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We were in NYC last week for a few days on our way to Europe. Was it HOT! How hot was it? Our taxi driver from the airport on Saturday night said it was really hot. He was from Bangladesh! We went to a very nice concert on Sunday afternoon on a barge anchored just off the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge (bargemusic.com). It was enclosed with marginal A/C, given the 90+ F temp and 50%+ humidity. The violinist Mark Peskanov was wearing a short sleeve shirt. By the intermisson, he was thoroughly soaked and was in another shirt after the intermission. I talked to the cellist, Robert DeMaine (principal of the LA Philharmonic) at intermission. I asked him about the heat and humidity effects on his cello. He said that he was protecting his 1680 something Strad and put it back in its case during the intermission.
Last Saturday was a beast in NY metro. Temps north of the city were in the 94-98 degree F range, but with the humidity, it was real feel of 112-116. We are normally a little cooler where we are, north of the city, near the Hudson, lot's of trees 'n stuff, but it was just brutal. There were certainly days I remember when the measured temp in Manhattan exceeded 100 degrees F, but this felt hotter. The weather here has been pretty volatile for the past couple weeks, almost tropical, with thunder storms periodically in the late afternoon and evening.
I remember the barge music thing. We used to live in Brooklyn Heights the neighborhood up the hill. Back then, the area where the barge was located was pretty desolate, apart from the River Cafe and a couple of other spots and apartment buildings- mostly old warehouses. Now, it is DUMBO, and very chic. We left Brooklyn when you still had to apologize for living there- but I loved it- far more funky than Manhattan, great food- from Italian to Jamaican, some cool vestiges of the old NY, including Gage & Tollner, a throwback to the gaslit era of NY. Don't really get to Brooklyn much anymore, though we head out tomorrow early for a day of record shopping in Neu Brooklyne- I have a visiting record geek from NOLA here- he's used to nasty hot, humid weather so this is almost a break for him.
Enjoy London. I've always found that city fascinating, but I think it has become way more interesting in the last twenty years or so. Ever go to Ronnie Scott's?
Its been brutal in Reston va. this summer too. Heat index when we got to Lyle lovett concert at Wolftrap was 108, temperature 97. Almost as bad for Wynton marsalis friday. Nice today though.


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Events, 2019
Thanksgiving Lunch Senior School
Islam teaches us the lesson of equality and it is binding upon us to treat every individual of the society equally. The Holy Prophet (SAW), in his last sermon, declared that no man is superior to another on the basis of caste, colour or creed. With the same spirit, Lawrence College arranges a thanksgiving lunch every year for the support staff in order to honour their contribution and services. It also aims at making us realize how these employees serve us throughout the year. The purpose is also to instill the quality of humbleness among ourselves as everybody in this world is equal in the eyes of Allah Almighty. This golden tradition of Lawrence College was set by our worthy Principal five years back.
The Senior School hosted a sumptuous Thanksgiving Lunch to recognize the tireless and most valuable services of the support-staff in the Senior School Mess on November 6, 2019. The event was organized by the Intermediate Class under the guidance of the Vice Principal/Headmaster and the Housemasters. The lunch was held in the Senior School Dining Hall. Present on the occasion, were the Senior School janitors, peons, gardeners, mess & dorm-bearers, sanitary staff, runners, drivers, security guards, and other on-call attendants. The Gallians of Inter-20, including all the prefects, took pride in serving the support-staff with smiles and caring attitude; translating their worthy Principal's sublime philosophy of humanism and goodwill into a sound reality.
For the support-staff, it was a very happy occasion; full of cheers, respect, and care. They were served a sumptuous lunch. The Principal thanked the junior staff for their devoted services and expressed his hope that they would continue with the same spirit next year. The support staff also thanked the Principal for encouraging them in such a nice way and recognizing their services.
Thanksgiving Lunch in Honour Of Junior Staff by Prep and Junior Schools
Thanksgiving Lunch was served in Prep School Mess to honour junior staff on Monday, 4 November, 2019. It also recognizes the hard work and struggle of the junior staff for the whole year. The Principal,chief guest.
Ali Zain, the School Prefect, made a speech acknowledging the services of junior staff. He shared that theirmight not be possible without the support of the junior staff. On behalf of all Gallians of Prep school, Ali Zain also thanked the honourable Principal for starting this new tradition in the near past.
The boys of Junior and Prep School served the lunch to the support staff. Thanksgiving Lunch is an important meal of the year. Thanksgiving lunch is a 'Token of Thanks' by the young Gallians for the untiring efforts of junior staff in every area of boarding life.
Thanksgiving Lunch sent a strong message to the Young Gallians to pay even additional respect and regard to junior staff and their services at every level. The Principal appreciated and thanked the junior staff for their work to facilitate the young Gallians.
All Pakistan Inter-Collegiate Bilingual Declamation Contest, 2019Lawrence College on 24th of October, 2019. The audience had the opportunity to enjoy powerful speeches of best orators from all over Pakistan. Team, FC College University Lahore, Army Burn Hall College Abbottabad, Cadet College Choa Saiden Shah, Chakwal, Cadet College Palandri, Garrison Cadet College Kohat, Malala Yusafzai Danish School Jand, PAF College Lower Topa, PAF College Sargodha, Military College Jhelum, Military College Murree, Military College Sui and Presentation Convent Murree visited Lawrence College.
The purpose of this competition was to provide the students of participating schools and colleges a forum to express their novel ideas, gain recognition and confidence. It also provided opportunity to come clos' experiences. Principal Lawrence College Brig Mujahid Alam (Retd) Chief Guest, at the very outset thanked all the guest teams for gracing the APDC. He said that he was very happy to be there listening to such wonderful speeches by the young speakers. Advising the students, he said that it is the content of a speech and not the loud voice that matters. He specially congratulated the position holders for showing outstanding performance. He specially felicitated the team of PAF College Sargodha for being the overall winners. He appreciated the standard of the declamation contest and commended the efforts of the organizers for arranging a successful contest.
Founders' Day, 2019
159th Founders' Day was held in Jamali Stadium on Thursday, 26th September, 2019. The young exhibited an excellent show of their organizational skills and coordination. Their wonderful show received applause from the spectators who enjoyed every minute of the event for which the students had prepared enthusiastically.
The chief guest wasand Chairman Board of Governors, Lawrence College. A large number of guests, Old Gallians and parents attended the function. March Past, PT Display and prize distribution were the main features of the Founders' Day proceedings.
