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One affordable boat I think of that might suit your purposes just fine, might be a Cherubini Hunter 30... The Bahamas and the trip south are certainly do-able on something like a CD 25, but I think something closer to 30 feet will be far more comfortable and enjoyable... Also, you really want water tankage heading over there, something that is likely to be extremely minimal on boats much less than 30'... No way I want to be bothered with a watermaker for the Bahamas, you certainly don't need that stuff with a decent water capacity, and an effective means of collecting rainwater...
Good advice, Jon... much appreciated. Maybe I am too preoccupied with shallow draft, and keeping the boat small. It is always a trade off... I love the simplicity and manageability of smaller boats but I see the drawbacks as well.
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Wheelersburg used a balanced scoring effort to get a key SOC II victory on the road as the Pirates defeated Waverly 57-33 Friday evening.
The balanced attack was led by Jacob Spradlin, whose 15 points and two 3-pointers led the team, while Dylan Miller added 10 points to give Wheelersburg its fourth-straight win. The Tigers' Pierce Knisley led all scorers with 20 in the loss.
The Pirates will resume SOC II play on Tuesday when West comes to town for the final regular-season meeting between the schools this season. Waverly will travel Saturday to Jackson before the Tigers resume conference play Tuesday night against visiting Minford.
Oak Hill 54, West 53
Oak Hill was able to turn a 7-2 advantage on 3-point goals into a one-point victory over host West West in a 54-53 SOC II contest.
Five of the Oaks' made 3-pointers came from Kyle Cox, who finished with 19 points. Michael Stiltner added 14 points while Jordon Fisher chipped in 10 of his own to lead Oak Hill to the victory.
The Senators were led by Michael Hafer, who scored a game-high 31 points and made 11 of West's 13 free throw attempts, and Michael Davis, who added an additional 14 points.
The Oaks and the Senators will resume play with a pair of SOC II conference games Tuesday evening as Oak Hill will host South Webster while West will travel to Wheelersburg.
Notre Dame 54, Eastern 48
Notre Dame became the first SOC I team to make it to 10 wins on the year with a 54-48 road win over Eastern in SOC I play Friday evening.
C.J. Smith led the Titans with 14 points while Daniel Ogg and Will Haney added 10 on the strength of a perfect day from the free throw line. Ogg added nine rebounds to his statline while Haney dished out four assists and added three steals to lead Notre Dame in both categories.
Trace Creech led a balanced scoring effort for the Eagles as the junior scored 12 points. Ethan Leist, Ben Hesson and Josh Thacker each added 11 for Eastern.
Both teams will hit the road to take part in a pair of SOC I games Tuesday evening. The Titans travel to crosstown rival East while Eastern will make the trek to New Boston.
Western 54, Clay 53
Dakota Garrett hit three of Western's four 3-pointers as the Indians pulled out a 54-53 SOC I win over visiting Clay.
Garrett led the team with 16 points. Nick Shanks put up 14 points while Ethan Riggs chipped in with 10 of his own.
The Panthers were led by Eldin Sarajlic, whose 25 points and 16 rebounds were game-highs. Michael Schmidt added 10 for Clay.
Both teams will resume play Saturday as the Indians will host Paint Valley in a nonconference affair while the Panthers will entertain New Boston.
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Beau Justice led the way for the Indians as his 19 points (17 in the second half) and 13 assists were team highs. Zach Arrasmith scored a career-high 18 points while Eric Schmitz and Cody Ireton added 16 and 10 respectively. Schmitz and Ireton also grabbed eight rebounds each.
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It doesnt work.
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I do, however, have a Handspring Treo90 handheld that I use. Or try to yeah, Im more organized now sure
AvantGo is great. I sync a couple times a day and get quite a few updates
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As we announced back at CES, PlayStation Now (PS Now) is the first-ever game streaming service available on a game console, where you can quickly access a rich and expanding library of PlayStation 3 (PS3) games from our cloud servers. Since January, PS Now has been in Private Beta for select gamers across the country, and I'm happy to announce that the Open Beta will be available to all PlayStation 4 (PS4) owners in the U.S. and Canada starting tomorrow.
Hello again, PlayStation fans! Today I'm happy to share some big news on the mobile games front that we revealed late Tuesday night at the Tokyo Game Show. PlayStation Mobile is coming to a number of PlayStation certified mobile devices and PS Vita on October 3!
You might be asking yourself, what is PlayStation Mobile, exactly? Allow me to explain: PlayStation Mobile is a brand new platform for tablets, smartphones and PS Vita, that offers PlayStation-like experiences on a number of different mobile devices. When PlayStation Mobile launches on October 3rd, we will have around 30 titles available from a range of developers, including games from indie devs as well as our own Sony Computer Entertainment World Wide Studios.
PlayStation Mobile game prices will range from around $2 to $20 and be available in a variety of popular genres, including Adventure, Action, Puzzle, Sports, and Simulation.
