By Gwenyfar Rohler
“So this has been a labor of love. We have been trying to do this show on the Main Stage for a while,” Kevin Lee-Y Green, the co-founder and artistic director of Techmoja Dance and Theater Company, notes.
He is talking about Dreamgirls, the 1981 musical by Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen and his efforts to bring it to Thalian Hall. In many ways, it is has become Techmoja’s signature show or anniversary show. Green points out that it was the first show Techmoja produced as a theater company, and they celebrated their five-year anniversary with another production of it, both at the Hannah Block Community Arts Center Second Street Stage.
“That used to be Techmoja’s home as far as theatrical productions,” Green observes. His mother and Techmoja’s co-founder, the late Donna Joyner Green, managed the Hannah Block Community Arts Center with Thalian Association for many years. But she and Kevin both dreamed of bringing Dreamgirls to the Main Stage of Thalian Hall.
“Even back to when my mother was alive and with us, we have been trying to do it on the Main Stage for a while,” he says. Last year was the 10th anniversary of Techmoja, and Green hoped to celebrate the occasion with the long- awaited show on the Main Stage. However, getting coveted dates at Thalian Hall is easier said than done.
“But this go-round we finally got in there, and our goal is to celebrate — it would have been our 10-year anniversary if we were able to do it last year, but this will be 11 years that the company has existed on the theater end,” says Green. “The dance end, we actually were in existence two years prior to that.”
There are very few people in the world as fortunate as Kevin Lee-Y Green when it comes to having family support for their dreams. His interest in the arts began at an early age. “I started from watching different dancers on television and mimicking what I saw,” he recalls. With a laugh he admits that Saved By The Bell figured heavily into this. But it was really the “popcorn parties” that his mother helped him put together that held the key to his future.
“I started writing shows at the age of 5, and I would cast the children in my neighborhood,” says Green. “The way I would persuade them to be involved was I would throw popcorn parties. The kids would come and sit at picnic tables and we would do a read-through and then we would stage the show.”
Not long after that, an audition opportunity for Thalian Association Children’s Theatre in Wilmington was spotted. The Greens were living in Bolivia, North Carolina, but made arrangements to commute into Wilmington for Kevin’s rehearsals. The show was Babes in Toyland.
“Michelle Reiff cast me as Little Boy Blue. From that moment on I was constantly coming over here. I was still writing my shows,” Green says. “Then I was doing all these musicals and the thing I realized I loved the most was the dancing, the choreography. So I took classes on and off with Judy Greenhut at Theatre Dance Workshop.”
All the while, the Greens arranged life to make sure Kevin was supported and transported to a never-ending roster of rehearsals and classes. When he was accepted to the dance program at the North Carolina School of the Arts, while everyone who knew him and his family was proud, no one was surprised: He had talent, commitment, and a support network that came together to make his dreams possible. But it was after he graduated and found himself contemplating the next step that the real grace of his parents’ love became manifest to him.
The Greens realized they had a talented young son with a degree in dance on their hands. Many of his classmates were heading off to New York to pursue their careers there. But both Donna and Kevin’s father would face major health problems in the next few years.
“I don’t know. There are people who don’t feel that they owe their parents, that they have obligation to them. But that’s not how I was raised,” Green says. Clearly, the Greens had sacrificed and made major efforts to support their son’s dreams. When he chose to come home, they had one more surprise awaiting him: “You should call it Techmoja,” his father suggested as the name for the new dance and theater company. “Because it’s a combination of what you do: TECHnique, MOdern, and JAzz.” So Donna and Kevin launched Techmoja.
Interviewing a dancer/choreographer is a tough assignment. By nature they communicate most effectively visually, and verbal communication is a second language to them. Perhaps the best example I can give is that Green choreographed and danced his eulogy for his mother at her funeral. That was the most genuine and complete way he could honor her memory.
As Green noted earlier, they began Techmoja with dance productions. Many Wilmington audience members have seen his dance and choreography work at Dance-a-Lorus, the live dance and film collaborative event held every year as part of the Cucalorus Film Festival. His dance and choreography work has also been presented at the NC Dance Festival in Greensboro, Dixon Place in New York City, and this past year Techmoja was a finalist for a grant from the National Dance Project (NDP). One-hundred-and-seventy proposals were considered for 2019, and 36 were selected to go on to the final round. Twenty projects were ultimately chosen to receive funding. The NDP further noted finalists who were not selected for the full funding still received $1,000.
Green’s proposal centered around the development of a work called “Quiet As It’s Kept. ”
“It is about historical sexual trauma through the lens of Southern blackness,” Green says. While he continues to work on the development of that piece, he also teaches at DREAMS of Wilmington, the after-school and summer arts education program for kids in our community. “I am also the choreographer for the West Brunswick High School show choir,” Green grins. “I started the show choir at my school — South Brunswick. I came back when I had breaks (from NCSA) and continued choreographing for the groups.”
The teacher he worked with at South Brunswick retired, and in the meantime the program had expanded to West Brunswick. “We’ve competed at the state level. The highest they’ve gotten so far is second place by three-tenths of a point.” Green shakes his head. He also teaches private dance classes, and somehow the pieces have come together for him: “I’ve been able to make a living off that.” Yet he still finds time and funding for the passion projects.
This year his work at Dance-a-Lorus, “Sin papeles/Without Papers,” received a standing ovation. “I remember this summer seeing . . . about a little girl and her father trying to cross the border and drowning. I remember that affected me very much, and I wanted to do something about it or say something about it, ” Green recalls. “I was doing the DREAMS summer camp at the time. I created a version that was accessible to children.”
But the more he read about the border crisis and discussed it with people, it continued to turn over in his mind. “This is not my story, but I wanted to make sure that if I was going to tell it, it was authentic. That it was informed. We have so many times that stories are told that are not our own and are not informed, and then therefore they may not be authentic,” Green says. He brought in Yolanda House to consult on the Latina perspective of the story: “There was sand for the soloist at the beginning, because I felt sand was a very important element to put us in the mindset of what these people travel on, what they have to deal with, what they lay in . . . it was really helpful for the dancers: it took them to another place.”
That concern about authenticity in storytelling is important to Green as an artist and has been part of the guiding force for Techmoja from the beginning. Dreamgirls is a great example: The show is about three young women pursuing their dreams of singing professionally in the 1960s-’70s, and the exploitation of African-American artists in the industry. Parallels have been drawn between the script and the story of The Supremes.
“In Dreamgirls they take on the styles and the fashions that they think will help them cross over (to a white audience) and then they deal with people taking their work, culturally, and deal with people doing it through an unauthentic lens,” says Green. “I think the show is very much a part of me, and that’s why I take to it so much. This idea of people trying to belong somewhere and not feeling welcomed.”
He pauses, then adds: “It even gets to the point where it’s like he (the manager) replaces the lead singer because she’s not supermodel quality: She isn’t thin, she doesn’t have the lighter voice, she’s too soulful, she’s too African-American. So he goes with the lighter sound and the thinner body.