The Principal Brig Mujahid Alam (Retd) presented the Annual Report of the College. He  and other guests for gracing the occasion. He thanked the chief guest for his continuous support in all the matters related to improvement and progress at the College. He told the guests and parents that the College administration is doing its best for grooming and training of the students. Highlighting the performance of Gallians in academics, the Principal said, "I am pleased to inform you that this year we have achievedns. In the Matric Examination 44 boys appeared and pass percentage was 100% with 36 boys getting A+ grade and 8 A grade. In Matric Part I Examination, 49 boys appeared and pass percentage was 100% with 48 boys getting A+ grade and 1 A grade. In the Intermediate Examination Part-II 62 boys appeared and the pass percentage was 99%. 29 boys attained A+ grade, 20 A and 12 got B grade while Muhammad Moiez got 2nd position in Rawalpindi Board Pre-Medical group. 12 students appeared in the 'O' Level Exam of Cambridge University with 100% pass percentage. Syed Mustafa Kamal scored straight 9 As. These results are one of the best ever attained by Lawrence College."
The Chief Guest congratulated all the houses for their commendable performance. He specially congratulated Wightwick House for being the champion house and Walker House for being the Runners Up. He particularly mentioned that it was heartening to know that the Principal has restored the basic values and integrity of Lawrence College and is giving so much importance to academic excellence, character building, instilling moral values and ensuring merit in all activities. He said it was encouraging to know from the Principal's speech that Lawrence College has produced excellent results in Matric Part-I, Part-II, O-Level and Inter Part-II Exams for the year 2019. He appreciated the efforts of the management, faculty and Gallians for the significant development in all spheres of life. In the end, the chief guest thanked the Principal Brig (Retd) Mujahid Alam and his staff for inviting him as Chief Guest.
Defence Day, 2019
Defence of Pakistan Day was celebrated at Lawrence faculty of the three schools assembled at the Yadgar-e-Shuhada in the morning of 6th of September. Principal LCGG was the chief guest of the ceremony. He, on his own behalf, on behalf of the faculty and Gallians, laid wreath at the Yadgar-e-Shuhada. Naara-e-Pakistan was raised as an expression of love for our sweet homeland.After the wreath-laying, Talha from Class IX recited some verses from the Holy Quran which were translated by Abdul Nafay from Class VIII.
The Principal, in his speech. said,"This day has great importance in our lives and we observe it nationally to pay homage and respect to all the Shuhada of Pakistan, whether they were army personnel, security agencies. civilians or policemen, who laid their lives in defence of their motherland. All of them are equally honourable and respectable for us.We must remember them and we must remember their sacrifice. They gave their lives for defence of the motherland. They gave their lives so that all of us could lead an independent, honourable and respectable life. Many of the shuhadawho gave their lives in East Pakistan, their bodies never came to their families. They are buried there and they are always remembered. We must also remember 14 Gallian shuhada whose names are inscribed here. We must remember that these shuhada did not give their lives as Punjabis, Sindhis, Pathans or Baluchis. They didn't give their lives as Shias, Sunnis, BrailvisorDeobandis. They gave their lives as Pakistanis.I deliberately use the word Pakistani as one of these names is of Wing Commander Mervyn E.Middlecoat who was given Sitara-e-Jurat in 1965 and again in 1971. Middlecoat was a Christian but he was a Pakistani first and foremost. On this day, we need to pledge to make our nation strong as no one respects a weak country or nation. We should pledge to sacrifice the way these shuhada sacrificedintrospection. We needes and have to strengthen ourselves with the power of knowledge.This Defence Day is significant asour Kashmiri brethren are passing through a great turmoil due to the atrocities of the Indian Government. The Indian Army is exercising all the cruel tactics that they can but I have staunch faith and firm belief that Kashmir will be free from this cruel occupation one day.I want all of you to keep it in mind that we need to fully support Kashmiris in their struggle till they win freedom. They have given great sacrifices. They are doing whatever they can do in their capacity. The courage and valour that the Kashmiri nation has shown is an example for us and the world.On this day, when we are remembering our shuhada and are praying for them, we should also remember Kashmiris alsoand should pray for them."
Du'a for the protection and prosperity of Pakistan was offered by Hafiz Ata-ur-Rehman, Khateeb Senior School. The ceremony concluded with national anthem.
Sports Day, 2019
The Annual Sports Day was held on July 11, 2019 in the true spirit of sportsmanship, whereint events. The function was attended by parents of the students and other guests from different walks of life. Brig Muhammad Asmat Baig Humaiyun (Retd), an illustrious old Gallian, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.
Young athletes of the three schools put up a spectacular show in athletics, gymnastics, martial arts and archery. They received a big round of applause from the spectators. After the athletics competition, t the prizes. Wightwick House won Raza Shah Shaheed Trophy for the best house in athletics while Walker House won the Marching Cup. Rafiullah Achakzai was declared the best athlete.
The Chief Guest, in his address, thanked the Principal, staff and students for inviting him as the chief guest. He appreciated the excellent performance of Gallians. He congratulated Wightwick House for winning the coveted Athletics Cup for the year 2019 and Walker House for winning the Marching Cup 2019. He recalled the days when he was in Wright House. He commended the efforts of the present and past generations of great Gallians, the management and staff for achieving and maintaining high standardArt Extravaganza, which has become an annual feature of Lawrence College, was held on Thursday, 18th of April, 2019 revolving around the theme, 'Kindness is always in Season.' The Principal Lawrence College, Brig Mujahid Alam (Retd), was the chief guest.
Poster making, declamations both English and Urdu, solo singing, cultural dance, essay writing, calligraphy, Urdu mushaira and dough modelling competitions were held in different venues. All the fifteen participating schools and colleges took part in each activity. All these competitions were designed to make others aware of the importance of kindness, peace, cultural diversity, caring of special people, and exploring the talents of the individuals as well as groups in above mentioned areas. Basically, this effort was put to speed up the practical approach to observe Earth Day, accept cultural diversity, build a bias free society with a mixture of poetry and solo singing based on 'Dosti' theme.
The participating institutions included Army Burn Hall College for Girls Abbottabad, Beaconhouse School Abbottabad, Kid City High School Islamabad, Oxbridge Future Leader School Islamabad, Exploreville School Step Up Campus Rawalpindi, Bahria Foundation College, Westridge Rawalpindi, Bahria Foundation College, Ghouri Town, Islamabad, Bahria Foundation College, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi, Government Special Education Centre Jheeka Gali, The Educators Murree, Army Public School Cliff Den Camp, Presentation Convent Murree, Army Public School Kuldanna and St. Deny's High School Murree.
After a sumptuous lunch, Junaid Abbasi, a visually impaired student fromMurree, sang a beautiful song in his captivating voice and won the applause.
gave away the prizes to the winners and position holders. Presentation Convent Murree outshone all the contestant-institutions and secured top position. Chaperones and judges of different events were given away the shields.
The Principal, in his concise speech, congratulated the position holders of all events however, he made it clear that he considered all the participants as winner because taking part in any co-curricular activity was itself an honour. He showed his utmost satisfaction at the standard which was displayed by the part-takers in the whole function. He particularly appreciated the studentswho came and participated in the function. He further shared that we must give respect, honour and special care to these special children.
