18 hours of work a day, up to 40 days without a day off (when the regulations governing the oil industry provides seven day off for 21 working days) and only receive one quarter of the wage rate of oil workers in Colombia. In addition, the use of subcontracting prevents unionization of workers.
The oil industry is the main source of income in the region and for six years now the inhabitants of Puerto Gaitan have been demanding that their requests be considered ecologically (reduction of ecological damage due to oil), socially (local hiring standards, infrastructure investments, etc.) and regarding their working conditions (compliance with Colombian labor law, union rights, etc.).
CURRENT LABOR CONFLICT
The labor conflict escalated recently when 1100 employees, subcontractors for the Spanish oil company Cepcolsa (June 20th, 2011) and 6000 employees, subcontractors for the Canadian oil company Pacific Rubiales (July 18th , 2011) declared themselves in " Permanent Assembly " to mobilize local communities and workers around their social and union demands. The workers requested the National Union of Petroleum Workers: Union Sindical Obrera (USO) to represent them before the companies.
VIOLENT REPRESION OF SOCIAL PROTEST AND DEATH THREATS TO TRADE UNIONIST
Despite signing an agreement between the union USO and the national government to establish the negotiating table, the peaceful demonstrations of workers and residents were violently repressed, leaving about fifty wounded. The oil companies have fired more than 500 employees suspected of union activities and union leaders in the region have received death threats.
September 20, 2011 the national government ordered the Army and National Police to disperse the movement by force. Note that the civil mobilisation included children and the elderly. The Army and National Police nevertheless used stun grenades modified with shrapnel, tear gas and rubber bullets (which projectiles were launched by staff on the ground near the demonstrators but also by helicopters flying over demonstrations). The Canadian oil company Pacific Rubiales has since blocked the public road between the town of Puerto Gaitan and the oil fields of "Campo Rubiales", preventing the free circulation of people within their own territory.
THE HUMANITARIAN CONVOY (From October 10th to 14th, Puerto Gaitan)
The refusal of the Canadian company to negotiate in good faith and to attend forums for dialogue with affected communities but also du to the deliberate violation of human rights and trade union garantees, the USO, in collaboration with other Colombian trade unions and social organizations , is organizing a convoy between October 10th and October 14th of 2011 in order to break the blockade imposed by the Canadian company and the security forces and provide support to the social movement of workers and affected communities.
The convoy is being organized by: Workers' Trade Union (USO), the Single Confederation of Workers of Colombia (CUT), the Colombian union FUNTRAENERGETICA and NGOs and social organizations in Colombia following: Corporación Aury Sara Marrugo, AFL-CIO, FSM , ICEM, ACVC, CREDHOS, PERIODICO DESDE ABAJO, FLCM, CRONOPIOS
The Convoy's objectives are :
Ask for compliance on behalf of the Colombian Government with the UN recommendations on human rights and also with the international conventions and recommendations made by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which have been signed and ratified by Colombia;
Urge local, districtal and national government to set up emergency measures to overcome the social crisis and the labor dispute affecting the resident and oil workers from Puerto Gaitan;
Demand respect for national sovereignty in the territory of Puerto Gaitan, and, as such, require that the Canadian company Pacific Rubiales Energy can not block public roads or impede the exercise of trade union rights as recognized by Colombia;
Document human rights abuses and violation of social, environmental and economic rights of indigenous and peasant communities in the region and of oil workers;
Start the management of complaints at national and international level regarding the actions of foreign companies investing in Puerto Gaitan for their violation of human rights, labor rights and trade union freedoms;
Make visible the national and international support to the movement of affected communities and oil workers from Puerto Gaitan.
We invite you to express your support for this humanitarian convoy, writing to the Colombian authorities, the Canadian Embassy and the Canadian company Pacific Rubiales. To do this, you can use the online form.
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Home Afrique The hidden face of the African emergence
The hidden face of the African emergence
Not so long ago the message was clear: Africa would, in general, enjoy sustained growth, its young population would guarantee a bright future, technology would allow it to easily scale the hurdles of development, its largely uncultivated arable land would feed tomorrow’s world and a prosperous middle class was being installed.
For many, growth was so self-evident that the new path of sub-Saharan Africa no longer could be categorised as “development” but rather as “emergence.” It seemed only natural that this part of Africa would inevitably attract investors and the emergence so many had predicted would be realized; a new threshold in the global economy would be crossed and the last big market would be open for business.
Does this new concept of emergence, however, accurately represent the path Africa has taken since the beginning of the XXI century? At a time when the benefits of globalisation are questioned and hundreds of thousands of Africans flee the continent, this question has become increasingly difficult to answer. One must admit that since the 2014 crisis in the raw materials sector, the reality of the continent has evolved considerably. In broad terms, growth has slowed down, public dept has increased dangerously, national budget revenues have vanished, and the process of industrialisation has ground to a halt. If we add to that a growing deficiency in the banking system, it is easy to understand why investors are hesitant, why the local elite relocate their capital, and why the concept of “emergence” has been rendered obsolete. Yet, “the emergence of Africa” remains an important concept today and serves a wide range of local authorities, who by legitimising the concept of emergence justify their survival.
Having said that, let’s not be fooled by the tyranny of averages. Many Sub-Saharan countries still show real growth (certainly the agricultural economies). Although others have seen their gross domestic product dwindle because of local conflicts or declining commodity prices (especially oil), the global economic centre of gravity is still slowly shifting to Africa.
To thoroughly appreciate the shift of the global economy towards Africa, it suffices to observe how countries like China, India and Turkey are behaving. Convinced that tomorrow’s world and the highest return on investment belong to Africa, they are economically invading the continent.
That is where the hidden face of this emergence is found. For Africa has two faces: one is represented by the doubters who lag behind and let recent trends blind them to the continent’s tremendous opportunity, the other face is represented by the believers who, despite a short term decline, understand that Africa is the future.
At the dawn of a new year a question pops up. To be on the side of the visionaries and winners, or not? Something to reflect on in 2019.
My best wishes for a prosperous new year!
Guy Bultynck
Chairman, CBL-ACP
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The Essential Sly & The Family Stone (Explicit)
Released: Mar 2003
Label: Epic/Legacy
Finally, a two disc collection that truly lets you hear the depth, scope and platform shoe kicking, booty shaking brilliance of Sly and the Family Stone. The assembled hits, album cuts and rarities have all been digitally re-mastered, so there's as much to uncover as there is to rediscover. This really is essential.
- Nick Dedina
Sly & the Family Stone - The Essential Sly & The Family Stone 2013-04-11
I Can Not Make It
M'Lady
Don't Call Me N*gg*r, Whitey
Somebody's Watching You
You Can Make It If You Try
Hot Fun in the Summertime
Everybody Is a Star
Luv N' Haight
(You Caught Me) Smilin'
Runnin' Away
Brave & Strong
Just Like A Baby
Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa
Skin I'm In
Babies Makin' Babies
If It Were Left Up To Me
Time For Livin'
I Get High On You
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Kymera Dance 2014 New York Season
By OutandAboutnycmag May 26, 2014 August 23, 2014 Choreography, Dance
Kymera Dance began their 2014 New York season on Sunday, May 25 at the Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Family Auditorium, JCC in Manhattan. The season featured two world premieres by commissioned artist Amy Hall Garner and Artistic Director William Isaac. The performance was a well-balanced and artistically succinct program, which successfully conveyed both choreographers’ intents and individual styles.
The evening felt move like a showcase then a production. Isaac understood less is sometimes more, and this worked to the company’s advantage. The evening was a focused exchange; that thankful lacked over choreographed, and long verbose movement diatribes.
Change by Amy Hall Garner was a very pleasant and extremely musical duet for Khalia Campbell and Raven McRae. Hall approached the multiple sectioned work with movement that moved with ease and fluidity. Instead of merely following the music, Hall was able to create her own music through the dance.
McRae moved with a cool assuredness that complimented her strong technical base. One such moment was a slow triple attitude turn that was so in sync with the music that it reminisced a figurine on a jewelry box. Throughout she danced with her entire body, which gave all the movement completeness.
Campbell’s stature gives her a regal command of the stage. Her attack was surprisingly nimble, and she articulated movement from her powerful center. Regardless of whether it is undulating her torso, performing split leaps or off-balance extensions Campbell effortlessly executed every task. He long and lathe limbs seemed to engulf the space.
Aperture of Time by William Isaac began as a trio with Campbell, McRae and Jason Herbert. The work quickly moved into an introspective duet for Campbell and McRae. Isaac fashioned a very stylish work where the spatial relationships were as important as the physical interaction. The subtle gestures developed into a vocabulary and were brilliantly offset by stillness, which gave the secondary negative spaces, the spaces around the movement, visual value.
A solo performed by Jason Herbert followed. Hubert is a gifted performer who has the ability to communicate with his body. Sinuous and sensuous, he moves with an innate inner fire.
The closing section featured Campbell and Herbert in a duet that was much more conversational. Here stillness was also effectively implemented and created strong juxtaposition between the primary and secondary action. One devise that was used to full advantage was placing Campbell and Herbert with one dancer facing the downstage and the other upstage. This required the dancer to not only dance, but to communicate with their backs. The section maintained the aesthetic integrity of the work while interjecting new movement and reintroducing elements from the opening duet.
Kymera Dance achieved a strong artistic dichotomy. We applaud Isaac for presenting a concert with only three performers, which courageously brought the movement and the performers equally to the forefront. The season is a success for both the dancers and choreographers. Kymera Dance will conclude the season on Monday, May 26 with two performances at 5pm and 7pm.
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Ryan Evely Gildersleeve
Professor of Higher Education
Biographical Description
Ryan Evely Gildersleeve's (RyanEG) research investigates the philosophical foundations of American higher education in relationship to the social and political contexts of educational opportunity for historically marginalized communities. He has a particular interest in supporting Latin@ (im)migrant families. A critical qualitative methodologist, he is interested in theorizing a materialist inquiry that informs social policy for more democratic postsecondary institutions. These lines of research connect in their contributions to understanding what it means to seek social opportunities as democratic participants in an increasingly global society.
He is the author of Fracturing Opportunity: Mexican Migrant Students and College-Going Literacy (Peter Lang Publishers) and the forthcoming Undocumented Students in Higher Education (Routledge Publications). He was a 2012-2013 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Fellows, supporting his project Discourses of Opportunity: Undocumented Students and Higher Education Policy.
Alongside colleagues from the Disruptive Dialogue Project, RyanEG co-authored the 2012 volume, Qualitative Inquiry for Equity in Higher Education: Methodological Implications, Negotiations, and Responsibilities (Jossey-Bass Publishers) as part of the ASHE Higher Education Report Series. His methodological theorizing has appeared in journals such as Qualitative Inquiry and the International Review for Qualitative Research. RyanEG received the 2011 Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association’s Division D—Research Methodology.
