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Thoughts On PEER Grouping?
OK State Shoot was defiantly one of the best shoots of my life this year. Yea it is kinda Ironic that I say this because of the Choke Factor in the last five targets, but that is something that I needed to find out how I would handle a situation like that. This year ASA peer grouping the shoots in my opinion is the best thing for the sport. For those of us that take the game to the national level it gives us a better feel for the pressure ahead at the big shoots. This weekend I was put with a great group of shooters and only thing could of made it better if Karl had happen to get chosen to shoot in this group. Yet I had to shoot against a man that has gone to two National Pro Ams and won both of them handily. He was already in my head yet I was very excited to shoot with him. I made a mistake on target 3 for us and shot a five on the wolf. I did not get down cause I knew I could make up some points on down the road. In four targets he had me by 9 points and I was still determined to get him. I was very satisfied through the next 14 targets as I had caught up to one point of him and on the 19 th target we had a seven point swing in my favor. On the 20th target I got two more points on him to increase my lead by 8 points. Five targets to go and I have me a State Championship. Well Pressure finally got to me and started peeking early and shot five 8 in a row. In the mean time Trent in our group was finishing real strong and had himself one heck of a day. And Justin Bethel finished strong and indeed took our buckle across the red river.
I tell this story because to me it is the essence of competition and one thing I have missed in this sport in particular. We compete a lot of times while shooting with people that are not in our class and has no bearing of the outcome to the finish in my class. I welcome the challenge to be pushed to get me out of my comfort zone and see how I will perform. Yea I choked big time but yet I still had one of the best shoots of my life. I got to find out what I was made of and what my fellow competitors were made of as well. Now I can take that information in and grow from there as a shooter. Trent awesome job man cause keeping score you were reminded often of the big point spread you had to come back from and man you went out guns a blazin Great Job... Sean Had fun you kept real strong for awhile and for Justin you are a TRUE champion... Even after you where aware of the fact I was choking you had some words of encouragement to try to get me back to normal. Thanks for that it meant a lot. Karl man we did not get to shoot together much but the BATTLE AT COYOTE BLUFF will never be forgotten by me Congrats on Shooter of the year you are one class act. It truly hurt to not have you in our group at state. That would been the only thing I would have changed that day.
Once again thanks to all the ASA Reps who made the shotgun starts and peer grouping possible cause I truly believe it made me better this year and I am going to learn from State as well.... It has been one fun year.....
when its a qualifier, state shoot, or for money, heck ya it should be peer grouped.. It not only stacks you up against your competitors but also eliminates any doubts of cheating, and that has been an issue.. I take my shooting seriously, and this is the only way to do it.
If I want to shoot with my friends, i shoot a fun round.New Breed Archery
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Next year it is my understanding that ever qaulifer and state shoot will have to operate on a shotgun start at the same time both days. Groups should be placed with there same classes when ever possiable. Sometimes there just not enough to form a group of form and is not possiable.
THis has been a good thing this year and for some who travel this makes for a fair contest.
Everyone wants a fair contest and shotgun starts with peer grouping or assigned groups is the fairest way. It a contest and this gives everyone a fair chance.
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I do agree with peer grouping when ever it is possible!
The qualifier at Coyote Bluff is one of those shoots that won't be forgotten! It was a great shooting with you and Byron!
You, Justin and Trent all shot great this weekend and that I congradulate you all on!
Again, very well said! Hope we can shoot together again in the near future!
Very well said Mike!
I couldn't agree with you more. Peer grouping benefits everyone wanting to step up their game. I like to shoot with my buddies and enjoy the comaraderie at the little local fun shoots, but really enjoy competing head to head with my peers. The only way you are going to be able to handle the pressure at the national shoots is if you put yourself in that situation locally too.
Peer grouping
Breaking archers into groups. What a great way to meet fellow archers!
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Was planning on manning the Grill too but Frank & Al showed up and beat me to it!!!
Weather definitely came in waves of good and bad, Jonathan made a good call to set up our shooting positions from under the canopies and shelter areas to keep the majority of the wet stuff off shooters and equipment.
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At a glance, its looking like Jonathan's signature of "2011 Year of the Springer"...Open Class PCP may be a lonely place this year by the looks of things as Springer and Hunter may be well attended!
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Sounds like a good thing.
- Mark Kauffman on Mar 22, 2011, 10:02 AM
Yup, the majority of pcp shooters have springers here
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All of the guys over here have springers also...
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I hear ya, Jim is a big time springer enthusiast
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I shoot springer cause I have nothing else to shoot!
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LOL, that is a stretch!!!
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Irvine CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2014
Chinese air pollution blowing across the Pacific Ocean is often caused by the manufacturing of goods for export to the U.S. and Europe, according to findings by UC Irvine and other researchers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study is the first to quantify how much pollution reaching the American West Coast is from the production in China of cellphones, televisions and other consumer items imported here and elsewhere.
