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Spencer County's boys soccer team picked up two wins last week and have a modest three game winning streak following a 3-1 victory over Fort Knox on Wednesday and then a 3-0 shutout over Henry County on Thursday.
Coach Paul Taylor said Wednesday's road victory at Fort Knox was not a particularly good game, but it counts as a victory.
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This past weekend our country took time to remember one of the most horrific days in this country's history. On the morning of 9/11/2001 in a series of orchestrated suicide attacks committed by radical Muslims, 2,976 innocent lives perished. Of the 2,976 who died, 236 were foreigners, which brings the total number of Americans who died to 2,740. This year's anniversary was largely overshadowed by two very charged international issues.
Thanks to Kentucky Utilities/LG&E, Kentucky Press Association and the KY Secretary of State for helping to make this statewide literacy project possible. Go to www.kypress.com to hear each chapter and try the chapter activities.
After all the protesting, the church responsible for heading up "International burn a Koran day" called it off – but not before capturing the attention of the entire world. By September 11, 2010, the intended date of the bonfire, the story of the small congregation in Gainesville, Florida to burn the Muslim holy book had become so objectionable that it no longer mattered if the actions were carried out or not. The damage that has been done is irreversible.
Cindy Brown Baxter looks forward to taking time off from the consignment stores she operates in Taylorsville and Mt. Washington – so she can shop at other consignment stores.
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The five-room building once housed a paint store and, more recently, a church.
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An amazing side dish, these slow-cooked shallots will grace any table.
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HSBC raised its call on the sector to "overweight" for the first time in four years, citing valuation grounds.
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Ex-dividend considerations knocked 1.31 points off the FTSE 100 index on Wednesday, with BG Group BG.L and IMI (IMI.L) both trading without their payout attractions.
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BT Group (BT.L) shed 2.3 percent as JPMorgan cut its rating on the telecoms firm to "neutral" from "overweight" on valuation grounds, while also citing concerns over its revenue and dividend outlook.
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Drugmaker Shire (SHP.L) was 1.6 percent lower partly because of its defensive attributes, but also with traders citing fading bid hopes after Germany's Bayer, one of a number of possible suitors, failed to mention acquisition moves in its recent update.
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Hmmmm, Pop, pop,pop,pop,pop.pop,pop,pop, reload. scan, access, more pops if necessary.
This is a discussion on Swinging Baseball Bat at You = Deadly Force Threat? within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Had it been me the shitbird with the bat would be taking a dirt nap....
Had it been me the shitbird with the bat would be taking a dirt nap.
"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you." William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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Don"t let stupid be your skill set....
And Shepards we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee,
Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, So that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command,
And we shall flow a river forth to Thee, And teeming with souls shall it ever be,
I was doing security work at a club one night when one of my bouncers got into a pretty bad fight with a drunk patron. I got between them and turned to see my bouncer coming down with a bat aimed directly for this guys head. I went to tackle the 6'5" 350 pound bouncer; and knocked him back a few steps just as the bat landed across my back.
I couldn't walk well for a week & had bruises that lasted for months.
Don"t let stupid be your skill set....
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A bat may not sound scary to all but I coached little league for several years. At one "camp" we had 7 year olds just learning about the game and getting ready for coach pitched baseball rather than t-ball. These are tiny kids with tiny bats that may not even have the farce to break a car window. The other coach was demonstrating what soft toss will be like, he told the kid "don't swing the bat at the ball this is just to show the class" and repeated "don't swing the bat" at least 5 more times. I am sure you can see what is coming, the kid swings the bat. Misses the coach by an inch since he never trusts the kids but the follow through his the kids dad in the face, broke his nose and chipped a tooth. Man was that a lot of blood.
Some guy walks up to the car I am sitting in and starts busting the window right next to me, I am now fearing serious bodily harm. I would get out on the other side because sitting in the car waiting in an enclosed space with little room to move or counter is stupid. Gun is drawn and if he persists then he has chosen poorly.
Sitting in the car waiting for him to get through the windows to prove he is a threat is BS. I never tried this but I would wager that my 16 year old son with his bat shatters the passenger window on swing one and swing two the bat and the retained safety glass are inside the vehicle near where your head would be while seated in the passenger seat. I will have to look it up but I recall the WI S/D law specifically listing baseball bat (among other things) as an example of a deadly weapon justifying the use of deadly force.
A baseball bat being used as a weapon is no longer just a baseball bat. It has now become a deadly weapon, and deadly force would be an appropriate response.
To make it simple, if someone swings a baseball bat at me, I'm going to respond with deadly force.
