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The I.O.U.
The above is not my real name—the fellow it belongs to gave me his permission to sign it to this story. My real name I shall not divulge. I am a publisher. I accept long novels about young love written by old maids in South Dakota, detective stories concerning wealthy clubmen and female apaches with "wide dark eyes," essays about the menace of this and that and the color of the moon in Tahiti by college professors and other unemployed. I accept no novels by authors under fifteen years old. All the columnists and communists (I can never get these two words straight) abuse me because they say I want money. I do—I want it terribly. My wife needs it. My children use it all the time. If someone offered me all the money in New York I should not refuse it. I would rather bring out a book that had an advance sale of five hundred thousand copies than have discovered Samuel Butler, Theodore Dreiser, and James Branch Cabell in one year. So would you if you were a publisher.
Six months ago I contracted for a book that was undoubtedly a sure thing. It was by Harden, the psychic-research man—Dr. Harden. His first book—I published it in 1913—had taken hold like a Long Island sand crab and at that time psychic research had nowhere near the vogue it has at present. We advertised his new one as being a fifty-heart-power document. His nephew had been killed in the war and Dr. Harden had written with distinction and reticence an account of his psychic communion through various mediums with this nephew, Cosgrove Harden.
Dr. Harden was no intellectual upstart. He was a distinguished psychologist, Ph.D. Vienna, LL.D. Oxford, and late visiting professor at the University of Ohio. His book was neither callous nor credulous. There was a fundamental seriousness underlying his attitude. For example, he had mentioned in his book that a young man named Wilkins had come to his door claiming that the deceased had owed him three dollars and eighty cents. He had asked Dr. Harden to find out what this deceased wanted done about it. This Dr. Harden had steadfastly refused to do. He considered that such a request was comparable to praying to the saints about a lost umbrella.
For ninety days we prepared for publication. The first page of the book was set up in three alternative kinds of type and two drawings each were ordered from five sky-priced artists before the jacket par excellence was selected. The final proof was read by no less than seven expert proofreaders, lest the slightest tremble in the tail of a comma or the faintest cast in a capital "I" offend the fastidious eyes of the Great American Public.
Four weeks before the day set for publication, huge crates went out to a thousand points of the literate compass. To Chicago alone went twenty-seven thousand copies. To Galveston, Texas, went seven thousand. One hundred copies apiece were hurled with sighs into Bisbee, Arizona, Red Wing, Minnesota, and Atlanta, Georgia. The larger cities having been accounted for, stray lots of twenty and thirty and forty were dropped here and there across the continent as a sand artist fills in his nearly completed picture by fine driftings from his hand.
The actual number of books in the first printing was three hundred thousand.
Meanwhile, the advertising department was busy from nine to five six days of the week, italicizing, underlining, capitalizing, double-capitalizing; preparing slogans, headlines, personal articles, and interviews; selecting photographs showing Dr. Harden thinking, musing, and contemplating; choosing snapshots of him with a tennis racquet, with a golf stick, with a sister-in-law, with an ocean. Literary notes were prepared by the gross. Gift copies were piled in stacks, addressed to the critics of a thousand newspapers and weeklies.
The date set was April 15th. On the fourteenth, a breathless hush pervaded the offices and below in the retail department the clerks were glancing nervously at the vacant spaces where the stacks were to rest and at the empty front windows, where three expert window dressers were to work all evening arranging the book in squares and mounds and heaps and circles and hearts and stars and parallelograms.
On the morning of April 15th at five minutes to nine, Miss Jordan, the head stenographer, fainted from excitement into the arms of my junior partner. On the stroke of nine, an old gentleman with Dundreary whiskers purchased the first copy of "The Aristocracy of the Spirit World."
The great book was out.
It was three weeks after this that I decided to run out to Joliet, Ohio, to see Dr. Harden. This was a case of Mohammed (or was it Moses?) and the mountain. He was of a shy and retiring disposition; it was necessary to encourage him, to congratulate him, to forestall the possible advances of rival publishers. I intended to make the necessary arrangements for securing his next book and with this in mind I took along several neatly worded contracts that would take all disagreeable business problems off his shoulders for the next five years.
We left New York at four o'clock. It is my custom when on a trip to put half a dozen copies of my principal book in my bag and lend them casually to the most intelligent-looking of my fellow-passengers in the hope that the book may thereby be brought to the attention of some new group of readers. Before we came to Trenton, a lady with a lorgnette in one of the staterooms was suspiciously turning the pages of hers, the young man who had the upper of my section was deeply engrossed in his, and a girl with reddish hair and peculiarly mellow eyes was playing tic-tac-toe in the back of a third.
For myself, I drowsed. The New Jersey scenery changed unostentatiously to Pennsylvania scenery. We passed many cows and a great number of woods and fields and every twenty minutes or so the same farmer would appear, sitting in his wagon beside the village station, chewing tobacco and gazing thoughtfully at the Pullman windows.
We must have passed this farmer ten or fifteen times when my nap was suddenly terminated by the realization that the young man who shared my section was moving his foot up and down like a bass drummer in an orchestra and uttering little cries and grunts. I was both startled and pleased for I could see that he was much moved, moved by the book he clutched tightly in his long white fingers—Dr. Harden's "Aristocracy of the Spirit World."
"Well," I remarked jovially, "you seem interested."
He looked up. In his thin face were the eyes that are seen in only two sorts of men: those who are up on spiritualism and those who are down on spiritualism.
As he seemed still rather dazed I repeated my inquiry.
"Interested!" he cried. "Interested! My God!"
I looked at him carefully. Yes, he was plainly either a medium or else one of the sarcastic young men who write humorous stories about spiritualists for the popular magazines.
"A remarkable piece of—work," he said. "The—hero, so to speak, has evidently spent most of his time since his death dictating it to his uncle."
I agreed that he must have.
"Its value, of course," he remarked with a sigh, "depends entirely on the young man being where he says he is."
"Of course." I was puzzled. "The young man must be in—in Paradise and not in—in Purgatory."
"Yes," he agreed thoughtfully, "it would be embarrassing if he were in Purgatory—and more so if he were in a third place."
This was rather too much.
"There was nothing in the young man's life which presupposed that he might be in—be in—"
"Of course not. The region you refer to was not in my thoughts. I merely said it would be embarrassing if he were in Purgatory but even more embarrassing were he somewhere else."
"Where, sir?"
"In Yonkers, for instance."
At this I started.
"In fact, if he were in Purgatory it would only be a slight error of his own—but if he were in Yonkers—"
"My dear sir," I broke out impatiently, "what possible connection is there between Yonkers and 'The Aristocracy of the Spirit World'?"
"None. I merely mentioned that if he were in Yonkers—"
"But he's not in Yonkers."
"No, he's not." He paused and sighed again. "In fact, he has lately crossed from Ohio into Pennsylvania."
This time I jumped—from sheer nervousness. I had not yet realized at what he was driving yet I felt that his remarks hinted at some significance.
"You mean," I demanded quickly, "that you feel his astral presence."
The young man drew himself up fiercely.
"There's been enough of that," he said, intensely. "It seems that for the last month I have been the sport of the credulous queens and Basil Kings of the entire United States. My name, sir, happens to be Cosgrove P. Harden. I am not dead; I have never been dead, and after reading that book I will never again feel it quite safe to die!"
The girl across the aisle was so startled at my cry of grief and astonishment that she put down a tic instead of a tac.
I had an immediate vision of a long line of people stretching from 40th Street, where my publishing house stands, down to the Bowery—five hundred thousand people, each one hugging a copy of "The Aristocracy of the Spirit World," each one demanding the return of his or her two $2.50. I considered quickly whether I could change all the names and shift it from my nonfiction to my fiction. But it was too late even for this. Three hundred thousand copies were in the hands of the American public.
When I was sufficiently recovered, the young man gave me a history of his experiences since he had been reported dead. Three months in a German prison-ten months in a hospital with brain fever-another month before he could remember his own name. Half an hour after his arrival in New York, he had met an old friend who had stared at him, choked, and then fainted dead away. When he revived, they went together to a drugstore to get a cocktail and in an hour Cosgrove Harden had heard the most astonishing story about himself that a man ever listened to.
He took a taxi to a bookstore. The book he sought was sold out. Immediately he had started on the train for Joliet, Ohio, and by a rare stroke of fortune the book had been put in his hands.
My first thought was that he was a blackmailer, but by comparing him with his photograph on page 226 of "The Aristocracy of the Spirit World" I saw that he was indubitably Cosgrove P. Harden. He was thinner and older than in the picture, the mustache was gone, but it was the same man.
I sighed—profoundly and tragically.
"Just when it's selling better than a book of fiction."
"Fiction!" he responded angrily. "It is fiction!"
"In a sense—" I admitted.
"In a sense? It is fiction! It fulfills all the requirements of fiction: it is one long sweet lie. Would you call it fact?"
"No," I replied calmly. "I should call it nonfiction. Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact."
He opened the book at random and uttered a short poignant cry of distress that made the red-haired girl pause in what must have been at least the semifinals of her tic-tac-toe tournament.
"Look!" he wailed miserably. "Look! It says 'Monday.' Consider my existence on this 'further shore' on 'Monday.' I ask you! Look! I smell flowers. I spend the day smelling flowers. You see, don't you? On page 194, on the top of the page, I smell a rose—"
I lifted the book carefully to my nostrils.
"I don't notice anything," I said. "Possibly the ink—"
"Don't smell!" he cried. "Read! I smell a rose and it gives me two paragraphs of rapture about the instinctive nobility of man. One little smell! Then I devote another hour to daisies. God! I'll never be able to attend another college reunion."
He turned a few pages and then groaned again.
"Here I am with the children—dancing with them. I spend all day with them and we dance. We don't even do a decent shimmy. We do some aesthetic business. I can't dance. I hate children. But no sooner do I die than I become a cross between a nurse girl and a chorus man."
"Here, now," I ventured reproachfully, "that has been considered a very beautiful passage. See, it describes your clothes. You are dressed in—let's see—well, a sort of filmy garment. It streams out behind you—"
"—a sort of floating undergarment," he said morosely, "and I've got leaves all over my head."
I had to admit it—leaves were implied.
"Still," I suggested, "think how much worse it could have been. He could have made you really ridiculous if he'd had you answering questions about the number on your grandfather's watch or the $3.80 you owed as a poker debt."
"Funny egg, my uncle," he said thoughtfully. "I think he's a little mad."
"Not at all," I assured him. "I have dealt with authors all my life and he's quite the sanest one with whom we've ever dealt. He never tried to borrow money from us; he never asked us to fire our advertising department; and he's never assured us that all his friends were unable to get copies of his book in Boston, Massachusetts."
"Nevertheless I'm going to take his astral body for an awful beating."
"Is that all you're going to do?" I demanded anxiously. "You're not going to appear under your true name and spoil the sale of his book, are you?"
"What!"
"Surely you wouldn't do that. Think of the disappointment you'd cause. You'd make 500,000 people miserable."
"All women," he said morosely. "They like to be miserable. Think of my girl—the girl I was engaged to. How do you think she felt about my flowery course since I left her? Do you think she's been approving my dancing around with a lot of children all over—all over page 221. Undraped!"
I was in despair. I must know the worst at once.
"What—what are you going to do?"
"Do?" he exclaimed wildly. "Why, I'm going to have my uncle sent to the penitentiary, along with his publisher and his press agent and the whole crew, down to the merest printer's devil who carried the blasted type."
When we reached Joliet, Ohio, at nine o'clock the next morning, I had calmed him into a semblance of reason. His uncle was an old man, I told him, a misled man. He had been fooled himself, there was little doubt of it. His heart might be weak and the sight of his nephew coming suddenly up the path might finish him off.
It was, of course, in the back of my mind that we could make some sort of a compromise. If Cosgrove could be persuaded to keep out of the way for five years or so for a reasonable sum, all might still be well.
So when we left the little station we avoided the village and in a depressing silence traversed the half mile to Dr. Harden's house. When we were within a hundred yards, I stopped and turned to him.
"You wait here," I urged him. "I've got to prepare him for the shock. I'll be back in half an hour."
He demurred at first but finally sat down sullenly in the thick grass by the roadside. Drying my damp brow, I walked up the lane to the house.
The garden of Dr. Harden was full of sunshine and blossomed with Japanese magnolia trees dropping pink tears over the grass. I saw him immediately, sitting by an open window. The sun was pouring in, creeping in stealthily lengthening squares across his desk and the litter of papers that strewed it, then over the lap of Dr. Harden himself and up to his shaggy, white-topped face. Before him on his desk was an empty brown envelope and his lean fingers were moving busily over the sheaf of newspaper clippings he had just extracted.
I had come quite close, half hidden by the magnolias, and was about to address him when I saw a girl in a purple morning dress break, stooping, through the low-branched cluster of apple trees that made the north end of the garden and move across the grass toward the house. I drew back and watched her as she came directly up to the open window and spoke unabashed to the great Dr. Harden.
"I want to have a talk with you," she said abruptly.
Dr. Harden looked up and a section of the Philadelphia Press fluttered from his hand. I wondered if it was the clipping that called him "the new Saint John."
"About this stuff!" the girl continued.
She drew a book from under her arm. It was "The Aristocracy of the Spirit World." I recognized it by the red cover with the angels in the corners.
"About this stuff!" she repeated angrily, and then shied the book violently into a bush, where it skimmed down between two wild roses and perched disconsolately among the roots.
"Why, Miss Thalia!"
