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ALTHEA CARTWRIGHT lived with her aunt, Mrs. Pratten, in a pretty house in South Bank, where, for all that South Bank was then looked on as so much in the country as to be almost beyond the reach of Londoners, they saw a great deal of society and attracted many well-conditioned people. Ladies certainly grumbled at the distance, and made that and the possibility of foot-pads on dark nights their excuse for keeping away; but men found the weekly receptions delightful and the more intimate association full of charm; and Mnemosyne Lodge, as page: 100 the place was somewhat strangely called, was never without its attractions and its visitors. It was a kind of social honeypot round which the flies continually buzzed, and no man who once went there ever failed to put in a second appearance.
There was a mystery in Mrs. Pratten's life which no one understood. When a young woman she had married a man apparently her suitable match in every way; and she had kept with him four days. On the fifth she went back to her mother's house, and never left it again. What happened to divide these wedded lovers no one knew. It was one of those well-kept secrets on which all may make theories at pleasure; for no one can either disprove or verify, and one hypothesis is as good as another. Neither the husband, who was still alive and who enjoyed life as a bachelor in Paris, nor Mrs. Pratten herself, told more than the mere fact betrayed:—They had married a life page: 101 time ago, and they had parted after four days, never to meet again.
Since that time the one ever spoke with the bitterest contempt of women—the other with the profoundest horror of men. To Mrs. Pratten all men were marked with the Sign of the Beast; and she was accustomed to say that nothing tried her faith in God so severely as the creation of such monsters as men. To Mr. Pratten, whom I afterwards knew in Paris, women were mere jointed dolls, and there was no hope for the human race, doomed to the degradation of being mothered by such unredeemed and absolute fools.
Being so uncompromising a man-hater, Mrs. Pratten was, of course, a misogamist. She lectured every girl of her acquaintance on the sin of matrimony, as if this were indeed a crime; and, though she accepted women who were already wives when she knew them, she repudiated those who took to page: 102 themselves husbands after she had known them as girls. She professed for them a horror only equalled by that which she felt for the men themselves.
With Althea she was explicit enough. If ever she were to fall away from grace and virtue so much as to marry, she would be cut out of her aunt's will as irrevocably as she would be banished from her aunt's house. If she remained unmarried, as a good and modest woman should, she would come in for all. And as Mrs. Pratten was a wealthy woman, who lived up to about half her income and put out the other half to interest, the bribe was considerable, and so far had proved successful. Althea Cartwright was Althea Cartwright still; and everyone knew that she would not marry, and indeed could not, unless she got hold of a millionnaire.
When I knew her she was some way past thirty—a tall, fair woman with an almost perfect figure, at once generous and graceful, page: 103 where the outlines were long and flowing and the filling-in rich and firmly modelled. Her face was not strictly beautiful, and yet she was more attractive than many confessedly beautiful women. She had an abundance of shining flaxen hair, with a shade of red to be sometimes seen in the sunlight, and her skin was of that clear but not unhealthy pallor which generally goes with flaxen hair. What would else have been its exquisite transparency, however, was marred by freckles, which were the standing sorrow of her life. Her eyes were light-hazel, large, finely-shaped and wonderfully brilliant; her nose was short, rather blunt, but beautiful in profile; her lips were curved, flexible and delightfully expressive of her emotions; her hands and arms were simply perfection; and she was singularly soft in manner, speech, voice and texture. Indeed, her main characteristic was softness. Yet she was not weak; still less was page: 104 she flaccid or without grip. She knew what she wanted, and she took it and held it for so long as it pleased her; and when she no longer cared for it she let it drop, and walked on without it. She had the most consummate ability that way, and was no more to be held against her will than a mermaid in the water—no more to be constrained than the cloud which once looked like Juno. More Ixions than one knew this; and no one had yet found the charm which could compel her to maintain any kind of relation whatsoever when she wished to abandon it. From friends to servants, she held while she would and took the good while she could; and then she slipped aside and discarded without a second thought. No; Althea Cartwright, the softest, sweetest, and apparently the most pliant creature in the world, was certainly not weak nor yet flaccid.
Her central point was her devotion to her page: 105 aunt, whose moods she divined with almost intuitive perception, and to whose humours she adapted herself with marvellous plasticity. For among her other qualities she had the temper of an angel, and a power of sympathetic receptivity which made her the favourite confidant of all who had anything to confide. But though she was thus devoted to her aunt, she managed to live her own life with tolerable breadth of margin; and, while Mrs. Pratten never went out in the evening, Althea was never at home, save on the nights when they themselves received. Popular as she was, everyone wanted her. Women seemed to love her as much as men admired her; and when once a house-door was opened to her it was rarely shut again. The oddest part of the whole thing was, she always seemed to have some strange power in those houses where she was intimate. I think she did a good deal for her lady-friends as well as for the men; page: 106 and I know that she sometimes screened them and sometimes helped them. At all events, she was useful; and she was far too good-natured to refuse a request, whatever it might be. But these concentric circles revolved round and never broke into the standing duty of her life; and her aunt had no cause to feel herself neglected.
Mrs. Pratten was a kind of palimpsest of all the crazy faiths that float about the world. She had gone through the whole cycle of religious experiences, yet had learned no self-distrust from her repeated failures. Her last state was always her final revelation; and for all that the voice of God had already spoken to her in so many different dialects, she was invariably sure that this last was that in which He had spoken to Moses on Mount Sinai. 'Guided by the Spirit'—that was her phrase. Were this so, it cannot be denied that she had been guided into many queer corners page: 107 and landed among many odd heaps of rubbish. She had adopted every mystical creed extant, and was now in the full swing of the most mystical of all:—it was before the days of Theosophy and Occult Buddhism. She was a Swedenborgian, and a 'spiritist' of the school known a few years afterwards as that of Alan Kardec. His ideas had been in the air before he consolidated them into a system; and Mrs. Pratten, who caught all floating theories as boys catch moths, had adopted them for herself. She believed in successive incarnations of the spirit, and amused herself by tracing back the pedigree of her friends' souls, and locating each in its special tabernacle.
Of her own incarnations she was never weary of talking. She was a frail, meagre little woman, with a mousy face, a nervous manner and a temperament as timid as a hare's; but she gave to herself all sorts of heroic and spiritually splendid antecedents, page: 108 and jumbled up her pre-incarnations into an olla podrida of the oddest kind. She had been Miriam and Judith, Joan of Arc and St. Theresa, Queen Elizabeth of England and Queen Elizabeth of Hungary, Dorcas and Elizabeth Fry, besides others which I have forgotten. She added to her impersonations so often that she herself got somewhat 'mixed,' and lost all hold of a dominant idea; and I, among others, was hopelessly muddled.
Her niece, Althea, had been a whole string of interesting frailties; among whom I remember figured Bathsheba, Aspasia, Fair Rosamond and Mademoiselle de la Vallière. Her penultimate incarnation had been Marie Antoinette, as a sign of progressive improvement. But Mrs. Pratten spoke with pride of the moral superiority of her present condition, and the cleansing fires through which her soul had manifestly passed. This avatar was better than all the page: 109 others. Even Marie Antoinette was married:—Althea, thank heaven! was husband-less, and one of those divinely marked on the forehead.
Me she called Nero. Certainly, in the daguerreotype taken of me, I had a curiously Roman look, not visible, I fancy, in my real face. But I did not feel conscious of my identity with the imperial madman who, she said, had been my former self. When I objected on the ground of non-recognition, she became more than ever positive that she was right, and assured me that this was the best proof I could give, both of my identity and my spiritual advance. I was ashamed of my former self and therefore repudiated the connection. I had forgotten my then cherished sins, just as we forget the angry passions of our childhood. So far I too was cleansed, and by just so much was nearer to ultimate regeneration. Perhaps this was my last incarnation, as it was her page: 110 own and Althea's. She was certain of these; and she hoped, but was not quite so sure, of mine. She thought I had in me still too much of the original red earth of which the first man was made. And while we had any of that left in us, we were too heavily weighted to soar upward to the New Jerusalem.
