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Because every family deserves the blessing of a child with Down Syndrome...
Robert was born very prematurely in May 2010. He has been diagnosed with intrauterine chronic acute hypoxia, severe asphyxia, and retinopathy of prematurity.
Robert is an active child who likes to play with noisy and musical toys. He can walk, but due to his impaired vision needs to hold on to a stable support or someone's hand. Robert is friendly and interactive, but can be stubborn and is protective of his favorite toys. He eats very well and likes being first when the meals are served.
Robert needs a patient and loving family that can provide the resources he requires to develop further.
Additional photos, reports, and videos are available upon request from the agency.
From a family who met Robert in May 2014: Even though Robert has impaired vision, it is clear that he sees something as he navigates himself through the room and seeks physical contact with others. Robert can walk with stable support and cruises along walls and furniture on his own. He was very affectionate with my husband and clearly enjoyed the attention. Robert was also able to play interactively with our son when receiving some guidance. The two boys had so much fun riding the seesaw together.
Abigail was born in January 2011 and has been diagnosed with spina bifida and hydrocephalus for which she has received a shunt. Abigail also takes medication for epilepsy, but has not had any seizures since beginning treatment. She may need a surgery to correct her strabismus.
Abigail was recently seen by an orthopedic surgeon who noted that her spinal deformity and spina bifida are severe. He believes that Abigail is paraplegic and will not be able to walk in the future. Her spine will need treatment to correct its position and improve her sitting posture as well as upper body skills. Abigail is able to use her hands very well, moves around freely on the floor and sits unassisted. She struggles with solid food because she does not chew very well, but reportedly has no trouble eating cookies and candy. While Abigail is very vocal, only about 50 words in her vocabulary are completely clear to understand.
Abigail is a bright and engaging child. She speaks in complete sentences, explores, and knows exactly what is asked of her. Abigail is interested in everything, likes to talk on the phone, plays with toys, and sings. She is known as the social butterfly of her orphanage, always smiling and joyful.
From a family who met Abigail in May 2014: Abigail is a little diva! She is so tiny for her age, but her personality is explosive. She is very smart. She told me all the names of the caregivers and children. When she sees someone she shouts, "Come" and taps on the ground next to her. She is so loving, compassionate, and so kind. She frequently hugs the other children on her own doing. She doesn't have too much use of her legs at this time, but can scoot on her bottom. She has noticeable curvature of her spine. She needs that corrected. It could improve her physical abilities a lot. We put her in a walking position and she could put some weight onto her legs. She laughed so hard at herself when she was "walking." She uses a little wooden toy with wheels like a wheelchair. She rolls around everywhere, even getting into the shoes as most young girls would. She had a nasogastric tube in her nose while we were there. A virus was going around and she wasn't drinking enough so they put it in the children to make sure they were getting enough liquids. They said it was temporary and she normally eats and drinks fine. She also can feed herself and loves chocolate. Whoever adopts Abigail will be so blessed. I think she will excel in a family, and the reward for being her mom would be the biggest blessing to anyone.
From a family who met Abigail in October 2014: Abigail is the size of an infant in both height and weight. She's a social child, engaged and engaging. She communicates constantly and purposefully, but her speech is very hard to understand. She has a lovely smile. Abigail gets around quite well by scooting on her bottom. When she saw another child upset and crying, she moved over to her and gave her friend a long hug.
From a family who met her in March 2015: Abigail is a beautiful girl with a bright personality and the cutest voice. She is very talkative and likes attention. She is able to use her arms to propel herself on the ground and feed herself with a spoon. She does not let her physical limitations stop her from doing what she wants. She has the most contagious laugh and likes to be in charge and sweetly dictate her surroundings. She's such a tiny dynamite – she dramatically threw her hands on her hips and flashed a big smile as she stated her opinion. Abigail needs spinal surgery that cannot be performed in her birth country. She urgently needs a family.
Additional information is available directly from the agency.
Married couples only due to child's court appointed guardian in this case.
Gertie was born in September of 2002 and has been diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy. She receives regular physical therapy and is able to stand and walk with the help of a walker.
Gertie is described as an outgoing, sensitive and friendly girl. She eagerly takes part in group and individual activities and is very engaged in games. She likes to draw, memorizes songs and poems, and gladly completes her homework.
Update October 2014: Gertie is described as a smart, open and positive girl whose hard work continues to result in academic as well as physical progress for her. She's now in 5th grade.
Additional reports and photos are available upon request from the agency.
Adelaide was born in September 2005 and has been diagnosed with spina bifida, lower limb paresthesia, and a disorder of the hips. She is wheelchair-bound.
Adelaide is described as a sweet, joyful, and communicative girl. She is interested and participates in different activities and likes to help others. Adelaide regularly attends school and can read and write. She recites poetry and sings songs.
Update October 2014: Adelaide is being homeschooled at her orphanage at a third grade level. Her teachers are very happy with her academic progress and Adelaide likes showing off her math and language workbooks.
Additional reports and photos available upon request from the agency.
Boy, Born February 2003
Down syndrome
Jake was born in February 2003 with Down syndrome. He is a happy young man who loves animals and can talk about them for hours, especially about cats. Jake can understand English and loves music and to sing! Songs that have hand motions are his very favorite. He enjoys puzzles, books and Legos! Please give Jake a chance!
Updated April 2014:
Jake is an active, happy boy who attends school, likes to play games, and enjoys singing and dancing.
Jake has well-developed self-help skills. He eats and drinks as well as dresses and undresses independently. Jake knows how to wash his hands and face, brush his teeth, and make his bed without assistance. Jake is also potty-trained.
Jake speaks in short sentences and has a large vocabulary. He was exposed to the English language for the first several years of his life and can understand it. He tells stories, counts, and recognizes 27 letters. Jake understands simple rules and follows them. He would thrive in a loving family.
From a family who met him in 2015: Jake is such a nice boy. He will greet you happily with a handshake. Jake understands and speaks English as well as his native tongue. The caregivers and other residents at his home speak English, so he has a very good understanding of it. Jake is a very capable and independent boy. He would thrive in a family of his own.
Down syndrome, CHD (repaired)
This energy filled and vibrant little girl was born with Down syndrome in August of 2003 and is ready for an active family with lots of structure. She can understand and speak two languages, including English. She had surgery to repair a heart defect in 2003, but has required no additional treatment. Annalise is beaming with sunshine and loves cell phones and cameras, like all curious little girls! She loves to be the center of attention and is very smart!
Updated April 2014:
Annalise is an active, friendly girl who speaks clearly with an extensive vocabulary. She uses short sentences and understands two languages, one of them English. Annalise walks independently, including up and down stairs.
Annalise has great self-help skills. She eats and drinks as well as dresses and undresses without assistance. She can wash her hands and brush her teeth on her own.
Annalise attends school where she has learned to count, recognize 25 letters, cut with scissors and paint. She can re-tell a short story and participates in simple games. Annalise likes to listen to music and dances very well. She would thrive in a loving family.
From a family who met her in March 2015: Annalise is a beautiful young lady with long brown hair and the most adorable freckles. She is very sweet, but also quite independent. She came right up to me and sat on my lap. She speaks some English and is very verbal in her native tongue. The caregivers and other residents at her home speak English, so she has a good understanding of it. Annalise is adored by the other residents and caregivers in her home.
Boy, Born July 2004
Down syndrome, ADD
Sweet Harlan was born in July of 2004. He has been diagnosed with Down syndrome and Attention Deficit Disorder. He does not use speech as means of communication and he has cognitive delays. He needs assistance with basic daily living skills.
Update October 2014: Harlan is nonverbal and his development continues to be significantly delayed, but he can now walk independently.
Additional photos, video and report available from the agency.