"Why, Miss Thalia!" she mimicked. "Why, you old fool, you ought to be crocked off for writing this book."
"Crocked off?" Dr. Harden's voice expressed a faint hope that this might be some new honor. He was not left long in doubt.
"Crocked off!" she blazed forth. "You heard me! My gosh, can't you understand English! Haven't you ever been to a prom?"
"I was unaware," replied Dr. Harden coolly, "that college proms were held in the Bowery and I know no precedent for using an abbreviation of the noun 'crockery' as a transitive verb. As for the book—"
"It's the world's worst disgrace."
"If you will read these clippings—"
She put her elbows on the windowsill, moved as though she intended to hoist herself through, and then suddenly dropped her chin in her hands and looking at him level-eyed began to talk.
"You had a nephew," she said. "That was his hard luck. He was the best man that ever lived and the only man I ever loved or will love."
Dr. Harden nodded and made as though to speak but Thalia knocked her little fist on the windowsill and continued.
"He was brave and square and quiet. He died of wounds in a foreign town and passed out of sight as Sergeant Harden, 105th Infantry. A quiet life and an honorable death. What have you done!" Her voice rose slightly until it shook and sent a sympathetic vibration over the window vines. "What have you done! You've made him a laughingstock! You've called him back to life as a fabulous creature who sends idiotic messages about flowers and birds and the number of fillings in George Washington's teeth. You've—"
Dr. Harden rose to his feet.
"Have you come here," he began shrilly, "to tell me what—"
"Shut up!" she cried. "I'm going to tell you what you've done, and you can't stop me with all the astral bodies this side of the Rocky Mountains."
Dr. Harden subsided into his chair.
"Go on," he said, with an effort at self-control. "Talk your shrewish head off."
She paused for a moment and turning her head looked into the garden. I could see that she was biting her lip and blinking to keep back the tears. Then she turned and fixed her dark eyes on him again.
"You've taken him," she continued, "and used him as a piece of dough for your crooked medium, to make pie out of—pie for all the hysterical women who think you're a great man. Call you great? Without any respect for the dignity and reticence of death? You're a toothless, yellow old man without even the excuse of real grief for playing on your own credulity and that of a lot of other fools. That's all—I'm through."
With that, she turned and as suddenly as she had come walked with her head erect down the path toward me. I waited until she had passed and gone some twenty yards out of sight of the window. Then I followed her along the soft grass and suddenly spoke to her.
"Miss Thalia."
She faced me, somewhat startled.
"Miss Thalia, I want to tell you that there's a surprise for you down the lane—somebody you haven't seen for many months."
Her face showed no understanding.
"I don't want to spoil anything," I continued, "but I don't want you to be frightened if in a few moments you get the surprise of your existence."
"What do you mean?" she asked quietly.
"Nothing," I said. "Just continue along the road and think of the nicest things in the world and all of a sudden something tremendous will happen."
With this, I bowed very low and stood smiling benevolently with my hat in my hand.
I saw her look at me wonderingly and then turn slowly and walk away. In a moment she was lost to view beyond the curve of the low stone wall under the magnolia trees.
It was four days—four sweltering anxious days—before I could bring enough order out of the chaos to arrange any sort of business conference. The first meeting between Cosgrove Harden and his uncle was the most tremendous nervous strain of my life. I sat for an hour on the slippery edge of a rickety chair, preparing to spring forward every time I saw young Cosgrove's muscles tighten under his coat sleeve. I would make an instinctive start and each time slip helplessly from the chair and land in a sitting position on the floor.
Dr. Harden finally terminated the interview by rising and going upstairs. I managed to pack young Harden off to his room by dint of threats and promises and wrung out of him a vow of twenty-four hours' silence.
I used all my available cash in bribing the two old servants. They must say nothing, I assured them. Mr. Cosgrove Harden had just escaped from Sing Sing. I quaked as I said this but there were so many lies in the air that one more or less made little difference.
If it hadn't been for Miss Thalia I would have given up the first day and gone back to New York to await the crash. But she was in such a state of utter and beatific happiness that she was willing to agree to anything. I proposed to her that if she and Cosgrove were to marry and live in the West under an assumed name for ten years I would support them liberally. She jumped for joy. I seized the opportunity and with glowing colors painted a love bungalow in California, with mild weather all the year around and Cosgrove coming up the path to supper and romantic old missions nearby and Cosgrove coming up the path to supper and the Golden Gate in a June twilight and Cosgrove and so forth.
As I talked, she gave little cries of joy and was all for leaving immediately. It was she who persuaded Cosgrove on the fourth day to join us in conference in the living room. I left word with the maid that we were on no account to be disturbed and we sat down to thresh the whole thing out.
Our points of view were radically divergent.
Young Harden's was very similar to the Red Queen's in Alice in Wonderland. Someone had blundered and someone had to suffer for it right away. There had been enough fake dead men in this family and there was going to be a real one if someone didn't look out!
Dr. Harden's point of view was that it was all an awful mess and he didn't know what to do about it, God knew, and he wished he were dead.
Thalia's point of view was that she had looked up California in a guidebook and the climate was adorable and Cosgrove coming up the path to supper.
My point of view was that there was no knot so tight that there wasn't a way out of the labyrinth—and a lot more mixed metaphors that only got everybody more confused than they were in the beginning.
Cosgrove Harden insisted that we get four copies of "The Aristocracy of the Spirit World" and talk it over. His uncle said that the sight of a book would make him sick to his stomach. Thalia's suggestion was that we should all go to California and settle the question out there.
I got four books and distributed them. Dr. Harden shut his eyes and groaned. Thalia opened hers to the last page and began drawing heavenly bungalows with a young wife standing in the doorway of each. Young Harden hunted furiously for page 226.
"Here we are!" he cried. "Just opposite the picture of 'Cosgrove Harden the day before he sailed, showing the small mole above his left eye' we see the following: 'This mole had always worried Cosgrove. He had a feeling that bodies should be perfect and that this was an imperfection that should in the natural order be washed away.' Hmm! I have no mole."
Dr. Harden agreed.
"Possibly it was an imperfection in the negative," he suggested.
"Great Scott! If the negative had failed to photograph my left leg you'd probably have me yearning all through the book for a left leg—and have it joined to me in Chapter Twenty-Nine."
"Look here!" I broke in. "Can't we reach some compromise? No one knows that you are in town. Can't we—"
Young Harden scowled at me fiercely.
"I haven't started yet. I haven't mentioned the alienation of Thalia's affections."
"Alienation!" Dr. Harden protested. "Why, I have paid her no attention. She detests me. She—"
Cosgrove laughed bitterly.
"You flatter yourself. Do you think I was jealous of your old gray whiskers? I'm talking about her affections being alienated by these descriptions of me."
Thalia bent forward earnestly.
"My affections never wavered, Cosgrove—never."
"Come, Thalia," Cosgrove said somewhat grumpily. "They must have been slightly alienated. How about page 223? Could you love a man who wore floating underwear? Who was—who was filmy?"
"I was grieved, Cosgrove. That is, I would have been grieved if I'd believed it, but I didn't."
"No alienation?" His tone expressed disappointment.
"None, Cosgrove."
"Well," Cosgrove said resentfully, "I'm ruined politically, anyway—I mean, if I decided to go into politics I can never be President. I'm not even a democratic ghost—I'm a spiritual snob."
Dr. Harden's face was sunk in his hands in an attitude of profound dejection.
I interrupted desperately, talking so loudly that Cosgrove was compelled to stop and listen.
"I will guarantee you ten thousand a year if you will go away for ten years!"
Thalia clapped her hands and Cosgrove seeing her out of the corner of his eye began for the first time to show a faint interest.
"How about after the ten years are up?"
"Oh," I said hopefully, "Dr. Harden may be—may be—"
"Speak up," the doctor said gloomily. "I may be dead. I sincerely trust so."
"—so you can come back under your own name," I continued callously. "Meanwhile we'll agree to publish no new edition of the book."
"Hmm. Suppose he's not dead in ten years?" Cosgrove demanded suspiciously.
"Oh, I'll die," the doctor reassured him quickly. "That needn't worry you."
"How do you know you'll die?"
"How does one know anyone will die? It's just human nature."
Cosgrove regarded him sourly.
"Humor is out of place in this discussion. If you'll make an honest agreement to die, with no mental reservations—"
The doctor nodded gloomily.
"I might as well. With the money I have left I'll starve to death in that time."
"That would be satisfactory. And when you do, for heaven's sake arrange to have yourself buried. Don't just lie around the house here dead and expect me to come back and do all the work."
At this the doctor seemed somewhat bitter, and then Thalia, who had been silent for some time, raised her head.
"Do you hear anything outside?" she asked curiously.
I had heard something—that is I had subconsciously perceived a murmur—a murmur growing and mingling with the sound of many footsteps.
"I do," I remarked. "Odd—"
There was a sudden interruption—the murmur outside swelled to the proportions of a chant, the door burst open, and a wild-eyed servant rushed in.
"Dr. Harden! Dr. Harden!" she cried in terror. "There's a mob, maybe a million people, comin' along the road and up toward the house. They'll be on the porch in a—"
An increase in the noise showed that they already were. I sprang to my feet.
"Hide your nephew!" I shouted to Dr. Harden.
His beard trembling, his watery eyes wide, Dr. Harden grasped Cosgrove feebly by the elbow.
"What is it?" He faltered.
"I don't know. Get him upstairs to the attic right away—put leaves over him, stick him behind an heirloom!"
With that, I was gone, leaving the three of them in puzzled panic. Through the hall I rushed and out the front door onto the screen porch. I was none too soon.
The screen porch was full of men, young men in checked suits and slouch hats, old men in derbies and frayed cuffs, crowding and jostling, each one beckoning and calling to me above the crowd. Their one distinguishing mark was a pencil in the right hand and a notebook in the left—a notebook open—waiting, virginally yet ominously portentous.
Behind them on the lawn was a larger crowd—butchers and bakers in their aprons, fat women with folded arms, thin women holding up dirty children so that they might better see, shouting boys, barking dogs, horrible little girls who jumped up and down shouting and clapping their hands. Behind these, in a sort of outer ring, stood the old men of the village, toothless, musty-eyed, their mouths open, their gray beards tickling the tops of their canes. Over behind them, the setting sun, blood-red and horrible, played on three hundred twisting shoulders.
After the burst of noise that succeeded my appearance, a silence fell—a deep hush, pregnant with significance—and out of this hush came a dozen voices from the men with notebooks in front of me.
"Jenkins of the Toledo Blade!"
"Harlan of the Cincinnati News!"
"M'Gruder of the Dayton Times!"
"Cory of the Zanesville Republican!"
"Jordan of the Cleveland Plain Dealer!"
"Carmichael of the Columbus News!"
"Martin of the Lima Herald!"
"Ryan of the Akron World!"
It was weird, uncanny—like some map of Ohio gone mad, with the miles refusing to square and the towns jumping about from county to county. My brain quivered.
Then again the hush fell. I noticed a commotion in the middle of the crowd, a sort of wave or eddy floating down the center like a thin line of wind blowing through a wheat field.
"What do you want!" I cried hollowly.
Like one voice came the response from half a thousand throats.
"Where is Cosgrove Harden?"
It was out! The reporters swarmed about me, pleading, threatening, demanding.
"—kept it pretty close, didn't you—almost didn't leak out—pays to pay bills—won't he give an interview—send us the old faker—"
Then that strange eddy in the field of people suddenly reached the front and died out. A tall young man with yellow hair and stilt-like legs emerged dynamically from the crowd and dozens of willing hands propelled him forward toward me. Up to the porch he came—up the steps—
"Who are you?" I shouted.
"Name's Elbert Wilkins," he gasped. "I'm the fella that told."
He paused and his chest swelled. It was his great moment. He was the immortal messenger of the gods.
"I recognized him the day he came! You see—you see—" We all swayed forward eagerly. "I got his I.O.U. for three dollars and eighty cents he lost to me at draw poker, and I want my money!"
I am a publisher. I publish any sort of book. I am looking for a book that will sell five hundred thousand copies. This is the season for novels with a psychic turn. If possible I would prefer something by a fervent materialist about a wealthy clubman and a dark apachess—or something about love. Love is a sure thing—it takes a living man to love.
Published on March 20, 2017, in "New Yorker" magazine (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/the-i-o-u)
Fitzgerald sent a manuscript with a letter to Ober (2 June 1920): this story was "a plot that Sell particularly wanted for Harps. Baz and which I promised him." There is no evidence that the story was actually offered to Harper's Bazaar, and that magazine published no Fitzgerald stories during his lifetime. Ober obviously offered it other places, because on 17 July 1920, Fitzgerald wrote concerning the story again: "If 'The I. O. U.' comes back from the Post I wish you'd return it to me as I think I can change it so there'll be no trouble selling it." No correspondence survives indicating whether Fitzgerald resubmitted the story in a new version or with a new title. There is not even a record of what magazines Ober offered it to. However, the manuscript and a typescript survive, and a note attached to the typescript shows that at some time (probably after Fitzgerald's death) Ober reworked or considered reworking the story in an attempt to make it salable.
Notes from Sotheby's 2012 sale:
—Autograph manuscript signed ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"), titled "The I. O. U.," n.p., c. 1920, 42 pages (11 x 8 1/2 in.; 279 x 215 mm) in pencil with numerous additions, deletions and emendations in the author's hand; first and last page with marginal chips and tears, marginal rust stains from paper clips, pin holes in upper left corners of all leaves, some marginal browning on a few leaves
— Typescript of the same story, n.p., c. 1920 (inscribed in pencil in an unidentified hand "written before 1928"), 25 pages (10 1/2 x 8 1/8 in.; 267 x 206 mm) with 3-hole punch in left margins; upper right corner of first leaf torn away (not affecting text), first and last leaf with small tears and chips to left margin; occasional soiling.
The manuscript and typescript has been sold to the Yale University.
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Perithecium je typ plodnice vřeckovýtrusných hub (askokarpu). Je obvykle vnořený dovnitř do stromatu a bývá lahvicovitého tvaru. Výtrusy se z perithecia dostávají úzkým otvorem, tzv. ostiolem. Příkladem hub s peritheciem jsou rody Xylaria a Nectria.

