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Evolving with Customers
Awning Creation
By Melissa Donovan
Awnings, tents, canopies, or any type of item used to shade and/or advertise is not a new service. Companies manufacturing these solutions are established in their local communities, serving customers near and far for decades. As is the case with Capitol Awning Company, spotlighted in the September print issue, a successful company takes what they know and grows as technology advances. The same is true for the three companies profiled below.
Providing a Vision
In business for 72 years, St. Louis, MO-based Lawrence Fabric & Metal Structures, Inc. manufactures fabric, standing seam, and all-metal awnings and canopies; exhibit components; experiential displays; and industrial fabrication. It is known for its design and engineering excellence, as well exceptional customer service. The company regularly goes above and beyond to meet and exceed a customer�s original vision.
Since starting the business in 1941, Lawrence has grown and evolved with the times. Starting with the technique of hand painting graphics onto awnings, it now offers capabilities to directly print onto awning fabrics with the help of its proprietary hardware and ink sets. It learned about the different opportunities regarding digital through its membership of the Industrial Fabrics Association and Professional Awning Manufacturers Association.
At events held by both organizations, attendees from Lawrence took part in various seminars regarding digitally printing on awnings. In addition, it teamed up with various fabric manufacturers and print houses to share knowledge of ink formats and printing platforms. With this steady flow of communication, Lawrence is presents its customers with a variety of options.
While Jeni Anders, graphic solutions, Lawrence, agrees that the digital market for awnings is definitely leading the way in the industry, there are various methods and substrates affected by this. �It appears baby steps are being taken to print directly to cloth material and the advancement in vinyl is better due to the longevity of the inks and material,� she continues.
Despite the pull of vinyl over textiles for ease of creation and durability, Anders finds customers gravitating toward fabric, citing that many of Lawrence�s clients prefer the fabric/cloth look over vinyl appearance�and ultimately it comes down to what the client wants.
Customers request graphics and logos that are consistent with their corporate colors, and with the advancements in materials there are more options to ensure this occurs. As such, Lawrence�s clients respond favorably to digital printing on awning material.
Weighing Complexity
Anchor Industries Inc. of Evansville, IN was founded in 1892 as a small riverboat supply house. Fast forward to current day and 300 employees work in over 350,000 square feet of production capability. The company offers awnings, rental and commercial tents, shade structures, safety pool covers, agricultural storage, canvas bags, outdoor amusement products, and contract sewn items.
When working on awnings for customers, a popular technique involves printing on Trivantage thermal film from Glen Raven, Inc. Logos are printed via a Mimaki USA, Inc. solvent printer and heat sealed to Glen Raven Sunbrella material.
According to Tami Freson, marketing manager, Anchor, �the print film gives us an advantage over hand painted graphics. We can produce complex graphics as opposed to painting single color or two color logos on awnings.�
Anchor recognizes the benefits of working with digital to efficiently produce awning materials for its customers.
Branching Out
Understanding the need for a sign business that caters to retail facades, Joseph Lanza, president, JC Awning, acquired the company in 1990. �I knew immediately that many retail locations needed an entire fa�ade improvement and an awning was the best way to accomplish that. I found it necessary to consider the entire signage and awning package and focused on the design rather than selling products,� admits Lanza.
The Port Chester, NY company is part of a larger group of businesses that include Sign Design and WrapFX. While these two sign-based entities utilize many digital services, the awning part of the group has yet to fully embrace digital print. However, it is moving in that direction. This is primarily because of advancements in fabric. It does a lot of work for its sign clients on canvas, for example, using a Roland DGA Corp. eco-solvent printer.
While JC Awning and its sister companies always try and use the latest technology, the group finds that fabrics encounter a bit of difficulty when it comes to zoning laws. �We are in the lower NY/CT areas and permitting is a growing challenge. I would like this to change and will keep attempting to up sell digitally printed fabric as we grow,� explains Lanza.
A good shop�whether it is sign focused or offers solutions such as awnings�knows to grow with the technology and its customers� wants and needs. All of the awning companies mentioned here look to digital as a way to keep pace with the competition and offer clients the best output they can.
Click on the link above to get more information on the vendors mentioned in this article.
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Foster earned his reputation as a sideman, but he's had the opportunity to lead a band in recent years — a band with a recently reconfigured lineup of young guns. WBGO and NPR Music will present a live radio broadcast and video webcast of the new Al Foster Quartet live at the Village Vanguard on Wednesday, March 7 at 9 p.m. ET.
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Students use Excel to graph and analyze Vostok Ice core data (more info) (160,000 years of Ice core data from Vostok Station). Data includes ice age, ice depth, carbon dioxide, methane, dust, and deuterium isotope relative abundance (dD). Students use the equation:
Temperature (deg-C)=-55.5+(dD + 440)/6 to infer temperatures from dD.
This is a complete activity that requires a working knowledge of Excel (see teaching notes and tips).
Learning Goals
- Learn about ice cores and what they can tell us about past atmospheric conditions.
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This review is independent to this weapon and won't be compared to any others like it.
I picked this particular model of RIA up from an ODT member not too long ago. Here are the things I know most people take into account when looking for a quality 1911; Price,size, weight, accuracy, trigger pull, trigger creep, trigger over-travel, comfort, fit and finish. So here we go.
Price: This one is MSRP at around $650 which is incredible considering what you get.
Size: A full sized model with a 5 in barrel and a full length picatinney/dust rail. It gives it an excellent feel by adding a little weight to the front and reducing the recoil.
Weight: I'm not sure what its exact weight is but it is slightly heavier than a standard GI or Government model with the above mentioned rail.
Accuracy: After about 250 rounds it seems to hold decent groupings out to 25 yards. I'm no marksman so based on my skill level I'd say it is excellent. The sights are novak style sights and are much better than standard GI sights. There are no markings on them for quick point of aim but they still get the job done.
Trigger: The trigger pull is unbelievably light. I'd guess it is around 3.5 lbs but I'm no expert and have no measurement tools to check. There is very slight trigger creep; We are talking a 1/10th of an inch or less. It is incredible. The trigger travel is also very short and has virtually no over travel.
Comfort: This thing is very well balanced and comes with some standard wood grips. The beaver tail seems to be pretty well done and would only need modification by a perfectionist. The trigger is only slightly concave and the slide has excellent grooves. It has an ambidextrous safety which is cool if you are a lefty.
Fit and Finish: The overall fit and finish out of the box was excellent. The skeletonized hammer and trigger make this one a beauty to look at. The slide had no rattle.
Functionality: This thing is awesome. I have had some awesome times with it doing rapid fire and accuracy. After 250+ rounds there has been some slight slide rattle but it is to be expected after a break-in period. It has run every type of ammo I've fed it flawlessly.
Overall this one gets an A+.
