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Report: Judge Mokhtar Yahyaoui, Salon no. 2, June 2011

We are still very active with the documentation of the week with Mokhtar Yahyhaoui in Berlin.

For preliminary impressions of Mokhtars YAHYAOUIs visit the pages and links below and check the full travel report (done later).

Meanwhile please visit this OPEN_FORUM report: SEEDS OF CHANGE –  www.quergeist.info and this blog: benkingnews.wordpress.com – for additional information please see this preliminary REPORT.

while we are working on the documentation, maybe check this link to the DW-Quardiga Takkshope on June 17 and http://www.dw-world.de/dw/episode/9799/0,,15103261,00.html in ARABIC, and this article from Quadriga in German: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15193789,00.html, and the DAFG event on June 23: German: Tunesien vor den Wahlen – Wohin führt der Weg?  “Seeds-of-Change” – QUERGEIST.info  BLOG Thursday, June 16, 2011 day link

Judge Mokhtar Yahyaoui in Berlin – High Commision Tunesia
picturepicturepictureWe have a “blind date” with Mokhtar, what a thrilling exciting and exhausting week preparing for someone on short notice we only know through friends of friends, telephone, e-mails, web-sites and study – see his PROFILE: He was at a time we had in mind at CHATHAM HOUSE in London – so this set the grid !
He ws first a last minute exchange for an invitation of Alexander Chiristakis – but such is life.The member of the HIGH COMMISSION is someone who thanks AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. and the UN a lot and showed personal integrity and daring ! check:

He is invited for our ANNA-LINDH SALON here in BERLIN – See documentation of the dialogues, a weeks programme in berlin and links to radio and TV: description [link] thanks to the programme Believe-dialogue-act-citizenship as recently launched: description [link] as part of the Anna-Lindh-Foundation

Some 2nd Salons will take place June 17-24 with a special guest from Tunis, Judge Mokhtar Yahyaoui.We will need to remember the 10th Anniversary of maybe the most critical letter he wrote in is life on July 6, 2001 to his president Ben Ali ….. and see what it has to do with the Elections in Tunesia this autumn…. See High Commission and latest news here. See also his Chatham House presentation from London 4 weeks ago. [link] and his Profile/Articles in French (PDF)

This is the official annoncement by the German Anna-Lindh-Network in the context of the Anna-Lindh-Foundation Alexandria travel support programme, as part of: „Believe in Dialogue – Act for Citizenship“.

Please ask for the lecture programme between June 17-24 in Berlin and Hamburg – later Paris.

I recommend: German Arab Friendship Society event Thursday, June 23, 18:30 hrs in Berlin and the PRESS CONFERENCE June 22 and please do check the German network of the ANNA-LINDH-FOUNDATION [link] and the SALON ANNA-LINDH-SALON created by Positive Nett-Works e.V., a Member of the German Anna-Lindh Network.

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What is a WSAECONNRESET error?
Why do I receive write: socket: Connection reset by peer

When there is a forced-close of a networking socket, Windows issues a "WSAECONNRESET" error. Regular occurrences of the error indicate possible network problems.

This error is also seen as

write: socket: Connection reset by peer

In the same way, the remote server has sent a RST packet, which indicates an immediate dropping of the connection, rather than the usual TCP/IP handshake.

This error should not be confused with WSAECONNREFUSED where a port is blocked or a hostname is not set, nor WSAECONNABORT which is a more serious, harder-to-debug error caused by a connection which was halted by the local operating system after network packets were lost or a suitable acknowledgement signal (ACK) was not received.

An explanation from Microsoft's KB:

Connection reset by peer

An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. This normally results if the peer application on the remote host is suddenly stopped, the host is rebooted, the host or remote network interface is disabled, or the remote host uses a hard close (see setsockopt for more information on the SO_LINGER option on the remote socket). This error may also result if a connection was broken due to keep-alive activity detecting a failure while one or more operations are in progress. Operations that were in progress fail with WSAENETRESET. Subsequent operations fail with WSAECONNRESET.

Connection reset by peer

"Connection reset be peer" generally suggests a network issue (not related to the VNC application itself), this could be due to either misconfigured or faulty network hardware.

"Connection reset by peer" specifically means that, as far as the application reporting the error is concerned, the other endpoint sent a TCP reset packet. Sometimes, both endpoints report this error, in which case something in the middle has sent reset packets to both ends. It's not possible for the endpoints to get any more information than this. That unfortunately means the VNC Viewer cannot tell what has caused the error.

An explanation from StackOverflow:

What does “connection reset by peer” mean?

"Connection reset by peer" is the TCP/IP equivalent of slamming the phone back on the hook. It's more polite than merely not replying, leaving one hanging. But it's not the FIN-ACK expected of the truly polite TCP/IP converseur.

It is easy to reproduce this error.  Start a "p4 sync" then interrupt it with a ctrl-c then examine the Perforce log.  For example:

        2017/08/02 16:05:19 pid 30490 bruno@testclient [p4/2016.2/LINUX26X86_64/1468155] 'user-sync -f ...'
Parallel transmission cancelled: net.parallel.max must be set > 0.
Perforce server info:
        2017/08/02 16:05:19 pid 30490 compute end .004s 2+2us 0+80io 0+0net 3396k 0pf
Perforce server info:
        Server network estimates: files added/updated/deleted=0/369/91, bytes added/updated=0/822985392
Perforce server info:
        2017/08/02 16:05:36 pid 30490 completed 16.3s 128+332us 4672+112io 0+0net 3844k 42pf
Perforce server info:
        2017/08/02 16:05:19 pid 30490 bruno@testclient [p4/2016.2/LINUX26X86_64/1468155] 'user-sync -f ...'
--- rpc msgs/size in+out 123+135229/0mb+533mb himarks 186692/186692 snd/rcv 13.4s/.000s
--- rpc send receive errors, duplexing F/R 1/0
--- clients/Randall_Perl(R)
---   total lock wait+held read/write 0ms+16307ms/0ms+0ms

Perforce server error:
        Date 2017/08/02 16:05:36:
        Pid 30490
        Connection from broken.
        TCP send failed.
        write: socket: Connection reset by peer

Also note that F/R ending with a zero is a sign of ctrl-c interrupting the sync.

The WSAECONNRESET error is a networking error passed to Perforce from the operating system, so checking the network outside of Perforce will help diagnose the issue:

  1. Run a ping command using larger packet sizes.

    This would be "ping -l" on Windows or "ping -M do -s" on Unix.  Typical networks will handle a packet size of 1350.