RyanEG previously served as the inaugural Director of the Center for K-16 Education Policy and Research at the University of Texas at Arlington. His practical experience ranges across P-20 education, having worked primarily in out-of-classroom learning environments in K-12 schools as well as in transition/outreach, undergraduate, and graduate education contexts. He received his Ph.D. in Education and M.A. in Higher Education and Organizational Change from UCLA. RyanEG is a graduate of Occidental College.
Current Reading List
Just a beginning ...
Diffractive Ethnography by Jessica Smartt Gullion
Art and Objects by Graham Harmon
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
Salt Seller by Marcel Duchamp
CV - RyanEG Sept 2012.pdf
The neoliberal academy of the Anthropocene and the retaliation of the lazy academic
Producing (im)Possible Peoples: Policy Discourse Analysis, In-State Resident Tuition, and Undocumented Students in American Higher Education
Access Between and Beyond Borders: A Life History of an Undocumented College Applicant
Dangerously Important Moment(s) in Reflexive Research Practices with Immigrant Youth
Toward a Neo-Critical Validation Theory: Participatory Action Research and Mexican Migrant College Student Success
The Role of Critical Inquiry in (Re)Constructing the Public Agenda for Higher Education: Confronting the Conservative Modernization of the Academy
Crafting Critical Space: The Disruptive Dialogue Project
Obama's American Graduation Initiative: Race, Conservative Modernization, and a Logic of Abstraction
Disrupting the Ethical Imperatives of "Junior" Critical Qualitative Scholars in the Era of Conservative Modernization
A Dialogue on Space and Method in Qualitative Research on Education
"Am I going crazy?": A Critical Race Analysis of African American and Latino Doctoral Student Experiences
Organizing Learning for Transformation in College Outreach Programs
Working Bakhtin's Body: A Dialogue on Critical Qualitative Research in Education
RyanEG's research takes form across three domains:
Critical Policy Studies
Cultural Analyses of Higher Education
Philosophical Foundations of Higher Education
You can find more about RyanEG's current work in these areas under the RESEARCH AGENDA tab.
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iCope Islington Psychological Therapies & Wellbeing Service – Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust – (ARCHIVED)
21st December 2016 by Postive Practice
Our Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service in Islington, locally branded as ‘iCope’ provides psychological interventions and therapies for people with common mental health problems, such as anxiety disorders and depression within Islington GP practices and community settings. We aim to ensure that all patients receive a high level of professional, person-centred care and support, and continually strive to improve our patient’s experience of the service.
From start: Yes
During process: Yes
In evaluation: Yes
Peer: Yes
Academic: No
PP Collaborative: Yes
Lucy Wilson-Shaw – iCope Team Manager & Clinical Psychologist
lucy.Wilson-Shaw@candi.nhs.uk
One case that highlights this is a female patient who referred herself to iCope for help with her lifelong phobia of butterflies. The patient’s butterfly phobia was causing her to put herself in dangerous situations, for example running into a road of oncoming traffic when a butterfly came near her, and she was also concerned about ‘transferring’ her phobia to her two year old son. An iCope psychologist worked with the patient using CBT, and took time and care over gradually helping the patient work through her fear by using ‘graded exposure.’ After taking the time to fully understand the patient’s fear, experiences and goals, therapist and patient worked creatively together, for example first looking at pictures of butterflies, then cutting out pictures of butterflies and throwing them in the air to simulate their flying, before progressing to watching films. Gradually the patient felt like the panic was easing and she could manage her emotions. In the final sessions, the psychologist accompanied the patient to a butterfly exhibition and with encouragement from her therapist, she was able to walk amidst real butterflies. The patient reported that her psychological therapy in iCope was life changing. She reported she now felt able to visit her family in the Philippines, and was no longer held back or separated from loved ones by her fear.
As a service, we are also committed to partnerships between patients and professionals. One of the ways we work to improve patient’s experience of iCope is by promoting service user involvement. Service user involvement in shaping mental health services and ‘patient choice’ are at the forefront of current issues in the NHS, and we have worked on developing ways in which meaningful service user involvement can be implemented in practice within our service. For example, at the end of treatment clinicians discuss with patients the importance of feedback and invite patients to provide feedback via our Patient Experience Questionnaire.
We also invite patients who have completed treatment within iCope to attend Service User Advisory groups run by iCope managers and clinical leads. Our service user advisory group allows the views, voices and opinions of the people who use the service to be heard in order to make real, sustainable changes to improve our service. People who have attended these groups have reported that they found them “productive, enjoyable and worthwhile” and felt their ideas were taken on board. Being involved in service improvement makes a difference to the individual service user: being part of the group can be therapeutic in itself and can help promote a sense of confidence, mastery and achievement. The iCope service and staff also benefit from the useful and relevant feedback from service users which can be put into practice.
Another aspect of the service we have developed over the past year is the level of input service users have to the design and running of our therapeutic groups. All the groups we run are now followed by a focus group with the group members, and the feedback from this is used to improve the next group we run. These focus groups have also led to patient messages being recorded, which are then played as part of the next group. Feedback from clients in the group is that this has been very helpful and inspiring of hope. Clients who have completed groups in iCope often record their experiences (using audio or video) for our website, and also one member of the group will often attend the first session of the next group in order to inspire hope and give advice to the new group members.
Through joining our Advisory Group, or by simply expressing an interest in future opportunities for involvement with promoting positive mental health, clients who have used our service have become involved in many areas of mental health promotion and research in Islington. Our clients have served as Service User representatives for research trials, played an active part in our Team Away Days, helped with training for NHS Graduate Trainees and become involved in local projects such as ‘Mental Health Champions’. We feels this shows that our team works in creative ways to help the local community reduce stigma around mental health issues and promote positive mental health in the community, as well as being successful in our core task of providing NICE recommended treatments for anxiety and depression.
iCope’s approach to service user involvement has also led to several clients becoming interested in applying for paid roles working in iCope or similar services (through applying for the PWP training course). We are also getting closer to developing paid roles for service users in iCope (with the help of the Camden and Islington HR department), to help increase the effectiveness of our service by having peer worker roles, and also to act as a stepping stone for clients to go on to careers working in Mental Health. We feel that it is extremely valuable for services such as iCope to be able to recruit staff who have an understanding of mental health difficulties, both through lived experience as well as through training and education.
We have been successful over the past year in finding a committed group of people who have used our service and have now trained with the Trust to be part of our recruitment panels. Thus all new staff experience from the very beginning of their employment here that the experience and perspective of our service users is at the heart of everything we do.
In terms of how our service makes a difference to staff who work in iCope, there is a real ‘family-feel’ to our service and employees are supported as individuals and as a team on professional and personal levels through supervision, reflective practice groups and team meetings. It is a wonderful environment to work in and an exciting team to be part of. We created a team ‘positivity jar’ where staff can put their positive reflections of the week – these are then read out at team meetings which always lift’s people’s spirits. We promote therapist self-care in our service. For example, our team come together for staff mindfulness, yoga and exercise sessions, which strengthen our bonds as a team and are good ways to help staff combat stress and stay well themselves.
Members of our team are continually developing creative within-service projects that benefit clinicians, patients and the service. For example, thirty of our clinicians are currently involved in testing out and reviewing over twenty free mental health apps, with the aim of producing a collection of free mental health apps for anxiety, depression and other areas of mental health that can then be reviewed by service users and be recommended to patients as part of, or after their therapy in iCope.
Staff report feeling like they are part of an innovative team, passionate about driving forward with positive change for patients and service. We are continually working together on creative ideas to develop individual roles, service protocols, and promote positive patient experience and staff wellbeing. For example, at our team meetings positive patient feedback is read out to the team, as well as constructive comments about areas for change or improvement. For example, a recent comment from a patient when they gave feedback to our service was: ‘iCope is a much needed support service for mental health. Therapists treat you with respect, compassion, understanding and empathy. Most highly appreciated. Therapists helped with setting goals, outlined resources and worked through strategies, which greatly restored a much improved self-image; this enhanced my overall wellbeing and restored my faith in the mental health services.’
Clinicians also frequently share ‘successful stories’ when they have completed a good piece of work with a client where they may have overcome barriers and the patient really benefitted from treatment. Staff have reported that sharing patient feedback is useful in terms of learning from service-users and other clinicians, and perhaps most importantly makes them feel proud about the work that we do together with patients within iCope. In summary, the Service is committed to inspiring a culture of compassion that values staff wellbeing and improves patient care.
Wider Active Support
Establishing links and working with other organisations in the community is another way that we seek to improve our patient’s experience of the service they receive within iCope. Depending on their individual situation, needs and preferences, we assist our patients to make contact and build relationships with other organisations that can help them to become more active in the community, socialise and share interests with others, or receive practical help with employment, housing or benefits advice.
We also cross refer to a large number of third sector organisations including Talk for Health, Community Development Workers, Mental Health Champions, Carers UK, Age UK and MIND, and signpost patients to local counselling services, community centres and volunteering or education schemes. We also find that through our Advisory Group clients are able to share what they have found helpful with others, and facilitate stronger links between services. For example, a client treated in iCope and linked in with a local gambling charity later attended the Advisory Group and our Team Meetings to share his experience of the service and help promote it to iCope staff and clients. We now have a stronger working relationship with this organisation and a much greater awareness of the issues of gambling and how to talk to clients about these.
To give another example, our strong links with Islington employment organisations ‘Remploy’ and ‘Twining Enterprise’ who support people struggling to stay in work or to get back into work, are particularly beneficial for many of our patients. One patient, who attended a Remploy assessment and worked with a key worker to update her CV and apply for positions, got a new job in a role that really suited and interested her. Upon completing treatment within iCope she commented on being impressed by ‘how iCope works with other organisations’ and was very appreciative of the linked-up working.
Our service user involvement initiative also involves working with other organisations. We regularly liaise with our partner service in Camden to discuss how we can improve the ways in which patients can provide feedback to our service. For example, both the Camden and Islington IAPT services now have an email address that we use specifically to contact service users about feedback and involvement in service improvement. In iCope, we have a ‘Get Involved’ section on our service website (www.icope.nhs.uk), where patients who have had treatment can provide anonymous feedback and comments about their experience of the service. We also actively try to get feedback from clients who have dropped out of therapy, by offering them the opportunity to talk to a member of staff over the phone to provide feedback about their experience of iCope.
Service users are at the centre of our thinking at point of referral, assessment and treatment, through to end of treatment and beyond. We have boosted our service accessibility; people are able to refer to iCope through their GP or self-refer by telephone, email or via our website. We also have several projects underway aimed at increasing access to the service for under-represented groups in mental health services such as older adults and BME groups by promoting our service within other teams that work closely with these cohorts.