Boy, Born July 2000
Brandon was born in July of 2000. He has been diagnosed with Down syndrome. He is described as calm, smiley, active, and friendly. He likes toys, especially blocks. He likes to show what he has built with blocks and is very proud with himself. He does not pronounce words clearly, but most people are able to understand what he was saying. He is able to understand what is being said to him, as well as perform simple tasks. He recognizes some items and knows the colors. He is described as "a very sweet boy".
Photos, video and a report are available from the agency upon request.
Girl, Born May 2003
Sweet Addison was born in May of 2003. She has been diagnosed with Down syndrome. She is described as extremely active, joyful and friendly. She does not speak, but is able to let you know what she wants and when you ask her questions she answers by gestures and making sounds. She loves toys, especially blocks. She communicates with other children very well.
Update October 2014: Addison attends third grade and is described as a good girl. Even though she is still nonverbal, she appears to understand at least some of what is said to her and responds in her own ways.
Additional information available upon request from the agency.
Down syndrome
Sweet Eva was born in September of 2004. She is described as an active, joyful girl who likes toys and to play games. She is also very friendly and likes to communicate with people.
Update October 2014: Eva is described as an easy child who understands instructions and partially takes care of her own daily needs. She attends third grade.
Additional information is available from the agency, upon request.
Girl, Born November 2009
Down syndrome
Laura was born in November 2009 and has Down Syndrome. Her heart has an open oval window without hemodynamic disorders. There has been no need for monitoring or treatment by a cardiologist. Laura receives physical and speech therapy.
Laura's caregivers report that she is a sweet and joyful girl who likes playing with toys, listening and moving to music, and spending time with other children. She is active and affectionate and it's easy to make her laugh.
Laura cannot yet walk independently, but tries to do so with help. She can climb and scoot along on the floor as well as feed herself. Laura is currently non-verbal, but follows simple instructions and responds to her name.
Laura lives in a great bilingual orphanage where she is exposed to the English language and receives wonderful care and attention.
Updates July 2, 2012 & September 30, 2012: Laura responds when she hears her name by looking or turning her head and smiles. She can give you a small item if asked. She is not eating by herself yet, but can put food in her mouth. She is not speaking or walking yet but is progressing little by little. She is described as playful and you can easily make her laugh. She likes to sit and take everything in around her.
Updates February & March 2013:
Our agency staff representative visited Laura in February and March and our Executive Director visited Laura in February. They provided the following update: Laura is healthy and joyful as usual. She is very active and affectionate. She can entertain herself but likes attention very much. She does not walk yet, but is able to climb up the couch or on the chair or back to the floor. She does not say any words yet. She enjoys listening to music, rocks back and forth to the beat. She has a good appetite! Laura has a best friend in her orphanage and likes to play on her own or with him most of the time. Laura is in a bilingual orphanage, one of which is English, so she is used to hearing English and her native language. We have updated photos available upon request!
Update July 2014:
Laura can now stand up without assistance and walk when held by the hands. She is a very quick crawler and using this skill to get everywhere. Laura feeds herself and understands instructions both in her native language and English.
From a family who met Laura in March 2015: Laura is so sweet. The first day we saw her, she was engaging in imaginative play and diligently caring for her baby doll and feeding herself and baby pretend food. Laura also likes music and dancing. The caregivers were playing a children's music video that she found quite engaging. She is affectionate and sat cuddled in my lap for a time. Laura has been curious about us as we've been visiting our daughter.
Happy Callum was born in February of 2010 and has been diagnosed with "defect of urinary and reproductive organs, external auditory canal atresia of the right ear".
His caretakers state that he is a very sweet, smiley boy. He knows his caretakers and seems to respond to them. He is a little behind developmentally but they think he will catch up with assistance.
Update from January 2013: After visiting with Callum in January, our agency representative had the following update. Although Callum has some issues with one ear, he is still able to hear. He can walk, but does not speak. He can hear and understand simple tasks. Callum is a very reserved, calm and friendly boy. He likes to play by himself rather than with the other children. He is also very affectionate and likes when people love him and say good things to him. He likes to have his privacy and when he is playing with toys he does not like when somebody interrupts him. He has a good appetite, but has his favorite foods; if he does not like something he will refuse to eat it, as any typical toddler does! Additional photos and videos available upon request from the agency.
Update May 2013: After visiting with Callum in May, our agency representative had the following update. Recently, Callum was taken for a medical examination. The result showed that he does not have one kidney and the other is small. But he is feeling not bad. He still is not speaking or trying to speak. He understands and makes his caretakers understand what he wants with gestures and expressions. It appears that he can hear something, but probably not enough to speak yet. He is playful and friendly as usual, but he loves attention, and if you do not pay attention to him, he may start to cry and become very fussy. He wants visitors to play with him, and if you play with other child he may go to the corner, sit there by himself and feel upset.
Boy, Born April 2009
Down syndrome, CHD
Sweet Christian was born in April of 2009 with Down syndrome and a heart condition. He is a happy and fun little guy. Christian is active, attentive, gives lots of smiles and loved very much by his caregivers. He enjoys watching television, listening to music, playing with toys and eating cookies! Additional photos and video are available from the agency.
Update from January 22, 2013: Christian is able to walk, is very active and likes to dance. He is able to say various words but he cannot speak in sentences. Christian is described as very kind, friendly, shy and sensitive. He also enjoys listening to music and knows many songs by heart. He is smart and knows how to play many different games. Christian knows different characters from various cartoons and sometimes asks for a certain cartoon to watch. He is able to eat by himself, except for soup, as he sometimes makes a little bit of a mess!
Update May 2013: After visiting with Christian in May, our agency representative had the following update. Christian can walk independently now. He speaks (although his words are a little unclear). He answers the questions, e:g: where is "Neal" (he knows all children) or how are you, completes simple requests. He has become very active and very joyful. The Orphanage Director says that he is very smart and very kind. Our in-country representative feels that the family who adopts Christian will be blessed. At present he is healthy and in a good mood.
Peyton was born in December 2009 and has been diagnosed with hypospadias, polydactyly of the right hand, syndactyly of the right foot, and cleft lip/palate (surgically corrected).
Little is known about Peyton's development at this time. He is said to have a congenital developmental defect and is significantly delayed. He can walk independently. At the time of our last update, Peyton could not yet speak and struggled to make eye contact. Peyton will need a family that can patiently and lovingly care for him and his complex needs.
Additional reports, photos and video available upon request from the agency.
Susie was born prematurely at 27 weeks gestation in June 2011. She has been diagnosed with multiple malformations of the brain, including agenesis of the corpus callosum, porencephaly, hydrocephaly, and hematomas. A catheter and shunt have been placed to allow fluids to drain from Susie's brain. Susie has epilepsy, is blind, has no head control, and has significant developmental delays, but she reacts when someone speaks to her and loves music. Additional photos and reports are available upon request from the agency.
Please note: Married couples are given preference due to child's court appointed guardian in this case.
Down syndrome
Nicholas was born in May of 2011. His physical development is on target. He is able to sit up, stand and is able to walk holding onto furniture. He is very active and likes to play with toys and other children. Nicholas is also very observant; when someone is playing with other kids of his group, he watches them very attentively as if wanting to take part in it. He has been seen playing with one of the other boys in his group, they giggle and talk in their own little language, as if they know exactly what the other is saying. In general, Nicholas is a serious child, but if you make him smile he smiles. He currently eats and sleeps well.
Update February 2014:
Nicholas is an active and very sweet boy. He likes to run around and gladly plays with toys and other children. He eats and sleeps well. Though non-verbal at this time, Nicholas is described as a very responsive child who understands everything that is said to him and follows instructions. His nannies adore him.
Nicholas is special friends with another little boy in his group; they giggle and communicate in their own private language, as if they know exactly what the other is saying.
Nicholas would thrive in a loving family.
Photos, videos and additional reports are available upon request from the agency.
Girl, born November, 2008
Cerebral palsy and congenital developmental defect (cleft palate, right sided syndactyly).