    For example, the following command should always succeed when run from Windows:

    ping -l 1350 {ip address or domain name}

    But larger packet sizes may also be tried to determine if the network is near its limits:

    ping -l 56 {ip address or domain name}
    ping -l 120 {ip address or domain name}
    ping -l 248 {ip address or domain name}
    ping -l 504 {ip address or domain name}
    ping -l 1016 {ip address or domain name}
    ping -l 2040 {ip address or domain name}
    ping -l 4088 {ip address or domain name}
    ping -l 8184 {ip address or domain name}
    ping -l 16376 {ip address or domain name}
    ping -l 32760 {ip address or domain name}

    Note: The "-l" flag is written as hyphen lowercase-L.

  2. Check to see if this error is seen when running ftp

    Use the ftp, scp, or a network drive to retrieve large files and a large number of files from the same server.  If you are using a proxy server, also ftp large files and a large number of files from the proxy server.  If a file transfer generates networking errors outside of Perforce then you can expect the networking errors to be seen within Perforce as well.

  3. Adjust the MTU of all devices

    The Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) should be set to 1492 or as high as possible on all networking equipment and network interfaces.  See "Common Windows Server Network Errors" in the Perforce knowledge base for more details.

    Also check the Perforce log to see if WSAECONNRESET errors come from particular machines or from particular IP address subnets.  This combined with the tracert command can help isolate routers and/or machines that may need the MTU adjusted.

  4. Use Shared Networking in virtual machines

    Try shared networking (NAT) if you are using a virtual machine instead of using the host machine's physical Ethernet directly.

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“I know it is here,” Franny said to Tasmin.  “I can feel it.  The wind, the rain, the raging sea.”  And she could feel it, feel the power.

A few threats, and she’ll crumble.  Threaten William, and you will be able to do what you wish.  Franny thought of her beloved Eric Lavoussier, who was now holding William hostage while she got the  amulet that they required.  He would have his revenge and they would have true power.

And she was right.  Tasmin, who stood square jawed and ready to challenge, drooped a little and she went into a hidden room, bringing forth the Heart of Ithalia, a prison of one of the most powerful Sea Witches that ever lived.

It was gray and lumpen.  She snatched it from the other woman’s hands and pressed it to her chest, sinking herself in, trying to hear the call.  Oh, this would be worth an awful lot of money.  Eric would do away with his enemies, and they would flee.  They would start a new life, her and her lover.

“No, shush, I’m trying to hear what she’s saying,” Franny said to some foolish thing Tasmin asked her.  It was annoying.  She could hear nothing, but she was not going to admit that to her.  If William, who was about as magical as a brick, could sense something when he held the amulet, surely she must?

“She’s saying you made a mistake, angering my sprites, and a worse one, when you angered me.”  Tasmin said, and flicked something at her.  A pin, long and dark, struck through the webbing between her fingers to the stone.  She could feel blood being pulled from the tiny wound, she felt as if she were being drained.

“The stone absorbs life and magic,” Tasmin was saying, but all she could think of was the pin.  She yanked it out and dropped it, the hole in the stone was starting to glow. Franny tried to pull free of the stone, but she was stuck fast.  Shaking it did not work, and when she grabbed the stone with her other hand to yank herself free, the skin of her hand seemed to fuse with the surface of the stone.  “I can’t let go of it!  It won’t let me go!”

It pulled at her.  Her bones ached, and she could feel herself crumbling.  The roaring in her ears blocked out everything, and the light from the stone was so very bright.  She was being pulled, sucked into that tiny, tiny little hole the iron pin melted into the amulet.

And then, there was silence.  Just floating in the black.

“Eric?” she whispered.  She waited in the darkness a long time, whispering his name.  What would happen now?  Would he kill William and his worthless brother?  Would they have revenge?  She hoped so.  Oh, she hoped so.

“Revenge and love.  I understand revenge and love,” a voice said.

“Help me,” she whispered.  The silence after that almost felt like a thinking silence.  It was comforting and terrifying at the same time.

The world shifted, the blackness rolled away like fog, and she was laying on the floor of the cave.  She placed her hands on it to help her up, but it did not feel cold or rough, just there.  She could push against it, and she did.

She stumbled in the darkness, turning, trying to get a sense of place.   A tiny speck of light drew her gaze, a hole the size of a pin.  It winked and disappeared.

“Love and revenge.  I have forgotten much, but not those concepts.”  The voice behind her was like the whisper of the water lapping against a stony beach.  Franny turned toward it.  The woman that stood there, head tilted, had been beautiful.  Her face, or half of it at least, had a soft, other worldly perfection.  On the other half, the skin had been flayed away, and all that was left were bones made of coral; rough, twisted, filled with holes.  A ghost of a fish flicked into sight between cheek and jaw, then flickered away, showed up in the empty eye socket and swam back and forth as if caught.

Franny straightened up.  Something about this woman made her want to be on her best behavior.  “I am sorry to have intruded, but…”

“One does not intrude in a prison.”  She spoke slowly, as if unused to it.

Franny felt at a loss.  She tried again, explaining herself to the woman who stood, quiet and formidable, in the center of the room.  She looked over her shoulder, hoping a miracle had happened and that the wall had opened again.  She looked back at the woman who was studying her, head tilted, expressionless.

Finally, she asked, “Am I really dead?”

You may recall that there was a time in the Kingdom of Berengeny that a retired SeaCaptain married a HerbMistress, and that they lived, more happily than not, in the rooms above a chocolate shop.  The shop was in the sea-port of Azin Shore, far to the South of the kingdom, away from the easy magic of the North.

Wise women were not thick on the ground, so banging on the door at all hours of the night was no longer a surprise.  This night, the knocking was accompanied by panicked yelling.   Tasmin opened one eye, groaned, and slowly pulled herself up.

“I shall see what they want,” William said, already stumbling across the floor to open the window.   Cold air flooded the room, making her long even more to snuggle back down into bed and go back to sleep.

Instead, Tasmin rubbed her eyes and yawned hugely before taking the cover off the light stones, their bright glow telling.  “We’ve not been abed long,” she muttered, stretching.  A foot reached out from under the covers and onto the cold boards of the floor, and she flinched, and flung herself from the bed with a  .

“Aye?”  William half yelled, half whispered out the window in deference to people not married to the only person who could serve in the Wise Woman’s place .

“Tis my wife, William.  She’s having the baby!”  Joe, a large boned, earnest man had no such care for the neighbors.

“And why are you not talking to Dr. Havelock, just down the street?” The time, just coming on to two, Tasmin noticed, was not making him charitable.  She pulled on her clothes right over her night dress, shaking her head to try and wake herself up.  The buttons did not want to go in their holes.

“A man helping to give birth?  Are you mad, William?” was the response.  “Can your wife not come?”

“A traditionalist, I see.”  Tasmin said.  “Tell him I shall be but a moment.”