Another of her amusements was to find out the correspondences of her friends in the animal world, and to determine whether they were the further evolution of that energy, the enlargement of that idea, which had initially expressed itself in beasts of prey or beasts of burden; in the animals which are the sustaining sacrifice or in those which are the companions and servants of man; in singing birds which delight him; in insects which torment him; in reptiles which destroy him. She subdivided even these divisions, as when she gravely pondered on the question whether I was a setter or a retriever. page: 111 She finally settled it by a spiritual ukase:—I was a retriever. For herself, she was the solitary unpaired female eagle—the third of the nest; and Althea was a butterfly—that which had crawled having now learned to fly.
Also, it cost her many hours of anxious thought to determine to which organ of the Great Man, which she and her co-religionists say makes the shape and conditions of Heaven, we should all be assigned when we had done with our re-incarnations, and had finally shaken off the last grains of that red earth which was the cause of our bondage and the chain of our darkness. She placed herself in the eye, 'seeing' being her faculty. Althea was in the great sympathetic nerve; but she moved my locality from organ to organ as she shifted her ideas of my character—and when I last heard of myself I was in the nerves of the tongue, as the discriminator of spiritual food.page: 112
Odd as she was in all this, Mrs. Pratten was not substantially insane. She was on the borders, I admit; as must needs be when a woman with an active brain of small size, and more imagination than critical faculty, has allowed her reasoning powers to become practically abortive, while she has cultivated indiscriminate belief as the alpha and omega of spiritual insight, and passes her whole time in hunting out analogies. This search for analogy is neither more nor less than so much spiritual patch-work—piecing together forms and colours which harmonize and make a pretty pattern. For even religions follow Mrs. Pratten's own law of analogy; and some are simply mental amusements, as was hers.
Queer as she was, yet, being withal rich, hospitable, of good family—and the aunt of Althea—people flocked to her dinners and suppers; assisted at her séances and expositions; and laughed at her afterwards page: 113 as their compensation for time wasted. It was as much as their good-breeding could compass not to laugh at her to her face when she told them of the spirits who had visited her and the revelations which had been made to her. For really, to hear what Napoleon had to say about the celestial bell-shaped tent in which he lived—in the palm of the right hand—and how Marlborough and Gustavus Adolphus and the Black Prince, and all other illustrious warriors, were also living in bell-tents within a stone's-throw of each other, was rather strong meat to come between the roast and boiled! People who walk habitually in spirit-land do undoubtedly scatter a few of their wits by the way; and poor Mrs. Pratten had scattered some of hers, like the rest.
Her favourite scientific craze at this time—for she prided herself on her science equally with her religion—was the Odic Force and page: 114 mesmeric clairvoyance. She had been one of the first in society to follow after Reichenbach and to believe in the Okeys. Now she had elaborated a medium for herself. This was her maid—a certain sharp-witted little Welshwoman, called Sarah Jones in the parish register. In Mrs. Pratten's blue book she was Ruth. The extraordinary 'sensitiveness' which this young person possessed—the way in which she exemplified and even went beyond all Reichenbach's experiments, and the certitude with which she discovered magnets in the dark, owing to the light which played around them and streamed in purple filaments from the ends—were matters of constant wonder to the world which witnessed. The sceptical did not know how it was done; the credulous were all agape at the marvel.
I noticed that Althea avoided discussion on the topics which made her aunt's whole page: 115 happiness and filled her mental world from centre to circumference. She believed in them, of course. She accepted her former doubtful incarnations and her present progressive improvement with her customary serene grace; was quite sure of her eventual lodgment in the great sympathetic nerve; had not a doubt that Sarah Jones, the black-eyed, sharp-witted girl from Wales, was once the sweet and patient Ruth; was convinced of her ability to see a magnet when hidden in a cupboard, and of the purple filaments which streamed like flames from either end when the armature was removed; convinced also of her obedience to orders transmitted by thought from Dover to London; of her knowledge of the word written on a piece of paper and placed inside a hazel-nut or sealed up in an envelope; of her being able to travel to the exact spot where Sir John Franklin and his men were lying stark beneath the snow; page: 116 of her interpretation of the mystery of the Foley Place murder; of all the things which 'sensitives' do and know. All the same, out of Mrs. Pratten's presence Althea never talked on these matters. When pressed, she used to refer her interlocuter to her aunt, who understood these things so much better than she herself did! She was only in the place of an ignorant believer. How indeed, could she be a disbeliever, when such marvels were daily enacted before her eyes? But she was neither an expositor nor a teacher. She left that to her aunt; and she did not care to talk about the thing at all. It was beyond her; and she felt lost and bewildered.
If she did not actively support, she never showed the faintest doubt as to the genuineness of the phenomena; and to the last no one knew what she believed and what she discredited. For if Mrs. Pratten had dropped a few of her wits by the way, Althea had kept all hers intact. And, said the sceptical page: 117 and squareheaded: 'How could she possibly believe such rubbish?'
From the first both aunt and niece showed me much kindness. Mrs. Pratten looked on me as a future certain convert. She recognised my love of truth; and, as she knew that she had the 'true truth,' she said she was as sure, as of to-morrow's sunshine, that I would come to the light wherein she stood. It was only a question of time and teaching. She knew that I was still too full of red earth; but sometimes the work of winnowing went on at rapid speed, and I might be one who, when the sifting once began, would get rid of all that clogged the spiritual machinery in less time than one could count. Also, as a literary man, I would be a valuable convert. I never blinded myself to the extrinsic importance given me by my profession; and I understood from the first that the hand of the pressman was of more account than the still page: 118 further purification of the spirit of Nero. This, therefore, was why Mrs. Pratten made so much of me and had me so often to her house; and Althea naturally followed her aunt's lead in this as in other things.
With Althea was another reason to lend additional force to these—I filled a gap. She was one of those women who have always on hand a 'brother' or 'son' or 'uncle,' according to relative age, with whom they go about—to the opera, the theatre, sometimes down to Richmond, to Greenwich, on the Thames; whom they take into society and introduce to their friends; and whom the world agrees to accept as adopted relations according to nomenclature. I was presented to her by Mr. King, who in his day had been her uncle; and I was presented at the time when she was looking out for a new kinsman. She had just lost her 'favourite boy'—a young barrister who had gone out page: 119 to India; and she was therefore, as she lamented, sonless. And as she was now growing an old woman, she said with her seductive smile and a peculiar softness veiling the glitter of her greenish-hazel eyes, she preferred sons to all other relations. She was so fond of boys! They were such dear fellows with their funny fresh ways; and men were such dreadful creatures! Hence she adopted me, in the place of Ronald Ray removed; and I was quite willing that she should.
She was of immense use to me in every way. She took me with her into society, and introduced me freely to all the best people she knew. And she knew a socially higher and more fashionable set than even that to which I had been taken by my pretty patroness with the childish shoulders, or than I found staring at luminous hands in the house of the friend of Mazzini and the believer in the Floating Medium. And page: 120 of itself this was a valuable experience. She polished my manners as much as the material would allow; taught me the shibboleth; instructed me in those microscopic minutiæ which only the initiated can see, but the absence of which they detect at a glance and resent as a crime; and she wanted to make me a fine gentleman from head to heel, in character as well as in bearing. She found fault with me as I was—chiefly for my want of small change in conversation—for my want of all badinage and lightness—for my vehemence when I talked on those things wherein I was really interested—for the frankness with which I gave my opinion when I was called on to say what I thought and what I believed. And above all, she found fault with my superabundant earnestness.