“I will admit that when I directed the show the first time, I was fresh out of college. There are some things that I might have been too young to understand and may not have experienced yet. It still turned out to be a great show. When we did it again in 2013, I started to notice things that I didn’t notice the first time. So coming back and doing it on the Main Stage, I will be able to do it the way I think it was supposed to be.”
Part of this production of Dreamgirls will include the unveiling of the Donna Joyner Green Scholarship of the Arts. “My mother was very much about getting kids to college or getting them to their next point in life,” Green says. “She was very good about helping the youth. She really took to misfits, the ones that everybody else was like, ‘I don’t know what else to do.’ She was like, ‘I know what to do.’ She had a very caring, genuine spirit. I want to create it for that reason. To get someone each year to the next stage of their life so they can be successful.”
This February, audiences are invited to watch the bumpy road to dreams coming true: While three young women learn the lessons of life and art, the man who has dedicated his life to pursuing those same dreams shyly notes, “The second Thursday performance is my birthday.”
What better way to celebrate a life lived for the art, than onstage? It will be a very special show that honors Donna Joyner Green’s memory with two of the most visible pieces of her legacy: her son Kevin Green and more than a decade of Techmoja’s success.
Gwenyfar Rohler spends her days managing her family’s bookstore, Old Books on Front Street, in downtown Wilmington.


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Yesterday I had the opportunity to see Benh Zeitlin’s recently released, acclaimed and excellent Beasts of the southern wild. The film follows the life of Hushpuppy, a six year-old girl, in The Bathtub, a fictional island based in Louisiana and subject to seasonal flooding. Here’s the trailer:
Since having recently watched again Taika Waititi’s Boy (2010), focussing on the life of an eleven year-old in east coast New Zealand in the eighties and unexpected the return of his dad, I was struck yesterday with the many similarities the two films shared. (Before I continue, note that this post will necessarily discuss important plot points, for which reason you may want to leave until you have seen both the films, but you could probably read it without having seen the films too). Here’s the trailer for Boy if you haven’t managed to get around to seeing it yet, which you most definitely unequivocally should:
Both films blend a generally realist approach with elements of childhood fantasy/perspective; both films contrast the failures of not-wholly-incompetent fathers and other men in the community with socially strong female characters; and both Boy and Hushpuppy more or less attempt to fill the parental role of responsibility and independence in society under the shadow of their fathers’ failures and mothers’ absences. In Boy we learn that Boy’s mother died in childbirth. Boy’s younger brother feels some responsibility for this, and the two go often to visit her in the cementary. The absence of Hushpuppy’s mother in Beasts is treated with a little more ambiguity. Hushpuppy’s father, Wink, tells her that her mother left their home some time ago.
Though in both films the mother is absent physically, an ideal form of her is present in the minds of her children and partners. Hushpuppy draws pictures of her mother and symbolises her with a basketball top from whom she receives motherly affirmations in conversation. Both Alamein (Boy’s father) and Wink recall their love for and the beauty of the mothers. Here the theme can be extended: The mother is absent, yet not only in relation to her children, but to her partner, as a companion.
Boy’s absence of mother and, to an extent, father is counteracted through his relation to his aunty (whom he sees as a kind of hero in driving the school bus, acting as postwoman for the town, and running a shop) and loving grandmother (on his father’s side) who takes care of Boy, his brother and some other children in the community. His aunty steps in to protect him when his father returns angry. A similar figure to the aunty in Beasts is Miss Bathsheba, a hardened island dweller who acts as a teacher for the children and demonstrates the seriousness of their situation, checking up on a neglected Wink, providing her medicine for her sick father, and independently confronting three men in the community for actions that could mean the end of them all. Contrast these figures with Alamein, who ostensibly returns to Boy and Rocky after so many years, but is actually in need of money, the two other members of his gang, Crazy horses, who can only be understood comically, along with the brief run-in with some angry pot dealers. In Beasts, Wink spends his time drinking, disappears for days at a time, directs bursts of anger toward his daughter and doesn’t allow her to cry.
A further contrast exists between the incompetency of male adults and the promise of male children. In Boy, though women effectively run the community, it is boys and young men that Alamein wants to recruit to his gang. They are seen as the ones with leadership potential, the ones who hold promise, but somehow something gets lost on the way there. In Beasts, Wink dresses his daughter as boys would be dressed in the community; uses words like ‘girl’, ‘sissy’ and ‘pussy’ pejoratively to steer her away from what the community understands as feminine; and enjoins her to arm wrestling, breaking crabs with her hands and refraining from crying. Masculinity holds promise in its childhood form but when males come of age in the communities, they flee from their roles and their female counterparts pick up the pieces.
The absent mother in these two films is an important theme in a society coming to terms with its patriarchal foundations and lack of gender equality. This is in no way an attempt at some ultra-conservative polemic against or undermining of an increasingly feminist society. But what if this is feminism inverted? The struggle is not opposed to feminism, but is in the same boat as an important gender issue. Masculinity has too become weakness. For example, consider the likes of male suicide rates (380 in 2010 against 142 female) and boys struggling in school (also). Yet go further. Is it taboo to say there is a masculine struggle not just in disproportionate suicides and education performance but in cases where men are the cause of other struggles? The men in the films tend towards neglect, alcohol and drug abuse, and inconsistent emotional responses to their children. Surely something is not right if a large number of young men are ending their lives? Something is also not right then if men are neglecting their responsibilities to family. It remains important to consider the needs of the primary victims. However, in a sense, these fathers have also become victims, of the pressures of life and their own failures.

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The Toyota Prius hybrid-electric car has been available in Japan since late 1997, and in the U.S. since the middle of 2000; EV Rental Cars had planned to add them to their fleet for months, and finally got their first ones in December (there has apparently been strong demand, keeping ahead of supply, as there has also been for the Honda Insight hybrid). I finally made time to rent one for a test-drive on 5 February 2001; the car is dangerously fun!
As you can see, the Prius is almost exactly the same size and proportions as the Toyota Echo; I still have trouble telling them apart at a distance, though there are of course distinctive features (the converging lines in the hood, a slightly longer wheelbase) that can be seen even if the lettering on the rear is not visible. The engine is the same size, a 1.5-liter 4-cylinder, but it is tuned more for economy than power; nonetheless, the Prius has more total power available than the Echo because, unlike the Honda Insight, the electric motor in the Prius' hybrid drivetrain can produce a large fraction of the power of the gasoline engine! As I discussed in my driving report on the Insight, its small electric motor cannot drive the car by itself, but instead contributes regenerative braking (it can run as a generator to feed energy of motion back into the battery pack as the car slows down, rather than letting all that energy be wasted as heat in the brakes) and the ability for the gasoline engine to restart almost instantly. The Prius, by contrast, can run on electricity from its batteries alone, if demand is relatively light; I was able to accelerate to over 25 MPH (gently, and on a flat road!) without the gasoline engine needing to start up to provide power, and while cruising at 40 MPH (also on a flat stretch of road) the engine was again able to shut off and let the electric motor sustain motion.