“We will be down shortly.”  His hand stroked her shoulder as he reached for the breeches folded over the back of her chair.

Tasmin was wiggling her feet into her shoes as quickly as she could. “Oh, sweetheart, go back to bed.”

“You shouldn’t be going out by yourself,” he said, stuffing his night shirt into the waistband of his breeches.  She hooked her fingers around his, forestalling him.

“Joe can protect me on the way to his wife perfectly well,” she said with a smile.  “Besides, ‘tis her first time and if the baby is born before the dawn I shall be pleasantly surprised.  If I need, I shall find someone to guide me home.”

A little body landed on her shoulder.  She could not see it, but she sensed one of her clan of Wind Sprites nestling into her hair.  “And no, you shall all stay home,” she said to the sprite.  “Last thing the young woman needs is to think ghosts are invading her birthing room.”  She put her hair up in a messy bun.  “All of you, to bed.  I shall be fine.”

William kissed her on the cheek, then pushed a pin into her hair a little better.  “I do have to be up early, if you are sure…?”  She rolled her eyes at him and he laughed.  “Thank you.”

“Sleep well.”  She grabbed her cloak and ran into her workroom, where she threw some useful items into a basket.  “And I meant everyone…” she said to a sprite worrying at her hair.  “There is no sense in anyone else in the family being discommoded.”

Joe grabbed her arm the second she opened the front door and started pulling her away, barely giving her time to secure the lock.   “I can’t believe it, Mistress Tasmin, I can’t believe I’m about to be a father,” he said as they raced down the cobbles.  She was tempted to ask him to slow down, but one look at his face, and she knew it would do no good.  “It’s been years since we married, we’d given up hope.”

The second time she almost tripped she pulled her arm out of his grip with a hard wrench.  “If I am dead by the time I get there, I will be of little use to Meggin.”

He stared at her, his eyes weighing her.  She took a step back, warding him off with her basket.  “And no, you will not carry me.  We will walk at a pace that assures that I will arrive in breath and in one piece.”  She walked under her own steam, quickly as she could as she was not a heartless woman, while Joe hovered around her as if he could usher her along.

The moon was but a sliver in the sky, creating a dim, grey light that made the night seem even colder.  She tried to adjust her cloak as they went, down the hill and towards where the houses gathered closer together.  The yards slowly became smaller, but the homes were well taken care of, and you got the feeling that those who lived there did alright for themselves.  Not well to do, precisely, but not impoverished.

Still, it was dark and lonely, and not for the first time Tasmin thought about the real town Wise Woman.   I hope Cherise is alright.  No word for weeks…I only hope she has not been harmed and the rumors that she took off because she was overwhelmed are true, rather than anything more sinister…

Joe’s small house was half way between Dockyard Hill and the merchant district and shared walls with others on either side. Not that she had much time to study the place.  Joe pretty much pushed her into the house, and she had to watch her feet to keep from stumbling on the sill.

The basket was deposited on the floor.  She plucked her gloves off and tossed them, and the cloak, on a chair next to the door, trying to get herself in the proper frame of mind.  I do so hate being a midwife.  But there is no one else until Cherise returns, or they declare her gone.   She and Cherise hadn’t had much to do with each other, true, even though Tasmin was a herbalist and their knowledge overlapped.  Cherise did not have much interest in befriending a woman she saw as competition, even though Tasmin had tried her best to reassure her that this was not the case.  In their few interactions, she found the other woman shy, uncomfortable, and terribly green, but Tasmin dearly wished she was here to do her job.

She shook herself, and put on her kindest and most reassuring mien, and got to the task at hand.  ” Now, Meggin, let’s see how things look.”  She smiled at the mother to be, patting her knees.

She was wrong, about the length of time she would be busy.  Meggin was a natural, her mother was a great deal of help, and even Joe, rambling back and forth, was not completely without his uses.  Soon, it seemed, Tasmin was carefully looking over the baby before letting the new grandmother take the baby away to swaddle it.  She smiled when the new baby boy was handed over to the overjoyed parents, and turned to the things that needed doing.  Cleaning up the necessary mess associated with childbirth, making sure all was well. Joe was beaming, stroking his wife’s hair, holding his little son reverently. It had not been nearly as unpleasant as Tasmin had feared.  This was the third baby she had delivered, and each time she went to the task with some dread in the back of her mind, as if she would make some horrid mistake.  But, all was well, her dress wasn’t ruined like the first time…that was the Night that Shall Never Be Mentioned, no arguments over who the real father was, like the second.  Maybe things did get easier with practice.

She went out into the kitchen with the newly minted grandmother.  “Good birthers in my family,” the older woman said.  “I knew it wouldn’t be any trouble at all.”

“It was well done,” Tasmin said delicately, she could almost feel the next question out of the other woman’s mouth, and wanted to duck out before it came.

“So, you and your William will be having a baby soon, I suspect?”

“No,” Tasmin said, “not for a little while yet.”  She smiled to cover up the awkward silence her words had produced and to keep the smart remark that started to form at bay.  “I will be back in a few days to do the Mating Spell.”

“I thought you had to do it on the birthday?”

“Oh, that’s just tradition.  We’ll do it on his birthday next year, but we can get started in a few days.  Less traumatic for the little one.”

The woman thought this over, then nodded in approval, to Tasmin’s relief.  She wasn’t sure if she could do a spell right now, she was so tired.  “I’ll get Joe to walk you home, then.”

“Oh, ‘tisn’t far.  I don’t want to drag him from his new family.”  Or wait for him.  “I am quite comfortable making my own way.  Let me know if you need anything…” and she was out the door before she had to argue any further, wrapping herself in her cloak, holding her basket firmly in hand.  She looked around her.  Nothing but emptiness all around.  Good.  The only light was the moon, in this part of town no one wasted money by putting candles in the windows.  Light Stones were plentiful (if slightly expensive) in the North, but somewhat ruinously expensive and hard to get in the South.  She had had as many as she needed when she was teaching  the university in Tarnia, and her parents had brought her and William some as a wedding present, which she was grateful for.  They were safer than candles, and, in the long run, cheaper since one did not have to replace them, just maintain them.  Still, it would have been nice to have a little more light.  Up the hill there will be some torch stones, perhaps they have not faded yet.  Torch stones were cheaper because they were roasted in fires to bring the light out of them, and put in tall torch stands.  The heat worked down the iron posts and were a favorite place for people to stop and warm their hands.  Not likely to be warm this time of night, though.

