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17 Questions with Lady Rebecca Fitzwilliam: Guest Post by Jayne Bamber, Author of Unexpected Friends & Relations (w/ Excerpt & Giveaway)
Posted in author guest posts, book excerpt, jane austen, tagged author guest posts, book excerpt, jane austen, jayne bamber, unexpected friends & relations on April 27, 2019| 8 Comments »
I'm delighted to welcome Jayne Bamber back to Diary of an Eccentric to celebrate the release of Unexpected Friends & Relations, the second book in her Friends & Relations series of Jane Austen crossover novels. Jayne is here today with an excerpt and a giveaway, but first, we have Sir Gerald Sutton's interview with Lady Rebecca Fitzwilliam.
Seventeen Questions with Lady Rebecca Fitzwilliam
By Jayne Bamber
Lady Rebecca
Good Morning all, Sir Gerald Sutton here. I have recently had the honor of marrying my neighbor and long-lost-love, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. We have just informed our family of our intention to acknowledge our daughter, who has spent the last 18 years hidden away at my sister's boarding school in Surrey. To help our daughter get better acquainted with her new extended family, which includes my five children as well as Lady Catherine's many nieces and nephews, three of whom have recently married, I have decided to sit down with some of my new relations, and sketch their characters….
Today I am joined by my new niece, and perhaps one of the most formidable members of the Fitzwilliam clan, Lady Rebecca. Rebecca, my dear, thank you for joining me here at De Bourgh House in London.
Lady Rebecca: Thank you for inviting me. It is pleasant to see how comfortably you have settled into the townhouse of your bride's first husband. Perhaps you might ring for tea?
Sir Gerald: Of course! And now, I have some questions to put to you, and our housekeeper, Mrs. Banks, will take down the dictation.
LR: I am sure Mrs. Banks will find it a most edifying experience – I am ready, sir.
SG: Capital! Let us begin with some of the simpler questions. Tell me, what do you like best about residing here in London?
LR: There are a great many attractions in London, to be sure, but I most enjoy the people here. Human nature quite fascinates me –there is always so much to amuse, in taking a person's likeness… as you may yet discover.
SG: And when you are not in London, you can be found at your father's estate in Matlock. What is your favorite part of the estate?
LR: Well, let me think. There are a great many delights there – the scenery to be had, if one has the stamina to ride extensively about the countryside. The house is quite marvelous, as well, and my own apartments are quite elegant, a great place to retreat when the company becomes tedious. Too obvious a place to hide for long, though – that is when I would recommend the wine cellar. I discovered it in my youth, playing games with my brothers, but it is excellent for hiding from a great many other things, such as tiresome governesses or unwanted suitors, even irritating stepmothers. And of course, if one is obliged to hide for a lengthy period of time, one can always have a drink.
SG: Well, I shall keep that in mind, when next I visit.
LR: 'Tis my hiding place – you must find your own.
SG: Aside from hiding and lurking in wine cellars, what is your favorite childhood memory?
LR: Learning to ride a horse. I was twelve, and my brother Richard taught me one summer when he came home from school. I was a little frightened – oh dear, do not transcribe that, Mrs. Banks – but I was so eager to spend time with Richard, whom I had missed very much, that I would have done just about any activity at all, if only to spend time with him.
SG: What a charming thought. I am aware that you are quite close with your brother the Viscount, which leads to my next question – who did you look up to the most, growing up?
LR: I am sure Richard will be very cross if I do not say him, but he shall have to console himself about that. I looked up the most to my mother, growing up. She was an incredible woman.
SG: So I hear. Will you tell me about her?
LR: No, I think not.
SG: …
LR: …
SG: Er – very well, then. Let us speak more about yourself. What is your favorite time of year?
LR: I enjoy the winter. I feel quite comfortable when the weather is as frigid as my own icy heart, and I look smashing in fur.
SG: You do have a very unique style, I am sure. Have you a favorite book?
LR: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft – my goodness, Mrs. Banks, that is quite a cough you have! Sir Gerald, I have taken the liberty of purchasing a copy for your new daughter as a welcome present.
SG: My, my, you really… shouldn't have.
LR: I thought it the best way to welcome her to the family – I have made sure that every other lady in the family has read it, so Miss Sutton will have something in common with us all.
SG: Moving right along, what is your favorite food?
LR: I expect brandy is not quite a food, per se…. I have taken quite a liking to boiled potatoes, particularly since last summer.
SG: How odd, that is just what Mrs. Darcy said.
LR: I am not at all surprised!
SG: And speaking of surprises, have you any secret talents?
LR: A great many, sir – I am almost entirely composed of both secrets, and talents. The one I take the most pride in, aside from general intimidation, is gift-giving. I excel at selecting thoughtful and personal presents for the people I care about. I once gave Lizzy the same gown twice, and she liked it very much each time.
SG: Most extraordinary! And what is the best present you have ever been given?
LR: Mary Bennet once gave me her copy of Fordyce's Sermons.
SG: That is certainly an unexpected answer! It is hardly the sort of book I should expect you to enjoy!
LR: On the contrary, sir – I have never enjoyed sitting by the fireplace at Pemberley more than I did that night, and I find that parting with it has improved dear Mary, as well.
SG: You are often full of praise for the members of this family. If you could choose any three of them to go on holiday with, who would you select?
LR: Only three? Oh dear, let me think. My brother Richard, to be sure – he would provide protection, and always carries a flask with him, making him dependably excellent company. Elizabeth would be my second choice; I absolutely adore her. Lastly, I would choose dear Mary Bennet, as I think our company would be most instructive for her.
SG: And if you could travel to any destination, where would you like to go?
LR: I should like to go to Egypt, to see the Nile, the Pyramids and the Sphinx. I should like to compare riding a camel to riding a horse, and I have a great curiosity to encounter a crocodile. I might bring one back as a pet.
SG: Most unusual!
LR: Is it?
SG: Next question… If you could be any person for a day, whom should you like to be?
LR: The Prince Regent, I suppose. I find Beau Brummel a most intriguing fellow, and quite dashing. He might help me get dressed.
SG: Mrs. Banks, I beg you do not write that down. Let us strike that from the record, and proceed…. Tell me about your schooling, Lady Rebecca. I am interested to learn what sort of seminary has produced such a paragon of… ahem… virtue?
LR: I went to school in Reading, at Madame La Tournelle's. It was certainly…. instructive, in some ways. Madame was not even remotely French, did not speak a word of French, had never even been to France, in fact. She was vastly diverting, however, and I liked a few of the girls there very much. There was a clever young lady a few years older than myself called Jane, very bookish and quite cheeky. We used to put on little theatricals together and compose rude verses to shock Madame La Tournellle, until Papa discovered she was really called Sarah Hackit and did not teach anything remotely useful, and so he took me away. I do wonder whatever became of Jane, and her sweet sister Cassandra….
SG: Ahem… well, hopefully they are both well-settled with husbands and children!
LR: How tedious that would be!
SG: …Which leads me to my next question. What is your greatest annoyance?
LR: Strong sentiment – I think it quite odious.
SG: I see. And what ought one do to get into your good graces?
LR: Surprise me. I take delight in the ludicrous and the unexpected. And carry a flask. Speak impertinently, challenge authority, and be very clever indeed.
SG: Of course. Mrs. Banks….
Mrs. Banks: I've marked through that one, sir.
SG: Very good. And now, Lady Rebecca, what advice would you give to a young lady joining our extended family?
LR: Mrs. Banks, take down every word of this. I would say that a young lady joining this family must be prepared to ignore a great deal of unsolicited advice. She must have an unshakeable sense of humor, and understand that she is unlikely to have any secrets that will not be quickly wheedled out of her. She will likely do a great deal of traveling, be quite spoilt, and must learn to enjoy it. She must be very kind to poor Georgiana, she must endeavor to behave with the grace and decorum befitting her station and bring no disgrace upon us, and if anyone gives her any trouble, she need only come to me, and I will set it all to rights.
SG: Well, that last bit was very kind – I am sure my daughter will appreciate the kind sentiment.
LR: The sentiment you may spare me, sir.