Due to Mackenzie's difficulty gaining weight, she did not have an operation for her cleft palate, but with time it has closed on its own. As her cleft palate closed itself, she is now able to eat almost everything, and has started to gain weight better. She stands only holding on something, but is able to crawl and scoot around well. She is very smiley and likes to be loved. She knows her name and reacts to it. She seems to know the caretakers, but her reactions and the way she plays corresponds to a one year old child. She plays with toys; but when she sees something new, she wants to take it to her mouth first. She does not speak and does not make sounds. Additional photos, video and report available upon request from the agency.
Comments from a current traveling family: "While visiting with our daughter [in the same orphanage] we had the chance to spend some time with "Mackenzie". Wow… She is an amazing little girl with such a will for life. She shows such determination in everything she does and truly lives her life not letting anything get her down or in her way. She is such a happy little girl with the most contagious beautiful smile. Her diagnosis does not define her and it is clear that she will live life to the fullest if given the chance. She loves when she is talked to, loves listening to music and embraces the touch of others. She is loved dearly by everyone around her while she waits patiently for her forever family."
From a family who met Mackenzie in May 2014: Mackenzie is a sweet and loving girl. She can now pull to a stand without assistance and cruise along stable support. She is even able to wobbly walk while pushing a walker.
Reese was born in April 2007 and has an infectious smile and piercing blue eyes. Reese has been diagnosed with strabismus, Spina bifida and hydrocephaly, receiving a shunt shortly after birth.
He is able to crawl with assistance, but cannot sit up without support. He receives physical and occupational therapy which has improved his head control. He enjoys books, blocks and singing songs. He is able to feed himself finger foods, such as bread and cookies. His caretakers say he is extremely smart and has an extensive vocabulary for his age. Currently he is completely immobile, but would really like to use a wheelchair like many of his friends. Any family interested in Reese will need to be prepared for obstacles that may come with his diagnoses.
From a family who met him in March 2015: Reese is such a joy! He just laughs and laughs and loves to be a part of the other children's laughter and joy. He even waved at me and blew me a kiss. Reese is verbal, I heard him speaking some English as well as in his native tongue. I was told that he will often start prayers and has them memorized. Reese would thrive in a family that could provide him with the therapies and love that he deserves. He really is a bright boy, but his physical limitations hold him back.
Married couples are given preference due to child's court appointed guardian in this case.
Nigel was born prematurely at 29 weeks gestation in February of 2007, weighing 1500g. At the age of two months, Nigel was diagnosed with hypertensive syndrome and deformation of the head. A neurologist has also stated that his cerebellum is small and that is why he had some problems with coordination (in the past).
Nigel was brought to the orphanage when he was 5 months old and lived with his parents until that time. At the orphanage his issues with coordination improved and at present there are no concerns. He is able to walk, run and is very active. After being placed in the orphanage it was also found that he has a hearing impairment. He has not had a full hearing screen but it has been suggested that his impairment is rather severe. His caretakers are apprehensive of anesthesia needing to be used to check the issue further and will wait to see if there are other options. Nigel also has vision impairment, but he does not wear glasses at this time as he ends up breaking them. He is described as a happy boy, who is also very neat. He does not like when something is not in its place or the table is dirty or his clothes are dirty. He lets the caretakers know about it and ask them to clean it. He does not speak and does not say sounds, but is able to let his caretakers know what he wants by gestures. He loves going outside and is also very friendly.
Update October 2014: Despite wearing hearing aids, Nigel continues to be nonverbal. He is homeschooled at his orphanage where he feels more comfortable than in a public school setting. In unfamiliar or stressful situations, Nigel exhibits stubbornness and aggression. His social worker believes that he would make progress in a dedicated family.
Additional photos and video are available upon request from the agency.
Handsome Graham was born in April of 2007. He is developmentally delayed, does not speak and does not make sounds. He seems to understand some of what is said to him. He may also have cerebral palsy or another disorder affecting his motor skills.
Graham is described as kind, friendly, smiley, and joyful. He is very active and enjoys participating in games. Graham can complete a task when you repeat the instructions many times and show him what to do.
Update October 2014: Graham just started attending a school for hearing impaired children where testing is underway to get him a proper hearing aid. He continues to be nonverbal, but follows instructions and finds ways to communicate. Graham's self-help skills are evolving. He's now potty-trained and feeds himself.
Additional reports, photos and video available upon request from the agency.
Olivia was born prematurely in November 2013 and has been diagnosed with hydrocephalus, spina bifida, liquorrhea, paralysis of the lower limbs, and malformations of the feet. She received a shunt in early infancy.
Olivia is able to track with her eyes, has some head control, can roll over with help, but does not yet sit without support. The movement in Olivia's arms and hands is not restricted and she actively reaches for, holds and manipulates objects. Her caretakers describe her as an attentive girl who understands what they say to her and babbles a lot.
Head circumference in September 2014: 43.8 cm
Weight in September 2014: 6.2 kg
Height in September 2014: 63 cm
Additional information, photos and video available directly from the agency. Married couples only due to court appointed guardian.
From a family who met her in March 2015: What a gem! This little girl is such a doll with the biggest, most beautiful eyes. She is very alert and babbles. Olivia enjoys attention, even dropping her toy and whining so that someone would pay attention to her. Olivia appears to have good control of her arms and can sit up.
Alexis was born in August 2006 and has been diagnosed with pelvic positioning of the left kidney, congenital hypotrophy, and mild cognitive delays. Alexis can walk independently, is potty-trained, dresses and undresses without help, and feeds herself.
Though a bit shy with strangers, Alexis is sociable, communicative, and gladly participates in games and activities. She is described as obedient and easily follows directions from her caretakers. Alexis likes to recite poems and sing songs, as well as play with toys like dolls, purses, etc. Alexis's teachers note that she is able to learn and reasons well. In November 2013, she could count to ten and had just begun learning her letters.
Additional photos, video and reports available upon request from the agency.
Little Max was born in February 2014 and has been diagnosed with bilirubin encephalopathy, cerebral palsy, and first degree hypotrophy. Max had ABO and rhesus incompatibility with his birth mother for which he received a blood transfusion after he was born.
Max does not yet have head control, but he can open his hands and move his fingers. He recognizes his caregivers and smiles at them when they speak to him. He enjoys physical affection.
Update November 2014: Max has improved his head control and can roll from back to tummy, but does not yet sit or crawl. He does not reach for things, but can hold objects handed to him. Max likes playing with his caretakers and enjoys receiving hugs. He is a happy boy who is starting to babble.
Boy, born 2006
Down syndrome
Jotham was born in April 2006 and has Down Syndrome. He is described as a well-behaved and good boy who is being homeschooled at his orphanage because he did not adjust well to a traditional classroom setting. Jotham can walk independently, is aware of his environment and knows the people around him. He follows instructions and has begun to communicate with words.
Additional information, including video, available upon request from the agency.
Adorable Nolan was born in April 2010 and has Down Syndrome. He also has a congenital heart defect.
Nolan is a sociable child who enjoys playing with toys. He can cruise along stable support and is quite a little climber. Even though Nolan does not yet speak, he understands instructions. He likes moving to music, eats well and sleeps soundly.
Update Oct 2014:
From a family who met Nolan in October 2014: Nolan is an active little boy and very interested in the happenings in his environment. When we visited his room with our son who used to live there, he instantly tried to interact with our son who had crawled into the playpen with the other kids plus Nolan was watching what we were doing as well. Nolan cannot yet walk, but sits, stands, crawls, and cruises. He eats and sleeps well. Nolan still uses diapers, but his caretakers know his typical bathroom times and put him on the potty for them. When I picked up Nolan, he made wonderful eye contact with me and I heard him babble different sound combinations. His caretakers told me he is a kind child who enjoys and seeks physical affection and attention from others.
Additional photos and personal information available upon request from the agency.
Lana was born in June 2002 and has Down Syndrome.
Lana is described as a very sweet, quiet girl with a beautiful smile. She is shy and does not speak, but she understands what is said to her and in her way answers questions. Lana can also carry out simple requests.