Here's how you keep track of what's working and what's resting, since the shutdown and restart of the gasoline engine is very smooth and hard to notice unless you're stopped. This is a small (approximately 6" diagonal) touch-screen monitor built into the center of the dash; the arrows show where power is flowing. When this photo was taken, the car was stopped (of course, since I was both the driver and the photographer!) and the engine was turning the electric motor as a generator to "top off" the battery pack. Under light throttle, orange arrows showed power moving from the batteries to the wheels via the electric motor; under heavier acceleration, the engine would also feed power to the wheels. When the gasoline engine was driving the wheels, sometimes it would feed power to the electric motor to send to the wheels in addition to or instead of the power that was coming from the batteries, and sometimes it would send power back to the batteries by the route shown in the photo above. Then when the car slows down, the wheels feed a blue arrow of power to the electric motor, which recharges the batteries to provide regenerative braking. You can see why I said the car is "dangerously fun"--one could easily run off the road while watching the changing patterns on the monitor!
That's not the worst of it, though; in addition to controls for the audio system and (optionally) a GPS mapping system, the monitor also can display a history of fuel consumption for the last half hour, averaged over five-minute intervals. The "Current" MPG reading at the right is zero when the car is not moving, is off the top of the scale when the car is moving but the gasoline engine is off, and otherwise shows the fuel economy you're achieving moment by moment.Then it's averaged over five minutes, and displayed on the chart at the left; the little yellow "E" symbols show how much energy you've put back into the battery pack using regenerative braking. This chart analyzes my drive of 5.5 miles from work to my apartment, and adding up one whole and two half "E" symbols, each worth 50 watt-hours (Wh), it looks like I've saved 100 Wh (one tenth of a kilowatt-hour, or kWh) that would otherwise have been wasted to heat up the brakes. An efficient electric drivetrain can use 200 Wh, or even less, to go one mile; thus the amount of regenerated power shown here represents about half a mile out of my 5-mile trip, or about a 10% boost in fuel economy. This display is even more dangerous than the Energy Monitor screen above because of the video-game aspect: you want to keep an eye on it as you try to push those bars as high as you can, while collecting "Power-Ups" for using regenerative braking!
The EPA fuel economy rating of the Prius is 52 MPG city and 45 MPG highway; it has better city than highway fuel economy, unlike a conventional car, because its biggest power need is for shoving air out of the way, and this costs more fuel at higher speeds. In a conventional car, the inefficiency of the gasoline engine at low loads and while sitting at idle in city traffic wastes more than enough fuel to increase consumption in the city, even though air-resistance losses are smaller at low speeds. This is actually reflected in the graph above, in which I can trace out the pattern of my drive home. The first five minutes (from 25 minutes ago to 20 minutes ago) had low fuel economy because the gasoline engine stays on after a cold start, even when the car is stopped and the batteries don't need recharging, just so it can warm up. The second and third periods of five minutes were in stop-and-go traffic, exactly where this car is most efficient, so though the warm-up period of continuous engine-running extended into the second period, these two bars are much higher than the first. The fourth five-minute period was mostly steady cruising at 40 MPH, so fuel economy came down a bit as speed picked up (and I got little energy back from regenerative braking), and the last five-minute period saw me coasting down a couple of long hills to my apartment near the ocean, which pushed fuel consumption down and regenerative braking up (I earned a full "E" symbol in this period!). See what I mean about a video game? Don't let the low average fuel economy (35.2 MPG over 16 miles) put you off, by the way; this included three cold starts, plus my usual lunchtime demonstration of the vehicle to my co-workers, during which time I floored the accelerator a few times to demonstrate that, no, this is not an overgrown golf cart. During normal short-commuting use, with a cold start about every five miles, I got over 40 MPG; a longer commute in city traffic, with the vehicle warmed up, would probably result in figures closer to the EPA's 52 MPG.
So, is it worth it to get a $20,000 Prius with 52/45 MPG fuel economy instead of an Echo with 32/38 MPG economy for several thousand bucks less (with comparable options--of course, I don't know enough about the Echo to comment on ride, handling, fit and finish, etc.)? Well, gas prices have come down about ten cents a gallon since I shot a photo in March 2000 of the Insight under this same fuel-station sign, but they went up quite a bit before they came back down to what you see here, and the betting is that they will head up again when the "driving season" resumes this year. At this price for regular gasoline and with typical driving patterns, the EPA fuel economy website calculates that you'd save about $185 a year on gasoline by choosing the Prius--so it would take you over a couple of decades to pay off the MSRP difference with fuel savings. Of course, during that time you'd also be emitting about one and a half tons of carbon-dioxide less each year, contributing to U.S. energy security, and buying insurance against gasoline prices going up again; and over the next few years we can expect hybrid-electric vehicles to come down in price as production volumes rise (for example, Honda will begin offering the Insight drivetrain in their popular Civic line of cars in a year or so, and Ford will introduce the first hybrid-electric SUV in the 2003 model year), so the math will get better as time goes on. Those who (like me) are partial to pure battery-electric vehicles will also be grateful to you for the "trickle-down effect" as hybrid-electric vehicles bring volumes up and costs down for expensive, shared components like NiMH batteries and power-control electronics! So it's your choice; and hey, until a year ago you didn't even have the choice of a hybrid-electric car...
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Military Humvees with lasers capable of shooting down drones should be ready for field-testing by 2016, preparing for a new age of warfare where unmanned, remotely-controlled weapons platforms attack from the skies. The Ground-Based Air Defense Directed Energy On-the-Move program (GBAD) aims to equip US Marines with highly portable anti-drone weapon systems, significantly miniaturized versus the lasers the US Navy will test on battleships later this year.
The goal is a truck-mounted laser capable of at least 25kW output, with the likely power to be 30kW when the Office of Naval Research begins trials in a couple of years time. Its prediction is a rise in UAVs being used for covert surveillance and reconnaissance, or even drones that can launch their own unmanned offensive on ground-based troops.
It’s not the first time we’ve seen attempts at portable lasers, though the bulk generally involved has limited their availability. Back in 2009, Boeing modified one of its Laser Avenger systems and mounted it on a Humvee – shown above – demonstrating how it could acquire and track three small UAVs in front of a complex background of mountains and desert.
The Boeing laser also shot down one of the UAVs, from what the company described as an “operationally relevant range.”
Now, attention turns to making such systems practical, with the ONR awarding contracts to partners developing production versions of the technology. In addition to the core laser, that also means elements like the beam director, batteries to power it, along with radar, communications, and command and control.
“We’re confident we can bring together all of these pieces in a package that’s small enough to be carried on light tactical vehicles and powerful enough to counter these threats,” Brig. Gen. Kevin Killea, vice chief of naval research and commanding general at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, said of the scheme.