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"The gun is the great equalizer... For it is the gun, that allows the meek to repel the monsters; Whom are bigger, stronger and without conscience, prey on those who without one, would surely perish."
Here is the layman description of WI self defense statute straight from their official CC training textbook.
Imminent Threat
The threat of death or great bodily harm must be "imminent." Imminent means "about to happen." In order for the danger to be imminent, the subject's threat must meet all three of these criteria:
• Intent
• Weapon
• Delivery system
Intent is an indication that the subject intends to cause great bodily harm or death. Intent might be shown by acts, such as pointing a weapon at you or rushing at you with a knife, or may be verbal, such as stating they are going to kill you.
Weapon means that the person has a conventional or unconventional weapon capable of inflicting death or great bodily harm. Guns and knives are examples of conventional weapons. However, unconventional weapons such as baseball bats, chains, bricks, and broken bottles can also cause death. Some people can inflict death or great bodily harm with their hands or feet. For example, repeated kicks to the head are certainly capable of maiming or killing.
Delivery system means that the person has the ability to use the weapon to harm you. For example, a person with a knife 50 yards away on the other side of a high fence does not have the ability to use the weapon against you.
He would have put me in a bad position,,,, to OLD to run ,,, and not fast.
Would prefer to be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
Of course if I had the key I would just ride to the nearest police station.
Of course you never move forward ,,,,, always retreat,,,, establishes you are trying to defuse the action ,,,,,
What matters is what the DA in the jurisdiction in which this occurs thinks.
A hot shot DA out to make a name for himself or one who is anti gun will take the position that you have no idea the guy with the bat was intent on entering your vehicle and doing you harm until he actually reaches in, attempts to unlock the door or tells you that he is going to do harm to you.
He can argue that the guy was simply having a temper tantrum and wanted to break things.
There are all kinds of stories about people breaking out windshields and windows, headlights, jumping up and down on hoods, etc., that would make his case against you sound plausible.
Castle Law is quoted too many times in these discussions. Castle Law does not absolve one from proving that his life was in danger. One cannot, for instance, shoot the delivery boy because he opened your door to put a package inside.
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I think this is really a much trickier scenario than it appears. Forget some of the "gingerbread" of the hypothesized scenario. You have to take into account your ability to make safe distance/space/ and time to draw and fire, all the while being pressed, or you must otherwise physically counter. If you try to draw while being charged and swung at you are likely not going to get a shot off-- and you might very well get thwacked. You can't afford to concentrate on the shooting and ignore the bat.
It sounds goofy but your best bet might be to charge in (which defeats the momentum of the bat) and put the gun right into his chest. (DA revolver would be nice here).
For the athletically inclined (and the movie directors), drop, roll, and shoot upward, while the swung bat goes over you.
You all can send me my Oscar for Best Director c/o JD.
Seriously, its all about choreography. The moving end of a bat, pipe, belt buckle, isn't something you are going to be able to deal with unless you've rehearsed it a bunch of times in a gym or other form of training.
(Anyone else remember those old Cowboy movies where the Good Guy draws his gun and the Bad Guy swings a lariat that wraps around his hand? Then the Bad Guy drags the disarmed GG in back of a horse.
Don't want to be there? Run like h.... first, or charge in.)
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Not waiting for strike 3. The minute he comes at me with a bat, he's OUT!!!
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A bat is a deadly weapon and if he doesn't heed my command to stop then I will take action. It's not my fault he brought a bat to a gun fight.
Like Bullet1234 I am too old (and broken) to run so fleeing on foot is a no-go.
My MA instructor told us, "In a knife fight, you will be cut," I will assume in a baseball bat fight, I will be hit. That is my logic for putting my legs towards my attacker; it will hurt like a mother, maybe send me to the ER for repairs, but likely will not incapacitate me. I may even get a lucky shot in-
OK now lets try the other plan. Go out to your vehicle, dress for the weather, don't forget your gun and sit in the passenger seat. Comfortable? Good- now as fast as you can get to the driver side and out or in position to drive off, I'll wait.
Back? How did that go? I will bet awkward and time consuming. Now did Barry and his bat keep whacking the passenger side or did he try to get in? Maybe he ran around to the driver side- now what?
Unless you are unusually limber and can move fast to distance, the only scenario I can see is prepare to take damage and fight back. You are being assaulted with a deadly weapon; the danger is imminent. Draw your weapon. If he breaks off and leaves, great call 911 otherwise remember don't shoot your own foot.
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Mike Maleski came to Waynesburg more than twenty years ago with dreams of being Bob Costas in the sports announcing booth. Searching for a hands-on education, he left Cleveland, Ohio, and found a new dream as a communication major at Waynesburg University.