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I'm at over 800 rounds without one failure.
What's your experience with the rail compatibility? I thought I read some reviews where some lights would not work given the specs of the rail.
Thanks for the review, I just picked up one as well. I havent shot it yet, but I really like the features and the feel of it. I need to get a barrel link installed on my 16" barrel, so I can mount my carbine kit on it. Then fab up a removable forearm to slide on the full length rail. Cant wait!
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Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
|Prince Henry
Photographic Portrait as Governor-General
|Duke of Gloucester
|Prince Richard
|11th Governor-General of Australia
|30 January 1945 – 11 March 1947
|Lord Gowrie
|Sir William McKell
|Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott
|Prince William of Gloucester
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
|House of Windsor
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
|George V
|Mary of Teck
31 March 1900
York Cottage, Sandringham, United Kingdom
|10 June 1974
(aged 74)
Barnwell Manor, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
|14 June 1974
Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore
|Governor-General of Australia, Military
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester KG KT KP GCB GCMG GCVO (Henry William Frederick Albert; 31 March 1900 – 10 June 1974) was a soldier and third son of King George V and Queen Mary.
He was appointed potential regent for his niece, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), when his brother, King George VI, came to the throne in 1936. He was required to stay in the United Kingdom until Elizabeth came of age in case her father died and she ascended the throne as a minor.
The Duke served as a soldier for most of his life. He was also the 11th Governor-General of Australia, from 1945 to 1947. At his death in 1974, he was the last surviving knight of the Order of St. Patrick, as well as the last surviving child of King George V and Queen Mary.
Early life[edit]
Prince Henry was born on 31 March 1900, at York Cottage, on the Sandringham Estate.[1] His father was the Duke of York (later King George V), the eldest surviving son of the Prince of Wales, (later King Edward VII).[1] His mother was Mary of Teck, the only daughter of Prince Francis, Duke of Teck and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge.[1] In 1898, Queen Victoria issued letters patent granting the children of the Duke and Duchess of York the style Royal Highness. Thus he was styled His Royal Highness Prince Henry of York from birth.
He was baptised at the private chapel of Windsor Castle on 17 May 1900, by Randall Thomas Davidson, Bishop of Winchester, and his godparents were: Queen Victoria (his great-grandmother); the German Emperor (his cousin, for whom Prince Albert of Prussia stood proxy); Princess Henry of Battenberg (his paternal great-aunt); the Duchess of Cumberland (his paternal great-aunt, whose sister, his grandmother the Princess of Wales represented her); Prince George of Greece (his cousin, for whom Prince Henry's paternal grandfather the Prince of Wales stood proxy); Princess Carl of Denmark (his paternal aunt, for whom her sister Princess Victoria of Wales stood proxy); Prince Alexander of Teck (his maternal uncle, for whom Prince Henry's great-uncle the Duke of Cambridge stood proxy); and Field Marshal The Earl Roberts (for whom General Sir Dighton Probyn stood proxy).[2] He was informally known to his family as Harry.[3]
Prince Henry attended St Peter's Court in Broadstairs[1] and Eton College[1] from September 1913 and during the First World War the house in which he lived, Mr. Lubbock's,[1] was also home to Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium (later Leopold III).
Military service[edit]
Unlike his brothers, Prince Henry joined the Army instead of the Royal Navy. He attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1919.[1] He later served with The King's Royal Rifle Corps and the 10th Royal Hussars[1] before retiring from the active list in 1937.
Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the British Expeditionary Force, serving as a Chief Liaison Officer.[1] He was slightly wounded in 1940 when his staff car was attacked from the air.[1] In 1940 he became second-in-command of the 20th Armoured Brigade.[1] He was appointed a Field Marshal in 1955[1] and a Marshal of the Royal Air Force in 1958.[4]
Duke of Gloucester[edit]
On 31 March 1928,[5] his father created him Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Ulster, and Baron Culloden, three titles that linked him with three parts of the United Kingdom, namely England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. On 2 November 1930 he attended the coronation of Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa.[1] In 1934 George V (as King of Ireland) made him a Knight of St Patrick, Ireland's chivalric order. It was the second to last time this order was awarded (the last appointment being the Duke of York, later George VI, in 1936); at the time of his death, the Duke of Gloucester was the only remaining knight.
On 6 November 1935, Henry married Lady Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott,[1] a daughter of John Montagu Douglas Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch. The marriage was originally planned to take place at Westminster Abbey, but was moved to the more modest Chapel Royal at St James's Palace due to the death of Lady Alice's father shortly before the wedding.
Following their wedding, Alice was known as HRH The Duchess of Gloucester. Together they had two sons:[1]
- Prince William Henry Andrew Frederick of Gloucester (born 18 December 1941; died 28 August 1972).
- The Duke of Gloucester (Richard Alexander Walter George; born 26 August 1944). Married the Danish Birgitte van Deurs on 8 July 1972. The couple has three children:
- The Earl of Ulster, born 24 October 1974; married with issue.
- The Lady Davina Lewis, born 19 November 1977; married with issue.
- The Lady Rose Gilman, born 1 March 1980; married with issue.
Governor-General of Australia[edit]
In late 1944 the Duke was unexpectedly appointed Governor-General of Australia.[1] His younger brother, the Duke of Kent, had been offered the position, but he was killed in a plane accident in Scotland. The Labor Party of the Prime Minister John Curtin had a policy of appointing Australians to the vice-regal post. In the circumstances of wartime, Curtin decided that appointing a member of the Royal Family would have three advantages: it would improve the likelihood that Britain would maintain its commitment to the defence of Australia, affirm that Australia had not become a dependency of the United States, and would be a politically neutral choice (opposition had greeted his last appointment).
The Duke had made a successful visit to Australia in 1934. Because the Duke was shy,[1] he sometimes appeared stiff and formal, but he and the Duchess travelled widely in Australia using his own plane during their time in office. When Curtin died in 1945, the Duke appointed Frank Forde as prime minister.
Gloucester left Australia in March 1947, after two years in the job, due to the need to act as Senior Counsellor of State during a visit by King George VI and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to South Africa.[1] As a parting gift, he left his own plane for use by the government and people of Australia.
Later life[edit]
Returning to Britain, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester acquired Barnwell Manor in Northamptonshire, while retaining an apartment in Kensington Palace.
In May 1949, the Duke temporarily served in the office of Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. This appointment afforded him, for its duration, its Scottish precedence (immediately below the King) and style, His Grace.
The Duke attended the coronation of his niece Elizabeth II in 1953. Both the Duke and Duchess carried out royal engagements, including several overseas tours.[1] In 1954 the Duke served as the Treasurer of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn. He suffered a series of strokes in later years,[1] and was too ill to attend the funeral of the Duke of Windsor in 1972, and the wedding of his younger son.