One such private sector partner is Raytheon, which will be supplying the laser for the weapon. Its planar waveguide (PWG) laser technology promises better efficiency and less beam scattering than other approaches, in a form-factor the size and shape of a 12-inch ruler.
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Lucknow may well become the new real estate capital of Uttar Pradesh under the Samajwadi Party’s rule in the state, a clear shift from Noida at present.
While Noida and Greater Noida, next to Delhi, had gained in prominence under Mayawati as the UP chief minister, Lucknow would get the same treatment now, experts said after the results to the five state elections were announced.
Many real estate players in the Noida region are a worried lot on Tuesay. Mega projects such as construction of the Formula 1 motor racing track were possible due to considerable political backing during the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) regime. However, farmers, caught in the recent land acquisition row in the same area are rejoicing after the UP election result.
Among the projects that could suffer a setback include the Greater Noida International Airport, large townships and the Ganga Expressway (linking one end of UP to another), say analysts. “During Mayawati’s time, Noida was the central point in Uttar Pradesh. With Mulayam Singh Yadav, the focus will now shift to Lucknow,” according to Anubhav Gupta, analyst, Kim Eng Securities, a global brokerage firm.
Another analyst, Sanjay Sharma of Qubrex, referred to industrialist Subrata Roy’s close associations with the SP. “They (Sahara) would gain. Sahara has Sahara City Homes in Lucknow and various places in Uttar Pradesh. They have acquired a lot of land in UP,” he said.
Even small developers in Lucknow are set to benefit, says Gupta.
The Jaypee Group, which enabled the Formula 1 race in India last year at a state-of-the-arts track, remained out of bounds on Tuesay from the time the news of the Samajwadi win started trickling in. Sameer Gaur, managing director and chief execuive officer of Jaypee Sports, could not be reached for comment. No other company official was available, either. The SP had demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the alleged partnership between Jaypee and Mayawati for the F1 track. The allegation was that the realty group was given farmers’ land at throwaway prices and exempted from entertainment tax. Gaur had clarified the company stand on the issue at that point.
While some analysts suggested Jaypee may face the SP heat now, others argued the group had projects under Mulayam Singh's earlier stint, too. Although the group got a boost during the Mayawati regime, its projects would continue to run, an analyst saidt. No Jaypee projects are likely to get cancelled, he added.
Acquisition of land may become difficult, said an analyst. The prices in Noida will come down, and ultimately in Gurgaon and Faridabad, too, according to Gupta.
There may be some ambiguity over the next three to six months as far as real estate is concerned, said a top representative at a real estate think tank. The equations will work out with the new government after the initial months.
Projects were also suspended during the transition from Mulayam Singh to Mayawati. “However the projects suspended by the Mayawati government were restored later,” pointed out an insider.
But farmers are a relieved lot, as Mulayam Singh Yadav had supported a better set of land acquisition rules. “Farmers will be dealt with better in terms of compensation. Yadav had said in February as well that on coming to power, his party would not allow forced acquisition of farmers' land,” said R R Singh, director general, National Real Estate Development Council.
“Mayawati had close proximity to the real estate players. She destroyed the farmers. Our lands were taken away from us and even till date, we have not got the compensation in terms of land”, said Balraj Yadav, farmer leader, Patwari village. He said they’d petitioned the Supreme Court, but were hopeful of the matter being resolved out of court during Mulayam Singh’s rule.
R K Arora, chairman of Supertech, the realty developer, told Business Standard he was hopeful of the SP working for development of the state. “The acquisition of land will continue with the change in government,” he said. He said he also hoped the master plan for NCR projects could be approved in March itself. The next meeting of the NCR Planning Board is scheduled for March 26.


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The Fourth never had a chance. He was only in the CEO seat for a short time and it seems every move he tried to make was blocked by his father who still resided on Budweiser’s board after his retirement from the CEO spot. The Prince of Beers looks at what happened to The Fourth after the sale of the company and the fall into nothingness from one of the best known icons in the country. This book is short and lacks the detail found in other books on the Busch family but being published more recently than the others, it shows where things have ended up now, years after the companies sale. A man that most believe has gotten away with 2 murders in his lifetime and had plenty of free passes thanks to a family fortune has been left with little to live for.
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The Topton Area Citizens Club was formed on Nov. 13, 1962 and on Nov. 13, 2012, they celebrated their 50th anniversary.
Included in this picture are the officers of the club and the entertainment committee. The club has about 50 members enrolled.
The club meetsevery Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Topton American Legion Hall. Anyone in the immediate area is welcome to attend.


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1. McAfee has had talks with Amazon and ESPN, in response to sources. For Amazon, it was for a wide range of specialty reveals together with “Thursday Evening Soccer.” With ESPN, there have been discussions about returning to “School GameDay.” McAfee instructed The Publish that he wouldn’t essentially rule out a future take care of Amazon or GameDay, however …
“I’ve had nice conversations with each corporations, we simply weren’t capable of get to a degree the place ‘the ask’ and ‘the enterprise’ have been the place it wanted to be to get a deal executed on each fronts,” McAfee stated. “My day by day present is my No. 1 focus.”
2. McAfee’s enterprise mannequin is completely aligned with fashionable media. The “Pat McAfee Present” has a direct-to-consumer platform via YouTube and social media. It has a paid audio take care of SiriusXM. McAfee is on broadcast TV with WWE’s “Friday Evening Smackdown” on Fox. Now he returns to cable, the place he has beforehand been on ESPN.


It must be muscle car day as this is the third one we have featured and the second special Chevrolet Camaro revealed by GM Performance Parts. This one is called the NeSmith Storm Camaro and was developed in cooperation with Georgia’s NeSmith Chevrolet dealer. It’s actually even more impressive than theHTR-SS454 Camaro featured earlier and we thought that was our dream Camaro. Oh how things can quickly change.
The new Storm Camaro replaces the original LS3 engine with Corvette ZR1 ’s LS9 engine. Packed in the ZR1, the LS9 engine developed a total of 638 HP, but in the Camaro the engine has been updated to deliver an impressive 700 HP (an amazing number if you take under consideration that the Camaro SS only produces 422 HP).
Next to this impressive power upgrade, the Storm Camaro also gets complementing drivetrain parts, including stronger axles and a Baer brake system featuring six-piston calipers, front and rear. And then there’s the obligatory black exterior color to match the incredible nature of the vehicle, plus the two while stripes as seen on the DeNooyer HT-SS454 Camaro from earlier. All we need now is the car’s price and we’ll be ready to place our order!
Press release after the jump.
While the DeNooyer 454-powered Camaro evokes memories of yesteryear, NeSmith’s LS9-powered “Storm” Camaro is pure modern performance, with the world-beating power of the Corvette ZR1 under the hood. It was created within the dealership’s in-house customization facility, NeSmith Customs, with assistance from nearby Jen Jac’s Restorations. NeSmith also happens to be the largest GMPP dealer in the country.