For patients receiving therapy within our service, we always provide a high level of professional, supportive care which is tailored to individual patient needs. For example, one of our clinicians made creative adaptations when working with a patient with panic disorder who was also 95%-100% blind. Together they completed a panic cycle formulation by using touch sensation; mapping out the different components of the panic cycle on the wall. The clinician guided the patient from one part to the next highlighting the vicious cycle and his current safety behaviours, regularly pausing for the patient to associate objects to different parts of the model so he could remember and make sense of the formulation. The patient described this approach as extremely useful and reported a significant reduction in panic attacks by the end of treatment.
This case highlights the person-centred, creative and supportive approach we take to patient care in our service, where patients are viewed as real people, not just numbers in a mental health service. Indeed, another patient recently commented on their feedback form: “I have found this service exemplary – text message reminders, helpful and friendly reception staff, non-judgement psychologist with a commitment to helping me to feel better and manage the complexities of life. The best NHS experience I have ever had. Thank you to all!” As well as the high level of professional care we provide to all of our patients, our involvement of service-users in shaping our service also demonstrates how our patients are at the centre of our thinking in. People who use our mental health services are the true experts on how these services should be developed, delivered and improved. Our view is that we need to know what the people who have used our services think about them so together we can develop shared objectives to shape and improve iCope in way that patients, staff and commissioners find helpful, relevant and supportive.
Service users who have attended our service user advisory groups led by our managers and clinical leads have been involved in projects such as: generating ideas for the video content on the iCope website, and creating and editing a leaflet about the Advisory Group for clinicians to give to their patients. Service users are able to discuss their experience of treatment within iCope and what aspects they think could be different or improved. Service Users are encouraged to tell us the story of their experience within iCope and think about how they would like this to be used to improve services. Our service users have help us develop the content and style of the groups and workshops we run, they have also helped us change the way in which we book first appointments in the service and produce content for our website. The advisory group also gives service users the chance to generate ideas for new projects they would like to be involved in and think about how to develop service user involvement going forward. We have also incorporated ‘patient stories’ from our own patient’s experiences and journey to recovery into our revised guided self-help booklets for anxiety and depression. For example in the low mood booklet, service users provide examples of how they found different CBT techniques helpful in overcoming their depression.
We also work with service users in co-developing community projects that are important to them. For example, one of our advisory group members came to us with a wonderful idea to start a local walking group in Islington, drawing on his personal experience of the benefits of walking on his mental health and wellbeing. A group of clinicians are currently working with him to develop his idea, design & print promotional leaflets and think with him about how best to manage the administrative side of running the walking group.
Looking Back/Challenges Faced
This project has taken a long time to develop, and will continue developing in the future. In hindsight in may have been helpful to talk to other departments in our Trust earlier on in the process which may have led to the project developing more quickly. I think this is particularly relevant to the issue of agreeing job descriptions, contracts and finance approval for service user posts, although it feels we are getting closer to this!
There have been and continue to be challenges in developing this service user involvement project. While we have been very successful in increasing the level of feedback we receive from service users who engage with and complete treatment. We still struggle to receive good levels of feedback from service users who start treatment with iCope but do not complete treatment. We are continuing to think of ways to increase this – such as having ways people can give feedback through our website and in all our waiting rooms. We have designed a monthly poster for our waiting areas which shows the feedback we have received and how we have acted on this – which we hope acts as further encouragement to people to give us feedback.
We also now regularly undertake a telephone survey with people who did not complete treatment –offering them the opportunity to give feedback if they would like to (using a semi structured interview). This has led to very useful feedback for the service – leading to changes in how clinicians talk about our attendance policy, and also led directly to some patients re-engaging with the service. We have also faced some challenges in changing the wider culture of the Trust to make service user involvement central to our service. One of the current challenges we are facing is how to organise training for service users so they are able to and feel confident to be part of interview panels. By taking the approach of identifying a group of service users who are keen to take on this role and then approaching the trust to ask them to supply or create training for this, we hope that this will be able to happen, and become the norm across community services in the Trust.
Care has been taken throughout this project to ensure that all changes are built into the protocols and policies for the service and just become part of routine practice. For example: SU involvement opportunities are written into Operational Policy ‘at the point of recruitment panel design a service user forum will be contacted to request additional trained panel member with lived experience of mental health’. In this way even if those leading the project move on, the positive changes to practice that have been made will continue. A further example here is that; using the PEQ in the final session with clients is now part of routine practice and written into protocols, and the document is included in ‘discharge packs’ that are always readily available for clinicians to use.
Discussion of feedback from service users now occurs at every team meeting, along with updates on levels of feedback received, and is a standing agenda item for meetings.
The service is also able to ensure that a clinician in the service will be designated as the lead for service user involvement, and one of the key roles of volunteers who give their time within our service is to collate and analyse the data from service user feedback and disseminate this to staff and to service users (via the notice boards in waiting rooms). By building up a dedicated and enthusiastic Advisory Group of ex-service users who are strong and vocal in their opinions, it is hoped that they will also play an important role in ensuring that service user involvement remains at the heart of iCope
We continually monitor and evaluate our patient’s experience through our client satisfactory questionnaires. The iCope Service is also evaluated through Commissioning targets (KPI), through NAPT, the Trust Staff Survey, and through referrer feedback and various service-user surveys. These methods of evaluation cover all the above aspects: patient safety, patient experience and staff engagement.
Within our service, we regularly share ideas and update our team about the service user involvement project and achievements at our team meetings. It is a great way to keep the team informed and to use people’s knowledge and ideas about ways to develop and move the project forwards. This project was initially started as part of the NHS Leadership Mary Seacole Programme, and was shared through the NHS Leadership Academy.
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After the Referendum – What should Labour Do?
Posted on September 16, 2014 by Dave Watson — 8 Comments ↓
STUC, 333 Woodlands Road, Glasgow
This conference is for members of the Labour Party.
10.00 Welcome from Elaine Smith MSP, Depute Presiding Office Scottish Parliament and Convenor of the Campaign for Socialism (CfS) and Neil Findlay MSP, Shadow spokesperson on Health, leading discussion on the consequences of the Referendum decision.
10.45 Break
11.00 Industrial and community policies (based on STULP document) – a short introduction from Jackson Cullinane (Political Officer Unite) and then group work.
The manifesto is available here: http://www.revitalisescottishlabour.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/STULP_manifesto_2014.pdf
12.00 Local Democracy – policies and powers. Councillor Gordon Munro (Edinburgh) will provide a short introduction and then there will be group sessions led by Councillors Matt Kerr (Glasgow) Angela Moohan (West Lothian) and Kenny Selbie (Fife)*
13.00 Short lunch break
13.30 What powers and what democratic structure do we need to deliver a winning agenda – introduced by Richard Leonard (Political Officer GMB) and Dave Watson (Head of Bargaining and Campaigns, Unison)
14.15 Concluding session with group feedback and agreeing a working committee to take the ideas forward – Pauline Bryan CfS
15.00 Fraternal greetings John McDonnell MP
*Not all of the invited councillors have responded yet
The Citizen, the Journal of the Campaign for Socialism, will be available at the event.
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Independence a Short Cut to Nowhere
Posted on September 13, 2014 by Pauline Bryan — 2 Comments ↓
Far from being a certain route to social democracy, as some suggest, Scottish independence is a short-cut to nowhere, says WILL BROWN. We need a longer term strategy for a progressive unionist future.
A key argument on the left of centre in Scotland, repeated this week by George Monbiot in the Guardian, is that independence will allow Scotland to achieve what it cannot in the UK: social democracy. Friends in Scotland echo this, saying people are fed up with the status quo and just want a chance to change.
And indeed, the referendum campaign in Scotland, especially at grassroots level, has revitalised activism, and encouraged people to question future possibilities and engage in discussions about political alternatives in a manner that stands in startling contrast to the pervading media image of disillusion, apathy and cynicism about politics. Organisations such as Common Weal and National Collective, and events like Yestival are signs of a political debate far more passionate and imaginative than that offered by the mainstream parties.
In these times, who could not be tempted by the chance to separate, to begin afresh, as many on the left are, in England as well as Scotland? It is an impulse that animates, not just nationalists, but many advocates of regional devolution too: a chance to govern ‘our own area’ freed from the constraints of Westminster and the City.
Yet, this position sits uncomfortably with the history of socialism and social democracy in Britain. Social democracy in post-war Britain was indelibly a unionist creation, as was the broader socialist movement that emerged from the late 19th century. One only has to skim through the profiles of ILP pioneers and politicians on this web site to understand that socialist and social democratic politics in Britain are … British.
No nation within the UK can claim a right to that heritage, separate from another. Indeed, one would have to acknowledge that it wasn’t even only a British creation, but one which melded and made room for politics from elsewhere too – including from Europe and from Britain’s colonies.
Denying the role of England and English political activists and politicians, the role of the union, in creating the very social democracy that many pro-independence campaigners seek to ‘rescue’, does a huge disservice to the many political activists who have worked and continue to work for social democracy north and south of the border.
One has to ask of the left who are supporting independence, what price solidarity? What of the solidarity across the UK that forged campaigns for the vote, against unemployment, for the NHS, and today, against austerity and the bedroom tax? It wasn’t the left in England – or even a majority of English voters for that matter – who inflicted the poll tax on Scotland.
But it was a united movement, north and south of the border, that brought an end to that Thatcherite abomination, and it could be too with the bedroom tax. One is tempted to suggest that some of the left-wing supporters of independence need to remove the blue Saltire from their eyes and see a bit more red.
Perhaps one could live with this traducing of history if the political prospects looked good, if indeed independence could propel Scotland towards a revitalised social democracy. The hard truth is they don’t look any better there than in the UK as a whole. The pursuit of separation, tempting though it may be, is more a sign of desperation than of long-term strategic thinking for those on the left.
In today’s global economy, the prospects for social democratic policies in any one country are poor. Certainly since the late 1970s, but before that too, almost every attempt to implement social democracy has had to face crises brought on by the reaction of capital, in the form of currency traders, bond traders and investors. In major economies, from the UK in 1945 to France in the early 1980s (and France today for that matter), social democratic governments have had to tack and weave in the face of adverse international economic winds.
Most have eventually changed course; many capsized in the storm. As Vince Mills has argued cogently on this web site, the idea that such experiments would be more sustainable at the scale of a Scotland-sized economy, as compared to a UK-sized economy, seriously underestimates the constraints small nations face in today’s international system.