"We've outsourced our manufacturing and much of our pollution, but some of it is blowing back across the Pacific to haunt us," said UC Irvine Earth system scientist Steve Davis, a co-author. "Given the complaints about how Chinese pollution is corrupting other countries' air, this paper shows that there may be plenty of blame to go around."
Los Angeles, for instance, experiences at least one extra day a year of smog that exceeds federal ozone limits because of nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide emitted by Chinese factories making goods for export, the analysis found. On other days, as much as a quarter of the sulfate pollution on the U.S. West Coast is tied to Chinese exports. All the contaminants tracked in the study are key ingredients in unhealthy smog and soot.
China is not responsible for the lion's share of pollution in the U.S. Cars, trucks and refineries pump out far more. But powerful global winds known as "westerlies" can push airborne chemicals across the ocean in days, particularly during the spring, causing dangerous spikes in contaminants. Dust, ozone and carbon can accumulate in valleys and basins in California and other Western states.
Black carbon is a particular problem: Rain doesn't easily wash it out of the atmosphere, so it persists across long distances. Like other air pollutants, it's been linked to a litany of health problems, from increased asthma to cancer, emphysema, and heart and lung disease.
The study authors suggest the findings could be used to more effectively negotiate clean-air treaties. China's huge ramp-up of industrial activity in recent years, combined with poor pollution controls, has unleashed often fierce international debates.
"When you buy a product at Wal-Mart," noted Davis, an assistant professor, "it has to be manufactured somewhere. The product doesn't contain the pollution, but creating it caused the pollution."
He and his fellow researchers conclude: "International cooperation to reduce transboundary transport of air pollution must confront the question of who is responsible for emissions in one country during production of goods to support consumption in another."
Jintai Lin of Beijing's Peking University is the paper's lead author. Others are Da Pan, also of Peking University; Qiang Zhang, Kebin He and Can Wang of Beijing's Tsinghua University; David Streets of Argonne National Laboratory; Donald Wuebbles of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Dabo Guan of the University of Leeds in England.
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Sculptra and Age limit
Sculptra is a great facial injection and there is absolutely no age limit. It may take more Sculptra just as it would take more filler with an older face to replace lost volume. Younger patients generally need less volume replaced but it is equally effective on older patients. In fact, it is a very natural look and I think particularly well suited for older patients. With any cosmetic procedure please find a board certified dermatologist with a great deal of experience with cosmetic injections.
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Differential collagen stimulation and production relative to patient's age
Clinically there has been an observed inverse correlation between a patient's age and the amount of collagen generation, meaning as a patient becomes more advanced in age, the more vials of Sculptra are needed to achieve the same effect. Younger skin has a greater amount of collagen and the cells that produce collagen, so does create a more brisk response to injected Sculptra. There is no age limit for Sculptra, and sometimes even in patients undergoing facelift Sculptra is sometimes used to replace some of the lost volume.
A quick comment about the tear troughs - the eyelid skin is very thin, and Sculptra should not be injected in this area because of the risk of irregularities. For this area, Belotero and Restylane are the best options.
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Outfielder made his MLB debut in 2013 after starring for Fisher Cats
By New Hampshire Fisher Cats / New Hampshire Fisher Cats | January 10, 2014 11:08 AM ET
Our final profile on a former Fisher Cat and his major league debut focuses on outfielder Kevin Pillar. A rising star who came from the unknown abyss that is Division II college baseball, Pillar earned his MLB debut last August after destroying Double-A pitching in similar fashion to his first two seasons of professional baseball.
While Pillar didn't have the debut he'd dreamed of (.206 average, 3 home runs), he still managed to hit .307 between Double-A New Hampshire and Triple-A Buffalo. He followed that up with a brief stint in the second half of the Dominican Winter League playing with Escogido in Santo Domingo.
He talked about his first go-round in the majors - and the promise to get married once he got there - with broadcaster Tom Gauthier during the Blue Jays visit to Fenway Park in September.
Better Early than Late
I think I got up here a little bit earlier than I had planned, starting the season in New Hampshire, but it was definitely really exciting. You imagine what you think the big leagues are like, but you get there and it's even better than you imagined - the accommodations, the stadiums, and the atmosphere. It's everything you think it would be, and even more.
The Wow Moment
I think my very first game (in Toronto) was the biggest 'wow' moment. We happened to be playing the Red Sox and Rogers Centre was packed that night. I wasn' table to get a hit that first night, but I made a good play in the field and it ended with a walk-off base hit. That was pretty special. All the stuff you watch on MLB Network, getting to be a part of it was pretty cool.
