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Fortune's Bastard(2004)
A novel by Robert Chalmers
Edward Miller is a reactionary, alpha male, tabloid newspaper editor. He wears his temper like a badge of honor, would rather step over a homeless beggar than walk around him, and engages in petty warfare with his staff over expense receipts. He's also never been much bothered with monogamy, but when one morning he spontaneously seduces his temp in an office storeroom, he's definitely crossed a line in blatancy. Miller has made few friends and many enemies-not to mention the fact that the storeroom is a notorious trysting place and he and the temp both emerge covered in dust and airmail stickers-so the news doesn't take long to reach his cold, beautiful wife. Conveniently, it just happens to be their anniversary. Imagine the celebratory dinner, capped by her returning her house keys and consummating her desire to sleep with the neighbor.Not a man to suffer rejection well, Miller heads for a London media hangout, where two employees introduce him to cocaine. By morning, his exploits are public (a photographer captured him snorting the cocaine in public), his career is over (thanks to a damning interview he gave a journalist from a rival paper), he's not only painted the word 'WANKER' on the cuckolding neighbor's car, but misspelled it, and his house is on fire (never leave a goodbye bonfire of wedding photos unattended). . . . Clearly, it's time to leave town. Miller has an engagement to speak to the boys at his old prep school, but he can't seem to stop pouring gasoline on the fire that his life has become, showing up hungover after a night partying with an old school friend and a gaggle of Spanish flight attendants, and calling the headmaster by his behind-the-back nickname of "Stiffo" to the students, for a start. After the speech, he speaks with his doctor and learns that his father-in-law plans to kill him.Leigh, the old school friend, works for an English language school in Barcelona, and Miller wrangles its address out of him, for he clearly can't go home. He gets the job and adapts surprisingly well to a life of an underpaid teacher, despite the fact that some of his students will clearly never learn the language (there are hilarious scenes of their attempts in this section) and even starts up a romance with a tough-talking English girl who's one of his fellow teachers-but he doesn't tell her who he really is when he has the opportunity, and when she figures it out on her own she is livid and that bridge is burnt. To make matters worse, his father-in-law's goons have tracked him down.Miller flees again, winding up in Florida, in a town populated by ex-circus freaks and presided over by the Half Man, a criminal and sadist with no legs who welcomes Miller to town by shoving a gun barrel in his mouth and breaking his teeth. But ironically, it seems that despite the fleas in his trailer, the one-eyed albino hit man who seems to overhear every compromising conversation between Miller and the Half Man's beautiful wife the Lizard Woman, and the fact that the Half Man's stranglehold on the local police mean that Miller isn't actually free to leave, it seems that Miller somehow belongs among the freaks. These misfits-among them a black dwarf, a gay clown with a penchant for altar boys, a heroin addict who is their unlicensed doctor, a biker hit man named Hollis after Grove's erstwhile publicist, and the Lizard Woman's wonderful eight-year-old daughter-unwittingly teach Miller what normal life never could-how to love, and how to stand up for something he truly believes in. When Miller's wife tracks him down and has him sign over the spoils of his old life to her, he gets enough money out of her to hire the albino to hit the Half Man. And though all certainly does not go smoothly with the hit-someone as vicious as the Half Man is unlikely to go quietly-Miller and the Lizard Woman are able to close that chapter and start a new life together.
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Paola Leather was born and grew up in the Colombian capital of Bogata. Now she's one of the leading female brewers in the country and heads up the brewing team at Skinner's Brewery.
So how does a city girl from South America wind up in Cornwall brewing beer? What's it like being a woman in what's traditionally been a male-dominated industry? And what are the best and worst parts of her job?
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Q: Hi Paola, great to meet you. We're really intrigued to find out how life has led you to working for Skinner's.
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For my co-workers that I did not get around to sharing a personal farewell to, and anyone else interested ... following, below, is what I sent around EMC as my good-bye note about a week ago.
I actually wrote the essence of this story as well here on my blog in 2007, as one of my first posts. It is a good story, though, as it shares an unexpected route to one person's career path mojo:
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On my first day of the job, as badge #573, I was escorted all around the HQ, at 171 South St. I met Dick. I met Frank. I met Fitz (all of them!). It seemed the entire company fit on South Street.
A week or so later, Dick Egan wrote his last news release for EMC. It contained just one sentence. Something like, "EMC will not make its third quarter, ending September 30, 1991." There was no reason why. No estimates for what we might deliver. Nothing.