The Principal thanked all the participating institutions including all the concerned staff of Lawrence College for making the Art Extravaganza-2019, a memorable one. High tea was served at the end of Art Extravaganza.
After the recitation and translation of the Holy Qur'an, Mustafa Ahmed Chaudhry of Grade-VII made a moving speech highlighting different angles of the Earth Day, its importance and significance in our lives. Mr. Waqas Nawaz, Lecturer in Social Studies, shared some key areas of global warming, its causes and trouble shooting. A video with the title 'Protect our Species', showing different aspects of the Earth Day, was watched by the boys in the Movie Hall. The boys enjoyed the video followed by an interactive session about Earth Day anchored by Mr Waqas.
The celebrations for Pakistan Day at Lawrence CollegeStudents and faculty from the three schools attended the assembly. The Principal hoisted the national flag. Naa'ra-e-Pakistan was raised by the students and faculty. Du'a was offered for prosperity of the country, peace and progress by Maulana Abdul Majid, lecturer Islamic Studies.
The formal function was held in Hamid Hall. Syed Wiqar Ali Shah, Dean Faculty of Social Sciences, Quaid-e-Azam University graced the function as the chief guest. The proceedings started with recitation from the Holy Quran by Muhammad Ali Waqar from Class VIII and translation by Ahmed Ali Qamar from Class VIII. Muhammad Uzair Baig of Class II from Junior SchoolIt was followed by a national song by Junior School boys. Saad Amjad of Class VI from Prep School involved the whole gathering in making a pledge to be devoted and sacrifice everything for prosperity of Pakistan. After his speech, a medley was played by the Junior School students. Abdullah Tariq of Class XI from the Senior School talked about the sacrifices made during the Pakistan movement. Followed by this was a presentation titled 'Qayaam-e-Pakistan, Tasawwar se Haqeeqat tak' shown by Pakistan Studies Department, Senior School.


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My favorite magazines are ending and some are "online only"
"New" ways of scrapbooking are emerging (hello "pocket" scrapbooking). Is this really scrapbooking?
Yet, with today's technology, more photos are being taken than ever before. It has been decided that the next generation of women, i.e., my daughter, have no desire to scrapbook. If you ask to see photos of her son, she'll whip out her iPhone and scroll through hundreds of pictures. I'm the one making his scrapbooks!And...she loves them...but doesn't want to make ot!I am still not happy about the magazines. There are some good online stores but there is something so fun about shopping for goodies-that is for sure!
I feel your pain!I too am making scrapbooks for my son/DIL. I've even made a mini album & given to her-it sits empty in her house somewhere!Losing our stores is a hard hit. If Hobby Lobby ends up closing-I'm going to cry!I guess like quilting-we'll take our talent to the grave!
By day, I am a part-time Administrative Assistant and by night I am an avid scrapbooker, photographer, card maker; in general, a paper crafts aficionado. My most favorite thing to do is travel, Travel, TRAVEL!I don't care if it is a long, overseas vacation or a 90-minute drive from home. I am fortunate to be celebrating the 22nd year of a great love affair. Bill gives me a great deal of my material and is always a willing subject. I have two grown children and two quasi-stepchildren. In June, 2013...I...became...a GRANDMA!


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 We aren’t talking about preparing bug-out bags for the end of the world. On-Demand security issues encompass a whole host of issues, big and seemingly small, that can spell disaster for a business. A company embarking on a fast and furious growth program using an On-Demand business model without proper precautions can find itself in a world of hurt. For starters, bad press is painful and litigation can be deadly.
An effective HR program implemented earlier in Uber’s growth could have pre-empted the numerous On-Demand security issues it has faced. That includes independent contractor vs. employee status lawsuits brought against it – in California, Massachusetts, Canada, and the United Kingdom say nothing of those to follow. Despite raising over $60 million, Homejoy was put out of business for this same basic issue. Uber and others have also been hit by numerous wrongful termination lawsuits, harassment, and discrimination suits, too.
The faster you intend to grow, the greater your need will be for an HR Program. This is true whether you intend to hire your own employees or work with independent contractors. What a proper HR Program gives you is advanced preparation to prevent, contain and respond to all manner of volatile personnel problems – that’s a long list.
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One vital component of such a program is an Employee Handbook to detail the companies policies, code of conduct, infractions, disciplinary processes and actions, remedies, etc. This, along with managerial training, helps to assure that everyone is fairly and consistently treated according to a due diligence process.
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Compare that with Uber’s original and early-term driver requirements – where virtually none of these were required. As Uber began to experience problems with the behavior of some drivers, it began to tighten up by performing background checks of its own. There are numerous types of background checks, ID verification, sex offender search, state and federal criminal watch lists, etc. What you might need may run from $10 – $200. That adds some financial and administrative overhead, but it pales in comparison to the costs of a bad hire or bad contractor.
Tragic as these events are, having no safeguards puts companies at risk. The impact for a company is vastly reduced when it is able to show a due diligence effort for consumer and public safety. Without a due diligence effort, your keeping the doors wide open for problems to happen.
That so many On-Demand businesses have faced so many lawsuits is not an issue with the On-Demand business model. It has more to do with the relative lack of experience people have in trying to rapidly create an economy of scale. Mobile apps can and do automate many work processes and business functions, but they cannot do everything. Yet. Even big, established companies like Amazon can occasionally find themselves the victim of trying to cut corners – as it has in adopting the Uber model for its Amazon Prime Now delivery drivers.
A Human Resources program is a company’s buffer working to prevent all manner of problems that can lead to civil suits, courts, bad press and massive settlements. There are occasions where service providers and employees may demand more than the company can provide – and may sue anyway, but the HR Program provides management and ownership the opportunity to resolve matters before they get out of hand. Equally important, Human Resources helps to protect service providers and employees from the potentially unlawful whims of unscrupulous executives.
There are so many seemingly hidden aspects in Human Resources that it can be easy to dismiss its importance to a rapidly growing On-Demand company. The mobile tech goes a long, long ways to making On-Demand possible, but People are still responsible for making it happen.
On-Demand Security issues require professional background checks – one of the functions of an HR team.


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As someone with ADHD who has trouble being tidy for 2 days and has a load of bad childhood experiences due to being messy, believe me, the prospect of cleaning my room did not excite me. But hey, as JP says, there’s nothing easy about anything worthwhile and if I can’t even clean my damn room, there’s really no hope for me. It’s going to be a Sisyphean effort, I thought, resentfully, with gritted teeth. So being the master procrastinator that I was, I cast about for shortcuts and hacks, and found KonMari. And like most self help books, she promises lasting change (and I’m not saying all of these books are lying. Reading that in every book just makes you a bit cynical, that’s all). Whatever. If there’s some method out there to promises to make tidiness a bit less like pulling teeth, I’m giving it a shot.