She sighed.  She was concentrating on trivialities, but to be honest, she was a bit bothered.  Three months.  I have only been married three months, and already…’tis like my only purpose in this life is to give birth.  The idea of childbirth made her uneasy, and not just because she was seeing, up close and personal, how messy and painful and dangerous it could be.  She was uneasy because she did not feel like she had really settled in yet.  The shop was adorned by bottles of cordials and tea blends, her contribution to the family business, but her studies were suffering.  I simply need to balance it all out.  Once everything is sorted, I shall be able to get back to my work.  She was happy.  Her husband encouraged her studies, and was gratifyingly pleased when she did something directly related to the shop.  He was loving, kind, and sweet, and would make a wonderful father, but the idea of actually having a child filled her with the desire to run away screaming.

Tasmin turned at the end of the street.  An unseasonably late snow made the sidewalk icy under her feet.  She took her time making her way up the steep hill.  Do I miss home, I wonder?  She slipped a little on the stones, so she stepped into the gravel and dirt that lined the roads, her feet crunching in the ice and grime, but feeling much more secure.  She played with the thought in her head, remembering her old office, gone now to her replacement, longing for the vast libraries of the university where one could easily get lost for hours.  But in the end, I would always rather have William.  Thinking of snuggling next to him in the warmth of their bed made her move a little quicker.  It was gone four, and she fancied the sky out towards the water was lightening, but the truth was that it was very dark, very bitterly cold and very quiet.  Mayhaps I should have gotten Joe to walk me back after all, she thought, wishing she had someone strong to help her up the hill.  But she had been…and still was…impatient to get back to her bed, which would be wonderfully warm since sleeping next to William was like sleeping with a small furnace.  He didn’t even seem to mind when she put her cold feet on him, which she was quite eagerly contemplating, since her toes felt like they would shatter if she stomped her feet too hard.

The rumble of icicles sliding off roof edges and crashing to the paving stones made her jump.  Her foot slipped and she reached for one of the torch stands.  She pulled herself up, clinging to the rough iron.  She was right, the light had died out, and the post held but a little heat to fortify her.   Her spine straightened, shivering as if cold fingers had worked their way into her clothes.  It wasn’t just the cold of the night.  Something felt off, and all her senses reached out, trying to figure out what it was.

The wind picked up, whipping and whirling around her.  It felt different, alive was not the right word, but aware. She tilted her head, feeling for her Wind Sprites, but she could not sense their warmth and spirit.  It had teeth, and texture, and purpose.  She pushed herself away from the post, shivering, but no longer from cold.  Something very basic inside of her, something very small and primitive, wanted her very much to start running.  Instead, she picked up her basket, took a deep breath, and started walking again.

At the top of the hill, the snow spun and shimmered in the cruel wind.  As she neared it, she slowed.  Tasmin didn’t want to step into that whirling, dancing wall of snow, but she mentally kicked herself and kept going.  Home and warmth, Tasmin.  Not so far, now.  Just stop letting your imagination draw strange fancies where nothing is.

She crested the hill, and the wind fell silent.  The snow fell away, except for one spot, where it swirled and settled, drawing details that glowed faintly in the darkness to become the figure of a woman.  Her head turned slowly, looking over her shoulder at Tasmin, and then the rest of her followed suit, the snow falling and lifting and resettling on the curves and folds that outlined the silvery figure.  She stared at Tasmin, moving her head this way and that, as if trying to focus on the face in front of it, considering.

The ghost tilted her head, reaching out one hand slowly, making as if she would touch Tasmin.  Tasmin backed up a step.  The hand was getting closer, and she panicked.  No herbs, no amulets would help her, but she did have another talent, thin and unpracticed, but still there.

She raised a fist, palm towards the figure, and opened it quickly, warding the touch away.  “Forbidden,” she whispered, and a spear of air shattered through the snow.  The ghost disappeared, and the world seemed to right itself, the wind died down and everything seemed to be normal.

She stepped carefully around the newly formed pile of snow and continued her walk home.  Determined not to think any more about it, she stripped off her clothes and fell into bed, half wondering if her exhausted mind had not conjured the whole thing.

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Saturday, 7 December 2013

The Day Christmas Finally Came...

Well Christmas festivities finally began to get underway today and I was so relieved. It felt like I should be doing ALL the Christmas fun and frolic now that we have a little one and the pressure to just BE THAT MUM is enormous. My blog reader, Facebook timelines, Twitter feed and Instagram feed have just been filling up with images of babies meeting Father Christmas, making salt dough ornaments and all kinds of Christmas merriment. Us? We'd not even located the Christmas baubles let alone worked out if they're shatterproof when savaged by a small pudgy playful hand.

I stoppped looking at my phone midweek and just felt so much better for it. Do I need to make her a kitsch Christmas sweater, a stocking, a garland, an ornament, a scrap book of images that is perfectly annotated or rush around to every Santa's grotto in a ten mile radius? The thing is, she's 13 months and at the moment, it's all just wonderment and baffling to her so any small gesture is enormous to her and a mummy who can stand upright at the end of the day seems far more healthy to me. I want things to be nice and special but seeing as her current favourite thing to do is career round the kitchen with a mixing bowl on her head, I figure I've got a few years yet before I need to start the whirlwind with full gusto. I can just aim to get the mood and the magic will come, right?

So with deadlineageddon finally past I announced 'We are getting festive this weekend, dammit'. Such a perfect holiday sentiment no?

I made baby friendly mince pies using this recipe from River Cottage and store bought pastry because you know what? I don't have time in my life for pastry. I will. Just not now. I have limits.

We mulled wine and decorated with Ella swinging us through Christmas in the background.

We made a roast dinner for ultimate comfort afterwards.

Then we sank back and basked in the glory of Christmas finally arriving and I resolved that I would try hard not to succumb to the idea that the holiday season is about what I did to make it perfect rather than a holiday season that was full of love and warmth (and plenty of mulled wine- hurrah!). I felt amazingly snuggly and festive suddenly and I was surrounded by my loved ones and they all looked pretty chipper too.

Tomorrow we're going to the farmer's market to get some festive treats and let Playful Baby pet a sheep dressed as a reindeer. Yup. That's my version of queueing for hours in a shopping mall to see Father Christmas. I'm hoping little one never realises the difference...!!

Happy Holidays!

1 comment:

lisateapot said...

Sounds wonderful! And petting a sheep dressed as a reindeer? Way better than mall Santa! And I'm sure little one will think so too :)


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Opera Theatre 2017Frostburg State University’s Opera Theatre will present “A Night of Love, Magic and Death, With Music From Purcell to Puccini” on Tuesday, Nov. 14, and Monday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. This event is free and open to the public.

Directed by Dr. Tory Browers, this gala concert will feature operatic scenes from “La Bohème,” “Roméo et Juliette,” “The Magic Flute” and “Dido and Aeneas.”