No Easy Way to Get Acclimated
There is no easy way to get acclimated. Getting thrown right in may work for some people. I know when (Ryan) Goins came up, he got to watch a game from the dugout at Yankee Stadium, and then play the next day. I know he's had more success than I have, but who knows if that's the reason. There is no easy way to prepare yourself except to get in the game.
Missed Opportunity
Disappointment is the appropriate word. Disappointment in not getting a chance to play everyday. Disappointed in what I did when I had my chance to play every day before (Anthony) Gose and (Moises) Sierra came up here. I'm not stupid, and I understand the manager's decision, and Gose and Sierra both ran with their opportunities. But I'm not going to sulk over it. I'm going to put my work in - in the weight room, in the cage - and chomp at the bit to get my opportunity to play again. It does make you realize that opportunity in this game might be short.
The Only Place to be
Once you get the experience, there is no other place to be. I never understood why guys still making good money playing in Triple-A were upset that they were there. In Triple-A, the accommodations are good, the pay can be good, and the baseball is good, but once you experience what it's like up here, there is no other place to play. I was always brought up that it's hard to get here and even harder to stay, and I'm getting a taste of that.
Getting Married
The wedding, once I made the major leagues, was going to be as early as (October, 2013). But I told my fiancée that I wanted to play winter ball, especially after the disappointing start to my big league career, and I wanted to go down and work on some things and improve. Now, we're going to plan the wedding this off-season and then have it next year.
No Special Treats…Yet
I have this new addiction to saving money now that I'm making money. We're always surrounded by malls and I go in there with the intention of buying something all the time. I just never pull the trigger now because having money is pretty cool. I'm sure this offseason there will be a time where I splurge a little bit on something I always really wanted.
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Has policing in Britain lost its way? What is its purpose? Does it have any integrity? Judging by the latest revelations in the 21-year old saga over the killing of Stephen Lawrence, the Metropolitan Police Service is marred not only by incompetence and racism, but also corruption. Worse still, after more than two decades, persistent questions remain unanswered by cover-ups and the reluctance of such vital institutions to admit so many wrongdoings. It was no wonder that even Home Secretary, Theresa May, was forced to declare the police were "damaged."
It took six years before a landmark inquiry declared in 1999 that the Met was "institutionally racist". But the Lawrence family long claimed much more was to come out. Yet even the new independent review stops short on the issue of corruption, though is more forthright on the murky subject of undercover officer and use of spies. It has allowed May to again put getting to the truth onto yet another backburner by calling for another independent inquiry.
How can anyone have trust and confidence in the police and their investigations when their own behaviour is insular and has a tendency to cover up their own misconduct crimes. Reforming the police is well overdue and should include not only its structure, and particularly the ragbag array of functions of the Met, but the unaccountable culture of what policing has become. In the meantime a denial of justice has become routine.


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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote: >>>> Rerunning all 4 benchmarks (both 16MB and 32MB wal_buffers on both >>>> machines) with fsync=off (as well as synchronous_commit=off still) >>>> might help clarify things. >>> >>> I reran the 32-client benchmark on the IBM machine with fsync=off and got this: >>> >>> 32MB: tps = 26809.442903 (including connections establishing) >>> 16MB: tps = 26651.320145 (including connections establishing) >>> >>> That's a speedup of nearly a factor of two, so clearly fsync-related >>> stalls are a big problem here, even with wal_buffers cranked up >>> through the ceiling. >> >> And here's a tps plot with wal_buffers = 16MB, fsync = off. The >> performance still bounces up and down, so there's obviously some other >> factor contributing to latency spikes > > Initialization of WAL file? Do the latency spikes disappear if you start > benchmark after you prepare lots of the recycled WAL files? The latency spikes seem to correspond to checkpoints, so I don't think that's it. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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Great Board - RAID 5/10 is a great addition 06/13/2014
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The rig I use is setup to be a gaming system as well as Plex Media Server host. It requires a low latency NIC for gaming as well as Gigabit for transfers to and from my NAS which the Killer NIC so far has been providing both in great amounts. I actually even installed SWAT4, old I know, connecting over a VPN with a friend and was still getting sub 18 ping through that. I also manage a rotate of backups to USB 3.0 drives which are ample on this board. My previous board only had 2 USB 3.0 ports so having 6 allow me to ditch my USB 3.0 HUB and get full throughput of each port.
A huge pro that people may overlook is that this has RAID5/10 available. It's hard to find a RAID controller that functions well in the first place, let alone one that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. I removed one of my 4 bay NAS to create a RAID 5 array with 4x2TB WD Blacks. My NAS are software RAID so given limits of 1x 1Gbe NIC having it built in is far faster.
I have a two different sets of 2x4GB DIMM DDR3 which this was able to set properly out of the box. I didn't have to manually adjust from what it had to get best settings.
I had a really easy install that worked out simple. So far no complaints. i've seen other reports so perhaps mine is from a diff batch.