Hi again, PlayStation community. I'm here to bring some good news today: Amazon Instant Video is available now on PlayStation Network, making the PS3 the first and only video game console to offer the service! Head on over to the TV/Video Services category of the XMB, where you can download and install the new Amazon Instant Video app right now for free. Once you launch the app, you'll have instant access to thousands of streaming and downloadable movies and TV shows for rental or purchase. There are more than 120,000 commercial-free movies and TV shows for rental or purchase, including new releases, classic favorites, major TV shows, full seasons and even new episodes of some of your favorite TV shows the day after they air. Many of the DVD and Blu-Ray titles on Amazon.com are also offered on Amazon Instant Video available through this new app.
It is an incredibly exciting time for PlayStation Network and PlayStation Plus. This week we not only saw a midnight launch of Mass Effect 3 on PlayStation Network, day and date with the retail release, but we offered access to one of the best games of the year and one of the best downloadable games ever—Journey—a whole week early to PlayStation Plus subscribers. Every month PlayStation Plus subscribers are getting more and more great content out of their subscriptions, and this week's early access marked a new milestone.
PlayStation Plus now not only offers gamers early access to demos and betas but also to full downloadable games, in addition to the tons of free and discounted content and extra exclusive features like online storage for game saves and automatic updates. That's why we are so excited to be able to deliver Journey, one of the most highly-anticipated games of the year, to our most die-hard fans, our PS Plus subscribers, a whole week early so they can experience it before everyone else.
Hello again, PlayStation community! As you might recall from my previous post, I revealed the big plans we had in store for a complete redesign of PlayStation Home—including a brand new Hub, genre-based districts, Total Game Integration, and a new questing system that turns Home itself into a game. Now that we're getting close to launch, I thought the best way to show off all the new features we've packed into the upcoming new core experience would be to give you a tour of the redesign. Check out the above video for a rundown on some of the most exciting new features you'll be experiencing soon in PlayStation Home.
As you can see, PlayStation Home's new genre-based districts include a number of diverse and exclusive games that cater to players' different interests and styles. For example, in the Action District, you'll be able to enjoy the free and exclusive first-person shooter game that runs inside Home itself, Bootleggers '29. We'll also be bringing back some of your favorite Total Game Integration events here such as Dead Island and Killzone 3, as well as feature teleporters to popular games such as Sodium.
Hi everyone, Jack Buser here, and I've got some huge news for you all.
As you know, we've been working hard to fill PlayStation Home with hundreds of games – everything from pool tables and dart boards to full-on space shooters like Novus Prime: Escalation, zombie slashers like Dead Island Zombie Survivor, and massive online racing games like Sodium 2: Project Velocity. Today we are excited to announce a complete redesign of the heart of PlayStation Home to reinforce our evolution into the ultimate social game platform on consoles today. This redesign will connect you with the world of hundreds of games in Home faster and better than ever before.
Coming in Fall 2011, this new core experience for PlayStation Home features a "hub and districts" design that will help you find games, people and places that fit your favorite game genres. The design features a new Hub that integrates games, quests, community events, and user-generated content.
It's amazing to look at the evolution of PlayStation Home and see how much it has changed since we launched in December two years ago. From our humble beginnings in 2008, we've become a world filled with hundreds of games enjoyed by 17 million users worldwide and given PlayStation Network users a unique and dynamic […]
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NEW ORLEANS Monty Williams stood in semi-circle of media Monday morning, once again forced to answer questions about injuries to his roster and their effect on depth heading into the Hornets' game against Utah.
The latest?
Center Emeka Okafor, the only player on the roster who has started every game, is questionable with a bum left knee.
He joins center Chris Kaman (left ankle sprain) as two who may or may not play against the Jazz.
Should they sit out, they'd join guard Eric Gordon (right knee contusion), forward Carl Landry (left knee-MCL) and forward Jason Smith (concussion) on the bench.
And that would leave New Orleans (4-23) with only eight players on the active roster.
'Just like I always say, you do your best with the guys you have and I believe they'll play well tonight,' said Williams, New Orleans' second-year coach. 'They feel motivated and they see what's going on. They want to go out there and do well.
'I'm proud of that, the guys that are pushing through and dealing with their own injuries and soreness and going out there and playing their hearts out.'
The Jazz (14-12) come in without any injuries that will keep players out. So, despite this being the middle game of a back-to-back-to-back, Williams expects Utah to be fresh.
'I don't think it's going to bother them much because they have two, sometimes three guys at three or four positions,' Williams said.
The key will be mixing and matching, Williams said.
'But the situation kind of dictates how you sub and strategize,' he said. 'We may zone more than we normally would.'
Should Kaman and Okafor both miss, Williams said Gustavo Ayon will start and play at center with Al-Farouq Aminu getting time (and a start) at the four.
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Smack, the NOR couldn't have been more clear. It restricts the use of an auto helm. DSQ. The "Class Rules" does not apply as this particular Jeaneau was not racing as a one design class nor did the governing authority for the Jeaneau one design association submit their class rules prior to the race. I have experience in this area insomuch as I was the chief measurer for my class association and am well aware what you have to do to get your rules accepted by YRA sanctioned events. You cannot make up or change the rules as you go along. If the RC was going to allow auto helms from a certain point onward, they will have to announce it to the rest of the fleet so they too, could take advantage of the rule change. Remember, rules must be applied fairly and equally to all competitors.