2. To do so, categorize our belongings and sort through them one category at a time. Trust your feelings. Keep only those that you really like (Spark Joy).
3. It’s going to be hard, but it hurts a lot less than we think it’s going to, after it’s done. We won’t miss most of our stuff. Not at all.
It actually does make life easier. For one, you know where everything belongs. But what if you can’t remember? Labeling.
I’m not the world’s neatest person still, but I know that if I ever want my room to be neat and pleasant to spend time in, making it happen is almost as easy as snapping a finger. Cleaning my room no longer induces stress and horror, and as a result, I just… do it. Maintenance is, of course, required. Life is suffering and resting on your laurels is asking for trouble, but for the price of less than 15 minutes a day of putting stuff where they belong, your room can be sparkly.
Not at all, actually. Your mileage may vary on this one, but after taking the plunge, I don’t even remember what I got rid of. That’s how much I didn’t need them.
I thought long and hard about why that is. Do we anthropomorphize our objects? I think we do. And when I throw away my stuff, especially if I bought them unthinkingly and they have been left unused for years, I do feel I owe them something. An apology perhaps. Especially if the object I’m getting rid of is a stuffed animal. I actually have this strange feeling that they’re alive somehow, and Kondo gets it. She recommends covering their eyes. That idea still makes me clam up as somebody who is completely defenseless against cute things. So in conclusion, do it if you must. It’s really not as strange as it sounds.
How long did it take? How much effort was it?
During the process, my room was occasionally a mess. A real mess. And that’s a downside I just had to live with. But she advocates doing it as fast as possible, whenever you can spare time, and I can see why; you just lose steam if you drag it out. For me, it was relatively easy because I only had to take care of my room. I can’t comment on how it will be for you, but I don’t regret it at all.


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The biggest drawback to the homegroup seems to be its scalability. My guess is you'd saturate your networking infrastructure when you use more than ten client computers in a workgroup. The synchronization traffic would definitely be huge, unless Microsoft uses torrent technology to seed the data and Block level synchronization technology like DFS-R.
Another drawback would be power consumption. To benefit from distributed data, the data first needs to be distributed. Two machines in each homegroup need to be turned on and connected to the network for data flow.
Active Directory can be used in conjunction with Identity Lifecycle Managers the most commonly used implementation of Active Directory.
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Fox News reports a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck in remote western Nevada early Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Service, shaking people from Utah to California — and some pointing out it happened near Area 51.
The temblor was reported at 4:03 a.m. about 35 miles outside Tonopah, just east of the Sierra Nevada range. First recorded as a 6.4 earthquake, the USGS later upgraded it to a 6.5 magnitude.
The initial quake struck about 4.7 miles deep, the USGS said, and at least six sizable aftershocks were recorded shortly thereafter, including two with estimated magnitudes of 5.4. The USGS has advised that Nevada will continue to experience more earthquakes than usual as aftershocks continue throughout the day.
Initial reactions to the earthquake were largely humorous. Most people in the area were still asleep, meaning the earthquake woke them up.
A good number of reactions, though, noted the earthquake originated around the infamous Area 51, spurring a number of jokes that the earthquake was caused by aliens. In a year that has already included a pandemic, the threat of murder hornets and heightened hurricane activity, an Area 51 earthquake seemed to be fitting.
When you see a major #earthquake happened around Area 51 overnight pic.twitter.com/A9nAGmdD7K
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NEW YORK — Doc Rivers’ focus is on transforming the 76ers into NBA champions.
The new Sixers coach has a knack for focusing on what’s ahead and rarely looks back on accomplishments. But the 59-year-old Rivers reached the milestone that would put a smile on any coach’s face.
“You know it’s a great feeling,” Rivers said. “You know I don’t count, and it’s not why I coach. But it’s an honor and it tells you I had a lot of success. It also says I ha around me as well.”
Joel Embiid, Seth Curry, and Ben Simmons had big hands in helping Rivers get the victory.
Simmons finished with 15 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists, and 2 blocks. But his biggest accomplishment was his defensive effort on R.J. Barrett. The second-year guard, coming off a 26-point effort in the Knicks’ opener against Indiana, finished with 10 points on 2-for-15 shooting. He shot 11-for-15 against the Pacers.
But this night was about Rivers.
Rivers’ playing career spanned 13 years with Knicks, and San Antonio Spurs. But his love for what he’s doing has kept him in the business.
Looking forward, Rivers feels like he has a lot more to do.
Saturday night’s focus was on shaping a new road identity.
Excluding games in the NBA bubble, the Sixers had a disappointing 10-24 record on the road last season. They lost 10 of their final 11 road games before the NBA shutdown in March due to the pandemic.
On this night, the Knicks (0-2) weren’t expected to provide a lot of resistance.
Even if the Knicks were healthy, very few people — if any — expected them to beat the Sixers. That’s because one of the things Philly has mastered is beating New York. Saturday’s win marked their 13th straight victory over their Atlantic Division foe.
Now, Rivers is 98 victories shy of surpassing Rick Adelman (1,042) for ninth place all-time. That shouldn’t be a problem for Rivers, who inked a five-year deal with the Sixers. He will move ahead of Adelman and Larry Brown (1,098, eighth) over that time if he averages only 41 wins a year.
Don Nelson is No. 1 with 1,335 wins. Lenny Wilkens is second at 1,332. San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich, who took 1,278 into Saturday’s game against the Toronto Raptors, is third.
Popovich and Rivers are only active coaches in the Top 10.
Rivers’ most successful coaching accomplishment was leading the Celtics to the 2008 NBA title. But during his first season of coaching, the Magic made 47 transactions and had only one player ranked among the league’s Top 200 players, according to Sports Illustrated. That team finished 41-41, and Rivers was named coach of the year.
That was a successful season and an enjoyable one for the coach. So was the Clippers making the playoffs two years ago without any All-Stars.
But what he takes most from coaching are the relationships he’s built.
“From all the coaches that I’ve had, including one here,” he said of Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau, who was one of his Celtics assistants. “To all the players who are now coaching, like Ty Lue and Sam Cassell, sitting next to me, James Posey and[ESPN analyst] Kendrick Perkins.
“I have a lot of great guys around me, you know players and coaches. I’m just a lucky man that I’ve had those opportunities.”


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Senator Reed (who I’m beginning to suspect may not have read my letter) either has an understanding of Net Neutrality that’s so flawed as to be ironic, or, he is baldly promotingts dismantling — in direct opposition to the interests of his constituents.
Look, I have lots of respect for honest intellectual conservatism, and I understand and share the fear of giant, non-transparent governments. I’m no fan of fascism, authoritarianism, or really any kind of autocratic government that isn’t The Philosopher King’s Benevolent Monarchy. I believe the absolute freedom of the individual is our most fundamental modern right, and anything infringing on it requires overwhelmingly demonstrable proof of its necessity.