Next thing I know, it was requested that I go see Dick in his office. He sat behind a tin desk, and had a slab of wood sitting on top of two tin filing cabinets for his credenza. His desk was bare (no PC), but for a pencil, a legal-sized yellow pad of paper, and a stack of pink message slips.
He gave me a devilishly large smile, slid the message slips across the desk and asked me to return the calls. They were all from irate investors. That is how the "official" investor relations function started at EMC. That is how a 24 year-old young woman got the launch-pad of a lifetime.
I've had a tremendous ride at EMC in Advertising, PR, IR, Finance, Marketing, HR, and back to Marketing again. It is also time for me to move on, and share the knowledge I've gained at EMC and elsewhere, with more of the world.
I am honored to have made this journey with all of you. You always have a friend in Polly Pearson.
And now that I have no conflict of interest between EMC and "my other business," I encourage you all to go to the 1790 Restaurant and Tavern OFTEN. Buy the most expensive bottles of wine (CFO) David Goulden allows, and bring every customer that visits us in Massachusetts to the only restaurant in the area that genuinely cares for all of you like family. :)
I'll be setting up shop "upstairs at the 1790" under my name. I'll be writing, speaking, and consulting on The Networked Organization, Employment Branding, Social Media, and the Transformation of Work in the 21st Century. I'll also be hanging out in my new "cabin" at Lake Sunapee, NH, feeling grateful for the time I have spent working with you, on behalf of EMC. I couldn't have planned a better exit, at a better time for everyone.
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Any thoughts on an ideal "good-bye note?" I thought for a couple of seconds of what to write, and remembered that everyone likes a good story. For my note, I decided to tell the story about the beginning. For those that know EMC, or our gregarious motivator and Founder, Dick Egan, and the ultimately uber-successful company he brought to life, it should read rather humorous.
Regarding "my other business," this is actually my husband's place of work. We own it. He runs it.
The restaurant is in a "gentleman's mansion," circa 1790. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and the craftmanship found on its 7 fireplaces, also earned it a place in the Smithsonian archives. My husband has been involved with this business since he came back from Vail in the early 1980's. When I was a teenager, I actually worked there as well on Saturday nights, "manning" the coat closet! (You see, I never really LEAVE my place of work, only return to it in different ways!)
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Day 28 -OCD: Breaking Out of Isolation - Creating Something New (part three)
Continuing here with revealing what it is that holds me back from opening up and reaching out to others. For too long I have limited myself to the isolation and solitude of OCD, but here I use the tools of self-forgiveness and self-correction to change this pattern. From here, I leave the isolation and greet a new world whose arms are open to me so long as my arms are open as well.
I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to place differing amounts of worth on others, depending on how much energy or benefit I think I can gain from the interaction.
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I commit myself to stop any judgment of others, because the only judgment is self-judgment, and to embrace others unconditionally as me.
I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to go into a 'people pleasing' character, or to use manipulation tactics, such as physical movements, voice tonality, or words, in order to try to get people to 'like' me, and want to be around or spend time with me, instead of seeing, realizing and understanding that this would surround me with relationships of dependence (instead of relationships of support), where those I connect to would come to me for energy, and I would seek energy from them, because I've framed relationships as a give-and-take, because of the belief that they would otherwise not want to be or spend time with me, or I would otherwise not want to spend time with them.
When and as I see myself trying to give or get an energetic experience out of a relationship, I stop, and I breathe. I bring myself back to self-honest communication by taking a breath and clearing myself, clearing my starting point from a desire for energy to a practice in self-honest communication.
I commit myself to correct myself until self-honest communication is achieved.
I commit myself to stop myself from communicating in an exchange-based system of values.
I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to think, believe or perceive that I have no worth, and nothing to give in an interaction, except energy.
When and as I see that I am going into an experience of 'worthlessness', I stop, and I breathe. I bring myself back to self-worth by reminding myself that I am walking this entire process for me, I am dedicating myself to me, and I am committing myself to me, because I am the most worthwhile thing that I have.
I commit myself to walk this process for me.
I commit myself to dedicate myself to me.
I commit myself to me.
I forgive myself for accepting and allowing my own thoughts of worthlessness and unworthiness to limit my participation with others, and thus limit my expression and who I am to only that of giving and receiving energy (positive or negative feelings/motional charges).
When and as I see that I am limiting my participation with others due to feelings of worthlessness, I stop, and I breathe. I bring myself back to self-worth by pushing myself to interact with others, and show myself through physical actions what my expression is and who I am.
I commit myself to show myself who and what I can be and am through physical actions instead of the foundationless judgments of the mind.