Thanks for joining me for this glimpse into the mind of Lady Rebecca, an original character from Volume 1: Happier in her Friends than Relations. Lady Rebecca is back in Volume 2, Unexpected Friends and Relations, more determined than ever to make herself useful to the ladies in her family, but with a little twist, as seen in the excerpt below…
Mr. Knightley gestured for Rebecca to accompany him into the next room, and as she followed him, she cast one backward glance at Mary. "Dearest, perhaps you would be so good as to play something for us, while I step into the parlor and speak with Mr. Knightley."
Mary regarded her nervously for a moment before seating herself at the pianoforte, and she began the first strains of a concerto that would allow Rebecca and Mr. Knightley to speak with some degree of privacy. Mr. Knightley took Rebecca by the arm and led her to a sofa, his solemnity making Rebecca anxious. "Are my cousins well," she asked again.
"I do not know how to say this," Mr. Knightley said, seating himself in the chair across from her. "Your cousin Isabella died of a fever last October, about a month after we met at the Darcys' ball."
Rebecca slumped heavily against the back of the sofa, bringing her hands up to her face to cover her dismay. "Good God! But that was months ago! How could I have heard nothing of it since then? Why was this kept from me?"
With a pained expression, Mr. Knightley withdrew a handkerchief from his pocket and offered it to Rebecca, as the tears began to spill freely down her cheeks. "There was an illness that afflicted many in Highbury last autumn. We think it originated from some gypsies that were in the area at the time. They were camped in the west fields, and we thought them perfectly harmless. If we had any idea they brought sickness with them, they would have been removed from the area much sooner. The fever took several people in the village. Though Mr. Woodhouse was always a fastidious man in matters of health, he was one of the first to become afflicted. John and Isabella were visiting at the time, and Isabella refused to leave her father's side. It did not take long for his strength to give out – about a week. By the time he left this world, both of his daughters were abed with fever. Poor man died fearing for their lives above his own. I know not why my brother and I were spared, but we did everything we could to aid their quick recovery. Dr. Perry was with them day and night, and John even sent for a physician from London. By then it was too late for Isabella. Only Emma recovered."
Mr. Knightley paused. A tear slid down his cheek as he held her gaze, and seeing him thus affected completely shattered Rebecca's resolve to remain strong in front of him; she wept without restraint on the sofa across from him. "What of her children? Isabella has five children!"
"The children were removed from the house when Isabella took sick – a neighboring family, the Westons, took them in, and within a week my sister Charlotte came down from London to collect them, as John would not leave Isabella's side. When Emma began to improve and Isabella did not, Emma was removed to the Weston's home, where she eventually made a full recovery. It took her nearly a month to get her strength back, and by the time she returned to Hartfield, both her father and sister had been laid to rest in the parish cemetery. Once the illness was gone from the village, Charlotte brought the children back to John, and they are such a great comfort to him even now, though he has many burdens beyond his grief for his wife. Hartfield now legally belongs to him, as he knew it one day would, but not like this. It is a poor excuse for his not telling you sooner, but it is the truth."
"Poor John! Poor Isabella! Good God, those poor children! They shall grow up without a mother." Sobs began to rack Rebecca's body as she considered this notion, which hit all too close to home for her. It was hard enough losing her own mother when she was nearly a woman grown, but Isabella's children were still in the nursery; the youngest would likely not even remember her face.
As Rebecca closed her eyes and hugged herself with despair, she suddenly felt Mr. Knightley's arm around her. He had moved to the sofa beside her, and pulled her into unexpected embrace. Thinking of nothing but her anguish, Rebecca allowed her head to rest on his shoulder, and her body leaned against his. "I am sorry, so very sorry," said he, "I wish I did not have to give you such terrible news, and I hope my honesty has not caused you any undue pain."
"You could not have broken the news in any possible way that would have affected me less, I suppose. It is just so shocking. Isabella and I have not been close since we were girls, but as we grew up we shared the bond of entering womanhood without a mother, and now all her poor children will share the same fate. Just like my poor cousin Georgiana. The world is a cruel place for motherless little girls."
"It is much the same for the boys, I think," he whispered, his face pressed up against hers as he cradled her in his arms. She began to weep once more, and a moment later felt a sudden pressure, as if he had kissed the top of her head. Feeling her heart twisting in torment, Rebecca braved a glance up at him, her face brushing against the rough stubble on his chin, and she let out a slight gasp as she beheld the tears in his eyes. Her fingers reflexively tightened their grasp on his soft woolen coat, and she felt his arms tighten around her ever so slightly. Another breathless sob escaped her lips, and Mr. Knightley's face turned toward her; his lips slightly parting, he drew nearer still, and just as her eyes slipped closed and her breath caught in her throat, a sudden commotion in the corridor caused her to flinch. Mr. Knightley abruptly moved his hands down the length of her arms and drew back, even as Rebecca leapt up off of the couch, fidgeting with her dress as she tried not to think about what had nearly happened between them.
A moment later, Elizabeth and Georgiana entered the room, having returned from their morning calls. Elizabeth greeted Mr. Knightley warmly, before perceiving that something was amiss. "Rebecca, dearest," Elizabeth said cautiously, "whatever has happened?"
Fresh tears fell down Rebecca's face, but she was past caring for her appearance at such a time. "Cousin Isabella… has died. And my Uncle Woodhouse. Poor Emma barely survived, and the children…."
"Good God," Elizabeth gasped. "I am so sorry, Rebecca. What a tragedy for your family."
Rebecca nodded feebly at her friend. She wished to say something profound, but she found herself quite at a loss. It was the glistening eyes and compassionate countenance of Mr. Knightley that shook her all the way to her core, and feeling completely unfit for company, she quickly fled the room.
Thanks for joining me on the next stop of my blog tour! I will be giving away 7 copies of the e-book free on May 20th – click here to enter. See the full schedule for the blog tour below, and click here to follow me on Facebook for updates on the final installment of the Friends & Relations Series, coming soon!
Thank you, Jayne, for being my guest today, and congratulations on your new book!
Transforming Pain into Poetry: Guest Post by Jessica Goody, Author of Phoenix: Transformation Poems
Posted in author guest posts, poetry, tagged author guest posts, jessica goody, national poetry month, phoenix: transformation poems, poetic book tours, poetry on April 24, 2019| 3 Comments »
My guest today is poet Jessica Goody, whose latest collection is Phoenix: Transformation Poems. Jessica is kindly sharing a poem from the collection: "Jazz." Please give her a warm welcome!
Transforming Pain into Poetry
Because I tend to think in images, a lot of my poetry is ekphrastic–inspired by artwork.
I am endlessly inspired by the lives and exploits of artists, like the Beats, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Bloomsbury Group. My poetry collection Phoenix: Transformation Poems features numerous odes to artists of every stripe–writers, actors, painters and musicians.
The opening poem, "Jazz," is about Henri Matisse. Confined to a wheelchair following major surgery, he could no longer climb ladders to paint murals, so he covered the walls of his studio with butcher paper and drew with extra-long pencils. When arthritis left him unable to continue sculpting, he switched to collage, cutting shapes out of colored paper and arranging them in patterns to create Jazz, a book of decoupage art.
I believe that well-chosen words are the greatest agents of change; they provide hope to the suffering and clarity to the misguided. Phoenix offers glimpses of meaningful lives and explores what it means to be fully human. These poems cover a wide variety of subject matter, including beauty, creativity, and courage, but the main theme is transformation–the triumph over pain and trauma and the resilience of the human spirit.
Patterns catch the eye, crawling along wallpaper
and upholstery in a melange of colors and textures,
rendering the room as exotic as a harem, draped with
vivid slipcovers of Moroccan arabesques and damasks.
The wallpaper blooms humid tropical foliage,
blood-red blossoms unfurling behind the heads
of odalisques reclining on striped pillows, the divan
curving beneath them like the body of a lover.
A backdrop of vibrant fabrics curtain the room like a seraglio.
Oushaks and kilims burn underfoot as the light shines
through the lacework windows and shuttered doors,
where beaded lamps drip crystals atop runner-draped tables.
