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The Lady Who Would Be Queen
One Day Her Prince Did Come, and for Better and Worse, She Followed Her Dream
On the contrary, this princess, who will be 27 on July 1, is vibrantly real. She is a vital, spunky, bewitchingly natural young woman with a magnetic charge of glamour that has dragged the sleepy old British monarchy kicking and screaming into the age of mass media. She is also a sex symbol who rivals the British lion and the union jack as a national emblem and does a damn sight more then they do for popular morale. She is an international salesgirl for British couture, a working mother whose children go everywhere with bodyguards, the heroine of a soap opera that has been running since King Alfred burned the cakes. Where did she come from and how did she get where she is today? The story of Diana, Princess of Wales, is the touching success story of a poor little rich girl who grew up and married Prince Charming but found out that it isn't always easy to live happily ever after.
She started life as a genealogical letdown to her father, Viscount Althorp (pronounced Awl-trup), who later inherited the title the Earl Spencer. Having had two daughters, he had prayed for a boy to carry on the family name. But when he saw what a tender beauty had been born, his heart melted. The subtle, irresistible rise of Diana Spencer had begun.
She didn't exactly rise from the bottom. Her father was heir to a huge estate, and in his veins flowed the blood of kings (see page 11). Her mother was the daughter of a wealthy, Harvard-educated Anglo-Irish baron, and her grandmother Ruth, Lady Fermoy, is the Woman of the Bedchamber (chief lady-in-waiting) to the Queen Mother. Until she was 13, Diana lived in Park House, a 10-bedroom mansion on the royal estate at Sandringham, and regularly romped in her family pool with Prince Andrew, the noisy kid from next door.
Diana was mother's little helper, a lively, happy child. But when she was 6, her mother ran off with the heir to a wallpaper fortune. While the hyena press feasted on the family skeletons, Diana's parents battled for custody of the children. By the time her father won, Diana was in a classic state of agitated depression. For months she chattered frantically. Then she fell silent and began to hang her head and bite her nails.
Diana did not impress her teachers. She was "an entirely average pupil," according to Elizabeth Ridsdale, the headmistress of Riddlesworth Hall, her first school. In fact, her major moment of academic distinction came when she won the Palmer Cup for Pets' Corner for taking especially good care of her guinea pig, Peanuts. Diana failed to pass any of her high school exams. But she developed a passion for ballet—and a crush on the Prince of Wales. She tacked his picture above her boarding school cot and confided dreamily to a classmate, "I would love to be a dancer—or Princess of Wales."
Luckily, when Diana was 16, the prince began to date her sister Sarah. So one day Di caught Charles alone "in the middle of a ploughed field" and irradiated him with adolescent charm. He said later he found her "amusing and attractive...bouncy and full of life"—and promptly forgot her. But in that brief encounter a romantic girl had found her one true love.
In March 1978, she dropped out of a Swiss finishing school after only six weeks and spent the next two years finding herself, and floundering about in the process. She failed ignominiously when she tried to teach a dance class of 3-year-olds. She hired out briefly as a cleaning woman but finally found her comfort level as an assistant kindergarten teacher and part-time nanny.
Yet all the while she struggled to transform her gangly self into an appealing young woman—a Diana even a prince might adore. She swapped her shoulder-length hair for a sportive windblown bob and stocked her closet with charming tartans and twin-sets. When she came into an inheritance, she bought a three-bedroom flat not far from fashionable Sloane Street and Knightsbridge, where she hoped the world would take her for a hip sophisticate. Not a chance. British journalist Tina Brown, now the editor of Vanity Fair, once described the
Diana she first saw as "a startled little foal, just enchanting, so nervous, frightened, shy."
And then, amazingly, Diana's dream began to come true. In January 1979, invited to Sandringham by the Queen, Diana ran into Charles again. Again, he was captivated, and this time he invited her to some parties. But he saw her still as a sweet young thing—much too young to marry.
What changed the prince's mind? For one thing, Charles's great-uncle and greatly loved mentor, Earl Mountbatten, was assassinated on his fishing boat by the IRA. Then, Charles's flame of the moment, Anna Wallace, flamed out. On top of that, his parents kept nagging him to find a wife and produce an heir. Lonely and depressed, Charles poured his heart out to the Queen Mother, who knew through Lady Fermoy that Diana was mad about the man. It was grandma, insiders say, who suggested to him that a marriage to the Spencer girl might well combine business with pleasure.
And so began the most intriguing royal courtship since King Edward VIII and that Simpson woman. For five months the media besieged Diana's flat and bird-dogged the girl wherever she went. Headlines bullhorned everything she said and did, and before long half the world was in love with the "shy Di" who blushed and loved babies and had wonderful long legs. After Charles at last proposed—at dinner in his Buckingham Palace apartment on Feb. 3, 1981—Diana told her father in a surge of joy: "I can give my love to everybody. I have so much love to give!"
Charles and Diana had the wedding of the millennium. More than one million admirers, 4,000 policemen, 2,228 soldiers and 100 TV cameras lined the route to St. Paul's Cathedral. Around the world a billion people tuned in. The cathedral itself was power-packed with presidents, prime ministers and assorted royalty, including Princess Grace and the 500-lb. King of Tonga. The Archbishop of Canterbury officiated, and Diana floated to the altar like a Botticelli angel swathed in a cirrus cloud of ivory silk taffeta beaded with tiny pearls and followed by billowing miles of train. "Here is the stuff," the archbishop trilled, "of which fairy tales are made."
For several years the fairy tale unfolded like a perfect rose. William arrived 11 months after the marriage vows, securing the succession, and Harry followed two years later. Diana was blissfully happy as a wife and mother. Rising confidence erased that lost-puppy look. Metabolism accelerated, and like magic 30 lbs. burned off her rangy 5'10" frame, leaving it lean and elegant—a splendid rack for the designer rags she assembled with impressive taste. Almost overnight a pretty girl was transformed into a statuesque belle, a kindergarten assistant into a fashion front-runner.
And as her beauty bloomed, her personality unfolded. Forthright, humorous, down-to-earth, she was every inch a princess, but she had the common touch. She chewed bubble gum, took tap-dancing lessons, zipped through Buckingham Palace with a tape by Dire Straits wailing away on her gold-plated Sony Walkman. And she glowed in the limelight, knew instinctively how to move and what to say in public situations. Everywhere she went, she touched the hearts of her dazzled countrymen.