Now, as vice president of Digital Sales, Marketing and Operations for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Maleski works with the online revenue stream. Joining the team in 2008, he has made the Cavaliers a top five staple in the National Basketball Association for fan engagement, traffic and revenue. His work has created best practices models that other teams in the NBA have duplicated.
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With a personal goal of being the best at whatever he did, Maleski's career reflects his determination and drive. He began his career with Douthit Communications in 1991 and by 1999 was the general manager of WeST LIFE newspaper. Continuing his professional ascension, Maleski joined the Great Lakes Publishing sales staff in 2002 and became the Inside Business magazine publisher in 2003, where his influence allowed sales growth and numerous awards. During his time with Cleveland.com, the website achieved growth in traffic, as well as site expansion, mobile platforms and new email, among others.
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Drawing from his extensive and exciting professional life, Maleski can impart wisdom on students preparing to enter the workforce. He believes in valuing everyone he meets, because one can never be sure when they might reenter your life and have the ability to help you advance in some way. He strives to return every phone call within 24 hours and treat everyone he encounters with courtesy.
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Welcome to the blog spot where you get to hear about what's taking place on campus, behind the scenes at Waynesburg University. My name is Tiffany Onifer and I am a junior Chemistry, Pre-med major. For the past 3 years I have been actively involved in research.
Now you might be interested in what I'm researching, which is probably one of the reasons you're reading this blog. What my advisor, Dr. Fletcher, and I have been doing is researching different methods for improving the microdialysis sampling of neuropeptides.
If you're in a pickle and have no idea what I just said that's ok! This is exactly how I felt in the beginning of my freshman year. As these blog posts progress my desire is that you will have a better understanding of what we are actively doing.
What does research look like from a student athlete perspective? At the undergraduate level you have several options, you can research a specific topic that you are interested in or you can join in on a preexisting project. Freshman year I hopped on the wagon.
As a dual varsity athlete, practice will always be scheduled. As a Chemistry major, labs will always be in abundance. As an undergraduate researcher, patience needs to be developed and utilized when the project is soaring on the mountain tops to when it fails not just once but many times and you have no idea why it is not working.
It is within these moments, when I've made mistakes that I have learned the most about the system vs. the symptoms. Even though setbacks, "set you back" they don't have to keep you down. I have learned that it is a crucial time where you can get back on your feet stronger than ever before and push towards the mark of success.
Waynesburg University and the Chemistry Department has truly been a blessing in regards to opening doors unto those involved in research. Coming into Waynesburg I thought that research was just working behind the scenes in a lab trying to solve an extremely hard puzzle with more than 1000 pieces. I had no idea of the numerous opportunities that would have come as a result of this journey. Throughout the last 2 years I have been able to present our findings in 3 different states and at 1 state capitol.
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NC bill would punish those who harm, kill fetuses
Published: Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 1:30 p.m.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republicans and some crime victims are promoting legislation to make it a felony for an attacker to kill or injure a fetus at any stage of development.
Rep. Dale Folwell of Forsyth County said Thursday the proposed legislation would expand to the rest of the state a law already in effect on federal property like Camp Lejeune and the Blue Ridge Parkway. The federal law was approved in 2004 after the 2002 death of a pregnant California woman, Laci Peterson.
More than two-thirds of the states have laws allowing homicide prosecution for someone who causes the death of a fetus. About half the states define a fetus starting with conception.
The bill makes clear that the provisions don't apply to legal abortions.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Legislative Black Caucus says it
will fight attempts to undo the new federal health care plan.
Several Republicans are pushing proposed constitutional
amendments that would prohibit any person from being compelled to
participate in a health care plan. About 250 people staged a rally
at the statehouse Tuesday in support of the GOP legislation.
Democratic House Speaker Pro Tem Demetrius Newton says the
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Caucus members are threatening to cut Attorney General Troy
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Protein vs. Carbs
The effect could partly explain why people lose weight on low-carb diets associated with high proteins, suggest the researchers.
"Our results suggest that less emphasis should be placed on carbohydrate restriction without regard for ... increases in dietary fat," write Weigle and colleagues.
"Replacing a portion of dietary fat with protein may result in weight loss comparable with that reported with low-carbohydrate diets while minimizing the adverse long-term effects of increased dietary fat," they continue.
However, more studies are needed on dietary protein's effects on kidney function and calcium before high-protein diets can be widely recommended for weight loss, they write.
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Blood tests were done to check levels of two appetite-related hormones: leptin and ghrelin.
On the eat-any-amount, higher-protein diet, leptin fell and ghrelin rose.
That's the opposite of what might be expected, write the researchers. Ghrelin is thought to increase appetite, while Leptin is thought to decrease it. However, many cases of obesity are resistant to the hormone leptin.