Lana is obedient with her caretakers. She participates in games as well as group and individual activities. Her self-help skills are good.
Lana loves to dance, likes everything pink, and is a very girly girl. She would thrive in a devoted family.
Update October 2014: Lana is a good girl who attends school where she participates in class and completes the tasks given to her. She is a very organized child and follows instructions.
Additional photos and personal information available upon request from the agency.


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In 2001, Roger Manins recorded his first album, Hip Flask, in the ABC Studios in Sydney. Following it's 2005 release, Australian reviewer Peter Wockner described the album as an 'ominous signal to the jazz world', an album heralding the arrival of a musician of great integrity, virtuosity, and fidelity to the values that animate the highly expressive, perpetually evolving genre of jazz.
Just over a decade later in December 2013, Roger assembled the same musicians to record a second Hip Flask album. The result is 2, a vibrant set of self-penned blues-based compositions driven by killer-grooves and an unapologetic love melody. This is jazz of a high order, performed by musicians of exceptional skill and musicality, and an infectious sense of fun.
This double CD release features both Hip Flask albums.
Join us for the launch at CJC in Auckland, Wednesday September 17.
This suite of twelve works for solo piano composed by some of New Zealand's most renowned composers marks the Rattle debut of New Zealand pianist Henry Wong Doe. A superb recording, brimming with colour, texture and passion, LANDSCAPE PRELUDES is set to be a New Zealand classic.
"When a virtuoso is called for, Wong Doe is your man. If you buy just one classical CD this year, make it Landscape Preludes." - William Dart, The Herald
Jazz trumpet player and composer Alexis French makes his Rattle debut with THE CUT, an album of originals featuring a tight ensemble of some of the best young jazz talent in Canada. Featuring David Bellemare (saxophone), Nicolas Ferron (guitar), Nicolas Bedard (bass) and Mark Nelson (drums).
Dog is an Auckland quartet featuring four of New Zealand's most highly regarded jazz musicians and composers. DOG, their superb first album, marks their Rattle debut. The music is fresh and vibrant, composed and performed by four outstanding, highly disciplined artists who live and breathe jazz – and it shows. Featuring Roger Manins (sax), Kevin Field (piano), Ron Samsom (drums) and Olivier Holland (bass), these guys are barkingly good! Bone appetite! Ruff ruff!
Jonathan Crayford marks his Rattle debut with the exceptional DARK LIGHT. Recorded at Systems Two in New York City by Mike Marciano, the album features Ben Street on bass and Dan Weiss on drums, two of the most remarkable (and highly in demand) of the new generation of New York jazz musicians.
yeahyeahabsolutelynoway! is an Adelaide-‐based jazz trio comprised of two guitars and drums. The group write and perform contemporary jazz that is firmly and affectionately rooted in 70's fusion. Their genre-‐bending style brings together elements from the jazz tradition with tinges of rock and smatterings of ambient loveliness, weaving composition and improvisation in a unique and imaginative way, creating original music that can be both subtle and explosive.
Taran Singh's Free Jazz Hour regularly features tracks from Rattle albums.
Check out this excellent music site here.
"NAGA is a collection of outstandingly imaginative pieces, performed with impressive skill and panache by our two gamelan ensembles" says album producer Jack Body. Rattle is proud to present this unique music as part of our ongoing collection of contemporary art music from Aotearoa.
"Those who have immersed themselves in traditional gamelan music and drifted off in its crisscross rhythms and melodies, this collection will frequently shake you out of that reverie. It is risky, fun in places, thoughtful in others, and yet still offers that escape into a meditative state sometimes. Quite a project, quite a collection."
"What a stellar start to 2014 for Rattle. The five star soundtracks White Lies (John Psathas) and Beyond The Edge (David Long) have made it to CD, the Brad Dutz Quartet's Peripheral Hearing is an unlikely ensemble combination that adds depth to the label's extensive catalogue, and now Rob Thorne adds his voice to a growing list of ethnomusicologists working with the sounds of traditional Maori instruments on his Rattle debut, WHAIA TE MARAMATANGA.
Formed in late 2010, The Jac started out as a rehearsal band for students and tutors at the NZSM jazz school in Wellington, transcribing and performing charts by New York and San Francisco composers. Before long they began writing and performing their own music, and Nerve is the result, a suite of intelligent, dynamic compositions for jazz octet.
Oboe and cello are rarely associated with jazz, a form that allows relatively more freedom than is usually found within classical forms. Consequently, no other group sounds quite like the Brad Dutz Quartet, which over four albums has created a body of music that is challenging, at times difficult, but always fun. Peripheral Hearing is no exception, a richly rewarding album of 21st-century music.
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The Civil War: Up close and personal
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Editor's note: Kevin Smithwood, of Wolfeboro, is a junior at Colby College in Maine and he spent the past three weeks of his January break at the NH Farm Museum going through 38 letters in the museum's archives that were written from Civil War soldier John Varney of Milton to his brother-in-law Charles Jones of the Jones Farm (now the NH Farm Museum). Varney served in the war from 1861 to 1865.
In the 1860 Census, Varney was listed as the head of a large household containing 15 people. He lived with his wife, Nancy, and ran a shoemaking shop with his brother Charles. In addition, they employed 10 workers and housed them all along with the wives of those who were married. The success John H. Varney enjoyed was abruptly interrupted with the outbreak of the war in 1861. Patriotism and visions of a short, glorious war swept through the north and Varney left his home and family to join the Union and fight the "Rebs." Before he left, he made a promise to his wife that he would not expose himself to battle if she maintained her health, a promise it appears both of them kept throughout the war.
He also believed the length of the war and the massive casualties in it were due to Union leadership's inability to exploit the numeric superiority of the North and recruit able men. He was highly critical of "bounty men," who enlisted only after the federal government enacted laws to pay for enlistments. Varney despised these men and characterized them as poor soldiers. In his letters to Charles Jones, he never criticized slavery or expressed a desire to end the institution. This, however, did not mean he was racist. Varney rarely depicted African-Americans in his letters, but when he did it was always in a positive light. He characterized African-Americans as "brighter than the whites" and "good soldiers." Varney rarely discussed preserving the Union and gave no indication that he was motivated by a desire to keep the country intact. As early as 1862, Varney stated, "I am for the recognition of the Southern Confederacy."
Varney voted for Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 election "with little heart" and with the expectation that he would be discharged from the army a few weeks later. Never one to hold his tongue, he routinely criticized Lincoln in the months before the election. There has been a renewed focus on Lincoln recently and his amazing abilities as a leader and strategist, but to Varney he was nothing more than an idealistic and incompetent politician. Varney lashed out at the president for clinging on to hopes of winning the war without recruiting enough men to do so.
After the war, John Varney's life was never the same. His once-thriving shoe shop was now lifeless and he was forced to start a new life. On his way home he probably passed by Eli Wentworth's house. The family inside held a letter Varney wrote them in 1863 to tell them Eli was never coming home. In the ultimate act of adding insult to injury, Varney discovered a bill the government claimed Wentworth owed them for supplies. He wondered how a man who died serving his country could possibly owe the government anything.


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9. Rain
I don't care where you live; you cannot know what rain sounds like until you have come to Minas Tirith. It batters against the stone walls and the windows like a hail of pebbles, rattling the rooftops with an insistent roar. It gathers into streams and goes whispering through the old gutters, rising and pooling in the cracks between the flagstones—there is no earth into which it can sink. After a rainfall, the City can stay grey and damp for days on end, like a sodden garment left out in the sun.