Orchids and potted plants crowd every surface, swarming
the carved mantel and bowlegged iron tables. Lovingly arranged
into precisely disheveled still-lifes, the palm fronds spread their graceful
green arms to the sun, tendrils inching upward like ivy.
Joyful nudes dance along the walls. Cobalt blue outlines
like police silhouettes stretch and tumble, leap and caper.
Tinted ultramarine, the color of distant horizons,
they resemble woad-stained Celts, rangy of limb and sinew.
Matisse lies abed in his atelier, industrious as Proust,
surrounded by a sea of colored paper, scattered leaves
and whimsical shapes that might be flowers or flames,
strewn petals drifting to the floor like shards of glass.
Jessica Goody
Jessica Goody is the award-winning author of Defense Mechanisms: Poems on Life, Love, and Loss (Phosphene Publishing, 2016) and Phoenix: Transformation Poems (CW Books, 2019). Goody's writing has appeared in over three dozen publications, including The Wallace Stevens Journal, Reader's Digest, Event Horizon, The Seventh Wave, Third Wednesday, The MacGuffin, Harbinger Asylum and The Maine Review. Jessica is a columnist for SunSations Magazine and the winner of the 2016 Magnets and Ladders Poetry Prize. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
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Guest Post & Giveaway: The Flight Path Less Traveled by Leigh Dreyer
Posted in author guest posts, jane austen, tagged author guest posts, jane austen, leigh dreyer, pride and prejudice, the flight plan less traveled on March 27, 2019| 35 Comments »
I'm thrilled to welcome Leigh Dreyer, author of the modern Pride and Prejudice variation The Best Laid Flight Plans, back to Diary of an Eccentric. This time Leigh is here to celebrate the release of the sequel, The Flight Plan Less Traveled. Leigh was kind enough to answer a few questions I had about the book and her writing in general, and she's come with a gift for one lucky reader. Please give her a warm welcome!
What was your inspiration for the series?
My inspiration for the series starts at home. My dad is a fighter pilot (he instructs in the T-38, just like Darcy in the The Best Laid Flight Plans and The Flight Path Less Traveled). I met my husband when he was in pilot training at Laughlin Air Force Base, which is the base Meryton Air Base is inspired by. He flies "heavies" which means he flies passenger and cargo jets. We've been stationed across the United States (literally from Washington, D.C. to Hawaii and all through the middle of the country. I traveled through the Finger Lakes area of New York a few years ago and fell in love with it. When I needed a place for Pemberley, that region of New York seemed like the most idyllic, beautiful place to set it.
Generally, people say "write what you know." I know pilots and Air Force life, I've lived it as an Air Force brat and a spouse. Luckily, with my dad, husband, and father in law, I have more than fifty-five years of combined Air Force pilot experience to draw from when I have questions. This second novel has been interesting research-wise because I had a lot more specific medical timelines to figure out. I needed to speak to a few doctors and was lucky enough to have a lot of assistance from my mother who is a Nurse Practitioner. Many of the medical board scenes are based on friends and family's experiences going through the same thing.
Did you find it hard to adapt P&P into the modern day?
The Flight Path Less Traveled was inspired by P&P while The Best Laid Flight Plans is really a modern P&P retelling. For Flight Path I pulled some characters from other Austen works, you'll find Miss Bates, Mrs. Jennings, and John Willoughby throughout the book. In my mind, I like to think that all of Jane Austen's works take place at the same time and that the characters might have known each other. I've tried to bring a little of that to this series.
Bringing individual characters from Sense and Sensibility into a world of Pride and Prejudice was exhilarating. Miss Bates, for example, is Elizabeth's physical therapist. I dream cast her as Octavia Spencer and picture her being talkative (obviously), but also a little wise, and caring. I've been in biweekly physical therapy for the past 7 years and have a great relationship with my therapists. I know how incredible and valuable they are to any trauma recovery. I wanted to throw a little appreciation for the amazing care my three therapists have given me over the years so I needed Miss Bates to be the best. I could just picture how Miss Bates' personality would grate on someone so purpose-driven as Elizabeth and thought that the dynamic between the two were some of the most interesting scenes to write.
The hardest thing I've found about modernizing the story is the various rules of etiquette that are so prevalent and vital to propelling the story forward. In some ways, I've mitigated this by setting the story in the modern Air Force. Darcy and Elizabeth are literally not allowed to have a relationship because that would be a fraternization issue. As an interesting point of fact, I was nearly banned from Laughlin Air Force Base last year because my first book has a kiss at the end. I was accused of encouraging fraternization between instructors and students. Later that year, there were several people removed from command because of several problems in this area. It really is a huge issue that plays throughout the first two novels in the series.
Would you write a Regency?
Writing a Regency terrifies me, to be honest. I have a plan to write a P&P-based time travel novel next which will at least begin in the Regency period. Frankly, fans are incredibly knowledgeable and I am so afraid of making a slight etiquette mistake that gets me raked across the coals. I am still a fairly new writer, so I tried to begin with a world I was comfortable in. I practice my Regency skills as I write Mr. Bennet and I hope to write a Regency after doing a little more extensive research and feeling better prepared to make fans happy and give them a novel with the quality I have come to expect.
About The Flight Path Less Traveled
In this modern Pride and Prejudice continuation and sequel to The Best Laid Flight Plans, 2nd Lieutenant Elizabeth Bennet and Captain William Darcy are facing trials after the events of Elizabeth's last flight. Darcy's proposal lingers between them as Elizabeth becomes almost single sighted to her rehabilitation and her return to pilot training. A secret is revealed to Elizabeth about Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's past that throws all she has known to be true into a tail spin. The romance between our hero and heroine begins to blossom through military separations, sisterly pranks, and miscommunications. Can Darcy and Elizabeth come together or will flying in the Air Force keep them apart?
Leigh Dreyer is a huge fan of Jane Austen variations and the JAFF community. She is blessed to have multi-generational military connections through herself and her husband, who she met in pilot training. She often describes her formative years in this way: "You know the 'Great Balls of Fire' scene in Top Gun ('Goose, you big stud!'), where Goose and Meg Ryan have their kid on the piano? I was that kid." Leigh lives with her pilot husband, a plane-obsessed son, a daughter who will one day be old enough to watch romantic movies with her, and another little one expected in September 2019.
Connect with Leigh: Website | Goodreads | Facebook
Leigh is generously offering one ebook copy of The Flight Path Less Traveled to a lucky reader, open internationally. To enter, please leave a comment with your email address. This giveaway will be open through Friday, April 5, 2019. The winner will be chosen randomly and announced in the comments section of this post. Good luck!
Thank you, Leigh, for being my guest today and for taking the time to answer my questions. I look forward to reading both books. Congratulations!
Guest Post, Excerpt & Giveaway: Inspiration by Maria Grace
Posted in author guest posts, jane austen, tagged author guest posts, inspiration, jane austen, maria grace, pride and prejudice on March 7, 2019| 22 Comments »
It's my pleasure to welcome Maria Grace back to Diary of an Eccentric to celebrate the release of her latest Pride and Prejudice variation novella, Inspiration, which imagines Mr. Darcy as a gentleman painter in search of his muse. Please give her a warm welcome as she talks about how she was a bit like the uninspired Darcy at the beginning of the novella and shares an excerpt from Inspiration.
Good Morning Anna! It's wonderful to get to spend a little time with you.
I'm excited to share my newest project with you, a novella called Inspiration. It's a bit of an irony all around because the whole thing came about from a complete and utter lack of inspiration.
Some how it just figures that the thing that left me uninspired was the theme of 'inspiration'. Of course it was—I hear you mutter in the background there—but really, it's true. I was supposed to write something about how I get inspired to write and absolutely nothing was rattling about in my head. A total blank—you could hear the crickets in the background.
Then I got thinking about how utterly uninspired I was and how crazy-making it felt. Hmm, well, driving characters crazy is a good thing—exactly what writers are supposed to do in fact. What if one of them was driven crazy the way I feel right now? Who could I do that to? Darcy would be a good candidate…
And with that, my muse took off. At first, I thought it would just be a scene for a blog post. Then, it was a short story. But my muse was not yet finished with me. The short story became a novella and at last I was allowed to rest.