Caption info: Opera Theatre students rehearse a “toast” from one of their scenes. They are, from left, Pateley Bonjiorni, David Cook, Gabriel Harper, accompanist Joseph Yungen, Hannah Miller, Raymond Sorenson, Jenna Blosser and Marsé Romero.

“La Bohème” was composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on the novel “Scènes de la vie de bohème” by Henri Murger, a collection of vignettes portraying young bohemians living in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s. The libretto focuses on the relationship between Rodolfo and Mimì, ending with her death. “La bohème” has become part of the standard Italian opera repertory, and it is one of the most frequently performed operas worldwide.

“Roméo et Juliette” is an opera by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare. The libretto follows the story of Shakespeare's play. The opera was first performed in Paris in 1867. It is notable for the series of four duets for the main characters and the waltz song “Je veux vivre” for the soprano.

“The Magic Flute” is by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included singing and spoken dialogue. The work premiered in 1791 in Vienna, just two months before the composer's premature death. In this opera, the Queen of the Night persuades Prince Tamino to rescue her daughter Pamina from captivity under the high priest Sarastro; instead, he learns the high ideals of Sarastro’s community and seeks to join it. Separately, then together, Tamino and Pamina undergo severe trials of initiation, which end in triumph, with the Queen and her cohorts vanquished.

“Dido and Aeneas” was written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate, composed no later than 1688. The story is based on Book IV of Virgil’s “Aeneid.” It recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when he abandons her. A monumental work in Baroque opera, “Dido and Aeneas” is remembered as one of Purcell’s foremost theatrical works. One of the earliest known English operas, it was also Purcell’s only true opera, as well as his only all-sung dramatic work.

Opera students include sopranos Jenna Blosser, Hannah Miller and Marsé Romero; mezzo-soprano Pateley Bongiorni; tenors David Cook and Gabriel Harper; and baritone Raymond Sorenson. Joseph Yungen will accompany the group on the piano.

For more information, contact FSU’s Department of Music at 301-687-4109.

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At the start of the year I began reviewing 2015's run of Asimov's Science Fiction, but I was careful not to make any rash promises about delivering those reviews in anything like a timely fashion. My efforts to read the April/May double issue came acropper when I lost my copy of the magazine in Paris, and although editor Sheila Williams very kindly sent me a pdf of the issue, for various boring technical reasons, I can only read pdfs in my office - and I've had a novel to finish in the meantime. As it happens I'm just about done with the double issue but in the meantime I thought I'd skip ahead a month and do the June edition first.

With my own short fiction reading being so spotty in recent years - part of the reason I started this exercise - I came to this issue completely unfamiliar with any of the contributors, having not knowingly read anything by any of them before. As such, I'm pleased to say that I found it a generally strong issue, with a nicely varied selection of stories.

The lead story is "The End of the War" by Django Wexler, and it's military science fiction with a space-based setting. No, come back - it's actually pretty inventive, with an effective evocation of combat between different vessels equipped with advanced nanotech weapons. The war has been going on a long time:

The salvage isn't anything to write home about. It's a seventh-generation wetship, probably a destroyer. The second or third generation ships were profligate with materials - heavy metals, exotica, even organics - and are thus the most valuable targets for harvesting. By the seventh generation, resources were already getting scarce, and there's less worth digging out of the old hull.

There's nothing startling about the narrative choices made here, but the story's effective enough as it stands, if you can get past the overload of jargon and tech-talk. When I encounter a piece like this, though - told in the first person -  I'm more and more minded to ask myself - exactly who is being spoken to, and under which circumstances? I'm as guilty as anyone of making unexamined viewpoint choices in my fiction, but it's definitely something that preoccupies me more as I get older, and I can't help wondering how often these decisions aren't underpinned by any deeper considerations of form and intent, but are rather made on the spur of the moment, simply because a story feels like it'll work better one way than the other.

Henry Lien's "The Lady's Aquatic Gardening Society" is note-perfect in its evocation of the starched manners of high nineteeth century society. Dealing with an escalating feud between two almost equally dreadful women engaged in vicious social oneupmanship, I can't help wondering whether it owes something to the wonderful Mapp and Lucia stories of EF Benson.  The arch, comedic tone is very similar. But - although it doesn't become immediately clear until rather late in the story - it is science fiction, of a sort, and this tit-for-tat game eventually has (literally) world-changing consequences. If I've complained in previous reviews of a certain sameness of voice in many of these stories, that's not an issue here - the evocation of a certain ghastly social set is excellently done and sustained without a slip. If there's one problem with the piece, it's that the tone, once established, doesn't vary to any significant degree, leading to a certain monotony of effect as the story progresses. I also felt that the back-and-forth snidiness between the two main protagonists, while effective enough, wasn't quite as sharp and steely as it should have been. But these are minor quibbles and I enjoyed the piece very much.

"Mutability", by Ray Nayler, takes its time with some extremely indulgent scene-setting, almost the kind of leisurely opening you'd expect in a novel, but once it kicks into gear it's an effective and somewhat warm meditation on the limits of memory, especially (as is the case here) in the very long-lived. In this future society, medical longevity has granted people many centuries of life, but the "horizon" of their memories is a constantly moving front which only reaches back so far. It's a fascinating idea which I've seen touched on elsewhere, but Nayler makes it the focus of the story and the ramifications are explored to full effect. It's also a rather touching love story, with - gasp - a happy ending, of all things. I'd need to read it again to pick apart the degree to which coincidence drives the story, but that wouldn't be any particular hardship.

Krasnikov Tubes! Who doesn't love a science fiction story featuring Krasnivok Tubes, eh? Oh well, perhaps it's just me. Anyway, "The Muses of Shuyedan-18" by Indrapramit Das is a nicely  inventive piece about some human explorers studying an exceeding weird alien ecosystem on a distant planet accessed by aforesaid Tubes. Tani and Mi are two female members of this expeditionary team, sent out from their "exoprot" base into the field to conduct observations of the reproductive cycle of a vast and strange alien organism loosely translated as a "lifecastle". Against the norms of their exoprot culture, illicit lovers Tani and Mi rashly decide to have sex in their transparent camp-tent and are witnessed by the alien, which then commemorates the act by shaping humanoid sculptures or "mindcarvings" into its own flesh. The problem for Tani and Mi is that their act is now enshrined on the side of the alien, there to be discovered by another surveyor from their colony. The story plays out from this incident, with flashbacks to the early days of Tani and Mi's relationship. There's nothing terribly groundbreaking in the voice or narrative choices here, but the story's salted with many nicely evocative details, and manages to feel about as up-to-date as any first contact piece you're likely to encounter, proof if any were needed that there are always new stories to be told.