Jake, help me out a little bit… How many days before the race did you arrive? When the sail maker showed you the kite, why didn't he show you how the net was to be rigged on the boat? How did you guys fly the kite? For example, did it have a sock? Please walk me through the gybing procedure. Why didn't you guys pole out the genoa at night so Harry could sail wing-on-wing? What was the watch schedule? Did you guys ever have to sail through a squall?
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ProAssurance Completes Acquisition of Independent Nevada Doctors Insurance Exchange
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. and LAS VEGAS, Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ProAssurance Corporation (NYSE: PRA) announced today it has completed the acquisition of Independent Nevada Doctors Insurance Exchange (IND). As a result of the transaction, IND will become a subsidiary of ProAssurance immediately following IND's conversion from a reciprocal to a stock insurance company. Proceeds from the transaction will be paid to eligible IND subscribing policyholders by mid-December.
The Nevada Division of Insurance approved the transaction on November 28, 2012 following a series of regulatory hearings. Subscribing IND policyholders previously approved the transaction in a special meeting on October 29, 2012.
The combination of IND and ProAssurance makes ProAssurance the leading writer of Medical Professional Liability insurance in the state of Nevada, based on 2011 Direct Premiums Written.
"This is a banner day for ProAssurance and the insureds and staff at IND. We are combining two companies with a long standing tradition of policyholder service and courtroom advocacy. We look forward to responding to the evolving healthcare professional liability risks in Nevada, a state where we have been privileged to do business since 1993," said Stan Starnes, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ProAssurance.
The Nevada operations of both companies will be combined into IND's Las Vegas office under the leadership of IND President James Hooban. He said, "We are excited about the opportunities ahead of us as we bring ProAssurance's industry-leading insurance products and risk management services to the Nevada healthcare community."
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Risks that could adversely affect the proposed merger of Medmarc Insurance Group (Medmarc) and the recently completed merger of Independent Nevada Doctors Insurance Exchange (IND) into ProAssurance include, but are not limited to, the following:
- the board of directors of Medmarc may withdraw their recommendation in favor of a competing acquisition proposal;
- those policyholders eligible to vote on the proposed Medmarc transaction may fail to approve it.
- the businesses of ProAssurance and Medmarc or ProAssurance and IND may not be combined successfully, or such combination may take longer to accomplish than expected;
- the cost savings from either transaction may not be fully realized or may take longer to realize than expected;
- operating costs, customer loss and business disruption following either or both transactions, including adverse effects on relationships with employees, may be greater than expected;
- governmental approvals of either or both transactions may not be obtained or adverse regulatory conditions may be imposed in connection with governmental approvals of either or both transactions; and
- there may be restrictions on our ability to achieve continued growth through expansion into other states or through acquisitions or business combinations;
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- the expected benefits from completed and proposed acquisitions may not be achieved or may be delayed longer than expected due to business disruption, loss of customers, employees and key agents, increased operating costs or inability to achieve cost savings, and assumption of greater than expected liabilities, among other reasons;
- general economic conditions, either nationally or in our market areas, that are different than
- our ability to maintain our dividend payments;
- regulatory, legislative and judicial actions or decisions that could affect our business plans or operations;
- the enactment or repeal of tort reforms;
- formation or dissolution of state-sponsored medical professional liability insurance entities that could remove or add sizable groups of physicians from or to the private insurance market;
- the impact of deflation or inflation;
- changes in the interest rate environment;
- changes in U.S. laws or government regulations regarding financial markets or market activity that may affect the U.S. economy and our business;
- changes in the ability of the U.S. government to meet its obligations that may affect the U.S. economy and our business;
- performance of financial markets affecting the fair value of our investments or making it difficult to determine the value of our investments;
- changes in accounting policies and practices that may be adopted by our regulatory agencies and the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board;
- changes in laws or government regulations affecting medical professional liability insurance or the financial community;
- the effects of changes in the healthcare delivery system, including, but not limited to, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act;
- consolidation of healthcare providers and entities that are more likely to self insure and not purchase medical professional liability insurance;
- uncertainties inherent in the estimate of loss and loss adjustment expense reserves and reinsurance, and changes in the availability, cost, quality, or collectability of insurance/reinsurance;
- our ability to achieve continued growth through expansion into other states or through acquisitions or business combinations;
- the results of litigation, including pre- or post-trial motions, trials and/or appeals we undertake;
- an allegation of bad faith which may arise from our handling of any particular claim, including failure to settle;
- loss of independent agents;
- changes in our organization, compensation and benefit plans;
- our ability to retain and recruit senior management;
- our ability to purchase reinsurance and collect recoveries from our reinsurers;
- assessments from guaranty funds;
- our ability to achieve continued growth through expansion into other states or through
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- changes to the ratings assigned by rating agencies to our insurance subsidiaries, individually or as a group;
- provisions in our charter documents, Delaware law and state insurance law may impede attempts to replace or remove management or attempts to initiate a takeover;
- state insurance restrictions may prohibit assets held by our insurance subsidiaries, including cash and investment securities, from being used for general corporate purposes;
- taxing authorities can take exception to our tax positions and cause us to incur significant amounts of defense costs and, if our defense is not successful, additional tax costs, including interest and penalties; and
- insurance market conditions may alter the effectiveness of our current business strategy and affect our revenues.