'Glissez mortels, ne vous appuyez pas,' was her motto; and she found my step too firm and my grip too close.page: 121
So did her lady friends; some of whom seemed to consider me good fun because of the 'simplicity,' the 'naïveté,' the 'innocence' which they said more than once was 'delicious.' But I was not of the stuff which makes fine gentlemen nor courtiers; and through all my gratitude for their kindness, and a certain inevitable dazzle of the senses by reason of the rank, beauty and wealth of those by whom I was caressed, I kept my head steady, and the core of me was never reached. There was something about these grand ladies which intellectually repelled me, for all that personally I was attracted. There was a certain insolence of egotism to which I could never reconcile myself, and which came out in all they did and said and were. The wretched stuff which passed for Art with them; the miserable daubs; the flimsy writing; the idea-less music; the hideous jingle called poetry which they displayed to each other with page: 122 pride, and for which they received such lavish commendation! What good did their education got by foreign travel do them, if, after having seen the galleries in Florence and Rome, Dresden and Madrid, they could think simpering masks were human likenesses and tea-board abominations landscapes according to nature!
I got an ugly glimpse into something worse than self-contented incapacity, through the offers made me by more than one great lady who wanted to appear as an authoress without the trouble of writing, and who thought to buy my brains as she would have bought so many yards of silk. Did not the then famous Baroness — come to me with a bundle of woodcuts for which she wanted me to write a story under her name?—and did not Lady — and Mrs.— both ask me to take their manuscripts and put them into readable shape for so much down? And were they not all offended because I page: 123 refused? And did not Althea herself say that I was twin-brother to that Huron of old time who stands as the ideal of unpractical folly, and that I would never make a man of the world?—never!
Again, the lives of these grand ladies struck me as so fragmentary, and the scope of their energies as so small and thin! An hour in the morning given to the acquirement of an art which takes for years and years the whole day's working-time of him who would be a proficient; the importance of fashion, of etiquette, of the artificial rules of conduct by which living human nature is checked and stifled; the sense of individual and social superiority to the commonalty, and one's own consequent inferiority evidenced by their very condescension; the consciousness that any man out of their own social sphere is to them a mere toy or tool, to be used for their pleasure and cast aside when they are tired of him; their want of page: 124 thoroughness and humility, and their unbridled egotism—all this created in me a certain moral and mental revulsion which kept me from the self-abasement of social ambition.
Young as I was, I was determined that it should not be said of me, as was said of some one else: 'He is smothered in Countesses.'
I went among these grand ladies because Althea Cartwright wished it; but I went as an outsider; and I was never anything else. I was too proud of my own order and too essentially democratic to wish to shift my place or to shine by reflected splendour. And all Althea's endeavours to make me understand the value of being seen in certain drawing-rooms failed. From the first days up to now, grand folk were and are nothing to me but curious studies. While they cannot confess to equality, I refuse to kowtow to superiority, such as is page: 125 given by mere name and fortune. Not inheritance, but acquirement, is, I think, the only true gauge of merit; and the name that is won far surpasses the lustre of that which is bequeathed. And these principles are not those which harmonize best with fine ladies and fine drawing-rooms.
Notwithstanding this stiffneckedness, Althea's kindness to me did not diminish. On the contrary, it increased, and often became so great as to be a little startling and bewildering. She called me her boy and presented me as her new son. She found out my tastes and ministered to them, even to providing for me a special kind of cake that I liked, and to giving me a certain champagne glass, which I fancy had gone the rounds. She worried newspaper editors, and all those who had the power, for boxes at the theatre and stalls at the opera; and as she had her own little brougham, these evenings cost neither her page: 126 nor myself anything beyond the flowers and the ices which were then de rigueur. She loaded me with small presents, which embarrassed me to receive and were utterly useless to keep; but she would take no denial; and when I remonstrated, she would tap my face with the tips of her fair, soft fingers, and say, with mock anger:
'Naughty child! may not a mother do as she likes with her son?'
But in the midst of all this undeserved kindness, as the days came and went a certain strange unrest and impatience seemed, as it were, to line her satin-like softness—a certain core of almost fierceness, almost harshness, to lie within the outer envelope of her habitual tenderness. She was always kind to me in word and deed—caressing, indulgent, 'spoiling'—and yet she seemed dissatisfied with me, as if she had secret cause of grief against me. And she was so strangely distrustful of me—so page: 127 exacting of assurances, protestations, promises! She used to make me swear every time I saw her, she holding both my hands in hers, saltier-wise, that I would be faithful to her—quite, quite faithful; that I would never have another friend like her—never take one so near to my heart, nor give to any living woman the affection I had given to her. She used to torment me—not all unpleasantly—with her jealousy, which overflowed at all four corners. In that pale pink room off the first landing, where she made her private nest and received her own especial guests, she made me go through many an agitated half-hour by jealous accusations flung broadcast, and as aimless as so many arrows shot in the air for any chance quarry that might be about, although unseen.
After I had sworn and vowed and protested with sufficiently strong emphasis to satisfy her, we used to have a grand recon- reconciliation page: 128 ciliation—if that could be called reconciliation where the fracture was all on one side; after which things would go smoothly for a day or two, and the sky would be cleared of its phantoms.
It was after one of these scenes, when she had been angry and I had been contrite for absolutely nothing, that we came to an understanding.
She took my hand and pressed it against her heart.
'Feel that, you naughty boy!' she said caressingly; 'think how dear you must be to me, when you can make my heart beat like that for fear you do not love me as much as you ought!'
'But I do love you!' I replied. 'You know that I do! How could I help loving you? No one has ever been so kind to me as you, and no one is so delightful.'
'Is that true?' she asked.
'Yes, absolutely true,' I said.page: 129
Her breath came with a quick little sob.
'If I could believe you!' she said softly; and as she spoke the scales fell from my eyes.
True, she was many years older than I; but what of that? She was beautiful still, and delightful in every way. I was young and could work; and her certain disinheritance when she married me would free me from all suspicion of fortune-hunting. I had my own future in my own hands, and fortune would be the friend to me she always is to the self-reliant. She loved me. There was no vanity in thinking this; it would have been stupidity not to have seen it. And I—I loved her, and had forgotten Adeline Dalrymple:—of whom, by the way, I had never spoken to her.
I took her in my arms and kissed her upturned face. She closed her eyes, and, dead white as she was, I thought she had fainted, till half a smile and half a tremulous page: 130 little movement of beseeching came over her colourless lips, as she whispered tenderly:
'I love you!'
I forget now what I said or did, for I was swept away by the emotion of the moment. I only remember pouring out a whole torrent of love and thanks and violent delight, ending by a picture of our lives when we should be married and safe in our love together.
And when I said this Althea opened her eyes and looked at me as if I were something strange and comical—something she had seen for the first time, that amused her.
She raised herself, stood erect and firm before me, and threw back her head.
'You extraordinary child!' she said, with a light laugh that jarred on me like a false note in music. 'Marry you, caro mio? No! anything but that!'
So here was another tumble for that page: 131 unlucky Icarus, myself, and a new draught of that (poison or elixir?) experience.
My friendship with Mrs. Pratten and Althea lasted for some time. At my age, in the very morning of life as I was, with all to learn and so little to forget, it was a novelty to me, as delightful as it was new. But though so much in it was pleasant, there was also much that was painful; and many things grated on my sense of truth, and made me sometimes feel as if the whole earth were void and humanity but a simulacrum that held nothing, if indeed it were not a mask to conceal deformity. When I learnt from Althea the truth, which I had resolutely refused to suspect because I was afraid to believe it, that all the manifestations and proofs of sensitiveness, which passed as the unregistered data of a new science and a living truth, were made up between herself and the maid, and when, in answer to my page: 132 remonstrances, she only said, in her calm, clear, soft, but immovable way:—'I am doing no wrong. What harm is there in making a poor old woman like my aunt happy? She likes it; why should she not have it? It is better than dram-drinking, and answers the same purpose,' I felt as bewildered as if I had been suddenly blinded, and I mentally staggered as if I had been struck.