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Montreal Alouettes vs. Toronto Argonauts - 10/18/19 CFL Pick, Odds, and Prediction
Home CFL Picks
Randy Chambers October 15, 2019 5:01 pm
Toronto Argonauts (3-12) vs. Montreal Alouettes (8-7)
CFL Football: Friday, October 18, 2019 at 7:00 pm (Molson Stadium)
The Line: Montreal Alouettes -10.5 -- Over/Under: 53 Click Here for the Latest Odds
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The Toronto Argonauts and Montreal Alouettes meet Friday in CFL action at Molson Stadium.
The Toronto Argonauts could use a win after losing six of their last eight games. The Toronto Argonauts have lost six of their last seven road games. McLeod Bethel-Thompson is completing 66.9 percent of his passes for 3,484 yards, 22 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. Bethel-Thompson has two or more touchdown passes in eight of his last 11 games. Derel Walker and SJ Green have combined for 1,937 receiving yards and nine touchdowns while Armanti Edwards has 51 receptions. The Toronto Argonauts ground game is averaging 73.9 yards per contest, and James Wilder Jr. leads the way with 405 yards and one touchdown. Defensively, Toronto is allowing 33.7 points and 441.3 yards per game. Abdul Kanneh leads the Toronto Argonauts with 65 tackles, Cleyon Laing has seven sacks and Alden Darby has three interceptions.
The Montreal Alouettes could use a win after splitting their last six games. The Montreal Alouettes have won their last four home games. Vernon Adams is completing 64.3 percent of his passes for 3,425 yards, 17 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. Adams has two or more touchdown passes in four of his last eight games. Geno Lewis and Quan Bray have combined for 1,677 receiving yards and eight touchdowns while DeVier Posey has 46 receptions. The Montreal Alouettes ground game is averaging 123.7 yards per contest, and William Stanback leads the way with 954 yards and five touchdowns. Defensively, Montreal is allowing 26.1 points and 423.1 yards per game. Patrick Levels leads the Montreal Alouettes with 77 tackles, John Bowman has eight sacks and Greg Reid has three interceptions.
The Argonauts are 8-22-1 ATS in their last 31 road games, 6-19-1 ATS in their last 26 games in October and 3-0-1 ATS in their last 4 vs. East. The Alouettes are 7-3 ATS in their last 10 home games, 0-4 ATS in their last 4 Friday games and 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games overall. The Argonauts are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 meetings in Montreal. The under is 19-7-1 in the last 27 meetings. The under is 41-19-1 in Alouettes last 61 vs. East. The over is 5-1 in Argonauts last 6 games overall.
The Toronto Argonauts have been awful this season both SU and ATS and they get blown out left and right on the road. The positive news is that three of the last five meetings between Toronto and the Montreal Alouettes have been decided by six or less points. The Montreal Alouettes are also winning at home this season by an average of just 2.4 points. While nobody should be running to the window to bet on the Argonauts, I have a hard time laying double-digit chalk with a team that doesn't exactly blow the doors off opponents. It's the points or pass.
Randy's Pick Toronto Argonauts +10.5
Edmonton Eskimos vs. BC Lions - 10/12/19 CFL Pick, Odds, and Prediction
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Bell peppers make easy, wholesome containers for ground beef, zucchini, diced tomatoes and rice. A simple, all-in-one baked dinner ready in about an hour while you relax.
Cook time 1 hr. 5 min.
Pour 2 cans tomato sauce in a 13x9-inch baking dish. Place peppers, cut side up, over tomato sauce.
Combine remaining ingredients in a medium bowl. Spoon mixture into pepper halves.
Cover and bake 50 minutes or until peppers are tender crisp. Uncover and bake 15 minutes or until rice is tender. Spoon sauce over stuffed peppers.