Protecting the freedom of corporations to restrict the freedom of our citizens is an irony of astounding myopia.
A free market REQUIRES REGULATION TO OPERATE. The game-theory incentives of a truly free market are for the top players to collude, force out competition, then drive up prices. ALL unrestricted markets devolve into MONOPOLY, ALWAYS. If you stand to benefit from that system, as Congressman Reed does, and your principles are only skin-deep, self-serving lip service, as Congressman Reed’s are, then hey, who cares?
But if you care about justice, or kindness, or the collective human trust that is placed in the hands of a public SERVANT, then you care.
As I’m sure you can tell, this is not just about New Neutrality. This is about an entire civilization’s tipping point of no return. It’s about what we could be, versus what we are, and what we are becoming. Intere, and it isn’t the public; worse, they see the public as something bovine, undeserving of empathy, something to harvest. But as that public growsit’s possible the day of their disgrace is coming. For their sake, for all our sake’s, if tForgive me my malice, Mr. Reed, but on the off-chance this does make it to your desk, I hope you choke on your next ill-gotten check as it’s crammed down your insatiable, still-slurping throat. The choking would not stop the slurping, I’m sure.
But for you, Intern, all I can say is question everything. Nobody has a premium on absolute truth, not your boss, not your boss’ boss, and certainly not me. It’s up to you to bring the servant back to public servant. Someone has to be the seed. If the corporations aren’t pried off the head of our democracy soon, they will devour the host; and this 200-year experiment of by the people, for the people, will fall finally to its ruin. If you aspire to a place of rulership in the new aristocracy of that old world order, then goodbye sweet Intern, and God save your soul.
But if you aspire to a better world, one constructed in the very face of the supra-national powers that rule us — If you aspire to preserving and fulfilling the promises of actual freedom and self-government made at the signing of our incredible constitution, well, you have my email address.
I’ll be here, swallowing my vomit, husbanding the last of my compassion, cupping my calloused hands around the flickering, fading light that was the birth of this beautiful republic.


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Gary Bracken: Nice to see ‘Big Boy’ admired in Greeley
Opinion | December 1, 2019
I have had two personal experiences with the Big Boypent the summer of 1953 in Cheyenne, Wyo., working at the Union Pacific Round House and shops.
As a union member your name went onto the extra board so whenever extra help was needed at the shop from time to time, if your name was at the top of the list, you would be called in for an extra shift and time and a half pay.
One afternoon, I was called to go in at midnight and work as an extra until 8 a.m. I reported for work, was introduced to the skilled man I was to work as a helper for, and he asked me if I had ever worked at whatever job we were to do that night.
Then he said, “Sit here until I come back to get you and don’t let anyone take this engine while I’m gone.” At five minutes to 8:00 a.m., he returned and climbed up into the cab and looked around.
Welcome back, Big Boy!
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From day one, it's prudent to care for your skin. Obviously this is the responsibility of your parents for several years, and then it's passed on to you. If I could go back to about age 13, I would start taking better care of my skin early on. I didn't begin until I hit age 18. Fortunately I was never afflicted with bad acne or rosacea. These skin conditions can really take a toll on your complexion. So, how is your mug treating you these days? Or what I should be asking is how are you treating your mug? With care and patience I hope. For those who have had skin conditions in the past, there is contemporary laser skin treatment to better your situation. Are you ready for some resurfacing?
We are very luck in this day and age. There are so many treatments, therapies and remedies at our disposal. If you've got the extra cash, you can get a little pampering. Modern-day laser skin treatment is a primary example of this. This is one of several different ways you can improve your skin's texture. Does it sound like a procedure you may be interested in? All it takes is a trip to the dermatologist. With laser skin treatment, a laser light is used to heal and smooth out problem areas. The difference is astonishing. This goes the same for other new-age treatments such as microderm abrasion and chemical peels. It's imperative to converse with your local dermatologist regarding each of these options, prior to treatment. Maybe the one you're considering is not truly the one you need. Let a professional offer his/her opinion on the matter.
Some of the current facial resurfacing procedures are not as pricey as you may think. With laser skin treatment, you will have to find out what the local rates are. However, in my experience, microderm abrasion commonly runs between 100 and 125 dollars per treatment. This is certainly one of the most highly recommended facial treatments now days. It's virtually safe and has no after effects. You can literally walk out of the clinic or spa looking refreshed and amazing. It's time you took great care of your complexion. You only get one!


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As Peduto pointed out, this is not merely "Pittsburgh is probably the poster child of what the Paris agreement could mean to areas struggling economically," Peduto said, citing how Pittsburgh's ability to evolve with new technologies rather than depending on old economic models had been pivotal to the city's economic renaissance.
Pittsburgh, not Paris? Mayor of Pittsburgh says today he'll sign an executive order to follow climate agreement. Watch via @hardball: pic.twitter.com/BEfZuVVuey
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If I don’t post to my blog today, I will have only have done so twice this year, back in January. I’ve done a fair amount of writing this year, for myself and some for pay, but I’ve not posted to my blog with any regularity.
Parenthood. At best, it’s magical. At worst, it’s an exhausting drag. Blogging about it can make one look like an ungrateful ass. “Today little Jimmy had a tantrum in the store.” How many times can I write about what a jerk my kid can be without me looking like the jerk in question? Are we allowed to call our kids jerks? If not, why? I also refer to him as a “precious gift from heaven.”
This fall brought some new material. My son, who is not named Jimmy, started kindergarten and with that new adventure has come more material for Papa to use in his writing. If only Papa would sit down and crank out a few essays, or even a few paragraphs.
I’ve decided to use this space for writing that is not always dedicated to parenting. Under the banner of “Papa Says So” I intend to broaden the scope a little and include writing and topics that might fall outside the purview of papa-ness while still entertaining “all y’all”.
Writers write. That’s what I’m going to do. Follow along if you’d like. </s> Welcome to the home of the Patchwork Sheep
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Hiking From Mexico to Canada in Ongoing Journey Back to Good Health
Home/The Big Play/Floor began smoking weed and using alcohol early on in high school. Then he started using mushrooms, ecstasy, and pain pills to get the high he wanted. By 17 years old, he was taking pain pills on a daily basis. He came to find that using pain pills everyday was expensive, so he switched to heroine. He smoked heroine for three years and then he began injecting it. Shortly after that, he reported that he started to shoot speed balls, which is a mixture of coke and heroine.
“When I started shooting heroine, my life went into an out of control tailspin,” Floor said. “I had no grasp of reality. I hopped on a Greyhound bus to Las Vegas, and I was homeless for three months. I was panhandling. I literally slept under a bridge on a sidewalk. I looked like a homeless bum. I ate out of trashcans. I searched through the trash trying to find anything of value. It was just a miserable, miserable existence. Eventually, I got a bus ticket home and then I was homeless in Salt Lake for another two months by choice. I had a home I could go back to, but my parents were putting a cramp in my using, so I couldn’t really go home.”