'But truth?' I said. 'Does that count for nothing? Do you not think it wrong to aid and abet what you know to be a lie?'
'What a Puritan you are!' she answered, laughing. 'As if you did not know as well as I that the whole world is one huge falsehood! You dear innocent old fellow—or you dear old hypocrite. Which is it, Crishna? You will never open your eyes, if you are really an ingénu. If you are not, you are the cleverest young Tartuffe out!'
'Well, I do not think I am a Tartuffe,' page: 133 I said, just a shade nettled. 'And is opening my eyes, as you call it, synonymous with tolerance of falsehood and disbelief in rectitude?'
She looked at me a little oddly.
'I do not think you need ask that,' she said drily. 'Who lives on the house-top? Do you?'
It was so much the recognised thing, as I have said, for Althea Cartwright to carry about her boys, that no one made any remark when she and I went into society together as if we had the right of close companionship by blood-relationship. A few women certainly looked at me askance, and some men laughed, as it were, behind their hands. But no one said anything, except a certain Colonel Hinds, an old 'brother' of Althea's. And he one evening, hitching his arm into mine as we left Mnemosyne Lodge together, said, in a half-bantering, half-warning manner:page: 134
'So, you have the box-seat now? All right, my boy! Give everything but your heart, do you hear? If that goes into the abyss, you may drag for it in vain. You will never fish it up again!'
Also, as time went on, Mr. King gave me a long lecture on the folly of too much sincerity. To take the world as we find it and make the best of our portion; to enjoy all that is set before us and never to examine the material; to understand men and women and not to expect more from them than they can give, but to profit by what they have, and to be always gallant and grateful and discreet—and never in earnest:—this was his advice and the lines on which he had constructed his own life. But he was sorry, he said, to see that I was too hot-headed to be wise, and too fatally in earnest to be diplomatic for the one part or on the defensive for the other.
My relations with Mnemosyne Lodge page: 135 came rather abruptly to an end. All Althea's favourites had to go by the same road; and it was interesting to watch the difference of their methods.
Among my friends was a certain James Tremlett—a splendid young fellow, handsome as a Greek god, the heir to a fine estate, with nothing to do but to enjoy life as fortune had ordered it. To do him justice, he did this to perfection. I was one day walking with him in Bond Street, when Althea passed in her pretty little open phaeton, the forerunner of the victoria. She stopped her ponies to speak to me. While she spoke to me, however, she was looking at Tremlett in that fixed, full, yet not bold way, which was one of her charms. With her exceedingly sweet and gracious manners, her low soft voice, her atmosphere of tranquillity and sympathy, that long fixed gaze had in it something indescribably alluring. It was irresistible.page: 136
She told me of a water-party for the next week which she wished me to join; and, looking at Tremlett, then back again at me, she said with a smile, and slowly:
'Gentlemen are always valuable at such times. Will you bring your friend?'
Whereat I presented Tremlett and left him to answer for himself.
The answer was in the affirmative; and after a little more talk she shook hands with us both—she shook hands to perfection—smiled in her sweet caressing way, and drove off; as she went, turning back her graceful head as if unconsciously, with one last look at Tremlett. He on his side looked after her with a strange smile. Then, turning to me, he said carelessly:
'Your friend is very taking. Tell me about her.'
I told him all I could; and all that I said was in her honour. But some vague impulse of jealousy made me less enthusiastic page: 137 than I should have been had I been describing her to a woman, to an old, or to an unpersonable, man.
When I had finished, Tremlett said carelessly:
'You are fond of her, I see. If I were you, I would not trust her with too much of my heart. I know the kind.'
'You do not know her. She is to be trusted, I assure you,' I answered eagerly.
'Yes?' was his indifferent reply. 'Well, you see, you know her and I do not; you ought to be the best judge.'
Events proved that I was not so good a judge as he; and that he had read at sight what I had not learned after months of almost daily intercourse.
This introduction was the beginning of the end; and it is not necessary to trace the process. I was dispossessed in my place as favourite, and James Tremlett was elected in my stead. If I were to go page: 138 through the whole story, day by day and step by step, until I came to the final moment when I was refused admittance, while—as I stood by the door—Tremlett, lashing up to the house in his private cab, was taken in without delay, I could say nothing more than this:—My fair friend had tired of me; the play was played out; the lights were turned down; the curtain was lowered. And I had to accept my silent dismissal with such patience and philosophy as I could command—such patience and philosophy as others had shown.
But I was too young, too untrained and passionate, for this. I made scenes and had quarrels, followed by false assurances and false reconciliations—in each of which I felt that I had lost and that she had receded, and had become by so much the more intangible. I knew that I was doing myself no good by all this, and that I was page: 139 shouldered out and could not reinstate myself. Yet I could not help trying in the beginning—knocking my thick head against a stone wall while running after a fading rainbow.
Then, when I finally recognised that I was absolutely dispossessed, and that I could not recover what I had lost, I grew savage and sulky, and refused to go to those general At-homes which was all the intercourse that was left me. This naturally made Althea angry, inasmuch as it gave cause for gossip and forced her to find reasons. She resented that I had not let her slip gracefully and quietly, as others had done. Open breaches are such nuisances; and who on earth keeps always to the same set of friends?
My present savageness, however, was a proof of past sincerity; and so far ought to have pleased, because it flattered her. But the Althea Cartwrights of life do not page: 140 care for sincerity. They want only the amusement of the hour, without having to pay the piper when the dance is over. And a savage like myself is both a blister and a danger.
Undoubtedly it would have been more polite, more manly, better breeding altogether, had I accepted my fate with the same stolid indifference which, to all appearances, others had felt. But it must be pleaded in my self-defence that I had really loved her. Perhaps those others had not. She had played with me, but I had been desperately in earnest. And the strange manner in which she slipped away from me gave me no purchase, no point by which to hold her, but melted away like a cloud—the masterly cleverness with which she effaced and obliterated all the past, and stood like one of those German Ellewomen, unmoved by all I suffered, untouched by all I said, was beyond me to bear with page: 141 equanimity. But my turbulent despair and then my sullen resentment cost me dear, as I found afterwards.
The friendship between James Tremlett and Althea was of briefer duration than mine had been. It came abruptly to an end when Tremlett married, as he did suddenly, and broke with Mnemosyne Lodge as cleanly as a champagne glass is snapped at the stem. He saw Althea one day; the next, he wrote her a letter of eternal adieu; the week after, he married; and when he returned home with his bride and met his fair friend with her ponies in the Park, he did what no power should have made me do—and what no true man could have done—looked her full in the face and passed on without recognition. I was there, a witness to the whole thing; and for the first and only time of my acquaintance with Althea, I saw her fair clear-skinned face and rounded throat dyed crimson.page: 142
Just at this time Althea became acquainted with Mr. Dundas, my irascible editor, who was as susceptible to the power of a pretty woman as he was violent with men; and from the first day of their acquaintance my star in the office declined. What was said I do not know. All that I do know is, I suddenly failed to please. I, who up to this time had been a kind of cherished seedling who might some day develop into the very roof-tree of the office, now could do nothing that was right. Day by day my independent articles were rejected and my routine work was undone; while I myself was rated with the peculiar force and fervency with which our chief knew so well how to flavour his displeasure. Finally, I was abruptly dismissed, and told to go to the devil, but never to show my face in that office again; and for his parting blessing Mr. Dundas hurled a wild world of invectives against me, amongst which I distinguished 'a presumptuous and page: 143 ungrateful young brute, who does not know how to treat a lady when he sees her, and who thinks, because she has patronized and been kind to him, that he can ride roughshod over every decency of society!'
So here I was adrift on the great sea of life, with a dragging anchor and no harbour in sight!