There were murmurs of the lingering threat in the East, a Captains' council, and the man who had come to Minas Tirith claiming kingship. Depending upon where you worked and the sharpness of your ears, you might have had any number of rumors and speculations from which to choose. I heard some of the younger surgeons talking about a lull, perhaps a lasting peace. Ioreth would tell anyone whom she presumed would listen (that is, anyone within earshot) about the new King and the strength of his line, the power of his summonings. Most of the soldiers and riders and guardsmen in the City had drawn themselves back into their own private knots, speaking of the prospect for a new battle, guessing at the numbers of men that could be mustered and the strength remaining within Mordor. The mood seemed to go from grim to hopeful to grim again in the space of a few moments, and so when the rain began, the less confident took it as a sign that things would not go well.
"None of them know what they're talking about," Fíriel said. She made a clucking noise with her tongue, a thing she had once told me she tried not to do, as it made her sound like an old wife.
"What do you think is going to happen?" I asked. As I still felt myself to be on uncertain ground with her after the exchange in the dispensary, I refrained from mentioning the cluck.
"I don't know. I don't see any use in trying to guess at such things."
"Well, you must—at least a small bit. Everyone does."
She was quiet for a moment and she closed her eyes. I listened to the assault of water on the high roofs above us. The grey storm clouds had none of the heavy malice that had accompanied the murk on that dawnless day of the Siege.
"I think that something has got to happen soon. Either we go out, or they come to us once more. Things cannot stay this way." She paused. "But Ioreth also tells me that this man—this king—is a healer, like us. And that is certainly encouraging." She smiled, but then she looked at me again and stopped. "Are you all right?"
"Yes. I'm just tired."
"As are we all," she sighed, and she reached over to straighten the cloth on my head. It had made itself crooked again.
* * *
The injured soldier's words would not leave me. They rung in my ears and turned in my stomach. I went to look for Valacar.
"Not here," Laeron told me when I asked him.
"Where is he? I'd like to speak with him."
"Meeting with the Warden, I believe. Look, what is this all about?"
"It—" I stopped and shook my head. I wanted to tell him. I wanted to tell someone. I now had secrets wrapped in secrets, and I could not tease out one piece without unraveling all of it at once. "I think—I think one of the men might be angry with him."
"Angry with him? Why?"
"I don't know. He seems a bit—" I touched a hand to my head. "Not all right."
"Did he say anything, that might…"
"He spoke to me, and he said…" I could feel the threads coming apart in my hands even as I went on. "He said that I did well to speak to those who would soon be no more."
Laeron folded his arms. "But isn't that what you were doing? Tending to the dying men?"
"Well, I was, but the way he said it, Laeron…"
"How did he say it, then?"
"He just sort of—he whispered it. In my ear. But before that, he clutched at me." I touched my arm. "Pulled me in. Trying to frighten me, I suppose."
"If he was trying to frighten you, why are you afraid for Valacar?" I opened my mouth, but Laeron continued: "Which of the men is this, anyway? Do you want someone to go and talk to him for you?"
"No. That's all right—"
"Because that's not a proper way to speak to a young lady, you know. And a healer, besides."
"It's all right, Laeron. Thank you." I turned to go, hiding a smile.
"Wait," he said. "Do you think you might—could you stay, for a while? I don't know when Valacar will be back, and I—well, I've never worked by myself before."
"Of course," I nodded. "Of course I'll stay."
* * *
That was the day I saw the slower-paid wages of the battle. The men with rotted wounds that had crept slowly up their arms and legs—bandages had to be peeled off, and blackness pared away so that the sickness would not take them whole.
I had learned, in my own strange way, to appreciate amputations—I suspect that many of us did. Certainly they were cleaner—if any surgery can truly be called cleaner than another—than the chest-wounds and the stomach-wounds. It was clear, most of the time: go through the flesh, then through the bone with the large saw, then the flesh again. Stitch it all closed, and you know that you are finished.
I had never seen Laeron work before. He was different. When the scalpel was in his hand, all the fidgeting and the nervous shifting subsided. Even his voice took on a slightly different pitch, as if he was no longer searching for the direction in which his words would go. He would do the final inspections and pronouncements before we began: right arm below the elbow, left leg below the knee. Right leg, above the knee.
These men would be all right, I thought. Their wounds would heal. They would live. And maybe Laeron was right about my worries: perhaps it was nothing. It all sounded so silly and formless, anyway, when I had tried to put it all into words. Perhaps everything would be fine.
We did four or five operations in a row. My arms and hands ached. I stood at the washbasin and scrubbed blood from beneath my fingernails. Laeron sat in the chair against the wall, his head tilted back.
"I don't like the way they move them in and out," he said.
"What?" I shook water from my hands.
"They just bring them in one at a time, and then they get taken away when it's done. I suppose it makes me feel like a butcher."
"Well, you're a fine butcher, then."
He smiled, and then he cleared his throat. "The Warden once told me that they used to do it all out in the open, out on the north ward. That might have been better, I guess. Just leave them lying in one place."
"Why did they change it?"
"Probably because…well, it would have been hard on the others. The screaming, I suppose. The sight of everything. So now we work in these little rooms, when we are able."
There was a pause, and I listened through the silence.
"It's still raining," I said.
"Is it?"
He closed his eyes, and then he nodded. "It must be dreadful on the lower circles." He was quiet, and then he opened his eyes and stared at me.
"It doesn't make any sense."
"Why would one of the men take up a grudge against a healer?"
I shook my head. "He might…perhaps he might not understand everything. So—perhaps the men we worked on today might be angry at us, for a little while. We took something from them, after all."
I shook the water from my hands; I did not dry them on the front of my smock because the cloth was already too filthy from the day's work. Laeron got up and walked over to the washstand, splashing water up to his forearms.
"What happened?" he asked. He turned around to look at me, and when I was silent he stared back into the basin. "I'm not stupid, believe it or not."
"Laeron, I—"
"You what? Can't quite trust me, I suppose?" He was scrubbing very hard, one finger at a time, as all the surgeons did.
"Because I trust you," he said. "And Valacar," he added quietly, with a little snort. "Even though he never tells me anything."
I went and stood next to him, and he still did not look at me.
"It's not a choice of mine, Laeron. Whether or not I—but I do trust you."
He sighed, and he did not speak again until he was finished washing his hands.
"Whatever it is, it must be nothing, indeed, compared to—well, compared to everything else." He shook his head.
"Most things are."
* * *
Because there was no one else to remove them, we gathered the soiled towels into baskets and carried them to the laundry. In the corridor next to the north ward we passed Elloth, who gave us a nod.
When she was gone, Laeron glared at me suddenly.
"And did you tell Valacar that I liked Elloth?"
"No." He continued to stare at me over the pile of bloody cloths. "Maybe. I don't remember."
"Because I don't, you know."
"All right."
"Probably too good for me, anyway," he muttered.
"No!" I said, laughing for what felt like the first time in days. "More the opposite, I should think."
Laeron blushed the same shade as the towels, and then he mumbled something I could not make out.
We were silent as we walked past the north ward. The men were still clustered everywhere, standing in the aisles and resting against the walls, voices raised to compete with the added murmur of the rain. The wounded soldier was standing by an entryway on the opposite side of the room. I tried to look away, but before I could he caught my eye and held it. I started, and stared down into my basket.
"Are you all right?" Laeron asked me.
"Fine," I murmured. My stomach hurt. "I'm just fine."
* * *
For once, the thick steam of the laundry room felt good. We set down our towels, and then I pulled my smock over my head and set it on the pile. For all the hours I had spent stripping pieces of mail and armor from dead and wounded men, I was still convinced that a dirty smock was the heaviest garment in the world.
Laeron watched me and wiped his brow, raked a hand through his hair. He looked around at the huge tubs and wringers with mild curiosity.
"Never been here before, then?" I asked him.
"I have, but not for years." He leaned one shoulder against the pale wall and rubbed his eyes. Then he laughed.
"Is something funny?"
"I was—no, I was just thinking. I heard something strange, today."