His first stroke was in 1965; together with later strokes, they left him required to use a wheelchair and he was unable to speak for his last remaining years. His last public appearance was for the unveiling of Queen Mary's plaque at Marlborough House in 1967, where he appeared weak and considerably older than his brother, the Duke of Windsor. In 1972, the Duke's elder son, Prince William, died in a plane crash.[1] The Duke was in such poor health that his wife hesitated whether to tell him. She later admitted in her memoirs that she did not, but, that he may have learned of their son's death from television coverage.[6]
The Duke was the last surviving child of King George V and Queen Mary. He died on 10 June 1974. He was buried in the Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore. His second son, Prince Richard, inherited the title of Duke of Gloucester. The Duke's wife, Alice, received permission from Queen Elizabeth II to be styled Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, to distinguish herself from Prince Richard's wife. She survived until 2004, becoming the longest-lived member of the British Royal Family in history.[7]
Titles, styles, honours and arms[edit]
Titles and styles[edit]
- 31 March 1900 – 22 January 1901: His Royal Highness Prince Henry of York
- 22 January 1901 – 9 November 1901: His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Cornwall and York
- 9 November 1901 – 6 May 1910: His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales
- 6 May 1910 – 31 March 1928: His Royal Highness The Prince Henry
- 31 March 1928 – 10 June 1974: His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester
- in Scotland: May 1949, May 1961, May 1962, May 1963: His Grace The Lord High Commissioner
- in Australia: 30 January 1945 – 11 March 1947: His Excellency The Duke of Gloucester, Governor-General of Australia
At the time of his death, Prince Henry's full style was: His Royal Highness The Prince Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Ulster and Baron Culloden, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick, Grand Master and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Grand Prior of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.
- KG: Knight of the Order of the Garter (1921)
- KT: Knight of the Order of the Thistle (1931)
- KP: Knight of the Order of St Patrick (1934)
- GCB: Grand Master and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (1951)
- GCMG: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (1935)
- GCVO: Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (1922)
- GCStJ: Grand Prior of the Order of St John
- Royal Victorian Chain
- Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav
- Order of the Chrysanthemum, 1929 (Japan).[8]
- Colonel in Chief, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
- Colonel, Scots Guards (1937)
In 1921, Prince Henry was granted a personal coat of arms, being the royal arms, differenced by a label argent of three points, the centre bearing a lion rampant gules, and the outer points crosses gules.[9]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Yvonne's Royalty Home Page – Royal Christenings
- ^ http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/50561785
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 41409. p. 3561. 3 June 1958. Retrieved 20 November 2008.
- ^ Yvonne's Royalty: Peerage
- ^ The Memoirs of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester.
- ^ "Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Later years and death". The Oficcial Website of the British Monarchy. The Royal Household. 2008/09. Check date values in:
- ^ "Imperial Garter," Time Magazine, 13 May 1929.
- ^ Heraldica – British Royal Cadency
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Dharamsala Weather While the heat in much of India can be intense, the cooler temperatures of the hill regions in the foothills of the Himalayas offer a refreshing and welcome change.
Winter snow begins falling in the higher elevations above Dharamsala by November or December. By January. and February, there is usually snow on the ground at Mcleodganj and Naddi, so warm clothing is required.
Spring/Summer/Pre-Monsoon weather is pleasant and mild in March and April, but be prepared for chilly nights. By May and June the days are warmer and becoming hot in lower Dharamsala. Spring and fall weather are ideal for trekking.
Summer Monsoon Rains arrive in July, but sometimes, as early as June, lasting through August and mid September.
Dharamsala often receives the highest total rainfall in all of Himachal Pradesh, India, so don't forget your umbrella!
Post Monsoon Season, the fall months of September, October, and November bring cooler drier weather, with warm days and progressively cooler nights. Dharamsala Seasons
Dharamsala Weather Conditions | Temperatures in Dharamshala 15 Day Extended Local Weather Forecast:
The approximately 500 meter difference in elevation between lower Dharamsala and upper Dharamsala creates highly varied weather and climate conditions.
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A Brief Guide To Other Histories
A short story that shares the same multiverse as Cowboy Angels and was first published in Postscripts #15.
My platoon had been in the American Bund sheaf for two weeks before it suffered its first major incident. It was gruesome and it robbed us of our innocence, but it was only the beginning of something stranger and deeper.
We'd come through the Turing gate at Brookhaven with the rest of the Third Brigade, First Armor Division, second battalion, as part of the ongoing operation to bring peace and reconciliation to that particular version of America's history. Seventeen PFCs and Spec 4s, and me, their commanding officer. We were all kids. I was the oldest, and I'd just turned twenty-four. Most of us hadn't been through the mirror before, and it put the zap on our heads. This was America, but it wasn't our version of America. New York, but not our version of New York. There were buildings I recognised from my visits to the city back in the Real. The Chrysler Building. The Empire State. St Patrick's Cathedral. Yellow taxis jostled on the streets, manholes vented plumes of steam, and Central Park was right where it should have been, although it had been stripped of trees by people desperate for firewood in the last days of the war, and there was a refugee camp sprawled across Sheep Meadow. But although the Statue of Liberty stood out in the Hudson, she was holding up a sword instead of a torch. The sword was a hundred feet long, and forged out of stainless steel that shone like cold flame. The skyline was different, too. Lower. Instead of glass and steel skyscrapers, brutal chunks of marble and white stone hunched like giant toads: monumental railroad stations, government buildings, and palaces. Some were burnt out or shattered by bombs. The rest were holed by artillery shells and pockmarked by small-arms fire.
We'd been given orientation lectures and issued with copies of a pamphlet that explained that the different versions of history accessed by the Turing Gates were every bit as real and valid as our own history. That their people were real people, American citizens just like us. Even so, driving around a city where familiar buildings mixed with alien intruders, half the traffic was military, and pedestrians were dressed in drab antique styles, was like inhabiting a dream. Or like taking the lead role in a movie when you had no idea of the script or plot.
The American Bund sheaf shared most of our history, but it had taken a different turn in the 1930s, when a bunch of generals and tycoons who didn't like where their country seemed to be heading under the New Deal had assassinated Franklin D. Roosevelt and installed a military government. One of the generals turned out to be more ruthless than the rest. After the coup, he'd seized power by a ruthless programme of murder and arrest, made himself President-for-Life, and established a tyranny that had lasted for more than thirty years. Towards the end of his rule, he'd become insane. He'd styled himself the Dear Leader, ordered the construction of hundreds of grandiose monuments to himself, put millions in prison or in work camps, massacred millions more. He'd been about to go to war against Europe when, in 1972, scientists in our version of history had opened a Turing gate onto his version of history. The Central Intelligence Group had sent through agents who'd made contact with rebels and supplied them with weapons and intel. As soon as civil war kicked off, two divisions drove through the mirror, quickly took control of the Eastern seaboard, captured the Dear Leader as he tried to flee to Argentina, and pushed over what turned out to be a regime hollowed by corruption and self-interest.