Charles was pleasantly astounded. Like Little Jack Horner, he had stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum: a People's Princess, a child prodigy of promotion. With a slumping economy, Britain urgently needed promotion, so Diana was put right to work. In nearly seven years of marriage, the Waleses have made official visits to 19 different countries and slogged through hundreds of handshaking marathons. In 1987 alone Diana kept 180 separate public engagements.
Every little thing Diana did—bought a bra, ate a pizza, adorned her ankles with butterfly bows—inspired a hemorrhage of ink. The public's passion seemed insatiable. No doubt the media kept it sizzling, but so did Diana. Shy Di had become a superstar, and she loved it. She raged at the endless invasions of her privacy, but insiders say she reads everything written about her, beaming when the stories are friendly, brooding when they're not.
Then Sarah Ferguson stepped up to co-star on the royal scene, and the stories that followed gave Diana plenty to brood about. After five years in a corset of decorum, Di was ready to bust loose, and fun-loving Fergie was just the girl to help her unlace. At one private party Diana wore plastic falsies. At another she and Andrew waylaid Charles and almost yanked his pants off. Soon the merry wives of Windsor were cutting up in public. Last year at Ascot, wielding their umbrellas in full view of photographers, Di and Fergie mischievously poked the posterior of Maj. Hugh Lindsay (who would later die in an avalanche that nearly killed Prince Charles).
The British press made much of the incident, reporting that Charles had scolded his wife for trashing the dignity of the royal family and that Diana had scolded him right back for being "stuffy, boring and old before his time." Well-informed sources say, in fact, that nothing of the sort happened. But it's true that the marriage had been anything but blissful for some time. Right from the start, Charles had misread Diana's character. Mistaking the persona for the person, he had expected a sweet, quiet, supportive wife. But the mouse soon began to roar. Wherever the royal couple went, crowds clamored for Diana and largely ignored Charles. And, time and time again, when Charles made a serious speech, dailies would give it a brief mention below a large photo of Diana in her latest frock. To a man searching desperately for a significant public role, the situation was galling.
But the most serious problem in the marriage was the couple's across-the-board conflict of interests. He likes Mozart; she's gung ho for the Police. He reads Jung and Solzhenitsyn; she prefers searing love stories. He favors quiet dinner parties attended by intellectual heavyweights; she likes to dance the night away with the "Hooray Henrys" of London's smart set. As for holidays, he just can't wait to spend them at Balmoral; she just can't stand what one reporter called "the hellishly convivial royal family picnics." Observes one long-time insider: "The problems of the marriage have come out in the open because Di's self-confidence has developed. She now appreciates her own incredible sexuality and the fact that the world is at her feet. This adoration used to terrify her. Now she quite enjoys the effect she has."
Clearly, the fairy-tale phase of the marriage had gradually come to a close. The couple had agreed to pursue their separate interests—the usual pattern in royal unions—while still residing under the palace roof.
Inevitably, rumors began to fly. According to one, Diana had found solace with a handsome broker named Philip Dunne. Yet the idea that the princess, though known to be flirtatious, could actually be unfaithful is unthinkable to people who know her well. Said one friend: "Her position as Princess of Wales means more to her than anything in the world. There is no way she would risk this—or the fact that she will one day be Queen—for a silly fling. The consequences of being caught are too horrendous."
Charles has fueled the marital rumors by staying away from home for extraordinary lengths of time over the past 18 months. The pair spent their sixth wedding anniversary apart last summer. During the last six months he has spent entire weeks away from his family, including much of this year's Easter break. Sometimes it has been duty that summoned him, but the claim of princely obligations has begun to wear thin. Charles's intimates are close-mouthed. "I make a point," said one, "not to ask questions." "What the hell are you playing at, Charles?" veteran columnist Jean Rook demanded in London's Daily Express, presumably asking on behalf of millions of Britons.
Whatever his game, it could be having an unsettling effect on his wife. In early April, well-known royal watcher and gossip columnist Nigel Dempster printed a report that three eyewitnesses had seen Diana weeping uncontrollably while she was dining with friends in a posh London restaurant. "For a member of the royal family," says one Diana watcher, "this is an astounding collapse of public demeanor. If the report is accurate, it suggests that the princess is living under great strain."
Not for the first time and surely not for the last. Emotional problems come with the royal territory, one in which both partners must always and forever sacrifice personal preferences to public expectations and duty. As Diana herself, with a grim little smile, said recently: Being a princess "isn't all it's cracked up to be." Yet the situation is far from hopeless. Much has been made of the interests Charles and Diana do not share. Yet they also have powerful concerns in common: love of country, belief in the monarchy, devotion to their children, affection for each other—not to mention the pleasures of their opulent life-style.
And give credit where it's due. If Diana's impeccable performance so far is any indication, Charles picked the perfect woman to be the next Queen of England—and that may well be the most important thing he will ever do.
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We all have a history, but something in Frank Messina's past threatened to affect his future.
"I have a family history. My father and my mother had heart conditions," says Messina.
Studies show an underestimation of the impact of family history on heart risk. Most doctors discuss it, but may not probe deep enough.
"It's one of the strongest indicators for someone to have premature heart attacks," says Dr. Murali Muppala, cardiologist with Lee Memorial Health System.
Currently some risk measurement tools only cover whether a family member has heart problems, without specifically asking if a parent had a heart attack and at what age. The information could potentially put them in a higher risk category.
"There is a very high risk factor for someone to have premature heart attacks. If someone has a heart attack in the family in their 40s and 50s, beware. Make sure you are following all the guidelines," says Dr. Muppala.
A family history of heart attack puts more emphasis on the other cardiac risk factors. It is the one element we can't control, making it more important to address things that are within our power.
"Make sure your risk factors are identified; make sure your risk factors are under good control. They include hypertensions, diabetes, smoking. And all these things need to be controlled aggressively, if you have a strong family history," says Dr. Muppala.
Evaluating standard questionnaires, put about 13% of people studied at high risk, while looking at an enhanced history put 20% people in that category. Without understanding his true risk, Frank almost carried on a family tradition.
"I never drank, never smoked and I started to get chest pains. They rushed me to the hospital. I couldn't figure out why I would have this heart attack, and I think it's the family history," says Messina.
Sharing all the facts with your doctor could prevent you from repeating the past.


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May 2014 Advances & Applications
Where do the good ideas come from?In this column, we offer our readers the opportunity to learn about—and benefit from—some of the cutting-edge technologies being implementedby law enforcement colleagues around the world.