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I decided to mount this board into a new DIYPC | ALPHA-DB6 RTL open bench case. I moved from an i5 3570K to an i5 4670 and with it a Zalman CNPS8900. This made for easy access to the SATA ports and around the board on install. I had to do some fancy mounting for my additional drives. Payday 2 plays well but that's not much to the board as it is the CPU/GPU, latency with the NIC seems like it could be on average 1-3 ms lower than the Atheros AR8151 built in to my previous board. For me the big factors are the abundance of USB3, fast NIC, array of SATA ports and the RAID addition. It really differentiates itself from other boards.
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The internationalization of Jerusalem was part of the UN resolution partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. The resolution was never implemented because of the invasion of Palestine by Arab armies on May 15, 1948, the day after Israel declared its independence. The Neturei Karta charged in their letter to Waldheim that "when the Jerusalem municipal court nullified the municipality's injunction to close down the slaughter house, the municipal health department ordered livestock dealers to withhold their supplies from Mea Shearim dealers, thus snuffing out the lifeline of meat nourishment for thousands of helpless families."


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I'm getting a Fox Pro Spitfire and they hold 24 sounds what are some of the sounds that are must haves in you're systems?
Thanks for the help!
I don't have a FoxPro but if used for coyote hunting, I would for sure have some of the following sounds:
Male Communication Howl
Female Communication Howl
Male Challenge, Territorial & or Aggressive Howls
Female Challenge, Territorial & or Aggressive Howls
Coyote Pup In Distress
Coyote Adult Distress
Various Rabbit Distress
Various Bird Distress
Fawn Distress
Rodent Sound
For me these would be a must and a starting point. If you are limited on sounds and want lots of coyote sounds, the theory is to get more female sounds than male coyote vocalizations as Male coyotes will run off Female and Male Intruders but Females typically only run off Females. So, by using Female vocalizations, your odds are higher as you could be calling in a male, female, or maybe both.
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My favorites are:
Female Coyote Bark Howls
Coyote Female Invitation
Coyote Challenge Howl (2 and 3)
Coyote Domain Howl
Coyote Interrogation Howl
Coyote Pup Distress
Cottontail Dist 1
DSG Cottontail
Cals Cottontail
Dying Jack
SnowShoe 1
SnowShoe 2
Fawn Distress
Woodpecker Distress
Rodent Distress
Chirping Coaxer (works great once you have a coyote coming)
Thanks guys for such quick replies and taking the time. I was hoping to get both of yours must haves being the experience that you both have calling song dogs.
The Baron of Bufflehead
I'll be pretty humble about my experience... I enjoy hunting coyotes but I'm not even in the same league as kirsch when it comes to trigger time on 'yotes!:pl:
Kirsch is like the Google of coyote hunting knowledge! :rof:
I'll second what BlueDevil said.
You guys are going to make me blush. I have learned a bit through coyote hunting through the school of "hard knocks". People talk about educating coyotes. Well, I would say the opposite is that coyotes have educated me over the years and school is always in session. There is so much about their behavior and social patterns that I have no clue and at times still feel like a total novice. Unfortunately or fortunately, I have 2 young girls at home that their Dad has a hard time saying goodbye to. Hunting time has decreased due to this and other business matters. I don't see my kids ever becoming hunters as they both have very soft hearts and don't want to see anything killed.
Let's get some chatting going on the site as it has been kind of dead this year so far.
I can start it off by saying the season has been really odd for me this year. I have a hunting friend who I broke into the sport about 5 years ago, and we go out a lot together. He still asks for my advice and what to do and for whatever reason this year, when he does what I recommend it works and when I do the same thing, it hasn't been as effective. It hasn't quite become the student passes up the teacher but he is doing very well.
I like to start hunting in September and last year I actually pushed through until April, but did not hunt hardly at all in February and March due to family commitments. Hunting was good all the way through the season with a typical lapse from about end of our deer season which is end of November through Christmas with it picking up again after the New Years. I started pulling in lots of pack the little I hunted in Feb and March which is fairly typical as I get lots of packs to respond early and late in the season.
This year, it has kind of been the opposite which is very strange. I didn't kill nearly as many coyotes early as I typically do. Hunting has been very tough where I hunt in ND. I believe the main area I hunt has drastically reduced numbers so we went to a new area recently and called coyotes in about 75% of the stands we went on, so it appears some of my lack of success was just due to continuing to hunt an area with reduced populations.
Calling patterns have been fairly typical but up until this last week of hunting almost every coyote was killed with vocalizations being the main calling technique. ND had one of the warmest Novembers ever but on December 1st, our temps dropped from average highs in the 40-50 F range down to below 0 for high temps. It has been sub-zero for more than 1 week with a -28 F actual temp yesterday morning. I wanted to be out so bad as there wasn't a breath of wind and with that cold, the coyotes had to be out. The day I went out last week, we figured distress may start working more and it did. Most of the coyotes were called in with distress being the primary calling sequence.