When my platoon and the rest of the Third Brigade came through the mirror a year later, deadenders who refused to accept that the war was over were waging a guerrilla campaign up and down the country. They used car bombs and land mines, improvised explosive devices from fertiliser, fuel oil, and scrap metal, and detonated them when convoys drove past. They fired mortars into our bases. They shot at us with sniper rifles or rocket-propelled grenades from vantage points in buildings, or took potshots at us and melted into panicked crowds. As in any insurrection, it was almost impossible to tell the good guys from the bad guys, and that was why one of my men ended up killing three innocent civilians.
We'd had been ordered to set up a traffic control point on the West Side, ten blocks south of the green zone. Two APCs backed by a Martindale light tank, razor-wire coiled across the street, the men waving vehicles forward one by one, doing stop and checks. The traffic was bunched up and jumpy, simmering in hundred degree heat so humid you could have wrung water out of the air. And we were all jumpy, too. At any moment, someone could pop a trunk and find weapons or a primed car bomb, or some screwed-up munchkin could decide to take a shot at us just for the hell of it. So when a taxi lurched forward after it was directed to an inspection point, accelerating crazily, scattering men, Bobby Sturges, behind the .50 caliber machine gun on top of one of the APCs, made a split-second decision and put two hundred rounds into the taxi in less than a minute. Punching holes in the hood, exploding the tyres, shattering the windshield, shredding the driver and his two passengers, a man and his seventy-year-old mother. Sudden silence as the taxi rolled to a stop, engine dead, blood leaking from its door sills, blood and human meat spattered all over the interior.
That evening, Tommy McAfee said, 'If these fucking munchkins learned to drive, this shit wouldn't happen.'
Munchkins -- that's what we called the locals. New York City -- the American Bund sheaf's version of New York City -- was Oz. The green zone in Oz, built up around a palace that before the revolution had been owned by one of the Dear Leader's sons, was the Emerald City.
Like many of the men, Tommy McAfee had trouble accepting that the people on this side of the mirror were as real as the people back home, couldn't believe that Americans could have brought themselves so low. He treated them with rough contempt, made endless jokes about them. He had a quick, sharp wit, knew how to time a punch line and cap someone else's joke with a zinger of his own, was gaining a solid reputation as the platoon's joker. So when he made his quip, he was surprised and upset when Ernie Wright told him to can it, and the rest of the men either made murmurs of agreement or looked away.
They were all lounging around by the side of the entrance that curved down to the underground garage where the Dear Leader's eldest son had once stored his limousines, sports cars and motorcycles, where we now parked our APCs and Jeeps. We ate and slept in what had been servants' quarters nearby, and had set up a barbeque pit outside. Folding chairs. A basketball hoop. A table-tennis set liberated from somewhere in the palace. Tommy McAfee was sitting on a case of oil cans, a rangy kid with rusty hair cropped short, a tattoo of a boxing leprechaun on his right bicep, looking at Ernie Wright and saying, 'Jesus. You'd think I was the one shot that fucking taxi to death.'
Ernie Wright was the biggest man in the platoon, but he could move quickly. He stepped up to Tommy McAfee and grabbed the front of his fatigues and pulled him to his feet in a single fluid motion, and asked him, their faces inches apart, 'Any more smart remarks about what went down?'
'I can't think of any.'
Wright set McAfee down and patted him on the shoulder, but that wasn't the end of it. Later on that evening they got into a fistfight. It was supposedly over who should have the last steak, but it was really about McAfee trying to regain some face after Wright had shamed him. McAfee could box, but Wright was stronger and heavier, and after some sparring he knocked McAfee on his ass with a solid punch. McAfee got up and came back at Wright and was knocked down again, and this time he stayed down. Sprawled flat on his back on floodlit concrete under the basketball hoop, breathing hard, his nose and mouth bloody, one eye swelling shut. After a while he got up and went to the ice-chest and washed his face with a handful of ice chips.
I didn't think much of it at the time. We'd all been on edge after the shooting, and the fistfight seemed to have dissipated much of the tension. And besides, I was more concerned about Bobby Sturges. He was a gentle kid, barely eighteen, sick to his soul over what he'd done. When I'd told him that he wouldn't get any blame when I wrote up the incident, that I accepted full responsibility because it had happened under my command, he'd given me a haunted look and said, 'Doesn't make it right, Lieutenant. They're Americans, like us. Americans shouldn't be killing Americans.'
'I agree. But some of them are trying to kill us, which is why you did the right thing.'
'Maybe it was the right thing to do,' Bobby Sturges said, 'but that doesn't make it right.'
I put in a request to pull him off the line for a few days R&R, but it was kicked back immediately. There was sand in the gears of the mission. We couldn't spare any men. I took him off the .50 cal, but he had to ride out with us on patrol the next day, and the day after that.
We manned checkpoints. We escorted convoys of supplies to hospitals and aid stations. We escorted a convoy of construction material to a power station that had been badly damaged during the war -- jackhammers were pounding all over the city, cranes were swinging to and fro, and scaffolding was springing up like kudzu as the munchkins patched and repaired and rebuilt, as if tearing down one movie set and erecting another in its place. I noticed that Ernie Wright did his best to keep behind Tommy McAfee during foot patrols, and guessed what he was thinking. Tommy McAfee might want to even things out after his beating, we were all carrying guns, and it wasn't unknown for a soldier with a beef to put a round or two into their rival's back in the middle of a firefight. But Tommy McAfee seemed to have forgotten the incident, and although the deadenders were staging hit-and-run raids in Texas and parts of the Midwest, and Washington, D.C. was paralysed by a spate of car bombings, New York was pretty quiet. It was August, hot and sunny. I remember one day we were parked up near a playground, and Dave Brahma and Leroy Moss started handing out candy bars and cans of soft drink to the kids. Two men in flak jackets and helmets, M-16s slung over their shoulders, up to their waists in a crowd of happy children. Another time, Todd Cooper was checking IDs at a control point and a man started shaking his hand and wouldn't let go. This old man in a dusty suit and battered fedora, pumping Todd Cooper's hand and thanking him for being there, tears rolling down his cheeks.
Then a supply convoy running the expressway from Brookhaven into New York City was hit by a massive improvised explosive device buried at the side of the highway. Five died instantly, six were badly wounded. That night, my platoon took part in a raid on an apartment building in Brooklyn. According to an informer, the deadenders who had planted the IED were storing weapons and explosives there.