"I was looking in on Lord Tarnion's son—he took a spear to the side while he was on the walls, you see. He was running a fever this morning and Tarnion came to visit. The man's been in a bad way ever since they brought his son back up from the fighting. And the son was sleeping well, but Tarnion was terribly nervous. He reminded me," Laeron paused, then gave a rueful little grin, "well, of me, I suppose. Kept walking to and fro, wouldn't be quiet. I tried to get him to leave, but he just kept talking to me, joking with me—trying to make himself feel better, I'd wager.
"And he asked me how I liked working here. And I said, well enough, but that it was hard work. Then he gave me an odd sort of smile, and clasped me on the shoulder, and said, 'That Aradîr's not giving you too much trouble, then, now is he?' And I said no, he was a good master for the Houses. And then Lord Tarnion just sort of laughed, and said how funny he thought it was that he had been made Master in the first place. I asked him why that was, and then he laughed again (I was afraid he would wake his son) and said that he had heard that Lord Aradîr was wont to dislike fellows like me."
"Fellows like you?" I asked.
Laeron nodded. "He looked to be in a bad way. And he kept calling me 'lad,' as well. 'You greycoats, lad,' he said, 'with those soft hands of yours. You did not hear this from me, lad, but he had some terrible trouble some years back.' And then he asked me if I had ever seen Lord Aradîr's wife, and I said that I didn't think I had. And he just said, 'Well, she's a pretty one, if ever there was.' And then he gave that odd sort of smile again, and he did this."
Laeron held up his left hand, and with his right thumb and forefinger he pressed one of the fingers on his left. It was the finger on which our men and women are accustomed to wearing their wedding rings.
"Well, that's odd," I murmured.
"Aye," Laeron nodded.
"How is his son faring?" I asked as we left the laundry.
"Oh… Well…he's gone, actually. He died earlier this afternoon." He shrugged, and scuffed at the floor with the toe of his shoe. "And a strong one, too. We all thought that he would make it."
* * *
In the corridor, Beren was talking to Elloth. He looked up and smiled when he saw us.
"There you are," he said.
"Here I am," I shrugged. "Beren, this is Laeron," I said, gesturing towards him. "He's a surgeon."
"Just an apprentice," Laeron said. He smiled at Beren and then glanced at Elloth, who looked at me with her eyebrows raised.
"But a very good one," I said. "And Beren is with the City infantry." The two young men shook hands. Laeron was all height and angles next to Beren, who stood firmly planted, one foot slightly forward.
"The surgeons here do excellent work," he said.
"Well, we—we certainly try, I suppose. Thank you." Laeron passed a hand through his hair again. We were both still slightly damp from the air of the laundry, and Beren's clothes were dark with water—he had probably just come in from the outside. "And the same may be said of the soldiers here."
"Yes. Lovely work," Elloth smiled.
"Thank you," Beren chuckled. "We try, as well."
"Well," Elloth intoned, as if she were singing the opening note of a song, "I should return to the dispensary, now." Her gaze went from Beren to me, and back again. "Perhaps you should come too, Laeron," she said with an indulgent little grin in my direction, which I pretended to ignore.
"Oh—well, ah—all right then," said Laeron, looking at each of us in turn. The calm young surgeon was fading away, and the nervous lad returning in his place.
"Quite," Elloth nodded approvingly. "Good even—it was very nice to speak with you, Beren."
"And with you."
"And what were you talking to Elloth about?" I asked Beren after they had left.
"I simply asked her if she had seen you."
"She also remarked that you were a good healer, but a very poor player of cards."
Under my breath, I muttered something uncharitable.
"What was that?"
"Nothing," I said. Then I smiled. "But she thinks you do lovely work." I made two broad, violent slashes with an invisible sword. "Just…lovely." I stabbed for emphasis.
"Well," he mused, one hand on his chin. "She is very pretty." He dropped the last word to a half-whisper and leaned towards me.
I had no reply to make to that, save to put my right elbow into his ribs.
"Hi!" he laughed. "None of that, now." He shifted his weight away from me, and when he caught his balance once more he had slipped an arm about my waist. "I've already been wounded once in this war."
He was warm against me, and I did not meet his eyes. We were alone in the hallway.
"And might you be, again?" I asked after several moments.
"Perhaps." He drew a slow breath. "That's not for me to say."
"Then what say the others?"
He was silent, and then I heard him clear his throat. "That Gondor is not yet safe."
"What would you do to make it so, then?" I was not sure if I should lean in closer to him, or if I should pluck his hand away altogether. "Would you attack, or defend?"
"I would do whatever was commanded of me. Of my company."
"And if that choice was yours?" I shifted my weight but stayed as I was.
"It would not be. Ever."
"Does it bother you?"
"Does what bother me?"
"Never to have a choice."
I could feel him shrug.
"It was my choice to be a soldier. I knew I would have to follow orders. And what sort of a question is that? You do whatever your Warden asks of you, don't you?"
"The orders I follow would never kill me," I said, and regretted it immediately. I was always saying regrettable things to this young man, it seemed.
He was silent for a moment, and then he sighed. "Well, I don't know what to tell you, then." I looked up at him to find him staring at me. "I have to trust my captains."
I nodded.
He stepped back from me. "And yet…" he shook his head. "I feel as though there is something they aren't telling us. Something we're not privy to."
I snorted. "I feel the same way."
"Oh?" He raised his eyebrows. "About what?"
His response was simply to continue looking at me. One day, I thought for no reason in particular. One day I will be able to stare down this man, and he will be sorry indeed. I had seen him as he was that day in the south ward, dressed in his mail, blade at his side, blood running bright trails down his face. But as he was now, I could not imagine him in battle, could not imagine him moving to kill. But then, there was probably very much I could not imagine about him. Very much that I did not know.
"Well, that is the way of things, I suppose. We see naught but our own skirmishes." He paused, and his expression was pointed. "And what about that other fellow, then? What were you talking with him about?"
"Oh? Laeron? I was aiding him at the surgery."
"Do you do that very often?"
"Sometimes. He's in love with Elloth, you know."
"Is he?"
"Yes." I grimaced—another regrettable thing. "But pretend I didn't say that. I'm supposed to be good at keeping secrets."
"So am I."
I looked at him, and then I reached for his hand. I wanted to hold something that was not dying or dead.
"What would you do, Beren, if…suppose your friend was wounded near to death."
"My friends were wounded." He closed his fingers around mine and I thought of Tarondor. "They are." He paused. "I would stay with him, if I could. That's what I would want. If it were me."
"Aye." I swallowed. "That's well."
"That's what anyone would do, I should think." With his other hand he reached up and put two fingers beneath my chin. "Here, now—why all these questions? I never ask you anything."
"I worry." I smiled. "Ask me anything."
"Fine, then. Which circle are you from?"
"And how long have you lived there?"
"All my life."
"And why are you a healer?"
"Because my mother is one. And my grandmother was a healer, too. And most likely her mother, as well."
"You have it in the blood, then."
I shrugged, shifting away from his fingers. "I have it in my line. I could never be sure about the blood."
"Well," he said, moving his thumb slowly against my palm, "I am from the Third Circle, and my father is also a soldier. And his brothers, and my brother. So I suppose that that is in my blood, as well. Or my line."
Suddenly I felt a dropping sort of feeling in my stomach.
"Beren, am I going to see you again?" I blurted.
He stared at me. "What do you mean?"
"What do you think I mean? We only chance upon each other's paths, now and again. Or maybe I find myself looking out for you, I—I don't know." I was pressing his hand more tightly. "And suppose that something does happen, and that you are sent away, and—"
"I'll come and find you."
"And there are a great many—well, many of the people I meet, I never see again. I have grown accustomed to that. And I've not known you for very long at all. But we're friends, I suppose, and—" I was thinking that I liked the way he stood and the way he listened. I even thought that I liked that odd barking sort of way that he laughed at times.
"I'll find you," he said.
"Will you?"
"I promise." He reached up with his free hand once more, and touched the backs of his fingers to my face. "I'm glad it was you, you know."
"When, ah—with Tar'. I'm glad it was you."