I commit myself to push through worthlessness to see, realize and understand my innate worth that is the same in everyone.
I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to think and believe that if I don't use energy to manipulate others, that they will not want to be with me or spend time with me, instead of seeing and being my innate worth as a living, breathing being Here.
When and as I see myself trying to control how another thinks or feels about me, I stop, and I breathe. I bring myself back to self-worth by reminding myself that I am not responsible for how others feel or think about me. If I took on that responsibility it would only be to validate some idea I have about myself, when I could be using the opportunity to create Who I Am , utilizing the interaction to find points that require direction, instead of wasting the opportunity by trying to control it.
I commit myself to wean myself off of the addiction to emotional and feeling energy.
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Sacred to Russians, Not to U.S. Budget Cutters
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: September 3, 1995
KHUZHIR, Russia— Arching out of the vivid, azure blue of Lake Baikal, where it laps up against Olkhon Island, is one of Buddhism's holiest sites, the Shaman Rock. It is revered by the native Buryat people, and the Dalai Lama has also prayed here.
In the Soviet period, when most native traditions and religion itself were considered anti-state activities, the authorities built a dock directly under the Shaman Rock, where ships unloaded supplies and diesel oil for this small town of 1,500 and picked up the garbage.
Filthy, unsightly and sacrilegious, the dock has now been dismantled and the sacred beach, on this sacred lake, is being cleared of oil and rubbish. There is a project to beautify the walk to the rock for tourists, and to let them share in the terasun ceremony, involving a healthy gulp of the slightly psychedelic fermented sheep's whey. The whey also seems to go well with the local fish, a sort of salmon trout called omul.
The town is getting a simple system of wind and solar power that will give the residents more electricity than they have ever had before, and make regional plans to run an electric cable through the lake and a surrounding national park unnecessary.
The townspeople are preparing a zoning plan; moving the single gasoline station from the shore, where it pollutes protected waters; extending a log-built cultural museum; restoring native flora and fauna to the island and growing vegetables better suited to the climate.
All this is being done with the aid of the American taxpayer, through the United States Agency for International Development, in a project to promote sustainable and environmentally sound economic progress. The money involved on Olkhon, with its seven sub-projects, is less than $150,000 a year over four years.
But if Congress goes ahead with suggested cuts in foreign aid, it is projects like these, on Baikal, that are most likely to disappear.
Olkhon is the largest of 12 pilot projects in the Baikal region designed and run by the nonprofit Ecologically Sustainable Development Inc., or E.S.D., under a four-year, $3 million contract with the Agency for International Development that began in 1993. The larger effort is to create a sensible plan for resource and land management all around Lake Baikal, the world's largest lake by volume and source of about 20 percent of the earth's fresh water. The lake harbors more than 1,800 unique species of plant and animal life that have developed in its 25-million-year history.
Russians consider Lake Baikal the clear, clean heart of the world, an environmental treasure. But it is at risk from uncontrolled development in a period of weak government, official corruption and wild capitalism.
Working with local people and three regional Russian authorities, a task of great political delicacy, the E.S.D. project is seeking to preserve one of the world's wonders while trying to better the lives of the people here. The plan is to provide new ideas and training in activities that earn income and produce tax revenue, and then get out of the way. Ideally, these pilot projects will be copied elsewhere with local resources, directed by those Russians now working for and with E.S.D.
The group's other projects include developing "ecotourism," to allow visitors to experience Baikal without harming it, reclaiming polluted land, and restarting reindeer herding in mountainous areas, the indigenous form of animal husbandry. The Soviets made this impossible by their artificial demands for meat and milk quotas, which required herds of cows that had to live in the already overburdened valleys.
These efforts are an important sign of American interest in provincial Russia -- outside the rampant corruption and glitz of Moscow -- where the country's future is being formed. Even provincial government leaders grudgingly acknowledge the usefulness of the projects.
To George D. Davis, a forester and former executive director of the Wilderness Society who runs Ecologically Sustainable Development, the possibility that Congress will cut financing for the program is a stupid tragedy.
Mr. Davis, 52, developed a similar program in his native Adirondacks region in New York State and won a five-year MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1989 for his work. That allowed him to establish Ecologically Sustainable Development and feed his family.
After considerable publicity for wasting aid money in the first years of America's effort to assist Russia, the Agency for International Development has tried to do better lately at spending its smaller budget -- $250 million in fiscal year 1995.