I struggled slightly with "Ghosts of the Savannah" by M. Bennardo. There's nothing clumsy or incoherent about the story, but throughout it I had the nagging sense that I was missing something obvious, and perhaps I was. On the face of it, it's a piece of fiction set in prehistoric times, involving a hunter-gatherer culture, and centering on two sisters - Sedu and the (I think) unnamed narrator - who are much better at running and hunting than the males of their village, and not terribly keen on the idea of settling down to a life of childbearing. When Sedu runs into trouble after sustaining an accident, the narrator has to lie to her village to protect her sister.  It could just be a straight evocation of ancient human times - the setting is clearly Africa, since there are gazelles, ibis and so on - but there are odd details which confound that simple picture. The girls are orphans, and we don't learn too much about their origins. They're afflicted, if that's the word, with Secret Voices and Secret Senses - but then so (it seems) are all the other members of the village. When Sedu breaks a bone in her leg, we're led to believe that she could be up and walking again in mere days. What are we to make of that? It's not just Sedu who has that seemingly magical capacity for rapid healing, but all the others. Is it just because they're tough, or is something else going on? Are they time travellers, who've forgotten their origin? Aliens? Is it the future, and their bodies are stuffed with self-repairing nanotech? I couldn't work it out, and when the narrator drops this seemingly out-of-place observation into the text:

Can the sharpest-eyed hunters see the tiny pinprick of our fire glimmering in the dark? Do they know what it means? Or is it just another distant mystery, another alien enigma in the night? A new phenomenon with no cause or effect, to be catalogued and named and avoided by every sensible human?

I found myself none the wiser. There's also an earnestness of tone to this piece which makes for somewhat dull reading - it's all too suggestive of a creative writing assignment - "imagine yourself in the mind of a prehistoric hunter-gatherer" -  lacking humour or zest or any real spark that jolts the senses. I don't want to be too critical, though, because it's unfair to dismiss a story on the basis of one reading, and it's entirely possible - probable, even - that I missed something that was will be glaringly obvious to other readers.

The last and best story in the issue, in my view, is the piece by Sarah Pinsker. Entitled "Our Lady of the Open Road", it's nothing more than an account of a few days in the life of a travelling rock band, in an era when actual live music has beem more or less squeezed to the margins by ubiquitous hologram playback technology. The band - a trio - are making their way through the backroads of Middle America in a much-loved but elderly touring van modified to run on cooking oil, and the story confines itself to their day to day hassles of finding food, keeping clean, fuelling the van and getting gigs in various scuzzy dives. What's great about this story is that, although the stakes aren't terribly high, it's told with such complete conviction and attention to detail that we do come to care about the future of the band, and when the lead singer has to make a difficult choice about the band's financial set-up, we're fully invested in her dilemma. It's full of nicely authentic details, too, such as the correct protocols for taking towels from hotel rooms. What stands out more than anything, though, is the affection that the band members feel both for each other and their van. It's also dead-on about a certain son of New Jersey:

Down at the other end, two blonde women stood facing the Bruce holo, singing along and swaying. He pointed in their general direction, and one giggled and clutched her friend's arm as if he had singled her out personally. Two guys sat on stools near the stage, one playing air drums, the other watching the women. The women only had eyes for Bruce.

I got where they were coming from. I knew people who didn't like his voice or his songs, but I didn't know anybody, especially any musician, who couldn't appreciate his stage presence.

Amen to that.

  1. "I'm as guilty as anyone of making unexamined viewpoint choices in my fiction, but it's definitely something that preoccupies me more as I get older, and I can't help wondering how often these decisions aren't underpinned by any deeper considerations of form and intent, but are rather made on the spur of the moment, simply because a story feels like it'll work better one way than the other."

    What you said above rather piqued my interest and I would definitely like to see you unpack the statement a bit more about form and intent.

    Thank you for another interesting read.

  2. Hi Ashley - what I was fumbling towards is an idea that the choice of narrative viewpoint isn't always as deeply thought through as it should be. For instance, suppose I was about to write a space battle story and I started it in third person, but then decided it wasn't working as well as it should, and went back to the start and shifted to first person, perhaps because I felt I could do a convincing version of the "voice" of a battle-hardened veteran. But what are we actually reading at that point? A first person account is generally something told or related, unless the viewpoint character is merely going over old events in their head, for whatever reason. But that begs the question - who is the listener? A friend, a sympathetic ear, a doubter, someone to be duped or conned? What's the purpose of the telling - to beg forgiveness? To show off, or set a story straight? There can be any number of answers, and a story isn't obliged to supply any of them, but reading these pieces has got me thinking about all the things we *might* consider when thinking about viewpoint.

  3. Thank you for taking the time to reply. Food for thought, and quite meta. I always considered these things as an artifice or contract between the reader and the writer, but I see I shall have to go away and think about it a bit more. It certainly give one pause for thought about how to tell a story and perhaps finding new ways to tell stories. Have to let that rattle around the old noggin. Again thank you.


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Newest Board Members Julie Tyson and Ulunda Baker

Arborbrook has a Board of Trustees and utilizes a Carver Board Policy Governance model.  Read about the ten principles of policy governance here:  Ten Principles of Policy Governance

The board watches over the affairs of the school and helps set policy, but the staff run the day-to-day operations of the school.  If Arborbrook were a boat, the board would not be at the helm, but rather on the banks of the river looking ahead to see what dangers might be around the bend and helping the captain make course corrections accordingly.  The board hires and evaluates the head of school (who is a non-voting board member) and is also responsible for facilities.  The board makes decisions and operates as a unit; individual board members do not have authority apart from the board itself.

The board is self-propagating.  Choosing new board members is not a democratic process of receiving nominations, but rather a prayerful undertaking of the board itself.  New board members are chosen based upon several factors, including being an active Arborbrook parent who has been at the school at least two years, serving the school within his or her gifting, and demonstrating wisdom and discernment.  An effort is also made to have a diverse board made up of both men and women who have children of different ages at Arborbrook to represent the entire school well.  Arborbrook teachers and staff may not serve on the board.  Board members may serve no more than three consecutive 2-year terms.

Here are the current (2017-2018) members of the Board of Trustees:

Mr. Rex Noble, Board Chair

Mr. Walt Peaseley, Board Vice-Chair

Mrs. Misty Hampton, Board Secretary

Mrs. Ulunda Baker

Dr. Brett Christoffersen

Mr. Matt Depp

Mr. Stewart Little

Mr. Tom Mueth

Mrs. Julie Tyson

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A king is a head of state of a nation, usually of a kingdom or a realm. It is the second highest title of nobility after emperor. The queen is either the female counterpart of the king or the wife of a king. The appropriate adjective pertaining to a king (specific cases aside) is "royal" and kings and queens as a group are referred to as "royalty" - a classification which may also include their immediate family. A king may also be referred to as a monarch (A.Gk. "one who rules alone") and their government as a monarchy. He (or his role) may also be referred to by syndoche as "the crown" or "the throne". He is typically addressed as "your majesty" (although "your grace" was used in England for much of the Middle Ages).