At the noise of footsteps, we dropped one another's hands. He took a step back from me, just as a black-clad aide walked by. The man glanced at us as he passed.
The next time that Beren looked at me, his face was blank.
"Promise," he repeated. And when he left me this time he did not say goodbye.
* * *
And for some reason I was missing my father. This was something that seldom happened, and when it did, I found myself picking at the pain, worrying it like you might worry an aching tooth, seeing how long it could last.
I had a few bits of happiness in the back of my mind, but I had to be careful with these, because they became ugly if I held them for too long or turned them the wrong way. I had memories, from when I was very small, of being lifted into the air and tossed until I shrieked with laughter. I had loved him then because he threw me higher and held me more tightly than anyone else did. And I was his lovely girl and his splendid girl, or at least that was what he whispered in my ear when he had caught me in my descent.
And always that sharp, sickly sweetness on his breath. Years later, when an inebriated young nobleman was brought to the wards (You'll keep this quiet, please; his father is rather important) I caught the same scent in his exhalation and was struck with the sudden and giddy recollection of flight.
* * *
I took my supper quickly, by myself, as had become my habit. I picked at my bread and cheese and realized that all of the days were running together in my mind. And now the rain was the only thing in the world—when had it not been raining? I thought of the way the dried blood came away from my hands in the water of the washbasin. Éowyn and the perian, the eastern river company, the books in Lord Aradîr's offices. I thought especially of the way that the points of Beren's worn knuckles had felt as they brushed against my cheek. That was a good thing, I thought, because it seemed to be mine and I could hold on to it for myself. Not like all of the other things, which kept slipping away from me, rearranging themselves in my thoughts.
Laeron came into the kitchens and sat down across from me.
"He's not back."
"Valacar," he said softly. "He's not returned. No one's seen him."
"No one?"
"Not that I've spoken to. He was supposed to be back."
I had my elbow on the table, and I rested my forehead against my hand and did not say anything.
"So what's happened, then?" I could hear him shift in his chair. "What is it that's so bad I can't know about it?"
"It's not so bad," I whispered. He was staring at me. I took a drink of water before going on. "A few days ago, Laeron, when you were abed with fever. I was…they had just put the rationing in place. And one of the men they brought in, he—well, he was good as gutted, Laeron, but he was breathing. Dying." I took another drink. "And…" I looked down at the table. "Valacar asked me to leave, and I think…" I looked back up at Laeron and made a small motion with my right hand.
Laeron laughed a little when I was finished.
"I don't think he would do that."
I was quiet, and his face changed.
"That's a stupid thing to do," Laeron said. His voice had dropped nearly to a whisper, but it was the sharpest I had ever heard him speak.
"Well, it isn't Canon," I offered.
"It isn't Canon, and it's stupid." His fist connected with the tabletop on the final word. "Did you know he was going to?"
"Laeron, if you had seen—"
"Did you know?"
I was silent again.
"Well, did you say anything to him? Before, I mean?"
"No. Of course not." It had never occurred to me. I was only a girl.
"And so now you think he's—he's got trouble for it?"
"Perhaps. He was—they might have wanted him to be the next Warden."
"There's—" Laeron traced a nervous pattern on the table with one fingertip. "There's things that happen, I suppose. When you feel too much. Or not enough."
"When who feels too much?"
He shrugged. "Everyone. At least, that's always what my mother said." He made an end to the pattern. "Stupid," he repeated.
"Laeron, we…that sort of thing happens all the time, you know. But just with the poppy, and no one—"
"I know. I know, but that's different, it's different, when…" His voice sounded strained, and he trailed off. "I don't like it."
"Neither do I."
He stood up. "Well, I don't—" He looked around. "I've been put on the evening-shift, as well."
"I've not. I can go and have a check about the wards…then maybe the out-buildings."
"All right," he sighed. "Will you come back and talk to me, if you have the chance?"
I nodded.
"And Laeron?" I asked. "You'll keep this close, won't you?"
"Yes," he said, rubbing his hand over his eyes. "Yes. What else am I supposed to do, after all?"
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Most days I could cut across the gardens, and also any number of those small courtyards of which the builders of our City seemed to be so fond, tucked like stone pockets between buildings and alleyways. But when it was raining I stayed beneath the eaves and overhangs that lined the outside walls; there were few things more miserable than going around in wet shoes.
I made my way around the wards, and a knot of dread began to grow in my throat and my stomach once more. I was not accustomed to being alone in this way. There had always been someone to fall back to: the Warden, or my mother, or Fíriel. Now I seemed to have only myself to rely on—except for perhaps Laeron, but he knew no more than I did. Less than I did.
I remembered his fist on the table—stupid.
And what did you think he would say? I asked myself. Perhaps it should have been a relief, but it felt simply like one more thread to add to the tangle of things.
I left the wards and the main part of the Houses. I had no plans of what I should do, if I should do anything at all; but sometimes everything felt clearer to me when I was on my feet. The out-buildings, some offices and small houses and apartments, were clustered a short distance away from the eastern edges of the Houses. Night had fallen, and the City gleamed inexact and grey around me. The sound of the rain pounded in my ears, a dull constant roar.
I turned a corner, and suddenly I found myself very angry with Valacar. Why did he do the things that he did, I wondered, tell me the things that he told me? Couldn't he have told me to run along, there's a good girl, like any other surgeon would have? He should have left me stupid and unknowing and happy—or as happy as I could have been, at the time. I had things enough to trouble me.
More than enough—always more.
"Oh," I said. I had glanced over my shoulder, and someone was there.
Oh, what? he asked, and I stepped back. Stumbled back, felt a wall behind me. Too many walls in this city.
He was there in front of me, and I wanted to be somewhere else. Anywhere else, and quickly. In my mind I added and subtracted distances. It was a narrow side-street, nearly an alleyway. I could not remember which of his feet had taken the wound—it could have nearly healed by now.
You'll let me pass, please, I said.
I moved to the side, tried to get forward, looking for an opening or a slow point. I moved and he caught me by the arm, and this time he did not let go. My surprise turned to panic, and I could hear myself cry out in alarm against the rain and the hardness of his grip.
You'll be quiet, he said, and then the back of my head struck hard against the wall. Things seemed to bleed away from my mind for half of a moment, and when my sense returned there was only him. He was crushing against me and I could not breathe. Something sharp and cold at my throat. My mind was screaming inside of itself. Why didn't you look out? He was there. How long was he there?
You'll be quiet, he repeated. I could not breathe. There was no room for me. He was going to break my bones, snap my ribs into halves and pieces.
You shouldn't be by yourself tonight, he said. Why are you alone, then?
I blinked.
Wordless at last. Doesn't know everything, does she? You don't know anything, little one. Don't think you're better than I am.
Don't— I choked. His breath was slow and heavy, and I heard it and I could feel it against me.
You weren't there. You don't know what it is when they come pouring all about you, and everywhere is death. Too many, you see—everything is eating, with them. Eat you alive, if they could. They're all teeth. They're all blood and noise.
I made a sound in my throat. I was limp, I was sick with fear.
You see, he said, they came and they were everywhere and there was nothing else. We were the front lines. We were in front. We were put there. And so first it was for the captains—they were the ones who could kill us. We were marks on a map.
He pushed the carving knife a bit harder against the skin of my neck.
And then they came, and there was nothing else, there was nothing. And now it is for you—it is for you people to kill us, if you like. Kill us as if we were nothing, too.
Eastern river company, the captain had told me. I had thought them all lost. And then I understood: the little wooden men had had no balance to them because they were never meant to stand in the first place. Because they were corpses.
Not for you to say, he said. Not for you to do. Not for you.
He pressed me harder against the wall. He had taken the knife from my neck.
I could kill you right now, he said.
I closed my eyes. I could feel the metal slither lightly over my cheek, against my eyelids, barely touching. My face was wet. He had his hand in the folds of my skirts, and I heard myself make a sobbing noise.
Throw you on the fire. How would you like that, little one? Don't think that you know everything.