There is an assumption among many on the left that political independence automatically delivers a real, de facto independence from international capital. Yet the strength needed to make such left of centre experiments survive is more likely to be found within a larger economy and, even then, would need the kind of broad public support and active popular participation that has been so lacking from so much of Labour’s history. Without these defences, the pursuit of independence seems more like a strategy for hiding in the long grass hoping the tigers of international capital will forget you are there.
It is true that the prospect of even a modest social democratic programme in the UK is fraught with difficulties. It is this that makes the temptation to go it alone in Scotland so strong. (Of course, independent Scotland, by denying Labour so many seats in Westminster, makes it even more difficult to achieve on a UK-wide basis.)
But independence is a short-cut to nowhere. At best, it offers a short-lived honeymoon. At worst it offers the kind of instant crisis-management, ‘facing up to economic realities’ and ditching of principles that have greeted so many social democratic governments. How long will it be before we hear a leader of independent Scotland echo Callaghan in ’76 and tell the disillusioned electorate that ‘in all candour this is no longer possible’?
The prospect of crisis, and the pathologies of diminished expectations that would surely follow, are all the more pressing given Alex Salmond’s amazingly ill-considered currency policy. About the only point on which I have ever agreed with George Osborne is the question of currency union. No UK chancellor with an ounce of sense (and, more importantly no English, Welsh or Northern Irish taxpayer) would agree to a currency union without cast-iron commitments, limits on Scotland’s fiscal and financial policies, and regulation. After the crash, after Greece, Spain, Iceland and Ireland, it would be astonishing if anyone would be so cavalier with future prosperity as to agree to the kind of deal Salmond is seeking – giving Scotland all the financial freedom and England all the liabilities.
In reality, ‘independent’ Scotland would have only tough choices: a deal in which Westminster and the Treasury put severe constraints on all the major levers of Scotland’s macroeconomic management; a deal for joining the Euro that would come with equally stiff requirements; or ‘unofficial’ use of the pound (‘sterlingisation’) in which the Scottish government operated without any control over interest rates, no central bank and almost no ability to borrow money from the markets. The choices are limited and however hedged about it might be with nationalist denunciation of ‘London’, the EU or ‘international capital’, Scotland would be forced to accept one of them.
So what is the alternative to independence? What prospects can be held out to those north of the border craving a change, any change, from the status quo of austerity?
The perception south of the border is that one of the signal failures of the No campaign has been an inability to articulate a Labour defence of union and vision for a progressive unionist future. Shackled within the all-party Better Together campaign, and by Labour’s own record in government, the very idea of an alternative unionist future has been hidden, allowing the Yes campaign to paint the referendum as a stark choice between unionist austerity and independent social democracy.
Alastair Darling’s woeful performance in the second TV debate owed something to this obvious trap, making it easy for Salmond and his jeering acolytes in the audience to taunt him about austerity, the bedroom tax and NHS privatisation. Questioned about what union had ever delivered, Darling even failed to make the obvious point that the NHS itself is a unionist, Labour creation. Of course Labour’s record in office also constrained what this particular Labour politician could credibly argue.
Thankfully, there is now some acknowledgement that the No campaign needs a clearer sense of what a Labour future might hold for the UK, a UK including Scotland. The absence of a Labour defence of union has belatedly prompted recognition from the Party that it needs to remind voters of the possibility of an end to Tory rule even without independence. It has also spurred Gordon Brown back into the political fray (although he too is shackled by his years of subservience to the City) and prompted Jim Murphy’s 100 streets in 100 days’ campaign.
From a more left-wing position there is the argument Vince Mills has made from the Red Paper Collective, pointing out that the short-cut of independence represents a failure to face up to the power of the City and the power of capital, and the constraints and difficulties this puts in place. The need to present a progressive alternative to independence, to challenge the SNP’s false dichotomy of independence or Tory rule, could hardly be more pressing.
Admittedly, the idea of a progressive political future is a hard sell wherever you may be. The forces ranged against us, the antipathy to socialist values (north and south), the dead weight of past Labour governments, and the absence of a clear progressive voice from today’s leadership all make the siren call of independence so much the stronger.
But a longer-term strategy is needed, one which acknowledges the difficulties faced by left-of-centre politics wherever they may be: a strategy that is aware of British social democracy’s shared unionist history (warts and all); a strategy that builds on past solidarity between socialists north and south of the border, rather than one that abandons that shared struggle; and, perhaps above all, a strategy that learns from, and is energised by what has been so good about Scotland’s referendum campaign – the grassroots activism, the popular participation, the opening up of the parameters of political debate, and the willingness to imagine a better future.
This article first appeared on http://www.independentlabour.org.uk
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LIVE ART 2011, Bangalore
Swiss artists Dorothea Rust, Monica Klingler, Markus Goessi and Susann Wintsch to participate in LIVE ART 2011, a performance festival organised by Bengaluru Artist Residency One (BAR1). [ dated November 2011]
Swiss artists Dorothea Rust, Monica Klingler, Markus Goessi and Susann Wintsch to participate in LIVE ART 2011, a performance festival organised by Bengaluru Artist Residency One (BAR1) from 11 to 25 November 2011.
Mimetic at India Music Week 2011
Jerome Soudan of Mimetic, Art Zoyd returns to India to perform at the India Music Week in New Delhi after a successful collaboration with B.L.O.T. at the Electron Festival in Geneva. [dated November 2011]
Jerome Soudan of Mimetic, Art Zoyd returns to India to perform at the India Music Week in New Delhi. After a successful collaboration with B.L.O.T. at the Electron Festival in Geneva in April 2011, Avinash Kumar of B.L.O.T. will once again partner with Jerome to present a rare audio-visual treat.
On the India tour, Jerome Soudan is accompanied by Benoît Perrier, a journalist who covers contemporary music for the Swiss daily paper Le Courrier.
India Music Week 2011 / Gig schedule Mimetic & B.L.O.T wil perform in three cities:
New Delhi / Thursday 17 November 2011 Venue: Circa 1193 at 9:00 pm
Mumbai / Friday 18 November 2011 Venue: Bonobo
Bangalore / Saturday 19 November 2011 Venue: ICE, Taj Vivanta, MG Road
Jerome Soudan and Benoit Perrier will be participating in the panel discussion on Thursday 17th November
Topic: Sustainable Networks
Time: 5:00 to 5:45 pm
Venue: Eros Intercontinental, Nehru Place, New Delhi
About MIMETIC
Jerome Soudan started music at the age of 5 years old in the Conservatory of Chambery France. He learned consequently orchestral percussions, clarinet and later on acoustic and electronic drums. He obtained a Master degree of Musicology of the 20th century at the University of Lyon France with congratulation of the jury in 1993.
He then settled in Paris where he worked with numerous composers such as Kasper T.Toeplitz for the GRM (Maison de Radio France) or with rock bands such as LES TETINES NOIRES or Industrial bands such as VON MAGNET. In 1996 he moved to Berlin where he started to work as composer and percussion player with the experimental band COLUMN ONE. In 1998 he started his own solo project named MIMETIC.
In 2000 he settled in Geneva Switzerland and began to work with the contemporary rock and new music formation ART ZOYD in France. Since then, Jerome released numerous CD’s or vinyl’s with various bands on different labels such as ANT ZEN, HANDS, PARAMETRIC, MOLOKO+, PRIKOSNOVENIE, ORKHESTRA, SCULTURED SOUNDS, KK RDS, THISCO, SPECTRE, etc… and was participating to several concerts, live acts, dj sets or performances all over the world (Europe, USA, Mexico, Canada, Japan,…). Since 2000 he is one of the official composer for the choreograph Carol Brown (coming from New Zealand but established in London UK) for whom he composed for dance performances as well as for video installations. Other choreographs with who Jerome have worked are Jan Linkens (Comic Opera of Berlin) and Lionel Hoche (Neerdeland Dans Theater 2 in Den Haag NL).
In 2005 he won the best design and artwork packaging for electronic music at the French QWARTZ awards for the cover box of MIMETIC DANCING “The Changing Room” released on HANDS in Germany and designed by Nicola Bork. In 2006 he released his first DVD with MIMETIC on the German label ANT ZEN. Today, he is still working with ART ZOYD for different special shows such as METROPOLIS (with the movie), THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (with the movie), LE CHAMP DES LARMES, EYE CATCHER (with Cecile Babiole) or for a collaborative project for the American composer GLENN BRANCA. One of his newest projects is the danceable WAI PI WAI he founded together with Herman Klapholz from Ah Cama-sotz.
For more information on MIMETIC visit: www.electronfestival.ch www.presenceselectroniques.ch
See If It Can Happen, an audio-visual installation
A collaboration between the Swiss musician, Hans Koch and the Indian artist Rashmi Kaleka, ‘See If It Can Happen’ will transcend sounds. [dated November 2011]
A collaborative presentation by the Swiss musician, Hans Koch and the Indian artist Rashmi Kaleka, ‘See If It Can Happen’ will transcend sounds as moments of energy will be ensnared between music and voices of real people and real situations. An electronic synthesis that arrives at a coherent sound design.
Date: Wednesday 16 November 2011 at 6:30 pm
Venue: Lalit Kala Akademi-Garhi Artist Studios, Kalka Devi Marg, East of Kailash, New Delhi - 110065
Project brief:
Hawkers voices are of real people whose survival roles decree their own rules, it's a form of 'surrender'. A whole life can be written around them - voices that spawn amazing ways of singing, the idea is to use the form and to play with its expectations. It's an unknown territory that has the potential to produce a 'sonic' pleasure. A social aspect of music that has the possibility of losing its own 'self' is what interests me. To use the old monument in Garhi as a backdrop for that night is to suture indigenous with the 'western', -'western' as manifested in the mainstream)
The idea is to ensnare moments of energy between music and a voice - point of departure and return, new and old, past and present. I was thinking what would come closer to creating a 'within': in regards to musical instruments, many are able to morph into a variety of sounds that echo a human voice. The closest in today's sounds that has an electronic beat that pulses around a one-note baseline, has to be Radiohead's song The Butcher. It slides and glides around shadows that rise and fall. The other seven minute song Supercollider is beautifully calm, electronic pulse, riffs of synth, unpredictable chorus, the synth crescendo merges beautifully with Yorke's, (lead singer), falsetto. I wanted very much to create a symphony of music which combine live instruments as well as electronic apparatus, weird chord sequences, strange keys which can be musically challenging. The innovation of today's time is a combination of live instruments and a sonic pleasure created with recordings, (voices) and electronic synth to arrive at a coherent sound design.
Rashmi Kaleka
SWISS BOX at Dilli Haat
Four languages. Four fairy tales. One country: Switzerland. A puppet performance by Swiss puppeteer Frida Leon in collaboration with Dilli Haat & The Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust. [dated November 2011]
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council in collaboration with Dilli Haat & The Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust presents
SWISS BOX
Four languages. Four fairy tales.