What About the Real World?
The participants didn't have to plan, shop, chop, or bake. But the foods weren't exotic or elaborate.
A sample high-protein breakfast was orange juice, egg white substitute, raisin bread with peanut butter and jam, and skim milk.
Lunch was a turkey sandwich with "light" cheese, fat-free mayo, and lettuce on whole-wheat bread, served with more skim milk.
Dinner was beef lasagna, green beans, and lettuce-and-tomato salad dressed in olive oil and wine vinegar. Snacks were canned mandarin oranges and pineapple.
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Lapa's prawn, udon noodle stir fry
Total Time
Prep 30 mins
Cook 30 mins
Low sodium, low fat, no cholestral main dish developed recipe, looking at what was on hand and following Dr's orders for a healthy heart
Ingredients Nutrition
- 6 ounces udon noodles
- 6 cups water
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1⁄4 lb long beans or 1⁄4 lb green beans, sliced to 1 inch pieces
- 1 small carrot, sliced thin
- 3 large broccoli florets, bite size
- 1⁄2 zucchini, sliced
- 2 leeks, sliced thin (white part) or 1⁄2 white onion
- 1 (3 ounce) can bamboo shoots, drained
- 1⁄4 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1⁄2 cup low sodium chicken broth
- 1⁄2 lb prawns, 40-51 count
- Bring water to boil, add noodles, cook 12 minutes, drain and reserve.
- add oil to skillet (non-stick) over medium high heat.
- reduce to medium heat.
- add veggies, shoots, vinegar and broth.
- bring to boil, reduce heat.
- add prawns.
- add noodles, simmer until prawns are cooked through (15 minutes).
- if too dry add water, cook 5 minutes.
- serve with hot and sour soup.
- stir fried veggies and spring rolls.
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This recipe was a disaster when it came to flavor. I understand low sodium, I really do. But, all I could taste was vinegar. I had to make quite a lot of changes as I was cooking it so it tasted like something besides vinegar. I cooked my noodles according to the pkg directions which was for 5 mins. not 12. I added garlic powder, sesame oil, lite soy sauce, fresh ground pepper, a bottle of clam juice and the vinegar still overpowered the dish. Also, this made enough for 6 people and I picked through and got the shrimp and vegetables and threw out the extra udon. I knew as I was cooking this that it was going to be a waste of wonderful shrimp, and I am sorry to say I was right. I like low-fat, low-salt as much as the next person but this was too extreme and had no flavor. Oh yeah, except for the vinegar.


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Remember when I used to make chibis as mini kiriban prizes? I started to miss that all suddenly and wanted to test what drawing them feels now. Thus, small and irritated Machete was created.
Ahhh the horror of making digital lineart! D:
Artwork, character © CanisAlbus
Seriously adorable, that is...
oh! my guuush! i just wanna.... ooooh .. hug it!!!
What is the meaning of this?! How dare you transform me into this digustingly cute miniature form!
He is so cute
Can I hug him?? Too cute ^^
hahahaha, how cute and disturbing at the same time! <33
Do you have a tablet?
And I still can't believe you use gimp,if that's what you used!
This is the fluffy equivalent of me as a small child... My worst moods always made somebody call me cutie.
This is just awesome! xD
This is just awesome! xD
This truly serious business!
I just recently learned about this tool on SAI called a stabilizer. Gonna try it tonight. -w-
OMG I can't stand this cuteness ♥
He looks serious...
...and cute...
... and seriously cute!
That is the cutest thing ever! Aww little Machete
..AHAHAH that is adorable
The lineart looks super good here! Really crisp yet smooth 8D
I love this guy's expression. He is seriously considering some trouble.
I love your chibis, they're so adorable! I love how you can retain your character's personality, too.
It looks very good. It is good to switch to digital art and draw happy things sometimes.
Aww, Machete is adorable in this chibi style, I really love the expression you gave him, and the shading is very lovely ! ^^
I know, digital linearts are pain in the ass, but OH MY, this makes you Machchie much more cute than dangerous in your irritation <D
Tehee, love that irritated look
oh my goodness, cute!
Hilariously adorable.
Voi luoja kuinka se onkaan suloinen : D <3
He has a neat look like this. Very cool.
El. Oh. El.
he seems so annoyed but just too cute X3
Such an adorable Machete face!!!!
He looks a little disgruntled
Haha he's cute when he looks irritated (but that could be because he's a chibi lol)
So cute, in a serious kind of way xD
Lmao this is adorable!
I mean, srs bsns.