We're extending our national collection week online and inviting supporters to donate through virtual tins.
This year, SSAFA will be extending its national collection week online with over 18,000 social media followers invited to donate through virtual tins.
Since the Big SSAFA Collection started in 2010 it has raised £250,000. All the money collected so far is spent supporting SSAFA's work in local communities and assisting veterans, those currently serving and their families.
This year's Big Collection takes place between 11 and 18 May with a total of 110 "real world" collections around the UK. Supporters will also be invited to put some money in the virtual tin - and to get their family and friends to do the same by spreading the word about SSAFA's collection on Facebook and Twitter.
Additional money raised by the Virtual Collection will be used to support SSAFA's national initiatives such as the Norton Homes for families of injured servicemen and support groups for those touched by tragedy. The street collections are organised by SSAFA local branches and committees with all the cash raised being spent in their communities.
Donations can be made to the SSAFA Big Collection by texting "HELP 45 £2" to 70070.
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There is a renewed interest in task lighting. "Renewed" because task lighting was all the world had known before our dependence on high-output overhead fixtures. Prior to electrically powered lighting fixtures, seeing at night was accomplished through the use of "task lights" such as candles and oil and kerosene lamps. When the power of electricity was first harnessed, it was applied to crude incandescent "task lights."
For many years, task lighting continued to be the best option for seeing indoors. It was a long time before overhead fixtures would make a significant impact on how work areas were lighted.
First, the technology had to be developed so that overhead fixtures could produce adequate amounts of quality light. For buildings that had been built prior to the application of electricity, it was difficult to integrate overhead lighting into the old structures. Finally, architects had to discover how to efficiently incorporate overhead lighting into new buildings.
Despite obstacles to subduing our need for task lighting, America was convinced that task lights were not necessary in the presence of powerful overhead fixtures. We were shown that adequate foot-candles on the desk top could be produced from overhead lighting - but at what cost? In recent years we have begun to discover some of the costs of total reliance on overhead lighting to illuminate the work surface. The key is total reliance. The best approach for designing an energy-efficient and visually comfortable lighting installation is effective integration of overhead and task lighting.
Some of the major impacts of rediscovering task lighting for our work environment are discussed below.
Task lighting and productivity. Much research has been conducted on the relationship between lighting conditions and worker productivity. Surveys continue to find that poor lighting and eyestrain are frequent worker complaints. Although it may be difficult to demonstrate a direct cause-and-effect relationship between lighting and performance in real world settings, we can make some common sense observations.
First, we must be comfortable to maintain productivity over the course of a day. There are enough demands and distractions that compete for our energy and concentration. Straining to see should not be one of them.
Seeing should be effortless and automatic. We spend a great deal of time and money trying to make ourselves comfortable so that we can be more efficient and productive. Yet frequently, proper lighting is neglected. If lighting is so poor as to make workers uncomfortable, then efficiency is going to decrease over the long term.
However, once lighting reaches a "critical comfort level," better lighting above and beyond that level will probably not increase productivity. Once lighting surpasses the critical comfort level, many other environmental factors interact to influence productivity.
Task lighting and vision differences.
This increased need for light is due to a number of biological facts in the aging process. For example, the muscle in our eye called the iris, expands and contracts to control the amount of light entering our eye. As with all our muscles, the iris loses some of its flexibility in the aging process, and doesn't open as wide. More light is needed to compensate for the reduced ability of the iris to open wide.
Not only are there obvious vision differences between people, but different tasks have unique lighting requirements. Lighting demands for a video display terminal (VDT) operator are different from a proof reader, which are different from a graphic artist working at a large table where accurate color perception is critical.
Task lighting gives user control.
The major advantage of an adjustable-arm task light is that the user controls the lighting of his or her immediate work environment.
The key is "adjustable-arm" task lighting to give the user maximum control of the light level for optimal comfort. Our posture changes during the day. Our tasks vary to some degree. If we have windows, light in the room changes from morning to evening.
In response to these changing conditions, we need to adjust the lighting levels directed on our work in order to reduce eyestrain and fatigue. By raising, lowering, and tilting an adjustable-arm task light, the user determines how much light is needed, and the best angle required, to avoid direct glare and reflections.
A task light permits an individual to compensate for fluctuations within one's visual acuity from time to time, as well as for variations in ambient lighting.
Further control is provided by task lights that use a parabolic louver to direct light onto the work surface. The louver light control system is ideal for use around computers where you want to eliminate light "spill" onto the screen. The parabolic louver directs light output onto the source document and prevents "wash-out" on the computer screen.
A major advantage of a louver light control system versus the asymmetric method (directing light from the reflector at one angle) is the elimination of direct glare. With the louver system, you cannot see the bright bulb when the lamp head reaches eye level.
There are a variety of options for mounting task lighting in the work setting. Popular methods include a clamp base that attaches to the edge of a desk/table, and the weighted base that sits on top of a desk. Task lights can be mounted on stationary pedestal floor stands or movable caster floor stands.
The newest mounting systems attach task lights to the vertically slotted channels in workstation wall partition panels. Wall partition mounting frees-up valuable desktop space and eliminates the problem of "lack of edges" encountered by clamp-on versions. One option is a single-mount holder which the user places in the channel closest to the work area to be illuminated.
Another mounting option is a track-mount which provides greater illumination coverage for the work surface. The track spans the width of a wall panel and mounts in the slotted channels on both sides. A movable pivot holder for the task light slides along the track length to the desired position. The key factors in selecting a wall partition mounting system are ability to fit the many styles of standards and deep partitions; ease of installation; firm and sturdy mount; versatility to mount more than one specific task light model; a cord management system; and compatibility with standard track accessory items such as hanging paper trays and file folders.
Do we need a task light if we have magnification? The answer is yes, because magnification is only half the solution for achieving good vision. Proper lighting is of equal importance. Take an extreme example. How much good would magnification do in the dark? The benefits derived from visual aids such as magnifiers and prescription glasses are entirely dependent upon the lighting conditions in which they are used.
Proper task lighting allows us to get the maximum benefit from a visual aid, and may even allow for reduced magnification. Increasing the amount of light (brightness) directed onto a task will help compensate for small print size or poor contrast. Examples of poor contrast include faded print on white paper, dark print on a dark background, or dim characters on a computer screen.
The use of a lighting system which integrates task and overhead lighting can have a direct impact on the bottom line by lowering utility dollars.
Instead of trying to maintain proper lighting levels on desktops from overhead fixtures, task lights can do a better job in providing adequate foot-candles. A task light using an 18-watt compact fluorescent will consume far less energy than a typical overhead lighting fixture.
A work environment can maintain lower levels of overhead light by illuminating desktops with energy-efficient task lights. For examples consider an office with 16 workstations illuminated by 16 overhead fixtures each with four T8 32-watt fluorescents. The total wattage when all fixtures are operating is 2,048. If each fixture used two T8 instead of four, and each workstation was equipped with an 18-watt task light, energy consumption would be reduced by 36 percent!
A recent example demonstrates the energy waste that occurs all too frequently. An office manager remarked that, "we don't need those (task lights) to control glare on our computer screens. We installed these filters on the screens to block out glare." This makes no sense in terms of cost reduction and energy conservation. First flood the room with light and then block it out with filters. It is like turning the heat up to 90 degrees in the winter and then opening the window to maintain the right temperature.
Other ways in which the use of task lighting can help control costs are by reducing maintenance costs. Task lights are easy to install, keep clean, and change bulbs. When offices made from wall partition furniture systems are rearranged, task lights are easily moved. Proper lighting is achieved without much worry about the location of overhead fixtures.
Finally, task lighting can have a significant environmental impact by reducing energy consumption of a building's lighting system.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) "Green Lights" program has brought the need for energy-efficient lighting into public awareness. The EPA estimates that lighting accounts for 20 to 25 percent of the electricity used annually in the United States. Lighting for industry, offices, stores, and warehouses represents from 80 to 90 percent of the total lighting electricity use. If energy-efficient lighting were used everywhere it was profitable, the electricity required for lighting would be cut by 50 percent, and aggregate national electricity demand would be reduced by 10 percent. This reduction in demand would significantly reduce power plant emissions, pollutants, and wastes. Many past issues of NAILD NEWS have devoted articles to the environmental impact of lighting and specifically, how to calculate savings in environmental pollutants (NAILD NEWS, December 1990).
In summary, a system that integrates overhead and adjustable-arm task lighting makes good dollar sense for business and the environment.
Task lighting makes good psychological sense by giving individuals control over their own workspace lighting.
If you have any questions about the task/ambient lighting approach, please call the Green Lights Technical Hotline at 202-862-1145.
Mark Hogrebe is the former president of Dazor Manufacturing Corp., a leading manufacturer of task lighting. His primary interest areas include the psychological impact of lighting in the workplace, especially as it relates to individual differences in visual acuity and comfort, and worker productivity. Other interest areas include the role of task lighting as a significant component in energy-efficient lighting installations. Hogrebe holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Georgia, a master of arts degree from the University of Akron, and a bachelor of arts degree from Quincy College.