Floor said that his parents and his two sisters took much of the blows that came from his drug habit.
“Honestly, I put my family through more than I put myself through just because I was numbed out pretty much 90% of the day,” Floor said. “They were the ones that really suffered through it all.”
After the Floor’s realized what was going on, it didn’t exactly get easier.
“It made our family feel alone and secluded from the world becausethis, when in all reality, many other families were experiencing the same burdens,” Stephanie said.
(L to R: Andrew, Chris, Kathy, Stephanie, and Alexis)
“It was almost like a spiritual experience. I was able to see my life from a third person perspective,” Andrew said. “The next day, I asked my parents for help, and I was in detox that same day on the long road to treatment and relapses, and more treatment and more relapses.”
During one of his stays in rehab, Andrew was taking a smoke break in between group sessions.
“I was talking with this guy who told me that his buddy walked from Mexico to Canada one summer,” Andrew said. “I was like ‘Woah, woah, woah! What did you just say? Somebody just walked from Mexico to Canada?’ He started telling me about it, and I didn’t even know that there was a trail and people did that. At that time in my life, I was so down on myself. I needed something to kind of latch onto. It was just a really depressing time of my life. I needed something to keep me going, and that was it. There was no real logic behind it. I was just like, ‘I have to do that.'”
Floor set off on the Pacific Crest Trail last April to travel the 2,680 miles on foot. It took him five months and 10 days to travel from Mexico to Canada, going though California, Oregon, and Washington.
“There’s so much going on inside your head,” Andrew said. “You’re literally hiking from sunup until sundown. There’s only so much you can talk about in that time. A lot of the time, it’s just you and yourself. It’s broken up by the occasional spectacular view or feeling of accomplishment, but there’s lots going through your head like relationships back home and wondering about what you’re going to do when you get done.”
“Me and my buddy I started with, we’d get on the subject of family or something,” Andrew said. “One day I was talking about my parents and he was talking about his parents. We got on the subject of money. He was talking about how he owed his parents some money, and I was like ‘Dude, if I count up all the treatment that I’ve been to, I’m in the hundreds of thousands of dollar range. There’s no way I’m going to be able to pay my parents back for that.'”
“When you’re out there with that amount of physical exertion everyday on top of being mentally exhausted, it brings deep emotions to the surface,” Andrew said. “I was feeling so much guilt and shame. We just stopped and made camp right there for that night because I just started sobbing. I’m so grateful right now. My parents extended their working careers by years. They used their 401k to put me through treatment, really. That hit me really hard. I called my parents and I talked to them. They eventually told me, ‘Well, we’ve done exactly what we wanted. We paid to get our son back, and now we have him, and that’s all we could ever hope for.'”
Andrew drew several parallels between his rehab journey and his adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail.
“First of all, it reminded me of how resourceful I am, and I’m super resilient,” Andrew said. “I don’t need hardly anything at all to survive. Really what it comes down to is food, water, and shelter. The rest of the stuff is really just a luxury. I also learned in my recovery to live one day at a time, live 24 hours at a time. When I started hiking, I was really forced to live that. It’s hard to live that way. When you’re hiking that far, it’s really detrimental to even think of the next week because that’s a long ways just like it is in your journey through sobriety.”
The parallels didn’t stop there.
“He mentioned to us that there were times while he was hiking that he would hike up a mountain and come to a ridge and look out into the valley and it gave him a “high” like he would have with drugs,” Stephanie said. “He realized drugs aren’t the only way that can make him feel the euphoria the drugs gave him, which gives him hope for the future…He seems to know himself, which will help when he has a craving or a depressing moment. He will know how to deal with it naturally versus with drugs. I believe this is the key with addicts. ”
“It looked like a human footprint, but it was pretty big,” Andrew said. “At least a size 16. It was in the middle of nowhere. It was like 35 miles to the town ahead of us and about 45 miles to the town behind us. It’s a barefoot footprint. I was so cold that I had every piece of clothing on me from my backpack and I was still freezing. I just don’t see how anybody could have been running barefoot. It’s hard to say what it was, but it is Bigfoot Country, you know?”
Once Andrew finished his hike, he appreciated the accomplishment and his family noticed changes in him, but he was also in search of more.
“The changes I saw in Andrew when he came home were very obvious,” Stephanie said. “At first he had a very hard time integrating back into society and normal life around humans versus nature. He said being in a large crowd made him nervous. Once he was able to return back to normal every day interactions, he was much more grounded and level headed…When he came back he was in a mind set that he didn’t even need modern day luxury’s such as electricity and running water. He seemed more at peace with himself.”
This week, Andrew will set off to hiIt will be another five to six month adventure.
“Right now, I’m stressing out about just getting to the trailhead because I had this brilliant idea to hitchhike to the trail,” Andrew said. “It sounded really cool when I first came up with the idea, but now it’s coming down to the wire, and I’m worrying about it.”
Once Andrew gets to the trailhead it will once again be about finding that pocket of comfort in discomfort.
“I think the hardest part about this trail is the distance between towns is a lot shorter, so if you choose, you can go into towns every two days,” Andrew said. “That actually is hard because it takes you out of the mindset. You go into town and get even a soda pop and enjoy the luxuries of civilization. It’s just easier to stay out on the trial to stay in the mindset.”
“There’s so much satisfaction that comes out of being 100% self-sufficient,” Andrew said. “Everything you need is on your back. For me, being satisfied is kind of important. Honestly, if I was miserable day after day, I would probably start using again. I didn’t get sober to hate life.”
“One of the best summers I’ve had in my whole life is hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. I’m kind of addicted to it. I met so many cool people and have so many cool stories. I fall asleep at night thinking about it.”
“Now years later and lots of therapy sessions, it ,” Stephanie said. “We were forced to talk about problems and issues that we would have just brushed under the rug. The experience was traumatizing, yet it made us all stronger and able to deal with problems in a more rational and level headed way, and we all have the tools we need to deal with this IF it ever happens again. They say that an addict is never recovered, but always in recovery.”
Andrew is taking the necessary steps, both literally and figuratively, one day at a time to get to know himself better and understand his worth. He’s traveling trails that have been pounded for years, but he’s blazing his own trail in his own life, and doing it drug-free. That’s the best luxury right there.
By Kim Constantinesco|2014-03-31T07:15:15+00:00March 31st, 2014|The Big Play|0 Comments
Rumble on the Runway: lacrosse on an active U.S. Marine base


Daniel Seavey Questions Idol Fan Save In American Idol Elimination By: Matthew Boyer | April 6, 2015 at 3:15 PM EDT
That said, Seavey felt the new voting system was a “good test run.”