This isn't always the case so make sure to mix it up, and if calling an area you called before, always remember to try to approach the area from a different direction and try to use different sounds and patterns than what you have used before.
Good hunting and again I am humbled by all your kind words.
I don't know if you deer hunt, but the buck grunt, and estrus doe bleat have been deadly! Make sure it's legal! Also, the K-9 pup distress, and the kitten distress.
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He stood in the middle of a vast field of dead, withered, grass, watching dust fall from the sky. It covered him like ash, clinging to his skin; he could feel it settling on his eyes, yet he did not blink, it clogged his nostrils, yet he did not choke.
The early morning sky shone dull gray as the slightest hint of the sun rose in the distance. As it climbed slowly over the horizon, a stale wind blow half-heartedly across the field, causing the dead grass to rustle slightly. It grew warmer as he stood, motionless, and eventually the tepid wind died altogether. Gray light shone through a gray sky, illuminating a dead, brown landscape.
Somewhere in the distance he heard a cry: a lonely, keening wail that cut through him. He began to move, hesitant at first, lurching and lumbering in the direction of the sound. His movement was stiff and awkward, but as he gathered speed his joints loosened, and eventually he loped toward the sound in predatory fashion. The wail grew in strength, increased in urgency, and soon he heard another voice joining in, then another, then another, until the air was filled with keening voices. It was no longer a lament. It was a call to arms. Deep within himself, something stirred to life…
Matthew blinked and squinted as his eyes adjusted to the stark, white light of hospital lighting.
"Matthew, wake up." Henry's voice gave Matthew something to focus on, and in a moment his vision cleared, revealing Henry Lancie and another, older man staring down at him.
"Hi Henry," Matthew said. "Sorry. Was having a weird dream."
"Thought for a moment you'd slipped back into your illness," Henry said.
"No. I'm just tired." Matthew yawned and stretched. "I guess I just dozed off."
"Who untied you?" The other man, obviously a doctor, looked annoyed.
The doctor gestured to Matthew's wrists. "You're not in your restraints."
Matthew looked at his wrists in surprise. It was true: his arms were no longer tied to the bed, and his legs were free as well.
"That's funny," Henry said. He looked at the restraints, which were still closed, and frowned. "Did Buck get you out of those? I thought he'd know better."
"No," Matthew said. "I'm a little confused, actually. Sheriff Dobbs came by after Buck left, and I asked him to undo them. He told me to wait. Then I—"
A sudden flash of memory—a gray-clad creature leaping on his chest—made him lose his train of thought.
"Then you what?" The other doctor looked at him quizzically.
"Huh? Oh. Then I… fell asleep, I guess." Matthew shrugged.
"Well," Henry said, " I guess one of the nurses did it. Anyway, Marty, what say you hurry up and pronounce him fit before he goes stir crazy?"
The other doctor harrumphed and told Matthew to lie back. Matthew settled back as the doctor gave him a quick examination.
When he was finished, the doctor harrumphed again. "He seems better. Strong pulse, regular heartbeat, temperature normal. It even looks like that sprain is almost gone, Henry. If I hadn't seen him thrashing around like I had I'd accuse you of sending me into the wrong room."
"What was wrong with me?" Matthew asked.
"Don't know," the doctor grumbled. "Blood infection is my best guess, but we can't find anything to prove it. Well, Henry, I guess he's recovered enough to be discharged. I'll have the nurse bring up his clothes. I believe they were washed. I'm going to have a talk with the staff, though. I should have been here when his restraints were removed…"
With that, the doctor nodded to henry and shuffled out of the room, still muttering.
Henry grinned. "That's Marty Franklin. Good man, but he doesn't like surprises."
Matthew nodded.
"Anyway," Henry continued, "once we get you discharged I'll drive you back to your hotel. If you like."
Matthew nodded again. "Thanks. I appreciate that. Sorry for being so much trouble."
Henry waved away Matthew's apology. "You're the most interesting patient I've ever had. Not that I expect you to appreciate that distinction." Henry grinned and winked. "Now let's get your things and get you out of here."
Half an hour later an orderly wheeled Matthew out of the main entrance in a wheelchair. As the wheelchair passed through the automatic doors into the outside, Mathew felt warm, muggy air and saw that it was late afternoon.
"Can I stand up now?"
The orderly nodded. Matthew stood, gratefully stretching his legs.
From the outside, the hospital looked more like a library or a dormitory. It was an old building—built in the 40s or 50s, Matthew suspected—three stories tall, made of brick and lined with institutional windows. Some of the windows had window-mounted air conditioners sticking out of them. He wondered if perhaps the hospital had been something else at one point, because it didn't appear to have any of the access roads typical to hospitals: the lone ambulance parked outside was parked on the side of the street.