Bradley County Schools Launch TIPS Safety Platform
The Bradley County, Tennessee, school system has implemented a new program to help keep children safe.
TIPS (Threat Assessment, Incident Management and Prevention Services) is an award-winning web-based risk management and incident reporting platform from Awareity. The TIPS platform is successfully being used in school districts across the United States to identify, prevent, and effectively intervene in threatening behaviors.
TIPS provides an avenue for all students, parents, staff, and community members to safely report disconcerting behaviors, suspicious incidents, or general concerns to school staff. Concerns which may be reported include bullying, cyber-bullying, weapons, drug or alcohol use, vandalism, threats of violence, suicide risk, sexual harassment, abuse, and truancy.
"TIPS is a tool to be utilized by school administrators and law enforcement to increase awareness of student safety and concerning behaviors within our schools," said Scotty Hernandez, Bradley County Schools safety and security coordinator. "This tool has the potential to detect, deter, and disrupt unwanted behavior or criminal activity."
TIPS does not take the place of emergency services, but it does provide all stakeholders in Bradley County Schools another avenue to deter or disrupt unacceptable behaviors or illegal activities.
"If someone has information about concerning behaviors or suspicious activities that could potentially jeopardize the safety and security of students, faculty, or staff, the individual can access TIPS from the Bradley County Schools' website and report that information," Hernandez said.
Reports are reviewed by school administrators and school resource officers (SROs). Reports can also be shared with SROs at other locations in the event of bullying between students at different schools, on the bus, and so forth. Since its implementation, the SROs have taken advantage of TIPS to keep track of over 400 reports, ranging from daily log activities, custody issues, and juvenile citations to teaching DARE and making arrests.
Funding for TIPS in Bradley County Schools is through a Safe Schools grant. The system can be accessed through the school's website by visiting http://www.bradleyschools.org and clicking on the TIPS: Report Incident logo.
For more information, visit http://www.awareity.com/public/solutions.asp.
Sheriff's Office Uses Twitter to Save Hours on Shift Call-outs
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office recently freed up hundreds of employee hours a year by allowing deputies to learn about shift vacancies using the simplest of tools: Twitter.
Sergeant John Naccarato noticed the usual system for filling shift vacancies was time-consuming; a Community Service Officer (CSO) spent hours calling a long list of deputies to see if any were interested in filling shift vacancies.
"The CSOs would have to call the deputies, who might be asleep or on vacation," recalls Naccarato. "There had to be a better way."
That's when Naccarato hit on a call-out system that used Twitter, the free social-messaging service.
Hours spent with a phone and a spreadsheet were replaced with the typing of a single Twitter post, or "tweet," about a shift vacancy. Deputies see the new tweet—and the shift opening—and call in if they're interested in filling the vacancy.
"We set up private Twitter accounts for each shift," explains Naccarato, "and then we assigned private Twitter accounts to participating deputies. The deputy Twitter accounts follow the shift Twitter accounts."
"All the CSO has to do now is log into a shift Twitter account and send out a single tweet about a shift vacancy. The deputies see the tweet about the vacancy and call in if they're interested."
After a successful trial run, the system was implemented on a larger scale at the sheriff's office. Time savings proved enormous for CSOs. "Instead of spending three hours of a 10-hour shift calling a list, the CSO now spends 30 seconds composing a tweet, hits send, and waits for the call," explains Naccarato. "It frees the CSOs up to interact with the public, work on warrants—all the things we really need."
For more information, visit https://twitter.com/ClackCoSheriff or http://www.clackamas.us/sheriff.
Haystax Launches National School Safety Cloud
Haystax Technology, Inc., announces the launch of its National School Safety Cloud, an integrated portfolio of online software applications that enables school districts and their public safety partners nationwide to securely manage their school safety operations and data in the cloud.
"[The Haystax School Safety Cloud] provides us with a much greater level of situational awareness in and around schools in our region. Having emergency plans, floor plans, and key personnel information literally at our fingertips and viewable even when we're on the move saves critical time during an incident response," said Gary Coons, Chief of Indianapolis Homeland Security. "Even during non-crisis periods, the Haystax system is an ideal tool for preparedness planning, training, and drills. It allows us to partner with education officials to make our schools safer."
The web-based and mobile apps in the National School Safety Cloud are accessible to all authorized users, providing a shared and continuously updated picture of the school security environment and seamless coordination during a crisis, as well as integrated software tools like custom safety assessment forms and field alerting apps.
School safety engages a wide cross-section of the community, from students and parents to teachers and superintendents, plus a range of public safety officials and government administrators, policy makers, and legislators. Diverse stakeholders constantly strive to understand the broad threats and risks facing all schools in their areas of responsibility, as well as the aspects of the security environment unique to each school. The School Safety Cloud enables them to do both by providing the information they need, when they need it.
From the smallest school districts to the largest states, authorized users of the School Safety Cloud can do the following:
For more information, visit http://www.haystax.com/solutions/public-safety-cloud/school-safety.
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unique west Texas experience!
Bay Stallion
1932 ~ 1960
AQHA Hall Of Fame ~ 2006
Breeder: Mr.Childress
Silverton, Texas
Owner: Catherine &
Lompoc, California
Known as Speedy during his rodeoing days, Driftwood left an undeniable mark
on the using horse world of the southwest and west coast. Foaled in 1932
near Silverton, Texas, the bay stallion was bred by Mr. Childress (known
locally as "Old Man" Childress).
At the time Driftwood was foaled, there was no American Quarter
Horse Association and breeding records were often loosely kept. Many
breeders, especially if they were racing their horses, preferred that the
breeding of their horses not be known. It was easier to match a horse that
way, especially if a horse was by a known sire of speed.
During those early match-racing years, there were no starting
gates. Instead, horses were flagged off the starting line in what were
called lap-and-tap starts. "Lap" meant that the horses had to lap each other
when they came up to the starting line. In other words, if the horses were
in a straight line, the starter, who was standing either to the right or
left of them, could only see the entire body of the horse closest to him.
When the horses were "lapped" like this, the starter "tapped" them off. If
they weren't lapped, he yelled to pull up and try again.
In his book titled 13 Flat, Willard Porter discussed
Driftwood's ability to remain quiet in lap-and-tap starts. Porter quoted an
old-timer as saying, "Driftwood never blew. One time, Driftwood was matched
against one of the best Lap-and-tap horses in the Sweetwater country for 220
yards. They scored for an hour and a quarter, until both horses were
drenched with sweat from the start of so many un-lapped starts. The other
horse was high and fretting and obviously tiring. But Drifty was still calm.