Cabinet on Wednesday approves the promulgation of an ordinance in this regard.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the promulgation of an ordinance to impose penalty that may include jail term for possessing the scrapped Rs. 1,000 and old Rs. 500 notes beyond the cut-off date of March 31.
The Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, also approved an ordinance to amend the RBI Act to extinguish the liability of the government and the central bank on the demonetised notes to prevent future litigations.
Official sources said the ordinance was cleared, but did not say if the penal provisions would apply for holding the junked currency after the 50-day window to deposit them in banks ends as of December 30 or after March 31, till which time deposit of such currency at specified branches of the Reserve Bank, after submitting a declaration form, is open.
The penalty for holding the demonetised currency in excess of 10 notes may include financial fines and a jail term of up to four years in certain cases.
While announcing the demonetisation on November 8, the government had allowed people to either exchange demonetised notes or deposit them in bank and post office accounts.
While the facility to exchange the banned notes has since been withdrawn, depositors have time till Friday to deposit the holding in their accounts.


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Not Your Usual Content
By Don Hawkins on March 11, 2016 in CIL2016
Julia Tryon and Curt Tagtmeier
This session described the production of two fascinating and unusual types of content.
The Rosarium Project
Julia Tryon, Commons Librarian at Providence College, likes roses, so she started the Rosarium Project. What interests her most is what has been written about roses, and there is no lack of material; much has been written over the centuries. (The first book solely about roses appeared in 1796.) Tryon gave attendees a tour of the history of literature about roses, accompanied by beautiful photos of them. Advances in printing provided an opportunity to distribute catalogs and manuals, like this one.
In 1992, the typical way for a librarian to share a subject was to compile a bibliography; the Rosarium Project is now a full-text searchable database on the web. Because of copyright considerations most of its over 900 records describe English language non-fiction materials published before 1923. Advances in technology have provided the opportunity to make information available to the world. The audience includes scholars, gardeners, and popular culturists.
Tryon used the Reader's Guide database to find 163 items published between 1824 and 1922. A surprising number of them came from general interest magazines. The information was encoded using the Oxygen XML Editor and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines to produce XML files for the database. (An abstract of her talk with some additional details is available here.) TEI has the advantages that it is adaptable, allows for spelling standardization, and allows the addition of notes to records to add value. A useful source for learning TEI is the TEI By Example website. Files are uploaded to the TAPAS project for validation; TAPAS is also the database host.
Not Your Usual Selfie
Curt Tagtmeier, Digital Collections Librarian, Highland Park Public Library and an author of several self-published books, discussed self publishing, a growing trend. Self Publishing is a huge market, as these numbers show.
Although there are many titles available, the problem is finding them. People self publish because they have something to share and do not want to just put it on a blog. Here are some stereotypes about self-publishing.
Self publishing presents several challenges for the author. Many platforms require authors to agree to exclusivity and will not allow them to publish on more than one site. Some libraries limit self published collections to physical books acquired by donation; however, Library Journal has established a program designed to expose books to more readers by creating state portals where readers can find the books (the library must subscribe to BiblioBoard). Other organizations are getting into the act; the Illinois Soon To Be Famous Author Project will give free promotion of a book for a year. The Daviess County Library, in Kentucky has established a comprehensive program to help authors.
Self publishing challenges for libraries include content and quality control, e-books in a compatible format and how much staff time is required to catalog the books.
Tagtmeier uses Amazon's CreateSpace system to create and publish his books. The system is very user friendly; if desired, the entire process can be done by simply filling forms on templates (available in the system), and cutting and pasting text. It will handle obtaining an ISBN, create the cover, and manage the sales and distribution process (even using the Kindle if the author wishes).
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From my Guardian column:—
'... Last week saw the US release of Prometheus, Ridley Scott's long-awaited follow-up to his 1979 sci-fi-horror hybrid Alien. The film had already opened in the UK, where it had met with a mixed reception with both critics and fans. Many American fans, on the other hand, had yet to have the film open in their city, thus setting the stage for what soon turned into an all-out firefight, waged on fansite message boards and comment threads, as disillusioned Brits engaged in a vigorous sperlunking of the film's plot-holes — why does Michael Fassbender's android keep switching sides? Why doesn't Idris Elba seem to care about his crew? Why is Guy Pearce in old man make-up when they could have just hired an older actor? — while infuriated Americans, still in a state of peachy expectancy for the latest installment of this beloved franchise, hurled accusations of deliberate transatlantic spoilers. Insinuations of British miserablism quickly followed, to be countered by sly characterisations of the gullibility of the American national character. Then someone decided to bring up the revolutionary war of 1775.
"I liken the engineers to the English, I mean British empire," taunted M3Princess, referring to the Godlike Engineers who lord it over the human race in Scott's film, over at at Prometheus-movie.com. By the end of the weekend, it boasted some 7060 discussions, containing 92,936 posts written by some 9,167 fans, in various states of defiance and distress. "You guys are acting like Ridley personally butt-raped anyone who ever liked Alien," raged one of the film's defenders at the sci-fi mecca Ain't It Cool, where founder Harry Knowles ended his largely positive review by advising his commentators not to "just circle up into bitching circles." So naturally his readers all linked hands, said a prayer and shared, in a spirit of love and service, the exact level of mental retardation required in the gene pool of the previous commentator and his immediate family in order for him to espouse the views he has just spelt out in ANGRY CAPITAL LETTERS in the comments section above.
"I feel terrible that your ten year old has a retard for a father," snarled one. "I hope he gets the care he needs after they lock you away for being an idiot." Elsewhere, the fight divided up along generational lines. "My parents hated Prometheus so much, mom went on a rant about it for 30 straight minutes. It was a proper nerd-rage. It's kind of adorable," tweeted one movie's fans on Tumblr. "OH MY GOD WHILE I WAS WRITING THIS POST SHE STARTED UP AGAIN."
Only a prequel can inspire this much passion. Sequels can fall short or fail to honor the memory of the original — there are some Alien fans, this writer included, who fail to acknowledge the existence of the fourth film, by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, let alone the Alien vs Predator spin-offs — but a prequel, particularly one made by the father of the franchise, returning after a 30-year absence, remixing the "DNA" of the original film, threatens a particularly intimate form of violation. It's like someone messing with your movie memories. When George Lucas released The Phantom Menace in 1999, the effect on the fans was spectacular and divisive, this once-strong fanbase cloven neatly in two, the 'Bashers' and the 'Gusher's' arguing tooth and nail as to whether Lucas could really be trusted with his own saga. It became known as the 'Gusher-Basher' wars.
The fighting was as long, hard and bloody as only internecine warfare can be. "I fear there can be no true reconciliation," intoned one of the group's elders finally, with a weariness worthy of Obi Wan himself. The wiser among them broke away from the group and attempted to broker a peace within themselves, recognizing that there was a bit of Basher in every Gusher, and vica-versa. They wrote long-form essays with titles like 'Learning to Cope With The Phantom Menace,' in which they mined their mixed feeling for hard-won wisdom. "People like me, who enjoyed The Phantom Menace more on repeated viewings, did so because we began to tune out Jar Jar," wrote one girl, hitting a peculiarly modern note: the plaintive sound of a disappointed fan, returning to see the film, again and again, in the hopes that she may one day grow to love it.
The air of Oedipal heartbreak hanging over Prometheus — the sense of the Great and Mighty Oz exposed — was twofold given that this was partly what the movie was about: meeting your maker, only to find that he is a genocidal creep. "A king has his reign, then he dies," says Charlize Theron's Vickers, intent on the same patricide that has animated Scott's protagonists from Blade Runner to Gladiator. Did Scott know when he was devising his film that he was drawing up a blueprint for the fan's reaction to it? Did the fans know that when they drew together in the chat rooms and on message boards, to compare notes, they bore a distinct resemblance to Noomi Rapace, scanning cave hieroglyphics for signs of meaning in a meaningless universe?
"I came here to find some answers, discussion, camaraderie and way to make sense of it all" said one of the commentators at Prometheus-movie.com, towards the end of a long week, by the end of which the film was finally in wide release. Fan reactions had caught up with their British counterparts; there was a note, if not of forgiveness, then of weary reconciliation in the air. "Tensions are VERY high and people are acting out of character," said one. "It's just a movie isn't it ?" suggested another. Someone else posted helpful quotes from Psychology Today Magazine by one Mary C. Lamia, Ph.D:—
"Disappointment is a profound way in which sadness is experienced... In an obstinate way, anger will allow you to continue idealizing what could have been while consciously denigrating it, and you will hang onto it only because it's what you needed at the time. Disappointment accepts reality."
There had been war. There had been bloodshed. We had lost some good men and women along the way. Now there was a tentative peace. All that was left was for someone to put Jones the cat in his cryo-tube and we could all slip into deep, dreamless hyper-sleep.'