The LS9 is offered as a crate engine from GM Performance Parts (part number 19201990) and, because of its similar LS-family architecture to the Camaro’s original LS3 engine, easily slipped into the engine compartment – although some fabrication was necessary to accommodate the unique placement of some accessories, as well as the LS9’s dry sump-style oiling system. But when the installation was completed, the engine looked factory-installed. And with a few minor upgrades, the engine is producing about 700 horsepower.
Like the DeNooyer HTR-SS454, the NeSmith Storm Camaro matches its greater performance capability with complementing drivetrain parts, including stronger axles and a Baer brake system featuring six-piston calipers, front and rear.
NeSmith is offering the LS9-powered Storm Camaro as a special model through its dealership. More information is available from Steve Gordon: firstname.lastname@example.org or 912-739-5305.


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Good Morning, US stocks rose last night, after strong economic data boosted the housing sector and as investors bought recently battered shares in biotech and media. Housing stocks rose after data showed US homebuilder sentiment rose in August to its highest since a matching reading almost a decade ago. "Flat is the new up," Goldman Sachs says. The team of analysts led by David Kostin are telling clients that they still don't think the stock market will do much through the end of 2015. After delivering double-digit gains in recent years, Goldman doesn't expect the S&P 500 to go much of anywhere. Its outlook currently calls for an index at 2100 at the end of this year, up just barely from 2091, as of Monday's open. If there isn’t any earnings growth, should we go to cash? Maybe the US fed will pull a “rabbit out of its hat” and unleash a round of Quantitative Easing 4 to boost the market? That will surely drop the USD, drive commodities higher and drive further buying in global equities….
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) has caused controversy over claims regarding the amount of time agents spend on helping tenants secure a property.
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Tenant reference checks take time, according to ARLA
In research on letting agent fees, the group claims that conducting credit checks, attending viewings, and collecting references each take members an average of eight solid hours of work.
Even more remarkably, in some cases ARLA claims referencing can take “a number of days, if not weeks.”
ARLA members also reported that drawing up a tenancy agreement or renewal takes an average of five hours, despite many agents using standard contracts.
Agents also reported an average of seven and a half hours for miscellaneous “administration”.
Consultation on letting agent fee ban
The report is part of ARLA’s response to a government consultation on potentially banning letting agent fees charged to tenants.
Announced in the Autumn Statement, the consultation seeks industry views on the impact of such a ban, which ARLA and other bodies maintain will increase rents for tenants and potentially cause lay-offs in letting agency businesses.
According to the ARLA report, six in ten agents also believe that a ban would cause the quality of properties to decline, although the document does not explain why.
The government’s consultation ends on Friday. Interested parties can respond via the consultation page on the government’s website.


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As part of SIX’s work to build Asia’s Social Innovation narrative, we are excited to launch our first Global Dialogue – Social Innovation for Resilience – the Taiwan Approach
Taiwan – a country that we rarely talk about. But in 2020, we believe most of us will recognise this country on the internet or in the news. This is because of their marvellous job done in response to COVID-19 compared to other countries. As a country so close to China, they have built a solid foundation of social innovation over the past few years, and this has been leveraged to achieve this success in response to COVID-19.
SIX is honoured to have invited Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of the Taiwan government and Geoff Mulgan, Professor at UCL on Collective Intelligence and Social Innovation in conversation. The dialogue between Audrey Tang and Geoff Mulgan will shed light on how collective intelligence and trust-building enables Taiwan to be resilient.
Date: 21st July 2020
Time: 18:00 – 19:00 Taipei time / 11:00 – 12:00 London time
Format: Google Meet-up and Facebook Live
- Audrey Tang, Digital Minister, Taiwan Government
- Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation, UCL
- Marco Shek, Asia Lead, Social Innovation Exchange


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As I ran down the corridor, I could taste Malkar’s magic on the air; bitter and tangy on the back of my tongue, like semen and blood.
He’s here, I thought, heart lurching as I followed the tether of the obligation d’âme to my brother. Malkar was near Mildmay, and I regretted splitting up with Mavortian and Bernard in that moment, knowing I could have done with the extra assistance.
The feeling of the tether flickered for a moment, going briefly slack, and I didn’t want to think about what that meant. As it was, I ran even harder, sprinting through the dark halls beneath the Bastion out of step with Juggernaut’s incessant ticking, heedless of the sound of my boots slapping against the stone. I had no illusions about the element of surprise. Malkar knew I was coming; Malkar had taken Mildmay as bait. But even knowing it had to be a trap, I had no choice but to race into it.
He had my brother.
When I reached the door at the end of a long and lightless corridor, I knew. Mildmay was here, I could feel, as much as I could feel the presence of my own limbs. I swallowed dryly, pressing my hand to the wood. It swung open at a touch, and I had a dizzying moment of deja vu.
From the pentagram in the floor to the arrangement of the shelves, the chamber was nearly identical to Malkar’s workroom in the warren of the Mirador; if it hadn’t been for the damnable sound of Juggernaut, I may have briefly forgotten where I was and wondered if I’d never left, if everything since that horrible night that shattered my mind had been some feverish dream.
But no; I was in the Bastion, I reminded myself. And more importantly, there was Mildmay, suspended from his shackles on the far wall.
My gorge rose. However gruesome Mildmay’s condition had been in Malkar’s sending, it was worse now. He looked like a body the Cade-skiffs pulled out of the Sim, his flesh pale, deriving its only color from the rainbow of livid bruising that covered him. Blood still seeped from angry whip weals and gashes, some crusted with scabs and others inflamed with what was likely infection. His head hung down, fox-red hair loose and scraggly around his face, hiding it from view, and it was only by the rattling sound of his breath that I could even tell he was alive.
A quick glance confirmed the rest of the room was empty; Malkar might be near, the place saturated with his magic, but the Powers had spared me this once. “Mildmay,” I whispered, lurching forward, stepping over the pentagram with a surge of nausea. He didn’t look up, and I winced as I got closer and could see the raw and bloody mess of his wrists where the shackles dug into them. “Hold on, I’m getting you out,” I said, though Mildmay had made no indication he heard me, or was even conscious. I wondered, as I reached up to touch the metal with a spell, if I would be able to carry him out -- I was a good head taller than him, but he was denser, built with muscle I had never developed. Though, judging from how gaunt he appeared, there was perhaps less of that to concern myself with now.
I murmured a word of power and corrosion bloomed over the iron of the shackle, turning it red with rust that crumbled away in seconds. Mildmay’s wrist came free, and as he sagged I moved to catch him. But at my touch, his eyes snapped open. He stared at me and my breath caught, because there was nothing of my brother in those eyes -- he looked as frightened and feral as his namesake, and for a horrible second I thought he didn’t recognize me -- that he’d been broken as I had been and his mind shattered as well.
Then he blinked. “F’lix?” he croaked, and it was only long accustomization to Mildmay’s usual growly, slurred voice that allowed me to recognize the sound he made as my name at all.