One country: Switzerland.
A seven-minute puppet performance that brings Switzerland to you right here in New Delhi! on Tuesday 8, Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 November 2011 can be viewed by two persons at a time from 5 to 9 pm at Dilli Haat, Sri Aurobindo Marg, (opposite INA Market) New Delhi - 110016
Puppeteers:
Anurupa Roy, Vivek Kumar, Pawan Waghmare, Asha and Swiss puppeteer Frida Leon.
Story tellers: Nina Taho Zanetti, Astride Schläfli, Katharina Baldauf and Roman Weishaupt.
Entry: Admission as per Dilli Haat regulations.
Language: German with strong visual impressions. Comprehensible to all.
Swiss puppeteer, Frida Leon Béraud is currently in India on a Studio Residency.
Frida is a puppeteer and an actress from Zurich. She has specialised in doll-theatre and has travelled extensively with her performances in USA, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. She studied puppetry at the «Ernst Busch» Drama College in Berlin. After gaining experience in acting, street and movement theatre, Frida Leon Béraud joined hands with musician Frauke Jakobi to establish the Dalang Puppencompany in 2004. A freelance director and scenographer, Frida is also the co-founder of ‘Chamäleon’.
Maja Weyermann featured in PIX
Photographs by Swiss photographer Maja Weyermann, on the architecture of Chandigarh and the work of Le Corbusier, feature in the current issue of PIX, a photography quarterly. [dated November 2011]
Maja Weyermann featured in PIX Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council is delighted to be associated with PIX, a photography quarterly published in India and to present the work of Swiss photographer Maja Weyermann.
Maja Weyermann’s photographs on the architecture of Chandigarh and the work of Le Corbusier feature in the issue of PIX based on the theme ‘imaginaries: exploring photo art’
The launch of the above issue of PIX and the opening of the exhibition ‘IMAGINARIES: exploring photo art’ will be held on Thursday 27 October 2011 at 7:00 pm at Siddhartha Hall, Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhawan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110001.
The exhibition will be on view till 3 November 2011.
Maja Weyermann
Maja Weyermann studied visual arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and at the University of Fine Arts UdK in Berlin. She has won numerous prizes for her work. Most recently, Weyermann’s works were featured in the Fondation de l’ Architecure et de l’ Ingénierie in Luxembourg and at the Fondation Suisse- Pavillon Le Corbusier in Paris.
PIX, a photography quarterly
PIX is about investigating and engaging with broad and expansive fields of contemporary photographic practice in India, ranging from the application, conceptual standing and adaptability of photography to its subjects: its movement, transmission, appropriation and distinct relation to the allied arts. The quarterly will seek not only to present photography in temporal, spatial or historical terms, but also in personal, self-conscious and aesthetic ways.
For more information on PIX visit: www.pixquarterly.in
Nainsukh-the 18th century pahari painter
Pro Helvetia presents lectures by Dr Eberhard Fischer and Prof B.N Goswamy and a biographical film by Amit Dutta from 18 to 30 November in Chandigarh, Jammu, New Delhi, Ahmedabad and Mumbai. [ dated November 2011]
Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council in partnership with Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi, Amar Mahal Museum and Library Jammu, India International Centre New Delhi, National Institute of Design Ahmedabad and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai presents
“Nainsukh” - the 18th century pahari painter
lectures by Dr Eberhard Fischer and Prof B.N Goswamy and biographical film by Amit Dutta (Venice Film Festival 2010)
Chandigarh / 18 November 2011
Venue: Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi / Government Museum & Art Gallery at 5:30 pm
Programme: film (with brief introduction)
Partner: Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi
Jammu / 20 November 2011
Venue: Amar Mahal Museum and Library at 10:30 am
Programme: lecture & film
Partner: Amar Mahal Museum and Library
New Delhi / 23 &24 November 2011
Venue: India International Centre at 6:30 pm
Programme: lecture & film (respectively)
Partner: India International Centre
Ahmedabad / 26 November 2011
Venue: National Institute of Design
Partner: National Institute of Design
Mumbai / 29 & 30 November 2011
Venue: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya at 2:30 pm
Partner: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
Nainsukh (c. 1710 - 1778) was trained in a traditional Pahari painters' family-workshop at Guler in today's Kangra District (H.P.) and became the major retained artist at the court of Jasrota (J&K). Famous for his intimate, well observed and precise, sometimes humorous, often somewhat enigmatic, always sensitively drawn pictures, especially of his long-time patron Balwant Singh, Nainsukh is today considered the most extraordinary Indian artist of his time. His biography and extensive oeuvre as researched and reconstructed by Prof. B. N. Goswamy has been the basis of the film "Nainsukh" by Amit Dutta, produced by Dr. Eberhard Fischer.
The film ‘Nainsukh, the Great Pahari Painter of the 18th Century’, premiered at the Venice Film Festiva in 2010.
Film Credit:
Producer: Dr Eberhard Fischer
Research and guidance: Prof. B. N. Goswamy
Director: Amit Dutta
Miniature artist who plays Nainsukh: Manish Soni
The Lecture
Eberhard Fischer has researched, propagated and collected Nainsukh's unique artistic work for the last thirty years. In his lecture, he will present pictures, art-historical documents and major sites connected with Nainsukh's life and discuss this painter's extraordinary achievements. This background information will serve for a better understanding of the exquisite film "Nainsukh" by Amit Dutta.
For information on Swiss art-anthropologist Dr Eberhard Fischer, Indian art historian Prof B. N. Goswamy and film director Amit Dutta click here.
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Hi Monkey's,
Does anyone remember an Ohio, firefighter, who kept details of a 1,000 women, on his computer?
He would rifle through the medical records, at a Doctor's office, and took notes and information on the women.
He had access to the medical records, because he took care of a fish aquarium, at the Dr.Office.
He was jailed for crimes (unimaginable), just wondered if anyone recalled his name; he should be in jail for a long time.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/stalkers/3.html
Stalkers: The Psychological Terrorist
BY Katherine Ramsland
(About 1997)
Mr Hyde
Stalking is not limited to star struck admirers. Thomas McCarthy, 43, was a fireman, husband, and father of two children. His friends and coworkers liked him, but he had a terrible dark side that no one suspected. He had violent obsessive fantasies that compelled him to follow adult women of all ages, learn everything he could about them, keep lists, and sometimes act on his fantasies. He might watch a woman sign a check in a store and catch a glimpse of her address; he might go through her mail or garbage to get a phone number. He had all kinds of ways to get the information he needed to feed his fantasies about what he might do to a particular woman and how he might accomplish it.
After he was caught breaking into the home of Peggy Kilroy in Lakewood, Ohio, according to the arresting officers interviewed for "Inside a Stalker's Mind", McCarthy told police he had stalked around 2,400 women. He had elaborate codes for what his target women looked like, and he might follow them for months, watching through their windows, learning their routes and routines, and even reading their records in doctors' offices where he cleaned aquariums after hours. What he wanted to do, he admitted later, was rape them, torture them, and cause them pain. One actual victim whose home he entered he subjected to bondage and a stun gun, another to the cut wires of an electrical fan. Although he went through several years of therapy and had even tried a drug that was supposed to diminish violent urges, nothing seemed to work. His fantasies and stalking behavior escalated.
Monkey's,
I found the case!
Keyed in a few words on advanced search on www.newslibrary.com.
I am going to search www.findacase.com, when I visit the library, to find out more.
Sorry, I did not have more details.
Abt: 2000
Episode 1 - Tom McCarthy is Revealed as a Serial Stalker
Police find evidence that serial stalker, firefighter Tom McCarthy kept a complex system of information on the women he stalked, rating them and fantasizing about the attacks he would commit on them.
http://www.biography.com/tv/look-whos-stalking/videos/episode-1-tom-mccarthy-is-revealed-as-a-serial-stalker-20946499560
It takes a few minutes for the video clip to download, it is worth it.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Millburn-New-Jersey-Violent-Home-Robbery-Woman-Assaulted-Surveillance-Video-212855501.html
Nanny Cam Shows Intruder Attack NJ Mom in Front of 3-Year-Old Daughter
The woman was kicked more than a dozen times during the assault, which was caught on a nanny cam By Katherine Creag |
Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013
Updated 9:40 AM EDT
I hope it is Ok to post this under crime. I do not think Pepper Spray could stop this guy.
Quote from: seahorse on June 25, 2013, 10:29:57 AM
Reward Raised in Brutal NJ Nanny Cam Home Invasion
The woman was kicked more than a dozen times during the assault, which was caught on a nanny cam
Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 | Updated 6:50 AM EDT
Public groups and private individuals are offering $20,000 (ME)
for information leading to the arrest of the man who was seen punching and kicking the Millburn woman more than a dozen times, throwing her down stairs while her 3-year-old daughter cowered on the couch last Friday.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Nanny-Cam-Homeowner-Attacked-Invasion-New-Jersey-Mother-Child-Reward-213281901.html
A brief description of the culprit is at the end of video clip.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/28/shawn-custis-arrested-for_n_3519296.html?1372461111&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D338059
MuffyBee
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There's not much discussion in here, because it's not really a crime discussion thread. It was set up as a place for polling SM posters on various crime cases. Administrators and moderators can set up polls and if you wanted one, I'm sure they would be happy to help you. I didn't want you to think you were here talking to yourself, seahorse.
" Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Daniel Moynihan
Kitty Genovese, was stabbed to death in Queens in 1964
The Washington Post By Stephanie Merry June 29, 2016
High-profile assassinations aside, Kitty Genovese’s murder is one of the most famous in modern American history. Her nightmarish final half-hour has inspired multiple “Law & Order” story lines, a folk song, novels, a musical and an episode of “Girls.” Psychologists found their life’s work because of Kitty, and she helped inspire the creation of 911 as a way to call for help.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/her-shocking-murder-became-the-stuff-of-legend-but-everyone-got-the-story-wrong/ar-AAhLZOs?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
ME : I remember Kitty's murder.
Quote from: seahorse on June 29, 2016, 04:10:53 PM
January 23, 2017 By James Soloman
"THE WITNESS"
Premieres January 23, 2017
The name Kitty Genovese became synonymous with bystander apathy after The New York Times reported 38 witnesses watched
her being murdered in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York -and did nothing to help -(March 13, 1964). Read more or watch on PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/witness
http://www.thewitness-film.com/
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First Day: Departure is at 7:30 am in a mini bus from San Pedro de Atacama until Bolivia´s frontier, stopping by immigration offices of Chile and Bolivia. Once at the Bolivian border we continue the journey in a 4WD JEEP with capacity for 6 people. On the first day we visit the Bolivian High Plateau, stopping at White Lake and Green Lake, both situated at the foot of Licancabur Volcano. Then, our journey continues with a visit to Salvador Dali desert, the hot springs in Polques, the morning sun geysers which are water springs that erupt at a temperature of 90 degrees, crevices from where magma also erupted. We end this first day at Laguna Colorada, nesting centre for more than 30000 flamingos of 3 different species. This centre is situated 4500 meters above sea level where it is possible to behold flora and fauna like flamingos, vicuñas and other animals from the high plateau. We will pass the night at Huayllajara Hostal, a place with just basic services and shared rooms for 6 people. It is important that the traveler brings a sleeping bag.