A car horn honked; Matthew saw Henry's car turn on to the street and pull up to the curb. Matthew walked to the car and noticed with some satisfaction that the pain in his ankle was mostly gone. He hopped into the passenger seat, hastily grabbing for his seatbelt as Henry cheerfully roared off without bothering to check for oncoming traffic.
"You're looking better now," Henry said.
Matthew nodded. "Ankle feels pretty good. I don't think I need that cane any more. You can take it back if you want."
"I wonder where that thing is," Henry said. "Probably still in Buck Davies' truck. We weren't really keeping track when you were having your fit."
Matthew colored slightly. Henry laughed.
"You've had just about the worst luck since you got here," Henry said. "I'm afraid you're going to think of this town as plague-ridden."
"Not really," Matthew said. "I'm the only one getting sick. I think it's more likely y'all are going to think I'm a plague carrier."
Henry frowned slightly.
Matthew looked at him curiously. "Henry?"
Henry sighed, then shrugged. "You're not too far off the mark," he said. "With some folk, anyway. Not everyone. Not even most. But I've been getting calls—I guess the sheriff has too—from 'concerned citizens' who are worried you might be carrying something nasty. You fainted in the middle of the day, and word got out about how bad that turned. Don't know from who, though if I had to guess I'd say it was my secretary. Or maybe one of the paramedics."
"Something 'nasty,' eh?" Matthew looked out the window and saw they'd turned on to Church Street. Seven churches—Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Catholic, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Church of Christ—sat on one side of the road. Ont he other side was a wide grassy field littered with picnic tables and barbecue grills.
"Nothing to fret over," Henry said. "Daylight's a friendly town. Mostly. But we do have a few folk who don't like strangers, and they're always looking for excuses to complain about something."
"I guess I'm a pretty easy target right now," Matthew said.
Henry laughed. He turned the car on to Bridge Road, and they passed the little park where Matthew had spoken with Deke.
"The morning I got sick I met someone interesting," Matthew said. "He came in to eat at Sally's. Tall, old black man. Everyone called him 'Deke' except Sally."
"Julius Marshall," Henry replied promptly. "He's lived in Daylight his whole life. Been a deacon at the First Baptist Church for most of it, too. Retired a few years back. He's definitely interesting. Had a hard life and overcame a lot."
"How so?" Matthew asked.
"Well he lived through some pretty rough times. His brother was lynched."
Matthew's eyes widened. "Lynched?"
"Not Daylight's finest hour," Henry said. "Rumor was his brother was sweet on a white girl, and a rumor like that, even without any proof… well, in those days it didn't set well. Some of the white boys his age made threats. One day he just disappeared, and so did one of those boys. Rumor was they all killed him, hid the body, and the ringleader skipped town. It was a bit before my time."
"What did Deke do?"
"Turned the other cheek," Henry said.
Matthew frowned. "What do you mean?"
"I don't know exactly," Henry admitted. "That's just the way they tell the story. The boy everyone thought was the leader left town, and the sheriff and his deputies weren't keen on tracking him down, or going after any of the boys who stayed. And most of the white folk weren't too sorry it had happened. 'Miscegenation' is what they called it back then."
Matthew considered that.
"But Deke kept this town sane," Henry continued. "I wasn't here for all of it, but when I first moved here in the 70s I heard plenty of stories. In the 50s and 60s, when there were all these marches, and protests, and Dr. King was murdered… well, it was the big cities where you heard about most of that, but in the smaller towns people still talked about it. And occasionally you'd have a group of white folks who'd decide they didn't want 'their' black folk to make trouble, so they'd decide to push 'em down as far as they'd go—to 'teach 'em to know their betters' is how they'd describe it. That never happened here, as far as I know, and most folks say it's because of Deke."
"What did he do?" Matthew asked.
"Not a clue," Henry said. "But I expect it was Deke being himself. He's one of the most decent people I ever met. I reckon he just made them too ashamed to do anything stupid. You know, two of the boys they suspected of being part of the lynching—Tobias Ramsey and Richard Pine, they still live here too—eventually made peace with his family. And they're all good friends now, have been for, oh, decades. Tobias even made Deke the godfather for his second boy, which was something of a quiet scandal at the time."
"What are you saying?" Matthew asked incredulously. "There's no racism in Daylight?"
Henry gave Matthew a sharp glance. "Of course there's racism in Daylight. It's full of people, ain't it? Here we are."
Henry slowed the car and pulled into the motel parking lot. Matthew unbuckled his belt and stretched as Henry rolled the car to a stop.
"You got the key to your room?" Henry asked.
Matthew fished around in his jacket pocket and pulled out a tiny copper key.
Henry nodded. "You take care of yourself, Matt. You're an interesting case, but I'd rather you not be a repeat customer." He winked.