Of course being a king is a relative thing - he may rule over an extensive kingdom that covers all or most of a continent, or reign almost as far as he can spit. In some circumstances, any tribal leader who isn't doing homage to someone else may call himself a king. A king may rule in his own right, as the figurehead of a nation with some other system of government or as the subordinate of an Emperor. The typical pseudo-medieval fantasy setting typically places the king at the top of a feudal pyramid.

Speaking of relatives, monarchy is generally thought of as being hereditary by one means or another, but this is far from universal. By way of examples, the Saxon Kings of England were subject to acclamation by the Witengamot - being a son of the previous king made you "atheling" ("throneworthy") and therefore a contender, but far from certain of the job. Likewise, the biblical kings of Israel were appointed by annointment by the High Priest or an appropriate Prophet. Other cultures passed the role in other ways. Hereditary monarchy, by contrast, whilst common could be something of a lottery - in theory it should garuntee that a sucessful family remains in charge, but in practice poor breeding decisions and bad luck could make the business something of a lottery, especially if royal descent is seen as the only source of a claim to the throne. Where sucession is not hereditary, there may be significant effort required to seperate crown estates from those of the current royal family - where it is, the amount of upheaval require to change royal house generally means the distinction is more or less irrelevant.

The king's duties could also vary - from being the universal font of government (in many medieval monarchies), to a glorified general (like the kings of Sparta) or priest (like the Roman Rex Sacrorum) … sometimes to the extent of being sacrificed to the gods at the end of his tenure (or when things started to go downhill). Most modern monarchs are primarily ceremonial with limited or no executive powers.

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  • Outside of an empire, kings will generally be the highest secular authorities the PCs will have to deal with in fantasy settings, and thus will be people the PCs will need to thread carefully around - or which they will want to cultivate as patrons.
  • Becoming a king is a fine, epic aspiration for a player character, as this kind of title means, at least in theory, that no one else can tell them what to do.
    • Of course, realpolitik might force them to bow them to the pressures of others - either influential citizens or more powerful neighboring realms. And they might only find this out when it is too late…
    • It is important that the other player characters are interested in helping with this goal, or else they might get bored with the campaign. After all, making them all kings is unlikely.
    • Being someone's sacred king on the other hand - the sort that gets sacrificed at the end of the year - could be an interesting gig.
    • Indeed "fugitive sacred king" could be an amusing character concept.
      • Especially if the failure to sacrifice him has created a disaster in his former domain…
    • Also, playing the king's immediate council could be an interesting exercise - especially if the king in question is a drunken idiot, a child or some other sea anchor.
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1907 – Royal Hippodrome Theatre, Belfast

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The Royal Hippodrome Theatre was constructed beside the Grand Opera House in 1908-07. Renovated in the 1960s as a Odeon cinema when it lost much of its original architectural detail. Later demolished and the site redeveloped as a hotel and extension for the adjacent Opera House.

Bertie Crewe was a London theatre architect who produced few works in Ireland, including: a proposal for South Anne Street in Dublin; and a completed building, the Coliseum on Henry Street in Dublin. This theatre was opened in April 1915 and destroyed in the 1916 Easter Rising.


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Robert DuPuy, president of Major League Baseball, talks about making the most out of time on the road.

By Matthew Boyle, Fortune writer

(Fortune Magazine) -- Commissioner Bud Selig may be the public face of Major League Baseball, but Bob DuPuy is the man behind the scenes getting things done. As president and COO, DuPuy, 60, who joined the league in 1998 as chief legal officer, now oversees everything on behalf of the commissioner, from labor relations (which includes the steroid problem) to the league's blossoming Internet unit.

Since he took the COO position in 2002, MLB's revenue has grown 50%, to $5.3 billion, and in the past year the league managed to strike a new labor agreement with the players' union, secure multiple stadium deals, and hammer out a distribution pact with DirecTV and cable companies.

The affable DuPuy (pronounced Doo-Pay) chatted with Fortune's Matthew Boyle about his addiction to Diet Pepsi (12 cans a day), his in-flight thinking strategy, and his book-of-the-month club.

Make a long-distance (working) relationship work. My job is to get the objectives of the commissioner out to the 30 clubs and to get the clubs' concerns back to him. One of the most difficult parts of my work is the fact that our CEO [commissioner Selig] is 1,000 miles away in Milwaukee. That's unusual in terms of how businesses operate. He comes to New York one or two times a month, and I visit him as often. We speak two to three times some days, and up to 12 on others. We're working on videoconferencing capability, which may add a face-to-face dimension to important calls.

Split flights into thirds. I travel a lot - in fact, this is only my ninth day in the office so far this year, and I saw more baseball games in Japan's Tokyo Dome last year than at any other ballpark. I try to split each plane trip into thirds: One-third of the time I read the newspaper, one-third of the time I work on what I am traveling for, and the other third I spend thinking. I openly discourage conversation from seatmates. It is extraordinarily difficult in this day of instant communications to find time to think.

Have a note-taking system. I have these note cards, which are separated into four sections: people to call, things to do, expenses, and notes. I use them to jot down ideas, and I go through four or five of these a day. A lawyer I worked with for 15 years had a similar system, and it seemed to be a clever idea. I have been doing it ever since, and people here have now imitated me.

Befriend a hotel manager. I'm not superstitious like baseball players, but certain things go with me no matter where I go - my cellphone and BlackBerry. And I'm horrific at keeping track of them. I go through three or four a year. I leave them in hotels, airplanes, and cabs. The Pfister hotel in Milwaukee and the Mayflower in Washington are both very good about rescuing my stuff.

Take time to read. Four years ago I set a goal of reading 13 books a year. I have done that each year since. Last year I read "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" [by Marisha Pessl] and Paul Auster's "The Brooklyn Follies." The new Babe Ruth biography [by Leigh Montville] may be next.

Mix business with pleasure. I've been lucky enough to use baseball as common ground to balance work and family. We use the All-Star break as a family reunion. Occasionally we do the same for the playoffs. I end up working during that, but at least we are all together. It's important in terms of recharging your batteries.  Top of page


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Native Instruments' flagship DJ software used for both live and bedroom performance among professional and amateur musicians. Includes 4 decks, Loop Recorder, Sample Decks, and 30 effects for maximum creative potential. Boasts leading beat-matching technology with a new interface with TruWave colored waveforms for a visually rich DJing experience. Flickr cover art browsing and full iTunes and iPod integration.