“Yes,” I told him, trying to keep my own voice steady even though I wanted to scream and weep at the sight of him. “I’m here. I’m getting you out.” I came for you, and I am so sorry it took this long.
His eyes widened, and then he jerked his head, shaking it. “No,” he rasped. “No--” His hands out of the shackles, he pushed at me, wincing at the pain the movement caused, though managing to shove me back with more strength than I’d have thought him capable of in his condition.
“Mildmay!” I stumbled backward. “We don’t have time for--”
“Ge’out!” he slurred, looking panicked.
“We will, you fool, that’s the idea!” I snapped, reaching for him.
But Mildmay’s eyes had fixed on something behind me, and his face went slack with despair, hands dropping to his sides. And I knew, with icy dread trickling down my spine, a moment before I heard that all-too-familiar voice purr--
“Felix. Darling, what a pleasant surprise.”
My mouth had gone dry. “Malkar,” I heard my own voice say, though I couldn’t recall the decision to speak. Inside my head, I was screaming, gibbering in terror. Slowly, I turned.
He looked the same as he had when he’d handed me to Stephen on the road out through the grasslands. The same as the first day I’d met him in the Shining Tiger, I realized, as he had likely failed to age a day since the death of Jane Teveria. The blood wizardry kept him young, making his scourge one that even time couldn’t cleanse from the world.
He smiled, showing teeth.
“I must say, Darling, for all that you’ve been dreadfully irksome in your little acts of petty rebellion, I have missed you,” he drawled. “Your brother might resemble you, but I fear he’s a poor substitute in more ways than one.”
Behind me, Mildmay inhaled audibly. I tensed and tried not to think of all the ways Malkar had used me, all the ways he’d hurt me, and all the same ways he might have treated Mildmay in the long weeks in which he’d held him. (I failed, my imagination running horribly wild--)
“If that’s the case,” I said, willing my voice not to quaver, “then I will be happy to remove him from your company.”
Malkar tossed his head back and laughed. Something inside me quailed. I was still his creature, I knew, on some level. He’d had his claws in me so deep and for so long that a part of him felt embedded in my soul, like a splinter in an old wound, slowly festering. Even when I thought I’d been free of him, it had only been an illusion -- one he’d shattered when he’d used me to break the Virtu. And I might have dropped to my knees again, paralyzed by the presence of him, if not for Mildmay at my back and the knowledge of what I had come here for.
“Flippancy doesn’t suit you, Felix,” he said, stepping forward. Unthinkingly, I stepped backward, maintaining the distance between us. Years of fear and pain had me prepared for what one of his seemingly-genial moods concealed. I had disobeyed. I had angered him. And he would make me pay for it. As if to confirm my thoughts, he added: “we’ll have to break you of that.”
I tried to find the voice to protest, but it caught in my throat in a useless lump. Instead, it was Mildmay behind me who growled out a single word:
Malkar’s brows rose. “It speaks,” he purred. “Charming. Your pet dog heels well, though I’m surprised you even needed to cast the obligation d’âme on him. Then again, the role of master never did suit you, did it...”
My cheeks were red with shame, even as every other part of me felt chilled, my skin crawling like it wanted to flee from my bones. “No more,” I managed to say, fortified by my brother’s presence, his strong denial. I would borrow his courage, even if I could find none of my own. (And wasn’t that just like me, taking and taking whatever Mildmay had to give.) “We’re leaving,” I continued, calling lightning to my hands.
That only got a velvety chuckle out of him. “I may have missed you, darling, but not enough to offset what a terrible nuisance you’ve insisted on being.” His grin widened. “I will say this for your brother; he can lose much more blood before collapsing than you ever could.” His grin went hard and cold, then his eyes flicked over my shoulder to Mildmay. “Take the knife from the table.”
I let go of my lightning and whirled about in time to see Mildmay go stiff, like a puppet on strings that have just been jerked by an errant child. His muscles locked up, limbs rigid as he fought, but a second later he lurched awkwardly toward the worktable where Malkar had left a blade, his gnarled fingers closing around the hilt.
“Do remember who taught you binding magic, Felix,” Malkar chided, then added, quietly, “and who the master here has always been.”
The obligation de sang, I realized in horror. Of course, Malkar had used it. Used it on Mildmay like he had used it on me when I was sixteen, binding him to him. The dried blood was still caked to his skin, and I could only imagine how much had run through the drain in the floor. “Mildmay,” I said, willing some sign that this was a ruse, that he wasn’t under Malkar’s control. But when he looked up at me there was that same animal wildness in his eyes.
Malkar sounded almost bored as he gave the order. And for a moment -- for a moment Mildmay hesitated, his whole body taut as a wire. Malkar made a sound of displeasure, and sharply added “now!”
Mildmay lunged forward. Had he not been hurt on top of being lamed, he likely would have parted the flesh of my throat neatly with that first swing. As it was, he was slow enough and clumsy enough that I was just barely able to jar myself out of my stupor and dodge, hearing the blade hiss through the air where I’d stood half a second before. I staggered back. “Mildmay,” I repeated, “look at me. You can fight this.” He wasn’t a wizard though -- he didn’t have that kind of will, that kind of power, and I’d only barely been able to fight Malkar’s compulsion. In the end, I’d lost.
He lunged again, swinging at my midsection. I nearly tripped over a chair, knocking over some piece of equipment that clattered. Mildmay’s eyes were wide, and not, I realized, as mindlessly wild as I’d first thought. No-- no, there was horror there, awareness -- and that made it a hundred times worse. My brother was in there watching, helpless as he was used as a weapon against me, as I’d used him as a weapon against my own enemies.
Then I tripped. In a moment Mildmay was on me, pinning me against the floor. I grabbed his bloodied wrist to stop the knife as he aimed it at my chest, and could only wonder if I’d have had the strength to stop him if he’d been at his best. As it was, I might not be able to hold him off for long. Driven by the binding-by-blood, his body would follow Malkar’s order to the expense of his own survival, his own injury. And Malkar would not relent. Mildmay had no hope of fighting his binding as I had...
As I had.
Bile crept up my throat at the knowledge of what I had to do. Knew what power could stand a chance against Malkar’s. “Mildmay, stop,” I commanded, leaning as hard as I could on the obligation d’âme--
And Mildmay stopped. He went still, eyes wide, breath coming in short pants. Across the room, Malkar frowned.
Old blood had already crusted the lower half of Mildmay’s face, flaking and brown. But now a fresh, dark bead began to run from his nose, collecting on the tip before dripping down to strike my cheek in a small, hot spatter. His breathing quickened, and I realized in horror that the two rival compulsions were now using his body as a battleground, tearing him up from the inside in the process.
The knife point trembled inches from my chest.
“Felix,” Mildmay gasped. “Please...” His eyes were wide with panic. “I can’t--”
Malkar’s voice rang out in the quiet: “Finish it.”