Additional risk factors that may cause outcomes that differ from our expectations or projections are described in various documents filed by ProAssurance Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission, such as current reports on Form 8K, and regular reports on Forms 10Q and 10K, particularly in "Item 1A, Risk Factors."
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In terms of having her along it was great. She loved the rough passages, the motion would just put her to sleep. She had a comfy little berth with lee cloth and she was happy. She loved the feel of wind on her face, it would make her laugh and flap like crazy!
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I agree, by about 9-10 months things got a little harder, she start moving alot quicker! My daughter enjoyed undoing stopper knots, hitting random buttons on the chartplotter and disengaging the auto pilot at the most inopportune times
It's all cute to begin with.....but umm on a 2 day passage it gets old!
Friends always seemed to know when we had come into a marina, apparently the sounds of a 10 Month old shouting/singing/screaming and two grown adults singing"If your happy and you know it clap your hands" while trying to dock a boat gave us away.
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Green Tea Tau Fu Fa@Tofu Pudding
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600ml Store-bought Sweetened Soy Milk
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1. Place soy milk & green tea powder in a blender. Whiz to mix well.
2. Pour the green tea soy milk into a saucepan. Add agar-agar powder. Stir to cook over low-medium heat until bubbles start showing up around the edges. Remove from heat & pour into a heavy bowl or some glasses. Spoon out bubbles & leave to cool down completely.
3. Refrigerate for few hours. Serve cold with red bean paste & dried osmanthus flower.
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I have made this Tau Fu Fa to eat in 2 very different ways! 1st way is to eat with some read bean paste & the other way is that I've converted it into a Taiwanese famous dessert! Come back in few days to see the recipe, ok?
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AppliedMicro Sets January 30, 2013 for Fiscal Third Quarter 2013 Earnings Conference Call15:00 EST Tuesday, January 08, 2013SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 8, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, or AppliedMicro (Nasdaq:AMCC), today announced that it will conduct a conference call with analysts and investors following the release of its third fiscal quarter 2013 results on Wednesday, January 30. AppliedMicro will issue a news release announcing the company's third fiscal quarter 2013 results after the close of the market on January 30. The text of the press release will also be available on AppliedMicro's web site at http://www.apm.com. The conference call will be webcast from the investor relations section of the company's web site beginning at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time / 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on January 30. To listen to the webcast, or to view the press release or the financial or other statistical information required by SEC Regulation G, please visit the investor relations section of the AppliedMicro web site at http://www.apm.com. To listen to the conference call by telephone, dial 800.798.2884 approximately ten minutes before the start time using the access code 80437361. A telephone playback of the call will be available starting approximately one hour after the completion of the call and can be accessed by dialing 888.286.8010 and using the access code 98851945. The replay will be available through February 6, 2013.About AppliedMicro Applied Micro Circuits Corporation is a global leader in computing and connectivity solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers. AppliedMicro delivers silicon solutions that dramatically lower total cost of ownership. Corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California. www.apm.com. Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, AppliedMicro, and the AppliedMicro logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.CONTACT: Investor Relations Contact: Shiva Natarajan (408) 542-8745 email@example.com


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We know the Rangers only had four picks in the 2012 NHL draft but the more you read across the internet-hockey-universe the more it seems the Rangers keep getting it right.
How much stock you place in the Hockey News is entirely up to you (some of their writers enjoy sensationalising at times) but going by the recent International scouting service (ISS) head's column on their website it may appear the Rangers grabbed another draft steal with Calle Andersson's selection in the fourth round.
Most people (myself included) know little of Andersson despite his solid year in Swedish juniors. What we do know is that he is known to be a potential powerplay quarterback with great size and solid ability and according to the above linked column has outperformed more highly touted draft picks including first rounder's such as Hampus Lindholm who was drafted sixth overall by the Ducks this year.
Whether Lindholm at six was a reach or not, there is significant difference in value between a lottery pick and a guy going around the 100 mark if they are at similar stages in their performance. Add Cristoval (I hate his nickname) Nieves to the apparent steal that Andersson may become and the Rangers really have done well – going by reports.
Nieves was compared to Hugh Jessiman by Bob McKenzie of TSN but only – as he later pointed out – in regard to his tremendous physical potential and apparent ability. Whether the Rangers picks max out their potential is still far from a guarantee but it's the continuing ability of the Rangers to draft what seems good value that has the organisation in an enviable position going forward.
One of the reasons a club like Detroit has remained a contender long term has been their ability to draft well later in drafts. These days the Rangers do this consistently as well. Nieves for example was the 27th ranked North American skater yet was grabbed 59th overall. It could be another steal and we all know of the Rangers recent ability to find quality in round two.
Credit must be given to Gordie Clark and the Rangers not to feel the need to add a pick for the sake of it (given four is a small number for any draft year) and concentrate on finding value and potential steals. It's not necessarily the quantity but above all the quality that matters down the road.


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SOURCE: "Octavia Butler and the Black Science-Fiction Heroine," in Black American Literature, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer, 1984, pp. 78-81.