Waah, nää chibuloiset on aivan hemmetin valloittavia! ;v;
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In one of his classic lectures delivered during the winter semester 1862-1863 at the University of Berlin, Virchow1 directed special attention to the hyperostoses affecting the facial and cranial bones. He dwelt at length on this localization of bone hypertrophy because it served him well in the discussion of the general subject of periostosis and hyperostosis. For, as he pointed out, these processes when affecting the skull are often of unusual severity and lead to such striking facial and cranial deformities that even in his time there had accumulated a number of famous skulls of unusual size, shape and thickness from which the gross pathology, at least, might be studied. Occasionally, too, an illuminating clinical history accompanied the record.
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you can get a portrait of your pony like this for about 6-7 dollars USD or 700 points- info here
you can get a portrait of your pony like this for about 6-7 dollars USD or 700 points- info here
pony portrait commissionsokay i guess im going to open a few slots for portrait commissions like these since i want to practice more softer colured things:
i`m gonna say 7 dollars unless it`s a really detailed character, in which itll probably be more aroung 9-10. i`ll go down to 5 dollars if it`s a really simple character (one coloured hair, one coloured body) if paying with paypal please send as "gift" so that paypal doesn`t take a couple dollars out for itself D:
the picture will be exactly 460x600 with a border of 21px
these are really experimental so if you`re hoping for something very exact to your specifications i wouldn`t bother :c
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estimated wait time for these is no more than a week unless something goes horrible wrong.
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Continued changes in climate are projected to alter the geographic distributions of plant species, in part by affecting where individuals can establish from seed. We tested the hypothesis that warming promotes uphill redistribution of subalpine tree populations by reducing cold limitation at high elevation and enhancing drought stress at low elevation. We seeded limber pine (Pinus flexilis) into plots with combinations of infrared heating and water addition treatments, at sites positioned in lower subalpine forest, the treeline ecotone, and alpine tundra. In 2010, first-year seedlings were assessed for physiological performance and survival over the snow-free growing season. Seedlings emerged in midsummer, about 5–8 weeks after snowmelt. Low temperature was not observed to limit seedling photosynthesis or respiration between emergence and October, and thus experimental warming did not appear to reduce cold limitation at high elevation. Instead, gas exchange and water potential from all sites indicated a prevailing effect of summer moisture stress on photosynthesis and carbon balance. Infrared heaters raised soil growing degree days (base 5 °C, p < 0.001) and August–September mean soil temperature (p < 0.001). Despite marked differences in vegetation cover and meteorological conditions across sites, volumetric soil moisture content (θ) at 5–10 cm below 0.16 and 0.08 m3 m−3 consistently corresponded with moderate and severe indications of drought stress in midday stem water potential, stomatal conductance, photosynthesis, and respiration. Seedling survival was greater in watered plots than in heated plots (p = 0.01), and negatively related to soil growing degree days and duration of exposure to θ < 0.08 m3 m−3 in a stepwise linear regression model (p < 0.0001). We concluded that seasonal moisture stress and high soil surface temperature imposed a strong limitation to limber pine seedling establishment across a broad elevation gradient, including at treeline, and that these limitations are likely to be enhanced by further climate warming.
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- Warming and the dependence of limber pine (Pinus flexilis) establishment on summer soil moisture within and above its current elevation range
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- Lara M. Kueppers (1)
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- 1. School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA, 95343, USA
- 2. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- 3. US Geological Survey, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, 970 Lusk Street, Boise, ID, 83706, USA
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A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (Chapter 1)
England 1813
The graveyard echoed silence but for the sound of running feet and her own straining breath. Kitty Trapp stopped to gasp for a moment against a tall marker stone, one carved with cherubs and the word "Beloved." The morning sun had yet to rise above the London dwellings surrounding the churchyard, making the shadows dense and undefined.
There. White flashed between two tall stones—a mere translucent wisp as insubstantial as fog—then it was gone.
Again. The early morning light brightened through the mist to glimmer for an instant on a pale figure. Kitty dodged a headstone and dashed to the side of one of the great mausoleums, regretting her sedentary existence in an entirely new way as her side clenched in a stitch. She clutched her waist tightly with one hand while holding up her hem with the other—and kept running. Faster.
With a last burst of speed that she hardly knew she was capable of, Kitty burst through a decorative hedge that separated the rich from the not so rich even after death. With one hand stretched before her, she reached out—
And caught her sister's sleeve before Bitty could make the largest mistake of her life.
It took a moment for Kitty to gather enough breath to speak. "Bettina Melrose Trapp! Get back in that church this instant! What can you be thinking to race through hallowed ground? And on your wedding day!"