“I think the fan save is a good idea. It gives a second chance [for the two singers] to prove themselves, and America can show who they really like. It needs a little work, but it’s a good start.”
What do you think? Is the Fan Save a good idea? Did Daniel’s chances on American Idol fall victim to this new twist?


Years ago, when he lived in Italy, he visited the same forest between Ravenna and the Adriatic coastline where a century and a half before Byron and Teresa used to go riding. Somewhere among the trees must be the spot where the Englishman first lifted the skirts of his eighteen-year-old charmer, bride of another man, to find her warmth, willing, wet. He could fly to Venice tomorrow, catch a train to Ravenna, tramp along the old riding-trails, pass by the very place. He is inventing the music (or the music is inventing him) but he is not inventing the history. On those pine-needles Byron had his Teresa - 'timid as a gazelle,' he called her - rumpling her clothes, getting sand into her underwear (the horses standing by all the while, incurious), and from the occasion a passion was born that kept Teresa howling to the moon for the rest of her natural life in a fever that has set one David howling too, after his manner.
Teresa leads; page after page he follows. Then one day there emerges from the dark another voice, one he has not heard before, has not counted on hearing. From the words he knows it belongs to Byron's daughter Allegra; but from where inside him does it come? Why have you left me? Come and fetch me! calls Allegra. So hot, so hot, so hot! she complains in a rhythm of her own that cuts insistently across the voices of the lovers.
To the call of the inconvenient five-year-old there comes no answer. Unlovely, unloved, neglected by her famous father, she has been passed from hand to hand and finally given to the nuns to look after. So hot, so hot! she whines from the bed in the convent where she is dying of la mal'aria. Why have you forgotten me?
Why will her father not answer? Because he has had enough of life; because he would rather be back where he belongs, on death's other shore, sunk in his old sleep. My poor little baby! sings Byron, waveringly, unwillingly, too softly for her to hear. Seated in the shadows to one side, the trio of instrumentalists play the crablike motif, one line going up, the other down, that is Byron's.
'Lucy says you are back in town. Why haven't you been in touch?'
'I do not wish to talk to you. Do not call here again.' and with that he hangs up. Punishment enough ? Perhaps. Go, live with Lucy, let me be. He is not in the mood to entertain the hollow pretense of the heady, intelligently, ellaborately stupid woman. Let others teach her, if they wish, he's well and truly done. But has he ever tried ? He does not care if he did. Whatever it was that he had done, sufficient or otherwise, is what he's done. If it was not enough -- that's fine. There is not another portion, neither in the offering nor in the making. Rosalind is, practically speaking, dead. At least as far as he's concerned.
In her white nightdress Teresa stands at the bedroom window. Her eyes are closed. It is the darkest hour of the night: she breathes deeply, breathing in the rustle of the wind, the belling of the bullfrogs. 'Che vuol dir,' she sings, her voice barely above a whisper - 'Che vuol dir questa solitudine immensa? Edio,' she sings - 'che Sono?'
Silence. The solitudine immensa offers no reply. Even the trio in the corner are quiet as dormice. 'Come!' she whispers. 'Come to me, I plead, my Byron!' She opens her arms wide, embracing the darkness, embracing what it will bring. She wants him to come on the wind, to wrap himself around her, to bury his face in that sweet hollow between her breasts. Alternatively she wants him to arrive on the dawn, to appear on the horizon as a sun-god casting the glow of his warmth upon her. By any means at all she wants him back. Sitting at the piano he harkens to the sad, swooping curve of Teresa's plea as she confronts the darkness. This is a bad time of the month for Teresa, she is sore, she has not slept a wink, she is haggard with longing. She wants to be rescued --from the pain, from the summer heat, from the Villa Gamba, from her father's bad temper, from everything.
Yet despite occasional good moments, the truth is that Byron in Italy is going nowhere. There is no action, no development, just a long, halting cantilena hurled by Teresa into the empty air, punctuated now and then with groans and sighs from Byron offstage. The husband and the rival mistress are forgotten, might as well not exist. The lyric impulse in him may not be dead, but after decades of starvation it can crawl forth from its cave only pinched, stunted, deformed. He has not the musical resources, the resources of energy, to raise Byron in Italy off the monotonous track on which it has been running since the start. It has become the kind of work a sleepwalker might write.
He sighs. It would have been nice to be returned triumphant to humanity, the author of an eccentric little chamber opera. But that will not be. His hopes must be more temperate. He goes out, finally, for the first time since his return. Out to a dating bar, the sort of place where present-day, living Teresa would go, to find herself... a partner, maybe, for the night. A partner in crime, a Byron on the cheap. He pays for a drink he does not finish, can't force himself to sit through. Out the door he breathes in, hungrily, the free night air. He wanders around town, following unawaredly a large U-shaped pattern around the campus.
Eventually he's tired ; he doesn't want to admit it, but he is. He slumps his body on a bench, seating halfway, and at that moment, just as he's sitting he sees her. Blonde, hair in a tail bobbing to and fro. Well rounded rump, strong thighs. A pretty, a proud and pretty young Dutch girl. She's jogging, she's keeping her body in shape, keeping herself in shape. She goes around in the distance, and then comes close and passes him by.
A strange familiarity, evoked in his memory maybe by her scent ? Maybe the movement, a line in her step, something about this girl reminds him of something, long forgotten, something from his past. As he's wallowing on the pond of reminescence, vaguely, disinterestedly fishing in, feeling around without much eagerness for whatever old, disused, undesired boot might come back hooked on the line, she turns, still jogging. A comedic little run, purposefuly, directly towards him. Once two paces off she stops, and smiles.
"Hello" he offers, neutrally. Has anyone yet been mugged by a jogging adolescent girl ?
"Are you the Professor ? David Lurie ?"
"I'm not a professor now, anymore."
"You don't remember me, do you ?"
"I was in your class. Also I tried to interview you."
"I was there, too, but couldn't make it through to really talk to you."
"There was a little crowd, wasn't there."
"You said you were enriched."
He looks at her, blankly. What a way to go, sparing non-verbally with the 2nd echelon WARchivists. Does she have a baton somewhere ? Spirits and a match, maybe ? Where'd all that be, she's a creature of spandex, her outer skin clings desperately on the skin beneath, where could she possibly hide a baton ? Up her ass, maybe. That'd still look somewhat penile... he checks, there's nothing there, his eyes perceive nothing asked of the elastic besides what a girl's pubis might in fairness demand.
"I didn't understand it, at first. Then I had to look it up."
"I've read all your materials, too, since then. About the poets. And..."
He looks up at her, incredulous. What is this girl gibbering about ? "What is your name ?" he inquires, blandly, trying to somehow make heads or tails, maybe perhaps take back some measure of control over the situation.