So I present to you a snippet from Inspiration to give you a sense of how crazy both Darcy (and I) can be driven by our respective muses! I hope you enjoy.
The ensuing fortnight sent Darcy—or rather his muse, into a frenzy. In the midst of it all, he assured himself he was in fact in control of the entire process, but intentionally chose to give into his creative instincts.
Bingley argued that Darcy was hardly in control of anything.
None of it mattered in the fervor of creative productivity. Every moment of daylight, Darcy painted. In the candlelight of evening, he sketched references to stay him against the inevitable removal from Miss Elizabeth's presence. Nearly every aspect of her person, her eyes, her ears, her fingers, even her elbow were all added to that to valuable compendium.
Miss Bingley had seen it once. She thought it rather dear how artists like he and Bingley were forever scratching away in their books, sketching this and that but never really finishing much. Worse yet, in her vanity, she was complimented to think that it might be herself figuring in those sketches. He did not bother to correct her.
Darcy stood before his mirror. His valet had left moments ago, having tied Darcy's finely starched cravat in an intricate knot. There was a certain art to getting those things just right. One could get obsessed about it if he allowed himself.
On more than one occasion, Darcy had been told that he cut a dashing figure and ought to paint a likeness of himself. Afterall, he despised all the attempts made by artists his father had hired. The notion was flattering, but it would never happen.
Hours spent staring at himself in a mirror—what an utterly depressing thought. He was no artists' model. His features were too irregular—or at least they were to his practiced eye. His expressions were decidedly dour, no matter how he tried to school them otherwise. No, he would rather paint beauty.
He would rather paint Miss Elizabeth.
And shortly he would see her. Tonight, at the ball.
Although he put on the expected show of disliking the social convention for Miss Bingley's sake, and mostly to prevent unnecessary conversation, the truth was wildly different. His soul leapt at the opportunity to be with her again, to study her features, her expressions. In a ballroom, eye contact was accepted if not expected. He could stare at his partner, and at the dancers in general as much as he liked without raising an inquisitive eyebrow. Had he only taken the opportunity at the Meryton Assembly, tonight's event might not feel like air to a drowning man. But he did not know then what he knew now: his muse had taken the form of that particular young woman. Tonight, he would not waste the opportunity.
By the time he made it downstairs, guests had already begun to arrive. Since he was not part of the family, he could avoid the greeting line and discreetly watch arrivals. Each one told a story: each figure painted a tale in his mind. Though none were as interesting as Miss Elizabeth, he strove to capture each one for future reference.
Sir William Lucas trundled in, his wife in tow. His suit was new, his wife's dress not—the sort of thing a woman wore when all her resources were being utilized on daughters on the marriage mart. That he wore a new garment spoke something of his character—and it was hardly complimentary. Still though, the way people greeted him suggested he was well thought of in his local company. He did not appear at ease though, clearly a bit bewildered as to exactly how to behave in a place where his knighthood was eclipsed by substantial wealth.
A family called Goulding arrived with several young people all eager to show off their accomplishments to a crowd that might include better company than they were accustomed to. The eager, wistful light in the girls' eyes was worth capturing in a sketch later. So long as that look did not get turned on him. Perhaps he ought to avoid close observation of that family lest he seem to invite their attention.
Someone said the name Bennet, and his focus was immediately fixed on the entryway. Yes, there she was. In white muslin, of course, her family could not have afforded silk. Her figure would be astonishing draped in white silk. Perhaps it was best it was not. The gauzy white muslin was quite enough to negate the possibility of tearing his eyes away from her.
She glanced in his direction. While his heart pinched at her look of annoyance, his muse seized upon the exquisite turn of her lips, the spark in her eyes, the angle at which she held her head. Oh, to be able to commit that to paper just now. He stared harder and longer to make sure he would never forget.
Impatience demanded he ask her for the first two dances. But, unfortunately, discretion won out. To ask so soon would suggest something that might be all too true, something he did not dare admit to, much less allow. No, he would dance with her yet, but not at the start. Besides, it seemed she was already claimed for those sets by Mr. Collins.
That man was an enigma to be sure. He was tall and well-made. Dressed appropriately to his station, not unpleasant to look at. That he was a vicar suggested he had some learning and might have some sense about him. Most university men were set apart that way.
But the impression did not survive first meeting. One might easily surmise that his time at university had been ill-spent, learning only how to cater to those above him in hopes of acquiring a position. The kind of boot-licking sort of man who turned his stomach and made Darcy look for the nearest exit.
In some sense, the tendency might have served Collins well as it did secure Aunt Catherine's favor and the living she had to bestow. But outside of having obtained that living, there was little—or perhaps nothing—to be said in favor of the man and a great deal to be held against him.
The first item on that particular list of complaints was that the man could not dance. Fumble-footed did not begin to describe the ordeal poor Miss Elizabeth endured. Darcy would have felt her suffrage of Mr. Collins' ineptitude far more had it not afforded him a far greater range of expressions to admire than he had ever seen in her before. The look of determined self-control chiseled on her face was worth the whole uncomfortable episode. She might never agree, but sadly he probably would never have the opportunity to learn if she would if the matter were explained. Her expression of ecstasy at her release from Collins was awe inspiring as well, but deeply uncomfortable.
Would that he experienced such an expression offered toward himself.
No, such thoughts were not at all helpful! Worse yet, they made watching her next dances with some nameless Meryton native exceedingly uneasy, even a mite wistful.
Thankfully, she did not dance the set after, but stood off to the side, speaking with her friend—Miss Lucas was it? What confidences did she share with her friend? There was something in her stance that suggested her words were deeply felt.
Enough lingering and watching! He must go forth and take action now, lest the opportunity be utterly lost.
He tugged his jacket straight and strode toward Miss Elizabeth, guests parting in a wake before him.
Perhaps he had been abrupt; he spoke to her only long enough to obtain her hand for the next set, then walked away. He might have stayed; he should have stayed. He would have stayed had he felt any less. But in this moment of heady success, he could not dare reveal too much.
At the start of the next set, he sought her hand, his muse rendering him all but mute. To speak would distract from the minute observations which might be made in what could be a once in a life time opportunity. He led her to the dance floor, enjoying the exquisite grace of her movements from the corner of his eye. She took her place across from him and waited rather expectantly.
What did she want?
"It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy." Oh, the look of anticipation on her face! "I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples."
Of course, it was appropriate to make small talk at such a time as this. But what to say? On the canvas, he could communicate anything he desired, but words, particularly the spoken ones, were well beyond his skills. He swallowed hard. "Whatever you wish me to say should indeed be said."
"Very well. That reply will do for the present. Perhaps, by and by, I may observe that private balls are much pleasanter than public ones. But for now we may be silent." She turned her face aside toward the other dancers.
She did not mean to ignore him, did she? Such punishment for merely being tongue-tied? No, absolutely not, it would not do. "Do you talk by rule then, while you are dancing?"
"Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together. Yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible." Her eyebrow arched just so—was she teasing him?
"Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?" Blast and botheration, that sounded far sharper than he intended.
"Both, for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds. We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the éclat of a proverb."
"This is no very striking resemblance of your own character, I am sure. How near it may be to mine, I cannot pretend to say. You think it a faithful portrait undoubtedly." Did she really think those things of him, or was she teasing as she had seen her do often enough?Why did she demand of him a skill he would never possess?
Suddenly, it was their turn to join the dance, and all opportunity to speak ceased. How gracefully she moved with effortless vitality. To be entirely fair, she was hardly the best partner he had ever enjoyed, but there was something so fresh and lively in her steps—befitting the nymph of his paintings.
Finally, they reached the end of the line to wait out their turn. "Do you and your sisters often walk to Mertyon?" That should be suitable conversation.
"Yes, we do. When you met us there the other day, we had just been forming a new acquaintance." Her brows arched, as if to say far more than she spoke.