As to Althea Cartwright, to whom I shall not recur again, I need only say that when her aunt died she found herself, as she had been always promised, supremely well-endowed, and the owner of everything, save a handsome legacy to Sarah Jones, the re-incarnate Ruth—by which this clever young person was enabled to marry the inn-keeper of her native village, and live as a lady in her degree to the end of her days.
As soon as her affairs were settled, Althea went abroad, married an Italian Marchese and became a Roman Catholic. Her husband died about two years after the marriage; but page: 144 she is still alive and well, a white-skinned, flaxen-wigged old lady, fond of tea and cards, and enjoying life in her own way. That way is the close companionship of priests, monsignori, papalini of all kinds; and the consideration which surrounds a wealthy English widow and convert in the Eternal City, where the Pope is still able to dispense social honours to the faithful, and to float on the crest of the wave those whom he favours—no matter what the secrets whispered to the discreet ears at the other side of that grating of the confessional.


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I know that we are really gonna be split on this, but I thought I'd open up the proverbial can of worms.
While I think the new Eeth Koth is great looking, so don't get me wrong there... however- I only have one gripe. We have all been complaining about the lack of articulation in the figures which doesn't allow us put the figures in "action poses". I can't even begin to tell you how equally annoyed I am when a figure is locked into "action position". There were the gripes about "one pose Jar-Jar" and it's true. What a total waste. I would love to have a true action figure that can be placed in active and passive stances.
I just can't see having this Eeth Koth figure as part of a Jedi Council diorama or sitting in a starship. This limits playability as well as the "stiff as boards" poses.
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Chez Bob
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Chez Bob is a little bit elegant or a little bit awkward, depending on your perspective. Mine changed dramatically between my first visit, two years ago, and my recent return. After writing the place off, I was drawn back by rumors of major improvements in both service and food.
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Organic beef, free-range chicken and wild-caught salmon from the Fish Hugger are standard, according to the new manager, a man named Counts. The salads are made of butterhead and romaine lettuce, a major improvement over the tired, bagged mix I remembered.
A former market and Community Supported Agriculture farmer, Counts used to raise three acres of organic vegetables with no fossil fuels. His farm is in transition now that he's taken the helm at Chez Bob. He plans on growing squash and tomatoes for the restaurant next year. Unlike the many servers who look at you blankly when you ask where something is from, Counts is encyclopedic about the sources of his food. Not everything served there is as sustainable as he wishes, but it's encouraging to know he's pushing for as many local, organic ingredients as are economically feasible.
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In addition to bringing in Counts to do the ordering and orchestrate the action in the front of the house, Robert Maw, aka Bob, has taken over the kitchen from a series of chefs that, he told me, were talented but unreliable.
The French/Italian restaurant occupies the end of a strip mall in La Cueva Town Center at Paseo and Wyoming. Huge burgundy window dressings push into a tiny dining room. The walls hold multiple paintings of women in various stages of undress. A long bank of kitchen cabinets covers the east wall and faces the dining room like a big, open bus station. Fresh flowers grace the tables, which, along with the improvements in service and food, upgrades the ambience from awkward to solidly eclectic.
If the Nutella crepe doesn't get you laid by the time you get home, it's probably never going to happen.
The housemade dressing on the Caesar salad is one of the best I've had. It was so rich that just a light drizzle was all I needed. The romaine heart leaves came topped with high-grade anchovies, and there's an option for a piece of chicken that's worth exercising. I also recommend squeezing the accompanying lemon wedge over the whole thing to complete this excellent, simple salad. I only wish it were bigger. The house salad, comprised mostly of succulent butterhead leaves, was larger than the Caesar and excellent as well—though I was less into the dressing, a balsamic reduction that was too sweet for me.
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The lunch menu is a pared-down version of the dinner menu in smaller, cheaper portions, while dinner includes European classics like beef Wellington and sole meunière. My favorite was a plate of immense diver scallops in a clarified beurre blanc, flanked with a rainbow of perfectly roasted yellow and purple potatoes.
Green chile chicken Alfredo lasagna was a study in richness, with bits of chicken and green chile embedded in the ricotta mortar between layers of pasta. Like many of the dishes at Chez Bob—and in France, for that matter—this one caters to those who like their food supersaturated. The flavor of green chile was faint but present.
Chez Bob's crepes, both sweet and savory, could hold their own on the streets of Paris. The spongy pancake soaked up sauces perfectly—as was the case with a beef bourguignon's braising liquid. The tender beef and whole button mushrooms made for a satisfying filling, and I used shards of leftover crepe to clean my plate.
The ratatouille crepe bears the distinction of being one of the few menu items that isn't drenched in butter or cream. Earthy and simple, it lived up to that vegetable stew's history as a simple classic.
On the sweet side, if the Nutella crepe doesn't get you laid by the time you get home, it's probably never going to happen. The world's favorite chocolate hazelnut paste was mixed with whipped cream, making it impossibly big, rich and fluffy. Bread pudding came recommended, but it reminded me too much of French toast. Truth be told, I haven't forgotten the spectacular chocolate crème brûlée from my first visit.
If, like me, your first trip to Chez Bob was a letdown, it might be time for a return visit. It's already greatly improved, and I'm confident that as long as boss Bob keeps holding down the kitchen while Counts orders the best ingredients he can, the future looks even brighter.
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Price range: $10 to $28 entrées
Booze: Beer and wine
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Vegetarian options: A few options, as long as you like cheese. Not a place for vegans.
Extras: Outdoor seating in summer
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Just finished George Johnson's new book on quantum computing, A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer. I recommend it. He tackles two subjects I shy away from writing about - computer science and quantum schtuff. Both are so abstracted from everyday experience that finding the write metaphors to explain them to the lay public is tough. Johnson is up to the challenge.tunes
Now I'm in the middle of Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana. Fun so far.
Being dense, I did not realize that my public library has music CD's for loan. So I've been loading up. I stumbled across the CD rack while I was getting a book a couple of weeks ago, and the first bit that popped out at me was Don Ellis, who I really hadn't listened to in 20 years. I've since been scouring their racks for old '50s jazz. This week, it's Ornette Coleman, a Coltrane/Adderly combo and Art Pepper, a nifty big band leader I'd not heard before. On the Pepper album, some helpful library patron went through the liner notes and noted which instrument (tenor, alto, clarinet) Pepper played on each cut. In pencil.
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Itching for spring?
Not so fast. Wisconsin's winter turkey hunt is in full swing with 41,460 tags still left for over the counter sales. Other than you can buy one tag per day there is no limit on these tags. But keep in mind winter turkey hunting just might be the toughest challenge in the lower 48.
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That being said, watch these videos first. There are a plethora of similar ones floating around online, and they are very crazy. They all pretty much document the same phenomenon, so at the very least watch the first one to get an idea of what I am talking about:
"He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet." Job 39:24
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International Business Machines (IBM) this afternoon reported Q1 revenue that missed analysts' estimates, and earnings per share that missed as well, citing some deals for software and mainframe computers failing to close in the quarter.
Revenue in the three months ended in March fell 5%, year over year, to $23.41 billion, yielding EPS of $3 per share, excluding some costs.
Analysts had been modeling $24.7 billion and $3.06 per share.
The company re-affirmed a forecast for earnings per share this year of "at least" $16.70 to $16.78.
CEO Ginni Rometty despite growing operating net income, earnings per share and expanding the company's operating margins, nevertheless, IBM "did not achieve all of our goals in the period":
Despite a solid start and good client demand we did not close a number of software and mainframe transactions that have moved into the second quarter. The services business performed as expected with strong profit growth and significant new business in the quarter. Looking ahead, in addition to closing those transactions, we expect to benefit from investments we are making in our growth initiatives and from the actions we are taking to improve under-performing parts of the business.