Mildmay made a choked sound, and I could feel the dark swell of Malkar’s will rising like a tide against the tether of the obligation d’âme -- could feel the moment it overwhelmed it, submerging it. Hating myself, I jammed my fist up against Mildmay’s bruised ribs, hard enough to make him curl up and lose his balance, allowing me to twist free. I rolled aside and clambered to my feet moments ahead of him, trying to put distance between us, trying to think of a way to overcome Malkar’s binding without destroying my brother’s mind in the process.
“Let him go,” I begged Malkar, knowing it was useless. The urge to offer myself up in return was strong, but I knew I couldn’t -- I had stated it logically enough to the others before, knowing that Malkar would use me to shatter the Mirador’s remaining defenses and topple all of Marathat if he could. I couldn’t exchange one life for that. But that math was harder to justify now with Mildmay bloody and naked in front of me, violated by the worst kind of heresy.
Malkar said nothing, his eyes glittering cruelly.
Mildmay’s movements were jerkier now-- at first I thought I’d hurt him worse than I’d intended, but it wasn’t just a favoring of his ribs or leg. There was a stiffness in the swing of his arms, in the tilt of his head; he was still fighting, I realized with a mix of horror and pride. My annemer little brother was fighting tooth and nail to give me a chance, and I wanted to embrace him for it and howl with grief at the same time.
But even wounded, even fighting back against the binding, the truth remained that Mildmay had been a trained killer. I had never seen it in action before, and I had failed to appreciate what that meant until now. I had seen his rippling muscles as beautiful rather than threatening -- his panther-like grace as something to desire, not something to fear. I had forgotten that he was the man who had killed Cerberus Cresset and Vey Coruscant both.
Now, I realized I had been blind in that.
He was faster than me. Stronger. And I only had so much room to maneuver, handicapped as I was by the need not to kill him. All too soon, I slipped, and he was there, darting forward with unearthly speed to slam me against the stone wall, blade biting into the skin of my throat. It stung, but it paled in comparison to the anguish etched on his features. “Please,” he gasped.
I swallowed, and the movement made the knife cut a hair deeper, a trickle of blood oozing down toward my collar. “Keep fighting it,” I begged him. “You’re strong--” The strongest man I’ve ever known.
He made a helpless sound like a wounded animal that tore at my heart. “Please... stop me,” he managed brokenly.
The knife moved back from my throat. Slowly, Mildmay’s hand began to turn, fraction of an inch by fraction of an inch, pivoting the blade away from me. He was shaking with the effort, and I could only imagine the force of will it required. Across the room, Malkar frowned.
Mildmay looked me in the eyes. “Stop... me,” he repeated. “You... gotta ...”
It took a moment, but then like a blow I realized -- looking at the knife he’d now turned toward himself -- what he was asking.
And I couldn’t.
Even if I had the strength in that moment to overpower Mildmay -- what right did I have? I could almost hear Mehitabel’s voice in my head, cursing me, or see Gideon’s frown as he watched me from across the room. And they’d have been right... I’d hurt Mildmay more than enough. All of this was because of me and my blind foolishness. Powers, even before Vey and Malkar and the Bastion, I’d taken everything from him -- his life in the Lower City, his ability to walk, even his very freedom, whether he’d asked me to do it or not. I was already a monster, it was true, but to cap that monstrosity by taking my own brother's life to save my skin -- to live, but wake every morning with no sign of him, knowing he was dead by my hand, dead like Joline and never coming back --
I grabbed the knife, but didn’t drive it back toward him. I pushed it down instead. My eyes burned, and the words broke forth in a sob:
Across the room, Malkar must have grown bored. “Mildmay,” he snapped, anger in his voice: “kill .”
Between us, Mildmay made a noise of despair and lurched forward.
Whatever I had expected, it hadn’t been his mouth on mine. But before I could question it, he was pressed against me, his lips on mine in a kiss that was a distant mirror of the one we’d shared in Farflung when I’d cast the obligation d’âme. But where that kiss had been hard and needy, my tongue plundering his mouth, this one was as soft and tender as an apology. I didn’t dare breathe, but for a heartbeat I managed to lose myself in the feeling of him, the metallic taste and the texture of his scarred lip.
Then his mouth withdrew and he slumped against me, his weight going limp. I grunted, catching him and feeling something dig uncomfortably against my ribs. “M’sorry,” he mumbled, breath hot against my neck. Taking him by the shoulders to steady him, I looked down--
I didn’t understand the evidence of my eyes. It didn’t make sense. I didn’t want it to make sense. Didn’t want to understand that the thing digging into my ribs had been the hilt of the knife now sticking out of my brother’s chest; didn’t want to understand that he’d driven the blade into his own flesh when he’d thrown himself forward to kiss me; didn’t want to recognize the dark red streaming down Mildmay’s bruised stomach as his life’s blood, and that my brother had saved my life yet again, only this time from himself.
I didn’t want any of it. But it was happening all the same.
I think I screamed. My throat ached and the sound echoed in my ears as I struggled to catch and lower Mildmay when his legs folded under him, both of us crumpling to the stone floor in an uncoordinated heap. His skin was slippery with blood that welled up unceasingly from the wound. Cradling him, I pressed my hand to the place where the blade disappeared into his chest, unsure if I should draw it out or not, useless in my attempts to staunch the flow. His blood was hot between my fingers.
“M’sorry,” he repeated softly. As if he was the one who needed to apologize -- for any of it.
“Don’t.” I shook my head. “Don’t, please--” Don’t leave me too. It was all my fault. And he was going to die in my arms now, just like Joline had in the Rue d’Orphée.
His breath was wheezing now, and when he coughed, blood flecked his lips. Still, with blood-slicked fingers, he took my hand and squeezed. “Kill. Him,” he murmured, holding my gaze with a ferocity that must have taken everything he had left -- a moment later he shuddered slumped, his grip going lax and his eyes drifting closed.
“Mildmay?” My voice cracked.
My brother did not stir.
“Well, that was all rather pitiful.”
Malkar had crossed over and now gave Mildmay’s body a disinterested nudge with his boot. “I’d call it a waste, but we both know gutter-trash when we see it, don’t we?”
I didn’t move. My heart had been torn out. Mildmay was dead and he’d taken my heart with him, leaving nothing but a burning hatred in my chest. A glittering coal of pure, vengeful loathing.
I knew what I had to do.
I let Malkar pull me to my feet. I nodded listlessly as he mentioned second chances; how with my brother now out of the way, I had no reason to go haring off and being a fool; how I had a chance now to remind him what I was good for, why he should keep me alive.
I surrendered to the kiss. I dragged him into my construct.
And then I burned the heart out of him, just like he’d burned the heart out of me.
In the end, I knelt in his ashes and wondered why I wasn’t smouldering cinders too.
It might have been seconds or hours later that I heard Mehitabel’s voice from the corridor.
“Felix, we found other Cabalines, are you-- oh!”