But Mr. Davis has been told by agency administrators that prospective cuts -- the House wants to limit agency aid in Russia to $195 million -- will kill his kind of program, while big construction projects with huge overhead and little local training continue, because the cost of administering small projects is almost the same as that for large ones.
"We could produce bigger and more expensive projects," Mr. Davis said with annoyance. "But those are the ones that locals can't duplicate, because they can't afford it."


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My name is Midori. If you're reading this, I hope you have found this before it's too late. I don't live the life of an ordinary girl; odd things happen to me. This is one anomaly that is still out there, still happening and that's why I'm warning you about this. I just hope that someone else isn't dragged into this like I was, or like how my friend Mai was.
The Game
The game looks harmless, like most do. It looks like any old Half-Life game for PS2, but it's much more.
At the beginning of a new game a VGUI will display, it's a sub-menu. The amount of options on the sub-menu depends on your living relatives, friends, and siblings. If you don't want to choose one of those names you can choose your own, but you will regret it.
"Why?" You may ask. Whatever name you chose is what all the NPC's refer to you to which is just some harmless feature, but here's the catch: whoever you choose on that menu will feel the pain of the in-game player.
The only out of place things are that you aren't Gordon Freeman, but you are whoever you've chosen on that sub-menu. Other than the person you play as feeling the same pain as the PCE (Player Controlled Entity) and the NPC's not referring to you as they should the game is just a regular copy of Half-life.
Oddly enough you can't browse the game files; either they aren't there or something is preventing users from searching through them.
The game appears without a warning, and disappears when you're done playing. what ever you do, destroy it! Smash the disk, scratch it to where it's unplayable, soak it in bleach. It doesn't matter how. Just make sure that its gone!
My Experience Edit
How I know all this is because I played the game before. I didn't have my name chosen neither did I have the slightest idea of what was going on before the situation heated up, almost literally.
It was a brisk, overcast Sunday in march. I was in the front yard. Yes, I was looking for 4-leaf clovers, when a spot of orange reflected off my silvery, faded, blond hair and caught my attention. It was a soft yet vivid luminescent color. I was drawn to it like a moth to light. That's where I picked up the game, after taking it inside I was going to look for the owner as keeping would be not a good idea, considering I don't official own the game. Before I could do so Mai, Yuka, and Yunna rapidly entered my house. I remembered that we were doing our usual Sunday morning gaming, we were going to play Polybius, or at least the alleged remake.
"And we have arrived!" Mai exclaimed with excitement.
"Mai, be careful with that door. There's only one at the entrance!" I scolded.
"Oh come on Midori, Its not like I broke the door down!" Mai countered.
"Midori, do you have the ROM and emulator ready?" Yuka asked with a bit of fear.
"Hold all my calls and pause for a second...Is that a copy of Half-life?" Mai asked.
"...Yes... but let's just forget about that. Besides we already have plans." I said.
They all agreed and we went to my room, again, as we usually do almost every Sunday. I was starting up my computer when Mai asked where my Play-station 2 was.
"Uh...It broke...and I got rid of it." I bluffed
"Ah-HA!" Yunna exclaimed. "Found it!" She pulled up my old PS2 unit
"Dammit, she dug it out!" I whispered to myself in defeat.
I tried to leave to get rid of the game, but Yuka has a certain way of getting into your mind. Her Psycik-force-focus ability, as I've named it, Works almost all the time. Yuka mounted my computer chair, Yunna was seated on my bed, and Mai sat beside me in front of the TV. The game worked, I felt a flood of nostalgia once I saw the vintage valve logo. Seeing the familiar low poly models and low resolution graphics just made me more happy. I forgot the fact that this may have been someone else's game.
I started the game on hard mode, Before the usual start of the game a small sub-menu appeared. I scanned the options, I decided to choose Mai'' once I saw the option. There was a small mocking giggle that came from Yuka and Yunna but It didn't matter to me.
The game was normal for the most part, The only thing was that I found blatantly out of place was that I was never referred to as 'Freeman' or 'Gordon'.
"Sorry Mai, but I have espliset orders NOT to let you through without your Hazard Suit on." Is what the guard at the first door said.
"Mai! Who would have thought you'd still be alive!" Is what the scientists would tell me when they spotted me after the incident started.
I knew it wasn't a glitch because the vocalizations were flawless, they didn't pronounce her name like:"Mee-y" "Ma-ee" or "Me-a-ee", they pronounced it: "Mah-I".