Yes, that day he had been to see Meryton's colorman. Who had she been with—Wickham! His gut knotted, and all warmth drained from his face. If only she knew of the very great harm Wickham had done the Darcy family. But could such an innocent spirit as hers actually understand that level of intentional wickedness? How was he to make a response—one that her eyes clearly demanded? "Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends; whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain."
"He has been so unlucky as to lose your friendship, and in a manner which he is likely to suffer from all his life." Her countenance declared she believed what she said.
She was so innocent, and so easily and completely deceived. He clenched his jaw, best not to speak when all his words dripped venom.
Sir William Lucas suddenly appeared from the crowd. "I have been most highly gratified indeed, my dear sir. Such very superior dancing is not often seen. It is evident that you belong to the first circles. Allow me to say, however, that your fair partner does not disgrace you, and that I must hope to have this pleasure often repeated, especially when a certain desirable event, my dear Miss Eliza," he glanced at Miss Bennet and Bingley, "shall take place. What congratulations will then flow in! But let me not interrupt you, Sir. You will not thank me for detaining you from the bewitching converse of that young lady, whose bright eyes are also upbraiding me."
He was right, Miss Elizabeth looked utterly and entirely mortified. Not that she was without good reason; Sir William was crass—it seemed a common trait in this town. Even so, it pained him to see her so discomfited.
He glanced at the dancefloor. Bingley was utterly entranced of his partner and Miss Bennet seemed to bear it well. She was a beauty to be sure, but far less interesting than her sister—whom he had now been ignoring whilst he stared at his friend. "Sir William's interruption has made me forget what we were talking of."
"I do not think we were speaking at all. Sir William could not have interrupted any two people in the room who had less to say for themselves. We have tried two or three subjects already without success, and what we are to talk of next I cannot imagine." Her eyes glinted with the absurdity she suggested.
"What think you of books?" Surely, she could not fault that question.
"Books Oh no! I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings."
"I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."
"No." Her laugh was truly musical. "I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else."
"The present always occupies you in such scenes, does it?" Might she about to reveal something telling about her deepest self?
"Yes, always." She looked away, clearly lost in some other musings. She turned back to him abruptly, eyes just a mite narrowed. "I remember hearing you once say, Mr. Darcy, that you hardly ever forgave, that your resentment once created was unappeasable. You are very cautious, I suppose, as to its being created."
She would remember that conversation just now. "I am."
"And never allow yourself to be blinded by prejudice?"
"I hope not." He swallowed hard against his suddenly too-tight cravat.
"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first." She met his gaze with an intense one of her own.
"May I ask to what these questions tend?"
"Merely to the illustration of your character. I am trying to make it out." Her eyebrows flashed up as her shoulders lifted.
His cheeks grew hot. "And what is your success?"
"I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly." She shook her head.
"I can readily believe the report of my character may vary greatly with respect to me. I could wish, Miss Bennet, that you were not to sketch my character at the present moment, as there is reason to fear that the performance would reflect no credit on either." Was it too much to hope she would understand?
"But if I do not take your likeness now, I may never have another opportunity."
"I would by no means suspend any pleasure of yours." Perhaps it was a mercy that the dance had come to an end. It would no do for her to try and take his likeness when every artist who had tried failed.
He escorted her from the dance floor and left her in the company of Miss Bingley.
Though a relief, the parting also brought with it a poignant soul ache, nearly physical in its intensity.
No, this was not good at all. The powerful feelings toward this woman were a very bad sign indeed. One did not feel this way toward a muse. It was sure to be more of a hinderance than a help. As were the very negative sensations he felt toward one Mr. Wickham. Perhaps, just perhaps his muse would be satisfied now, and he could rest—somewhere well away from Hertfordshire.
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His muse desires her; she detests him. How will his soul survive?
Gentleman artist Fitzwilliam Darcy had never been able to express himself in words, but with his brushes and paints, he expressed what few men ever could. When his flighty muse abandons him, though, he finds himself staring at blank canvases in a world that has turned bland and cold and grey.
Worried for his friend, Charles Bingley invites Darcy to join him in Hertfordshire, in hopes the picturesque countryside might tempt Darcy's muse to return. The scheme works only too well. His muse returns, with a vengeance, fixated upon the one young woman in the county who utterly detests him.
Will his selfish distain for the feelings of others drive her and his muse away or can he find a way to please this woman with the power to bring color and feeling back into his world?
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Maria Grace has her PhD in Educational Psychology and is a 16-year veteran of the university classroom where she taught courses in human growth and development, learning, test development and counseling. None of which have anything to do with her undergraduate studies in economics/sociology/managerial studies/behavior sciences.
She has one husband and one grandson, earned two graduate degrees and two black belts, raised three sons, danced English Country dance for four years, is aunt to five nieces, is designing a sixth Regency costume, blogged seven years on Random Bits of Fascination, has outlines for eight novels waiting to be written, attended nine English country dance balls, and shared her life with ten cats.
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Excerpt & Audiobook Giveaway: The Unforgettable Mr. Darcy by Victoria Kincaid
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Hello, dear readers! You're in for a special treat, as Victoria Kincaid is back twice in the same week with more Mr. Darcy and audiobook goodness! Today, she is here to celebrate the recent audiobook release of The Unforgettable Mr. Darcy. Please give her a warm welcome!
Hi Anna! Thank you for welcoming me back to your blog! Recently I released the audiobook version of The Unforgettable Mr. Darcy which was narrated by Stevie Zimmerman. Stevie also, coincidentally enough, narrated The Secrets of Darcy and Elizabeth—my other Pride and Prejudice variation that is set in France. She does a lovely job with The Unforgettable Mr. Darcy. You can listen to an audio sample here, and please enjoy the excerpt below.
His attention wandering, Darcy's eye was caught by a bookcase opposite his chair. There were several volumes of poetry, plays of Shakespeare's, and books about English history. The doctor and his wife were well read.
The doctor's eye followed Darcy's. "You read English?" he asked. Only then did Darcy realize that every title on the bookshelf was in English. He flinched. I am a truly terrible spy.
Martin chuckled softly. "Do not worry, my friend. Many of us have studied English, even if it is not fashionable these days."
Darcy covered his confusion with a sip of coffee. What could he possibly say in response? A simple laborer like Guillaume D'Arcy should not be able to read English. Many men of that class would not read at all. Richard would laugh at Darcy's ineptitude.
"My mother was English," he mumbled. That was true enough.
"I say, do you speak English?" Martin's eyes widened.
Nothing to do but continue the charade. "Yes," he admitted.
"I have a patient who speaks only English, and I cannot understand her. I read English well, but my conversation leaves much to be desired."
Darcy hesitated. Revealing anything more about himself was dangerous, and he should return to Dreyfus's house, but the doctor had been very hospitable. Darcy could spare a few minutes to repay the man's kindness.
"I would be glad to be of assistance." Only belatedly did the request strike him as odd. "How did you acquire a patient who speaks only English?"
"She is a bit of a mystery. She washed up on the beach some time ago, half drowned. She has been quite ill, and we have been unable to communicate with her. We do not even have her name."
Darcy froze. Was it possible the doctor had found the Black Cobra? No, surely the spy would be a native French speaker—and male. "She could not even tell you her name?" Perhaps the woman was touched in some way.
"When one of the fishermen found her on the beach, she had suffered a blow to the head and nearly drowned. She wavered in and out of consciousness for many days; I feared for her life. Then, just as she seemed to improve, she contracted a lung fever. Her moments of consciousness have been brief, and she does not seem to understand where she is."
"Understandable," Darcy murmured. Poor woman. Now Darcy wanted to lend assistance for her sake as well as the doctor's.
"Indeed," the doctor said. "She is often feverish and incoherent. But perhaps she will say enough that you may ascertain her identity."
Darcy stood. "Take me to her." He would not allow his mission to stand in the way of assisting someone so unfortunate.
The doctor led Darcy up the polished staircase and down a corridor to a room at the back of the house. Mrs. Martin met them at the door.
"How does she fare?" the doctor asked.
His wife's expression was grave. "Feverish again. Sleeping or unconscious, I do not know which."
Darcy felt a pang of regret. If he could not speak with the woman, he could not be of much help to her. "Perhaps I should return another time," he said.