Salvaggio is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University. In the following essay, she discusses Butler's black, female protagonists in the Patternist novels.
A traditional complaint about science fiction is that it is a male genre, dominated by male authors who create male heroes who control distinctly masculine worlds. In the last decade, however, a number of women writers have been changing that typical scenario. Their feminine and feminist perspectives give us a different kind of science fiction, perhaps best described by Pamela Sargent's term "Women of Wonder." In a sense, Octavia Butler's science fiction is a part of that new scenario, featuring strong female protagonists who shape the course of social events. Yet in another sense, what Butler has to offer is something very different. Her heroines are black women who inhabit racially mixed societies. Inevitably, the situations these women confront involve the dynamic interplay of race and sex in futuristic worlds. How a feminist science-fiction character responds to a male-dominated world is one thing; how Butler's black heroines respond to racist and sexist worlds is quite another.
Butler's concern with racism and sexism is a conscious part of her vision. As she herself explains, a particularly "insidious problem" with science fiction is that it "has always been nearly all white, just as until recently, it's been nearly all male." Confronting this "problem" head-on, Butler places her heroines in worlds filled with racial and sexual obstacles, forcing her characters to survive and eventually overcome these societal barriers to their independence. Sometimes her black heroines are paired with white men who challenge their abilities; sometimes they are paired with powerful black men who threaten their very autonomy and existence. And, always, the society in which they live constantly reminds them of barriers to their independence. Tracing the plight of each heroine is like following different variations on a single theme, the yearning for independence and autonomy. That Butler's women, despite all odds, achieve that autonomy makes her science fiction a fresh and different contribution to the genre and makes Butler herself an exciting new voice in the traditional domains of science fiction, feminism, and black literature.
This article is intended to introduce Octavia Butler through her science-fiction heroines—beginning with the defiant Amber in Patternmaster (1976), then moving to the confused but powerful Mary in Mind of My Mind (1977) and the compromising Alanna in Survivor (1978). The heroine I leave until last is one we encounter as the old woman Emma, hovering in the background of Mind of My Mind. She later appears as Anyanwu in Butler's most recent science-fiction novel, Wild Seed (1980). In Anyanwu we discover the inspiring force of all of Butler's heroines. And in Wild Seed we discover dimensions of Butler's fictive world—not the typical feminist utopia, but a flawed world in which racially and sexually oppressed individuals negotiate their way through a variety of personal and societal barriers.
Germain Greer's term "obstacle race" seems particularly appropriate when discussing Butler and her fiction, largely because the women discussed in both situations confront peculiarly social obstacles. Just as women artists, according to Greer, should be seen "as members of a group having much in common, tormented by the same conflicts of motivation and the same practical difficulties, the obstacles both external and surmountable, internal and insurmountable of the race for achievement," so Butler's heroines share in this social and personal struggle for assertion and understanding.
Their particular struggle, however, is accentuated by the extraordinary mental facilities they possess: Each of Butler's four science-fiction novels is built around a society of telepaths linked to each other through a mental "pattern." Thus when Anyanwu, the African woman in Wild Seed, is transported on a slave ship to colonial America, she senses the horror of slavery well before she actually witnesses its real-life horrors. Or when Mary, in Mind of My Mind, ultimately confronts her oppressive father, she kills him through the machinations of a gruesome mental war game. The violence that accompanies such racial and sexual conflict rarely centers on women in the way that it does in Butler's novels. Here we have females who must take the kind of action normally reserved for white, male protagonists. White males, curiously, play an important role in Butler's fiction—sometimes as enemies, sometimes as foils to the women. We might begin with a discussion of them in Butler's first novel, Patternmaster. There they dominate the plot until, as one female science-fiction writer describes in a different context, "a woman appeared." Let us begin, then, with the traditional science-fiction plot, and the sudden intrusion of a woman.
It should not be surprising that Patternmaster, Butler's first novel, revolves around that typical science-fiction plot: It employs two of the most traditional mythic structures—the inheritance of sons and the journey motif. Rayal, the Patternmaster, is dying; his two sons, Coransee and Teray, vie for control of the Pattern. This rivalry of sons for possession of the father's empire follows the outlines of an archetypal literary construct: Coransee, the stronger and more obvious heir, is defeated by the young and inconspicuous Teray, who ultimately proves himself—despite all outward appearances—to be the righteous heir. Ostensibly, then, Patternmaster is a novel which presents us with a "good-son" hero. We are glad when the honest Teray defeats his sinister sibling; we are glad that this decent young man has overcome the corruption and power lust of the older brother.
But all this is not really what Patternmaster is about. Before the adventures of our hero begin to unfold, our heroine appears—Amber. The circumstances of her appearance are just as curious as she is. Teray, captive in his brother's household, calls for a "healer" to treat a woman who has been beaten by a man. Enter Amber—a Patternist with extraordinary mental abilities to mend the human body. Immediately, her strong-minded, judgmental character emerges, and before long she and Teray, both captives in Coransee's household, plot to escape.