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Volo Auto Museum seeks to relocate Des Plaines McDonald's museum
By NORTHWEST HERALD
A replica of Ray Kroc's first McDonald's franchise, which opened April 15, 1955, is now a museum in Des Plaines. McDonald's Corp. has announced it will demolish the museum. Kroc built his first restaurant in 1955 in Des Plaines, after franchising the brand from the original owners, Richard and Maurice McDonald.
VOLO – The Volo Auto Museum has reached out to McDonald's Corp. to try to relocate the museum and replica of the hamburger chain's first restaurant from Des Plaines to Volo. McDonald's previously said the building will be razed in December.
In a Facebook post shared more than 1,000 times, the Volo Auto Museum said it reached out to the burger giant to try to save the McDonald's Store No. 1 Museum.
"We have been contacted by numerous residents about the closing and demolition of the Des Plaines McDonald's museum with pleas to save it and relocate it in Volo. We love the idea!" the auto museum said in the post. "We've reached out to McDonald's headquarters hoping there is an agreement that could be made."
McDonald's Corp. previously announced that the building would be destroyed next month and the land donated to Des Plaines, citing poor attendance as the reason for its removal.
Ray Kroc built the first restaurant in 1955 in Des Plaines. He franchised the brand from the original owners, Richard and Maurice McDonald. The museum opened in 1985 with Kroc's original sign out front.
The auto museum is asking residents to cast their votes to decide whether relocating the replica is a good idea.
Brian Grams, director of the Volo Auto Museum, said in a statement that his goal is to relocate and restore the entire structure.
"Our interest is in preserving this American icon," Grams said. "If, for some reason, it does not work out that we can move the entire structure, we certainly hope to come away with some artifacts. But the goal is the whole thing. We'll see."
• The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Volo Auto Museum treats DeLorean display to 'Back to the Future' fan-inspired makeover
Lake County police dog helps locate missing, hypothermic woman in Lakemoor
Volo Auto Museum to come alive with Princesses and Superheroes Day
Volo Auto Museum to mark Elvis Presley's 84th birthday with tribute show, exhibit
Iconic 'Fast and Furious' car returning to Volo Auto Museum