Martin considered. "At least come into the room for a minute. Sometimes she speaks in her delirium." He opened the door.
The room was dim, illuminated only by the sunshine peeking around the edges of the heavy curtains. Closed up as it was, the chamber was airless and quite warm.
On the bed, the woman lay very still, her hair a dark tangle over her face. Even from a distance Darcy could discern that her complexion was not good—pale and waxy. The covers were pulled up to her chin so that only her face was visible.
She moaned and shifted slightly as they entered, but her eyes remained closed. "Come closer." The doctor gestured to the bedside. "Perhaps she will say something."
Darcy joined the doctor reluctantly. It was the height of impropriety to be in any woman's bedchamber, particularly that of a stranger. Of course, Darcy had no intention of taking advantage of the situation, and nobody need ever hear about it.
This close, Darcy could see that the woman was quite young; her skin was smooth and unmarked.
She moaned again, turning her head toward Darcy. A shaft of midday light struck her face, and he instinctively reached out to brush the hair from her cheek.
Darcy froze, unable to do anything but stare.
Briefly he catalogued what he could see of the woman. Her hair was a jumble of dark brown curls, and her skin was slightly tanned under the pallor. The nose…the sprinkling of freckles on her cheeks…was achingly familiar. If she opened her eyes, he knew they would be a bright forest green.
Elizabeth was lying in the bed.
About The Unforgettable Mr. Darcy
Mr. Darcy arrives at Longbourn, intending to correct the mistakes he made during his disastrous proposal in Hunsford. To his horror, he learns that Elizabeth Bennet was killed in a ship's explosion off the coast of France—in an apparent act of sabotage. Deep in despair, he travels in disguise to wartime France to seek out the spy responsible for her death.
But a surprise awaits Darcy in the French town of Saint-Malo: Elizabeth is alive!
Recovering from a blow to the head, Elizabeth has no memory of her previous life, and a series of mistakes lead her to believe that Darcy is her husband. However, they have even bigger problems. As they travel through a hostile country, the saboteur mobilizes Napoleon's network of spies to capture them and prevent them from returning home. Elizabeth slowly regains her memories, but they often leave her more confused.
Darcy will do anything to help Elizabeth reach England safely, but what will she think of him when she learns the truth of their relationship?
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Judy Ring, principal of Travancore School, says school refusal is more prevalent now than a decade ago. Photo: Jason South
Four per cent of children do not want to go school most or all of the time. Sam was one such child.
But when Sam stopped bringing a basketball to school, his mother knew things were looking up.
Sam was attending a small, six-month program at mental health-focused Travancore School to help him attend a mainstream school regularly.
His mother Suzanne said Sam was nervous at first and would bring along his basketball.
"Eventually he would go with nothing," she said. "That was a huge sign that he was starting to feel better, that he didn't need to have something in his hands to keep him occupied."
Suzanne said "beautiful" teachers and counsellors built Sam's confidence through intensive care and support.
"He was so happy to go there, and in the end he was ready to not go there any more." Sam now attends a mainstream school.
School attendance is compulsory to at least 17 years of age across Australia. But persistent school refusal - which is complex and often distressing for children and their families - has become increasingly prevalent, said Travancore School principal Judy Ring.
"We've been seeing more young people coming into mental health services with some form of school attendance issues," she said. "Everyone is saying more and more of our work is sitting in this space than, say, 10 years ago," she said.
School refusal may take the form of refusing to attend specific classes, school camp or school altogether, said Monash University's Dr Kelly-Ann Allen.
"Students may refuse to get dressed in their school uniforms or get out of bed in the morning," said Dr Allen, who worked as a school psychologist.
"They may refuse to travel in the car or leave the car when they arrive at school. It is not unusual for school psychologists or teachers to be called to carparks to assist parents in coaxing their children out of the car."
Dr Allen said school refusal hurt academic achievement and relationships with peers and teachers.
According to Australian research, parents or primary carers say 3 per cent of primary school students and 5 per cent of secondary school students persistently refuse to attend school due to severe emotional distress or fear.
Of the children who refuse to go to school, 78 per cent have a mental health disorder, primarily anxiety, said lead author Associate Professor David Lawrence of the University of Western Australia.
"There isn't just one reason why kids refuse school. Some kids are acting out, some kids have behavioural problems and anger issues, and you have the anxious group as well," Associate Professor Lawrence said.
The research found children with mental health issues were much more likely to miss school, and miss more days as they get older.
They are absent almost 12 days a year in years 1-6, then 23 days in years 7-10, and almost 26 days in the senior years.
By comparison, students without mental disorders were absent an average eight days in years 1-6, almost 11 days in years 7-10, and 12 days in senior years.
"In the secondary school years, over one-fifth of males and one-third of females with a mental disorder were absent for more than 20 days in the course of the school year," the report stated.
"This level of absence can be considered substantial, as it is likely to have a significant impact on students' learning, which may place their mental health and other outcomes at further risk."
The figures are from the recent Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing, which was based on more than 5000 children aged between four and 17 years attending an Australian school.
Sam attended the In2School intervention program run by Travancore School, the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and Royal Children's Hospital Mental Health.
The program is available to children aged 11-14 who have missed large chunks of school and have diagnoses of anxiety and/or mood disorders.
Students work with teachers and clinicians and practice being in a classroom. They are encouraged to go back to their mainstream school, whether it be for a day or even a half day. Once students finish the program, the program helps their schools to maintain momentum.
Melbourne University's Dr Lisa McKay-Brown, a former Travancore School teacher who developed the program, said about 71 per cent of attendees were attending school full-time six months after the program.
This was an "excellent" result given many hadn't been at school for anywhere from three months to beyond 12 months.
She said the students and their families reported their quality of life had improved. In addition, students' mental health improved to the point that most were discharged from their mental health service about three to four months after returning to school.
Suzanne said young people who refused to go to school were "made to feel like they're not great".
"It's something that is more common than they realise and I think these kids need to realise it, too, because they're great young people."
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For almost two years Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Anders Nielsen has driven the core engineering cooperation between Scania, MAN, Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus and, down the line, Navistar. An interview about an ambitious goal, cultural challenges, and why it is worth it to accept them.
TRATON: Mr. Nielsen, as CTO you are coordinating the joint Research and Development (R&D) activities at the TRATON GROUP. What is it that you do exactly?
Nielsen: My team and I drive the core engineering collaboration between our brands. This means we avoid duplications by applying lead engineering decisions to the brands, and make sure we are creating synergies by reusing technologies across the Group.
TRATON: Why is this important?
Nielsen: We want to bring benefit to our customers. To do this, we need to be fast and we need to be worth the price. Creating synergies means using fewer resources and speeding up the development process. This enables us to be faster to market with new technologies, but at the same time update our conventional platforms to state-of-the-art technologies. You can only afford to do this when you share the costs with the brands.
TRATON: What does this look like in practice?
Nielsen: Of course, the brands do the majority of the work. We at the CTO office mirror the brands' R&D organization and create meeting forums. We have what we call a TRATON Technical Committee, where we meet once a month. At the sublevel, while preparing for this meeting, we have sub-technical committees for all technological areas involved in the collaboration.
TRATON: You used the term "lead engineering." What does that mean?
Nielsen: It means that one brand has the main responsibility for developing a platform or technical component for all brands. The brand has the responsibility to take in all different requirements within the Group and make sure that it fits to the customer base of each brand. The other brands then have their responsibility to adopt that platform to their vehicles.
TRATON: How do you decide who gets the lead?
Nielsen: We try to build on the brands' strengths. This means where they have more capabilities and more competence. We try to make sure that we reuse that by giving them the lead.
TRATON: Does the joint development of platforms and components mean that the brands are becoming more alike?
Nielsen: That is a risk we need to be aware of, because we don't want to create identical brands. So we as engineers have to provide solutions to maintain the brand identities, including, in particular, on the joint platforms.
"A strong group is built on strong brands, and we have those."
Anders Nielsen, CTO of TRATON
TRATON: That sounds like a lot of work…
Nielsen: Of course. But a strong group is built on strong brands, and we have those. Our task now is to make this an opportunity for all individuals working within the engineering organization.