When they finally broke, Drifty never made a mistake. He broke straight and
on top and he won by 2 lengths."
In an article about Driftwood in Hoofs and Horns, Willard Porter
quoted Ab Nichols' son, Buck, as saying, "Driftwood was 6 or 7 years old
when we bought him. He was a race horse, but I broke him to be a rope horse
and rodeoed on him. As far as I know, he'd never experienced anything like
that before we got him.
"He was a blood bay; not real big and definitely showed his
Thoroughbred breeding," continued Nichols. "And he could run!
Driftwood stood 14.3 - 15 hands and showed
adequate bone and foot size. Driftwood was a very well balanced individual
and showed an alertness that is still evident in his progeny. He was also an
extremely smooth riding horse with an easy disposition. We didn't keep
him more than a couple of years, but we thought a great deal of him. As a
matter of fact, we bred a lot of our Clabber mares to him."
Porter's article continued to quote Buck Nichols, "George Cline
of Roosevelt, Arizona came to us about buying the horse. We sold him for
$600. The Depression of the 1930s wasn't over yet and that was an unheard-of
price for a horse. The Clines like to rope and Driftwood got to look at lots
of cattle."
In 1941, when he was 9 years old, Driftwood was sold to Asbury
Schell of Tempe, Arizona. Asbury was a tough calf and team roper and a
former world champion in the second event. The horse fit in well with that
program and before long he was a fixture at the big rodeos across the
country. From the Mexican border to Calgary, from California to Madison
Square Garden, Driftwood was ridden by some of the top timed-event hands in
the business. Schell began calling the horse Speedie (later, the Peakes
spelled it Speedy) based on the speed with which he caught cattle and the
name caught on with the cowboys.
In those days, most outdoor rodeos were held in large arenas and
over a long score. Because of his match-race experience, Speedy broke from
the roping box extremely fast and learned to hunt, or track, cattle in the
quickest way possible. Ropers of the time still talk about the way that he
ate up ducking, dodging calves and steers. At a rodeo at Payson,
Arizona, probably in 1941, the spectacular bay stallion was ridden in every
timed event - calf roping, team tying, single steer roping and bulldogging.
And he carried his riders into the money in every one of them. Then, he won
the stock saddle cow horse race down the length of the arena.
Driftwood was a tough horse. He stood up under the pressure of
rodeoing with the long hauls, numerous riders and changes of climate and
feed. Even with all the hard use, however, he never lost his good
disposition. "Driftwoods"
ability to sire quick speed, performance ability, the mental attitude to
retain training, functional conformation and physical stamina to stand up
under hard use, and carry the traits on down through the generations, is
what made "Driftwood" unique among stallions. Many stallions are outstanding
performers themselves but are not able to pass that same talent on down
through the generations. "Driftwood" did. Generations later, "Driftwoods"
are known to be very trainable and excellent at any event they are asked to
perform in. Driftwood has had winners in virtually every event possible
including barrel racing, reining, working cow horse, roping, cutting and
western riding. They are known to be graceful movers and are very cowy.
They are also known to be huge stoppers.
In early
1943, Driftwood's life took a different trail when he was
purchased by Channing and Catherine Peake, who owned Rancho Jabali in
Lompoc, California. According to Willard Porter the couple had decided to
develop a breeding program to produce the best rodeo and ranch horses
possible. Although they had the mare power to do it with, they didn't have a
stallion. So they began to search for a suitable one. For a year or so it
was a difficult hunt. The Peakes weren't in the market for just any
stallion. As Porter has written, they wanted one with proven, outstanding
roping ability. While they were interested in a horse with the conformation
that would enable him to stay sound under hard use, their primary objective
was a horse with performance ability, heart and the speed to catch cattle in
winning time. And they wanted a pre-potent horse that could pass these
traits on to his get.
In the spring of 1942 the Peakes went to the Hayward, California
rodeo where Schell was competing. They would not only see what the horse
looked like, but could judge his performance as a contest mount in both the
calf roping and team roping. The well-balanced, good looking bay
stallion lived up to his advance billing. He was alert, had a kind eye and
quiet disposition and was the kind of rope horse the Peakes had visualized.
Seeing Speedy ended the Peakes' search for a stallion. There was just one problem. Schell didn't want to sell the horse.
He was winning money off him in the rodeo arena and like most ropers, when
he had a horse that fit him, he didn't want to give him up. However, Channing and Katy did talk the Arizona cowboy into coming to their ranch for
a short visit and breeding Speedy to several of their mares.
Later Asbury did
decide to sell Speedy and on March 9, 1943 Channing Peake paid Asbury Schell $1,500.00 for
the stallion. For years, the major rodeos and team ropings in California and
Arizona were a showcase of Driftwood offspring.
Although Driftwood had been a hard-knocking race horse, few of
his get went to the track. The rodeo arena was their destination, although
more than one was match raced when the opportunity arose. And usually the
Driftwood crossed the finish line first.
During the following seventeen years, "Driftwood" sired a whole arena full
of top performers in the show ring, the race track, and the rodeo arena. For
over a half a century a bay stallion has passed down his own tremendous
performance ability and, in the process given horsemen something that they
were proud to ride. An old rodeo adage is, "A man has to be well mounted to
win" and with a "Driftwood" he was. Today, seventy plus years after he was
foaled, his blood is still sought after by cowboys. "Driftwood" died on
October, 20 1960. He left many great son's and daughter's of his such as "Hallie
Wood", "Woodwind", "Henny Penny Peake", "Brown Beulah", "Wood Wasp",
"Drifty", "Woodfern", "Miss Linwood", "O See O", "Judy Sue", "Annie Wood",
"Kitty Wood", "Rosewood", "Drifting Sage", "Easy Keeper", "Chilena",
"Maestro", "Speedy II", "Poker Chip", "Speedy Wood", "Speedy Peake", and
"Driftwood Ike", just to name a few.
One of the greatest crosses on Driftwood seemed to be a mare named Sage
Hen. This great mare produced Driftwood's greatest performers including
Poker Chip Peake who is considered to be the greatest calf roping horse of
all time. He was a good looking gray and could really stop. Sage Hen
also produced Henny Penny Peake (Hackamore champion), Red Button (famous
rodeo gelding), Drifting Sage (rope horse and great sire). Drifting Sage
produced Blanton Wood (by Kitty Blanton by Lucky Blanton). Blanton Wood is
the sire to Blantons O Too Cool. Sage Hen was by Wagonner and proved to be
among the greatest crosses on Driftwood.