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On Teen Mom 2, Jenelle Evans got into a heavy road rage situation with her 8-year-old son, Jace, in the front seat.
After an aggressive driver, who was tailgating Evans, sped up to get in front of her and then hit his brakes, Evans called 911 to report him, saying, "He was tailgating me the whole way, would not stop, and, um, then he races in front of me and purposely slammed on the brakes at 70-something miles an hour and almost, like, I almost got veered off the side of the road. Like, that's how bad I had to slam on the brakes." When the driver turned off the highway, Evans irresponsibly decided to follow him home and pull out her gun.
Evans drove up to the driver's house and "accidentally" backed into his mailbox. The man, who was furious, then attempted to block her car so she couldn't leave and even hit the front of her car as they screamed at each other.
5. Her lying to police.
6. Her leaving a loaded gun in the car with her son alone.@MTV should be ASHAMED.
The explosive confrontation led to Evans fleeing the scene, with the other driver following her. Things didn't get better for the Teen Mom star when he took off just as the cops pulled her over.
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Q: SQL Server database project in VS. Order of sql script generation step in build process I have a SQL Server database project in my solution and several dependencies projects.
When I compiling (in VS) this database project I've get a SQL script and a .dacpac file as result.
But also I want to aggregate all my dependencies projects in one dll and make SQL script/.dacpac file only for this result dll.
I'm using ILMerge.MSBuild.Tasks.ILMerge to aggregate all dll on AfterBuild event in sqlproj. But this aggregation happens after generating SQL script.
How can I enforce SQL script generation in the end?
Build log:
2>------ Rebuild All started: Project: TestCLR, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------
2>      D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Roslyn\csc.exe /noconfig /nowarn:1701,1702,2008 /fullpaths /nostdlib+ /errorreport:prompt /warn:4 /define:DEBUG;TRACE /errorendlocation /preferreduilang:en-US /highentropyva+ /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.8\mscorlib.dll" /reference:D:\Work\FF\Sql-Objects\Tools\TestCLR\bin\Debug\TestLogic.dll /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.8\System.Data.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.8\System.dll" /reference:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.8\System.Xml.dll" /debug+ /debug:full /optimize- /out:obj\Debug\TestCLR.dll /subsystemversion:6.00 /target:library /warnaserror- /utf8output /langversion:7.3 TestProcedures.cs
2>      Loading project references...
2>      Loading project files...
2>      Building the project model and resolving object interdependencies...
2>      Validating the project model...
2>      Writing model to D:\Work\FF\Sql-Objects\Tools\TestCLR\obj\Debug\Model.xml...
2>      Writing create script to TestCLR_Create.sql...
2>      TestCLR -> D:\Work\FF\Sql-Objects\Tools\TestCLR\bin\Debug\TestCLR.dll
2>      TestCLR -> D:\Work\FF\Sql-Objects\Tools\TestCLR\bin\Debug\TestCLR.dacpac
2>      ILMerge bin\Debug\TestCLR.dll;bin\Debug\TestLogic.dll;bin\Debug\Sider.dll -> D:\Work\FF\Sql-Objects\Tools\TestCLR\bin\Debug\TestCLR.dll
========== Rebuild All: 2 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========