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GeeGGeeGAnonymous 19 Jul 2011 18:24

Is this traktor 1 or traktor 2?

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ChrisiB.ChrisiB.Anonymous 20 Jul 2011 12:12

This is Traktor 2.
(the T2 version)

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[ rauljerico]rauljericoAnonymous 20 Jul 2011 14:53

And with the last version V.2.0.3???

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Crashes for me and Audio sputters

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[ Chris]ChrisAnonymous 22 Jul 2011 02:07

Audio sputters for me too. Anyone have a fix?

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From: "Kathy Willett" <>
Subject: Re: Fort Orange Books
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 19:00:01 -0800

If your ancestors actually were inhabitants of Fort Orange, they are probably
mentioned somewhere in one of the volumes of Early Records of the City and
County of Albany. I was just going through some copies I made from one of
them yesterday so I can at least tell you what to look for but I don't know
where you would purchase them.

The volume I made copies from contain Notarial Papers 1 & 2, 1660-1696.
These are mostly bonds which deal with debts owed to another as a result of a
purchase (such as beavers or beaverskins) and power of attorney papers
giving another person authority to sell their property elsewhere such as
property that the person might have owned on Manhattan Island but because
they were at Fort Orange; they would have someone going to or located in
Manhattan sell it.

I'll give you the title and information on this book's title page so that
possibly something contained in it will help you to locate what you might
want. This volume specifically mentions inhabitants of "Fort Orange", not
just Albany.

The University of the State of New York
New York State Library
History Bulletin 10
Early Records of the City and County of Albany
and Colony of Rensselaerswyck (Albany County)
Volume 3
(Notarial Papers 1 and 2, 1660-1696)
Translated from the Original Dutch by Jonathan Pearson
Late Professor of Natural Philosophy in Union College
Revised and edited by A.J.F. Van Laer
Archivist, Division of Archives and History
(Published in) Albany, The University of the State of New York, 1918

I copied this at the Albany City Library when I visited there last summer. I
noted that they had other volumes also with land transactions and other
records. There are also volumes of information on Albany from it's discovery
forward which were published by J. Munsell in the 1800s that are widely
available at libraries. They have many of them, even out here at the library
in Los Angeles, CA so you might be able to find them where you are. All of
these publications are indexed so if a society or anywhere that has the books
offers look-up services; you might be able to check the books that way.

I don't know where you would purchase any of them but you might try Higginson
Books on the net or try Cyndi's List - http://www.oz.net/~cyndihow/sites.htm
If you go to her NY listings, there is usually a listing for books for
each particular state so you might find some dealing with NY that way.

I hope something in this helps you out!

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An Elizabethton man is one of two individuals arrested by the Johnson City Police Department on Friday involving an investigation into crack cocaine trafficking that spanned several jurisdictions.
According to the JCPD, Shareef Goddard, 18, 109 Oscar Banks Road A-30, and Filemon Timana, 19, 118 Wilson Ave., Johnson City, were arrested after an investigation into the location of Timana, who is wanted on a federal warrant charging him with conspiracy to traffic cocaine in New York City. A joint investigation by the JCPD, New York Police Department and FBI led officers to the whereabouts of Timana, according to police.
During the arrest, Goddard, identified by police as an associate of Timana, was allegedly found in possession of 10 grams of crack cocaine packaged for resale. Goddard was also carrying a large amount of cash, police said.
Police seized a 1988 Nissan Altima and over $1,000 in cash, according to the JCPD. Both men are currently being held in the Washington County Detention Center without bond. They are scheduled to appear in General Sessions Court for a preliminary hearing on Monday.


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Friday, January 4, 2008

new year, new Twilight sketches

I bring my sketchbook to work every day now. At lunch or when I need to take a break from some tedious html coding, I draw. These are from the past week and are mostly studies from the comic that AndreZero is writing.

These are pretty rough, but that's why it's called a sketchbook.

Here's the man himself: Lysander Twilight. English, dapper and deadly (note the deft at which I avoided an alliteration)

Here are some studies for the non-flight uniforms for The Valkyrie. AndreZero didn't specify that they'd need regular uniforms, but I did them anyway

Here are some initial character sketches for a character that is currently nameless and, to save suspense for the comic, identitiy-less as well. Who is this mystery woman? One of the many things I'm working on is drawing the same character over and over. I think the trick is to take at least one single defining feature, such as hair or a certain jaw and make sure that you keep that consistent. Then you just hope that persistence of memory kicks in.

Here's something else that AndreZero didn't even hint at. After drawing another headshot of the redhead, I decided to add something else I'd been working on: an 'elevated bear'. I'd submitting work to the Flickr group for Bears In Ill-Fitting Hats, and recently I'd been playing around with drawing, not an anthropomorphized bear, but what a bear might look like if it had been crossed with enough human attributes to make Urus Erectus. I tried to somehow rationalize the anatomy and make it sensible. THIS is why I have trouble drawing cool fantasy/sci-fi: it has to make sense somehow. And for me it rarely works. So, here's the redhead with an Ursus Erectus (Arctus). I thought they'd be a bodyguard, maybe. I made it female because all of the Valkyrie are female...

Here's a picture of the iteration of the bear drawn on the page just previous to the one with the redhead

Here's something AndreZero did ask for. A secret base on a remote island. I've been trying to think of a name for it, but could only come up with The Enclave or The Bastion . I've already worked out a p lot plan placing it at the foot of a sleeping volcano giving it access to geothermal energy (since this takes place in the 30's and there was no solar and an oil tanker arriving at regular intervals would eventually negate the 'secret' part of the secret base.

Now, here's something for Swinebread and the crew at Atomic Romance.

Fairness Battalion Banner (60k. 100dpt. sized for letter)
Fairness Battalion Logo alone ( 24k 100dpi)

listening to while posting: "They Got Lost" by They Might Be Giants from 'Long Tall Weekend'

AndreZero said...

Those look really good. For some reason the harness on the Ursus Erectus made me think she was wearing overalls. The second one looks like she is surfing on a flying carpet!

Arkonbey said...

It's not just a flying carpet, it's a flying faux-riental rug!

HAHAHAHAHA! Ahhhhh. Man, I'm danmed funny.

Here's why the rug is there. I drew her and realized without a reference to show the perspective, she just looked short and stubby. So, I drew a square, but it looked as though she were standing on a trap door and I didn't like that. So: flying faux-riental rug!

Swinebread said...

This looks like quite a fun project, pulp adventures, secret bases, air maidens, and “up-lifted” bears. I think I would have a good time reading this.

The only thing I might suggest is trying a little longer hair on the valkyries or drawing each one with a different hairstyle. Hey, maybe one is even bald?! Just thought. ☺

I really like the Bear Lady, very Gamma World!