Another great cross was Hancock Belle. She was by Buck by Chicaro and by a
Hancock mare. This cross produced Driftwood Ike who was also a top rope
horse and later a sire. Ike sired Orphan Drift, Wayward Ike, White
Lightning Ike and Lone Drifter and other great sires. Driftwood Ike mares
produced excellent individuals such as Sunfrost and Bucko Jack. Bucko Jack
was cutting winner before being sidelined with an injury. Bucko Jack is
the sire of Jumpin Jack Solano. Hancock Belle was also the dam of Chilena.
Chilena was also a great arena performer when mares were rarely ridden in
the arena. Chilena was a great roping horse and her blood is prized by
Driftwood breeders. It is fabled that Chilena outran every race horse in
Arizona and California during her time. She produced Frostena who was an
AQHA Superior Heading Horse.
Today's barrel racers are finding the Driftwoods make excellent barrel
horses. They have a natural rate to them and have a quick start out of the
barrel. They are easy to train and can handle the pressures and stress of training
/ hauling.
Great barrel horses that carry Driftwood blood include Sun Frost,
Frenchman's Guy, French Flash Hawk (aka Bozo who was a 4 time PRCA barrel
racing horse of the year), PC Frenchman's Hayday (WNFR money earner and
prorodeo winner for Sherry Cervi) and Firewater Fiesta (who is a 1 time PRCA
barrel racing horse of the year), just to name a few.
While the Driftwood line is now getting thin, there are a few
breeders scattered around the country attempting to carry it on. And, when
possible, the ropers still like to own the Driftwoods. Even today, a cowboy
will occasionally comment that his top horse goes back to old Speedy. This
usually means that he is well-mounted.


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The modern museum building echoes classic Chinese architecture, and complements the nearby Small Wild Goose Pagoda, which was built in 707 AD. This 15-tiered structure is a little more refined than the Big Wild Goose Pagoda which was built a few years earlier in the same light stone, and its solid construction has withstood numerous earthquakes.
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Did you know that human brains are hard-wired to scout for trouble? Back in caveman days, or even the wild wild west, continuously scanning your surroundings for trouble was a useful way for us to be hard-wired, since danger and life-threatening situations loomed around every corner.
And when you're in the middle of a divorce or separation, it's natural to feel more pessimistic than optimistic. Let's face it, even if ending the relationship is the right decision, it doesn't make it an easy decision.
But now that we live in the [comparatively] safer 21st century, this negativity-seeking hard-wire insures that we emphasize the troubles and worries in our life, rather than focusing on the good things. And while there are always plenty of bad things that go on in the world, there are also abundant good things.....if we remember to slow down long enough to pay attention.
Yes, even if you're getting divorced. There are still good things in your life even if your relationship is ending, even if they're difficult to identify at the moment. Set your intentions to positive thoughts and they'll serve as your beacon. http://bit.ly/craDvQ
Think I'm sounding a little airy-fairy here? This exercise is actually based on Stanford University's Gratitude Study, directed by Dr. Frederic Luskin, Ph.D. http://learningtoforgive.com/. The study found that people who focused on what they were thankful for just a minute or two a day had much more positive attitudes, and, as a result, a higher quality of life, than those who didn't. And best of all, it's simple, free, and it works.
You can make gratitude a habit by practicing it every day with this simple exercise http://bit.ly/8XK8PU:
Simply take a minute to make a mental list of everything you're thankful for every single day. It might be something big: the chemotherapy worked, a promotion, your best friend's new baby. It can also be small stuff: you find your car keys, your team makes it to the playoffs, your long lost friend finds you on Facebook.
Here's my list from this morning:
•I love the way the light shines through the Venetian blinds in the morning
•I am so happy my rescue dog finally learned to "sit"
•I'll have time to take a nap on Saturday
•I'm going to have a very productive week
•There's leftover spaghetti so I don't need to cook tonight
•I don't have to answer to my spouse anymore about my choices with money or how I spend my time
This list might sound a little silly. But I really am thankful for these things. And the point is to make a list, no matter how insignificant any given item is. The exercise is about making a list, not about the items on the list.
Be thankful for all things, from important to mundane.
Go over your list during a quiet time of day or night for you. Maybe during those few minutes between the time you wake up and when you actually have to get up, in the middle of the night when you wake up and can't get back to sleep, or simply pausing during the day.
When you're feeling gratitude, you'll literally have a better day than if you let your negativity hard-wire be in charge all the time. And if you're feeling down, watch the Gratidudes do their Gratitude Dance--or better yet, join in!


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| Mac looks like your browser on your PC. You can have your bookmarks in the
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Ferrater is well aware of Alvar Aalto's teachings. In the Institute of the Botanical Garden in Barcelona, and even more in this work, his architecture for the most part expresses itself through the simplicity of its natural materials and is at its best in full sunlight, "immaterial material" which conducts the orchestra of the shadows on the volumes, sometimes dividing them and sometimes blending them together, with the effect of creating constantly changing outlines for the buildings.
These are the marks of his Mediterranean culture, incessantly seeking solar and always simple atmospheres. A culture different from that of his Scandinavian teachers, but close to it because he tends to dress his buildings in the lightest, most ethereal, dynamic and creative material that exists: sunlight.
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Jackson also wrote a tribute to his father Steve in a recent blog on sj39.com. Among the topics Jackson touched on:
–Lessons he's learned from his father and how he's applied those lessons to being a father himself.
–The challenges of being a traveling pro athlete while trying to raise two young boys.
–Why he doesn't want his sons to feel pressured to play football or any other sports, but encourages them to do so if they want.
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Look at that Tito over at Taco Bell. I mean come on, take a shower man.
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Police officer. Mainly used in Mexican Slang.
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He's the King of kings and Lord of lords, the Savior and God with us. However, can we really know Jesus as our best friend? Robert C. Crosby shows us how we can experience Jesus in a new and intimate way -- the same way His friends knew Him. Drawing on the close relationships that Jesus had while on earth, the wisdom of great men and women of God through the ages, and personal experience, Crosby takes readers to that place of personal transformation. More than a passage, it is a day-by-day reality where deep abiding friendship takes hold. Side by side with Jesus, readers discover the greatest friendship in the universe as it was intended to be.From the Hardcover edition.