.sqlproj part with ILMerge (Right now it's on the last place. Right before /Project tag )
  <UsingTask TaskName="ILMerge.MSBuild.Tasks.ILMerge" AssemblyFile="$(SolutionDir)\packages\ILMerge.MSBuild.Tasks.1.0.0.3\tools\ILMerge.MSBuild.Tasks.dll" />
  <Target Name="AfterBuild">
    <ItemGroup>
      <MergeAsm Include="bin\Debug\*.dll" />
    </ItemGroup>
    <PropertyGroup>
      <MergedAssembly>$(ProjectDir)$(OutDir)RedisCLR.dll</MergedAssembly>
    </PropertyGroup>
    <Message Text="ILMerge @(MergeAsm) -> $(MergedAssembly)" Importance="high" />
    <ILMerge InputAssemblies="@(MergeAsm)" OutputFile="$(MergedAssembly)" TargetKind="SameAsPrimaryAssembly" />
  </Target>

Much appreciate Mr. Solomon Rutzky. This solution was wery helpful.
<PropertyGroup>
  <SqlBuildDependsOn>
    BeforeSqlBuild;
    $(SqlBuildDependsOn);
  </SqlBuildDependsOn>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="BeforeSqlBuild">
  ILMerge things
</Target>

But there was one curious thing. Dll comes to Bin\debug in the end of flow (I think on PostBuildEvent step or near). And if I move ILMerge upper on the flow - it returns error, that there are no DLLs. Changed config to gater dll from obj folder and from dependant project.

A: Interesting question. I don't know of any easy way to do this, or if it's even possible in the first place. However, there are two options that I know of for altering the build process:
Option 1
Inject a build step / target. SSDT is missing at least two build steps/targets — "BeforeSqlBuild" and "BeforePublish" — because the "AfterBuild" target is too late in the process (as you have discovered).
To get around the "CLR strict security" debacle introduced in SQL Server 2017 (documented in the following post of mine: SQLCLR vs. SQL Server 2017, Part 3: "CLR strict security" – Solution 2), I updated the .sqlproj file by placing the following at the end, just before the closing </Project> tag (to sign the assembly with a certificate):
<PropertyGroup>
  <SqlBuildDependsOn>
    BeforeSqlBuild;
    $(SqlBuildDependsOn);
  </SqlBuildDependsOn>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="BeforeSqlBuild">
  <Exec Command="{DOS / Windows commands}"/>
</Target>

You can keep the <Exec Command="..."/> and/or add the contents of your existing "AfterBuild" target. HOWEVER, even with this performing the action at the correct time, I'm not entirely certain that you will be able to change the assembly name that it will want to serialize and put in the "Create" script (i.e. switch from using "TestCLR.dll" to "RedisCLR.dll"). You can try re-assigning the build variable, but I've never tried that and am not sure it's allowed. In which case the next option might help.
(Please vote for my enhancement request to improve the SSDT build process:
Add MSBuild predefined Targets for "BeforeSqlBuild" and "BeforePublish" to SSDT SQL Server Database Projects)
Option 2
Use .NET to create a custom build task that has access to the objects, files, and overall process:

*

*Customize Database Build and Deployment by Using Build and Deployment Contributors

*BuildContributor Class

*BuildContributorContext Class

*Walkthrough: Extend Database Project Build to Generate Model Statistics

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Teens leave injured mate in pool of petrol
10:30am Mar 29, 2010
A teenage boy narrowly escaped a massive fireball after his friends abandoned him in the wreckage of a crashed car.
The 15-year-old suffered spinal injuries after the car rolled three times as it lost control on a Townsville road about 2am Saturday morning.
Despite the hurt driver and a 16-year-old being trapped in the car that was leaking petrol, the vehicle's other three passengers fled the scene, the Townsville Bulletin reports.
Nearby resident Hans Preuss rushed outside to find both boys removed from the car and two bystanders applying first aid.
''For the first 10 minutes all the boy was saying was 'My back, I can't feel my legs, I can't feel my legs','' the report quoted Mr Preuss as saying.
"I pinched his legs to try to get some stimulation, to see if something was moving, but nothing moved.''
The car then burst into flames, causing the driver to catch fire from the pool of petrol he was lying in.
''He had flames on his arms, his hair, everywhere.," Mr Preuss was quoted as saying.
The onlookers carried the boy away from the scene as flames shot up to 20m into the air.
The 16-year-old was reportedly uninjured and remained at the scene until police arrived.
The injured boy was flown to Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane and is in a critical but stable condition.
A 16-year-old boy will face Townsville Children's Court this week as police further investigate the accident.


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Q: How to secure EC2 server with just MySQL on it? I have two servers. Let's call them EC2 A and EC2 B.
EC2 A = main server with PHP code
EC2 B = server with ONLY MySQL database. Right now, EC2 A is connecting to EC2 B.

What kind of security groups can I use to secure my EC2 A server for just the website access and EC2 B for just MySQL access from the EC2 A server?
Here is the security group I have for both EC2 servers:
HTTP 80
Custom TCP Rule 8080
SSH 22
SMTP 25
Custom TCP Rule 20-21
Custom TCP Rule 1024-1048
IMAP 143
MYSQL/Aurora 3306
HTTPS 443

Here is how I am connecting to the database in PHP PDO.
define ("DB_HOST", "ec2-**-***-*-***.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com");
define ("DB_USER", "dbuser");
define ("DB_PASS",'dbpassword');
define ("DB_NAME","dbname");
try {
    $dsn = "mysql:dbname=".DB_NAME.";host=".DB_HOST;
    $dbh = new PDO($dsn, DB_USER, DB_PASS);
    return $dbh;
} catch (PDOException $e) {
    echo 'Connection failed: ' . $e->getMessage();
}

Is there anything I can do to EC2 A or or EC2 B to make them more secure? is there anything I need to change to make it more secure or faster?

A: To secure the connection, you can specify the source (which is the EC2 A) in your security group's MySQL rule, i.e. only your EC2 A can connect to EC2 B via port 3306.


Lisa's phone call after she got out of work is what woke me up. She felt bad, but I told her no worries. The kids were due for their second snack and to be taken outside.
I could tell by Lisa's voice that she felt bad.
She and the kids went to bed early.