Bitty let free a sob while struggling to pull away from her twin's grip. Kitty, however, had years of experience in getting her way. She might be the ever so slightly younger and the ever so slightly less attractive and the much less financially desirable twin, but she was also ever so slightly taller and much, much meaner.
Bitty only struggled harder, surprising Kitty with her willingness to possibly damage her wedding gown. Kitty didn't dare ease her grip, however. Behind them was a church full of influential people, including the Prime Minister and half the members of the House of Lords.
Thinking again of Mama's eagerness to impress the imperious Lord Liverpool, Kitty began to drag her twin back through the gravestones to the tiny room off the nave where they'd been sent to await the first strains of the wedding march.
"But I don't want to!" Bitty struggled harder, although Kitty noticed that she kept her wails muted. "I don't want to wed him in front of all those people!"
"Well, you ought to have considered that before you accepted Mr. Knight's proposal." Reaching the old arched door of the back exit off the nave, Kitty towed her twin inside. She only released Bitty when she'd closed the oak door on its thick iron hinges and thrown the great latch once more.
In his small alcove off the nave, Mr. Alfred Theodious Knight paused in the act of adjusting his cravat. The hollow echo of a door slamming somewhere in the church distracted him. He waited a long moment, but no further uproar ensued. Good. Hopefully, events would continue as scheduled.
Not that he was in a hurry to wed the Trapp girl. She hardly inspired hot-blooded urgency. When one examined the match logically—and Knight examined everything logically—the girl would suit him well enough. Unexceptional looks, if not precisely pretty. Blond, which was pleasant but scarcely necessary. Of flawless reputation—aside from one recent blunder—and possessing an unobtrusive demeanor.
This last was important, for Knight wanted no torrid stories floating about concerning his marriage. He'd had a lifetime of living down the outrageous antics of his shameless mother. He'd not tolerate such nonsense from his own wife.
Further, the girl was of adequate family, with surprisingly high connections. Figure: landing somewhere between pleasingly plump and overindulged. Taste: excruciating, but that had already been dealt with. Inheritance: large enough to inspire interesting possibilities but not so large as to eclipse his own.
And finally, but in his mind the most important, wedding Bettina Trapp would erase a possible stain upon his family's name. If only it were this easy to erase all the misdeeds of Knight's younger half brother, John Tuttle.
Born out of their shared mother's affair with a horse trainer hired to develop the blood stock, John Tuttle had never felt the need to live down his origins as Knight did. In fact, John seemed intent on broadening the spectrum of sins painted upon the family history by the late Mrs. Knight.
Several weeks ago Tuttle had decided to line his pockets with Miss Trapp's inheritance. With characteristic Tuttle treachery, John had proceeded to lure the naïve Bettina Trapp onto a balcony during a ball and had there leaped upon her like a hungry hound. Only the happenstance of Bettina's sister coming upon the scene had prevented a scandal that would have rocked London.
Upon reflection, Knight realized that he had never seen his bride's sister. By John's furious and drunken description just before Knight had ordered his half sibling boarded onto the next ship to the West Indies, the other Trapp girl was a proper witch.
Typical of younger siblings, Knight was sure.
The wedding march ought to play soon. With habitual calm, Mr. Alfred Theodious Knight firmly squelched his boredom and returned to adjusting a cravat that was already tied to perfection.
Standing with her back to the only escape from the tiny cell, Kitty folded her arms and regarded Bitty with fond exasperation. Bitty never could accomplish anything without a fuss and flurry, even something as simple as walking down the aisle. Melodrama was as much a part of Bitty as was her indecision and her basic timidity, although Bitty's essential lack of will was the only thing that made Kitty able to live with her pampered and narcissistic twin.
Not that it was entirely Bitty's fault. Kitty thought that she might herself have been as malleable as Bitty if she'd been the focus of her parents' social ambitions for her entire life. Instead, she'd had to fight every day of her life for the slightest notice from her family.
Perhaps that was why Bitty was so prone to theatrics, as a sort of outlet for her own desires and dreams. Although Kitty couldn't imagine why. As far as she knew, Bitty's desires and dreams coincided entirely with Mama's ambitions for her.
Until today, that is.
"If you didn't want to have a grand wedding, why didn't you say something weeks ago? Or yesterday, for that matter? What will Mr. Knight say?"
"Oh, I cannot bear to think on him. So grim—so dark!"
Kitty blinked at that. "You don't fancy his looks? Then why did you accept him?" Astounding. She had seen the gentleman on the day when he'd come to offer for Bitty, although he hadn't seen her. The landing on the stairs was a lovely place to spy on someone in the entrance hall. In Kitty's opinion, the stern and silent Mr. Knight was quite ideal, at least in his even features and fine dark eyes.