It kicked off at two in the morning. A psy-ops vehicle blasted out a message telling everyone to leave their doors open and wait with their hands on their heads for questioning. Two Cherokee helicopters beat above the building's flat roof, lighting up the front with searchlights. A squad of explosives specialists hit the basement first, and then everyone else went in.
My platoon had been assigned the top two floors. I was determined to do things by the book. I told the men to knock first and break down doors only if they had to, to keep their fingers off their triggers and treat everyone with respect. Even so, it was a pretty brutal business. We'd storm in, grab the man of the house and throw him down, pacify the rest of the family, and interrogate the man in front of them, ask him if he owned a weapon or had any insurgent propaganda, if he was involved in insurgent activity in any way. Then we'd rip up the place, pulling out drawers and tossing the contents, ripping through closets, looking for anything that could be used as a weapon. The people were mostly passive, but we'd been told to expect trouble and we had no idea what we might find or if the situation might suddenly turn ugly. Despite my orders, there was quite a bit of roughhousing and horseplay to relieve the tension, shouts and screams, the smash of glass and crockery. A frat house party with half the participants armed to the teeth, and the possibility of sudden death hanging in the air.
I was going from apartment to apartment, trying to curb excesses, when Ted Brahma came up and told me that something weird was going down. Smiling his gentle stoned smile, saying, 'You have to see this, Lieutenant. It'll blow your mind. Truly.'
I followed him downstairs to a single-room apartment with bookshelves along one wall, posters above the couch, books in piles on the floor. It was very hot. A standard lamp had been knocked over and threw huge shadows everywhere. Searchlights pried through blinds at the window. The whippy flutter of the helicopters matched my racing heartbeat. Todd Cooper and Tommy McAfee stood behind a man kneeling on the bare boards with his wrists plasticuffed. Ernie Wright stood in front of him, studying an ID card.
'Tell me what you think, Lieutenant,' Tommy McAfee said, and jerked up the prisoner's head by his hair.
'Is he on the list?'
'Take a real good look,' Tommy McAfee said. Both he and Todd Cooper were lit up, grinning. 'His eyes, the colour of his hair . . . You don't see it?'
'Show the Lieutenant that ID,' Todd Cooper said.
Ernie Wright handed the card to me. He had a baffled, dazed expression, as if he'd run full-tilt into an invisible wall.
'You see it?' Tommy McAfee said, as I studied it. 'You see it now?'
The name under the black and white photo card was Ernest C. Wright.
Tommy McAfee's grin widened when he saw my reaction, 'I reckon we found ourselves Ernie's double.'
'Bullshit,' Ernie Wright said. 'He's nothing like me. He doesn't even have the same date of birth.'
'Oh yeah? Then how come he just told us he was born in the same dipshit town as you? His parents have the same names as your parents, he has your name, and he has your eyes, too,' Tommy McAfee said, jerking the prisoner's head up again.
It was true, the prisoner's eyes were the same sharp blue as Ernie Wright's, and his hair was the same dirty blond. But otherwise he didn't look much like Ernie Wright at all. He was shy about fifty pounds, his face was leaner and paler, and he had a mustache.
'He's your doppelgänger, dude,' Ted Brahma said. 'Your dark half.'
I asked if they'd found any explosives or weapons.
'There isn't anything to find,' Ernie Wright said.
'Ain't this sweet,' McAfee said. 'Ernie is in love. In love with his own self.'
Brahma asked the prisoner why he had all these books.
'I'm a teaching assistant at Brooklyn University,' the man said.
His voice was lighter than Ernie Wright's.
'Yeah? What do you teach?' McAfee said.
'American literature.'
Ernie Wright shook his head.
'If you're a teacher, I guess you're a party member,' McAfee said, grinning at me. 'This guy is guilty of something, Lieutenant. I can smell it.'
'There were fifty million party members,' the man said. 'Including everyone who worked in every university and high school. It was the law.'
'All these books,' McAfee said. 'I bet we could find something subversive. What do you say, Lieutenant? Shall we take him in?'
I thought that this was more about the beef Tommy McAfee had with Ernie Wright than about uncovering a potential suspect. I pulled my knife, cut the plasticuffs that bound the man's wrists, and looked straight into McAfee's grin and asked him if he had a problem.
No one said anything. The man knelt on the floor, rubbing his wrists, carefully not making eye contact with anyone.
'Move on,' I said. 'Everyone, right now.'
Ernie Wright was staring at the man. Then he shuddered, all over, like a man waking in the middle of a dream, and marched straight out. The fallen lamp wheeled his shadow over the bookcase and ceiling. As McAfee, Cooper and Brahma trooped after him, I remembered that I was still holding the man's ID card.
'Sorry,' I said, and dropped the card in front of him and bolted from the apartment, thoroughly spooked by the situation.
The men ragged Ernie Wright about his alleged double or doppelgänger on the ride back to Emerald City. Most of it was good-natured, but he turtled up, hunched in the back of the APC in a glowering silence that he broke only once, when Tommy McAfee told him that something must have gone badly wrong with his life, seeing as he'd ended up in the shit, while his doppelgänger had a good job, an education . . .
'That's the point,' Ernie Wright said. 'That guy, he isn't anything like me. So can your shit, McAfee. It ain't right. It isn't even funny.'
After a silence, Ted Brahma said in his doper's drawl, 'Know what they say about your doppelgänger? That it's just like you in every way, but it doesn't have a soul. And it knows that, and it wants one real bad. So if you ever meet it, it's like meeting a vampire hungry for, like, your exact blood type. One look, it can suck the soul right out of you. Turn you into what it was, make itself into you.'
'There's something to that,' Leroy Moss said. He was at the wheel of the APC, inclining his head so that the men in the back could hear him over the roar of the engine. 'Everyone agrees that there can be no miraculous multiplication of souls. If there are two people the same, one in the Real, one in some other history, there can be but the one soul. And you can't divide a soul, either, so only one person can be in possession of it.'
'You ask me, all the munchkins lack souls,' Todd Cooper said. 'They're all ghosts.'
It was a common belief. The munchkins were spooks. Unreal. And because they were unreal, it didn't matter what you did to them.
'That's what doppelgänger means,' Ted Brahma said. 'It's German for ghost double.'
'They say it's okay to fuck your doppelgänger,' Todd Cooper said. 'Really. It's like jacking off. Only, you know, double the fun.'
'Yeah, but the only problem is, you have to waste him right afterward,' Tommy McAfee said. 'Otherwise, he'll waste you.'
Most of the men laughed. Ted Brahma said, 'It must have been pretty intense, Ernie, meeting your own ghost back there.'
Ernie Wright didn't reply. I turned around and told the men to knock it off, but Tommy McAfee had to have the last word.
'The big question is, which is the ghost and which is the man? You think about that, Ernie.'