Second Day: The departure is after the breakfast, visiting the Siloli Desert, where you can observe “ The Tree of Stone” a big rock of volcanic origin. Afterwards, high plateau lakes like Honda, Chirarcota, Hedionda and Cañapa. Afterwards, visiting the little Chiguana Salt Flat at San Juan Village, where we arrive at the Hotel of Salt to sleep in triples or double rooms.
Third Day: Departure is at 8:00 a.m. from the hotel. We visit Uyuni Salar Flat (12000 km2), also Incahuasi Island in the center of the Salar Flat, with a formation of calcareous rocks. Then we visit the Eyes of the Salt Flat, amounts of salt formations, and Colchani Village. We arrive at around 15:00 hrs at Uyuni City, for a 2 hours of resting in order to carry on the return transfer towards a High Plateau Village called VILLA MAR, and we stay there for the night.
Forth Day: Departure is at 4:30 a.m. in a direct transfer until the Bolivia’s frontier .The travel is around 4 hours. Then we change car to take the return travel to San Pedro de Atacama.
Value Include: Host and food (breakfast, lunch, dinner). It does not include the entrance to Uyuni National Park.
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The Russian Progress is an unmanned cargo resupply spacecraft that is largely based on the manned Soyuz. It is used to resupply Space Stations and was used for the Russian Salyut and Mir Space Stations as well as the International Space Station that receives three or four Progress flights a year.
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Afterwards, Progress is loaded with trash and no-longer-needed items before the hatch is closed and the spacecraft undocks. Progress does not have a heat shield and makes a targeted, destructive re-entry to end its mission.
Type Progress M
Manufacturer RKK Energia
Length 7.23m
Max Diameter 2.72m
Cargo Module Diameter 2.20m
Span 10.6m
Launch Mass 7,200kg
Cargo Volume 6.6m³
Just like the Soyuz Spacecraft, the Progress consists of three sections, an Instrumentation and Propulsion Module, a Refueling Module (instead of the Entry Module of the manned Soyuz) and a pressurized Cargo Module containing the docking system and a propellant transfer system. Progress has a launch mass of up to 7,200 Kilograms. It is 7.23 meters long with a maximum diameter of 2.72 meters and a cargo module diameter of 2.2 meters.
Progress can carry up to 1,800kg of dry cargo, 420kg of water, 50kg of air or Oxygen and 850kg of propellants. For the trip home, Progress can be loaded with 1,000 to 1,600kg of trash and 400kg of liquid waste. Fully deployed in orbit, Progress has a span of 10.6 meters.
Progress is certified to stay in orbit for up to six months. In its regular flight schedule, a Progress undocks shortly before another one is launched to vacate the docking port. In the past, Progress vehicles have conducted a variety of secondary missions after their cargo resupply flight was complete, including scientific experiments and technical demonstrations in space. Unlike the Soyuz, Progress is not capable of separating its modules, because it is not designed to survive re-entry.
Cargo Module
Total Payload 2,350kg
Maximum Dry Cargo 1,800kg
Water 420kg
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Just like the Soyuz Spacecraft, the Progress consists of three sections, an Instrumentation and Propulsion Module, a Refueling Module (instead of the Entry Module of the manned Soyuz) and a pressurized Cargo Module containing the docking system and a propellant transfer system.
Progress has a launch mass of up to 7,200 Kilograms. It is 7.23 meters long with a maximum diameter of 2.72 meters and a cargo module diameter of 2.2 meters.
Refueling Module
Soyuz & Progress – Photo: NASA
In place of the Descent Module of the Soyuz, the Progress features a Refueling Module that holds four propellant tanks that are filled with Unsymmetrical Dimethylhydrazine fuel and Nitrogen Tetroxide oxidizer for transfer to the Space Station.
In addition, the module has two water tanks that can carry up to 420kg of Water to the Space Station and 400kg of liquid waste (waste water and urine) back on its trip to destructive re-entry. Also, the Refueling Module is equipped with spherical gas tanks that can carry up to 50 Kilograms of compressed Oxygen, Nitrogen or air to the space station.
The propellants are transferred via connectors to the docking interface from where they are directed through a propellant adapter to enter the station’s propellant system. These transfer lines are flushed after transfers to avoid contamination. The transfer lines do not pass through the crew compartments of either, Progress or ISS, to make sure the crew can not come into contact with the toxic propellants.
The gas tanks are also located on the outside of the crew module so that any leaks will not release gas into the station and cause an Oxygen rich environment.
Instrumentation and Propulsion Module
Diameter 2.72m
Launch Mass ~2,900kg
Habitable Volume 0m³
Main Propulsion System KTDU-80
Main Engine S5.80
Trust 2,950N
Attitude Control 28 DPO Thrusters
Thrust 26.5N/130N
Oxidizer Nitrogen Tetroxide
Fuel Unsymmetrical Dimethylhydrazine
Propellant Mass 880kg
Power Generation 2 Solar Arrays
Area 10m²
Flight Computer TsVM-101
This module is similar in construction to that of the Soyuz, but it features a slightly different configuration of its subsystems. It carries the propulsion system, electrical power system and sensor packages as well as flight computers. A pressurized container includes systems for thermal control, electric power supply, communications, telemetry and navigation. The unpressurized portion of the Instrumentation Module contains the Main Engine and the liquid-fueled propulsion system.
The propulsion system is used for attitude control maneuvers, Rendezvous and Orbit Adjustments as well as the deorbit burn. The Progress-M spacecraft is outfitted with an KTDU-80 propulsion module featuring the main propulsion system. It includes four spherical tanks that can hold up to 880 Kilograms of UMDH and N2O4 propellants. The S5.80 main engine can operate at three thrust levels. Nominal thrust is 2,950 Newtons. KTDU-80 weighs 310 Kilograms and provides a specific impulse from 326-286s. The engine operates at a chamber pressure of 8.8 bar, has an area ratio of 153:1 and a thrust-to-weight ratio of 2.03. KTDU is 1.2m long and 2.1m in diameter.
In addition to its main propulsion system, Progress features 28 multidirectional attitude control thrusters, each with a thrust of 130 Newtons. KTDU has four propellant tanks and four pressurization tanks that hold gaseous Helium for propellant tank pressurization. Propellant that is not needed to rendezvous and dock with ISS and for the return trip can be used for ISS reboosts.
Surplus propellant amounts can vary from 185 to 250 Kilograms. For reboosts, Progress uses four or eight of its attitude control thrusters pointing to the correct direction. The main propulsion system is generally not used for reboosts as it puts stress on the docking interface between the Space Station and the Progress.
The Instrumentation Module also carries the electrical power system that consists of two solar arrays that deploy once the vehicle is on orbit. With its solar arrays deployed, the Progress has a 10.6-meter span. The power system also includes onboard batteries.
The instrumentation module is outfitted with the main flight computer that is in charge of all aspects of the Progress mission. In a recent upgrade, the Progress was reconfigured for the TsVM-101 digital flight computer and MBITS digital telemetry system. The new computer is more than 60kg lighter than the old Argon-16 computer. The digital system allows Progress to carry 75 Kilograms of additional cargo.
All avionics of the Progress are located in a pressurized instrument module that is twice as long as that of the Soyuz as avionics normally located in the Soyuz Entry Module had to be relocated to this section.
Progress Flight Profile
Photo: Oleg Artemyev
Progress Spacecraft are launched atop a Soyuz-U (Soyuz 2 starting in 2014) rocket that delivers the vehicle to orbit in under nine minutes. After separating from the booster, the Progress deploys its solar arrays and communication antennas to complete is orbital insertion process. From there, Progress sticks to a nominal 34-orbit rendezvous profile to link up with the International Space Station. A fast Rendezvous profile that takes Progress to ISS in just four orbits is also available, but requires certain orbital dynamics and precise injection by the launch vehicle.
During its link-up with the Space Station, Progress performs a number of orbit adjustments to increase its altitude and chase the space station. Over the course of its rendezvous, the Progress makes a number of phasing burns to set the stage for its automated rendezvous. This sequence is initiated while Progress is still at a large distance to ISS. Progress uses the KURS Rendezvous System that communicates with its counterpart, KURS-A, on the Space Station to provide navigation data to the vehicle’s computers while the spacecraft approaches. During the approach, the Progress makes a number of breaking maneuvers and course corrections.
Once inside 400 meters, the crew aboard the Space Station can remotely control the Progress vehicle via the TORU system that allows crew members to bring the Progress in for a manual docking should its automatic systems fail.
When the Progress gets close to ISS, it begins a flyaround to align itself with its docking port. Once aligned, the Progress stops its approach at a distance of 200 meters to complete a short period of stationkeeping during which the team on orbit and inside mission control check alignment and the vehicle’s systems. Once everything is verified, the Progress resumes its approach and gently fires its thrusters to dock at velocity of 0.1 meters per second. After soft docking, hooks are closed to form a hard mate before a standard one-hour leak check is initiated. Afterwards, the crew can open the hatch of the spacecraft to begin cargo operations.
While the Progress is docked, the crew removes delivered items from the cargo module and transfers items to the station. Propellants are transferred by ground controlled commands and water is transferred manually by the crew using a command panel in the cargo module. Pressurized gases are released directly into the interior of the cargo module and with that the ISS. After being loaded with trash and liquid waste, the hatch to the vehicle is closed and the Progress undocks from the station.
After undocking, the Progress can either support a secondary mission for several weeks or get ready for a faster end of its mission. When its mission in orbit is complete, Progress will fire its engines to perform a deorbit burn for destructive re-entry over the Pacific Ocean with surviving parts impacting far away from any land masses.
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4:30 PM PT5:30 PM MT6:30 PM CT7:30 PM ET11:30 PM GMT7:30 AM 北京时间4:30 PM MST6:30 PM EST, Oct. 19, 2019
Beaver Stadium, University Park, Pennsylvania Attendance: 110,669
Clifford's 4 TDs lead No. 7 Penn State over No. 16 Michigan
(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
By TRAVIS JOHNSON
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (AP) After a deep ball bounced off his hands, KJ Hamler pulled Sean Clifford aside and told his quarterback he owed him one.
It didn't take long for Hamler to make it up to him.