Matthew grinned. "I'll do my best." He opened the door and stepped out into the lot.
Matthew waited until Henry drove off, waving at his car as it sped up the street, then looked around restlessly. He wondered if the sheriff had any new information on his car. He doubted it—it couldn't have been more than a few hours since his visit. It was still afternoon; he didn't have anywhere to go, but he didn't want to go into his motel room just yet. He wondered if Buck was home, and considered calling him.
Across the street from the motel was a little grocery store, and set into the wall was a pay phone, which Matthew had found amusing the first time he saw it. He walked across the street and found, to his further amusement, that it had a phone book that was largely intact. Sure enough, Buck was the only Gardener listed. He fished out the correct change and started to dial the number, but halfway through he remembered another part of the sheriff's conversation, hung up, and a dialed a different number entirely.
A woman's voice answered the phone. "Randall Morgan's office," she said. "Mr. Morgan is away from the office. Can I take a message?"
"Hi Lois," Matthew said.
"I can't believe it!" Lois exclaimed. "Is that you, Matthew?"
Matthew smiled slightly. "Yeah, it's me."
"Matthew, Randy has been worried sick."
"Sorry about that. Look is he really out?"
"He is, but he told me to call his cell the moment I heard from you. Where are you? Hold on, I'll get him."
"Wait a minute. I'm calling from a payphone. Let me give you the number... have him call it."
"Why can't he call your cell?" Lois sounded perplexed.
Matthew sighed. "It's kind of a long story. Get him to call me soon, will you?"
"Sure thing. Won't be long." Matthew hung up the phone and waited. Not five minutes later the phone rang again.
"God damn it, Matthew, where the Hell have you been?" Randy shouted. "I've been going crazy here. If I hadn't heard from that sheriff I'd still be thinking you were dead!"
"Sorry," Matthew said.
"Sorry? You were supposed to call me the day after you got back to Stafford! Then, when I tried to call you, you didn't answer your cell and—"
"I don't have my cell," Matthew said.
"What do you mean, you don't have your cell? Did you lose it? Did you—" Randy's voice cut short, then he asked suspiciously "you on drugs, Matt? Because I never took you for a—"
"No," Matthew said quickly. "But I have been sick. And it looks like my car's been stolen, and I left my cell in the car…"
Matthew told Randy about getting out of the car, wandering around the woods, getting sick, and winding up in Daylight. By the time he'd finished describing getting sick for the second time and being hospitalized, there was dead silence on the other end of the phone.
"Hello?" Matthew asked uncertainly. "Randy? You there?"
"Yeah," Randy said. "Yeah, yeah, I'm here. Look, are you OK now?"
"I think so," Matthew said. "The doctor at the hospital thought it was a blood infection. I don't know when it happened, but it was probably building up on the trip back from the art show."
"The show!" Randy exclaimed. "Hell, Matthew, that's why I was trying to get in touch with you in the first place!"
"Did I sell anything?" Matthew asked hopefully.
"Did you sell anything. Yes you sold something. How about two? At your asking price, no less!"
Matthew grinned. "Which ones?"
"You won't believe it. It was 'Church on the Rock' and 'Ocean Sentinel.'"
Matthew's eyes widened in amazement.
"Matthew? You there?"
"Uh… yeah." Matthew collected his wits. "For full price, you say?" He found it hard to believe. Matthew hadn't been sure he'd wanted to sell them, so he'd purposely overpriced them.
"Without so much as a complaint," Randy said. "Didn't even try to haggle. But here's the really weird thing. The lady lives there."
"Lives where?"
"There," Randy said. "Where you are, right now. She lives in Daylight, Matthew. The lady who bought the paintings lives in Daylight."
Excellent again!
Not as suddenly shocking as the previous chapter, but still unsettling. I am really enjoying this novel.
Seventh paragraph, "voice game Matthew" should be "voice gave Matthew."
A couple more syntax
A couple more syntax stumbles:
... "Mr. Morgan is away at the office. Can I take a message?"
>> 'away at the office'? Shouldn't that be 'out of the office' or 'away at the moment'?
"... the moment he heard from you. ..."
>> Perhaps 'he' should be 'I' or 'we'.
And yes, we're definitely slipping into the Twilight Zone...
Fixed those.
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Thank you!
Thank you for pointing all these out. I'm still working on getting Chapter 12 online but once that's done I'll be going back to fix these.
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i have been missing
i have been missing this novel in its absence.
Update tomorrow!
... or Thursday at the latest.
The holidays were a little hectic, unfortunately.
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I read "Pay Me, Bug!" a while ago and just found the "Points Between".