A couple of days later, I saw Ernie Wright sitting on one of the plastic chairs in the R&R area, barechested in shorts and sandals, reading the pamphlet we'd all been given before coming through the mirror, A Brief Guide to Other Histories. I asked him how he was doing, and he said he was doing fine.
'Pretty interesting reading you have there.'
He shrugged.
'You read it carefully, it'll explain why that guy isn't really your double.'
'I know it,' Ernie Wright said. 'I knew it when I saw he was three years younger than me.'
'As I understand it, if he was born after the history of this sheaf split from the history of the Real, he has to be a completely different person,' I said. 'Because all of his experiences are different from yours.'
I'd been reading in A Brief Guide to Other Histories too, after that night.
'That's pretty much what it says here,' Ernie Wright said. He was holding the pamphlet in one hand, his forefinger marking his place. 'You are what you do, and what's done to you. The sum of all your experiences. Him and me, we've had such different lives we aren't even like brothers.'
'That's how I understand it,' I said.
'Still,' he said, 'I guess we had the same mother and father.'
I didn't understand the significance of that remark then. It was hardly my fault. I had trouble remembering the names of all my men in my platoon, let alone the details of their lives before they'd joined up or been drafted. But even though I could hardly have been expected to remember that Ernie Wright's mother had died in childbirth when he was just two years old, he'd been brought up by a father who was a bitter and violent drunk, I still feel guilty about what happened. I still have the irrational idea that I should have known about Ernie Wright's unhappy childhood, that I should have done something to prevent what happened next, instead of making some inane remark about being pleased to see that he was putting the encounter in perspective.
'It was weird,' he said, 'but weird shit happens through the mirror. We just have to deal with it.'
'Glad to hear it.'
And after that, Ernie Wright did seem to be dealing with it. I overheard him having an earnest conversation with Leroy Moss, who carried a copy of the Bible in the breast pocket of his flak jacket, about the nature of souls and their indivisibility. He shrugged off Tommy McAfee's jibes. And then, two weeks later, the platoon was given a day of R&R, and he disappeared.
I didn't find out what had happened until the next day, when the military police took charge of Ernest Wright, the man Tommy McAfee had claimed to be Ernie Wright's doppelgänger.
It seemed that Ernie had changed into civilian clothes, hitched a ride out of Emerald City in a contractor's truck, and turned up at Ernest's apartment later that evening. Drunk but lucid, saying he wanted a quiet word, offering cigarettes and a bottle of Four Roses. A gift, he said, for the trouble a couple of weeks back. Ernest had deep misgivings, but he also felt sorry for Ernie, who seemed sad and bewildered and lost. And he was curious, too. So he invited Ernie in and made coffee, and they got to talking. They shared the same parents, but Ernie's had met several years before Ernest's had, Ernie's mother had died giving birth to a still-born baby when he was two, his father had become a serious drunk, and Ernie had joined the Army to get away from the son of a bitch, who had died three years ago, when his liver had finally given out on him.
'I don't miss him,' Ernie said. 'Not one bit.'
Ernest's father -- the American Bund's version of Ernie's father -- had died in a traffic accident when Ernest was less than a year old. A couple of years later, his mother had remarried, to another teacher in the high-school where she worked.
'That's how you got to be a college professor, uh?'
'There were always books in the house.'
They talked about the town where they had been born, the little house where Ernie had lived with his father until he joined the Army. Ernest and his mother had moved out when he was three, he didn't remember much about it.
'I think there was a cherry tree in the front yard,' he said.
Ernie smiled. 'It was still there, last time I looked. Same tree, different lives.'
'Two different trees, really,' Ernest said. He told Ernie how he'd won a scholarship and come to New York to teach and study literature; Ernie told him a little bit about his so-called career in the army, fighting in a sheaf wrecked by nuclear war, and now policing the streets of New York.
'I never really knew my Mom,' he said. 'And my dad was a mean drunk who beat me 'til I got big enough to beat him. But you had a real family. You have a college degree, all those books . . .'
'If you knew what it was like, growing up here, under the thumb of the Dear Leader and his psychopathic sons and his secret police, you might not think it was so great,' Ernest said. He'd been tense and nervous all through their conversation, growing more and more resentful about the intrusion. 'Look, it was nice to talk to you. Strange, but nice. But I have to go to work tomorrow.'
'Me too. Out on the streets. Hey, I was just wondering,' Ernie said with ponderous casualness, 'about your mother. Is she still alive?'
That was why he'd come there, of course. It wasn't anything to do with Ernest, who was at best a brother he'd never known. No, Ernie Wright was chasing the ghost of his long-dead mother.
He looked for a long time at a snapshot Ernest reluctantly gave him, asked if she was still living in their home town. Maybe he could look her up some time, he said, and grew agitated after Ernest said that he didn't think that this was a good idea. Ernie blustered, said that he barely remembered his mother, all he wanted was to see how she had turned out, what was the harm? Sharp words were exchanged. Ernie started to paw through papers on the table Ernest used as a desk, drew his pistol when Ernest asked him to stop. Ernest panicked, threw coffee in Ernie's face, and the pistol went off. The shot barely missed Ernest. There was a struggle, another shot. That one hit Ernie in the thigh, nicking his femoral artery. There was a lot of blood. Ernest went to the apartment next door, which had a phone, and called an ambulance, but it took two hours to arrive because there were road blocks everywhere. Despite the best efforts of Ernest and his neighbours Ernie Wright bled to death on Ernest Wright's old Persian carpet.
Ernest Wright told me all this in a bleak interrogation room in Camp X-Ray, the holding facility for suspects in bombings or shootings, people caught trafficking weapons and explosives, curfew violators, and anyone else who had gotten into some kind of trouble with the occupying army. He'd been arrested on suspicion of murder by the local police, but they'd handed him over to us after they had discovered that the dead man in his apartment was a soldier. My commanding officer had advised me not to visit him, but it had happened on my watch and I felt responsible. I wanted to know what had happened so that I could figure out what I had done wrong. Also, I had read the transcript of Ernest Wright's interrogations, I had talked the local police who had handled the case, and I was convinced that he was innocent.
When I told him this, he thanked me for my concern, and for my offer to give supporting testimony should his case come to trial. He told me the story while smoking several of the cigarettes I had brought, and at the end lit a fresh one and said, 'There's a writer who described time as a garden of forking paths. Whenever someone makes a decision, it doesn't matter how small, it splits time into two. So there's this time, here and now, and another time where you decided not to help me.'
I told him that I was familiar with the concept. By this time, I had read A Brief Guide to Other Histories several times from cover to cover, trying to find something that would help me understand what had happened.