The speedy wideout burned the Michigan secondary two quarters later and hauled in a perfectly thrown 53-yard touchdown pass to help propel No. 7 Penn State to a 28-21 win over No. 16 Michigan on Saturday.
Clifford wasn't surprised to see the nearest Michigan defender nearly 10 yards behind Hamler, who finished with six catches for 108 yards.
"I know KJ's fast enough to get to that weakness in their defense every single time," Clifford said.
And the first-year starter is getting better at finding him down the field.
Clifford hit Hamler on a 25-yard pass to start the scoring, hooked up with tight end Pat Freiermuth for a 17-yard touchdown and ran for a 1-yard score to pace Penn State's offense.
Hamler also had a 100-yard kickoff return to start the second half called back on a holding penalty. That would've come in handy as Penn State's offense went cold for much of the second half.
The Wolverines battled back from a 21-7 halftime deficit and with just over two minutes to play, had a chance to tie the game on fourth-and-goal from Penn State's 3. But Michigan wideout Ronnie Bell dropped a potential tying touchdown with Penn State safety Lamont Wade playing tight coverage.
"That stop was huge," Penn State coach James Franklin said.
The Nittany Lions took control of the game early. Clifford hooked up with Jahan Dotson for 37 yards to set up the scoring toss to Freiermuth who beat Khaleke Hudson in coverage.
Penn State went up 14-0 on its next drive when Clifford scored on a 1-yard run made easier by a 44-yard rush from Ricky Slade. It got easier when back-to-back Michigan offside penalties moved the ball to the 1.
Tariq Castro-Fields intercepted Shea Patterson's screen pass midway through the second quarter and Clifford arced his second touchdown pass to Hamler five plays later to make it 21-0.
The Wolverines cut Penn State's lead to 21-7 with an eight-play drive that burned 4:27 before halftime. It ended with Zach Charbonnet beating Penn State defenders to the end zone on a 12-yard run.
Charbonnet added another 12-yard run with 1:05 left in the third to make it 21-14. Patterson, who completed 24 of 41 passes for 276 yards, plunged in from a yard out - barely - to cap the scoring in the fourth.
Michigan: The Wolverines did a solid job against Penn State's high-pressure defense gashing the Nittany Lions for a season-high 417 yards. They had all the momentum in the final quarter and had the look they wanted on the fourth down play that turned out to be the difference.
Penn State: The Nittany Lions averaged 7.0 yards per play in the first half, but just 1.9 in the second until Hamler's 53-yard touchdown catch.
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh criticized the officiating afterward, not happy with the way his receivers were defended on the Wolverines' later possessions.
Michigan was flagged eight times for 48 yards while Penn State was called five times for 58 yards.
"It'll be interesting to compare some of the scenarios in the game on calls," Harbaugh said. "Thought some of our receivers were getting tackled at the end."
ATMOSPHERIC EFFECT
Michigan's offense struggled with the noise early.
With their backs to Penn State's 21,000-seat student section to start, the Wolverines lost track of the play clock and had to take a timeout before their first snap.
A false start on third-and-long on their next drive foiled any chance of converting, and three offsides infractions backed Michigan's defense up and helped set up a pair of first-half Penn State touchdowns later in the half.
THE MICAH MACHINE
Penn State linebacker Micah Parsons was everywhere in this game, battling through double and triple teams to lead the team with 14 tackles.
UNSUNG PLAY
Leading 21-7 early in the third, the Nittany Lions went three-and-out and risked giving Michigan good field position with punter Blake Gillikin standing close to his own 10.
But Penn State's specialist blasted the ball nearly 60 yards in the air and gunner Dan Chisena blew Donovan Peoples-Jones up for a loss at his own 10-yard-line. The Wolverines punted the ball back seven plays later.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
No. 6 Wisconsin lost on a last-second field goal to Illinois earlier in the day, leaving room for the Nittany Lions to move up with the win.
Michigan hosts Notre Dame on Saturday.
Penn State visits Michigan State on Saturday.
More AP college football: https://apnews.com/tag/Collegefootball and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25
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It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to our school website. The age in which we are living is the age where time is fleeting by an amazing speed and it requires immediate decisions and actions. So what we achieve, acquire and accomplish today becomes the testimony of our patience, passion, dedication and diligence. Those who stand strong and committed enjoys the sweet air of success, wins laurels, love, blessings of all. But , Dear children as we know that in this fast changing and challenging world it is not easy to overcome stumbling blocks and receive short way to success. Above these all future planning, career options, pressure of study, terror of examination are enough to make one puzzled and confused. But remember you all have that ability to handle tough situations and complications that comes from inner power and strength of character. We must learn the art of saying no to distractions and science of making maximum use of available resources. This art plus science will wipe away the confusions and doubts and will widen your horizon of knowledge and wisdom. Though we also know the fact that we live in a country where marks are worshipped. The parents, teachers as well as students aspire only notching up for high score without giving a second thought that along with curriculum completion and educational degrees something is equally important and that is inculcation of civic sense, sense of patriotism, love and care for environment. So have faith in Almighty and have trust on your powers and strive for your bright future. I would like to end with the words of a science genius Albert Einstein " Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ...
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An ‘oust oligarchs’ alliance DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 03/12/2012
An ‘oust oligarchs’ alliance
The global “Occupy Movement” opened the struggle of the 99 percent disposed peoples of the world against the miniscule but powerful one percent that monopolize the globe’s wealth. That one percent is, of course, the oligarchy. Like the rest of the world, the Philippines has had its own share of oligarchs who mimic and implement the same paradigm of greed and exploitation that has dominated the world these past two and a half decades — since the time of Thatcherism and Reaganomics.
Even though the Philippines’ own oligarchs may have spats — real or make-believe — with one another once in a while, all of them will always stand united when it comes to exploiting and exhausting the wealth and resources of this nation for their fat bank accounts and megalomaniac egos.
At their core, these oligarchs are the centurions of the global oligarchy in the country, the local gatekeepers of finance capital holding rein through money politics and mass media control. And because of this, the people must recognize the need to oust this oligarchy in order to free this nation from the global masters determined to extract every bit of wealth and anima from us.
Just the other day, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) again had called for new taxes on the Filipino people. IMF mission leader to the Philippines Vivek Arora reasoned that it is required for “growth to be sustained over the medium term.” However, what they won’t say is that while the oligarchy revels at the government assets to be privatized for their benefit, as well as the taxes from the people that finance the bureaucracy implementing the global and domestic oligarchy’s will, the people suffer from over-taxation just so that both public and private sector debts can be financed.
As I picked up a copy of the credo of a giant bank’s training manual which says, “We believe in the central role that private enterprise plays in economic development,” it is pretty clear that minions are being brainwashed to execute an ideology of servitude to the oligarchy.
But pray tell us, is the United States of America, the Mecca of capitalism that allows Wall Street to be the central power in its economy, a shining example of economic development today? We have seen the US of A become an economic wasteland as neoliberal economists of the Reagan period transferred all power to private capital, which went on to seek profit for profit’s sake and against continuous development of that nation’s physical or “hard” industries, which then led private enterprises to shift to Third World labor to further increase their profits.
So, should the Third World celebrate this? Are people too naive to realize that the Philippine oligarchy has also tapped into the much bruited about business process outsourcing (BPO) sector?
Though prone to window dressing, there are times when correct views emanate from multilateral agencies, like that Asian Development Bank (ADB) study by F. Tech Tschang, Associate Professor of Strategic Management, stating that “the (Philippine) government should not rely on the (BPO) industry in dealing with the poverty situation in the country.”
Further, Norio Usui, ADB Philippines senior country economist, said the economy must “walk on two legs,” one being the services sector and the other, the industrial sector (particularly manufacturing) in order to achieve growth. Of course, we should add the all-important factor: Agricultural development toward food self-sufficiency.
Yet the Philippine oligarchy will have none of these since they are averse to investing in long gestation projects with substantial original capital (as opposed to borrowed capital using government “sovereign guarantees”).
Hence, private enterprise can never be the central engine in economic development. As the state (i.e. the people and their territory) is the genuine agent of the people’s aspirations and will, it is the ultimate source of all capital.
Witness several state-led economies (such as China, India, Venezuela, Brazil, Vietnam and Argentina) that have shown the way since the advent of the 21st Century: Have they not successfully established their own nation-state leadership paradigms, which the Philippines can learn from? So then, how do we make this work given the local oligarchy’s control of all institutions of state and government, not to mention its control of all mainstream tri-media instruments, as well as the educational system that shapes the minds of our youth?
Ironically, the greatest ally of the people and the nation-state centered leadership will be the oligarchs themselves. As their ideology of greed inflicts greater and greater suffering on the population, intra-oligarchy rivalries will soon arise.
In the interim, the challenge to the genuine leadership agents of the people is to maintain the audibility and visibility of their nationalist ideology and its promise of genuine change and benefit to the general welfare.
The first priority, therefore, is to consolidate the diverse forces that represent the nationalist ideology into an alliance. From there, a consistent message, image and leadership must find constant projection in all forms of national media.
Those alleged “retired military officers” plotting a supposed ouster of PeNoy would do well to consider not just booting out a single trapo but the entire oligarchy. They must also ensure that in the ensuing vacuum, all their efforts are in support of a nationalist leadership. Otherwise, the same domination from PeNoy and the oligarchy will remain. But no matter the great effort and sacrifice needed for this, we must remember that the time is now ripe. As the global and domestic situation mature toward an explosion of the people’s rage, we will hear more and more exclaim, “Patria o muerte, venceremos!”
(Tune in to 1098AM, dwAD, Sulo ng Pilipino/Radyo OpinYon, Monday to Friday, 5 to 6 p.m.; watch Destiny Cable GNN’s HTL edition of Talk News TV, Saturdays, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11:15 p.m., on “Anti-large scale mining is pro-people;” visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio archives)
Defense takes offensive EDITORIAL 03/12/2012
Defense takes offensive
Now it is the turn of Chief Justice Renato Corona to make himself heard in the impeachment trial regarding a list of charges already aired and dried before the public but which his accusers were having a hard time proving their charges in the Senate court.
Corona has been making the rounds with media outlets during the 12-day break of the trial to match the publicity blast that the prosecution team has been employing against him since day one of the trial.
Looking silly are the prosecution propagandists, especially Noynoy, through his mouthpieces slamming Corona on his media interviews, and accusing him of “defense by publicity,” with even Noynoy and his spokesmen accusing the Chief Justice of conduct unbecoming a chief magistrate, while conveniently omitting the fact that their client, Noynoy, is certainly guilty of conduct unbecoming of a president, as he takes, to this day, every occasion to demonize the CJ..... MORE
Is NATO luring Russia into summit trap?