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Getting Better All The Time 7/27/2012Dave from Albuquerque NM
My wife and I have a good friend who has limited TV access. He and I like this series--we show it to him when he comes over to visit. Since we cannot always get every episode to show him, we buy the series. It has extras and limited commercials to interrupt the plot and the character development. The characters are engaging. The plot is action and mystery driven. It is a good summer series to enjoy. I recommend it.


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Spill the beans. Whats the cost. What're the obligations. What're the goodies. Reveal everything.
Spill the beans. Whats the cost. What're the obligations. What're the goodies. Reveal everything.
Its probably a little early to guess or say Portlyman. I'm sure that Master Replicas will start off the Collector's Society with a big 'ol anouncment. Or at least give one prior to its start. Cant wait to hear it though.
"Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. The ship you seek is nearby." -Boba Fett
The cost of the Collector's Society will be $59.99 for US and $79.99 for International. You get $300 worth of coupons, A CS Patch, Newsletter, Personalized ID Card and the Darth Maul "Full Size" Mini which is a CS Exclusive. You can already sign up via phone by calling 1-866-REPLIKA or there is an email set to be released sometime this week. The kits start shipping in June.
I wonder what the coupons are like. Money off is almost always a good thing. Well, guess I'll be signing up to find out.
"Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. The ship you seek is nearby." -Boba Fett
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this is one sweet deal. I've already signed up and the coupons will go to great use no doubt!
Hello Everyone,
I'm from Philippines and I'm new to collecting Master Replica stuffs. I'm curious why I can't signup for Master Replica's "MY ACCOUNT" and the Collectors Society is still "UNDER CONSTRUCTION"
By the way, I have now 6 minis...
Obi-Wan Kenobi - 2004 Convention Exclusive (Sealed)
Obi-Wan Kenobi - CS Exclusive (Gold)
Obi-Wan Kenobi - EPIII Revenge of the Sith
Darth Maul - Damage Lightsaber: EPI
Anakin Skywalker - EPIII Revenge of the Sith
Darth Sidious - EPIII Revenge of the Sith
I'm also awaiting my Anakin Skywalker (SE) Hope it comes soon!
Do you guys only collect MR or you also collect busts and hasbro stuffs?
I'm thinking of also collecting bust to pair with the sabers I have.
Well, hope to hear from you guys soon. Maybe you can shed some light as my I can't access MR CS
Kumusta MSCollections! No im not filipino but my gf is hehe. Well i just called MS CS at 1-866-REPLIKA and i signed up over the phone with my credit card. I dont know when the site will be back up but the rep even told me that the site is down over the phone. Best bet is to call them.
Where in the PI are u from? My gf is from cagayan de oro. Im just happy and LUCKY that she supports my collection of Sports Jerseys and now Star wars MR replicas with nothing but love .
Hello nash,
I'm in Manila, Philipppines. I also collects some Basketball cards before but I sold them all except for my Jordan cards, can't collect jerseys as we don't have that much jerseys here.
Where can I see some collections of you guys? Is it against SSG rules to post pics of collections in a thread? I love to see your collections guys, I'm just waiting for my display cabinets to arrive so I can place all my collections in. Maybe next time I can post some pics of my collections. Now, I want to see yours. Collection that is
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Did they say anything about when the site will be up again?
Well, let me know if you guys have any news/info. Thank you very much in advance!


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The natural-gas market is starting this year much as it did the last, oversupplied, with prices lower due to unseasonably mild weather. But there's one important difference: Prices of key natural-gas liquids are much lower now.
In fact, the price of these liquids, such as ethane and propane, can be used as a barometer of the prospects of their cousin, natural gas. Natural-gas liquids, or NGLs, are pulled up at many gas wells and earlier last year had been fetching enough cash to make the wells worth drilling, despite abundant supplies of natural gas, which sent that fuel to 10-year lows in 2012.
Natural gas has fallen on forecasts for warmer-than-normal temperatures in some major heating markets. Producers have been hoping for frigid temperatures that would prompt homeowners to burn through winter stockpiles. On Friday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said that despite the winter's largest drawdown in the week ended Dec. 28, supplies remain at record highs for this time of year.
Despite flagging prices, production of natural gas continues to surge. On Jan. 7, the agency is scheduled to reveal how much gas was pumped out of the ground in October. September output set a new shale-era record at 73.05 billion cubic feet per day, according to the EIA.
Last week, natural-gas futures for February delivery ended at $3.287 per million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange, a 15.8% drop since they hit a 2012 high of $3.903 per million BTUs in late November.
HIGH PRICES FOR NGLS had encouraged drilling, swelling natural-gas output. However, that support is disappearing. Only a few months after gas prices hit their 10-year low, producers were flooding the markets with ethane, a building block of plastics, and propane, a fuel often used in heating and cooking.
Since then, NGL prices have nose-dived.
Ethane at the Mont Belvieu, Texas, trading hub, fetched 22.75 cents per gallon Friday, down from nearly 90 cents a year ago, and near an 11-year-low, according to Platts research. The price is so low that some companies can't justify the cost of separating ethane from natural gas, further boosting gas supplies. Propane prices are also in the dumps, trading at 87.2 cents per gallon at Mont Belvieu near the end of the week, 62.2% below the year-earlier level, according to the EIA.
Low NGL prices eventually may end the natural-gas glut. Without satisfactory profits on natural-gas liquids, energy companies will shift their focus from gas to oil. "Now with the weakness in NGLs, there may be further refinement toward crude drilling," says Jeff Dietert, an analyst with Houston investment bank Simmons.
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"A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen." – Kent Beck
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The price is always right if someone else is paying.
"He who can look into the future and discern conditions that are not manifest, will never make a blunder and therefore invariably win".
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To save one night of hotel, my company granted me only one day in 3GSM Barcelona : departure the morning from Paris, return in the evening. With a sized handicap : a strike of the Paris' Air Controllers.
Obviously : a late meeting in Barcelona. Direct impact : modification of the initial plan : rent a car for Girona Airport (100 km from Barcelona) in the evening, hotel at Girona central town for the night, takeoff the next day at noon for Beauvais Airport (70 km from Paris), another car rent to return to the company. Added a 3 hours delay - thanks to RyanAir plane blocked by fog in Germany (official statment ...).
Conclusion: to avoid a Hotel (my initial request), my company paid a Hotel, two rented cars and a working day passed visiting the town of Girona :-(
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Micro$soft + Yahoo! = Yahoo Phone using Windows Mobile
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An interesting link about the true cost of sms messages compare to ISP data or hand-written message. Also a little reference to the marginal cost of the SMS for the carrier (-> 0 because the carrier is using the control channel !).
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Does anyone really think that either the Dems or Repubs are interested in eliminating the deficit or balancing the budget?
The Sequester was an idea from te White House to get what they wanted when the deal was made. Now, even the Repubs don't want it to go through because of defense contractor lobbyist. Not that it would eliminated the Deficit but, it would be a start.
Ryan's proposed budget would take the Deficit over 22 trillion over the enxt few years so the repubs are as bad as the Dems when it comes to wasting the people's money!
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BodyHype , a student dance company, will present its Fall Show 2003 Thursday, Jan. 9, through Saturday, Jan. 11, at Theater Intime .
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A total of 16 proposals were submitted from 20 academic and research institutes in Japan and Thailand
Singapore: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) have developed a scheme for joint funding of Japanese-Thai cooperative research projects called "Strategic Japanese-Thai Cooperative Program" to strengthen the collaboration in science and technology between Japan and Thailand.
"After discussion between JST and NSTDA, Biotechnology has been selected as the field of research for which the joint funding scheme will be applied this year. BIOTEC, as a member of NSTDA, is pleased to execute this program on behalf of NSTDA, as it will serve as a vehicle to achieve world-class scientific results, leading towards new innovative technologies," said Dr Kanyawim Kirtikara, executive director, BIOTEC.
Dr Nakamura Michiharu, president, JST stated that "for the 2012 call, JST and BIOTEC agree to fund three bilateral projects, which we plan to support for cooperative research projects including sending and inviting researchers to the counterpart country".