TRATON: How is that working out so far?
Nielsen: There are four brands involved in this collaboration. This means we are confronted with four different corporate cultures, four different national cultures, and 7,000 individual engineers, who also have their own way of looking at things. This multicultural combination is, of course, a challenge. But it is also a fantastic asset, if we learn to understand how it works.
TRATON: And how will you get there?
Nielsen: We need to approach this multi-brand collaboration with an open mind. As our CFO Matthias Gründler used to say: It's like being a member of a club team but also playing for the national team. Of course you are loyal to both, but these shouldn't be in conflict with each other. The competition is on the outside, not the inside. Besides, it could be quite cool to know that you're developing an engine for the Group that will be used around the world in hundreds of thousands of units per year.
TRATON: The Group is still quite young, but already has an ambitious goal. Where do you stand today?
Nielsen: That is correct. Two years ago we basically didn't exist. Now we have built the complete organization, and we have built the landscape in which we meet. We have established a collective roadmap on the ACE technologies: autonomous, connected, and electrified vehicles. And we will bring new products to the market in the next three to five years. If you ask me, the collaboration between the brands is right on track!
TRATON: And when will you reach your full potential?
Nielsen: We are improving our understanding of the collaboration year by year. I am sure that within just two or three years we will see products on the market that are based on joint technology and will also have a clear understanding of what we can achieve as a Group.
A look into the future
Anders Nielsen speaking about the future of transportation at the Innovation Day 2017 in Hamburg.
TRATON: Mr. Nielsen, what does the truck of the future look like to you?
Nielsen: The degree of freedom in how to design an autonomous, connected, and electrified truck is endless. Our imagination is, indeed, our biggest limitation when painting the picture. I am sure that if we look 30 years ahead, our trucks will look very different. But change will come gradually.
TRATON: So how far away are we from your truck of the future?
Nielsen: I think from a purely technical perspective, we are perhaps three to five years away from being able to do something autonomous that looks completely different. First, we will see opportunities in closed areas like mining and ports. I am sure we will also see Advanced Driver Assistance Systems coming very soon that will support the driver to increase security and safety in traffic. If we are talking about autonomous vehicles in urban environments or on highways, I think that we are more likely to be five to ten years away. But it depends a lot on how legislation and regulations are changing.
TRATON: And what about electric mobility and digital services?
Nielsen: Digital services are here now. When it comes to electrification, it highly depends on the technical development of components such as batteries. In some applications, like city buses, we can already see it happening. In other applications, like long haulage, the challenges are bigger.
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Review: Vixen BD + Screen Caps
Vixen: The Movie merely compiles all the 5-minute episodes into one feature and on the whole it's not very cohesive even though the character had potential even if she's a bit of a copy of Marvel's Black Panther.
Vixen: The Movie
Genre(s): Animated, Action, Adventure
Warner Home Video | NR – 75 min. – $19.98 | May 23, 2017
Date Published: 05/23/2017 | Author: The Movieman
MOVIE INFO:
Directed by: Curt Geta, James Tucker
Writer(s): Gerry Conway and Bob Oksner (Vixen created by); Wendy Mericle, Keto Shimizu, Brian Ford Sullivan, Lauren Certo (written by)
Voice Cast: Megalyn Echikunwoke, Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Victor Garber, Grant Gustin, Brandon Routh
Features: Featurette
Digital Copy: Yes
Formats Included: Blu-ray
Audio: English (DTS-HD MA 5.1)
Video: 1080p/Widescreen 2.40
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Disc Size: 14.0 GB
Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Region(s): A, B, C
THE MOVIE — 2.0/5
Plot Synopsis: Originally from Africa, Mari McCabe (MEGALYN ECHIKUNWAKE) grew up an orphan after her parents were killed by local greed, corruption and wanton violence. But Mari refuses to succumb to the terrors surrounding her. Inheriting her family's Anansi Totem, Mari can access the powers of animals – anything from the super-strength of a gorilla to the speed of a cheetah. As Vixen, she fights valiantly to protect her city of Detroit from threats like those that claimed her family. Aiding her in the fight are Arrow (STEPHEN AMELL), The Flash (GRANT GUSTIN), Black Canary (KATIE CASSIDY) and The Atom (BRANDON ROUTH).
Quick Hit Review: Vixen was originally a series of 12 5-minute shorts and this movie culled those together to make a movie. In theory, this might've been interesting but in practice it's a jumbled mess with pacing issues and some so-so voice acting, though Meaglyn Echikunwake wasn't terrible while the likes of Grant Gustin and Stephen Amell just felt off. It's a relatively quick watch I suppose and the animation more or less lines up with the others in the DC Animated Universe, however they might've done this character more service starting from scratch, even if she's basically a female Black Panther…
SPECIAL FEATURES – 1.0/5
This release comes with a matted slip cover. Inside contains a redemption code for the Digital HD copy. The only features included is Vixen: Spirit Animal (6:13; HD) featurette and Bruce Timm's Top Picks, two episodes from Justice League Unlimited.
VIDEO – 4.0/5, AUDIO – 3.0/5
Warner Home Video releases Vixen onto Blu-ray presented with a 1.78 widescreen aspect ratio and a 1080p high-definition transfer which I found to look nice enough with bright colors though some banding issues in some of the sky shots.
The disc comes with your basic DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track which I found a little too low key, however dialogue levels were decent enough while the action scenes were rather flat.
OVERALL – 2.0/5
Overall, Vixen: The Movie merely compiles all the 5-minute episodes into one feature and on the whole it's not very cohesive even though the character had potential even if she's a bit of a copy of Marvel's Black Panther. The Blu-ray released by Warner offers good video, okay audio and one throwaway featurette.
Check out some more screen caps by going to page 2. Please note, these do contain spoilers.
05/23/2017 Blu-ray Reviews, Featured Review, Quick Hit Reviews, Screen Caps Tagged with: Brandon Routh, DC Comics, Grant Gustin, Green Arrow, Katie Cassidy, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Stephen Amell, The Flash, Victor Garber
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Northcentral Chapter 8 is the Lycoming County chapter of The Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology, Inc. During spring and summer, NCC8 hosts an archaeology dig for its members and the public, and during the winter we hold regular meetings and presentations by interesting speakers.
The local chapter provides archaeological excavation training sessions for new members and teaches them how to identify artifacts.
We maintain an online archaeology handbook for the amateur, as well as slideshows and videos of previous excavations. You'll learn much about Pennsylvania prehistory within these pages, as well as how to observe Archaeology Month, which occurs in October in Pennsylvania.
Significant prehistoric sites identified by NCC8 and recorded with the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission include Bull Run, Canfield Island, the Ault Site and the Snyder Site.The Lycoming County Historical Society curates artifacts from these excavations where they are available for research purposes.
The chapter's first meeting was held Aug. 12, 1955, at the James V. Brown Library in Williamsport. John Witthoft, Pennsylvania state anthropologist and one of the foremost scientists in the field of Indian history of Eastern United States, was the guest speaker and his topic was "The Identification of Artifacts." Interested persons were urged to bring stone or pottery material to the meeting that they wished to identify.
And so began more than a half century of archaeological inquiry that yielded ground-breaking cultural material discoveries.
Soon, the organization gained the leadership of James Bressler who directed decades of archeological exploration, ongoing almost without interruption since 1976. Summers in the field and winters in the laboratory enabled Bressler and the chapter to define the Loyalsock Historic Complex -- a chronology of 7,000 years of cultural development, including the discovery of two Shenks Ferry fortified villages scarcely a kilometer apart, at the confluence of the Loyalsock Creek and the West Branch of the Susquehanna River.
Significant prehistoric sites identified by NCC8 and recorded with the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission include Bull Run, Canfield Island, the Ault Site and the Snyder Site. The Canfield Island site, 36LY37, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Artifacts from these excavations are curated by the Lycoming County Historical Society where they are available for research purposes. Final reports detailing the artifact assemblages and their relevance to cultural identity and progression also are available through the Historical Society.