"I'm Amanda." she proffers, joyously, almost giggling in excitement. The professor asked her a question, and she knew the answer! The professor gave her a way out of awkwardness, past the ellipsis, something to talk about.
"Nice to meet you, Amanda." he retorts, neutrally.
"I... I..." she attempts, blushing by degrees. "How are you getting along, sir ?" she inquires, her face almost scarlet red, her voice transcribing a meekness of such superlative degree he can't summon to memory its equal, or a contender, even.
"More or less. I was away, visiting family for a few months. Now that I'm back I see life's been carrying on, taking care of itself without me. They've hired some intolerable young snot to go through the motions of sitting at my desk ; they broke into my house, took all the supermarket fare, the worthless stuff, packaged foods, electronics... the rural thieves of East Cape took my books along with the consumabilia at least ; but then again those were already in the car. A pigeon at some point got lost inside, and passed on, by itself, in my sink."
She follows him, fascinated, eyes bulging and opening wider by degrees, as he speaks. She swallows, hard, a big thick knot in her throat. 'I'd like to... Can I come clean it up for you ?'
He walks back to his place with Amanda. He's pretty sure now she was in Melani's class. He somewhat less vaguely remembers her ; more of a woman than "his little upstart", back then, certainly now. About as quiet, about as... Much scarier, truly, which is ultimately, if he dare be honest, a large part of the reason he didn't serve Eros upon her. He could have picked either one, why that one and not this one ? He feared this one ; he still, in some sense, in some corner does. "Take off your clothes. You'll shower when you're done."
His words fall definite, absolute. He speaks without turning, he's headed for the cleanning supplies. Behind he hears the rustle of compliance. As he returns and confronts the nude girl, bolted in place, he can't shake the image of Lucy. Ankle socks, the differentiator between town and country ; his own daughter, naked, much heavier, but the same skin. The same bones. She quietly, with eyes downcast, takes the things from his hands and scurries about. He sits in his favoured armchair, looking through things, past things. Thinking. He's not writing a book, he's not working for his class tomorrow, not trying to summon arias or arguments. No more Gordian knots of cognition, great mysteries framed s'as to be found out. His erstwhile life of the mind, meanwhile absorbed in a minding of life. "Where action ceases, thought's impertinent..."
The water runs, and then it's done. Amanda emerges from the light in the bathroom into the darkness of the livingroom. She's dripping wet, her figure cut out of light into the dark around, glistening. She closes the distance in a panther sprint, and the next moment she's cuddling herself in his arms, liquid. He grabs her by the hairs on the back of her head and kisses her ; soon he's bulging painfully and they have to rearrange, to reconfigure themselves toward his accommodation. She has a place prepared, she has a place ready for just such an occasion, and he takes his room in her, of her, comfortably. With slight movements of her strong hips she caresses him inside of her, slowly, delicately. He loves feeling the muscles underneath tense and do their work, precise, deadly. He rests his arms about her neck, left palm wrapped around to the left. His left, her right, left thumb touching under her chin, where life springs, pulsing on his fingertip. His right palm wrapped around the right that is her left, his right thumb on the pulsing vein that is her life. Her life, still.
He proceeds to squeeze, by degrees. Slowly, delicately, deadly like her hips. She breathes heavy at first, moving stiffer, then she puts her hands on his wrists, not in opposition, more in nude, meek display. "Here are my hands" she doesn't but as well might say, "Resting on yours ; do as you will." He whispers in her ear, toridly, heavily, in resounding sybillants "Shhh... passss out. Tassste the water... let it washhhh over you... The dark water, of your death."
Her movements are now jerky, desperate. Her breath, once bated, is now stopped altogether. He squeezes still. She gives a little, barely audible, barely perceptible whimper. She's resigned. To him it's deeply reminiscent of the dogs. Familiar, now. Familiar, in the family way. He, who for a while was the dog's psychopomp, their undertaker, the harijan. He. Once David the boy, for many, many endless years David the boy. But then, the dog man, and now simply the man. By his experience with the dying dogs slowly chiseled, perfected, completed, David the man. Of the tiny motes of their canine honor, that even as he protected, awkwardly, as best he could, following a barely understood strain of deep need deeply inside, yet wholly and fully, lovingly were protecting him, rounding him. The gift of dogs, boyhood's oldest, truest, and these days only friend. Of their muddy, animal souls, too heavy, unbuoyant, nevertheless lightnening his. Of their negligible, imperceptible honor rounding his. David, a man of honor now, impervious to death, ready to kill.
He spends his rich, royal gifts inside her, generously spreading, coating her womb, coating the still present womb of the recently, momentarily departed. She isn't here, now. He is alone. As he does also he lightens the grip on her throat. He watches the rose rushing to return into her pallid cheek. Her heart beat, more effectual, more far reaching than before. A little nothing, a pretty head again reunited with its pulse from before. She'll open her eyes in a moment, questioning, horrified. He'll coo and comfort her, in a woment. Usher the little girl into womanhood, like it's been done so many times on the endless face of endless earth, like he's so recently learned to do. Another girl dead, another woman born, the great flywheel flies on.
"You're mine, now" he says, looking down at her. A prisoner, released for now, her life still his, to snuff out when he please.
"Yes I am." she whispers, with her heart, as for the rest of her life she yet will.
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The original ending, as penned in 2016, read
He sighs. It would have been nice to be returned triumphant to humanity, the author of an eccentric little chamber opera. But that will not be. His hopes must be more temperate: that somewhere from amidst the welter of sound there will dart up, like a bird, a single authentic note of immortal longing. As for recognizing it, he will leave that to the scholars of the future, if there are still scholars by then. The proposition seems altogether dubious. In any case he does not trust he will hear the note himself, when it comes, if it comes. He knows too much about art and the ways of art to expect that. Though it would have been nice for Lucy to hear proof in her lifetime, and think a little better of him.
Why does he think Lucy would think better of him ? Stale thoughts of a stale past, a stifling way of life that has destroyed his heart, eaten his soul ; that has destroyed itself, ruined its own future, eaten itself like a mythical snake. Banishing Rosalind, putting Elaine in her place, or rather graciously allowing herself to make the first, late baby steps towards putting herself in her place, none of that is enough, not nearly enough to repay, to reconcile, to redeem, to somehow reconstruct twenty six centuries of impudent girlhood permitted, unconscionably, to run amok. The damage can not be fixed. A lone flower does not make a spring, a lone woman scattered here and there on the endless plain does not make a new world.
Poor Teresa! Poor aching girl! He has brought her back from the grave, promised her another life, and now he is failing her. He hopes she will find it in her heart to forgive him.
It was no good.
In fact if one's willing to take the time and think about it, the change was unavoidable. Even back then I knew, I see now reviewing notes, that the last chapter is half-length, and the ending much too weak.
Good thing Amanda had me pick this up again.
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