I couldn’t see her in my peripheral vision, standing on my right side as she was. But I knew she was there all the same.
“He’s dead.” I said flatly. It didn’t matter which ‘he’ she thought I meant, the answer was the same in both cases.
I heard her footsteps across the stone but didn’t look up. Her skirts rustled, and then she repeated my name, but this time with urgency: “Felix!”
“What,” I snapped, voice still tight with grief.
“Mildmay is still breathing, Felix, we need to do something!”
My head jerked up. It couldn’t be possible -- Mildmay was so still, so pale, blood pooling around his body and running outward through the seams in the stonework. But Mehitabel had her little compact out, the mirror held to his lips where the glass fogged unmistakably.
I lurched over, heedlessly breaking through and scattering the charred remains of Malkar’s carcass. Mildmay’s face was cold where I pressed my hand against it, but if he lived--
--if he lived, we were still deep in the Bastion, in danger, far from any help, and he still had a knife in his chest. Whatever life was in him wouldn’t last long. I bit back a curse.
“Can you help him?” Mehitabel demanded.
I flinched, wishing selfishly I hadn’t insisted that Gideon stayed behind. “Healing magic is heresy to the Cabalines.”
“Fuck the Cabalines.” She said it with such force that I looked up, meeting her fiery gaze. “Fuck the Cabalines and fuck the rules, you’re Felix fucking Harrowgate and you just killed Brinvillier Strych or Malkar Gennadion or Beaumont whatever-the-hell his name was, now can you help him?”
I looked down at Mildmay. I had never studied healing magic at the Mirador, and Malkar had never taught me. But I remembered fragments of texts in the Gardens of Nephele, snatches of conversations by the celebrants discussing their treatment of patients...
It wasn’t enough. But what choice did I have?
I took hold of the knife hilt and pulled. Mildmay’s body jerked and I felt ill as the blade slipped free and more blood welled forth. Pressing a hand over the wound, I reached inside myself, for my power and for every last scrap of will that I had.
I imagined a tear in a bolt of fabric; a hole in a dam; a crack in stone. Slowly, deliberately, I wove my power through, darning the tear and knitting the fibers together; plugging the hole in the dam to stop the flow of water rushing through; forcing together the seam in the stone until it closed. But I could still feel Mildmay slipping, as if borne away by the current of the Sim. I could see him, pale in the dark water, slipping below its surface, and terror gripped my heart.
The Sim was death.
He jumped in after you, I reminded myself. In Klepsydra, and he’d been ready to do it again under the Mirador.
He’d do it now.
What right do you have?
I dove in. And after me I dragged a tether, my magic coiled into a rope to the living. The water closed over my head and I wanted to scream, but I kicked, letting the icy rush carry me after Mildmay, reaching for him.
The tether wasn’t enough. I pulled, harder, drawing on whatever I could around me. Something above me thrummed with power and I snatched at it, my power like a grappling hook that dug in and held fast. It was thin now, extended too far, and I could see the yawning maw of the Septad Gate up ahead. My heart was in my throat and I wanted to shriek, but Mildmay was close now -- almost close enough to reach --
I pulled. I pulled against that thrumming power above, and from the earth itself below me. I pulled from every single fiber of myself, and pulled from the charred remains of Malkar Gennadion. I pulled until I thought I would snap under the tension.
My fingers closed on Mildmay’s shoulder.
I opened my eyes.
Mehitabel was watching me, her own eyes wide. “Felix?” she asked carefully, her voice too loud in the quiet. The quiet itself was loud -- wrong, though I couldn’t place why--
But then Mildmay drew in a rasping breath and that was all that mattered.
The wound was a livid, puckered scar, red and angry, but it no longer bled. He looked like death, but his chest rose and fell and I could have wept for it. “Mildmay,” I said, my hand on his cheek, willing him to open his eyes...
His lips parted and he coughed, wheezing. “Mildmay,” I repeated, “say something--”
He mumbled. I didn’t understand a word of it, but it was music to my ears all the same, my burned-out heart now whole and leaping in my chest. “What was that?”
“Said...” He opened one bleary green eye. “Fuck me sideways ‘til I cry...”
Heedless of the blood, I grabbed him in an embrace and did not let go.
Three times now, I’d committed heresy. Once to bind. Once to kill. Once to save.
And this last I could not regret for an instant.

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Since Jorge and I have been married, we’ve always ended up either flying to or from tours/gigs or actually played on our anniversary. Heck, we even had a show the day we got married! We always laugh about how romantic we are about it 😉
This year, Jorge is on tour overseas with Patricia Vonne while I’m working on a tv pilot in Dallas. I’m not complaining or even sad about it- I’m happy we’re both working at what we love to do- and in fact, Jorge and I will talk later today (yay Facetime!).
I just wanted to say Happy Anniversary! And share that with everyone who knows and loves us 🙂
You know, I thought I would just check in about what’s going on these days. As most of you know, we had a bad situation with our booking agency where they neglected to book any shows for us after I turned over our booking to them late last year- leaving us with an empty calendar and no festivals for 2018. As we’ve reported, I jumped back in and have been slowly filling up the calendar with a show here, a festival there, but it takes time to hear back from folks, and most venues we deal with book 3-6 months in advance, so you can do the math 🙂
Anyway, in the interim, both Jorge and I are working on a TV pilot in Dallas, and at the same time, our drummer Mike Smith has decided to stop playing music for a while and go back to school. Our new drummer, Michael Bahan, is learning the existing songs, and we’ll rehearse them up with him after Jorge returns from tour in Germany with Patricia Vonne in early May. Then we’ll play a few shows close to home, iron out the kinks, and THEN start working on all these new songs I have ready and rarin’ to go!
So I’m just feeling a bit odd, so much time away from the band. I haven’t not played shows for this long in over 15 years. I keep feeling like I’m forgetting something!
As always, I’m looking forward to sharing these new songs with you, and to seeing your smiling faces sometime soon 🙂 If you’re in Dallas, come say howdy and let’s go hang out! Rock n roll, RDSH
We’re so sad to say goodbye to our good buddy Mike Smith, who has played drums with us for the past few years. He’s a good guy and a steady drummer, and we’re going to miss him. Mike has decided to head back to school- we had 2 more shows lined up with him, but had to change our calendars due to both Jorge and I getting work on this TV pilot in Dallas. So we don’t even get one last playdate with our pal :-/
We wish Mike all he best out there in this world, and know that we’ll play together again sometime down the road.
And then we’re happy to introduce Michael Bahan to you as our new drummer- Michael has a long list of references- great folks he’s played with: Chadd Thomas and The Crazy Kings, Alvin Crow, The Boss Jaguars, The Third Coast Trio, and he’s also a kick-ass drum teacher with his own studio Cascade Studios in Austin, Texas 🙂
So for now, I’m working on new songs, then will teach them to Jorge, then we’ll share them with the band and work on them throughout May and June, and bring them your way! I’m looking forward to seeing your smiling faces, as always 🙂