The inside of my chest was burning and I could not breathe.
I may not, though. I don't have to be like that.
His hand was in the folds of my skirts, and he moved again and I opened my eyes and closed them and everything was black and red. I tasted blood in my mouth. I could not breathe and at some moment he was so close against me that my spine was grating against stone. I fought him, then fought harder, but he was too heavy against me and then he had a hand against my neck and I could not breathe, and all the cries burned and died in my throat and anywhere else, I thought—anywhere else but—and he was killing me and I could not breathe—
When he was finished with me he moved back. Then he was standing over me, fixing his clothes. I was sobbing for air. He touched me with the toe of his boot. I could hear him breathing hard.
Well, don't cry, he whispered. That wasn't so bad.
I put my head against my knees and closed my eyes and waited. I was crumpled up in pain and too frightened to move. I did not know how long I stayed that way, but when I looked up again I was alone by the wall in the dark. The air was cool from the water. I leaned forward and retched, and my ribs were aching. The flagstones were damp and rough against the heels of my hands. Some part of my face was dripping blood.
I drank the air and I could not move for a very long time. When I got up, I thought I could still hear the rain falling.
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Yes, undead files is another case where the numbers are wonky.
Yes, undead files is another case where the numbers are wonky.
I've disabled cpufreq completely in the kernel and my CPU still clocks down and up as needed according to load (i5 2500K). It also seems to clock in-between. With slight load, it won't go to max, but for example only to 2Ghz.
So what's the cpufreq driver good for anyway? Especially with the on-demand governor. The chip seems to do this on its own anyway.
You have one or more of
a) good BIOS
b) the intel-idle driver
Those still leave out a lot of cpus.
Hmm. Running 3.11 and now that ondemand is not available anymore my cpu is several degrees hotter than before.
^ edit: I mean 3.10, of course.
Using the new p-states driver with 3.9.7 here.
It actually does a pretty good job for normal multitasking loads, but I want more control for intensive, multi-threaded applications (like video transcoding with HandBrakeCLI). indicator-cpufreq seems capable of interacting with it, and shows two options: powersave and performance (although clicking on one does not remove the selection bullet from the other...).
Performance ramps up a little more quickly than powersave, perhaps, but I can't really see much difference between the two. Powersave does not limit the cpu; under load my CPU will (eventually) reach top speed and critical temperatures.
The overheating takes more time than with ondemand's "performance" or "conservative" options, but the ondemand driver could limit the cpu to a specific speed so as to continue demanding tasks over a longer time. With the p-states driver, I have to give up on certain tasks or seriously improve my cooling situation.
Its a pity Ubuntu 13.10 disabled pstate due to some complaints on Launchpad but which were not substantiated.Although it can be enabled via kernel adding intel_pstate=enable. Pstate runs far better and the system response is very good, combine that with Thermal Daemon from Intel and the temps are kept very nicely under control. I use this on Manjaro currently with kernel 3.11 on a Intel i7 laptop and I find the system response to be excellent with pstate as compared to ondemand.


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Situated near the airport, in South Portland, this hotel is close to Maine Mall, Sable Oaks Golf Course, and Nonesuch River Golf Club. Local attractions also include Scarborough Downs and Beech Ridge Motor Speedway.
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In addition to a restaurant, Courtyard by Marriott Portland Airport features an indoor pool. Other amenities include a bar/lounge and a coffee shop/café.
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In addition to an indoor pool, Courtyard by Marriott Portland Airport provides a spa tub and a 24-hour fitness center. Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wired and wireless Internet access.
Business amenities at this 3-star property consist of a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and a meeting room. Event facilities measure 530 square feet (48 square meters). This business-friendly hotel also offers barbecue grills, gift shops/newsstands, and a picnic area. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests (available on request). Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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Although these programs are fast and convenient to deploy, you will need to have physical possession of the device (except for PhoneSheriff iPhone/iPad Investigator) and it needs to have online access.
Logging and Reports
Robust reporting and logging capabilities really should be a top priority any time shoppers try to find monitoring software. Choose plans that registers all types of phone activities, including inbound and outbound voice calls, text messages, web surfing, multimedia. It is also a good idea to be able to read address books and contact info. The top applications also log URLs and any email messages the person sends or receives and track the mobile phone location with GPS.
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Trusted monitoring programs will block web addresses and apps, set usage restrictions, and forward notifications whenever your family members or staff try to search subjects such as drugs, violence, gambling et cetera.
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Recommended spy phone applications encrypt the records that is transferred from the device to your web account. A few solutions can send an alert in the event that the SIM card is changed in the mobile. Most can find the phone location using GPS.
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A Cell Phone Spy Review probably would not be complete without analyzing customer support. The good news is the seller has a good track record and supports the app with very good support alternatives if any questions or concerns appear prior to buying or when you may be making use of the software program. The Mobile Spy website has a user guide with advice on how to use the tools and features and there is a support knowledgebase and thorough FAQ section. The supplier offers email, telephone and live chat support. Before you purchase it, a useful compatibility guide plainly presents what kind of functionality is available with different types of devices and you can see a live demo.
Monitoring Technology Helps Address Quite a Few Trouble
Topics dealt with using surveillance products consist of:
Lying and Cheating, Distracted Driving, Cyberbullying, Online Predators, Data Protection and Security, Sexting, Misuse, Tracking Location, Insider Threats, Employee Productivity, Cheating and Lying, and Unsuitable Conduct in general like Drinking, Drugs, Gambling, supervision, Questionable Friends… Criminal Behavior….
In lieu of stressing out about uncertainty, you can be proactive and supervise them. No one wants to find out that there is something serious, but it's good to know that with tracking and monitoring solutions, you can find out about potential hazards and handle them before something serious happens. Typically cell phone spy software helps manage your kids or workforce to figure out that they are honest and are safe and secure.
Leading Programmers Have Adjusted the Code So That Some Smartphone Apps are No Longer Obscured
A lot more concern about regulations involving proper use has triggered change to how surveillance apps function.
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Often times getting to the truth is more relevant than rules about protecting the right to privacy. If you're situated in a territory that does not restrict usage, and you're in the market for hidden supervision functionality, we'd suggest Flexispy, mSpy or Mobistealth.
Because they operate corporate offices and internet servers outside the jurisdiction of authorities, of the most popular and trusted brands of spy phone tracking and monitoring solutions only Flexispy is still offering resources for Phone Tap and Spy Call Remote Microphone Control.


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A faceted yellow calcite gem the color of rich butterscotch is clutched by a marvelously simple foundation of sterling silver to compose the enhancer. The necklace is hand-strung with lovely blue turquoise, yellow quartzite, peach pearl, serpentine, rhodochrosite, amethyst, yellow citrine and calcite beads. The beads fasten with a lobster claw clasp and the enhancer features a large snap hinge bail. Necklace measures 17" plus an extra 4" width extender and pendant measures 2-1/4" long x 7/8" wide. Made in America with gemstones from around the world..
A delicious combination of candy colored gems complements bold faceted butterscotch calcite in this tasty Sweet Dreams collection. Truly a treat!
• Yellow calcite is said to amplify energy and connect intellect and emotion. An uplifting gemstone that brings joy, happiness, and good humor.
• Amethyst heals and calms the mind, enhances the meditative state, creates pure thoughts and spiritual insights. Transmutes negativity and enhances the dream state. Provides alleviation of stress.
• Turquoise provides mental relaxation, stress reduction, confidence, attunement, and physical balance. Attracts abundance and prosperity.
• Serpentine is associated with longevity, retrieval of ancient wisdom and remembrance of past lives. Believed to be a meditative stone.
• Rhodochrosite is the love drawing stone. Helps release past psychological issues. Helps eyesight.
• Citrine provides a sense of stability, practical application of ideas, adds energy and emotional balance. Enhances rational thoughts and approaches to situations. Eliminates toxins from the body. November birthday stone.
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