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A committee is not the same thing as a team. To become a great team, a group must have a goal that is deeply challenging, a leader who is creatively empowering, and a willingness to work within a collaborative community that honors the Bible. The Bible is full of examples of great things accomplished through teaming leaders. Scripture also provides a compelling model from which church communities and teams can learn to live and serve in light of the "Divine Team" - the Trinity. Author Robert C. Crosby provides several innovative ways in which biblical teams reflect the workings and nature of the Trinity and thus the image of God. Revealing what he calls "The Four C's of Great Teams" - The Character, The Carrot, The Coach, and The Context - Crosby shows how successful teams reach their goals more effectively. Conversely, he also addresses the "Four Fatal Teaming Errors" and how to avoid unnecessary, time-consuming missteps. This book provides biblical motivations, vivid examples, and practical approaches for creating a teaming culture in any faith community. Crosby, a leader who has built teams as a senior pastor, youth leader, and university administrator, is now training and mentoring a new generation of pastors and leaders.
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BACK IN APRIL, an attorney for a female employee at the Philadelphia Housing Authority dropped a bombshell on top city and state officials.
The attorney accused PHA Executive Director Carl R. Greene of "serial predatory sexual misconduct" against female staffers and called for an immediate investigation into Greene's "well-known" and repeated violations of federal and state laws that prohibit workplace sexual harassment.
John M. Elliott, of the politically connected Elliott Greenleaf & Siedzikowski law firm, sent copies of his April 21 letter to Gov. Rendell, Mayor Nutter, City Controller Alan Butkovitz, city Inspector General Amy Kurland, City Council President Anna Verna, PHA board chairman John Street and four other PHA commissioners.


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I'm looking to get some too! I love this link Hyperlipid: Fruit and vegetables (13) become eggs
My chickens will be arriving in a couple of weeks.. I know the obvious: bugs/kitchen scraps. I can also get some additional chicken scraps from a grocery store, but they need more protein and more food in general, also they will need some form of calcium so their shells are tougher. I was thinking for now to just get the standard organic mix to supplement until I learned what to feed them. However, if you have experience please let me know what you feed them.
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I don't know the answer in terms of buying feed. But I can tell you that chickens absolutely love melon rind!
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Feed them a good organically grown feed without any soya products added to it. They also need clean water (of course) and access to some good crushed shells (Oystershell in the UK) which they store as calcium in their bodies to make the shells of their eggs. Some good sharp grit (Flint or similar) is good for them too as they keep it in their Gizzard to grind up the food they eat.
Access to grass is good as they will eat some of it and it gives the yolks a lovely dark yellow colour.
They need bugs. Grubs, grasshoppers, crickets etc. So allowing them to roam is best. If you have kids, have them collect bugs by the jar full. That's what I did for fun as a kid, collected bugs and let them go for the chickens, they went wild for them! The organic feed, will supplement when the bugs are scarce.
If you get any mice in your grain bins.... you'd be shocked by what a chicken will do to it!
Consider a black fly larva set up if they are in your area... great way to generate some bug protein.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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And that's why I'm here eating HFLC Primal/Paleo.
I'm hoping they are going to eat all our misquitoes and ticks!!
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Female/29 years old/5' 1"/130ish lbs
My chickens love everything! I use the 3-day rule on leftovers - so after that the chickens score! And of course any other scraps from the kitchen.
I found a local farm where I can buy grain for them, and they free range all day in the back yard.
Love my chickens!
Had a farmer tell me once that if you feed them marigolds, it will make the yolks brighter yellow. Don't know if it's true though. Might be worth a try.
Until they are well grown, make sure they have free choice access to proper chicken food. You can still feed them scraps, let them forage, catch bugs etc. but it's not worth leaving things to chance. They are not like us, or cattle, they can handle grains and seeds just fine. Just ask for medication and drug free feed. They will need chick starter crumbs for the first few weeks, as they get bigger they can be changed to grower, either crumb or pellets.
I always fed a mixed scratch grain as well, once a day as a treat, and any kitchen scraps. Pretty much anything you put in a composer is really good for them. They had a big outdoor pen, the run of the yard in the evening, and we're locked in the henhouse at night. For layers, make sure they have free access to oyster shell once they start laying.
Backyard Chickens is a great forum for help and info.
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i heard about AIN from my pal Matt Weinstein - what a wonderful notion! Just wanted to say howdy to everyone and let you know how much I'm looking forward to learning, playing, pondering with each of you on down the line.
I live in the SF Bay Area, do improv with Twisted Gray Matter in San Ramon, and apply my own improvisation ideas into the Learning / Development work I do at Lam Research. While sometimes I feel like a spy in the real world, I know that improv gives me a venue / mechanism to feel ALL of myself without the fear of self-immolating in the work place.
Applying improv to training, facilitation, org learning or just opportunities for fun are where I hope to go with AIN. I am also very open to the very real possibility that improv heaven is in somethning else altogether.
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RIGHT NOW, PART OF A RESIDENTIAL STREET IN RIO RANCHO IS SHUT DOWN WHILE POLICE INVESTIGATE A HOMICIDE. IT'S HAPPENING ALONG 2ND STREET NORTHEAST NEAR SANDIA. KOAT'S MIKE SPRINGER IS THE ONLY REPORTER ON THE SCENE. HE'S LIVE WITH WHAT'S HE'S LEARNED. POLICE TELL US THEY HAVE DETAINED ONE MAN IN CONNECTION WITH THIS HOMICIDE, BUT SO FAR HE HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED. HERE'S WHAT WE DO KNOW: AROUND 3:30, OFFICERS GOT A CALL THAT SOMEONE WASN'T BREATHING HERE IN THE 100 BLOCK OF 2ND STREET NORTHEAST. WHEN THEY GOT HERE, THEY FOUND THE WOMAN DEAD INSIDE THE HOME. HER INJURIES LEAD THEM TO BELIEVE THIS IS A HOMICIDE, BUT AREN'T GOING INTO DETAILS ABOUT THOSE INJURIES JUST YET. AGAIN, THEY HAVE DETAINED A MAN, WHO THEY SAY IS RELATED TO THE VICTIM THEY ARE NOT GOING INTO DETAILS ON WHAT THEIR RELATIONSHIP IS BUT INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY LIVE TOGETHER AT THIS HOME. POLICE TELL US THERE'S STILL A LOT THEY'RE TRYING TO SORT OUT--INCLUDING EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED HERE, AND IF THAT MAN WILL FACE CHARGES. it's currently an active investigation. It depends on where our investigation leads us tonight and as it progress things may change RIGHT NOW, POLICE AREN'T IDENTIFYING THE WOMAN WHO DIED, OR THE MAN THEY'VE DETAINED. REPORTING IN NORTHEAST RIO RANCHO MIKE SPRINGER KOAT
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Brown at 60: An American Success Story
Never mind chatter about the 'resegregation' of U.S. schools. The landmark Supreme Court case did its job.