This was a little creepy but I just shook it off because It wasn't anything really bad. I was whizzing through the game, I killed all zombies I found, every vortigaunt I saw, and all barnacles without taking any damage. I than came to the meat-locker area. I was toying with the meat, just smashing it with the crowbar until it broke into bouncy gibs spattering the old blood sprites on the ground.
After I broke all the meat and we all stopped laughing at the fact that the meat used human gibs I continued on, I encountered a bullsquid in the next room. I switched to the shotgun to kill it. I was about to shoot it but before I could press R2 to fire the bullsquid spat at me, the blobs of acid from the spit hit the screen. Mai falls over, her hands encasing her face as she screamed in agony.
"Mai? Whats wrong?" I asked
"My face is melting!" She yells from under her hands.
After Mai stopped moving I removed her hands from her face. It was okay, Mai's face wasn't burned or wounded. She was fine. I was worried, I was going to stop playing but again Yuka did it again, I was compelled to play it. This still continued for a long time, and Mai felt a different pain for each different way I took damage. I'd get shot with a hornet gun in the stomach, Mai felt a stabbing pain in her stomach. I'd take fall damage, Mai felt as if her legs fracturing. Over and over again, Yuka kept me there, as far as I know you can't resist against doing what Yuka tells you to when she does her trick without a high emotional state. Yuka kept making me playing, It was almost as if she didn't care about Mai's pain. The thing that tore me away from Yuka's psychic grasp was when I made it to the gargantua boss fight, I dreaded it. Then the garg lit me on fire, Mai fell to the ground, screaming in agony and rolling around.
"Why'd you stop playing Midori?" Yuka asked, hypnotically. "Why don't you just continue playing?"
Yuka was trying to get me to continue, but knowing how much pain Mai would go through with about 3 hours of gameplay left I was able to resist. I felt the worm-like tapping of Yuka's disturbingly animate fingers on my shoulders, She usually does this to finalize her order. I immediately turned around, smacked Yuka's hands away, and clenched her shoulders tightly.
"WHAT IS IT WITH YOU YUKA?! CAN'T YOU SEE THE SUFFERING THAT MAI IS GOING THROUGH?!!" I snapped straight at Yuka.
She just teared up as Yunna rushed over to comfort her. I knelt beside Mai, she stopped moving, her breathing was reduced to short spasms of her lungs. She'd let out a rapid gasp which would expel violently from her mouth, tossing her short midnight black hair. her eyes were tightly shut, mouth gaping open as she just rested there on her stomach. Exhausted from the pain.
Then my cousin Seiko violently burst in, nearly destroying the door.
"What was all the screaming about?" Seiko persistently asked.
I told Seiko my whole understanding of what the game was doing, what was happening, what caused Mai to scream, and even how this whole predicament started. Seiko decided to see for herself what was going on, Mai was resting on my bed while the rest of us try to restrain Seiko from nearing the PS2. She got past us eventually, and started the game, we were all too tired to even think of preventing her from playing. Seiko selected the name 'Mai' just like I did, she was doing fine until she got the the first jumping puzzle, Seiko missed one of the hanging containers and fell to her death. Mai woke up from her recovery nap and began to scream again. She grasped her legs, crying, screaming, Mai kept yelling that her legs were shattered when we asked what was wrong, she would be hard to help her calm down considering the fact just touching her legs just made the pain hugely greater.
I couldn't stand seeing Mai like this, the others kept trying to help her by telling her to calm down, to just rest her legs, and they even put ice on them, but I had an almost perfect understanding of why Mai was feeling this horrid pain at this point, it was something with the game, and I knew the only way I could help her. I shut off the PS2 and ejected the disk. I felt a sense of relief as I heard Mai's crying and screaming die down, reducing to less and less until she stopped.
I decided to look through the games files, Sliding the disk into my computer and ready to see just what was causing my closest friend so much suffering. To my shocking surprise the directory was barren, not a folder, file, or even image in was on the disk. I was disappointed that I couldn't find out what caused her all the suffering.
I threw it into the trash bin, waiting for Thursday when the damned thing will be removed. I checked back on Wednesday night just to make sure that the bin was still upright. I spotted a raccoon digging through the bin, It spotted me, knocked over the bin and ran off with the game in its jaw.
I'm glad the thing is gone, out of my life and my friends' lives. I just hope nobody else finds it and suffers the way Mai did.
I later sought out answers to what had happened, I later found there were fifty one other accounts of this happening, each disappearing just like how it did the last time, with an odd looking raccoon digging around and running off with the case in its maw. This frightened me, and that's why I'm posting this here... as a warning to all who may find this.
Just get rid of that disk.