'An infinite series of paths, some divergent, some convergent, some running in parallel,' Ernest Wright said. 'Until a year ago, I thought it was just a story. A philosophical conceit. But then your people made themselves known when the revolution started. You sent troops through their Turing gates and helped defeat the Dear Leader. You told us that their agents had been visiting our history secretly before that, helping set up the revolution. You told us that you wanted to help us built a better America. But what you're really doing is shaping us in your image.'
'We really do want to help you.'
'Your path is only one of an infinite number of paths. And no one path can claim to be better or more privileged than any other. All are equal.'
'Except we have the Turing gates,' I said.
'Which gives your history the ability to interfere with other histories, other Americas. But it doesn't give your history moral superiority. You brought us freedom. Democracy. Fine. We're grateful for it, but we're not beholden. We have the right to make from that freedom what we will, whether you approve of it or not. If we're forced to become nothing more than a pale imitation of your version of America, what kind of freedom is that?'
I told him that he sounded a little like the deadenders, and he shook his head. He was thinner than I remembered, but because his head had been shaved and he had lost his mustache it seemed to me that he looked a lot more like Ernie Wright now. Or my memory of Ernie.
'The deadenders believe that they can restore the Bund if they can push you back through the mirror. We want to restore democracy, but on our own terms. It's like your friend. He didn't really understand that we were two completely different people. Strangers. My mother was not his mother,' Ernest Wright said. 'And this is not your history.'
That was in 1974. I was twenty-four, back then. So innocent, so foolishly hopeful. Now, just turned thirty, I'm a published writer with five short stories and a novel under my belt. I've already used parts of this story in the novel, although in my version Ernie Wright doesn't end up bleeding out on the floor of Ernest Wright's apartment, shot by his own pistol. Instead, he finds out where Ernest Wright's parents are living and goes AWOL and hitches back to the American Bund's version of his home town. He spends a day watching Ernest Wright's mother, trying and failing to get up the courage to talk to her, finally realising that he has nothing to say to her because she isn't in any way like his mother, that nothing in Ernest Wright's life could explain what had gone wrong in his own. Although this version worked well enough within the frame of the novel, although it was true to Ernie Wright's need to understand and reach a reconciliation with his own history, although it clarified real events and gave them a neat ending, it was a contrivance. I was never satisfied with it, and felt guilty too, at the way I'd trivialised Ernest Wright, used him as a bit player, a ghostly reflection whose only function was to give Ernie Wright the information he needed to make his pilgrimage. This is as close to the truth as I can make it, and there's no neat ending, no bittersweet resolution.
Ernest Wright was released back to the local authorities after two months in Camp X-Ray. He didn't make bail, and was stabbed to death in a prison riot before his case came to trial. Todd Cooper was killed in a fire-fight a couple of months later, and Dave Brahma was badly wounded. The same day, Bobby Sturges injected his foot with a Syrette of morphine and shot off his big toe, a million-dollar wound that was his ticket back to the Real. I wrote it up as an accident; the kid had never gotten over shooting up that car. Then Leroy Moss was killed when a rocket-propelled grenade hit his APC. I was sitting next to him and spent two months in hospital while doctors worked to save my leg and shrapnel, some of it bone fragments from Leroy Moss, surfaced in different parts of my body. Some of it is still in there.
Tommy McAfee reupped, served another year, and survived without a scratch. After my novel was published, he phoned me late one night. He was drunk, and wanted to talk about old times. He told me that he had a bunch of stories I could help him make into a book as good as mine. I listened to him ramble on for a while, letting him vent whatever it was my novel had stirred up, making the right kind of noises, and when he finally hung up I realised that he'd hit on something useful, and started making notes for this story.
We are what we do, and what's done to us: if A Brief Guide to Other Histories was right about one thing it's this. And because what happens to us in war is more intense than ordinary life, it marks us more deeply, changes us more profoundly. Every soldier who comes back from war is haunted by the ghosts of the comrades who didn't make it, the people he killed or saw killed. By the things he did, and the things he should have done. And most of all by the innocent kid he once was, before the contingencies and experiences of war took that innocence away. I have summoned up my ghosts here, and tried to lay them to rest. But it seems to me now that all of us who passed through the mirror into different histories have become like ghosts, lost in the infinite possibilities of our stories, ceaselessly searching for an ideal we can never reach.
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After spending most of Oct. 7, 2012, cutting up fallen trees, dragging the debris to the woods and decommissioning a storm-damaged stand, most hunters would've been happy to spend the remains of the day in a recliner.
Jim Twiggs might've done just that, too, if his buddy hadn't announced that he was going to see the sunset from a deer stand.
Jim's friend, Ted Galbreath, had brought his hunting gear to the farm, so staying to hunt was an easy choice. Jim, however, had to go home to collect his stuff, and then drive back in order to sit in a tree for a couple of hours.
He was in a tree by 5:00, and deer began coming to the alfalfa field, several of them right past his stand, 10 minutes later.
About 6:45, Jim was tempted by a nice 9-pointer. Seeing another, much bigger buck made the decision easy.
Maybe 20 seconds after Jim resolved to take the 40-yard shot with his crossbow, the second buck crossed in front of him.
After the thwack, both bucks took off running along the field's edge, eventually cutting through a gap in the strip of trees. The 24-pointer went to ground in the corn stubble on the other side.
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When it comes to big Canadian whitetails, the western provinces usually hog the spotlight. One of the finest taken in 2012, however, was felled near Kenora, Ontario.
Buddies Dennis Chevalier and Chris Savage devoted six weeks to hunting a monstrous buck a coworker photographed in early October. For most of that time, they sat together in a pop-up blind, alternating roles as hunter and cameraman.
They really wanted to catch the buck they'd nicknamed Kong on videotape.
Because Chris worked the midnight shift, Dennis struck out alone on Nov. 19. Kong was the fourth deer he saw that day, though the buck wafted back into the trees well beyond bow range.
Dennis thought about grunting or even throwing out a snort-wheeze - anything to lure the buck back in front of the blind - but he wound up doing nothing because he didn't want to spook a nearby doe and fawn.
While the hunter was second-guessing his silence-is-golden decision, the deer in front of him snapped to attention and stared down the trail. Dennis heard heavy footfalls in the snow before he peeked out and saw the deer of his dreams returning.
The shot was 20 yards, and Dennis was holding the bloody arrow half an hour later. Kong lay dead 50 yards away.
After counting points and marveling at the rack's mass, Dennis decided it was time to call and wake Chris. Weeks later, they learned that the irregular 17-pointer is runner-up to provincial compound bow record. Its composite score is 196 7/8.
Jeff Morrison's story about this beast will appear in RACK magazine this fall.
No deer is despised more than a tattle-tale.
Had it not been opening day of Ohio's 2012 bow season, Brant McKenzie might've quit barely 15 or 20 minutes after sunrise. If he'd had a hand grenade, he might've hurled it at the small buck clearing its sinuses about 35 yards from the tree in which he was hiding.