Bitty only shuddered in response. "I don't want to talk about it."
"Again, something best brought up in conversation before today," muttered Kitty. She threw out her hands. "The poor man is standing out there right now waiting for you! The world is standing out there waiting for you!"
That had been the wrong thing to say. Bitty shrank back, then unbelievably, reached behind her neck to begin undoing the tiny buttons that ran down her white silk-clad back. "No, no, no—" Then she began to tug the tightly fitted sleeves down, right there in the church with half the world waiting outside the door!
"Bitty, what are you doing?" Kitty rushed around behind her to do her up again, but Bitty twisted away to tug at the costly beaded silk as if it were a filthy rag.
Kitty was astonished at the vehemence in her sister's voice. Bitty was choosing now to exhibit a spine? Kitty tried a new tack. "Bitty, wait," she said in a soothing tone. "Think on it. This is your wedding day. Everything is just as you wished. The church is the one where Mama wed Papa. The flowers are just as you dreamed. Your gown…" Well, to be truthful, the gown was a horror, all tucked and beaded and beribboned with not one inch unadorned. In Kitty's opinion, Bitty had never had one smidge of taste, nor had Mama.
Kitty abandoned soothing to go straight to entirely livid. "Bettina Melrose Trapp, put your wedding gown back on this instant!" All to no effect. Bitty stripped the dress off and tossed it ruthlessly over the back of a heavy carved chair.
A tap came at the door that led into the church. "Girls?"
Kitty closed her eyes. Mama. Things were about to go from bad to disastrous. Bitty dove behind the dressing screen. The coward.
Mrs. Beatrice Trapp, society matron and patroness of everything socially advantageous, entered the room like a lavender ship under sail. "Kitty? Where is your sister?" She spotted the dress tossed unceremoniously aside. Her eyes widened in appalled surprise. "She isn't yet dressed? The vicar is expecting us now!"
Kitty saw a scene in the making, what with Mama's ambitions colliding with Bitty's theatrics—a long, loud, and potentially very public scene indeed. Quickly, she stepped in.
"Mama, you must stall the ceremony." She wrapped one arm about her mother's stout waist and steered her back to the door. "A minor hair mishap, that is all. We only need a moment."
Beatrice Trapp looked over her shoulder at the limp and empty wedding gown. "But don't you need my help to get Bitty dressed?"
Kitty sent her mother out with a small push, just to build up her momentum. "Don't worry, Mama. You'll have a bride to marry off in mere moments."
One way or another.
There were several hundred guests in the church. That meant nearly a thousand eyes turned Kitty's way when she took her first hesitating step on her father's arm down the aisle.
This is a dreadful plan. Kitty's conscience seemed to beat against the barrier of her lie like a trapped moth. Don't do this!
Firmly she squelched the inner protest. 'Twas no great problem. She would simply do this one thing for Bitty, and for her parents, and no one need know but Bitty and herself. After all, it wasn't as though they hadn't done it time and again in their childhood.
Mr. Knight stood tall and imposing next to the vicar. Heavens, had his shoulders always been so broad? Kitty's veil—Bitty's veil—hung mistily between herself and the groom—Bitty's groom—
Kitty shook herself firmly back to the subject at hand. She need only make it through the ceremony, trot home to undress, and stuff her sister into the very fine traveling suit awaiting her, and kiss Bitty good-bye as she left on her honeymoon.
It was only that…when she'd dreamed of this moment in her life, she'd never thought it would be a farce, an unworthy prank. What should have been her first and only time taking this journey had been twisted. Now Kitty didn't know if the purity of her own walk down the aisle could ever be returned to her.
So when she arrived at the altar and turned to face Mr. Knight, there were very believable tears in her eyes.
Knight tried not to heave a visible sigh of impatience at the slow intonations of the vicar. The pomp and symbolism that was wrapped around what amounted to a business transaction never ceased to amaze him.
His bride wept beside him. He hoped she would not turn out to be sillier than most. Unfortunately, he'd yet to see evidence of any brain at all in Bettina Trapp. The one report he'd had of her led one to believe she hadn't the sense to get herself in out of the rain. His impression upon first meeting her on the day he'd proposed had not been favorable, for she'd merely blinked at his offer with wide brown eyes, then paled, then nodded.
Still, Knight retained a hope of finding some sort of intellect beneath the vapid exterior. A long and intimate future with a completely brainless woman didn't bear thinking about.
He took his bride's hand in his at the appropriate moments, said the expected litany, vowed forever away to this creature whom he truly didn't know at all.
Wedded bliss, the vicar said. Knight didn't see it as anything of the sort. Simply a business transaction, after all.