The story of their escape, their quest for freedom, now begins to change the typical "quest" motif that defines so much science fiction. For one thing, Teray soon realizes that he cannot physically survive their journey without Amber's healing powers—she may, in fact, be more physically powerful than Teray himself. For another, the fascinating relationship between hero and heroine overthrows all of our expectations about conventional romantic and/or sexual love. Because Teray is white and Amber black, their relationship continually reminds us of racial distinctions. And because Amber is a woman who refuses to act out traditional female roles (she will not be any man's wife, she is sexually androgynous, she is stronger and more independent than most men), their relationship continually highlights sexual and feminist issues.
Racism and sexism, then, are matters fundamental to an understanding of both plot and character. Coransee's household, for instance, is hierarchically structured so that those who possess power necessarily abuse those who are powerless: "Housemasters" control "Outsiders" who control "Mutes." In this futuristic mental society in which people have the ability to comprehend each other's thoughts, mental understanding gives way to mind control and ultimately mental oppression. The great "Pattern" itself—holding forth the promise of a mentally-unified culture which might use its combined intellectual powers for human advancement—instead has become the prize for Machiavellian power seekers. No wonder Butler continually uses the term "slavery" to describe the "mental leashes" which keep this society in its state of oppression.
Though Teray, the good son destined to inherit the Pattern, is the figure in whom we must place our trust and hope, it is Amber who most dramatically personifies independence, autonomy, and liberation. Forced, as a captive in Coransee's household, to be one of his "women," she nonetheless boasts, "'But I'm not one of his wives…. I'm an independent.'" Asked by Teray, whom she truly does come to love, to be his wife, she refuses, "'Because I want the same thing you want. My House. Mine.'" Discussing with Teray her former sexual relationship with another woman, she explains, "'When I meet a woman who attracts me, I prefer women…. And when I meet a man who attracts me, I prefer men.'" This is clearly not your typical romance heroine. This is certainly not your typical science-fiction heroine. Ironically, Patternmaster makes Amber out to be the perfect prize for two rival brothers. Instead, this "golden brown woman with hair that was a cap of small, tight black curls" turns out to be a model of independence and autonomy.
All ends well in Patternmaster. Teray and Amber, with their combined powers, defeat Coransee. And Teray, as the good son, will inherit the Pattern. But it is Amber who somehow stands out as having transcended this political war of wits. In a final exchange between Amber and Teray, she reminds him of how easily she can tip the scales of power. Teray's response is filled with respect, but tinged with fear: "Not for the first time, he realized what a really dangerous woman she could be. If he could not make her his wife, he would be wise to make her at least an ally."
All of Butler's heroines are dangerous women. Perhaps the most conspicuously dangerous is Mary who, in Mind of My Mind, has a tremendous potential for destruction. Perhaps the least conspicuously dangerous is Alanna who, in Survivor, exerts a subtle but radical influence on a foreign society which she and her parents have colonized. Mary and Alanna, both young black women, sport two very different types of feminism: Mary, a confused and disoriented child raised in the slums of twentieth-century Los Angeles, eventually becomes the leader of a mental empire; Alanna, an orphan in a futuristic Earth society, becomes a unifying force on a foreign planet inhabited by warring tribes. Mary must fight with and ultimately kill her father to achieve "freedom"; Alanna must reject the Christian beliefs of her parents to bring peace and respectability to her new culture. Mary is forced to marry a white man in order to establish and control her mental empire; Alanna chooses to marry the leader of a non-human tribe in order to survive and establish a home on a new planet. Whereas Mary learns to control and dominate, Alanna learns to compromise and survive. In these two women, we discover that the source of female strength can foster very different kinds of feminist power—and very different kinds of human response.
Mary's appeal derives from her brute force. Even as a child, she becomes conditioned to life in a sexist and violent world. The novel opens with threats of male aggression:
I was in my bedroom reading a novel when somebody came banging on the door really loud, like the police. I thought it was the police until I got up, looking out the window, and saw one of Rina's johns standing there. I wouldn't have bothered to answer, but the fool was kicking at the door like he wanted to break it in. I went to the kitchen and got one of our small cast-iron skillets—the size just big enough to hold two eggs. Then I went to the door. The stupid bastard was drunk.
This same young girl who almost kills one of her mother's "johns" will end up killing her father, a man who forced her to have sex with him and who tries to control her mental powers. Not surprisingly, Mary's opinion of men is filled with bitterness. When her father forces her to marry Karl Larkin, a white man, she can only smirk and reflect how much "Karl looked like one of the bright, ambitious, bookish white guys from high school." When she later questions Karl about their racial difference, her suspicions about his character prove correct: "'How do you feel about black people?'" she asks him, only to hear him reply, "'You've seen my cook.'"
Such racial differences call attention to other forms of enslavement in Mind of My Mind. When Doro, Mary's father, tries to explain the nature of "Mutes" to the old woman Emma, she snaps back: "'I know what you mean, Doro. I knew the first time I heard Mary use it. It means nigger!'" Unlike her father, however, Mary comes to sympathize with the people under her mental control. When she kills Doro, patriarchal domination becomes maternal caring. Having the potential for destructive power thrust upon her, Mary learns to control that power, to use it wisely and cautiously. She is Butler's study in brute feminist force.