In conventional liberal circles, there is never any good news about race. Thus, as the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision in the Brown v. Board of Education school-desegregation case nears, mainstream media outlets lately have been depicting American schools as resegregated.
Thus we read that in New York City "children trundle from segregated neighborhoods to segregated schools, living a hermetic reality," the New York Times NYT -1.08 % reports. The Los Angeles Times describes more Latino children increasingly attending segregated schools, while the segregation of black students is virtually unchanged from the early 1970s. That conclusion is drawn from the work of a research team led by UCLA professor Gary Orfield, the left's go-to man on race and schooling. For decades Prof. Orfield has been successfully peddling a story of dashed hopes for school desegregation.
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court declared in its unanimous Brown decision that state-imposed, single-race public schools violated the 14th Amendment. Separating children on the basis of race, the justices said, denied black pupils "equal educational opportunities" and hence deprived them of the "equal protection" of the laws, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote. The watershed decision marked the beginning of the end of the Jim Crow South, applying to more than 10 million children who were enrolled in color-coded schools in 21 states and the District of Columbia. They made up roughly 40% of the nation's public-school students, and more than two-thirds of all African-American pupils.
Some commentators (thinking wishfully) hailed Brown as a historic vindication of Justice John Marshall Harlan's magnificent dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson , the 1896 decision that upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation of public facilities. Justice Harlan, a lonely voice on the court, declared the Constitution to be "colorblind." But the Brown court said nothing of the sort. It spoke only of segregation's psychological harm to black children and did not bar all racial classifications, as the NAACP had hoped it would. Thus racial preferences in higher education, contracting and employment—often called affirmative action—have been periodically sanctioned by the court.
Mr. Orfield and his admirers do not regret the court's failure in 1954 to bar race-conscious public policies, of which they approve. They want more racially balanced schools and see Brown as a failed promise. But this comes from Mr. Orfield's problematic definition of segregation. In his view, any school in which various minority groups together constitute a majority of the student body is "segregated."
The number of such majority-minority schools has indeed increased. Seventy-four percent of black and 80% of Latino students are currently enrolled in them, up several points over the past two decades. But this is not, as Mr. Orfield argues, because federal court decisions have released many communities from desegregation orders issued many years ago. (Mr. Orfield seemingly favors permanent court supervision over most school districts.) The core problem is a stunning transformation in the racial demography of the school-age population that has resulted from immigration and the differential fertility rates of immigrants and natives.
In 1970, the federal government at last began to enforce Brown vigorously. Federal courts issued desegregation orders that forced the redrawing of school-attendance zones and imposed large-scale busing in many cities. At that time, four out of five public-school students were white. Today, that percentage is just over half (50.5%). In the South, whites already are a minority (47%), and an even smaller minority in the West, where barely 40% of public-school pupils are white. Whites are a still smaller public-school minority in the largest and most rapidly growing Southern and Western states: only 27% in California, 31% in Texas and 43% in Florida. These demographic trends are not expected to stop in the foreseeable future.
Mr. Orfield includes those numbers in his widely cited reports but shrinks from drawing the logical conclusion: It would be logistically impossible—without huge fleets of school buses full of children embarking on daily cross-country drives—to eliminate what he defines as "segregated" schools in much of America today.
If it were true that the educational achievement of minority children depended upon a large white presence in the schools they attended, profound pessimism would be in order. The share of non-Hispanic whites in the school-age population will almost surely continue to shrink. The only way to counter that trend would be to impose a complete ban on further immigration and to deport the 10 million-plus immigrants living illegally in the U.S. You won't hear that proposal coming from those who insist that America's schools are being resegregated.
It is demeaning, even racist, to assume that minority children can't learn—or can't learn as much—unless they are immersed in a student body in which whites are the majority. The most sophisticated research on the subject does not find that having white classmates notably improves the academic achievement of blacks and Hispanics.
The high test scores in the largely black or Latino charter schools run by the KIPP Academy, the Harlem Children's Zone and many others illustrate the point. Mr. Orfield and his many supporters, though, resolutely oppose charter schools, and he even faults the Obama administration for its rather mild support for them. He dismisses charter schools because they are "the most segregated sector of schools for black students."
It is true that the schools typically do not have many white students enrolled; that's because the charter schools' mission is to serve students who are most in need. Studies by Roland Fryer and many other social scientists reveal that black and Latino students actually learn more rapidly when they transfer into a good charter school (or private school where vouchers are available), even if the school has a racial mix—i.e., not a majority of white students—that passionate advocates of racial balance find objectionable.
The quality of American public schools is not what it should and could be, but the problem is not the lack of a proper racial balance in their student bodies. Schools with heavy black or Hispanic enrollment are not "segregated"; it is a gross misuse of the term to claim otherwise. The promise of Brown v. Board of Education has been fulfilled. Nothing resembling the Jim Crow South has re-emerged, and it never will. On Saturday we should celebrate a truly heartening American success story.
Mr. Thernstrom is a history professor at Harvard University. Ms. Thernstrom is an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. They are the co-authors of "America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible" (Simon & Schuster, 1997).


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The Art of Science in New England, 1700-1920
Saturday, March 15, 2014 9:00-4:00
Collins Cinema, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
The 2014 Wellesley-Deerfield Symposium will explore visual representations of scientific inquiry produced, collected, distributed or otherwise circulating in New England from the start of the 18th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines will address a variety of topics from the use of anatomical and biological models in scientific pedagogy to the impact of mechanical inventions for enhancing vision on artistic and scientific practice.
The symposium is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. For further information call the Wellesley College Art Department at 781-283-2043 or point your browser to: www.wellesley.edu/art/events/deerfield
Sponsored by the Grace Slack McNeil Program for Studies in American Art at Wellesley College; the Office of Academic Programs at Historic Deerfield, and made possible by the generous support of the Barra Foundation.