The bowhunter was already a bit insecure over his choice of stand sites. He didn't want to be inside the thicket where he suspected a huge buck was spending its days, but there wasn't a tree big enough to climb around the perimeter.
He'd had misgivings about his plan of action, and now he was paying the price for ignoring his gut.
"I thought for sure I wasn't going to see anything else, but then two does sauntered through as if nothing was wrong. They eventually got real skittish, too, and it wasn't long before they busted out of there," he added.
Brant was still seething when, just a few minutes later, an enormous buck - the same one he'd been admiring on trail camera photographs, the very reason he was there - emerged from a nearby patch of honeysuckle only 14 yards from him.
Sometimes it pays to stop and smell the hay -- words to live by, according to an Arkansas tree-trimmer who counts friends like a banker counts money.
During a break from chasing turkeys in Kansas in the spring of 2010, Robert Weaver decided to cool his heels and watch someone cutting hay. The big John Deere looked like a house on wheels, and he'd never seen such a piece of machinery back home in Pine Bluff, Ark.
He noticed, too, that another of the guys there kept stealing glances at him. The man pretended he wasn't staring, but then he dropped the pretense.
"He finally just lit up and said, 'You're him!'" Robert laughed. "He thought I was Larry the Cable Guy. You know, the 'get-er-done' fella?
"He didn't believe me, at first, when I told him no," he added.
The two men became fast friends afterward.
"I guess you could say I've got the gift of gab," not-Larry said.
Robert didn't need another place to hunt in Kansas; didn't seek it. He and a friend stay at a log cabin on 200 acres, and they hunt it as well as some small walk-in tracts. But he wound up with a new set of hunting rights anyway.
The second season Robert hunted his new friends' place, he found the Holy Grail of deer hunting, which is about what it takes for him to squeeze the trigger in Kansas.
"I'm not going out there to shoot a 140- or 150-inch whitetail," he added. "I'll eat a tag sandwich before I shoot a 3 1/2- or 4 1/2-year-old deer. I've got plenty of those back home in Arkansas."
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DALLAS – If Jonas Hiller is feeling threatened by the presence of impressive newcomer Viktor Fasth, the veteran Ducks goaltender certainly isn't showing it.
Sitting a stall apart in a corner of the visitors' dressing room at American Airlines Arena on Thursday, Hiller and Fasth were talking shop and other topics like teammates often do as they rested after practice.
Hiller has seen what his fellow netminder has done for the Ducks, winning his first four NHL starts in stellar fashion and playing an increasing role in the team's high-flying 7-1-1 start.
There is a clear push being made by Fasth for more time in goal and Hiller is good with that.
"Last year, I played a lot of games," said Hiller, who appeared in a club-record 73 contests. "At some point, you kind of feel exhausted. If you have two guys who are playing well, yeah it's good.
"If you don't play well for a while or something, you know there's somebody else who can carry a team or help them win points. It's always nice to have. At the same time, it's also a challenge that you feel like now I have to play better to be up there."
That is exactly where the Ducks' goaltending situation sits. Fasth was signed to be a reliable backup, but he is undefeated and coming off his first NHL shutout, a 31-save effort Wednesday in their victory over Colorado.
His numbers warrant a greater role. Fasth has allowed only four goals in the four starts for a 0.98 goals-against average and his 101 stops in 105 shots faced represent an impressive .962 save percentage.
"Viktor's playing really solid right now," Hiller said. "At the same time, I'm not too surprised. You're not becoming the Swedish national team goalie just being average.
"I'm more surprised at how well he's adjusted to the North American style. But I think part of it is because he already has so many games under his belt. He has that experience to adapt to different situations. He's definitely playing real well right now."
Hiller hasn't played since Saturday against the Kings, which was a 7-4 victory for the Ducks. But while he made 30 saves that night, the Ducks' lead goalie since 2009 hasn't been razor sharp with a 3.54 goals-against and an .871 save percentage.
Both goalies figure to play during the rest of the trip as the Ducks will have two sets of games on consecutive nights. Hiller said he enjoys the challenge Fasth is offering daily where "in a good way, it pushes you."
Hiller's next few starts could help determine where the two will slot as the shortened season wears on.
"I want to deliver every time," he said. "I want to get better every night. Lots of times, even though I play well, I'm still not happy because I want to get better.
"Now I have a measurement point on how good I want to be or have to be. At the same time, I'm not putting too much pressure on myself. It is what it is. All I can do is play was well as possible."
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Brand new signings to Chemikal Underground, Conquering Animal Sound were brought to our attention through their astonishing debut album 'Kammerspiel'. Released on Leeds-based label Gizeh Records, it's a spectral, eleven-track wonder of creative splendidness.
Comprising Anneke Kampman and James Scott, both residents of Glasgow, CAS' brand of pop (and it is pop, make no mistake) is rendered through a kaleidoscope of clicks, tape hiss, synths and a myriad of micro-electronica to produce something that's bewitching and entirely immersive. Anneke's voice is the most flexible and affecting instrument of all though: harmonised and restless, her layered vocals wax, wane and shipshift in such gloriously inventive waves that for it all to form part of a debut seems almost rude.
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The principals' union says it expected to sign a new contract with the city long before the start of the school year this week, but then, a major issue came up and negotiations came grinding to a halt. NY1's Lindsey Christ filed the following report.
Their union says the city is refusing to pay thousands of school principals and assistant principals any of the back pay they'd earned as teachers.
"We think morally, that's wrong," said Ernest Logan, president of the principals' union. "They have worked and earned that money. They should be compensated for the money that they've earned."
Under the new teachers' union contract ratified in June, teachers will get retroactive raises covering the five years since their last contract expired, which the city will pay out over the next six years.
However, anybody who leaves their job as a teacher up until 2020 will immediately stop getting any back pay, even if the reason they leave teaching is because they've been promoted to assistant principal or principal.
The principals' union says its been trying unsuccessfully to correct that issue through its contract negotiations.
"The city owes them money, and it should not be a disincentive to take a promotion, that if I become promoted, I lose money," Logan said.
The union says this issue has kept the city and principals from reaching a contract agreement.
"If we can get this settled, we could probably have a contract done," Logan said.
City Hall officials declined to comment or explain the situation, saying they don't talk about ongoing negotiations, but Logan says the city has estimated the cost anywhere from $50 million to $100 million and suggested it just doesn't have the money.
The union says the policy would cost assistant principals or principals as much as $54,000 each.
"People will say, 'Why should I step in and take on this additional responsibility, additional accountability, and why am I being penalized for doing that?' So then you don't get the best," Logan said.
Logan says he won't budge on this since his members would never vote to ratify a deal that strips so many of them of back pay, though he says he wishes his 6,000 members were not starting yet another school year under an expired contract.
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