Alanna's appeal derives from her steadfast character, from intense psychological control and determination. Unlike Mary, Alanna possesses no extraordinary mental abilities. She is Butler's study in the power of human endurance. Instead of combating violence with violence, Alanna accepts the social obstacles which a foreign society imposes on her. Her object is to learn to survive among these obstacles, to accommodate to a culture that is far from perfect.
The most potent of these obstacles is the addictive drug meklah, a drug so powerful that withdrawal from it almost always proves fatal. Forced into addiction, Alanna not only survives withdrawal but also survives as a prisoner taken by one of the warring tribes. Living among this "Tehkohn" group, she confronts and learns to deal with even more obstacles: She proves herself to be a strong huntress (a mark of distinction in Tehkohn culture) and a loyal follower of Tehkohn customs. Ultimately, she marries the leader of the tribe and has their child.
Marriage is often a feminist issue in Butler's novels. Amber in Patternmaster refuses marriage; Mary in Mind of My Mind is forced to marry. Alanna's marriage to a non-human creature ironically turns out to be the most successful and respectable of all these marriage situations. Her joining with the Tehkohn leader at once liberates her from the enslaving Christianity of her missionary parents and the enslavement of the meklah drug. Moreover, it offers her the promise of establishing a home with people she has come to respect and love. Perhaps the most bitter irony of the novel is that the Christian earthlings, who call their new home "Canaan," cannot accept the marriage of their daughter into a tribe that will offer them their only hope of peaceful existence.
The Christian religion is depicted as notably racist in Survivor. As a young, wild black girl, Alanna is adopted by white parents and grows up in a world in which her color is always suspect. On one occasion, a Missionary suggests that Alanna would surely "'be happier with her own kind'" since, after all, "'the girl isn't white.'" When Alanna later asks her mother about this incident, she learns "for the first time how important some Missionaries believed their own coloring to be." Color, in fact, turns out to be one of the major motifs in the novel. The Kohn creatures display a variety of colors as their moods and emotions change: They are gray in sobriety, white in amusement, bright yellow in anger. Their color also indicates hierarchical structure. Only a few of them, for instance, possess the blue, a sign of honor and power. Yet these colorful, non-human creatures show none of the racial bigotry associated with the Christian Missionaries. Ironically, Alanna's parents can laughingly dismiss the fear that their "black" daughter might mix with "whites," but are repulsed when that same daughter marries the honorable "blue" Tehkohn leader.
As a strong-minded black woman, Alanna submits to a surprising number of social restraints: first to the Christian Missionary code, then to the meklah drug, and finally to imprisonment by the Tehkohn tribe. But in her submission she discovers a source of strength. She learns, as Mary had learned, about herself—and about the different roles she has had to play in order to survive. We see in her an amazing capacity to compromise. Alanna's flexibility allows her to meander around some obstacles, and make other apparent obstacles into real avenues of liberation.
This ability to compromise and survive is what characterizes Butler's most fully-developed and intriguing heroine—Anyanwu in Wild Seed. Though all of Butler's protagonists are black, only Anyanwu is born in Africa. Both her African origin and her feminist determination give us every reason to think of her as the ancestress of Amber, Mary, Alanna, and the host of other prominent black women in Butler's fiction. Just as Wild Seed, by tracing the origins of Patternist society back to seventeenth-century Africa, provides a foundation for all four of the Patternist science-fiction novels, so does Anyanwu help to explain the yearning for independence and autonomy sought by Amber, Mary, and Alanna.
Before discussing Anyanwu as the character central to Butler's fiction, let me outline briefly the structure and plot of Wild Seed to show just how encompassing the novel is—in terms of both the time and space its characters inhabit.
The story spans two continents and nearly two centuries. Meeting in Africa in 1690, Anyanwu and Doro—female and male who have the potential to live forever—travel via slave ship to colonial New England. There Doro, a patriarchal dictator who aspires to breed a race of superhumans such as himself, exploits Anyanwu's abilities as a healer to propagate and maintain his small but growing empire. At first taken in by Doro's mystique, Anyanwu soon comes to realize that she is principally to serve as his breeder and slave. Forced to marry one of Doro's sons, she not only must partake in his animalistic breeding experiments, but must painfully endure their often tragic consequences. After her husband's death, she escapes from the New England colony. In 1840, Doro finds her on a plantation in Louisiana. There, in very real slave territory, Anyanwu has established her own free household only to have it invaded and controlled by Doro. After several of Anyanwu's children meet their deaths because of Doro's intrusion, Anyanwu decides that her only possible escape from his oppression is her own death. When she vows to commit suicide, however, Doro realizes how much the loss of Anyanwu would mean to him. Deprived of his only immortal compatriot, he would be doomed to face eternity alone. But more than that, he would lose the only effective humanizing force in his life. Their reconciliation at the end of the novel brings to a tenuous resolution over a hundred years of intense personal conflict. The ending of this novel, however, is actually the beginning of Butler's three previous novels, since in it we discover the origins of Patternist society.