Accompanying the symposium is the Davis Museum exhibit, "The Art of Science: Object Lessons at Wellesley College, 1875-1940," in the Robert and Claire Freedman Lober Viewing Alcove. On view from February 25th –June 22nd 2014.
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"Orra White Hitchcock: An Illustrated Life," Daria D'Arienzo, Archival Consultant, Williamsburg, MA
"The Fruits of Their Labor: Horticultural Inquiry in the Development of American Still-Life Painting," Nancy Siegel, Associate Professor of Art History, Towson University, Towson, MD
"Learning from Pressed Plants and Glass Flowers: Harvard's Botany Program and the Ware Collection of Blaschka Models," Ellery Foutch, Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England
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"Edwin Romanzo Elmer: Ways of Knowing," Adam M. Thomas, Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Through a Glass Darkly: Scientific Experimentation and Optical Machines in Salem, Massachusetts, ca. 1800," Dennis Carr, Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
"X-centricity: Isabella Stewart Gardner, Interior Portraiture, and the X-ray Craze," Lita Tirak, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
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"Sculpting Statistics: The Fair and Balanced American," Catherine Newman Howe, Research Associate, Williams College Department of Art, Williamstown, MA
"Experiencing Science in Three Dimensions in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century at Vassar College," Kathleen M. Raley-Susman, Professor of Biology; Jacob P. Giraud, Jr. Chair of Natural History, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY
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Stan Roth is dubious that a federal deficit commission's proposal to curb Social Security and Medicare benefits -- long considered untouchable -- can help erase the nation's red ink.
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More serious students of Indian history might enjoy the 1,441 pages this two-volume work devotes to the history of the Cheyenne from 1830 through the 1870s. Written largely from the Cheyennes' oral histories, it relates bloody tribal battles of the 1840s and 1850s, internecine clashes with the U.S. military, and the final tragic retreat north in 1878 to Noaha-Vose, the sacred mountain in South Dakota. The volumes are illustrated with 77 priceless color prints of 19th-century Northern Cheyenne art, including previously unpublished paintings of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, where the Cheyenne led the fight against Custer. Powell brings a special understanding to his task. An Anglican priest, he serves the Chicago Indian community. He is one of the few white men who has participated in the Cheyenne Sun Dance. Powell's tale often reads like the screenplay of a modern Western. For instance, when Starving Bear, a chief of the Southern Cheyenne, met Lincoln in the White House in 1863, he said he wished no war with the white settlers; he wanted only to live in peace off the buffalo. A year later in Kansas, Starving Bear held his warriors back and rode forward alone to greet four companies of cavalry. On his chest he wore a medal from Lincoln; in his hand he carried safe conduct papers from Washington. When he was within 30 feet of the soldiers he was gunned down. The book is the 14th in Harper & Row's Native American publishing program; profits from the series aid Indian groups. (Harper & Row, $150)
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(And welcome back to this weird little feature.) Last time, I introduced the feature and the cast for this game, and that was it. Absolutely nothing else happened, mainly because I spent too much time introducing the feature. So with that out of the way, gameplay's sure to come, right?
Well, not at first. I find myself dropped in some magic inn or whatever. I wasn't really paying attention, but that's not important. What is important is that all of my characters fall prey to the influence of Banthor. What do I mean by that? They start looting things like crazy. It gets so bad that Banthor eventually begins complaining about being too weighed down with loot. One quick load later, and I explain to every single last one of them that they are actually buying things from the chests. I guess the vomiting treasure chests from Dragon Quest got tired of beating people up and decided to become businessmen. So what's their response now? "Let's go shopping!" I leave them alone for twelve minutes and come back to this:
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- Banthor. This must have been when they ran out of money. Or perhaps Bushwald Sexyface is taking charge. Hard to tell.
So after a quick fashion montage, Falior sees an easy target in Bushwald Sexyface's exposed testicles. Fearing for his life, Sexyface dashes off into a nearby portal, not realizing that all the party members involuntarily follow suit. So now the game begins proper, with the Mayor of Greyhawk Land (it hasn't been clear on that yet) wanting some bandits cleared out of a nearby village. Issril wanted to speak, but Falior jumps at the opportunity and...gets reined in by game mechanics. Before he can do any actual damage, the game warps to Hommlet with an FMV not available on YouTube. This is when a little boy named Kent walks up to the party of freaks and decides that now is a perfect opportunity for some exposition. Apparently, this town has a badger infestation, but that does not worry him. Hell, the kid wants to be a badger. (Notice my lack of capitalization. That's there for a reason.) Uh.....
Onto the town! Our adventurers set out to find a quest, which is actually pretty difficult. Eventually, they somehow settle on a tiny tailor who's sad about not being able to join the army. The group dashes off to the militia leader to try to convince him that the tailor should join. Bushwald fails in his attempt, but Issril succeeds. That doesn't stop Sexyface from taking credit for it, though. Asshole. But the quest is complete! On to the next quest. But first, a drunk interrupts the party. Neutralio stares at him dumbfounded, for reasons I understand not. It is at this time that Issril spots a herder. The first thing on her mind? "He looks hot. I should hit on him." Unfortunately, the herder thinks she has a dick, so it's not gonna work out. Besides, he's a 'Nam vet and Issril fucking hates sheep, so I don't think this would have worked out too well. Neutralio doesn't hate them, though, so he's taking charge of this quest....by picking nearby flowers. I'm sure he's just stuck on the drunk thing from before. However, it turns out that the flowers are quest macguffins, so good for him. Blah blah blah, Sexyface proposes a night stake-out. Issril spots a threat to the sheep, and surprisingly talks the shit out of it. Turns out some kid's killing the sheep because the mafia something something. Does Issril care? Of course not! She'd like to see the sheep choking on their own lungs, but experience was had, so I tell her that it's worth it.
Having prevented the death of some fucking sheep, Banthor, of all people, remembers why they came here: to talk to the Mayor/Elder/Whoever. (I suspect she just wishes to destroy the best stuff first. So be it.) And so they do that, finding some more exposition in the process. Turns out that it's been snowing in Hommlet (odd, because the closest I came was a storm of butterflies), which obviously means that EVIL IS AFOOT. Even though the evil was pretty much eliminated a long time ago. Odd, but the adventurers have no choice but to go with it. And by "with it", I mean "to Moathouse." That's where the evil is. So, it's finally off to tackle the main game proper, right? (I'll save that for the next installment.)