What a happy surprise :D
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The first fifteen minutes of Boyhood, Richard Linklater's latest and most ambitious film, are unremarkable. It's 2002 and Mason, a floppy-haired six-year-old, lies in a field of Texas grass, his head tilted upward, eyes squinting in the sun. He fights with his sister in the backseat of the car. He flips through a Victoria's Secret catalogue with a friend. But then, something shocking happens: Mason begins to change. His face widens. His shoulders reach a little higher. Remember 2002? When you looked too directly at the sun and picked fights with your siblings and otherwise did things you weren't supposed to? Mason is more like you than any kid depicted in cinema: he grew up alongside you.
The central conceit of Boyhood is unlike anything previously attempted in cinema, particularly not in a cohesive work of fiction. The Up Series, a collection of short films that follow up with a group of British children every seven years, is the only similar work I can think of, though as a documentary it doesn't really compare. Filming an 11-year story-arc would take most directors a few weeks. Linklater took 11 years, reconvening his cast and crew for two weeks each year in order to create an authentic portrait of the way a person changes throughout adolescence (as well as the way people around them change). But Boyhood is more than a clever premise. The film is anchored by strong performances that elevate it from a collection of chronological snippets to something startlingly real.
Ellar Coltrane plays Mason, Boyhood's boy, as he matures from first grader to college student. Watching Coltrane age is so natural and moving that it makes the practice of casting various actors to play the same character at different ages seem ridiculous by comparison. Mason's father, played by Ethan Hawke, undergoes an extended boyhood of sorts, meandering through life without much focus or maturity. Patricia Arquette is Olivia, Mason's long- suffering mother, a woman with several bad husbands who just wants to make a good living for her family. Arquette's performance was one of my favorite parts of the film—tough in some places, vulnerable in others. Lorelai Linklater, the director's daughter, rounds out the not-so-nuclear family as Samantha, Mason's older and feistier sister. Minor characters filter in and out of Mason's life—a litany of terrible step-dads provides many of the film's most intense moments—but Linklater's lens is always fixed on Mason, lending a clear focus to the otherwise shapeless plot.
Boyhood is an epic, to be sure, though not in the traditional Ben-Hur sense. It's epic in the way growing up is epic—long, gradual, knotty. The scenes are short, few more than a handful of minutes long, and often mundane. Time is marked in haircuts and the shrinking width of cellphones. Grand shifts in culture are denoted by props and set decorations: an iPod, chunky and silver, a stack of Obama-Biden signs, a Lady Gaga music video. Mason's upbringing is unique, but his cultural context is not. The timing ofBoyhood is pretty much spot-on for today's college students. This is both fun (the thrill of reliving a Harry Potter book release) and acutely familiar (hearing adults wax political about the Iraq War).
At two-and-a-half hours, much of Boyhood floats by, most of its scenes soon forgotten in favor of the flashier stuff—a breakup, an argument, a high school graduation party. The movie comes to a close on Mason's college move-in day, which led me to wonder where the future might take him. Then, after Boyhood ended, my own fragmented memories started trickling back. On the way out of the theater, and right before bed, and the next day, I remembered a little something from the film. That time they saw Roger Clemens pitch for the Astros. The perfect s'more, roasted on a father-son camping trip. A note, neatly folded and written in pencil, passed across a classroom and dropped on Mason's desk.
Boyhood is not a movie you're meant just to see. It's a movie you're meant to remember. To watch this film is to unspool the moments of one particular person, to recall them in a flash of muddled memory. Just as we get to know Mason, to begin to understand what he wants or how he feels, he has a growth spurt and becomes someone different. Mason seems like many people instead of just one, with ever-changing desires, ambitions, and frustrations that even he doesn't fully understand. This rings true, truer than any movie about growing up I can recall. In life, as in Boyhood, there are no grand declarations or climaxes, few overarching themes but the passage of time itself. You feel like one person one day and someone else the next. You change your hair and your clothes and your mind, and contemplate whether there's some kind of instruction manual you're missing, some kind of code that everyone but you can decipher.
Mason is not your stereotypical fast-talking, quick- thinking teenaged protagonist. Though he makes some efforts to rebel (a succession of earrings, some backtalk and underage drinking), more often than not he is reacting to the people around him. Each year, before scripting and shooting the newest installment of the film, Linklater made a point of talking with his cast and getting their input. Maybe this is what lends Boyhood its veracity. The film is a record of many simultaneous evolutions: that of the character Mason, the actor Ellar, the movie Boyhood itself. Since the movie traces the exact era in which today's young people were raised, it takes on a special kind of authenticity. It's eerie to watch the world of your not-so- distant childhood portrayed as some kind of historical backdrop. But Boyhood never feels like it's trying to say too much or contrive anything grand about its setting or even its subject. The movie's great secret is that there is no great secret to growing up. Perhaps Mason, Sr., in a moment of parental clarity, comes closest to the truth of Boyhood: "We're all just winging it, you know?"
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beautifully written….can't wait to see the movie!