We might best understand Anyanwu by appreciating the fundamental opposition between her and Doro. Both characters, for instance, are potentially immortal, but their means for achieving this immortality are strikingly different. Doro is a vampire-like figure who must continually kill people and assume their bodies in order to live. Anyanwu is a healer; instead of killing others, she rejuvenates herself. In this sense, she is the direct prototype of Amber in Patternmaster. Just as Teray, in that futuristic novel, could not possibly survive without Amber's healing abilities, so the superhuman Doro immediately recognizes in Anyanwu's talents a means to secure his superrace. For all Doro's control over his life and the lives of others, he is necessarily restricted in the physical forms he can assume. True, he may invade other bodies, but the constraints of those bodies are a given. Anyanwu's powers allow far more flexibility and agility: In changing the physical construct of her own body, she can transform herself into various kinds of creatures—both human and non-human. On the slave ship, for instance, when one of Doro's sons tries to rape her, Anyanwu fantastically transforms herself into a leopard and mauls her assailant to his violent death. She also possesses the ability to change from youth to old age back to youth. She may even change her sex, and on one particular occasion when she does so, Anyanwu once again becomes a prototype of Amber—this time by virtue of her androgyny.
The very physical characteristics of Anyanwu, then, highlight her distinguishing qualities. She is flexible and dexterous, compared to Doro's stiffness and dominance. She uses prowess rather than direct, confrontational power. She heals rather than kills, and kills only by assuming a different form and only when she or her children are assaulted. In Anyanwu, we find a woman who—despite her imprisonment by a patriarchal tyrant—learns to use her abilities to survive. In this sense, she is most obviously the prototype of another of Butler's heroines—Alanna in Survivor.
The marriage motif in Butler's novels, which I have commented on earlier, is also crystallized in Anyanwu—not only through her willingness to accept husbands forced upon her by Doro, but ultimately through her final reconciliation with Doro himself. Like both Amber and Mary, Anyanwu has a defiant attitude about marriage, and particularly like Mary in Mind of My Mind, she initially refuses to marry a white man whom Doro has chosen for her. Defiance, however, soon gives way to acceptance—and it is here, once again, that Anyanwu closely resembles Alanna, accepting the constraints of her world and trying to make something decent and productive out of the indecent situation in which she finds herself. Left on her own, without Doro's scheming intrusions, Anyanwu is able to produce and raise children possessed of both superior powers and tremendous human warmth. Her aim is to have children who may live with her, not die after a normal life span and leave her to her loneliness. Doro's paternal concerns revolve around his mechanical breeding experiments: He does not create children, but Frankenstein monsters. Anyanwu's maternity, however, is the main source of her being, the principal reason for her existence. As she explains, "'I could have husbands and wives and lovers into the next century and never have a child. Why should I have so many except that I want them and love them?'"
It is this kind of maternal generosity that will finally save Doro. Anyanwu, repulsed by Doro's inhumanity and his enslavement of the very superrace he has fathered, can all too easily kill herself. She can at least escape oppression through death. When Doro asks her why she has decided to die, Anyanwu explains her dilemma: "'It's the only way I can leave you…. Everything is temporary but you and me. You are all I have, perhaps all I would ever have.' She shook her head slowly. 'And you are an obscenity.'"
It is tempting to think that Doro pleads for Anyanwu to live not out of selfishness but out of love. We want to believe that, confronted with the possibility of her death, he comes to understand the most important aspect of life—human companionship. Perhaps this is so. Perhaps, however, Anyanwu decides to live not because she is suddenly convinced of Doro's humanity but because she at least sees some hope for a more humane future with him. If Anyanwu lives, she at least has the chance to save their children from Doro's oppression and save the two of them from eternal loneliness. It is the promise of human companionship that finally touches her. When Anyanwu chooses life, in spite of all the horrors which her relationship with Doro has produced and may still continue to produce, she is acting out of generosity both for their children and for him. Her decision reflects the courage and generosity that is in all of Butler's heroines.
Anyanwu is the great African ancestress. She encompasses and epitomizes defiance, acceptance, compromise, determination, and courage. Her personal goal is freedom, but given the obstacles that constantly prevent her from achieving that goal, she learns to make advancements through concessions. By finding her way through that great obstacle course, she is able to bring her best qualities—healing and loving—to a world that would otherwise be intolerable.
Butler's heroines, as I have been trying to show, can tell us much about her science fiction precisely because they are the very core of that fiction. These novels are about survival and power, about black women who must face tremendous societal constraints. We might very well expect them to be rebellious. We might expect them to reverse the typical male science-fiction stereotype and replace male tyranny with female tyranny. This does not happen. Though Butler's heroines are dangerous and powerful women, their goal is not power. They are heroines not because they conquer the world, but because they conquer the very notion of tyranny.
They are, as well, portraits of a different kind of feminism. Amber has the chance to marry the great Patternmaster; instead, she prefers her independence. Mary can easily become an awesome tyrant; instead, she matures into a caring mother. And Alanna, who possesses no extraordinary Patternist powers, learns to survive through accommodation rather than conflict. That very willingness to accommodate and compromise is what allows Anyanwu to endure over a century of oppressive patriarchy. At the end of each novel, we somehow get the impression that the victory of these women, though far from attained, is somehow pending. White men control the war, while black women fight a very different battle.
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