A total of 16 proposals were submitted from 20 academic and research institutes in Japan and Thailand.
One of the projects approved is Identification of genes confer high Fe and Fe toxic tolerance in rice. Led by Dr Vinitchan Ruanjaichon from Rice Gene Discovery Unit, BIOTEC, and Prof Dr Naoko Nishizawa from Research Institute for Bioresources and Biotechnology, Ishikawa Prefectural University, the project aims to find a new allele identification of genes associated with high grain Fe density and tolerance to Fe toxicity which is now a major problem that contributes to the reduction of rice yields. Such findings will open the way for effective manipulation to breed new rice varieties for high grain Fe density to alleviate Fe-malnutrition problem.
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The datasheet isn't very clear and straightforward in describing when "Skip ROM" can be used.
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Canon Powershot N first impressions
Understanding the Canon PowerShot N
Of all the myriad of compact cameras announced at the CES trade show in Las Vegas at the start of 2013, the tiny Canon PowerShot N, with its either-way-up design, tilting touchscreen and round-lens shutter and zoom controls is sure to be one of the most interesting. Not because of its photographic feature set or appeal to enthusiasts - at heart it's a fully-automated point-and-shoot - but because of its unique design and overall philosophy, and what this says about the way mass-market photography is going.
It's no great secret that the conventional point-and-shoot camera market appears to be in terminal decline. The ever-increasing capability of smartphone cameras means that they're more than good enough for the vast majority of casual users, while their internet connectivity makes it easy to share pictures with the rest of the world the moment they're taken. Throw in the current popularity of Instagram, with its emphasis on the use of 'artistic' image processing filters and community sharing, and it's little wonder that people are deserting the pocket camera in droves. Why carry a small camera when you're taking your phone anyway, and it does what you want better?
Because of this, the traditional camera manufacturers are having to rethink their approach. It's clear that compact cameras have to offer some compelling advantage over smartphones to persuade buyers to part with their money. This has generally meant zoom lens range or features, as in superzoom 'bridge' cameras or high-end enthusiast compacts, both of which have continued to do relatively well. But with the Powershot N, Canon has gambled on something very different - creativity and fun.
So what's the PowerShot N all about?
In essence, the PowerShot N is best seen as a smartphone companion for the Instagram generation. With its flip-up touchscreen, and unconventional zoom and shutter controls that work equally well when the camera is held upside-down, it's designed to encourage shooting at unusual angles. It has built-in Wi-Fi for uploading images to social media, either by direct connection to a hot-spot, or via a smartphone or tablet. It's also very small and easy to slip into a pocket when going out. But perhaps most tellingly its all-new 'Creative Shot' mode, which takes the concept of creative processing filters further than we've ever seen before, is turned on by default. Canon's marketing tagline is 'Creativity with a Twist', and it's very apt.
Obviously the PowerShot N has to offer something smartphones don't, and that's provided by its 28-224mm equivalent 8x optical zoom lens and 12MP 1/2.3"-type sensor (~6.2 x 4.6mm), that's larger than those used in most phones. In combination with the Digic 5 processor, this promises better image quality and much greater compositional flexibility than you'll get from a phone camera. The tilting screen, which flips up a little over 90 degrees, allows shooting at unusual angles, but sadly doesn't move far enough to let you frame self-portraits.
Body and Design
The PowerShot N is an unusual design to say the least, as emphasized by its front and rear views. The back of the camera has no buttons, only a tilting capacitive touchscreen that's the primary interface, just like a smartphone. There are three small buttons on the sides: the power switch is on the left, while the right side is home to the playback button, a dedicated button to connect to your phone by Wi-Fi, and a little switch to select between normal shooting and 'Creative Shot' mode. The front of the camera is dominated by the 8x zoom lens, and the two silver rings encircling it turn out to be the zoom controller and shutter button. There's a little LED flash on the top right of the camera too.
When you first pick up the N, this design is slightly bewildering - without the familiar position of the shutter button, it's not immediately clear how to hold it and take pictures. But after a couple of minutes playing with it, everything starts to make sense - this is a design that works remarkably well, allowing you to shoot at unusual angles using just one hand (of course a wrist strap will make a lot of sense too). Here are a couple of options we've found for how to hold it.
Essentially, the Powershot N forces you to reconsider everything you thought you knew about holding a camera, and to get the most out of it you have to throw away your preconceptions. It's definitely a camera you have to try for yourself to appreciate fully. However the unconventional design does mean that it's not a camera you can easily pass to friends or family for a quick snap; in fact hardly anyone we've handed the camera to has managed work out how to take a picture without being taught.
Creative Shot mode
Creative Shot is an all-new mode that takes the concept of creative filters beyond anything we've seen before. Rather than simply applying a series of filters directly to your original shots, it starts by taking a series of bracketed exposures, which according to Canon can include either exposure or focus bracketing. It then not only adds processing filters, but can also select different crops, and even at times rotate the image before cropping (this appears to apply mainly to faces). It'll select five filters out of a broad range, so you never know exactly what you're going to get - there's an element of Lomography here. Thankfully the camera always saves your original too.
The examples below (kindly provided to us by Canon EU) give some idea of how this works. The camera's produced five variants on the original image, applying different filters to the bracketed exposures, and in three cases selecting different square crops. It's definitely interesting, even if it may not necessarily be to every purist's taste.
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What's interesting about Creative Shot is that it's semi-random - if you take exactly the same picture several times in a row, you'll get a different set of filtered variants each go. Not all will be masterpieces, of course - in practice you'll likely delete many of them - but you can never be sure exactly what you'll get. The American street photographer Garry Winogrand said "I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs", but with the N, you can find yourself photographing to see what the camera thinks the world should look like in photographs. It's certainly a unique shooting experience.
Summary and First Impressions
When digital cameras first arrived on the scene, the freedom from the constraints of film camera layout resulted in lots of design experimentation. The articulated screens on Canon's own G-series, like Nikon's classic twist-body Coolpixes, encouraged shooting from different angles. But after a few years everything settled back down again, and if you walk into a camera shop now, most of the compacts on the shelf will look little different in basic design to film cameras such as Canon's classic APS film Ixus II. Inertia can be a powerful thing.
The PowerShot N reminds us again that cameras don't necessarily have to follow these conventional lines, and alternative designs can work really well. It may look like it shouldn't work, but it genuinely does. Whether it truly offers something sufficiently interesting to attract buyers who've been having fun with Instagram on their smartphone, but wouldn't call themselves 'photographers', remains to be seen. But it's certainly refreshing to see Canon trying something a little different.
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During his studies of the philosophies of acting in the late 2360s - undertaken in order to improve his performance skills - Data found himself attracted to the concepts of method acting and studied the works of several famous method actors in order to improve his acting skills. (TNG: "Devil's Due")
Doctor Beverly Crusher was an accomplished actress and playwright. She formed a theater troupe aboard the USS Enterprise-D. (TNG: "The Nth Degree") At various points, her troupe included Will Riker (TNG: "A Fistful of Datas", "Frame of Mind"), Data (TNG: "Frame of Mind"), Geordi La Forge (TNG: "Disaster"), Reginald Barclay (TNG: "The Nth Degree"), and even Captain Jean-Luc Picard. (TNG: "A Fistful of Datas")
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The Boston area doesn't seem to have much of anything over figure #32. No AT-RTs, Wal-Marts didn't get the Early Bird certificate and they're not carrying the Titanium series, either.
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If I'm not mistaken, there was one in MS last weekend.
If I'm not mistaken, there was one in MS last weekend.
I would certainly want to watch one and/or participate in a training day before entering one, which is why I asked.
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The website is a bit behind! I'm working on that part - guy who runs it is a really great guy, just busy! We had a working test in July & one in Aug, both included novice and open stakes. We just had a novice trial last weekend, and I'm hosting an open stake trial with a puppy stake in November!