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UC Berkeley Declares Itself Unsafe for Ann Coulter
By allowing threats of violence to cancel a speech from the longtime right-wing provocateur, the university gave her the attention she craves, while threatening the free speech it was once renowned for defending.
By Conor Friedersdorf
Noah Berger / Reuters
UC Berkeley "reversed its decision to cancel a speech by the conservative author Ann Coulter, approving her to appear on campus in early May," the New York Times reported this afternoon. The stakes of protecting the May event are high, for all of the reasons discussed below. If successful, Berkeley will reverse a dangerous trend that threatened everyone's rights. Its leaders deserve credit for hearing criticism and reconsidering their chosen course.
On Wednesday, the University of California, Berkeley, announced that it was canceling a scheduled speech by Ann Coulter, citing security concerns. Just weeks ago, Berkeley cancelled a speech by Milo Yiannopolous after armed radicals clad in black overwhelmed event security, threw Molotov cocktails in the street, and smashed windows at the campus student union. That was "not a proud night for this campus, the home of the free speech movement," a UC Berkeley spokesperson said, while the Los Angeles Times editorialized that the success of the violence "should make supporters of free speech shiver."
And this week's news bolsters that assessment.
When violence successfully stopped the Yiannopolous event, an incentive was created for threats of future violence and for violence itself. Thus, the clash in Berkeley two days ago between Trump supporters and leftists that Mother Jones's Shane Bauer characterized as follows: "Militias, alt-right, nazis etc won today in Berkeley. They outnumbered the opposition, pushed it back, and held downtown." That a second speech is now postponed due to more threats of violence from the far left compounds the problem. Berkeley, a public institution, is compelled by both the Constitution and California law to protect free speech, even if campus Republicans there continue to degrade themselves by abetting or being fooled by nihilistic performance artists—and even if campus leftists invite the most odious of their fellow travelers.
Now, rather than giving campus Republicans the booby prize of having to sit through an Ann Coulter speech, an experience more likely to evoke shame than pride as they age and mature into adults, her critics achieved the booby prize of postponing it.
That outcome is awful for Coulter detractors.
This ought to be a challenging time for the right-wing polemicist, who only recently found herself in much the same position as Madonna: Both provocateurs exploited cultural boundaries, stoking outrage to give their work reach beyond their talent, and profited—only to wane in relevance as their industries became crowded with imitators. Then Donald Trump got into politics. He was unsurpassed in his willingness to state odious beliefs, and really, truly the best at stoking ethnic tensions to benefit himself. Coulter couldn't beat him in the attention economy—he was maximally shameless, denying her a key advantage she has over many rivals. Nor would she oppose a coalition that included so many of her fans. But she could join him, being one of those rare sorts who is willing to stoke humanity's darkest impulses.
After the September 11 terrorist attacks, when people with good character spoke more responsibly, Coulter said, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians."
In 2016, she published In Trump We Trust, adding sycophancy to the mercenary indignities to which she has subjected herself, staking her credibility (among the narrow slice of the ideological spectrum where she had any left) on a known huckster.
Right-wing entertainers excel at getting rich as they lead their base astray.
Today, as Trump and his circle continue to suck up most of the outrage oxygen in America—meanwhile making fools of their populist supporters by betraying them at many turns—Coulter ought to enjoy no more relevance than she has respect or esteem, her work read mostly among authoritarian AARP members as their younger analogs gravitate toward Yiannopoulos, a hateful Lady Gaga to her bigoted Madonna. In fairness, Madonna never responded to Gaga's success by donning a meat dress of her own, whereas Coulter watched a violent mob elevate Milo by preventing him from speaking at Berkeley, then proceeded to follow the character she helped create.
Her critics would have done well to deny her attention by treating her scheduled appearance with the ambivalent yawn every provocateur most dreads. Instead, they began playing into her hands, situating her appearance in a paradigm where free speech is cast as being in conflict with anti-racism—a wrongheaded frame anathema to civil-rights heroes and marginalized protesters the world over. It guarantees either that bigots like Coulter will be seen by many as occupying a moral high ground, or that free speech will suffer, hitting marginalized groups hardest in the end.
Issuing violent threats was, for the left, the most counterproductive of all courses. It generated just the sort of attention Coulter thrives on. And it is remaking Berkeley into a place where the illiberal right can reliably bait the illiberal left into raising their profile.
UC Berkeley's response threatens to do even more damage than those making threats, all but guaranteeing that the Heckler's Veto is attempted more often going forward.
As the New York Times put it:
The University of California, Berkeley, on Wednesday canceled a scheduled speech by the conservative author Ann Coulter, in the latest blow to the institution's legacy and reputation as a promoter and bastion of free speech...
Think of it. "Coulter said the university insisted that her speech take place in the middle of the day, that only students could attend and that the exact venue wouldn't be announced until the last minute," the Washington Post reported. "She said that she agreed with the conditions but that that apparently wasn't good enough."
Berkeley is the flagship public university in a state with the seventh largest economy in the world. It employs an entire state police force that reports to its leaders. It is situated beside a major city that protects one of America's most important ports. Given notice, is it really unable to secure a polemicist's speech against violence? Its ongoing failures to do so threaten anyone who runs afoul of any mob.


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19 Jan 2018 SoftBank just spent almost $10 billion into buying a stake Uber. It's also true that Microsoft's enemies thought the consent decree it signed 31 Jul 2015 Microsoft is said to have agreed 'to contribute a substantial amount' of the $1 billion raised in a recent funding round for Uber, which values the 26 Jul 2019 SoftBank's first Vision Fund backed some of the biggest names in tech, including Uber, Slack, and soon-to-be-public WeWork.
One of the ways to invest in Uber stock is to purchase shares in a company that has already invested in Uber. Alphabet, Inc., better known as Google, has invested as has Microsoft, so you could buy shares in those technology companies as a proxy approach. Cyan Banister: Banister is an American angel investor and entrepreneur. In addition to Uber, she also invested early Postmates, Niantic, DeepMind, SpaceX. She is also known as the co-founder of Zivity, an adult-themed social networking site. Gary Vaynerchuk: Vaynerchuk is a Belarusian-American author, Some major Uber investors include Alphabet Inc. (GOOG), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Softbank (which can be bought OTC, the ticker is SFTBY), or private equity giant BlackRock Inc. (BLK). Microsoft has agreed to invest about $100 million in Uber at a valuation of approximately $50 billion, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
6 Nov 2019 SoftBank takes $9 billion hit from Uber, WeWork and other tech investments. By Sherisse Pham, CNN Business. Updated 10:25 AM ET, Wed
Microsoft has agreed to invest about $100 million in Uber at a valuation of approximately $50 billion, a person with knowledge of the matter said. SoftBank is more than $600 million underwater on its Uber investment as stock hits an all-time low. Published Tue, Sep 3 2019 4:10 PM EDT Updated Wed, Sep 4 2019 5:18 AM EDT. Ari Levy @levynews. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick's 10100 fund and current Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi have invested in Luminous, a small start-up building an artificial intelligence Word has it that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has invested about $100 million in ride-sharing startup Uber's latest round of financing, said to be about a billion dollars worth of total funding. That brings Uber's valuation to a whopping $50 billion. I want to first address this valuation. Then I'll examine whether Microsoft has made a good move by investing in Uber, and why it may have done so. Would-Be Uber Investors: Here's Why (and Why Not) to Buy and one needs to understand that before deciding if the company is a good investment. Why Uber is a buy. Microsoft invested in Uber in 2015 and partnered India's Ola two years later. Both commitments were seen as a way for the software group to build stronger ties with companies with which it may
Microsoft seemed to be paring down its focus under new CEO Satya Nadella. It's investment in Uber may simply be that, an investment of its considerable cash horde.
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Uber stock may not be traded publicly yet but that doesn't mean you can't own a piece of the ridesharing app. Historically, it was only possible to invest in private companies like Uber before their Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) if you were an institutional investor or a high net worth private client.
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Microsoft is investing in the ride-hailing industry again, announcing an investment in Southeast Asia transportation giant Grab on Monday. Singapore-based Grab will adopt Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platform and use Microsoft's machine learning and AI capabilities as part of the deal.
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