Washington’s election-year offer to share with Russia data on a US-built European missile defense system will likely fail to address Moscow’s objections to the project, a Russian security expert says.
Vladimir Kozin, a senior researcher at the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISI), said Moscow’s lack of full membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) precludes the military bloc from data-sharing sensitive information with Russia..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/politics/putin-obama-nato-summit-missile-defense-301/
Fakebook: Bogus NATO chief spies on his top-level friends
NATO commander James Stavridis has fallen victim to spies who created a fake profile on his behalf on Facebook and sent numerous “friend requests” to UK military chiefs. UK media suspect reams of acquired personal data have flown to China.
The sham account for NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis is understood to have gathered a distinguished company of British high-level military officers and Ministry of Defense officials.
While one might not go looking for sensitive information on a social network like Facebook, the site can certainly give clues to passwords for classified files, as it stores dates of birth, phone numbers and hobbies. It could also help build blackmail or espionage profiles by disclosing names, family members and friends and tracking locations..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/nato-spies-facebook-china-319/
Cross to bear? UK denies Christians right to wear crucifix
The British government asserts that Christians have no right to wear a cross or crucifix at work and is eager to prove it in court.
The case was initiated by two British women Nadia Eweida and Shirley Chaplin, after they were punished for refusing to take off their religious symbols.
Nadia Ewedia is a British Airways employee, who was asked to cover her cross while at work, and was placed on unpaid leave when she refused to do so. Shirley Chaplin is a nurse moved to a desk position after she refused to remove a crucifix..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/uk-bans-wearing-cross-317/
More lawyering for the prosecution FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/12/2012
More lawyering for the prosecution
One gets the feeling that Noynoy’s senator-judges and the prosecutors fear that the testimony of the Chief Justice’s wife, Cristina, may well clear the chief magistrate, Renato Corona, on his bank deposits which Noynoy and his lapdogs in the Senate and the prosecution thought all along would be the “final nail” in his ouster coffin.
With the yellow media going all out to nail the Chief Justice with their highlight on Ana Guidote’s interview demonizing her uncle, followed up with an interview with another Basa, a Franciscan nun, equally meddling in painting the CJ negatively, along with broad hints from the prosecutors claiming they will be calling on these two to testify as its rebuttal witness, there went Franklin Drilon, lawyering for the prosecution again, saying that the two Basa women can be called to testify, because the CJ’s statements of assets and liabilities networth (SALn) mentioned the Basa-Guidote Enterprises Inc. (BGEI), as the firm that had loaned him P11 million, reflected as his liability..... MORE
Noynoy went on a different blitz with senator-judges By Angie M. Rosales 03/12/2012
Military justifies presence in Hacienda Luisita
The military yesterday justified its presence in the controversial Hacienda Luisita, owned by the family of President Aquino, in Tarlac province by citing support coming from 10 barangay chairmen inside the sugarcane farm, stressing that local residents want government troops in the area.
Army 7th Infantry Division (ID) spokesman Maj. Enrico Gil Ileto said that the presence of government troops in Hacienda Luisita, which straddles the towns of Concepcion, Lapaz and Tarkac City all in Tarlac province, is also part of the military’s commitment to protect the people.
“Our presence in that area is a testament of our commitment to protect the rights of the people as embodied in our Internal Peace and Security Plan ‘Bayanihan,’” Ileto said..... MORE
JPE to judges: Respect Corona or I’ll resign By Angie M. Rosales 03/12/2012
IF DEFENSE PANEL PRESENTS CJ AS WITNESS
JPE to judges: Respect Corona or I’ll resign
Senate President Juan Ponce Enarile said yesterday he would put at stake his position as presiding judge of the impeachment court should any of the senator judges or the members of the House prosecution panel make acerbic remarks that will tend to disrespect Chief Justice Renato Corona if the defense panel decides to present him as witness during the impeachment proceedings that resume today.
Enrile assured Corona, should he decide to appear and defend himself before the impeachment tribunal, that he will not allow the chief magistrate to be disrespected by senator-judges, adding that he will resign, should this happen.
“I will not allow that. If they start making abusive statements against the Chief Justice, I will immediately resign as presiding judge. I will tell everyone in the court that our job is to render judgment but dignity should be accorded him,” he said..... MORE
Help repatriate pregnant OFW, Binay tells RP Embassy in Saudi 03/12/2012
Help repatriate pregnant OFW, Binay tells RP Embassy in Saudi
Vice President Jejomar Binay has sought immediate assistance from the Philippine Embassy in Saudi Arabia to help a Filipino woman, who became pregnant after allegedly being raped by a fellow Filipino in the Kingdom, where carrying a child out of wedlock is a capital offense punishable with death.
Binay asked the embassy to facilitate the return of the Filipina, who is believed to be a victim of human trafficking.
The Vice President declined to disclose her identity for security reasons..... MORE
Deadline set for harvesting unlicensed fishcages 03/12/2012
Deadline set for harvesting unlicensed fishcages
Fish cage owners and operators in Taal Lake whose applications for renewal of permits have been disapproved have only until March 29 to harvest their products, Task Force Taal Lake officials said.
Task Force Taal also reminded the fish cage owners with disapproved permits, including those without licenses, that their fish cages will be dismantled starting March 30 and they no longer be allowed to operate in the lake.
The task force issued the twin reminders following a warning Friday by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) that Taal Lake fishermen should be prepared for possible fishkills due to temperature changes caused by the scorching summer heat..... MORE
Quarry to operate on Marikina faultline By Fernan J. Angeles 03/12/2012
Quarry to operate on Marikina faultline
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is set to give the green light to what stands to become the largest quarry facility in the National Capital Region (NCR) on top of the Marikina East Valley Fault — in spite of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) warning of an impending strong earthquake on a movement of the Marikina Valley Fault,
Documents obtained by the Tribune show that a relatively big mining operation would soon be in place at a town located at the immediate northeast of Metro Manila.
The documents, allegedly from the DENR, show that an investment company registered as San Rafael Development Corp. (SDRC) has started laying the groundwork of what could be the biggest aggregate excavation and production activity in the NCR. SRDC, through another entity referred to as Massab, has already secured a Mineral Production Sharing Agreement (MPSA) clearing them to commence the quarry, production and sale of a mineral deemed as necessary in ensuring the structural integrity of infrastructure works..... MORE
CA division hit for resorting to ‘procedural shortcuts’ By Benjamin B. Pulta 03/12/2012
CA division hit for resorting to ‘procedural shortcuts’
Lawyers of the Steel Corp. of the Philippines (SCP) have denounced the alleged irregularities over how a division of the Court of Appeals (CA) handled its case against the Banco de Oro Universal Bank (BdO).
In a letter, SCP’s VP-Corporate Legal Counsel, Nonnatus Chua, urged CA’s Presiding Justice Andres Reyes Jr., to investigate Justice Normandie Pizarro, the ponente, together with the two other members of the Special Fourth Division, namely, Justices Rebecca de Guia-Salvador and Ramon Bato Jr., for allegedly committing “irregularities and procedural shortcuts” in violation of the 2009 Internal Rules of the Court of Appeals (IRCA) and railroading the case in favor of the opposing party (Banco de Oro Universal Bank or BdO)..... MORE
Privatization of Water Districts opposed M E T R O F I L E 03/12/2012
Privatization of Water Districts opposed
The Philippine Association of Water District (PAWD) is opposing the proposed bills in the Senate and House of Representatives aiming to privatize the Water Districts in the country and the establishment of Water and Sanitation Regulatory Authority. According to PAWD national president Gilbert Camaligan, there is no reason to privatize the water districts as proposed by Sen. Edgardo Angara in his Senate Bill 2997 and House Bill No. 5497 of Rep. Romeo Federico S. Quimbo and Rep. Karlo A.B. Nograles. He added that the creation of Water Supply and Sanitation Companies, under the section 17 of Senate Bill 2997 which will allow the ownership of the properties of Water Service Providers, will not do any good to the public..... MORE
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Stephen Kimber > Freelance > Halifax Metro Colum… > University, governm…
So this is embarrassing. For whom?
Well, it should be shame-making for everyone involved.
Back in April, Dalhousie University’s Board of Governors approved a three per cent across-the-board tuition fee hike — even higher for students in engineering, pharmacy and agriculture — and squeezed faculty budgets to achieve its goal of a balanced budget.
At the same time, the university quietly agreed to pony up $300,000 USD to cover the cost for nine of the province’s best and brightest (not to forget richest) to attend an “entrepreneurship acceleration program” at Boston’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology this fall.
The Dalhousie-funded participants include John Risley, Canada’s 39th richest person (net worth $2.35 billion), Emera CEO Chris Huskilson ($4.3 million in salary and benefits last year) and, of course, Dalhousie president Richard Florizone (a piddling $390,052).
At the time, according to internal emails obtained by PC leader Jamie Baillie, the university knew it was going “out on a limb” by agreeing to pay for the program, but believed it could convince the province or private sector donors to “partner” with them.
Stephen McNeil
Last week, Premier Stephen McNeil scotched any hopes the province would contribute —even as he praised the MIT program as “an amazing link.”
Which is interesting.
The two-year global program is specifically designed to bring MIT experts together with “government, corporate, academia, risk capital and the entrepreneurial community” — what one faculty member calls a region’s most “powerful, influential decision-makers” — “to develop strategies in addressing economic challenges.”
In other words, the program is supposed to help us actually accomplish all those fine-sounding Now-or-Never Ivany report goals everyone is so fond of quoting and touting.
If that’s the case, why shouldn’t government — at least three of the chosen are government employees — support the program financially.
And why shouldn’t successful entrepreneurs and CEOs who’ve benefited from government largesse — the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, for example, invested more than $15 million under various guises to help Risley develop his Ocean Nutrition fish oil company, which he then sold to a Dutch conglomerate for $540 million in 2012 — offer to pay for the entire program. And more.
Why are governments and well-heeled executives letting Dalhousie students — already paying among Canada’s highest tuitions — carry their freight?
They should be embarrassed.
Related: “Marco, Meet John and John; AIMS Meet Hypocrisy“
Jamie Baillie
@George- completely agree. What a great opportunity for Dal and the region to be included in this program. If you follow twitter chatter on this you the bitter, career stagnated academics complaining about only because it does not benefit them directly.
I know why I moved from NS many years ago- always bitterness and petty jealousy over another’s success or opportunities.
How many MILLIONS has Risley given to Dalhousie over the years ? How much money has Risley and his companies contributed to the province ? How many tax paying employees work for him ?? Exactly…stop bitching about this !! The university would be in much worse financial shape if it weren’t for Risley’s generosity !!
Whatever you say, John.
Which is it? Government or the executives pay? Who benefits? Follow the money.
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