You can go "like" the River Valley British Retriever Club or Southern Oak Kennels on Facebook to see current & upcoming events.
Also, there is a diff btwn novice & open with BFTSA and AKC. For BFTSA, a pro can run a dog in the open so long as that dog hasn't won a novice event. There may be other ways to phase out of novice, such as two second places, but I can't remember. The stakes are determined by the dog, not the handler.
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A dog can run a novice as long as it hasn't won a novice trial or placed in an open trial.
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Angel Stadium is baseball's fourth-oldest active Major League Baseball stadium, behind Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, and Dodger Stadium. It has been the home of the Angels since their move from Los Angeles following the 1965 season. The stadium is often referred to by its unofficial nickname The Big A and has hosted the 1967, 1989, and 2010 Major League Baseball All-Star Games.
Join the Halos for this "behind the scenes" tour of our ballpark - Home of the 2002 World Champion Los Angeles Angels. The stadium tour is both an enjoyable and educational experience! You will be invited to view areas that are normally restricted to the public.
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A chance to interact with history
SPOKANE, Wash. - The countdown is on until Apollo 13: Mission Control takes off in Spokane. Part of the convention center has been turned into the 1970's mission control room.
The Apollo 13: Mission Control show is really about making it as interactive as you want.
When you walk into the main exhibit, you're back in the 1970's, filled with NASA staff as they talk to the astronauts in outer space.A chance to interact with history
Walter Cronkite is on the other screen keeping the nation up to date. The show is a unique concept.
Audience members can interact with the actors and the show as much as they want. That could mean answering phones at the replica mission control and working to bring the astronauts home safely.
For the daring, they can launch into space with the astronauts in a separate room, and stay in contact as if they really are in space.
This idea was born on a road trip, when the creators visited the Kennedy Space Center and saw a re-creation of the Apollo 8 launch. Brad Knewstubb, one of the creator's said "About ten minutes later we were sitting on the bus on the way back we said we could probably build that. I said I can build that."
His co-creator said he can write the script and that was the beginning. The show has already toured in Australia and New Zealand, where all the actors are from. This is the first time they've brought the show to the U.S.
Wednesday is opening night in Spokane. You can buy tickets online at TicketsWest.com or call 800-325-SEAT. You can also check out the Apollo 13: Mission Control Facebook page for deals on tickets.
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Vittoria Rubino Pro II - $24.95
Tire selection is not only important, but it's growing increasingly more complicated day by day. Now, we all have to be conscious of if a tire is too race-oriented for training, or if it's too focused on durability for racing. However, Vittoria has simplified the selection process by creating a tire that rests right in the middle -- the Rubino Pro II. This clincher tire places a focus on both durability and weight, making it ideal for criteriums, long stage races, and all-weather training. Vittoria gave this tire a 120TPI casing, meaning that the sidewalls are comprised of 120 threads per inch. And if you're wondering why there are 'threads,' this is because the Rubino Pro II's casing is comprised of individual nylon threads. This increases the overall durability over the tire when compared to the cotton casings found in EVO line of tires. Accordingly, Vittoria consciously created the Rubino to favor long base miles and races on unpredictable surfaces over team-car-supported rides. So, yes, these tires sacrifice a small amount of cornering flexibility compared to a 320TPI open tubular, but over the long haul, the sacrifice is negligible. Additionally, the 120TPI casing provides a solid stiffness-to-weight ratio for the Rubino. By this, we mean that the tire's weight hovers around 225 grams, depending on width, while still retaining a retaining a strong resistance to punctures and debris. And this brings us to the Rubino's new rubber compound, Kevlar Endura 3D. This rubber compound is impregnated with Kevlar during the production process, providing the compound with a high resistance to puncture and wear. Additionally, this treatment also enhances the compound's grip in wet environments, while slightly reducing the Rubino's rolling-resistance. The Vittoria Rubino Pro II is available in the color Black and in either a 23 or 25mm width. Please note that this tire is sold individually and only as a clincher. - $24.95


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Good Question: What's With All the Mustaches?
From your workplace to the grocery store and maybe even into your own home, something creepy is creeping on the faces of many men this month. The facial-hair growing phenomenon seems like a growing trend. So, we wanted to know: what's with all the mustaches? And, members of the Coeur d'Alene Fire Department were happy to let us in on their hairy secret.
They spend their days putting out fires and saving lives. You can easily call Coeur d'Alene firefighters heroes, whose jobs demand the highest levels of training and teamwork. So, when their captain suggested they all do something together, the going got tough and the tough got growing.
"It's a month-long mustache growing contest," explained Captain Greg Rod. Rod and his colleagues will proudly tell you, they don't usually sport soup-strainers on their upper lips. They're doing it for Movember. It's an event that has men the world over dropping their dignity and personal grooming, all for a good cause.
"It's gonna raise awareness for men's health issues; prostate cancer and testicular cancer," said Captain Rod.
Yes, these 'staches have substance. The Coeur d'Alene Firefighters Union wants you to go to their website, bid on your favorite and, if you win, you can shave off the mustache at the end of Movember. Worldwide, Movember raised $42 million dollars for men's health causes. But, while the Movember movement has a serious purpose, the contest in Coeur d'Alene is anything but.
"We have a couple firefighters that, if it wasn't a contest, we wouldn't know that they were participating because they're not able to grow mustaches," said firefighter/paramedic Jeff Fletcher.
There are the overly blonde, the pre-pubescent... Captain Rod sports the very rare mustache-with-braces combo. And, poor Jeff Canfield. He didn't know he didn't have hair follicles on certain parts of his face until he started growing the 'stache this Movember.
Reaction from outside the department has been interesting.
"For the most part, it's positive," said Captain Rod. "Everyone looks at us and kind of points at our mustaches and says either Oh my God - or Oh my God!"
"My kids like it," said Fletcher. "My wife's not too excited about it, but she understands its for a good cause so she'll let it go for the month." Captain Rod said it will be a successful Movember if none of the wives divorced their now-hairy husbands before month's end.
Aside from a shave by a stranger, these firefighters aren't sure yet what the prize will be for the best Movember 'stache. For many, the awareness raised is enough. For others, the real reward will come with a razor on December 1st.
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'Dead Man Walking' shown March 29, author visits April 5
By Adi Pavlovic
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(March 28, 2006)--The UTSA Campus Activity Board (CAB) will host a showing of the film, "Dead Man Walking," at 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 29 in the University Center Retama Auditorium (2.02.02), 1604 Campus. The screening is free and open to the public. Then next week, the author of the book on which the movie was based, Sister Helen Prejean, will speak at UTSA.
The film is based on Prejean's Pulitzer Prize-nominated book, "Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States."
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Prejean will come to UTSA to discuss her book and death penalty issues in a lecture, "Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues," at 6 p.m., Wednesday, April 5 in the Retama Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public.
The book was based on Prejean's experiences in 1982, when she became pen pal and spiritual adviser to a condemned murder, Patrick Sonnier, who later was executed. In the book, Prejean describes Sonnier's dark walk to the electric chair.
Prejean's book was on the 1994 American Library Association's Notable Book List after being nominated in 1993 for the Pulitzer Prize. On the New York Times bestseller list for 31 weeks, the book was translated into 10 languages and became an international bestseller.
In 1996, the film version of the book, written and directed by Tim Robbins, starred Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon. The movie received four Oscar nominations, including Robbins for best director, Penn for best actor, Sarandon for best actress and Bruce Springsteen's "Dead Man Walking" for best song. Sarandon won the best actress award.
In December 2004, Prejean published her second book, "The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions," which tells the stories of Dobie Gillis Williams and Joseph O'Dell, whom she accompanied to their executions.
Currently, Prejean travels around the nation to lecture, organize and write against the death penalty.
For more information call Sarah Grafton at (210) 458-4728.