The entire party had arrived at the Trapps' home for the wedding breakfast. The moment Kitty could manage it she ran for her room. It would only take a few moments to change, especially if Bitty had everything ready as they had arranged.
It wasn't until Kitty had neared the top of the stairs at a run that she realized that never once—not before, during, or after the ceremony—had her parents asked after her…er, Kitty. Pausing at the door to her room, she fought down the hurt that no one had noticed Kitty's absence from the festivities.
Flinging herself into the room, she pasted on a bright smile, ready to give Bitty every detail of the last hour—
There was no one in the room, or in Bitty's room. Or in the bathing chamber, or in the small sitting room attached. Worse, much worse…Bitty's traveling things weren't anywhere to be seen.
Bitty was gone.
Kitty slumped on her bed, unmindful of crushing the priceless satin of her gown—Bitty's gown.
What was she to do? She was tempted to change back to Kitty and merely report to her parents that Bitty was gone…but then she'd likely have to tell them of the deceit they had perpetrated. And if that deceit ever became public knowledge…
Kitty swallowed. If she'd thought the scandal of a reluctant bride would have been bad, the scandal of a runaway wife would be ruinous to the entire family! And she herself would be publicly branded a liar and mischief maker of the worst sort. Her parents would be dragged into it, there'd be no avoiding that. Mr. Knight might very well sue them or have them charged with something criminal!
"Oh, Bitty," she breathed. "What have we done?"
Feeling dizzy and more than a little sick, Kitty stood up to reach to the buttons of the gown she was fast beginning to hate with a thick and choking passion. It wasn't easy, but she managed to get herself out. Luckily, she hadn't had to wear the corset beneath it, for Bitty had added a bit of weight during her engagement.
For the first time, it occurred to Kitty that her sister had been unhappy all along. Kitty tried to remember if Bitty had attempted to communicate that unhappiness at any time.
She couldn't pin down any one moment, but now that she thought about it, Bitty had been very quiet lately, at least when she wasn't planning details of the wedding.
Kitty always tried to be brutally honest with herself and she could see now that she had been more than a little jealous of Bitty's nuptials. She herself had avoided talking to her twin soon after the engagement, although she had told herself it was because hearing about the lace on Bitty's veil for the hundredth time was not terribly interesting to her.
She ought to have remembered that an unbearable Bitty was an unhappy Bitty. Now it was too late. Bitty had flown, but Kitty had no idea where to. Surely she wouldn't hide with any of the families they knew, for no one would assist a young woman in her own ruination. Yet where could she have gone? When would she be back?
And why had she left Kitty in the lurch? Bitty was profoundly self-absorbed, that was true, but surely she must know that Kitty couldn't keep the secret forever? What had been the point of this wedding farce if Bitty had never planned on behaving as a proper wife should?
Clad now in her chemise and stockings, Kitty began to pace the room. She must order her mind, that's what Aunt Clara would say. Aunt Clara was Lady Etheridge, wife of the Prime Minister's adviser. She was also a famous political cartoonist who feared nothing and no one.
Kitty wished Aunt Clara were here now, but Lady Etheridge had begged off the wedding breakfast, admitting her lack of appetite that morning.
Kitty picked up her silver hairbrush and began to undo the hasty twist she had put her hair into to fit beneath the veil. A small bark of laughter left her lips at the sight of the pile of pins on the dressing table.
Before disappearing, Bitty had taken the time to undo the elaborate mass of braids and ribbons that Kitty had spent hours putting into her hair this morning. Not truly one of her duties, but Bitty had insisted on having her sister with her and had disdained the help of a maid.
Kitty had been flattered at the time, and quite willing to oblige, but now a dark thought twisted through her mind. Had Bitty planned this outrageous flight? Had she herself been purposely maneuvered into taking her sister's place at the altar, like some sort of ancient sacrifice?
No, surely not even Bitty would do something so unworthy. This morning's panic had been unfeigned, Kitty would swear to that. Bitty had simply worked herself up further and had fled her own exaggerated fears.
Bitty would be back, Kitty dared be in no doubt of that. Her sister would come back as soon as she had calmed, and the switch could still take place. There was no need to alert Mama and Papa yet. Mr. Knight need know no differently at this point.
She could continue the charade until Bitty returned, likely tonight or perhaps tomorrow. Even Bitty would not push the bounds of propriety by staying too long on her own. One night might be covered, two would be harder, and anything after that would require the help of the entire family and staff—which meant the gossip would get out, one way or another. No, Bitty would be home in two days at the latest.
Of course, that didn't exactly clarify what Kitty should do tonight.
The wedding night.
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